Does The Abundance You Seek Have A Way To Get To You?

I know it’s not always cool to admit it, but back when the movie The Secret came out, I was overjoyed. And not for the reason you might think.

One of the things that I am a passionate stand for is the value of metaphysical thought. Even with the boom in new age publishing and the prevalence of mind-body-spirit disciplines like yoga, the esoteric thought that is the basis of so much of our self-help literature still doesn’t get the respect it deserves.

Frankly, this makes me crazy! So when movies like The Secret (and Da Vinci Code, for that matter) peek out from behind the veil, so to speak, I get very excited, despite their flaws.

In the case of The Secret, I was truly taken in. And the next thing you know, I’m writing $20k checks to the Universe and posting them on my bulletin board. I wrote pages of affirmations, and spent waaaay too much of my morning altar time concentrating on said checks and re-reading those affirmations and visualizing very, very hard.

Inevitably, I would get disappointed time and time again when what I’d wished, hoped, prayed, and affirmed for failed to show up. (The fact that I’d been a practitioner of manifestation for over a dozen years just made it worse. Hello, shouldn’t I know better? Hello!)

As you might imagine, there were many times when I called my faith and manifestation skills into question. For many long months, I was down on myself.

But throughout all that time, I never doubted the process. I knew the process worked, there was just something that I was missing. Finally I realized that amid all of that affirming and visualizing, I’d overlooked the most important thing of all: creating a path for the abundance to come in.

One of my mentors likes to say, “The Universe wants you to have what you want, even more than you do.” But if you’re not prepared to receive what you want, you will never experience it.

Creating a path for the abundance to come in takes place on 2 levels: inner and outer. Internally, you have to do the work to bring your beliefs about money and yourself (i.e., self worth) into alignment so that you can receive money. You can say you want more money ’til the cows come home, but if you don’t truly believe yourself worthy to receive it, you will push it away… again and again and again. (That was my challenge for a long time.)

Meanwhile, on the outside, abundance will come to you quicker and easier when you give it a path to follow. For example, let’s say that you want to manifest $20,000 in one month, and you currently offer your service in 1-on-1 single sessions of 30 minutes each. How easy is it going to be for Spirit to bring you what you seek? (As opposed, to, say, a package that you can easily and ethically charge $5k for.)

Of course, Spirit can always find ways to give us the abundance we seek, even when we can’t see them. But I also believe in following the path of least resistance. That includes creating products, programs and services as channels for Spirit to bring abundance to me.

If you’re struggling to manifest something in your life and business right now, I invite you to take a look at where you may be putting up the barriers. Does the Universe have a clear path to bring what you want to you? Be sure to look on the inside first, at your limiting thoughts and beliefs that may be choking the flow. Then be proactive and practical on the outside, and look for ways to make Spirit’s job a little easier. (This is an energetic alignment as well.)

Remember, the Universe wants you to have what you want, even more than you do. Bright blessings and massive success to you…