Special Article on Money and Abundance

Special Article on Money and Abundance

WHAT IS IT, THIS MONEY?

Dr. Tom Goode

Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. If you have a great deal of if, you are considered to be rich: (affluence, abundance, ampleness, bounty, copiousness, fortune, myriad, opulence, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, prosperity, prosperousness, successful, thriving, riches, thriving, wealth, fortune, good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; solvency., provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property; command of money, income; capital, money; treasure).
Then there is what we really have: Fiat Money.

Fiat money is that which a government declares to be legal tender, even though it has no intrinsic value and is not backed by reserves like gold and silver. The value of this fiat money depends upon how well an economy can produce concrete things and services that people want. This is why printing new money cannot ever create wealth for a country. 
Money is valuable because we want it and we want it only because it can get us a desired product or service. When we have enough of it, we usually think of ourselves as abundant. Of all the definitions of abundance, I like the one Bashar gives us:
“Abundance is the ability to do anything you need to do when you need to do it; trusting that what is happening takes place for the purpose of your abundant expansion and soul’s unfoldment as part of the process brought on by your desires as cocreator.” 
–Bashar—www.bashar.org

So rather than money—an idea–let’s continue to focus on abundance. We do this because when money is determined to be the only door through which abundance can enter, then the door closes. When all manner of abundance is perceived to be equally, (according to Abraham) Abundance comes through the path of lease resistance. Or as A would also suggest, an exclusive focus on money is automatically a focus on not money.

“Two new research papers argue that money can buy life satisfaction, but not happy feelings — and that earnings beyond $75,000 a year don’t buy a lot more happiness. (And)…above a certain level of stable income, people’s emotional well-being is constrained by other factors in their temperament and their life circumstances.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110009/how-much-money-do-you-need-to-be-satisfied

Let’s use the term Abundance to take advantage of the association with MONEY that most people have with the word. By utilizing this phrase it is intended that the teachers of breath would be able to reach to, assist and enable those for whom it would be of benefit. 
{I confess, I didn’t know how difficult it would be for people to follow 3 steps to better breathing: Abdomen* Belly*Chest.}
So I am going to take another approach. I am going to teach you the Abundance Breath. This is a special Bonus for you and not in “the best book you have yet to read”: Breathe and Grow Rich. www.breatheandgrowrichbook.com}

THE ABUNDANCE BREATH

Surrounding us is Life Force energy. In the Abundance Breath, you breathe in an abundance of this self-intelligent force that knows exactly where to go for the greatest benefit in each individual mindbodyspirit system.

1. Open Mouth and begin to inhale, stretching and using muscular action to direct the lower abdomen and pubic arch forward and allowing the lungs to fill from the bottom; 2. With mouth still open, use muscular action to stretch the ribs in the back and below the sternum as your inhale deepens and your back begins to stretch; 3. With mouth still open, use muscular action to stretch your spine, chest and neck in a upward direction; 4. When reaching a fully stretched position, Relax, allowing the muscles to soften, and all of the cells, all of the organs and even the glands, to relax. There is nothing to think about. There are no plans. There are no regrets. There is only the Abundant Life Force entering the body and integrating as you breathe and relax. Repeat, stretching and expanding as you inhale, allowing the muscles to go soft as the body exhales.

Start with 10 Abundance Breaths in the morning; again in the evening and throughout the day. Increase the number of breaths in each set and the number of sets depending Upon How Much Abundance You Desire

Will you get more MONEY as a result of performing this exercise? Not necessarily and you will be a great deal more comfortable and energetic while you are attracting, manifesting or enjoying it. Perform the Abundance Breath with the feeling of abundance. How would you feel IF you were Fully Abundant? Breathe that feeling in repeatedly and see what happens. Breathe like you already were abundant…repeatedly.

Link to Quotations and Affirmations: http://bit.ly/91izkY

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Healthcare Forecast!

Assuming things continue as they have been, in 100 or so years, mankind will likely accept the holistic, unified mindbodyspirit system and directly address the underlying cause of illness. By then, science will have “proven” the existence of soul to its satisfaction and in sufficient degree that the establishment will communicate the findings to the media. This will enable “the great middle classs” to self-care and self-heal and provide guaranteed health without fear. Until then, trust in the Force and continue Full Wave Breathing–as an exercise it heals; as a practice, it transforms.

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Enlightenment Thoughts

Breathing Exercises Benefit Everything
 
BE     BE
 
Physical Energy; Emotional Calm; Mental Clarity; Spiritual Awareness
 
‘Sudden Enlightenment’ means precisely the immediate apperception of all that in fact we are. ‘Enlightenment’ is ‘sudden’ only because it is not in ‘time’ (subject to sequential duration). It is re-integration in intemporality.
 
What would happen if you made enlightenment your intention with your next Full–Wave Breathing Session?
 
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I Am an optimist. I begin each morning after blessing the day with 10 Full–Wave Breaths by reading over 40 newsletters and on-line magazines looking for the stories of how humans are contributing to a positive and sustainable future. Those stories are there AND youl have to look for them since the media is mostly a revealing of the negative perspective.
 
Looking for Positive news? Check out www.odemagazine.com and read their stories of people making a significant difference in our world. There You can see how the new future is being built with less about the dismantling or collapse of the old.

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The Poetry of Breathing and Wellness

What’s to say when you’ve said it all,
Told the story to end the fall,
Each event is it blessed or passing thru
The choice left to me and you.
I’ve said it all, about how to BE,
The question asked most often of me.
 
Breathe and intend, judgments suspend,
Make it easy, no tale to spin,
No big happening, only breathe and be
Wrote books saying it, totaling three
 
What would love do at this point in time?
Call upon the connection Divine,
The answer lies inside the heart,
Then you breathe so you feel that part,
 
And to recharge, reenergize and renew,
Allowing fresh perspective to come into view,
Relaxes and harmonizes all cells as One,
Confers immunity from Life’s humdrum,
Tension and plaguing bacterial surround,
An oasis inside where health is found,
 
Forget the history, the drama untold,
Simply start breathing let the joy unfold.
Yes, it’s an exercise you’ll continue to do,
If you want the best available you.
 
Breathe at your pace and fully engage,
Maybe you find the Inner Sage,
The part that you were intended to play,
It could happen, even today.
 
If fully oxygenated your mindbody would be.
The thing you need for you to see
How to proceed and what to do,
To engage the most loveable you
Become the Inner Work at your pace
Expand fully the loving space.
 
Keep Breathing!

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Wellness 2010

One of the primary purposes behind Full-Wave Breathing as it has become to be known is Gnosis—a clear and immediate experience and intuitive realization of the pure essence, nature and energy of Divinity as it flows within oneself and all of creation. Gnosis, as it is used by International Breath Institute founder Dr. Tom Goode, places primary value on the feminine qualities of receptivity and intuition, visionary experience and the art of health. Gnosis, like the use of Full–Wave Breathing is a teaching of love, selflessness, harmony and communion. From a Gnositic viewpoint, the answers to life can only be found when one opens to the divine current and allows oneself to be penetrated by it to the point where you are full transformed and illuminated by it.

I write this year for an aspect of your personality and that, perhaps unspoken, part of  you who live your “spiritual life” as an agent of caring and kindness in your world.

You are like other readers who live their lives, care for their mindbody units and those of others, and may go thru their body “things”– including maintenance, discomfort and inconvenience. There are easier ways to manage the mindbody system and I teach them to those who are interested in their own health and that of the members of their community.

My Self-appointed task is to make your life easier. Its my way of supporting you and your contribution to improving life on the planet and the human life process. I do it because it pleases me to have healthier and more joyful people around. Thus I remind you to breathe, intend health (anything else is just dis-ease) and live fully from your heart’s awareness.

My communication is for the express purpose of enhancing your well-being during 2010. And I’ll suggest exercises for mindbody health.

One of the most powerful exercises I experienced was to ask myself, “How wouId I  act if everyone in the world was my child, I his or her parent.?”  Practice this with the people in your life—even just a few times–and see what happens.

As you think about it, breathe that idea (of seeing everyone you encounter throughout the day as your children) and the way it feels using full–wave, nostril breathing. Relax fully on the exhale and continue with connected breathing.

Next, practice applying the perspective throughout the day. Keep breathing!

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GIVING AND RECEIVING

By Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D.

We are in the middle of the “season of giving.”  What is giving
without receiving?  Do we all give as the rose gives its fragrance to
the air?  Do we give in order to receive?  Do we give with no ability
to receive from others?  Do we give out of a sense of obligation to
the receiver?  We have all heard the expression, “the flow of life.” 
When we resist that flow, we become hardened, brittle and easily
broken.  In order to create and maintain healthy relationships, we
need to exchange energy through both giving and receiving.  I know
many people whose only sense of personal worth is dependent on how
much they give to others.  They are willing to sacrifice themselves,
even hurt themselves, in the effort to give to others.   For these
people, the flow of life is one way…always outward from them to
others.  Relationships based upon this constant giving generate guilt
in the receiver and resentment in the giver.  If I am always giving
you water, would you ever suspect I might be thirsty?

There are others who are only receivers.  These are the people who
are so needy or so selfish, they never give out to others and are
always taking from relationships.  Always getting what they want, no
matter what the cost to others.  Lately, we have seen such examples of
greed and fear in highly visible individuals and corporations… let
alone in our politics.  Relationships based upon this single direction
of energy flow, result in emptiness in the others, and guilt/anger
within the receiver.

Both chronic givers, and eternal takers suffer from psychological
stagnation.  Stagnation is like stopping the flow of your blood. 
Whenever your blood stops flowing, it begins to coagulate…to
stagnate.  Non-flowing blood gives neither oxygen nor nutrients to the
billions of cells in your body.  When the flow of energy is only one
way between people, relationships die.

The word “affluence,” comes from the Latin word “affluere,” which
means “to flow to.”   Affluence implies “to flow in abundance.”  When
we give and receive in harmonious relationship to one another,
relationships thrive and abundance is assured.

Every healthy relationship is one of giving and taking.  Giving
requires a receiver.  In order to receive, you need a giver.  
Actually, giving and receiving are the same.  They are merely
different aspects of the flow of energy between each other and between
individuals and the universe.  If either person stops that flow of
energy, he or she interrupts the “flow of life.”

In order to be healthy, happy and fulfilled yourself, you need to
intend to create health, and happiness in the relationships you have. 
Your intention needs to be to create happiness in both the giver and
receiver, because your own happiness, as well as the fulfillment of
others, is life-supportive and sustaining.   In order to create joy
through giving, you need to feel joy in the act of giving.  In order
to create abundance, you need to feel fulfilled by receiving.

In his book, “The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success,” Deepak Chopra,
MD writes: “…Practicing the law of giving is actually very simple:
if you want joy, give joy to others;  if you want love, learn to give
love;  if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention
and appreciation;  if you want material affluence, help others to
become materially affluent.  In fact, the easiest way to get what you
want is to help others get what they want.”  Isn’t that a radical
notion?!  That translates:  “the best way for me to succeed in life is
to help others succeed in their lives.”  

This principle of personal success, found  most easily through
helping others to succeed, works equally well for individuals,
couples, corporations, societies, and nations.  For example,
traditional businesses operate on the principle of succeeding at the
expense of others (usually the employees).  An example of businesses
succeeding only when their employees succeed in getting what they
want, is most often found in the industry known as “network
marketing.”   Isn’t that a radical idea?! 

Chopra writes, “If you want to be blessed with all the good things in
life, learn to…bless everyone with all the good things in life.”

When we work toward the fulfillment of all our relationships through
giving and receiving in dynamic harmony, we are actually practicing
“going with the flow” of life.  Do this and you experience life, in
all its aspects, much more abundantly.   Certainly, you will find more
joy in your life during this season of giving… and receiving.

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Dr. Thomas is a licensed psychologist, author, speaker, and life
coach.  He serves on the faculty of the International University of
Professional Studies. He recently co-authored (with Patrick Williams)
the book: “Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills and
Techniques for Enhancing Your Practice…and Your Life!” (W.W. Norton
2005) It is available at your local bookstore or on Amazon.com.

Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D. has 30+ years experience as a Life Coach and
Licensed Psychologist.  He is available for coaching in any area
presented in “Practical Life Coaching” (formerly “Practical
Psychology”).  Initial coaching sessions are free.  Contact LJTDAT@aol.com.

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Science Discovers Holism

You are what you eat. You’re also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.

Here is the link: http://www.physorg.com/news180300326.html

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Do You Know? Importannce of Breathing

One thing I knew from the beginning was the importance of breathing. You did too. Every child has played with breath holding and inwardly knows the connection between breathing and life. Then, we close ourselves off over time and set ourselves up for life-long sickness and disease. People would automatically boost their health with a self-love session of Full–Wave Breathing. The time given to the health of the body is an act of self-love that benefits all aspects of life.

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Do You Know? Important Mood Management Tool

What do hugs, chocolate and Full–Wave Breathing have in common? All three produce oxytocin—the warm and fuzzy, we’re connected chemical. This “bonding hormone makes us feel secure and loved. Have a quickie with Full–Wave Breathing at any time throughout your day and you will feel better. Humming works too, tho requiring more effort

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What the Inventor of the Flu Shot NOW Thinks of the Vaccine…

What the Inventor of the Flu Shot NOW Thinks of the Vaccine….

 

The CDC’s public relations campaign has been running “scare” ads that portray swine flu as a full-blown “pandemic” responsible for snuffing out countless lives. But scientists and health officials throughout the world have called the governments claims unjustified and deliberately misleading.

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