MONEY & SPIRIT
by Fred Brown

I was asked by a writer recently who was doing an article on ANGELS for a local newspaper.

I said that people did tap into guidance other than their left brain but that I didn't know if their information was coming from angels, intuition, imagination, or dreams. I'd never had anyone actually tell me that their angels had advised them in their financial decision-making but that could easily be because people are embarrassed to admit they rely on this source.

I think angels may be a historical image that people use to describe the inner forces that guide them. We all have had that "Ah Ha" feeling when we suddenly know the right answer to a problem. We're not sure how we got that answer or where it came from, but we're sure it's the right one. Many would say they got it from their intuition or higher self. Others would say they are receiving guidance from higher guides or angels. Skeptics might call it nothing more than their imagination.

It doesn't matter to me how it is identified or where it comes from as long as it helps people make their decisions. Years ago I gave little credence to this psychic or spiritual phenomenon. Then one day my wife and I decided we needed another car. Since we couldn't afford a new one, we had to look in the used market. The thought of searching for a second hand car was overwhelming since neither of us were interested in cars or had any expertise in buying them.

However, the following night I had a dream in which I had just found a car to buy. A friend was laughing at me. He said I could fix this car with chewing gum. I took this dream as a good omen since my friend was a car expert and had a midas touch in getting good deals. I interpreted his use of chewing gum to mean that the car would need minimum service. When the next day my wife found a car in the newspaper that fit our exact needs, I knew intuitively that it was the right car for us. We bought it at a good price, and it served us wonderfully until we turned it in 4 years later.

This was the first time I had consciously used psychic and intuitive powers to select anything. It opened my mind to the possibilities of using my higher consciousness as a guide in financial transactions. Several months later I was giving a workshop and a participant told the group how she dreamed of a house that was perfect for her. She saw the layout of the house and the land in detail. A week later a real estate agent showed her the exact house. She couldn't believe it, but of course she bought it.

Over the years I've heard of many people who have manifested the money or material things they've needed. In one of my classes, a student asked me how she should go about manifesting a car she wanted. I told her to picture in her imagination the exact car and to hold that picture for several minutes each day.

About a month later she came up to me after class and exclaimed "I got it." I didn't know what she meant as I had forgotten about her request. She told me she had found the exact car she had pictured and at the price she had envisioned. With great pride she showed me the car. It was in beautiful condition and only cost her $3,000.

Just recently a man thanked me because he had just gotten a job that would pay him the money he had asked for. In a previous article I had suggested that readers who needed money tell their higher powers exactly what they wanted. It wasn't enough just to ask for money, they had to ask for the exact dollars. He had done this every day as part of his meditation and out of the blue he was offered a job that would give him the money.

I am not giving you these examples to promote a woo-woo approach to managing money. I'm only saying that we have these powers, and we should try to use them in conjunction with our financial facts and our practical understanding of our situation.

Let's face it. Most of us need all the help we can get in managing money so why not use our higher powers whatever they may be. You can't lose anything, and they may give you the answers you need.

Fred Brown has been leading workshops on money management for over 15 years. He has a BA degree from Yale, has worked 10 years as a stockbroker, 11 years as an investment advisor, and more than 20 years as a personal financial consultant /writer.

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