If you cling on to money, and hoard it (in your thoughts or acts), it will be allowed to "coagulate" and this is likely to cause problems.
Money is vital energy, which we acquire in exchange for the services we perform for other people and the Universe, and which we then use to satisfy our needs and desires.
And if we want it to continue to flow our way and proliferate, we have to keep it circulating!
If this Secret is fully understood and properly applied, it holds the power to significantly increase prosperity.
This doesn't of course mean that saving is a bad thing!
As long as you do it for the right reasons.
Let me explain: I don't recommend saving just for the sake of it, but I do recommend it as a means of developing the appropriate enthusiasm for work. Because financial success requires a certain zeal in your work.
What gives you this zeal?
The answer is EMOTION - that strong emotion which drives you towards your objective, helps you to persevere in your activities, and even makes your work easy and enjoyable.
Without an "emotional spur", saving money is very difficult, if not impossible. No matter how strong your willpower is, it won't make you a saver unless you have some kind of motive.
Some people rightly think that a stash of money can bring you peace of mind in case of troubled times ahead.
However you need to distinguish between two different types of behaviour depending on the EMOTION involved.
There are two different kinds of motive for saving money:
- the first is based on the negative emotion of fear, which tends to block the free circulation of Cosmic Energy;
- the second is based on the positive emotion of love, which smooths and even increases the flow of Universal Energy.
Some people are driven purely by fear, which makes them want to put something by for a "rainy day". But how uninspiring to live in continual fear of disaster! How damaging this is to their psychological and spiritual balance, their spirit of initiative, enterprise and freedom! It's better not to save at all than to live like this ...
For other people, regularly saving money SERVES their desire to bring pleasure to themselves and other people (e.g. desire to travel, go on holiday, move to another town, buy a new car, improve their children's education, etc.).
And the energy of Life, Love and Sharing is not blocked; on the contrary, it helps to fuel projects and dreams in a positive and constructive way.
The main benefit of saving is the following: it really boosts your enthusiasm for work.
If you are saving, you unconsciously develop ways of improving your work, so that you can earn and save more money.
So what's really happening here?
You DEVOTE your efforts to the realisation of your dreams: you use your work to SERVE your objectives which then become CHARGED with meaning and RECEIVE HELPFUL SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF UNIVERSAL ENERGY.
In other words, you take that magic step which is known in the occult world as "ENTERING THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE": the more and the better you work, the more money you earn and the faster you realise your dreams.
This establishes a kind of energy circuit, a flow of money which expands into wealth and prosperity. Or you could express this idea using a little saying: MONEY breeds MONEY!
Now you will understand that saving does not impede the circulation of money and Universal Energy as long as your attitude is healthy and you use it to further your aim.
How to create a constant flow of money in your life
A few years ago, a young bank cashier said to me: "How can I get more money? How can I get to do the things I want to do?
I answered him with a simple explanation, telling him that his habitual thoughts were ingrained in his subconscious mind and that if he steered his thoughts and inner dialogue in the right direction, he could have all the money he needed.
I emphasised the fact that his dialogue with himself was responsible for everything happening in his life. And I asked him how he would think, speak and act if he already had the money he wanted. He replied that he would buy a beautiful home for his family and a boat, that he would travel round the world and then he would study political economy at university.
I suggested that he should speak to himself in the following manner:
"I have a beautiful house. I am travelling around the world. I am studying political economy at University".
This was the kind of inner discourse he regularly held as he went about his work during the day at the bank. He never contradicted these things he was telling himself inside.
And it all came true. Now he earns more money than the bank manager did. Money is circulating freely in his life and he has achieved all his ambitions.
The inner conversation of this bank employee was conducted as though he already had all these things. Each of them was real in the sense that it existed as a "thought-image" in his mind and this is the key. First you need to possess everything you want in your mind, because everything stems from that.
This man kept his sights on his aims and objectives, understanding that his inner dialogue was bound to become a reality.
You therefore need to establish the mental equivalent of whatever you want out of life.
Think longingly of what you want; your thoughts generate an EMOTION, and when these thoughts are repeated over and over again, they become engraved on your subconscious and are certain to come true. Because this is the Law of your Mind.
What to do to make money circulate freely in your life
Take a short phrase which can easily be registered in your subconscious and repeat it again and again, like a lullaby. Here's one you might like to try:
"I consciously declare that money is circulating freely and happily in my life and that there is always a divine surplus. Money is flowing freely towards me and I am using it wisely, judiciously, constructively."
Spend five minutes in the morning and five minutes before you go to sleep at night repeating this affirmation; you will see that the idea of prosperity impregnates your subconscious mind.
Be careful to use the present, and avoid words like "I want ...", "I would like ...". Think as though what you wanted already existed.
IMPORTANT POINTS
. Lots of people pray for wealth, prosperity and success, but as they do so, their mind retains an impression of deficiency, failure and limitation.
Your desire and your mental images must agree. When there is a conflict between your desire and your imagination, it's always the imagination which wins.
In fact, anyone who declares "I am rich and prosperous" but actually believes they are poor and restricted, will only become more impoverished. You have to get your conscious and your subconscious on the same wavelength, otherwise there is a conflict in your mind. The subconscious always accepts the dominant idea.
. Feeling jealous and envious of other people's wealth is a great obstacle to those who want to be prosperous themselves. Remember that your thoughts have a generative power, and you will create in your own life the things you think about other people. If you have mean thoughts, you yourself will become poorer. It's by rejoicing in other people's good fortune that you create your own.
. It's when you are going to sleep, and your mental activity is winding down, that it's easiest to impregnate your subconscious with whatever you want to. And so this is the time when you must see and feel yourself actually living out your dreams.