‘Abundance is Yours’, Says the Lord

I have been on a power trip all my life. I didn’t realize it though. It has been a subconscious journey over many decades. The way I found out about it, I somehow always minded the folks who were grabbing the lime-light no matter where I was. It was then one day when I realized that I am perhaps not quite as spiritual and modest as I once thought.

We can live an abundant life! We are that powerful! I climbed my way up from a little public high school in working class Berlin to getting a PhD in economics from a prestigious American university. Had you told me that I did this because I was hungry for power and fame I would have laughed at you. I would have pointed to the endless hours I spent reading about spirituality instead. Briefly I even wanted to become a monk!

Many of you know my story. I spent twenty years in the financial industry, climbing the ranks there as well, and somewhere in-between planned my exit to start a similar impressive journey as an author and spiritual coach. Then about a year ago I had the realization that the hunt for enlightenment is also a power trip, and in contrast to the education and work journey that can you make richer and smarter, the quest for enlightenment is a hopeless endeavor. The mind that wants to get somewhere is in fact in the way. If you are on such a quest, please stop it!

Abundance is ours to have, always. When we face scarcity in our life we have a limited mindset somewhere. Professional success, our body image, our love life, our health, our finances, you name it. Everything can be linked back to our mindset, and the movie we signed up for. Life coaches have a role to play, and I assume this role sometimes in my work. We can literally claw our way out of perceived littleness by following the carrot in front of us, one step at the time.

The Law of Attraction has a role to play as well. We don’t need the incremental success, like I did over 40 years of study and work, we can get there much faster by mentally promoting ourselves. We can’t, however, catapult ourselves into Heaven. The institution that does the visualizing, the institution that wants to be somewhere else instead, has ego involvement. The ego at the end of the day will always feel little in one area or the other. Only God can surround us with abundance and She will be happy to gives us our birthright the moment we ask.

When you feel scarcity anywhere please drop everything and find out where the limiting belief set it. The Story of the Prodigal Son says that we can claim our divine inheritance anytime and everywhere. It’s a journey Home though, not a journey of expansion that is driven by a subconscious limiting belief set. Tell me honestly, do you live in abundance? If not, what will you do about it?