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Is it possible to enjoy abundance during a recession or is that just some kooky form of denial?

The answer depends on your definition of the terms, since we know that definitions are influenced profoundly by our belief systems.
 
How do you measure abundance?  In western society, we are bombarded by messages that success is measured by material goods: a better car, bigger home, and more things.  Yet is this really the only measure of abundance?  

The stuff of the material world is simply that – material stuff.  It is nothing more than that until you attach meaning or emotion to it.

In a society where success and abundance is measured by one’s possessions, people become attached to material stuff.  Without such material ‘proof’ of their success, they tend to see themselves as failures.  

This attachment to material forms of security gives rise to all kinds of fear: fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of not having enough. And fear, when not addressed, can lead to untold suffering because it begets the very things you are afraid of.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Fear is a powerful force for manifestation. Its power lies in its magnetic grip on the mind where, left unchecked, it will grow like a weed until it dominates all thoughts. And whatever occupies your focus, tends to manifest.  It’s that simple!

You and I are powerful beings who create our world as a result of the things we focus on. At any moment there are two realities waiting to manifest: the one you attract and the one you resist. Whichever one you feed consciously or unconsciously, is the one that will manifest.

If you wish to enjoy a sense of personal peace, joy and abundance, you need to eliminate fear.

To get rid of the fear habit, it is important to understand that we are all connected and not separate; each one of us forms part of everything that exists. The findings of biochemist and researching pioneer Rupert Sheldrake show how everything in the universe is ultimately connected through fields of consciousness. You and I contribute to that collective consciousness in an endless feedback loop that flows back to each of us.  

On the level of planetary ecology, our pollution of earth’s water resources affects everything that takes in that water through the interconnectedness of all. What happens in one area of our planetary ecology, ripples out in ever wider circles to affect everything else, whether we are aware of it or not. If we want pure drinking water, then we cannot afford to dump toxic waste into the earth’s oceans and rivers.

The ecology of consciousness works the same way.  Every time we pollute our interconnecting field of consciousness with unprocessed emotions of anger, judgment, hate or lack, we dump the equivalent of toxic waste into the quantum field.  Fear is the most toxic and primal of all emotional and mental toxic waste.

Fear is lethal to our well-being at all levels.  It triggers your primal fight or flight response, which will deplete your adrenals over time.  It also contributes to sleep disturbances, addiction, high blood pressure, violence and a host of social evils.  Fear leads to a contraction of energy – the more we fear, the more we close down the flow of Life Force, the Source of abundance. This choking down of abundance contributes to lack in every area of life – in economic terms, it is called a recession.  

Are you content to continue dumping fear and other toxic emotions into the collective consciousness, or are you willing to contribute something more conducive to the stream of consciousness that we all mentally and emotionally drink from?

Fear is a dream killer. It will choke up your faith until all you can create, is more fear.  

Don’t go there!  No economic situation is worth your dreams: not a war, not a job loss, not a stock market crash and not a recession. These economic and political situations are merely transitory aspects of the material world.  

You are much more than that: you are an eternal spiritual being with access to all the resources in the Universe through the collective field of consciousness. And you access this limitless supply of resources through the quality of your emotions and what you hold in mind.

I challenge you to live a life that is admired not for its stuff, but for its passion and its undying belief that all things are possible.  I challenge you to take bold action in the face of fear and to set an example by showing others that out on the limb is where the fruit is sweetest.

Start practicing the proven antidote to fear. Think of everything you are blessed with in the material world and beyond.  Make a list of all the abundance in your life, and return to gratitude.  

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