As a follow up to my other article about new moon abundance checks and focusing your intention on manifesting greater flow in all areas of your life, I wanted to share two more responses from readers. This first person had an interesting, albeit contrarian, perspective on the manifesting of abundance. She has apparently linked the idea of manifesting abundance with manifesting LOSS of abundance –the exact inverse of what writing a new moon abundance check is all about!

This is more common than you might think, as we’ve often made vows, oaths, and spiritual agreements in this or past lives which can get in the way as we try to manifest greater abundance for ourselves. In many traditions, including those that involve serving in various churches or religious sects, it’s been common to take on vows of poverty, suffering, and obedience and to tie this into our spiritual path. So we learn to equate being spiritual or being a good person with not having any money. When these programs are in place, it can be really important to release those old vows and agreements because otherwise, we’ll be bumping up against these old programs whenever we try to expand our material possibilities. Every time we try to push ahead financially, we can end up manifesting a reversal without realizing that that’s what we’re doing. It’s sort of a “two steps forward, three steps back”conundrum. This may be what happened with this reader. Here is her story:

“I read your article last month. I decided to write myself an abundance check and left the amount up to the universe. It worked! I had $800 stolen from me within 2 weeks. I had to work extra hard during that time to make it up.

"The way I see it is that EVERYTHING has a price. Energy seeks a balance - we do live in a dual polarity universe. I assure you - all those who receive abundance through your check writing exercise will have something taken away or have to "pay" in some way in the future. My karma is always instantaneous. I only "lost" $800. I truly wonder how may of those who write to you with success will (or have) let you know how this has manifested for them down the road - what their payment was. Thank you for providing me with an exercise that proved to me that what I have been working with for many years is still valid. $800 was a small price to pay for that validation. I do feel for those who follow your advice - there is again - a price one has to pay for ignorance too!”-- end letter

Contrary to this woman’s particular experience, working on aligning yourself with the abundance of the universe does NOT go against universal law or incur "bad karma." Neither must it cause you to suffer a financial loss. However, if we truly believe, on a subconscious level, that money must be equated with suffering, or if we have a stronger program running within us that receiving money must involve loss of some kind, what she describes here can happen. Her story is an excellent reminder that we need to work on releasing those blocks if we really want to be successful with those intentions that we’re setting.

It’s useful to start invoking to release all past life or current life vows of poverty, suffering, and obedience surrounding your money issues. You can invoke God/Goddess/Great Spirit or whatever aspect of a Higher Consciousness that you believe in, and simply set the intention that you permanently release all vows of poverty, suffering, and obedience that you have made throughout time and probability, that you release them completely from your system and from all of your energy bodies. You can envision a divine violet or gold flame sweeping through you, purging your system of those vows, which are sometimes accompanied by negative entities that have formed themselves over time as attachments to your system. (Negative entities “feed”on fear, depression, and suffering, so they will often be hooked into these vows as they sit as overlays within our energy bodies. These energies can really hamper your belief that financial well-being is possible, so it’s good to release those critters, too!)

Sometimes you also need to dig a little into your family tree, examining the lineage that you were born into, the parentage that you grew up with, and release any programs, mind controls, or thoughtforms that you absorbed from them surrounding money. Many of us have deeply held subconscious patterns that equate money with suffering. Unfortunately, we live in a world system that currently has the programming of setting us up to believe that receiving money must involve “soul loss”or the loss of dynamic, joyful, and creative energy from our lives. It doesn’t have to be this way. This universe is an infinitely abundant one, and it’s up to us which frequencies we wish to align ourselves with. I know what I'm talking about. I've been self-employed for most of my adult life and have only ever done work that fills me with joy, sparks my creativity, and engages my sense of play. I've sort of lived outside the "system" and have learned a lot about how it traps people into certain deeply entrenched thinking patterns. But these patterns CAN be released.

You can invoke to start releasing these patterns. Start focusing on beliefs that you know you absorbed from your family members. This may include actual phrases that you were indoctrinated with such as “If you work hard, you’ll have money.”“Working hard”implies soul loss, the loss of dynamic energy from your system. Not very fun, is it? Why would you want to manifest more money if it involves pain and suffering?

Then there’s “Good guys always finish last”or “It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”That’s a common one. We have a lot of structures within our religious teachings that tell us that money is evil or that acquiring money is somehow out of alignment with being on a spiritual path. And it’s important to raise your consciousness to embrace a higher, more refined level of understanding, otherwise you'll never break free of that psychic quicksand. It will just keep sucking you back in.

I think it's helpful to ask yourself what kind of God/Goddess are you busy believing in –one who supports you energetically, who wants you to express all of the abundance that lives within you and help you to manifest it on all levels of your being –or a God who is a God of punishment, of lack, of suffering?

In my experience, the Divine is an energy of infinites, not an energy of conditional love. But I have to admit that it took me a while to fully embrace that level of understanding and to begin tapping into the abundance of the Universe on a greater level, because I had to release many old blockages myself. I believe we are all "works in progress" in that regard. But great shifts can and DO happen, and improvement can be manifested by each one of us.

This reader above writes about the law of polarity, that you have to give something in order to get something. It CAN be helpful to tie your abundance check writing to a tithe. Tithing is when you say, “In exchange for X, I will give Y.”“In exchange for the $1000 I am about to receive, I will donate three healing sessions to people who need them.”“In exchange for that $20,000 that I am going to receive, I will give 10% to my favorite charity.”All of this can be very helpful, because it helps satisfy that part of us that sometimes acts as saboteur, blocking our ability to receive without guilt.

But it’s not always necessary. It’s nice, and spiritually, being generous and sharing your money or your time is a good thing. But if you’re manifesting a real “inverse”situation like the reader above, it’s usually a sign that there are some deeper blocks at work, more profound levels of programming that haven’t yet been disabled. I truly do hope this reader will continue working on her abundance issues and not blame this check writing process for the fact that she lost $800. If anything, the exercise showed her where her blockages were. Maybe $800 was too much for her to ask for, so her self-sabotage mechanisms kicked in. But if she tries a smaller amount, say $100, and she really feels good about it and doesn’t feel that this is an inappropriate amount that violates spiritual law, then I’m sure she will receive it.

Now, here is the case of a reader who had a completely different, 100% positive, experience. He not only asked for a large amount, but he tied the receipt of this amount to a specific project he had in mind –one which he felt really excited and good about.

“So here's my story. During the September full moon, I had read your suggestion and wrote my check in confidence. I picked a sum that 1) felt right 2) would confirm my intentions (not too big or small) 3) be useful. I picked $10,000, an amount big enough to demonstrate synchronicity, performed a small ritual and folded up my check and put it away. The day after the next full moon, the gentleman and friend for whom I worked walked into my office and asked me to go next door for a coffee. We do this often. This time he wanted to talk about various side projects outside of work (internet stuff), so I mentioned a few web site names I had registered and the various ideas behind them. My friend, who is a CEO and venture capitalist, asked how much I needed to launch a site. I said a few thousand dollars. "I'll write you a check for $10,000." There you have it. What I love about this story is that the universe not only figured out a way to make stuff happen, but she did it in a very cool way. The check is not just a free and clear check, it has conditions specifying its use; in this case, starting a business. Now, if the universe had just given me the money, my friends, acquaintances and I would have probably drank, ate and smoked it within the weekend! As such, this gift of abundance happens to perfectly align with my life's goals while simultaneously motivating me to follow said goals. Reality is fun! Warm regards, J.”-- end letter

See how very different J’s experience was? He was careful to align his intentions with a project instead of just waiting for the money to be delivered through thin air, with no conditions attached. And this money’s arrival flows along perfectly with his desire to start a business, since he’ll be putting some real effort behind utilizing this money, thus helping him to feel that he “deserved”it –and deserves even greater money flow once his business gets going. My sense is that he has set things up in such a way that all will go well.

We all have certain monetary “set points,”boundaries around receiving money. For some people, $800 seems way too much, an amount that they really don’t feel right about receiving. But I wonder if reader number one would have felt better if she had tied the receipt of $800 to a specific tithe, such as doing healings for people or donating some of the money to charity. Deep down, she was severely blocked around receiving this amount, but I know that she can work through it, if she continues to work through her blockages. Tying the receipt of money to providing services or work may well be the key to helping her to manifest successfully.

Money is one of the greatest challenges we face in this life, so it’s good to keep in mind that abundance sometimes wants to find us in ways other than financial ones. In my prior post, one of my readers manifested $300 worth of heating oil after writing an abundance check for $300. So in her case, she may not have been ready to receive the $300 as cash just yet, but she did receive it in the form of material goods of an equal amount.

I remember many years ago when I first started working with abundance issues. I decided I would manifest $200 so that I could buy a new typewriter. (That dates me, doesn’t it? I was still using a typewriter!) I really needed a new typewriter to continue my part-time work as a freelance writer, so it wasn’t just some idle amount that I was focusing on. It was very specific. As I focused on my intentions, I set the conditions that however the money might arrive that it would be spiritually appropriate, and that whoever gave me the money would be entirely positive about sharing this money with me. (I didn’t want to earn it through anybody’s loss or suffering.)

A couple of weeks after I set my intentions, I went to the post office. There I noticed that someone had left a wallet. The postal employees had already left for the night and the post office box lobby was the only thing that was still open. I saw no one around who might have left the wallet. It had ID in it, so I figured I’d take it home and call the person so that they could come by and get it.

For some reason, it didn’t even cross my mind that this had anything to do with my wish for $200. I was just glad the wallet had ID in it so that I could return it to the person.

After I got home, I found that the wallet had $800 in cash in it, all hundred bills. I remember thinking, “I’m glad I found this because this looks like someone just cashed their paycheck, and they probably really need this money.”

I called the owner of the wallet, he came by, and I gave him the wallet. He looked inside and was shocked to see that the money was still in it. He started sobbing and smiling and was just overcome with all of this loving, appreciative emotion. I remember he said something sweet like, “I can’t believe there are still people like you in this world!”I told him, “Don’t mention it, I’m happy to help.”

Well, he wouldn’t leave the property until he gave me a reward. I tried to talk him out of it, because I didn’t want to take advantage of the situation. But somewhere in our discussion he pressed $200 in my hand and said, “Please take it. I’ve been going through a spiritual crisis lately, and you’ve restored my faith that this crazy planet is an okay place to be. Thank you!”

I was overcome with emotion then, and the two of us exchanged a hug, and something clicked inside my head. Maybe it WAS okay for me to receive this $200 in this way. Wasn’t it a) exactly the amount I had wanted to receive and b) wasn’t it being given to me by someone who really wanted to give it to me, who felt spiritually moved by sharing this reward with me?

I took the money, amazed at how the Universe can arrange things, in its infinite, mysterious wisdom. And the guy did assure me that it wasn’t his last $800 or anything, this was just extra cash he had on hand to have some fun with his wife that weekend, go out for dinner, do some shopping and stuff. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t his rent money!

I encourage you to continue the process of creating abundance and freeing up the flow of universal bounty in your life. If you don’t feel that you deserve more money right now, write your check for something else –for a day off from work, for extra time, for more companionship, for a quality relationship, for a nice conversation with a close friend.

The point is to get in the habit of tapping into the frequency of the miraculous and realize that that’s where our spirits naturally reside. The Universe really IS rooting for you, I promise! And a cornucopia of wonderful experiences is truly within your grasp.

 

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