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RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY

Do you think of money as something totally outside of yourself? If you have it, or not, do you attribute it to bad or good luck, good or bad opportunities etc.? In general, the issue of money generates a lot of fear within you that blocks the arrival of money in your life.

However, money, like everything else, is energy and as energy it is closely related to your energy. You will see how what you think, this time about money and yourself, will determine whether or not you have money.

To achieve economic prosperity you have to heal your relationship with money. There are different ways of relating to money. Among others are:

• from fear or trust

• from guilt or innocence

• thinking you don’t deserve it

• with or without responsibility.

Fear is the energy that paralyzes you the most.  A Course in Miracles says that there are only two emotions, love and fear and that one excludes the other. Therefore, you are acting from love or from fear.

If you acting from love:

• You trust in the abundance of the Universe.

• You know that you are one with the Divine Source and therefore you will always have what you need when you need it. That is abundance thinking. This thought of total confidence draws money to you since you haven’t placed any barrier between yourself and the Source.

When you are acting from fear:

• Fear disguises itself in thousands of ways. Each of those disguises is a mental obstacle that you put that doesn’t allow you to feel your eternal unity with the Source of your provision.

• You put mental obstacles that make you feel separated from that source, and therefore, alone in the world.

• When it comes to money, if you are in fear, you think that it will run out, that you will not have enough to pay your bills, that you cannot share what you have because you will not have it when you need it. That is scarcity thinking.

• That fear comes from your childhood programming, from misunderstandings with church dogmas, which taught that poverty is a virtue and that you have to suffer to get to heaven, and from your general feeling of low esteem and that you don’t deserve. But that programming is made up of thoughts and as thoughts you can always change them.

• The key should always be if you have inner peace. If not, change the thought that is taking it away from you.

• If you heard in your childhood that money was bad, that it hurt people, made them selfish, etc., be alert. Since you don’t want to be bad, unconsciously, you push the money out of your life and you feel guilty if you have it.

• But money itself is neither good nor bad, it just is. You put meaning into it with your attitudes towards it.

Solutions:

• When you relate to money from your innocence, you know that abundance is your Creator’s desire for you.

• Examine what you think of people who have money. That will help you to know if for that reason you are rejecting it.

• If you have the thought that you do not deserve it, this will serve as an energy barrier that will not allow you to receive what should be yours.

• If you have money around you, but it does not reach you, you are possibly rejecting it, without realizing it. There are no coincidences. Everything arises from your mind.

Responsibility

• It is important that you deal with money responsibly. By that I mean having priorities in place; being honest in your work, with yourself and with others.

• Do you spend money outside while your children are in need?

• Do you spend more than you make?

• Do you pay your bills on time, even what you owe to friends and family?

• Do you spend money on yourself, or only on others?

• As you answer these questions, you will know if you are acting responsibly. The energy of irresponsibility keeps money away from you. On the contrary, when you are responsible with money, you attract more.

With this information you have to do an analysis of your relationship with money and in what areas you have to improve. Only you are responsible for your life, and that includes the money you have or don’t have. The Law of Prosperity is a universal law, what you send to the universe, through your thoughts, emotions and attitudes, returns to you multiplied. Use it to your advantage, think you are prosperous, feel prosperous, project prosperity.

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PROSPERITY

Your divine inheritance as a child of an abundant Creator is abundance. Taking it to its broadest sense, when I speak of abundance, I mean everything you need to live a full, happy, peaceful, healthy, well, prosperous life at all levels. I’m not just talking about having money.

Prosperity is a state of being, a state of consciousness. There are those who don’t have much money and feel prosperous and others who have a lot of money and feel poor. The same happens with those who are sick but fees happy and those who are healthy and feel miserable.

With a consciousness of prosperity you can achieve all your goals, because you’re certain that you can overcome any obstacle that comes your way. You know that success is yours, and that it’s a matter of time before it manifests itself on the physical plane.

The one that is abundant:

• Has good relationships.

• Has economic prosperity.

• Has health.

• Has good friends.

How you relate to each of these areas will depend on whether you feel prosperous or not. If there’s one of those areas in your life that doesn’t make you happy, you have to heal your relationship with it.

Giving and receiving are the same

Lesson 108 in A Course in Miracles says “To give and to receive are one in truth.” If you want to feel an attitude of prosperity throughout your life, it’s important to internalize this principle. As I mentioned, A Course in Miracles teaches that there are two ways of thinking, from fear, or from love. If you are thinking from love you will feel the abundance of the Father. On the contrary, fear leads you to thoughts of scarcity.

From your thoughts of fear, you have learned:

  • That if you give, you’ll have less left.
  • This leads you to compete to hoard more, or to refrain from giving, because you are running out.
  • The time has come to realize that the opposite is true. As you give, you receive. Therefore, the more you give, the more you receive.

There are people who know how to give but don’t know how to receive. Others know how to receive, but don’t know how to give. This creates an energetic imbalance that doesn’t allow inner peace to be achieved.

So far, I’ve commented on giving and receiving explicitly. There is another way you implicitly give and receive at all times. Since everything is energy, there is a constant exchange of energy between one thing and another, one person and another. You give what you are. If giving and receiving are the same, you are going to give what you want to receive.

In the next blog I will give you some exercises that will help you with this. I hope to see you.

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How do you feel God?

When I started my spiritual search, something inside me opened up. I felt as if a cosmic ray fell on me. I started to see things differently, to go to courses and read books. An existential emptiness that I had from a very young age began to disappear. However, much of this knowledge stayed with me on an intellectual level.

Different people spoke about the immense love they felt for God and that they felt from him, and I was left cold, because I didn’t feel anything. I knew it, but I didn’t feel it. It was difficult for me to feel that great love for or from someone I didn’t see, for something or someone that was abstract to me.

I started to say to myself, well Yve, start looking at what is not abstract, and I, immediately, thought of my children, my grandchildren, and my dog. I only needed to think about them and a love so great, that I have no words to explain it, came to me.

I began to think that if I felt such great love for them, imagine how God would feel for me. But I couldn’t feel his love for me. I could only analyze it.

One day I went to a training and the facilitator told us that people who’ve had an emotionally distant father had difficulty feeling God’s love, because God was seen as a father, and our physical father was our first experience of that love. I knew this was what was happening to me.

My father was an excellent human being and provider, he adored my mother, but as for the children he was emotionally handicapped. He never knew how to show us love in the way that children expect from parents. So I grew up with that emotional emptiness thinking that he did not love me.

As I developed spiritually, one day I learned to see the way my dad did express love to me, but in the limited way that he knew how and not in the way that I expected. By eliminating my preconceptions, I began to feel his great love for me.

When I did that, I decided to learn, as I did with my dad, to see God’s love in all the ways he expresses it.

So how can you feel God?

• I feel God and I communicate with Him through silence. To achieve this it is necessary to quiet the mind. In silence you manage to feel that you are one with God. The barriers that you have imposed with your physical body are eliminated, because in a very deep meditation you only feel your true self.

• I feel God through love. When you can connect with love through your loved ones, like children, grandchildren, our pets, strangers, with everything and everyone, you feel the presence of God.

• I feel God when I am in contact with nature. When I see a flower, a sunset, a lake, a forest, so much beauty, so much harmony and perfection, this inspires in me the most sublime feelings and reminds me of God.

• I feel God through art. I love impressionism and when I see a Monet painting, for example, it touches my soul and I feel God. When I listen to music, especially music that has a high energy, my spirit rises and I feel very close to God, in total communion with Him.

• The easiest and fastest way to feel God through others is through service. Nothing makes you feel so much love as serving others, because giving and receiving is the same and to the extent that you do for others, you do for yourself.

• But it is very easy to give love to others who treat you well or to those you see as innocent, such as children and the elderly. But how do you love your neighbor when you think he is hurting you? Well, I feel God when I forgive.

• We feel God choosing peace no matter what is happening outside.

If you are like me, try these things or look for your own. I’m sure you will feel Him.

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MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

Changing the focus of my attitude towards God changed my life. As a child, like most of us, I was taught that God was outside of me, in heaven. That he punished me if I misbehaved and was happy and would reward me if I behaved. All natural disasters, deaths, and misfortunes were attributed to God, because it was “God’s will.”

Aside from what we were taught in the religion we learned, our relationship with God is directly related to our relationship with our parents. In this life, they were our first experience with love. Since our parents did not understand the concept of unconditional love, the love they gave us was conditioned. From then on, that was our idea of ​​love. If you behave I love you, if you misbehave I punish you. In our minds as children, our parents were all powerful, they knew everything, they loved us and they punished us. In God we project the role of father, with all the attributes that we knew of what it was to be a parent, but with a much more exaggerated vision of His power.

I blamed God for all my unhappiness. The anger I had with Him when I believed that He had chosen me to go through such difficult situations in life was immense. Besides, I was terribly afraid of him because at any moment He could decide that I deserved some other punishment.

I was terrified of having to face everyone in the Final Judgment in order to be punished for some wrong that I had committed. This led me to want to be perfect, which brought a lot of stress and disappointment every time I failed. How could I have a good relationship with someone who caused me so much fear and anger?

It wasn’t until I found the wonderful book called A Course in Miracles that I began to know the true God. In reading this book I was faced with all my misconceptions, not only about God, but about myself and my perception of life.

Now I see God as the Totality of love, from where everything flows, including us. If God created us in His image and likeness, we are perfect, pure love, supreme intelligence, justice. The essence of God is always within us, because we are part of Him. In other words, God is the sum total of all His creation.

When we came to the third dimension of time and space, it was as if they put a veil on us and we forgot our perfection, our divine essence. We began to seek God outside of us, rather than within.

When I understood this, I began to search for Him within myself and I found Him. It has been a wonderful thing. To commune with Him, all I have to do is quiet my mind, so that I can hear and feel Him. God’s main way of speaking to us is through our feelings, through that inner voice that always knows where we have to go.

Another way of seeing God is by looking into the eyes of each being that comes into my life. The eyes are the windows of the soul and within each being is God. If I relate to every being that comes into my life, I am relating to God in him or her. It’s that simple.

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Creative visualization

Many years ago, when blogs did not exist, my friend, Luzette Rivera-Diez and I, set about the task of writing a newsletter called Awaken Your Infinite Potential. We publish it quarterly for one year. What a wonderful experience.

In one of the editions, she wrote an article entitled “Creative Visualization: The Power of Imagination”. In that article, rephrasing what she wrote, we can define creative visualization as:

• One of the easier hidden powers of man to activate and practice.

• It’s the name given to what we create in the imagination or what we see with the mental eye.

• It is the idea or image of something, of some circumstance or condition that we want in our life.

The mind is like a computer. However, many people don’t know how to use it to their advantage.

Creative visualization is the power of success. There are many books that teach visualization, including Creative Visualization by Denning, Melita & Phillips, Osborne, where it says that:

• It’s a technique to mobilize our internal resources for success.

• It’s a method to open channels to other dimensions to attract the abundance of the Universe.

Take the following steps regularly:

1. Relax. Relaxation is very important for visualization. You have to learn to deliberately relax. We are so used to being in tension that sometimes we realize we are tense.

Practice feeling the difference with the following exercise:

  • Make fists. Open the hand.
  • Any muscle in the body will respond to any mental instruction, as long as you know you can do it.
  • Now, begin to tighten and release the different muscles in your body, starting with the feet and ending with the scalp.
  • If you do this exercise, you will immediately notice when you have some area of ​​your body in tension.

Rhythmic breathing, which I explained in another blog, is very important to achieve total relaxation. It also helps you focus.

To achieve physical relaxation it is necessary to relax mentally, because our body merely reflects the state of our mind. When you master relaxation, you gain so much energy that it becomes easier and easier to solve any problem.

2. Bring to your mental screen what you want to manifest, with all its details, colors, smells, tastes, sensations, exact place, etc. Focus on your image.

  • When you want to manifest something, it is important that you are clear about the essence of what you want.
  • By essence I mean the characteristics.
  • For example, it isn’t a matter of saying that you want a job in X Company. Rather, what are the characteristics of that job that you want? These could be group work, casual dress, X salary, etc. By focusing on the essence, you allow the universe to bring you what is best for you, without setting limits.

3. Visualize yourself in the image. Feel the excitement of achieving your goal. Sustain that emotion whenever you can, even when you come out of your exercise. Try to live it all the time. Feel the joy as if everything is accomplished NOW.

4. Just as important as visualizing in detail is the emotion you feel when you think you have achieved your goal. Desire is a form of electricity that creates a magnetic field. This emotion is what will propel the energy to the Universe that will then attract your goal.

5. With your index finger, touch yourself in the place where you have your mental image. Press the spot for 30 seconds.

6. Charge your image with energy. Imagine a circle around your image. Then feel how a ray of light enters your head and fills every cell in your body, leaving through your heart. Guide that ray to your vision, without leaving the circle. That is the light of creation.

7. Make an affirmation about your visualization. State what you want to achieve as already given. For example, instead of saying I want a job, say I have a job.

8. Commit to manifesting your desire. As long as you don’t commit to doing something, you will always go from one place to another, expending energy on what isn’t what you want. You commit, and then you focus on what you want. Where you put your attention expands.

9. Have faith that you will achieve your wish. Faith is the certainty of what is not seen and moves mountains.

10. Feel grateful as if you’ve already gotten what you want.

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TIME MANAGEMENT

Have you ever thought that you don’t have time to do everything you have to do? Would you like the day to have more than 24 hours?

If you want to achieve greater effectiveness in life, a proper way to handle projects, priorities, schedules and interruptions is essential.

Today there are two things that we all use on our cell phones: the calendar and the alarm. The important thing is to learn to use them properly by using time management well.

Time management is the art of investing your precious hours well and wisely in a systematic way and according to your purposes.

If you want to know how you spend your time, do the following exercise:

  • Write down how you spend your time, including how long each thing takes.
  • Do this for a week.

This exercise will help you to:

  • Create awareness of how efficiently or inefficiently you use your hours, and;
  • Will help you develop the ability to use time well.
  • In addition, you will realize the bad habits you may have in your time management.
  • And it will help you to plan your time better.

Once you have your list, start asking yourself if what you do is productive or not. Remember that it is one thing to be busy and another to be effective. Sometimes you are busy because you haven’t planned your time well.

  • One of the things that takes you the most time is not knowing how to say no when something is asked of you.
  • Another is to believe that every time the phone rings you have to answer it. Identify which ones make you waste the most time so that you can be alert when they happen.

To achieve this you can do the following exercise.

  • Make a list of behavior patterns and habits that keep you from getting things done on time.
  • Evaluate the list and decide which ones can be corrected or eliminated.
  • Every time you go to do something ask yourself if it is necessary to do it like this or if it can be simplified.

Once you are clear about your habits:

  • Make a list of your priorities for each day of the week, listing them in order of priority.
  • Analyze the time you are going to dedicate to each one and put it on the calendar.
  • Set an alarm for every hour you start a new task.
  • Once the alarm sounds, the next thing on the list begins.
  • Delegate the things you can delegate.

Over time you can modify your list and your schedules as necessary. You will see how your life becomes much more productive. I wish you success.

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CAN I MANIFEST WHAT I WANT?

You are not aware of how powerful you are. You have the ability to manifest on the physical plane what already exists on the ethereal planes. As I mentioned in previous blogs, you do it through your thoughts.

I also mentioned before, the concepts of the law of radiation, magnetization and attraction. These laws are essential to consciously manifest what you want.

  • Any idea or thought that you send to the Universe returns to you multiplied.
  • Another way of saying it is that what you focus on expands, or you reap what you sow. This explains the Universal Law that states that the similar attracts the similar.
  • To summarize, the law of radiation is the law of projecting or sending something out and the law of magnetization or attraction, that of picking up or attracting towards itself.
  • There is a constant and perfect exchange of Divine Energy flowing between the Creator and us.
  • When you attune to this, you have inner peace, prosperity at all levels, good relationships with others, etc.
  • In this case your vibration is high.

Many times you have put out some energy blocks that are called fears, which don’t allow your Divine heritage to reach you, because the vibration of fear is dense and negative.

When you are trying to manifest something in your life, and you are unable to do so, it’s time to stop and analyze why and with what you are blocking it.

  • If, for example, you are trying to manifest money, ask yourself, what thoughts of scarcity do I have?
  • I invite you to do an analysis of the attitudes towards money that reigned in your house.
  • What was said about money?
  • Of the poor and the rich?
  • What was the attitude about success?

It’s good that you understand that all these attitudes are recorded in your unconscious. Usually, you repeat the patterns learned in your home, even though you have rejected them all your life.

Fear has many different faces. One of the ways in which it can manifest is in fear of change or of the unknown.

  • Unfortunately, the known, even if it is not so good, creates a state of safety.
  • Everything that reminds you of what is familiar makes you feel at home.
  • On the contrary, changing to something that you don’t know, even if it’s for your good, creates anxiety.

However, to manifest what you want in your life you have to be brave. It’s necessary that you are willing to be different from your parents and family members, even to surpass them if you wish.

You have to break the chains of fear, dare to improve and leave behind what no longer serves you. Do a mental wardrobe cleanup. You keep everything that serves you, but what doesn’t, you discard. In this way you make room for new thoughts and attitudes that serve you, that help you manifest all those things that you have always dreamed of, but that you haven’t dared to achieve.

And why haven’t you dared? Quite possibly another disguise of fear is well hidden within you. It’s the one that says that “I don’t deserve….”  As long as that thought is occupying a place in your life, no matter what you do to be successful, you are going to do something so that success doesn’t reach you.

That something may appear as “bad luck”, but bad luck doesn’t exist. There are no coincidences in life. You attracted what you have inside. Everything comes to you to show you what you have to change to achieve inner peace.

When you let go of the past and the future, you let go of fear, because when you are afraid it’s because you are clinging to past experiences or worries about the future. Once you achieve it, your present will be filled with everything you want to manifest. Happy manifesting.

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RESISTANCE, PROCRASTINATION AND EXCUSES, the perfect reasons to stay where we are.

Today I am going to describe three more blocks to motivation, resistance, procrastination and excuses. Let’s start with:

RESISTANCE

Physical Law – For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

We can define resistance as any force, coming from internal thoughts, or external situations or people that oppose your goals or chosen action.

When you find yourself putting up resistance to achieve something, you may see it as an opportunity to reaffirm your goals. Acknowledge the resistance and refocus on what you want to achieve.

There are two types of resistance, internal and external, but the result of both is the same, it stops us from achieving what we want.

You can overcome internal resistance by following these steps:

1. Observe yourself objectively. To accomplish this use the technique of the objective witness. This technique is when you look at yourself as if you were outside of yourself, without emotions, or preconceptions. As if you were someone else watching you. What are you thinking? What do you feel?

2. Consult with your Higher Self. You do this through mental silence. Be quiet and listen to your intuition.

3. Take a small step towards the goal. If you break the goal down into small steps and only focus on the step to take, you can let go of resistance.

4. Give yourself emotional support. Surround yourself with people who share your dreams and put aside those people who paralyze you.

How we can overcome external resistance:

1. The effect of the mirror. Look outside of yourself to see what your mirror tells you. What comments do other people make to you? What kinds of situations are coming into your life? Examine everything carefully, knowing that they are messages for you, since there is nothing outside of yourself.

2. When other people hold us back. Many times your close ones feel threatened with your progress. This is because they fear a change in the relationship. Try to reassure them with compassion, but don’t let them hold you back.

3. Consider distancing yourself if necessary.

4. Stay focused on your inner guidance.

5. Learn to focus.

What you resist persists. Resistance is a powerful force that, by the law of attraction, attracts more of what we resist, until we release the resistance and transfer our energy to more positive things or states.

Overcoming resistance requires frequent self-assessment to deal with the inner beliefs that are causing our resistance.

PROCRASTINATION

Procrastination is the opposite of the saying “don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today.” He who procrastinates leaves for tomorrow what he can do today.

There are two types of procrastination, habitual and occasional procrastination.

Behind the habitual procrastination there are two fears.

  • One is the fear of doing things wrong. We can face this fear by recognizing that failure doesn’t exist. When things don’t go well for us, it’s only an example of how they are not done.
  • The other is the fear of not meeting our previous expectations. We can help ourselves to leave this fear behind when we understand that we aren’t perfect and sometimes things turn out better than others. We are our strongest critics. We demand perfection from ourselves and punish ourselves when we fail.

The occasional procrastination is our inner guide in disguise. It is the way that our inner being has to tell us that “that’s not the way.”

How can we tell the difference between the two types of procrastination? When you start a project try to notice if you feel that you are going against the current, or flowing with it. If when you’ve been working on the task for a while, you feel like you are forcing yourself to do it, try putting it down for a while and switching to another activity. If you then feel an inner urge to return to it, do so. If not, it may be that your Inner Guide is directing you in another direction. With practice you will distinguish between the two situations more easily.

EXCUSES

Many times we get discouraged when we want to do a task, giving ourselves excuses, which are not necessarily valid, for not doing them.

Examples of some:

1. I am too old for that.
2. I am too young for that.
3. I don’t have enough experience in that area.
4. I don’t have a college preparation.
5. I will go back to school when the children grow up.

How can you overcome excuses? One way is to ask yourself the following when you realize that you are allowing excuses to limit you:

If you knew how to do this, how would you do it?

Or, if the excuse was not an obstacle, what would you do now?

Your mind knows the answers to those questions. I just needs you to do it. So I encourage you to go ahead and do it.

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ANOTHER BLOCK TO MOTIVATION: STRESS

Stress is a physical reaction that arises when there is no connection between what we are doing and our purpose in life, and thoughts that we have internalized as negative and that take away our power. Some of these thoughts are:

1. Victim thought

2. Inflexibility and resistance to change

3. Low self-esteem

There are a number of tools you can use to de-stress:

1. Reevaluate your life.

2. Focus in the midst of stress.

3. Observe yourself within the situation without judging yourself (witness.)

4. Learn to stay in the present moment and doing one thing at a time.

5. Don’t worry. Take care of what you can remedy. If the solution is not within your power, release it.

Stress manifests itself both physically, as well as emotionally, socially and mentally. Not all stress is bad. Many times it’s stress that motivates us to act to achieve our goals.

Stress becomes a problem when it paralyzes us or affects our lives in a harmful way. Out-of-control stress can lead us to become physically, mentally, and emotionally ill.

 STRESS CHART

  EXAMPLES                          YOUR EXAMPLES

CAUSE  I argued with
my partner		I didn’t turn in
a job on time		         
PHYSICAL
RESPONSE		Knot in my
stomach		Nausea
Blushing
Knot in my
stomach		     
MY BEHAVIORI was hurtfulI defended
myself		     

   EXAMPLES                         YOUR EXAMPLES

HOW I FELT Ashamed
Angry		Ashamed Angry       
WHY I DIDN’T DO
WHAT I WANTED
TO DO		I felt
cornered		Lack of planning Procrastination    
WHAT I WOULD
HAVE LIKED
TO DO		Dialogue
without
offending		I wanted  the earth
to swallow me.		    
WAYS TO DEAL
WITH STRESS		Count to 10. Breathe deeply.Set priorities.
Plan my time.  		    

Things that motivate us:

1. Start the day with an affirmation, or

2. Start the day by asking yourself empowering questions, such as, how can I make this a productive and wonderful day?

3. Program yourself for success. After waking up, take several minutes to see if you have a particular issue that you have to work with, you can make a special statement for it. (You can do this anywhere – the shower on the bus, in the car etc.)

In other words, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This way you will avoid many stressful moments in your life.