heavyset ulysses: Lisa Loves Life Lessons: Allowing Prosperity

?"It is simply a fear energy?
overriding all others.?
The fear that it will disappear.?
This fear stops the circulation?
of the flow of prosperity energy.?
If you are not sending out ??
nothing will be returned.?
The result of this
?is that you never feel like?
you have enough.?
There seems to be?
an almost universal reaction to prosperity.?
You can never have enough.?
This is a vicious circle."?

Ah, the abundance block.
I've blogged about it previously.
Feelings of unworthiness, beliefs that we are undeserving, and placing a high importance on money, make prosperity into a guilt-laden thing rather than the flow of energy.

We think that if we have more than we need that we're bad people.
We think people will resent us if we have more than enough.
We think people might use us if we're rich.
We think prosperity would make us unlovable because we'll appear to have all our needs met.
We think having more than enough would make us isolated because we'd be so different from those around us.

We forget to imagine WHAT WE WOULD DO WITH THE MONEY and all the things we could do for people, all the businesses we could support, projects we could fund, charities we could help, entertaining we could do....or maybe we have imagined all that.
Maybe we've imagined winning the Powerball Jackpot and after all the traveling and shopping fantasies were over we were left with the discomfort of imagining being in a totally different place than our present mode of just scraping by. That scares us.

John McMullin says most of us are in just-scraping-by mode. Even if we have what LOOKS like abundance, people have a tendency to live in a state of just-enough. They live in big houses but are in big debt or they're cash poor. People feel out of control having more than they need. People feel ashamed of having when others have not.

People live in fear of having more than enough because it changes everything. It interferes with our usual feelings of fear, shame, guilt, and panic of paying our next round of bills. We are so used to being have-nots that we block the energy of having.

We're seeing this phenomenon with the Hurricane Sandy recovery.
Those who have power back are Tweeting and Facebooking their joy.
Those who are still suffering are Tweeting and Facebooking their sadness.
Some folks are guilting others with admonitions to 'just be thankful' or 'wish WE had our power back' or outright hostile posts about how some have it so much worse than others.

But...and everyone loves a big BUTT...this is happening everyday already, even without the hurricane. This disparity of haves and have nots is always in place. People all over the world go to bed hungry, scared, cold, and wanting everyday. We know it subconsciously and sometimes those commercials on TV get to us but for the most part we don't have it in our faces on a daily basis.

This hurricane has made us east coasters consciously aware of having and not having.

We're so addicted to comfort.
I know I am.
I was depressed in the cold darkness with no power.
I made the best of it with my Sony Walkman to listen to the news, my many candles for warmth and light, my raw milk on the porch so it wouldn't go bad, my car for recharging my cell phone, my relief that my parents were just fine, my handheld thingy to play Scrabble blast, a visit from loving friends, and my gas stove for heat and cooking. In a way it was cozy but mostly I was sad. Sad but grateful. I knew my power would come back eventually. I knew I'd appreciate it more when it did come back.

It's back.
I am so toasty warm and illuminated.
My apartment never felt so good.
My cats are flipped over on their backs, showing their bellies, lolling in the heat.
I am grateful for comfort.

And there's a modicum of guilt that comes with it.
I know how cold and sad I was.
I know some folks are still in the chilly dark.
The guilt or shame I feel about that isn't helping them.
It's humility but not humbleness.
Humility carries shame with it according to John McMullin.
Humbleness is knowing our place in the universe.
There's a difference.
One blocks abundance, the other lets it in.

I've spent the last month and a half working on my head.
No, scratch that.
I've spent the better part of my life working on my head.
The last six weeks I have been working on an assignment from King Sht of All Things Related to My Health. A major part of that work was to listen to John McMullin.
I've been doing my assignment.

He talks a lot about our ego's addiction to fear and shame.
We experience fear and shame so we can then experience forgiveness of Self for being afraid and shamed.
Fear and shame serve their purpose.
It's all part of our soul's life experience.
Once we become aware of our patterns, we can choose to respond and act differently.

I am going to go out on? limb and say the good ol' Protestant Work Ethic and their theory of prosperity is something to consider. When we're prosperous we show how our faith in God's providence pays off. We show other people what's possible for them by enjoying what's good for us. If we have more than what we need, we can share.

My suffering does nothing to relieve the suffering of others.
My prosperity makes me comfortable and can help others.

Seems like a no brainer.

Sometimes it's our brain that gets in the way.
Maybe no-brainer is exactly what we need it to be!

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