There are many ways to increase your prosperity and abundance. Basically, in this Judeo-Christian Western society, we are told that it is better to give than to receive. We are probably the most charitable country in the world, especially with our tax dollars. Though private giving has always been very big, also. I feel that most of the people in my group of friends has the opposite problem, namely they don't know how to receive. They are always willing to give, but are not allowing themselves to receive, because it is better to give than to receive; (therefore to receive is wrong.) However, that is just not true. The two are actual co-equal. If it were not for receivers, there would be no givers. So if you want to give bliss to all of those givers out there, open up and start receiving!

We don't have to deserve anything by our actions or inactions. We deserve everything by the fact that we are God, that we are Spiritual Beings and a part of All That Is. Everything that is, is ours. There is nothing we have to do to deserve that. We don't have to work for a living. This Piscean work ethic is now outdated. Many of us are having a difficult time remaining in the mundane workforce because of the negativity and low energy vibrations created by people who are in jobs which they do not enjoy. We think we have to work at things; we have to learn to work and grow through hard work and suffering. That, also, is not true. We already are God. We don't have to work at becoming God. And we don't have to do anything to deserve something. That is the biggest stumbling block in claiming our abundance, the inability to receive, and feeling that we have to work at our abundance.

There are many people who are born into wealth. There is nothing wrong with that. I wish I had been! I wouldn't be the same person that I am today, but who knows, I could have been better. At least richer! A famous man was quoted on whether it is better to be rich or poor. He said, "I have tried both. It is more fun to be rich." How many of you would like to have more abundance than you now have? Abundance can take many forms. One nice, spendable form is cash. But it doesn't just have to be money. You can have an abundance of friendship, love, opportunities, families, experiences, etc.. However, in this article we are going to talk about an abundance of money. Many New Age people are rich in love and friends but poor in money. Many of them even think it is wrong to have money. Many psychics and healers, also, think they cannot make money with their gifts. Those are false beliefs. There are many who do.

No one ever said that money was evil. The love of money to the exclusion of all else, mainly your Spiritual growth, is the root of all evil. Greed and hunger for money to the exclusion of all things, especially respect for and the rights of others, can cause evil. But I can't judge that it's wrong for somebody to do that. That may be somebody else's trip. It is not up to me to judge that.

It is fun to have money. It gives me a warm and secure feeling to open my wallet and see many twenty, fifty and hundred dollar bills in there. It makes me feel great and I like feeling great. I think we should all feel great. I am not ashamed of the fact that I have two color TV's, neither of which do I watch, two VCR's and two motorcycles. My having two of those items in no way prevents anyone else from having one of them. We have a right to be abundant, to have money, to have material possessions. That is what we are here for, to enjoy life, including the material things. That is what material things are here for, for us to possess and enjoy them, though they should not own us. The fact that somebody is poor does not make me feel bad because I am rich. As in all things in life, we each draw to us what we are able to receive. I, as an abundant person, have a right to the abundance which I have drawn to me. I claim that prosperity. It is mine. Instead of saying that I have too much when someone else has too little and therefore I had better give some of mine away, I accept my abundance and I accept their right to be poor. If I choose to share my wealth then I do so because I want to, not because I feel guilty that I have more than they do. I had a guiltectomy several years ago and I am no longer capable of feeling guilt.

Each of us is responsible for our position in life and the things that happen to us. We are told that each of us has lessons to learn in life. Well, maybe the only lesson we have to learn in life is that there are no lessons to learn in life. The Piscean Age was very work oriented and our current society is very much shaped by that. We are told that we have to work to get what we want in life. That is one way to do it and it does work. I have tried it and I don't like it. Many people also say that our lives are shaped by our Karma. For the most part our Karma has little to do with our daily lives, especially our prosperity. To blame something on Karma is basically a cop out. Since we often don't know what our Karma is, we should merely proceed with our lives from the standpoint that we have none, which a lot of people don't have, anyway; at least which affects their day to day lives. And remember, Karma can be good just as easily as the other way. So you are totally free to own everything. Each of you is capable of having everything your heart desires, and then some.

Many years ago I heard myself say a statement which I had said many times before. "I always have enough to get by." I had meant that in a positive way. But I listened to myself and thought; Oh, this, then, is my Subconscious program. I always have enough to get by implies that I only have enough to get by. Every time I had a little extra money saved, something would come along and take it away. My car would need repairs, they would raise my insurance, my rent would go up, my TV would break, and my extra money was gone. So I went in and changed that program. We all have our programs. "It is better to give than to receive." "You have to work for what you get." "You don't deserve it." "It is not nice to have more than someone else." We all have our programs which we pick up along the way. We are programmed by our society, by our parents, our schools, our peers, our government in many different ways. And we are responsible for that. Once you are twenty one years old, you can accept the way you are and have been programmed or you can examine your life and decide for yourself which programs you wish to have in your Subconscious. At any time in your life you have the ability to change your life in any way you choose. You are capable of being the person you want to be, and if there are things in your life that you don't want, then you can change them.

You are God. You constantly write and rewrite the script of your life, so change it if you don't like it. Write a different script. Write a different story. Give it a happy ending. You don't have to be specific. Many people talk about creating through visualization. They say you have to be exact and specific in your visualization. If you want a car, then visualize the model, year, color of interior and exterior, what options, how many lug nuts, etc. you want. But it is not necessary to be that specific. The purpose of being that specific is to build your emotional energy by constantly focusing on what you want. The easiest way is to say that you want reliable transportation and the car that is best for your needs, unless, of course, there is a specific car which you want. Using these parameters, your Subconscious Mind can take it from there. It knows much more, and is aware of much more, than you give it credit for. You don't have to do everything with your Conscious Mind.

Emotions are energy. Things on the material plane materialize much more quickly when you get your emotions involved. Often what we fear most happens. Fear is a negative desire. Fears create and stimulate a lot of emotional energy. You send all of that emotional energy into that negative desire and it happens. What a feat of creativity! So stop being emotional about the things you don't want in life and start being emotional about the things you DO want in life. Let the joy flow! Be happy! Realize that if you do, then you will create those things which you want in life.

At first we might realize that we are creating our fears and take responsibility for that. Then when we understand that we are, indeed, capable of creating, we move beyond creating our fears by deciding not to create them. Then we move on, tentatively at times, to experimenting with creating the good things which we want. We soon find that we are just as powerful at creating the good things in life as the bad. And since we now know how to create we also know how not to create something and begin to feel that we have control over our lives.

In creative visualization we build the picture, see ourselves in that picture, thereby stimulating our emotions, which adds energy to our picture and helps it to materialize on the physical plane.

When I first began consciously working with creating my own reality in 1980, I brought so many things into my life so quickly that I actually scared myself. I wanted a new motorcycle because the one I had wasn't working properly. I got the old one back from the shop and it still wasn't working right. I was upset that I couldn't get it to work right and was determined to get a new one. I didn't have the cash to buy one nor the room in my budget to afford payments. But I was determined. Failure wasn't in my vocabulary. As I was riding my old motorcycle home from the repair shop I was thinking about ways I could get a new one. My car at that time got only 10 miles to the gallon. A new motorcycle would get fifty miles per gallon. If I rode my new motorcycle everywhere instead of my car, I could save approximately $40 per month which could then go toward payments on a new motorcycle. Whatever it took, I would do. I would find a way. Period.

Five days later I paid cash for a new motorcycle AND had enough money left over to buy a new stereo system; amplifier, turntables, speakers, and tapedeck. And still had cash left.

Because I would not take no for an answer.

I got my emotions involved and took the necessary steps to get the job done. I went and looked at motorcycles to see how much they would cost and began to send out strong vibrations on the Subconscious plane that I would have it. (Not that I wanted it because that would imply that I didn't have it; but that I would do, right now, whatever was necessary to attain my goal.) Even though I didn't consciously know how I was going to accomplish my goal. I put ALL of me to work. It came to me in a benign way with goodness for all concerned. Other than that it didn't matter how the money came to me. If I had limited myself to ways which I could consciously perceive, I would have been making $40 per month payments for three years. I don't want to limit how your money might come to you by filling you up with my expectations. There is much more to this life than we can perceive through our five senses. The only focus for my attention and my energy was that I would have a new motorcycle. Note that I had even more than I needed.

I then decided that I wanted a new car. Two months later I ordered a new one. I didn't pay cash for it but was able to comfortably afford the payments. A month after that I bought a house in which I would live for nine years. Material things were coming so fast and furiously, I was receiving all of these things, that I was actually a bit frightened at what I had done; like I really did have the responsibility for creating my life and there was no end to what I could do. Such a feeling of Power! But I soon got over my awe and got on with my life.

I had a desire. I had a goal or object of my desire. I had determination. I made the decision that I would manifest that desire no matter what it took. I wasn't wishy-washy. I didn't say I WISH I had a new motorcycle but I wonder how I would be able to afford it. I had the will to get it done, and I had the energy to go for it until it was mine. Looking back on it, I realize that I had a lot of emotion associated with my desire. I channeled a lot of that energy into manifesting that desire.

Creative visualization works when you add desire, emotion, determination, will power, and the necessary action without any preconceived notions about how your desire might manifest.

Watch what you say. When you say you want something, that implies that you don't have it. There is a creative exchange of energy between the Conscious Mind and the Subconscious Mind. The Subconscious Mind literally creates for the Conscious Mind anything that the Conscious Mind desires using Universal Laws. When you say you would like to have something that implies that you do not have it. The Subconscious Mind takes that desire that you do not have something and creates that reality, literally. It doesn't interpret your desires. There is no spokesperson that says, what the Conscious Mind really means is....

Once you claim something as yours in your mind, you create that thought form. And that thought actually exists on the Subconscious plane. So you already have it. It just isn't in material form yet. It is merely taking the necessary action on the physical plane while releasing the thought to your Subconscious Mind and waiting for what is already yours to manifest physically.

Don't think about what you want all of the time. Doing so focuses your energy on the fact that you do not have it. That, then, is the message the Subconscious Mind receives and the reality which it creates for you.

Emotions are stronger than Conscious thought. Emotions are pure energy and they are closer to the Subconscious Mind than conscious thought. No matter how positive your thoughts are, if your feelings are that you don't deserve this, you don't know how you are going to pay for this, or it is too much to hope for, then your emotions are going to win out every time and you will not get what you want. Emotion cancels thought. When you work on programming your mind to get what you want, be sure to work on your emotions, also. The true way to manifest is emotionally, rather than mentally. Emotionally, everything is true. So if you are going to work at it, work with the emotions rather than the mind.

Listen to what you say. Never say that you can't afford something, because that sets it up in your Subconscious Mind that you can't afford and strengthens that program, also. Even if you want to do something but don't have sufficient money at the present time, say to yourself and others that you choose not to do it. That is true. If you find yourself using a lot of negative expectation words, get rid of them. Replace them with the opposite positive thought and word.

At all times listen to what you say. You create with your words. Thoughts are powerful. But words are even more powerful (full of power) because they are thoughts expressed on the material plane. What we are dealing with here is creating and manifesting on the material plane. By speaking, by giving physical expression to these thoughts, you are creating that reality. That is the power of spoken affirmations. You not only create that thought on the inner planes and build a program, you create that reality in dense, physical matter. If you use affirmations, be sure to use them in the present tense and in a positive manner. Do not use the word "not" in your affirmations. The Subconscious Mind does not understand the word "no" or "not", so it hears the opposite of what you want. Find some way to express what you want in a positive way. Say "I have" rather than " I want." Say "I have money to make my house payments" rather than "I do not want to lose my house." Say "I am doing" rather than "I will do."

Since we are God we have the Divine right to have everything. We don't need to covet something somebody else has because we can create it on our own. You can work with some things like creative visualization and creating through Mind and Will Power; which is saying that I have this desire, putting energy into it, taking whatever action is necessary, and seeing it through to completion knowing no obstacle.

Another tool which you can use to get what you want is a list of things you want to have and which you are going to put energy into obtaining. It is a list of five or ten things which you want. At first it should consist of only material things because it is easier to recognize when those things materialize. Later you can add spiritual things like happiness or peace of mind. This list works similar to affirmations. The list should be in order of importance to you. Those things which you most want should be at the top of the list. Each week re-order your priorities if appropriate and drop off anything which you now have. Read the list at least once per day, out loud, using as many of your physical senses in your visualizations as possible. In your mind play with possessing those items until they are real to you. Express everything in a positive manner.

When I first began using what was called the Ten Most Wanted List, I had a humidifier which I used in the winter time. It was always gumming up with lime scale. For some reason I always had trouble finding lime scale remover, a liquid which you put in the water to prevent lime scale buildup. Twelve bottles of lime scale remover were at the top of my Ten Most Wanted list. One Saturday I went shopping and was determined not to come home without my lime scale remover. I started out at 10 AM at the local mall. JC Penney didn't have any so I went to the Montgomery Ward store next door. I saw their display and they had ten bottles. A salesman came to me and asked if he could help. I said that I wanted ten bottles of lime scale remover because that was all that they had. But I had miscounted and there were only nine. The salesman said he'd be right back. He went into the stock room and came back with a box and asked if I would settle for twelve. I broke out laughing because I knew that was the Universe laughing at me, telling me that I didn't have to settle for less. If I wanted twelve, then I could have twelve.

The Universe will work with you because you are the Universe. You are All That Is. There is not a universe out there somewhere. It is working with you because you are the Universe. And of course you will take care of you. You are going to give yourself exactly what you want.

There is a Universal Law called The Law of Giving and Receiving which says many things. One of which I have already said; for every giver, there is a receiver. Also it says that whatever you give will be given to you. There is a circular flow of energy. Whatever you give out will come back to you. So if you give out stinginess, then that is what will come back to you, stinginess. If you give out abundance, then you will receive abundance. Attitude is everything. If you give out expectations of abundance then you will receive abundance. If you give out love then you will receive love. If you hold healthy thoughts in your mind, then you will be healthy. Know no fear; only Love. If you are a helping individual you will receive help whether you need it or not. That helping quality of energy will come back to you in some form.

By giving to others you create a vacuum in yourself. You have given what you have, creating a void inside of you. Nature abhors a vacuum so it will be filled in like kind. By giving to others you are creating the flow to come back to you. By giving you are setting into motion that frame of mind, that attitude, which says that I have enough, more than I need, so that I can give to others.

That, then, is the expectation which the Subconscious Mind receives. I have more than I need and can give to others. You can't do that unless you have more than you need. You create that expectation, that self-fulfilling prophecy.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That is also true because that is their expectation, their attitude. Rich people expect to be rich. I know a man, an insurance agent, who is very successful in his occupation. He makes several hundred thousands of dollars per year. Several years ago he was in Arizona boarding an airplane to fly to Hawaii for a two week vacation paid for by the company, for which he sold insurance, as a reward for his high production. As he boarded the plane he was told that he was the airline's one millionth passenger and as such he had won two free round trip tickets anywhere in the world to which the airline flew. If anybody didn't need free tickets, it was he. But there he was, he already made more money than he could spend in a year's time, on a free two week trip to Hawaii, and he wins two free round trip tickets to anywhere in the world. Yet it makes perfect sense. It is his expectation that wealth and good things in general will come to him.

This person happens to be a nice, service oriented person. But even if he weren't, even if he were an asshole, as long as he had the expectation of being rich, his Subconscious would meet that expectation. His Subconscious isn't going to say, "you are an asshole and don't deserve that." It is going to say, "Okay. You expect to be rich, so that is what I'll create for you."

For poor people the same laws work. They have a negative desire, the expectation of being poor. This, then, is a self-fulfilling prophecy which they create for themselves. That doesn't mean that some poor people don't get rich because they do. They have the expectation and drive to escape their poverty.

Nelson Rockefeller lived well over a hundred years ago and founded the Standard Oil Company. Every time he met someone new, he would give them a shiny new dime, which was worth a lot more then than now! He understood the Law of Giving and Receiving. What he did is called Seed Money. He knew that the money he gave away would come back to him tenfold. He knew that whenever he gave away a dime he could expect to receive a dollar. This is called the Law of Tenfold. That it comes back to you tenfold is not written in stone. Ten is merely a number which is comfortable to the Conscious Mind. It can come back to you a thousandfold if you can conceive of that. You are priming the pump and have a right to expect things to come back to you. When you give out something, freely and without reservations or conditions, it will come back to you. Whether you allow it to come back to you one time or a thousand times doesn't matter. The Universe will not say that now you have your tenfold so the flow must stop. It is total abundance flowing to you. You are creating that flow by giving.

Even if you have no money to give, you can always give of yourself. You can give a kind word, a compliment, a pat on the back, a sympathetic ear, volunteer work, a hug, anything; to give of yourself, to start that flow of energy out of you. Create that circle; prime that pump. The more energy you expend the more energy you draw into yourself.

It is impossible to waste money. The only conceivable way to truly waste money I can think of is to burn it. Every time you spend money you create more money. In Economics this is called the turnover effect of money. You create a ripple. When you spend a dollar it creates profit for the store at which you spent it; it pays wages to the employees who pay income taxes. It gives money, wages and profits to the suppliers of those goods which you bought. They in turn go out and spend it again starting the process all over again. One dollar spent creates six dollars before the ripple effect washes out. So by spending money you are helping to create other people's prosperity. Money spent is never wasted. Even if you pay too much for an item, bless it and send it on its way, knowing that it is helping other people prosper.

Money goes around and it comes back. We are always creating more. When you have so much money that you cannot spend it all you put it in a savings account. That also creates money. When you put money into a savings account it is there for people to borrow so they can buy a car and create more jobs; so that entrepreneurs can borrow large sums of money, start businesses and put more people to work, creating more abundance for everyone. It is a wonderful system and it works. It is an abundant system. The more you have the more abundant our society is. So you are actually doing good by having more money then you know what to do with.

Several years ago I was at my parents' house. It was around nine o'clock in the evening and we were playing a card game in the kitchen. Someone was shuffling and dealing the next hand and I got up and went to the refrigerator and opened it up. And I stopped. And I thought, this isn't my house. This is not my food. If someone came to my house and opened up the refrigerator and started helping themselves, I would wonder what was going on. I tabled that thought, closed the refrigerator and sat back down.

I thought about that for many weeks afterwards. It felt okay to raid my parents' refrigerator. I felt like I was at home even though I hadn't lived with my parents for fifteen years. I felt that my parents wouldn't mind at all if I went in there and raided their refrigerator. They might even enjoy the fact that I was receiving from them. I realized that is the nature of parents. They WANT to give to their children. Such is the nature of parental love. I am sure that you want to give to your children. You want them to have everything.

So how much more do we love ourselves? How much more does God, or the Universe, love us? We are the Divine Spirit in all things. That God-Love that is resident within us all, that totally accepting, non-judgemental Love, just wants to give to us. It is there within us and within the Universe at all times. Total abundance. Of money, of love, of acceptance, of peace, of brotherhood and friendship. How much more can we receive by opening up to that Divine, abundant Love that is within us right now, just waiting for us to ask. It is our Divine Heritage to receive that abundance. It awaits you even now. It never sleeps.

When people come to my house to stay for a few days, I tell them to make themselves at home, eat my food and drink my drink. They can't take anything from me, because I can always go out and buy some more. I am God. I don't have to worry about somebody taking anything from me; that is impossible. It is all mine. So no one can take anything from me. I give and they receive and there is always more. That sets up in me the expectation of always having more to give.

Never doubt yourself. Always know that you are the Universe so of course you will take care of yourself. You are an integral part of the never ending flow of abundance. Always have a positive attitude. Attitude and expectation are everything. Do it!