Generating prosperity from a spiritual mindset
Have you ever been suddenly unemployed or know someone who is? I was there and made the mistake of waiting too long to apply for unemployment, thus disqualifying myself. After my husband and I had to shut down our animation software company and let everyone go, we lived on credit cards and borrowed money from family and friends. We were getting more and more in debt and couldn’t find jobs to replace the high income we had had for many years. Every application I submitted for almost a year competed with many others, not to mention the fact that I am 58 years old.
Because we had some savings, we spent months making low offers on houses in the Southern California real estate market in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where REOs (bank-owned houses) were growing in number. We thought we could become a residential property owner to earn an income, before our savings ran out. But banks weren’t accepting bids, and auctions were selling houses at retail prices. Then we maxed out our credit cards by learning how to invest in commercial real estate, since buying houses wasn’t working.
Our financial life was getting pretty scary during this time, as you can well imagine. And all the doing and doing and doing and trying and trying to get financially back seemed to get us nowhere. Our financial situation was getting worse and worse.
My spiritual path was the only thing that sustained me during that year… my faith in the goodness of the Divine and knowing that the Divine Presence lives within me. My husband has comparable spiritual beliefs. Keeping the focus on the Higher Self and the innate goodness and abundance of the universe kept us from falling apart.
Something started to change. Something big.
First, for me, the Light of my Soul was getting brighter as I turned my attention inward. I began to make a conscious effort to let go of all the disapproval I had of myself. One day I spent three hours just giving myself Love and approval. It was an amazing insight because who was giving love to whom? It was my higher self – God within me, the pure Soul, my pure Self – who was giving Love to my little self, the relative self, the ego/mind/intellect self.
As the days went by, I was able to release more and more disapproval of myself. This fostered a new and widespread feeling of love for my life, ugly as it seemed, and a feeling of love for everyone I met and saw around me. I was consciously practicing “loving what is” whenever I could remember throughout each day. I felt lighter and lighter. By the way, I didn’t make this up. “Loving What Is” comes from ancient teachings as well as modern spiritual teachers (like Byron Katie) in the new age arena.
My husband has also been practicing Loving What Is. It is a high and very powerful teaching. It is removing the block we have to receiving and has given us a new perspective on life. Instead of hating our life, we now love even the bad things, like the IRS suppression that is happening to us, and amazingly, the results are changing. We are walking in the Light, which to me means that focusing on Loving every molecule of what is happening is creating an opening for Grace to flow into our lives. And what could be better than that? Could this be the seed of true enlightenment? What we experienced was a separation from what our physical bodies were going through and we felt very detached and bathed in equanimity.
As we became lighter, small miracles began to happen.
As we gradually accepted what we didn’t like about our lives, the result was that our resistance began to diminish. The old saying goes: “What you resist, persists.” The less resistance we seemed to have naturally, the more we wanted not to resist. And the more we didn’t resist, the more the door began to open. By this I mean the door to abundance.
We realized that we had been enduring the loss of our business, the loss of our income, the loss of our wealth. We had become so resilient that the stress nearly killed us. However, when we decided to align with the natural flow of the universe, to simply and gently accept the karma that was being discharged in such an uncomfortable way, we began to calm down. We became happy… just for the sake of being happy. We start laughing again.
As the basic energy within us became lighter, we were resonating at a higher frequency. This space was welcoming and generous. And we began to magnetize better things. Someone called me out of the blue, asking me to be his private art teacher. I’ve been offered a part-time job at a law firm and have plenty of free time to start my new business. My husband was invited to become a business partner by a friend who is a successful real estate investor. Once again, life is a bowl of peaches.
We have assumed that all the difficulties that have happened were meant to be. We elevate our thoughts and our inner being towards the divine. And we surrender to the natural flow of what is, accepting and loving it. Who would have thought that we would get so far in our development as souls in such a short time?
Finally, we have become eternally grateful for the opportunity those difficult times gave us… the chance to overcome it all, to rise above ourselves, and truly experience life from a spiritual point of view. This is what has changed our lives forever.