Are you allowing yourself to be seduced into the myth of scarcity? There’s a major mantra going around right now, in the thoughts, just under the breath: “I want to but I don’t have the money. . .” I’m not saying that 2009 wasn’t hard for some of us, or that there haven’t been losses. I know that credit is harder to come by, and that some things have dropped away that maybe you were counting on.
And I also know that your words, beliefs, emotions and energy field are powerful creators of your experience. What you thought yesterday created your today—what you think today creates your tomorrow. That’s from Buddha, loosely translated. It’s worth it to notice your beliefs, to pay attention to the unconscious—and conscious—thoughts running around just under the surface, and that come out of your mouth from time to time. Because there is power in the word—yours included.
It doesn’t take money to change your thoughts. It takes a decision, and a commitment to focus your attention. “To think what you want to think, regardless of appearances, is the hardest work in the world,” said Wallace Wattles in The Science of Getting Rich over a hundred years ago. And it’s oh so true and oh so worth it.
So here’s an abundance reality check for yourself: Right now look up from your computer and look around the room you are in. Notice the furnishings, the building, the technology. Is it water and air tight? Are you comfortable here? Is there a phone, a computer, perhaps a television set? Is there a rug and electrical lights? Feel how comfortable your living space actually is. Open your awareness to the abundance that is surrounding you at this very moment.
Reading the “Little House” books with my daughter, the Ingalls family felt deep gratitude when they finally had three rooms for a family of six and tar paper on the exterior walls of the house. Dirt floor, thin windows, wood stove the only source of heat as well as cooking, no running water, no toilet—in Dakota territory, in the winter. This was only 150 years ago, and many people in the world still live in similar conditions. Take another look around your room—and open to amazement of modern Western life.
You are living the result of the dreams and efforts of people like the Ingalls family—and your own family. You have what would have been unimagined abundance just a generation or two ago. Allow this awareness to open the flow of awe within you, awe and gratitude, perhaps even delight. And even if it’s not what it once was, or what you’ve dreamed of so far, it’s by shifting your perspective to what you already have to be grateful for that you will open your channel to even greater flow, greater prosperity, greater amazement.
Scarcity is a myth. There is more money, more prosperity, more opportunities, and more resources available than ever before. Do not allow yourself to become part of the downward spiral of the Old World Age that is passing away. Focus on and join the upward spiral of the New World Age now coming into being. Expand or contract—which feels better?
Learning to think what you want to think regardless of appearances will set you free.
Repeat as necessary 
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