Prosperity Consciousness: Introduction to Prosperity Consciousness

By Julia Jablonski

Over the years, I've known a lot of ministers, healers, mediums and other spiritual folk. Just like all people, some were prosperous while others struggled with material lack. One group was not more selfish and the other more "spiritual." In fact, those who were adept at creating what they needed on a physical level also tended to be those who were able to create better health, relationships and general happiness for themselves. They were also better skilled at helping others to create the same in their lives, and they had the energy and resources to help others in this way. The difference between the two groups can be summed up in a now common but powerful term: Prosperity Consciousness.

Wanting Money Is Silly

Many of us have been raised to believe that wanting money is selfish, greedy, and/or the opposite of seeking spiritual growth and awareness. From my perspective, seeking money is not any of the above, but it is silly and foolish. Focusing on the money itself is like focusing on obtaining the title to a car; we don't care about that piece of paper, really, what we want is what it represents...the car!

This may seem like a ridiculous point to make, but when we reapply the idea to money, we notice that many people do directly seek the money itself. They focus on the numbers in their bank accounts or the figures they earn annually, and based on that abstract number, they make an evaluation of their own prosperity or abundance, or their own goals or dreams for the future.

I believe that this is one reason that many wealthy people are unhappy. They struggle and strive to reach their idea of comfort or wealth, and are dismayed when they discover that they're still not happy. They would have been wiser to focus on being happy in the first place, and on those experiences they desired to be happy. This may include things like a cozy home in the mountains, or the freedom to travel and swim with dolphins. We're wise to focus on being happy, and then to let the Universe and the Law of Attraction naturally fill in the details and the means.

Take a moment and say these words out loud: "God, please give me all the money I need and want to create the life I dream of." Visualize money piled around you, flowing into your hands and out again as you spend it freely on what you desire. Now say these words out loud: "God, please grant me enough food to feed my children to create the health and well being that is theirs by divine right." Visualize five small hungry children that you love waiting patiently with hungry bellies to be fed, and you arriving with your arms loaded with food to feed them.

Does the latter request feel different? Do you feel more entitled to ask for food to feed your children than for money to fulfill your material needs? Would you think it sad if a hungry four year old meekly and shyly asked, "Excuse me, is it OK if I ask if I might please have a little more soup?" as though he were bad to ask for more? That's the attitude many of us take when it comes to our spiritual approach to manifesting prosperity.

Be Careful What You Wish For

Every time you desire or fear something, you're sending energy out that will pull what you're focusing on to you. Where thoughts go, energy flows. If you fall in love and worry constantly that you're going to "lose" the one you adore, eventually, you will. We can usually see this in action in others' lives more readily than our own. If a girlfriend or boyfriend is insecure and clingy, eventually the other feels annoyed or suffocated, and moves on.

Even when you focus on what you do want, if you focus in your mind on holding the title to that car in your hands, and you do all your perfect manifesting work in terms of visualizing it already in your experience, don't be surprised if you end up with the title to a car (the piece of paper), but not the car itself!

You may be walking through a parking lot when this piece of paper blows up against your leg; you reach down and there you have it, the title to a car. This is a simple example, but the same principles apply to relationships and career objectives and other matters. If you're not paying attention, you may not realize how you did indeed get what you asked for; you just end up wishing you'd thought to ask for something different or more specific in the first place!

Imagine that the Universe is a French waiter, not a native speaker of your tongue. Whatever you ask for will be interpreted and filled literally, and this guy does not understand or hear negatives. If you say, "I'd like a turkey sandwich, but absolutely, positively, no MAYONNAISE, because I'm allergic to MAYONNAISE," this guy is going to come away from the table with MAYONNAISE imprinted in red neon in his mind. He's going to think, this lady is passionate about her MAYONNAISE, and guess what he's going to make sure he doesn't forget? The mayo, of course!

These experiences are gifts, however, especially when we are aware that we did indeed get what we asked for. As we stand in that parking lot staring with delight and amazement at the title to some stranger's car, we ponder with wonder how we were just visualizing this two days ago. We then reason that this experience must go beyond chance or coincidence; therefore, (holy Toledo!), this manifesting stuff must actually work. Such experiences also allow us to refine our focus and dreams, for when we get what we think we want, we often discover that it's not what we expected, or that we forgot about some key aspects when we "phoned our order in" to the Universe.

The process of refining your dream when applied to a relationship might go something like this:

     Anna makes a list of the things she wants in a lover, but she wisely writes it in the past tense as though he is already hers, so that she doesn't keep him "in the future." She writes, "Universe, I give thanks for the wonderful lover I've attracted into my experience. He is tall, handsome, artistic, open-minded, spiritually awake, well-educated, loves coffee as much as I do, passionate, adores me, and has a great sense of humor." She writes these particular things mainly because she has just come out of a relationship with a man who was very logical and conservative, focused on the business world, indifferent to her most of the time, and nauseated by the smell of her beloved coffee.

     Within six weeks, she finds herself dating Richard, who is tall, artistic, spiritually conscious, funny, interesting, and makes the best cappuccino she's ever tasted. He is also thirty pounds overweight, loves fast food, smokes cigarettes all day long and drinks alcohol to excess three or four times a week. She is a fitness buff, wouldn't touch a cigarette to light a campfire in the Arctic Circle with it, and is generally very health conscious.

     Needless to say, she is now clearer about what she really wants, and her "order" to the Universe just got longer and more specific!

These same principles apply to material objectives, whether you're seeking a new home, a new car, or any other desire. Say, "Universe, I want a red car!" and your Uncle Ted may call you up and ask if he can park his 1978 tireless red Pinto by your back shed for a few months!

Yes, But How Do You FEEL?

When we first start consciously manifesting, we may feel like we will never be able to think of everything. Anna may develop a list of 500 hundred qualities she wants in a lover, and when he arrives in her life with a forty pound pampered cat who likes to sleep on her head, realize she forgot yet another thing. Who could anticipate everything?

The key to getting around this is to focus first on how you FEEL. Get very clear within about how you want to feel in different areas of your life. If your focus is financial, you might determine that you want to feel confident, secure, easy, abundant, prosperous, free, empowered, successful, comfortable, etc... Focus on imagining this feeling state first and foremost. If you're seeking that perfect lover like Anna, you might imagine you want to feel adored and also adoring, cherished, in love, turned on, happy, light, carefree, secure, in harmony, admiring of him, doted upon, "on top of the world." Again, focus on this feeling state first. Say, "Universe! I want to feel like THIS!" Get yourself into that feeling state in your imagination first, THEN start getting more specific.

If you get into your feeling state and you start getting specific, and then you write something like, "and I want him to be richer than Bill Gates!" you're likely to feel your inner wheels come to a screeching halt. You've just run up against a limit in your beliefs. You're riding this wave of positive energy, and then your mind says, "Whoa, that's impossible." You've just gotten too specific. Go back to imagining that feeling state again, and this time, write something like, "and he's very financially comfortable," or anything that moves you in that direction, but is still general enough to allow you to expect it to be yours.

Spend With Joy

We all have things that are important to us that we don't think twice about spending money on to get the highest quality. For me, that might be the best produce I can buy. I can happily spend five dollars on a quart of beautiful strawberries, because my health is a priority; you can't put a price tag on that. If my son wants five dollars to spend on Pokemon cards, however, I get an entirely different feeling. Spending five hundred dollars to send your daughter to summer camp feels very different from sending the IRS that same five hundred dollars for most people.

The important thing to note, however, is that it doesn't really matter what you're spending the money on in terms of your energy and what you attract to yourself; what matters is how you feel when you spend it. If you spend begrudgingly, with worry over lack, you slow the flow of abundance into your life. True abundance is not how much you have, but how you feel about what you have.

This was demonstrated to me clearly a few weeks ago while I was conversing with my closest friend. She and I are both single parents and live in the same neighborhood. We have similar expenses and lifestyles. She is always struggling with money issues, however, and worried about making ends meet, while I seem to have a knack for creating ease and manifesting what I want or need in this area.

Because we are so different in this area of our lives, I usually pay for things when we go out. I'll take her out to dinner or pay for the movie tickets and popcorn. It doesn't worry or bother me a bit; in fact, I give thanks when I do this that I have the abundance to be able to do what I want and to treat my friend in this way. I always assumed that I just made a lot more money than she did. We were both very surprised to discover when talking a few weeks ago that she made more money last year than I did.

Instead of sitting back and thinking, "Hey, why the heck am I paying for everything then?" I had to smile and give thanks to the Universe again. I realized that though she may have a higher number on her tax forms, my financial prosperity was greater, for not only did I not worry about money, I experienced ease and freedom to do what I desired and give as I desired. It is this feeling, this energy, that we're truly seeking when we consciously develop prosperity consciousness. Decide how you want to feel, and the numbers and details will by natural law take care of themselves.

Julia Jablonski is an ordained Spiritualist minister, medium and clairvoyant. Please Visit Julia's website here: http://www.muse-net.com/