In our “Creating Money, Experiencing Prosperity” class we focused on excitement, exuberance, and self loving as foundations for prosperity. For me this has been revolutionary–especially as I’ve begun to practice and experience it more and more. what I’ve come to realize–embody, really–is that when I’m in these states, I am being my Soul Self. I am fully connected to source. And when I’m fully connected to source, energy flows easily, deLIGHTfully, toward what I want.
We live in a coercive, demanding, punishing society. Really it’s pretty shocking when I step back and look at the kinds of requirements we make for ourselves–how schools and work situations are set up. The number of hours and days people work on a routine basis–the sleep deprivation that’s just normal now, the substance abuse (yes, coffee is a substance), sitting prone, eating fake food, zoning out in front of a TV just to be able to relax. All pretty disconnected. No wonder people are stressed out.
So focusing on pleasure. And I don’t mean titillation, the kind where people make money from manipulating your sense of deprivation. I mean pleasure. What really feels good. I’m guides have been telling me for over a decade to do what brings me JOY. And I simply couldn’t understand what that meant. I mean I knew all the words. I even experienced Joy on occasion. But to simply do what brings me job. Set my life up so that everything I do feels good. That I just could not absorb and integrate. It was as if it was a foreign, very foreign language.
I see how often I’ve habitually fallen into working and over working. I have been pretty successful at doing what I love. I mean I’ve changed my form of livelihood a number of times following my interests. But still, it’s easy for me to over do it. And my addictive pattern is to begin with what feels good, then keep doing it, do it more and more and more, and not notice when it doesn’t feel so good anymore. I can do this with writing (today it feels really good), with web design, with seeing clients, even with dancing or yoga. It’s the addictive pattern: some is good, more, and more, and even more must be better. But that’s not the case.
So for me it’s a matter of tuning in enough to notice–does this actually feel good at this moment? Not yesterday, or an hour ago, but right now, does this still feel good? Because when I get focused in my head, I can lose touch with my feelings pretty easily (side effect of getting a PhD?). And then, what kind of good does it feel? Opening up my energy, engaging my creativity, self expression, contribution?–humor, lightness, flow, connection, sensuality?
As I’ve begun to focus more and more on pleasure and being self loving, which helps create pleasure, I notice that more clients come to me, more opportunities arise, more resources reveal themselves, a sense of expansion buoys me over the waves of change that are sweeping through our world. “Creating Money”–which I realize is really about creating the life I truly want–is about experiencing pleasure. Even knowing what that means, not as a concept, but in my body, in my being, in their connection. As Abraham would say, “Life is meant to feel good. Enjoy yourself!”
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