As the masters have been teaching for centuries: Your "outer"
life is a reflection of your "inner" life. Although
many of us have heard this insight, often we still forget to
associate it with our daily lives. Often we place our focus on
trying to create a new car, house, more sales, and money without
ever thinking about the fact that our "outer" life
is a reflection of our "inner" life.
Focusing on creating these things in our outer life is usually
not the most effective way to go about creating them. Focusing
on "within" can create those "things" much
more easily. If we want to create all of the material things
that we desire, what we need to do is place our focus on the
"inner" state of mind that will create the "outer."
We need to focus more on "abundance."
How do we do that?
By recognizing and focusing on the abundance we already have!
If you don't think you are living in abundance, think again.
Look at your life through "abundance" colored glasses.
Truly recognize all the areas of your life, and things in your
life that are beyond what you need.
All you really need to live is air, food, water, and shelter.
Everything beyond that is just gravy. Abundance! Make a list
of all those people and things. Focus on that list everyday in
a true state of appreciation and watch it expand and create all
of your desires. If you want more success, focus on all the ways
that you are already successful.
If you want more love, focus on all the people that already care
about you and the abundance of love you have to give to others.
If you want to create greater health, focus on all the ways that
you are healthy, so on and so forth.
The universe responds to our general "states of mind."
If our general state of mind is always in a state of "want",
then that's what we will get. If our general state of mind is
usually in a state of "gratitude", then we will get
more to be grateful for. That doesn't mean you still can't have
desires. It just means not fretting over them.
Whenever you have a desire, ask yourself what is the "real"
reason for that desire. What is your motive? Focus on creating
more of that motive by appreciating how much of that you already
have in your life.
For years we've been told to focus our imagination and effort
on the "things" we want, but it is much easier and
productive to focus on creating the "state of mind"
that will spontaneously create these "things" in our
lives.
It is much easier to effect change internally because we are
dealing with an aspect of the universe that we can have complete
control over. We can't always control our outer universe but
we can always, with effort, control our inner universe. Since
our outer world is a reflection of our inner world, this is very
fortunate indeed.
For more information about Michael Carpenter
or his work go to www.theempowermentcoach.com or contact by e-mail
at michael@theempowermentcoach.com
About the author: Michael
Carpenter is an empowerment coach, speaker, and author. He has
been living with his wife and two sons for the last 10 years
in the beautiful mountains of British Columbia. He has been speaking
and facilitating workshops since 1994 and has been published
internationally. Having overcome major obstacles, he has now
dedicated his life to helping others do the same.
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by Michael Carpenter