What Is True About Abundance?

I have been both and blessed and privileged recently to study the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles under the guidance of Bob Proctor. Bob is a master at providing the insight and exercises to allow these teachings to become personal and quite pragmatic. Several years ago I actually spent an entire day with Bob, learning his views on creating wealth as a part of achieving our divine purpose in life. One of my biggest breakthroughs in this program is understanding that we as humans are able to choose our thoughts. It is in choosing our thoughts that we learn what is true and what is not true about abundance in our world.

People often think that their thoughts are at the mercy of the environment. This is true if one is only able to think in reaction to what is experienced by the five senses. However, to really think and reason about the real truth and not just the apparent truth is indeed tedious. Our thoughts can be quite random and flighty as we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste so many things. Our senses are exposed to millions of stimuli in a given day which our minds have to either process or ignore.

Can you imagine what your life would be like if you gave attention to every single stimulus brought in by your 5 physical senses? Thank goodness our minds know enough to filter most of it out before it reaches our conscious awareness. The goal now is to choose what to do with those things that do reach your awareness. Do you believe them all as true? Think about what you hear others say or what you read in a book, newpaper, magazine, or online. Is it all true?

The real work involves choosing which ideas and concepts we accept to be true. As we all know, this is not self-evident. As human beings, created in God's image with His indwelling spirit, we also have the intelligence, wisdom, and intuition to make judgments for ourselves. You see there is only one truth. Do you trust yourself enough to know that truth? Or do think you have to learn the truth from a source outside youreself?

If all of our truths, also known as beliefs, come from the outside, how did they get there? Who put out the so-called truth that human nature is innately evil? Who put out the truth that for one person to have more, another must have less? That's like saying each tree in the forest is allowed 1000 leaves. So if one tree has 1100, then another tree is only allowed to have 900. Isn't that absurd? It's the same with all of the physical resources on earth. It's also true of the population. People somehow get afraid that more people mean less quality of life or less available resources for each person. Creation was designed for growth and abundance.

Since there were droughts and famines thousands of years ago when the population was very small, how can anyone claim that there were more resources then than there are now? It is staggering for me to realize that there are twice as many people on earth today as there were 45 years ago. And I personally have a lot more resources at my disposal than I did then. Any personal lack in the world today is caused by human thought, not by the paucity of avaiable materials. If a human believes there to be lack and convinces another human of the same, then their behavior changes and as a result, they begin to experience lack.

As you can tell, I enjoy exploring the psychological, spiritiual, and social ramifications of what we each perceive as the truth about abundance. The thought I'd like to leave you with now is, "What is your truth?" I believe in exploring other peoples' thoughts, and espcecially God's thoughts on truth, which is why I read voraciously. Even with the Bible, though, different people interpret truth differently. As I read the Bible and other books, such as The Science of Getting Rich, my foremost goal is to know for myself what is true. Thinking is indeed hard work but worth the effort as we all learn the real truth about abundance.

To You Abundance,

Sandra Hayes

Receiving Abundance

All of us recognize the abundance in our world. So what keeps so many people from actually receiving abundance? After all, it's one thing to acknowledge the abundance in nature. People seem able to accept that creation is all about increase and growth. But it's quite another thing to feel deserving of abundance in the financial realm.

For some reason, many people have bought into the idea that wealth is somehow equated with greed. When you look at great people in the Bible, many of them were quite wealthy. Think of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, and Solomon. This did not make them unspiritual in any way. God created us to grow and increase and loves to bless His creation.

So why have people, maybe even you, bought into the idea that wealth is only for a few. If you really believe in abundance, isn't it obvious that there is enough wealth for everyone? I challenge you to change from poverty consciousness, believing that you are not deserving of more than the bare necessities and that wealth is for the privileged few. Focus on prosperity consciousness, which says that there is not a limited amount of pie to be shared. Rather, there are infinite numbers of pies yet to be made.

Recognize that we live and grow by increasing, just like all of creation. The next step is to truly believe that you deserve wealth in your life. If you have always been a wage earner, this is going to require a huge change in your mindset. Download and read The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. It's a free download. As you learn to do things in the certain way, open yourself to receiving the abundance that is available to you.

To Your Abundance,
Sandra Hayes
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P.S. The Science of Getting Rich will change your thinking in some very positive ways. You will see that you definitely deserve to receive abundance.