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Author Insight
Choosing Abundance
Every time I go into my living room, I see a beautiful, hand knotted Tibetan rug. It brings life to an otherwise unremarkable room. I didn’t plan to buy it. It seemed like an extravagant purchase, and I still experience abundance each time I encounter it. I stumbled across it when we were on vacation. I couldn’t decide whether it truly resonated with me or if I wanted it just because of the merchant’s sales pitch. We left the shop continue to explore and I asked myself the question "Is this a beckon or a hum?" It’s a question I often explore. It helps me decide whether the choice I am considering is right for me. A beckon is the pull of energy coming from outside myself; the “non-me energy” that is addressed in the second of the three Logosynthesis sentences. It influences me to move away from essence, the core of my being. A hum is something that arises from within and guides me toward something that enhances my life and my connection to essence. Sometimes it takes time to decide which is which—and cost isn’t relevant. Beckons tend to fade when I get out of their range. I couldn’t stop thinking about the rug and an hour later we returned and bought it. I’m glad I did.
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
The Journey to Experiencing Abundance
Making the transition from believing in scarcity to experiencing abundance is the result of a shift in your energy system. You will release the energy you have locked into old beliefs, and that will allow you to recognize new possibilities in your current situation.
Logosynthesis often releases the barriers to creating a change in your financial life. The facts may be impossible to change because of a social or political situation beyond your control, but you can always develop a new perspective on your world.
Where Do You Start?
If you are just starting on this journey and your basic needs for food and shelter and medical care are managed, you may still
- struggle to pay your bills
- secretly blame others for your financial situation
- think you’re not getting paid as much as you deserve
- admire rich people
- wonder why other people seem to have so much more money than you do
- spend all your money when you intended to build up your saving reserve
- feel like you can’t even keep up, let alone get ahead financially
- worry about money
Your choices are probably based on whatever grabs your attention at the moment. The world is filled with distractions. Your phone and tablet offer an overwhelming stream of suggestions about how to spend your time and your money.
Movies, media and advertising show you endless possibilities of how famous people live their lives, implying that you should follow their example. If you can’t do these things, you may conclude that the problem is in you. It isn’t!
Important Stepping Stones
An important part of this journey is shifting your focus from what goes on around you to an entirely different space. A space where the questions are different. You become more aware of a different reality—of Essence. Now you wonder:
- Who am I really?
- Why am I here?
- Who are all these other people?
- How are we connected?
- What is my unique contribution to all this?
This is a gradual change. Some shifts happen in an instant, but they are stepping stones. This journey doesn’t happen over days or weeks—some steps take years. What we offer here is some help along your way.
Tools You Can Use
Remember your list of 10 or 100 things you would like to be, do or have in your life? Writing it quickly was a way to move beyond your surface awareness and instead toward answers to some of the questions listed above.
Review the list and, if you chose the list of 100, pay special attention to the last 20 or 30 items you listed. You may find clues there to your most important priorities—maybe even to your life’s true work.
Knowing your life mission or your life’s true work guides the choices you make to allow you to experience abundance.
Laurie: Many years before I was clear about answers to these important questions, I discovered a simple shorthand question that I still use to guide my choices. The question is “Is this a beckon or a hum?”
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