One of the main principles I teach is that what you focus on increases…and if you focus on what you are grateful for, you begin to see more. If you find yourself focusing on what there isn’t enough of – it – first of all feels awful – and secondly – produces MORE of the same… We don’t have enough money; there isn’t enough time; I don’t have enough self-esteem – I have discovered that one of the thing that stops me most is my belief in NOT ENOUGHNESS
Usually toward the end of the year, for example, I ask – what have I accomplished? Mostly – what HAVEN”T I done that I wanted to do or thought I SHOULD HAVE done? Do you see yourself here?
Sometimes we look forward and we make a list that says – This year I’m going to…. Which is usually another list of the things we are berating ourselves for – that we don’t have enough of or do enough of…
Lately, instead I am choosing to focus on ABUNDANCE – which basically is an attitude of Gratitude that says THERE IS ALWAYS ENOUGH…
Abundance is our divine birthright. It is a quality of God, and therefore, by analogy, one of the qualities we all inherit as ‘children of God.
This idea of focusing on qualities rather than on resolutions is very powerful… and something you’ll be hearing a lot more from me on. (It’s the topic of my new book and CD’s – coming soon!)
Qualities of God are not TO DO lists – They are WHO GOD IS – they are therefore more about BEING than they’ll ever be about DOING. And, we are made in the image and likeness of God – and like most of us have finally probably realized with our own parents or children – the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…and in this case, we inherit ALL of the Qualities of God – because we are individualized expressions of God… Does this make sense? This is an essential point in New Thought – WE ARE ALREADY
all these things – but we bury them over with layers of FEAR –
Whatever you think you could use more of – start giving more of it…. There’s a great song I want to play at our offering — SEND OUT MORE….
Physicists and people like Deepak Chopra have taught us that by focusing on a particle we actually bring that particle into existence. There is no need for effort – or strain – isn’t that good news. We simply need to put our
attention on what we want instead of what we don’t want. Whatever we focus on increases in our lives. Whatever we send out – that’s what we start to get…
If we focus on lack, for example, we tend to create more of it in our lives. Likewise, if we focus on abundance, we’ll create more of that as well.
Did you ever notice that those who talk about being ill a lot are usually ill? The Master teacher, Jesus said, as you believe, so shall it be done to you. We show outwardly what we truly believe in by the words we speak. We may say we believe in health, for example, but if our conversation is always on our illnesses, or our fear of illnesses, that’s what we bring about in our life.
If you focus always on what went wrong in the past, you are doomed to repeat the past. The course in Miracles says, That which we resist persists. The reason that it persists is that that is what we are giving our attention to.
So, I am inviting you to choose a quality of God and GIVE YOUR ATTENTION To it… EVERYDAY.
