AIP Week One: Cultivating Abundance Mindsets

[00:00:00] Hey welcome to our Mile Hi Podcast. We're so happy you've joined us. If you're

[00:00:04] interested in the four spiritual laws of prosperity, it's a great book by Edwin

[00:00:10] Gaines and I'm doing a free class based on it on the four Tuesdays in May. Would

[00:00:15] love to have you join us via live stream or in person here at Mile Hi Church. It's

[00:00:19] from 6 30 to 8 p.m. Come on and let's enjoy some prosperity together. Find out

[00:00:24] more at MileHiChurch.org. Well I'm excited to be beginning, be beginning our

[00:00:31] prosperity series, our Adventures in Prosperity for this year. It's a three

[00:00:35] part series and so we are excited to start. It's called Cultivating Abundance.

[00:00:41] I wanted that word cultivate to be in the title because for me I understand

[00:00:48] now in this teaching and in life that if I want to create something, if I want to

[00:00:55] build something, if I want something that's important to me to show itself in

[00:01:00] my world, I've got to cultivate it. I've got to cultivate pay attention, work on

[00:01:07] it, build it, be mindful about it and I think that that is true with regards

[00:01:14] to abundance. When I say abundance, I'm talking about any form of more that we'd

[00:01:21] like to have. It might be an abundance of prosperity, financial prosperity, money,

[00:01:28] it might be opportunities, it might be that our heart yearns for an abundance

[00:01:34] of relationships and connectedness with other people. Abundant love. Many of us

[00:01:40] struggle with a lack consciousness around even feeling that we're loving, we're

[00:01:44] lovable, that we're lovable enough, that we're good enough. That's an abundance

[00:01:50] issue and so abundance has an umbrella that includes all of these things and so

[00:01:56] no matter where in our life we might feel a sense of lack or that we would

[00:02:01] yearn for more of, I'm suggesting that we can cultivate that abundance by

[00:02:07] cultivating our consciousness, by cultivating and looking at ourselves and

[00:02:12] being mindful about ourselves. In these three weeks we will start today with

[00:02:17] cultivating mindsets. That's what we're going to go with and then we will talk

[00:02:23] next week about cultivating habits of abundance and the third week

[00:02:28] cultivating generosity and this is in my mind head, body and heart. We are

[00:02:35] talking about the head today, what's in our mental capacity. Next week how do we

[00:02:41] act and behave in the world? How do we move ourselves through the world with

[00:02:45] regards to abundance and the last week how do we heartfully give back to the

[00:02:50] world? Not just money but other qualities of beingness that promote

[00:02:55] abundance and so my challenge and request is that you consider if

[00:03:00] you're trying to cultivate some form of abundance in any one of these forms

[00:03:05] be here every week, be here all three weeks. Right? Be here. Yeah it's going to

[00:03:12] kind of build on itself. It's going to be like a class workshop experience and

[00:03:17] you can be here personally, you can be here online but I really do think that

[00:03:21] to really cultivate something it takes this three pronged approach. Cultivating

[00:03:27] some good thing isn't just like well I thought about it today nothing

[00:03:30] happened so I give up. Right? That would be like walking into the gym tomorrow

[00:03:35] wanting to build up your upper body muscles doing a few exercises, walking

[00:03:40] out of the gym and expecting to be able to lift a car or something like that.

[00:03:44] We have to build the muscle and this is no different. Cultivating an

[00:03:48] abundance consciousness especially in an area where we may have struggled up

[00:03:52] till now, where we may have been dancing with lack or limitation or a

[00:03:57] perception thereof requires that we apply ourselves wholeheartedly to it,

[00:04:05] to shift it, to transform it. It's not just a one-time approach and so our

[00:04:11] teaching and the work that we do together calls on us to be that mindful

[00:04:16] presence and as I said in the announcement videos if you got to see

[00:04:21] those we're offering a class on Tuesdays all of the Tuesdays of May

[00:04:27] starting this next week based on a wonderful book by one of my favorite

[00:04:32] prosperity teachers who's going to work with us about financial prosperity.

[00:04:38] Her name is Edwin Gaines. We've had her speak here many times.

[00:04:41] She is retired now. Her book is the four spiritual laws of prosperity and

[00:04:45] we're going to look at every law each week and good news.

[00:04:50] Edwin is joining us the first night of class via Zoom.

[00:04:53] She's going to come into the class and talk about the first law of prosperity

[00:04:57] for a bit. We have childcare if you have a kiddo that can stay up past eight

[00:05:01] o'clock please feel free to bring them. Our wonderful staff will be here

[00:05:05] to entertain them and keep them happy and fulfilled while we work

[00:05:10] together to build prosperity. All are welcome. You can join us in person.

[00:05:14] You can join us online. You can be here one week on person and one

[00:05:17] week online, whatever you want. And I say here because we're going to

[00:05:21] be right here in this very room. We're going to do the class right here in this

[00:05:25] place. Okay. So I hope you will consider joining us.

[00:05:28] I think that's sort of like it's like college. This is the lecture.

[00:05:32] That's the lab or like Reverend Josh says,

[00:05:37] this is the spiritual gym.

[00:05:38] So this is the lesson on how to do it.

[00:05:40] And in the class we actually get to doing it in terms of financial

[00:05:44] prosperity. So today as we approach the notion of cultivating

[00:05:49] mindsets for abundance, I want to quote that really famous person

[00:05:54] unknown who says to us,

[00:05:59] you become unstoppable when you work on things people can't take away from

[00:06:04] you.

[00:06:05] You become unstoppable when you work on things other people can't take

[00:06:10] away from you.

[00:06:12] And the reason I think that's so powerful when it comes to cultivating

[00:06:15] abundance is that many of us since yesterday was may the fourth be with

[00:06:20] you. I will say we've been seduced by the dark side, my friends.

[00:06:25] We believe or we tend to believe or just notice if this is your belief when

[00:06:30] it comes to that area of abundance you want to work on.

[00:06:33] If there's a belief that it has to change out there for me to have

[00:06:38] more in other words,

[00:06:41] if I only had more money, I could be prosperous.

[00:06:45] If only they would just add two more hours to the clock every day,

[00:06:49] I would have more time.

[00:06:51] If only there were more people on the planet, I could have more friends.

[00:06:56] If only there were more single people, I could have a relationship.

[00:07:01] If only there were more information,

[00:07:02] there was more information out there about what? No, never mind.

[00:07:06] That's way too much information isn't there?

[00:07:09] But that is my point.

[00:07:11] We tend to have this a little backwards when it comes to our abundance issues.

[00:07:17] We persist in believing that if something out there would change,

[00:07:22] my life would be better.

[00:07:24] If the IRS would just change their tax rules,

[00:07:26] if the government would do this,

[00:07:27] if that other political party would change this,

[00:07:30] if this policy were different,

[00:07:32] if it were easier to,

[00:07:33] if only I could,

[00:07:35] if that would then I could.

[00:07:38] I could be.

[00:07:40] And here in this teaching,

[00:07:43] we say it's actually the other way around.

[00:07:47] When I do the work to be my life,

[00:07:51] then manifests and shows me that which I'm working on.

[00:07:55] That I have to be the one to shift my awareness.

[00:08:00] And I will admit that as I'm working on this notion of mindsets

[00:08:05] in this abundant series,

[00:08:06] in this abundant series,

[00:08:07] I had a lot of resistance because I thought,

[00:08:11] well, this is just too basic.

[00:08:13] That mile high crowd,

[00:08:14] they're so spiritually sophisticated.

[00:08:18] They know all this.

[00:08:20] Anybody who's been part of personal growth work

[00:08:24] or this teaching,

[00:08:26] you know it's a mindset.

[00:08:28] You know your thoughts contribute to your reality.

[00:08:32] This isn't news for you,

[00:08:34] but the truth is,

[00:08:35] I think this is kind of like back to basics

[00:08:38] because I believe that in terms of that issue of abundance

[00:08:43] that might be plaguing us,

[00:08:44] it's a conglomeration of mindset that's in the way.

[00:08:50] It always is.

[00:08:51] It's never something out there.

[00:08:55] It's always the mindset.

[00:08:57] I joke often about a person who has struggled

[00:09:00] with lack consciousness,

[00:09:01] who just believes with all their heart and mind

[00:09:04] there's just not enough money to help me live a good life.

[00:09:08] That person could see and walk through their life

[00:09:12] with that belief and someone could set

[00:09:13] a big pile of money right next to them

[00:09:15] and they'd walk right on by

[00:09:17] and persist in their belief system.

[00:09:19] Or if they saw it,

[00:09:20] they might trip over it and pick it up

[00:09:22] and say, oh my gosh, all this money.

[00:09:24] And then that mindset would cause them to lose it,

[00:09:27] give it all away, spend it too quickly,

[00:09:29] invest it poorly, whatever,

[00:09:32] because mindset is everything.

[00:09:36] It is everything.

[00:09:39] And when we change it and shift it

[00:09:42] and allow ourselves to cultivate a new mindset,

[00:09:48] our reality begins to shift.

[00:09:51] We know this from all those realms I'm talking about,

[00:09:55] personal growth, the spiritual technologies

[00:09:58] that we teach here.

[00:09:59] And we know this from brain technology.

[00:10:03] We can see as scientists watch our brains work

[00:10:06] and they can actually see us thinking

[00:10:08] certain thoughts, certain energetic in the mind,

[00:10:11] that the system of a being

[00:10:13] and it allows that person to see through

[00:10:16] lack colored glasses or lonely colored glasses

[00:10:20] or painful colored glasses or limited colored glasses.

[00:10:24] That's where our mind goes.

[00:10:27] And so we have to take responsibility

[00:10:30] and ownership of our mindsets because it's a story.

[00:10:36] It's an idea that we've globed onto

[00:10:39] and we've cultivated such that it is our reality.

[00:10:44] There's another famous person I would like to quote today.

[00:10:48] Her name is Michelle Madrano

[00:10:49] and she says, she has had a magnet

[00:10:54] that we used to have in the store

[00:10:55] and it said, when you stick to your story,

[00:10:58] your story sticks to you.

[00:11:01] When you stick to that story about how life is,

[00:11:04] the good news and the bad news is you get to be right, right?

[00:11:08] Yay!

[00:11:10] My story's the right one for me.

[00:11:12] Oh, my story's the right one for me.

[00:11:16] We get to have a story.

[00:11:18] Now the reason that this works just to go back

[00:11:21] even a little bit further into some basic notions

[00:11:24] is that there is an abundant presence in the universe

[00:11:27] that is expressing itself through all of creation.

[00:11:31] We call it God.

[00:11:32] It is this presence that is love.

[00:11:35] All faith traditions will claim and shout out

[00:11:39] and own God as love.

[00:11:41] And we believe God is life.

[00:11:42] We believe that God is not a person, it's a presence.

[00:11:46] It's expressing itself in these qualities,

[00:11:49] generously giving itself,

[00:11:51] unconditionally giving itself to all of creation.

[00:11:55] And that each one of us is a unique expression

[00:11:59] in the experience that God is having.

[00:12:02] And that each of us manage our experience of living

[00:12:06] through our mindsets.

[00:12:08] One could actually think of them

[00:12:11] as almost like a piece of software

[00:12:13] that we've downloaded and as we believe things about life.

[00:12:16] Oh, yeah, yeah, that's how life is there.

[00:12:18] Boop, boop, boop, download.

[00:12:20] And the energy moves through

[00:12:22] and the software expresses

[00:12:23] and out comes exactly what we see on the screen.

[00:12:26] It's just like a computer.

[00:12:27] If you download Windows and everything works,

[00:12:31] you get Windows on your screen.

[00:12:33] It's the same for us.

[00:12:34] What we're getting on our screen,

[00:12:35] what we're seeing on our screen

[00:12:37] has to do with the mindsets that we've downloaded.

[00:12:40] And so we can change that.

[00:12:43] We can shift the software.

[00:12:44] We can do something different.

[00:12:46] We are expressions of life itself

[00:12:50] that we can allow ourselves to make these shifts is powerful.

[00:12:56] It is our true superpower.

[00:13:00] We are not the victims.

[00:13:02] We are not hapless victims of life

[00:13:05] unable to reach for our dreams,

[00:13:08] for our fondest heart's desire.

[00:13:11] We are empowered with this powerful source of creation

[00:13:16] and can shift and change our life

[00:13:19] if and when we choose to start applying ourselves

[00:13:21] towards that change.

[00:13:23] The longer we persist in feeding old mindsets,

[00:13:26] that is our reality.

[00:13:28] At the same time, the reason I say that it's a cultivation

[00:13:32] is Holmes says very quickly, very clearly,

[00:13:34] our founder, Ernest Holmes says,

[00:13:35] hey, this teaching is not a get rich quick scheme.

[00:13:39] It is not a hey everybody, come on,

[00:13:41] let's get some money, let's go, let's go.

[00:13:42] It's about shifting our mentality

[00:13:47] in powerful and profound ways

[00:13:49] to allow more good to flow to us in any realm of our life.

[00:13:55] When I think about a mindset,

[00:13:59] Holmes would also call them probably a mental equivalent.

[00:14:02] For those of you who've taken classes,

[00:14:04] we talk about mental equivalents.

[00:14:06] When I think about them in this putting together this talk,

[00:14:09] I kept envisioning a mental equivalent or a mindset

[00:14:13] almost being like a cell of energy

[00:14:16] that exists within my consciousness

[00:14:19] and at the core of it is a thought.

[00:14:24] Now we think that thoughts are everything

[00:14:28] and thoughts change things and I believe that.

[00:14:31] However, sometimes I think we forget to notice

[00:14:36] that our thought or our mental equivalent

[00:14:40] or our mindset is also a conglomeration

[00:14:44] of not only what we've thought,

[00:14:46] but how we felt about what we thought,

[00:14:48] what we've experienced,

[00:14:50] what we've decided because of what we've thought.

[00:14:54] And all of that energy that we sometimes

[00:14:57] don't wanna look at, we just wanna go to,

[00:15:00] what am I thinking?

[00:15:01] What am I thinking?

[00:15:02] And that's a good place to start.

[00:15:04] At the core of it, if we see it almost like a cell

[00:15:07] of the nucleus, it's an original thought.

[00:15:10] It's a sponsoring thought.

[00:15:13] It's a decision we've made.

[00:15:16] It's an idea we've held to be sacred and were sure about.

[00:15:21] And then off of it comes all of the feelings

[00:15:25] and emotions we've had.

[00:15:27] And as I thought back on my life,

[00:15:29] I realized that for a long time

[00:15:31] when I first came into this teaching,

[00:15:33] I was plagued by a very challenging memory that I had

[00:15:37] of being a little child about,

[00:15:39] I think I was probably about three years old

[00:15:42] because my siblings were not in the picture.

[00:15:44] And my parents who had me when they were very young,

[00:15:47] they were teenagers, were standing in front of me.

[00:15:50] By now if I'm three, they have to be in about their 20s.

[00:15:53] And I was sitting on the living room floor

[00:15:56] just playing with a toy and I look up

[00:15:59] and my parents are in front of me

[00:16:01] and they're fighting voraciously.

[00:16:03] And it's grown, the energy is growing

[00:16:05] and they're just obsessed with this fight,

[00:16:07] whatever they're fighting about.

[00:16:08] And it's even getting a little bit physically dangerous

[00:16:11] and a little bit scary.

[00:16:13] And as I'm sitting there watching these people,

[00:16:15] this voice inside of me, well the first voice was,

[00:16:19] I don't think these people know what they're doing.

[00:16:24] And then what came after that was,

[00:16:28] they can't take care of me.

[00:16:30] They're so obsessed with each other,

[00:16:32] they can't take care of me.

[00:16:34] And then what I remember thinking was,

[00:16:38] I'm gonna have to do this on my own then.

[00:16:40] I'm on my own.

[00:16:42] I'm gonna have to take care of myself

[00:16:44] because these people don't know what they're doing.

[00:16:48] Sponsoring thought, boom.

[00:16:51] And after that, I made all sorts of decisions

[00:16:54] based on that three year old thought.

[00:16:58] It wasn't logical necessarily like,

[00:17:01] oh, huh, huh, huh, it was what came

[00:17:03] was a movement of energy that was that thought

[00:17:08] and I know what came with it was fear and anxiety.

[00:17:13] What came with it was sadness, loneliness.

[00:17:18] What came with it was chutzpah

[00:17:21] and a sense of fine and stubbornness.

[00:17:23] What came with it even later was anger.

[00:17:26] And what happened because of that mindset

[00:17:29] as I grew older, I tried to manage the energy of that.

[00:17:34] Well, first of all, by taking care of everybody else.

[00:17:38] If no one's here to take care of me,

[00:17:40] let me take care of everybody else then, right?

[00:17:42] That'll help, didn't help.

[00:17:45] And then what also happened is that I guess the good news

[00:17:49] is that I am and have been in my life fiercely independent.

[00:17:54] I'm one of those women who can,

[00:17:55] I can live alone, I can take care of myself.

[00:17:58] I can travel the world all by myself.

[00:18:02] I don't feel this overriding, I need people kind of energy.

[00:18:06] I love people and I love having friends

[00:18:09] and I love having relationships and connected with people

[00:18:12] but I don't need it if I was on a desert island.

[00:18:15] That time especially I was like, I got this.

[00:18:19] Not true, but that was my belief, right?

[00:18:21] And so I went through my life

[00:18:23] and that fierce independence, I got older.

[00:18:26] What I noticed is that what I couldn't do was receive.

[00:18:32] Couldn't receive help.

[00:18:34] Couldn't receive or really feel other people's love, support.

[00:18:39] I would not let people do anything for me

[00:18:44] because I got this, I could do it all myself.

[00:18:48] I'm probably the only one in the room who had this, right?

[00:18:50] Yeah, I could tell this may not be landing with everybody.

[00:18:55] And here's what happens when you've got a mental equivalent

[00:18:59] like that and all the while the universe is pouring itself

[00:19:03] through you and to you as abundance

[00:19:06] and you're going, no, no, no, I can do it myself.

[00:19:11] No, no, no, no.

[00:19:13] Oh, it takes so much energy,

[00:19:15] so much energy to resist the universe

[00:19:18] but I was good at it.

[00:19:21] I was so good at it and I could resist

[00:19:23] and then sometimes I'd kind of wake up to it

[00:19:26] but it often felt like I was sort of doing this

[00:19:29] with the universe.

[00:19:38] Oh, I'm even exhausted doing it.

[00:19:42] So I started working with a practitioner

[00:19:44] here at Myle High Church, one of those prayer practitioners

[00:19:47] and it was one of the first things she challenged me on.

[00:19:51] And I began a concerted effort of cultivating

[00:19:57] the willingness to be helped, the willingness to receive.

[00:20:02] See, when I say I don't think I'm alone in this,

[00:20:04] some of these mental equivalent mindsets we might have

[00:20:10] that are blocking us from the abundance

[00:20:14] that the universe is pouring forth

[00:20:15] include some of the ones I said before.

[00:20:18] I'm not good enough.

[00:20:20] I'm not lovable enough.

[00:20:22] I'm not enough.

[00:20:24] I can do it all by myself.

[00:20:27] I don't need anyone's help.

[00:20:29] I've often counseled people to say

[00:20:31] and just said to them something innocently like,

[00:20:34] why don't you let people help you?

[00:20:36] Let them open the door for you.

[00:20:38] Let them help you a little bit.

[00:20:40] And just that idea has changed people's lives

[00:20:44] because it changed mine.

[00:20:46] The minute that I started saying yes,

[00:20:49] I'll let myself be supported,

[00:20:53] my life shifted dramatically and continued to shift

[00:20:58] because that mental equivalent,

[00:20:59] that mindset became I am ready to receive.

[00:21:04] I am willing to receive.

[00:21:06] And the more I was willing to receive the good of life,

[00:21:09] the abundance of life,

[00:21:11] the support that life had to offer in all of its forms,

[00:21:15] the more I could receive.

[00:21:16] And the more I could receive,

[00:21:18] the more abundantly my life expressed itself.

[00:21:21] That's what I mean by a mental equivalent.

[00:21:24] Everyone's got them.

[00:21:26] And if there is an area where we are perceiving

[00:21:31] a sense of lack, limitation,

[00:21:34] not enough, there is a mindset that has been built like that

[00:21:40] and our work is to dismantle it.

[00:21:43] Now, Holmes says very clearly to us,

[00:21:46] it's not enough just to get rid of one's negative mindset.

[00:21:50] We also must build.

[00:21:52] We must build up new mindsets.

[00:21:55] And that's a huge part of what I'm inviting us to do

[00:21:59] in this series and today as we contemplate

[00:22:02] cultivating mindsets,

[00:22:04] as we contemplate cultivating ideas.

[00:22:07] Firstly, we get to get a clear vision

[00:22:09] of what we would want.

[00:22:11] Does it mean that my vision of abundance

[00:22:15] is that I have more than enough time

[00:22:17] to do all that I need?

[00:22:19] I have more than enough money

[00:22:21] to do all the things I'd like to do.

[00:22:22] Indeed, for Edwin Gaines,

[00:22:24] that's her definition of prosperity in her book.

[00:22:28] That I have more than enough cash

[00:22:30] to do all that I want to do in my life.

[00:22:33] There's more than enough people in this lifetime

[00:22:37] to have connection with.

[00:22:38] And we get to decide,

[00:22:40] I'd like to have two really good friends

[00:22:42] that I could feel like a cannon.

[00:22:44] Doesn't mean you have to be best friends

[00:22:46] with everybody on the planet.

[00:22:47] We get to decide what our version of abundance is.

[00:22:51] What does that mean for us?

[00:22:53] One of my favorite movies that depicts this so clearly

[00:22:56] is It Could Happen to You with Nicholas Cage

[00:23:00] and Bridget Fonda.

[00:23:01] I don't know if any of you saw that movie,

[00:23:02] but Nick Cage plays a police officer

[00:23:05] and he goes into a diner one day

[00:23:08] to get coffee from Bridget

[00:23:10] and her character,

[00:23:11] he doesn't have enough money to tip her

[00:23:13] and so he has a lottery ticket

[00:23:14] and he says, okay, here's my tip.

[00:23:16] If I win the lottery,

[00:23:17] I promise I will bring you half of it.

[00:23:20] And so they kind of laugh and all that sort of thing.

[00:23:22] Then he wins the lottery

[00:23:24] and he wins like $2 million.

[00:23:26] And to his credit,

[00:23:27] he comes back the next day

[00:23:29] to share the lottery with her

[00:23:30] and give her her million dollars.

[00:23:32] And she's been struggling financially.

[00:23:34] She's over the moon happy.

[00:23:36] And here's what I love about her.

[00:23:38] She goes out so excited to be this millionaire now

[00:23:43] and her big, big splurge

[00:23:47] is she goes to the store

[00:23:48] and she buys macadamia nuts

[00:23:54] because to her wealthy people eat macadamia nuts.

[00:24:00] Edwine has a story in her book,

[00:24:02] very similar about feeling that wealthy people

[00:24:05] eat olives with little almonds in them

[00:24:08] and she ties this hilarious story

[00:24:09] about her and her friend Lana

[00:24:11] sitting around a pool drinking wine,

[00:24:13] eating almonds and macadamia nuts

[00:24:16] and almonds and olives

[00:24:18] and pretending that they're wealthy

[00:24:19] and that they've got everything they want in the world.

[00:24:22] So it's not necessarily

[00:24:23] that everybody wants to be a gazillionaire.

[00:24:26] It might be that I want to have resources

[00:24:30] to do the things I wanna do,

[00:24:31] to travel, to share with my friends and family,

[00:24:35] to express myself fully,

[00:24:36] to do what I love in this life.

[00:24:39] That's beautiful, gentle, elegant.

[00:24:43] Some of us may have big, gigantic dreams.

[00:24:46] That's fine too.

[00:24:47] Everyone gets to be where they wanna be

[00:24:50] but the secret is to start by choosing

[00:24:54] to have a clear vision for myself

[00:24:57] of the mental equivalent,

[00:25:00] the mindset that I need to build.

[00:25:03] What is it that I want to create

[00:25:05] and then I can start to build that mindset

[00:25:08] and then I think as we begin to build the mindset

[00:25:10] and we begin to tear the old one down,

[00:25:13] I suggest we begin with questions.

[00:25:15] Some of us wanna go right into,

[00:25:17] now I'm gonna affirm that I have it on my firm

[00:25:20] and I'm suggesting to get to that place

[00:25:24] where we're the clearest we can be

[00:25:26] might mean we ask questions.

[00:25:28] This is how we got to that mindset in the first place

[00:25:32] I'm suggesting.

[00:25:33] The mindset of well what if it all goes wrong?

[00:25:37] Well what if they hate me?

[00:25:38] What if it doesn't work out?

[00:25:39] What if it's not right?

[00:25:40] What if I mess it up?

[00:25:42] Those questions, they are the heart of mindsets

[00:25:46] that are no longer serving us.

[00:25:48] So it seems to me like some other questions

[00:25:51] might be afoot as we are building a powerful mindset,

[00:25:56] more active questions such as

[00:26:00] what do I tend to say about abundance in this area?

[00:26:03] Do I hear myself telling my friends,

[00:26:05] well you know there's not enough people out there,

[00:26:08] there's never anybody for me to have a relationship with,

[00:26:11] there's nobody gonna be around me.

[00:26:13] Am I complaining a lot?

[00:26:15] Am I, do I complain?

[00:26:16] Do I am I negative?

[00:26:18] Am I always talking about other people in the government

[00:26:21] and am I putting people down who have what I want?

[00:26:24] Am I judgy in my conversations?

[00:26:26] What do I hear myself saying in this realm of my life?

[00:26:31] Thinking in this realm of my life,

[00:26:34] expressing in this realm of my life.

[00:26:36] We can't be in denial about that

[00:26:38] because it shows us where our work is.

[00:26:43] Another good question to ask

[00:26:44] as we're building a new mindset is who do I judge?

[00:26:48] Do I look at people who have what I would like to have

[00:26:51] and celebrate for them or do I judge them?

[00:26:55] And I can pretty much guarantee that if we look out

[00:26:57] of people who are billionaires or whatever

[00:27:00] and we're constantly judging them, we can't have that.

[00:27:04] Anything we're judging in other people, we can't have it.

[00:27:08] The reason we can't have it is judgment is like a separation

[00:27:11] between us and the good that we seek.

[00:27:13] So you see another couple in love

[00:27:15] and you'd like to have that kind of love

[00:27:17] and instead of saying, look at that couple they're so in love,

[00:27:20] that's just disgusting.

[00:27:21] I don't know.

[00:27:25] We can say, oh, look at that.

[00:27:26] There's a couple who's obviously in love.

[00:27:29] I like that.

[00:27:30] Yeah, that's wonderful.

[00:27:31] Isn't that beautiful?

[00:27:34] There is a principle in life.

[00:27:36] What I can see and celebrate, I can have.

[00:27:40] Now certainly in the realm of facts, billionaires

[00:27:44] and people who don't have a lot of money do weird things

[00:27:48] and the fact might be that they make choices.

[00:27:50] Look what Elon Musk did, look what Bezos did, of course.

[00:27:54] But it's all about the energy.

[00:27:55] Look what they did versus oh, look what they did.

[00:27:58] Yeah, yeah.

[00:27:59] There's a difference and it makes all the difference.

[00:28:03] If I can see it and celebrate it, I can have it.

[00:28:07] So looking at what we tend to judge, who we tend to judge

[00:28:10] and what we judge them for tells us about our mindset

[00:28:15] and what we might need to change.

[00:28:17] And the last one becomes

[00:28:19] what are my habitual thought patterns?

[00:28:22] What do I habitually think about this subject matter?

[00:28:26] It's hard.

[00:28:27] It's never gonna happen.

[00:28:28] Why can't I do this?

[00:28:29] I am horrible.

[00:28:31] I can't believe that this is not happening for me.

[00:28:34] Habitual mindsets, this is our contribution

[00:28:38] to that little bubble of our mindset and we get to decide

[00:28:43] is that really what I wanna contribute to this?

[00:28:45] Or is there something more supportive?

[00:28:48] I saw a meme here that said you'll never regret

[00:28:51] asking questions to get more clarity.

[00:28:53] You'll always regret making a decision based

[00:28:56] on a story you've created in your head.

[00:28:59] And that's what we do most of the time.

[00:29:01] We're making up stories and then making them our reality.

[00:29:06] And just like that practitioner and Dr. Phil would say

[00:29:09] how's that working for you?

[00:29:12] It's not working for us.

[00:29:13] So we must question and we must begin

[00:29:16] to tell a different story

[00:29:17] and this is where transformation really begins to happen.

[00:29:21] When we allow ourselves to contemplate

[00:29:24] a different story, even if we're not really sure

[00:29:27] the story's true, to stand in the reality

[00:29:31] of what if I am enough?

[00:29:34] What if I am actually quite lovable?

[00:29:40] What if it were easy?

[00:29:44] What if I enjoyed building this new reality?

[00:29:48] That's the kind of storytelling with questions

[00:29:52] that we begin and other people begin to tell stories

[00:29:56] by posting some pretty basic things

[00:29:59] in their environment, affirmations of their good,

[00:30:02] pictures of what they want.

[00:30:04] This is all basic stuff to those of us

[00:30:06] who've been doing this for a while,

[00:30:07] but this is why we do it.

[00:30:09] It's to build a new mental equivalent.

[00:30:12] It's to build a new mindset.

[00:30:14] It's to challenge the old one

[00:30:16] and begin to build the new one.

[00:30:18] It's allowing ourselves to say things that we believe in

[00:30:23] and that we are aligned with and that we're choosing

[00:30:27] and we begin to watch our conversation with our friends.

[00:30:30] We begin to speak more positively about ourselves

[00:30:34] and our life.

[00:30:35] We begin to choose, choose it, choose it

[00:30:40] and choose it again.

[00:30:41] And this is how we completely transform

[00:30:45] that little mindset with a new sponsoring thought

[00:30:50] and new energy and new life.

[00:30:56] It's step one.

[00:30:59] There are more steps, but this is step one.

[00:31:03] And when we begin to take it,

[00:31:06] we immediately begin to feel the uplift of it

[00:31:09] because it is just a lot more happy in life

[00:31:14] to contemplate the positive, the possibilities,

[00:31:20] the what ifs than it is to contemplate

[00:31:24] the things that no longer serve us.

[00:31:27] We obsess sometimes about the things that don't serve us

[00:31:31] versus contemplating what would serve us.

[00:31:35] It's a shift.

[00:31:36] And what I noticed with my mindset

[00:31:39] is that the more I saw it,

[00:31:41] saw it clearly, let it go, forgave my parents,

[00:31:46] took the steps to risk, to be loved

[00:31:49] and to be in receivership,

[00:31:51] the more it happened, the more it just flowed.

[00:31:54] I'm inviting us into this this week.

[00:31:57] This week, shift begin the shift of the mindset

[00:32:03] or sets and watch life change.

[00:32:07] And one of the things we use here

[00:32:09] that is a shift of mindset is prayer.

[00:32:12] We don't pray to a God out there to do it for us.

[00:32:15] We pray to be open to allow the light

[00:32:21] and the love that God is to pour through us

[00:32:24] uninhibited by our old ideas.

[00:32:27] So that's why we pray affirmatively.

[00:32:30] So please join me in that.

[00:32:31] I invite our practitioner prayer partners,

[00:32:32] if they choose to, to stand with me in this prayer

[00:32:36] as we come together.

[00:32:38] And in our prayer process, we begin by recognizing

[00:32:41] and speaking to that which we know God to be.

[00:32:44] So I accept and affirm and claim that the infinite light

[00:32:47] that God is, is in through and as all of creation.

[00:32:51] It is the love of this universe, the light.

[00:32:54] It is the abundance.

[00:32:55] It is the joy.

[00:32:56] It is the harmony.

[00:32:57] It is the peace.

[00:32:58] It is everywhere present in these forms

[00:33:02] making itself constantly available.

[00:33:05] And we see evidence of it everywhere we look

[00:33:08] as we look into nature,

[00:33:10] as we look into the hearts of human beings

[00:33:13] doing great things in the world.

[00:33:15] As we look at all that has come together

[00:33:17] to allow us to live this life we are living,

[00:33:20] we can see the signs of the living presence

[00:33:26] right around us through us in us and as us.

[00:33:29] And indeed, this is what we see.

[00:33:32] We recognize that as this God presence is everywhere,

[00:33:36] it is right where we are.

[00:33:39] I know that it is right where I am in this moment

[00:33:41] and it is inhabiting this very word that I speak

[00:33:45] and I know that it is in and as every person

[00:33:48] who hears this word, that we are one.

[00:33:52] We are connected.

[00:33:54] We are whole.

[00:33:55] We are love.

[00:33:56] We are abundance.

[00:33:58] And therefore I accept and affirm

[00:34:00] that we go forth this day

[00:34:02] with deep and profound wisdom within us.

[00:34:05] A wisdom that allows us to proclaim the genesis

[00:34:11] of a new mindset on behalf of abundance in our life.

[00:34:16] We begin to cultivate and bring forth

[00:34:19] these great ideas and possibilities that lift us up,

[00:34:24] they begin to transform the energy

[00:34:26] of our beingness powerfully and profoundly

[00:34:29] that each of us is guided

[00:34:31] and that that wisdom within us helps us to see and sense

[00:34:36] and take the actions necessary to rethink

[00:34:40] and reimagine and reach for the stars.

[00:34:45] Reaching for a better life, a more glorious life,

[00:34:48] a more balanced life, a more joy filled life,

[00:34:51] a more connected life.

[00:34:53] We do this now.

[00:34:55] And we are so grateful.

[00:34:58] I am so grateful that this truth

[00:35:01] is made manifest on behalf of us now.

[00:35:04] I am so grateful for the inner wisdom

[00:35:07] that exists as us guiding us in every step this week.

[00:35:12] And I'm so grateful that this prayer

[00:35:14] just as it has been spoken

[00:35:16] is now made manifest in this beautiful world.

[00:35:20] I release this prayer into the action of that law.

[00:35:23] I release it, I let it be, I let it go.

[00:35:26] I surrender it in great joy

[00:35:29] for I know that it has been spoken, it is done.

[00:35:32] The seed has been planted and is taking root

[00:35:35] and new ideas are springing forth

[00:35:37] within each one of us and as each one of us right now.

[00:35:41] I let it go, I let it be.

[00:35:45] And so it is.

[00:35:46] Amen.

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