Spiritual Practices

Abundance/Prosperity

Spiritual Practice: Each morning or evening for a week, review all the ways you’re abundant. Include the tangible manifestations of abundance: your home (whether owned or rented), your possessions, the money you receive from whatever sources (no matter how small), your car, and the various resources you have available to you that enrich your life, such as public libraries, parks, beautiful areas that you can visit, the Internet, and so on. Expand your concept of abundance to include the intangible aspects of your life: your happiness, your love, your peace, your wisdom, your spirituality, your intelligence, your creativity, your talents, the energy that you use to accomplish, your brilliant ideas (especially those you act on). Include all the work you do and service you perform—a kind of abundance of energy that leads to material abundance. Include your relationships with family and friends, your health, your pets, and anything else that benefits you. Express gratitude for all these tangible and intangible expressions of abundance.

Spiritual Practice: Practice an affirmation on abundance. For example, “I tune into the universal abundance within and around me, I think, create, and act from that consciousness, and money flows to me as a natural result of my efforts." Repeat it for five minutes or longer, two or three times a day. While affirming, gently raise your eyes to the “horizon" the eyebrows (the seat of superconsciousness in the body) and keep your attention there so that the superconscious mind will be involved in the process and lend more power to the affirmation.

Spiritual Practice: Be aware of the beliefs about money that creep into your conscious awareness. Write them down. Write down where or from whom you learned those old beliefs. Are any of them true? Are any of them holding you back? Write down how they are helping or hurting you. Give evidence from your life showing why they're true or false. Form new beliefs to replace the false ones. Base them on your experiences or on what you know to be true, ones that serve you rather than hold you back. Then, create affirmations for each one and affirm the beliefs regularly to instill them deeply in your subconscious mind. Let them become the new beliefs from which you perceive the world and take action.

Spiritual Practice: “Seek God first and all things will be added unto you." In going after the things of this world, remember to think first of God, the creator of all those things. Seek to feel God's presence in meditation and from that consciousness perform whatever internal and external actions are required to fulfill your needs and desires.

Spiritual Practice: Instill the belief that the universe is abundant. If there's no lack in the universe, you can fill whatever lacks there are in your life with abundance. See abundance as a reality, as a natural state of the world and your life. Repeat an affirmation such as, “I have access to the abundance of the universe. I am abundant in every way."

Spiritual Practice: Practice the 40-day prosperity plan outlined in The Abundance Book, by John Randolph Price. It takes fifteen minutes a day, plus time for journaling, and will help shift or reinforce your beliefs about where true prosperity lies.

Spiritual Practice: If you have a real need or a strong want, visualize yourself already having it. For example, if you need a new roof, imagine yourself walking up the sidewalk toward your house and looking at the new roof. Feel the joy of having it. Practice this regularly without worrying about how you'll get the money to pay for it. The “how" will come eventually if you continue visualizing with a strong desire to manifest the new roof. Be aware of any self-sabotaging beliefs that may come up, and begin instilling new ones. Don't be concerned with time. You can't force it into a timetable. Just trust that it will happen when you're ready for it or when you need it. Instill gratitude and joy into the visualization.

Spiritual Practice: Give 10% of your net pay to charitable or nonprofit organizations that do good in the world, realizing that the more you give, the more you will receive. It may seem as if you're decreasing your abundance, but treat it as an act of faith in a divine law. Test it and see.

Spiritual Practice: Look for all the ways you have abundance now. Be grateful for that abundance. Whatever you have in all areas of your life—material things, health, relationships, and so on—be grateful for it all. Focus on the abundance that you do have, rather than on what you’re lacking. If you feel the joyful gratitude for the abundance you do have, you will attract more abundance—and more joy and gratitude.