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Neville Goddard on Money: Rearrange Your Assumptions · Neville Goddard Mindset

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I had a student once in New York.
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A man 43 years old, worked as a bookkeeper for a firm that paid
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him just enough to keep him grateful and never enough to
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make him free. He had been at that desk for 11
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years. He was, by every measure the
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outer world offered a man who had found his ceiling.
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He came to my lecture one Thursday evening in the winter
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of 1955. He sat in the front row, which I
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noticed because the men who sit in the front row are usually
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either very skeptical or very desperate.
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In his case I believe it was both.
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After the lecture he found me and said, Mr. Goddard, I have
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tried everything. I have worked harder.
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I have taken additional qualifications, I have applied
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for positions that I know I am capable of.
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Nothing changes. I am beginning to think there is
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simply a limit to what a man like me can achieve.
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I looked at him for a moment and I said, a man like you tell me,
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what exactly do you mean by that?
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He could not fully answer the question question.
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He began to describe his circumstances, his background,
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his history, and I stopped him. I said none of that is what I
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asked. I asked what you mean by a man
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like you. Because whatever you mean by
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that, that is your ceiling and it can change.
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Tonight, by the end of this hour, I will show you how.
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Let me tell you what this hour is not.
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It is not a motivation speech. I'm not going to tell you to
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work harder, dream bigger, believe in yourself more
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fervently, or take more action. The world has enough of those
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teachings, and if they were sufficient, the man I just
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described would already be free. What I am going to give you
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instead is an understanding of why the material world responds
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to wealth or to poverty. Not randomly, not based on
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effort or merit or moral worth, but based on a single, precise
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internal cause. The cause is the assumption, and
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the assumption in the matter of money, is almost always the
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deepest and most ancient one a person carries.
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My name is Neville Goddard. I was born in Barbados, came to
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New York in my youth, spent 30 years teaching a principal.
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I encountered first in Scripture, and confirmed through
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decades of direct experience that consciousness is the only
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reality. That what you deeply and
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habitually assume must crystallize in the world around
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you, and that the power to change this is always and only
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within your own imagination. I am not a financial advisor.
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I have no investment strategy to offer.
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What? What I have is something simpler
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and more powerful than any of that I have the law, the
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operating principle of consciousness applied
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specifically to the matter of wealth.
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And that law, properly understood and consistently
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applied, will reorganize your material circumstances with a
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thoroughness that no outer strategy can match.
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In this hour, we are going to examine precisely what
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assumption most people carry about money.
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We are going to see why that assumption persists even in
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people who consciously want things to be different.
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And we are going to give you the specific in a practice that
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changes it. The man from the front row of my
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Thursday lecture found his ceiling and smashed through it.
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By the end of this hour, you will understand exactly how he
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did it. Let us begin with the assumption
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you currently carry about money. Not the one you state
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consciously, the one you actually hold.
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There is, in almost every person who comes to this teaching with
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a desire for more material abundance, a deep contradiction.
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On the surface, they want money, They affirm they deserve it.
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They visualize having it. They feel genuinely entitled to
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more than they currently have. And below the surface, beneath
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all of that sincere, effortful wanting, there lives a different
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assumption. An assumption that feels not
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like a thought, but like a fact. The assumption that goes money
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is scarce, there is not enough. People like me don't simply have
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wealth. We earn it slowly against
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resistance, and even then it slips away.
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Or perhaps the assumption is wealth belongs to a category of
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person that I am not, and no matter how hard I try, some
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quality in me ensures that the ceiling remains.
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These assumptions were not chosen, they were formed.
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They were formed in childhood, watching how money moved or
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didn't move in the family. They were formed informative
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experiences of lack in moments when wanting something essential
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and being told there was not enough carved a groove in the
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subconscious that has been generating consequences ever
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since. And here is the important thing.
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These assumptions are not descriptions of reality.
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They are crystallizations of old assumptions maintained and
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confirmed by the law of consciousness, operating
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faithfully on whatever the habitual in a state presence to
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it. The law does not care whether
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the assumption is true or false in any objective sense.
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It cares only what you hold with feeling, what you inhabit deeply
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enough to treat as fact, and that is what it crystallizes
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around you. So when people people ask me why
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their financial situation does not change despite genuine
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effort, better skills, harder work, smarter choices, I always
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ask the same question I asked the bookkeeper.
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What do you mean by a person like you?
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Because the ceiling they describe in the outer world is
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almost always the direct reflection of an assumption held
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in the inner one. Now I want to tell you something
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that may be counterintuitive and that is essential to understand
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before any technique Ioffer will make sense.
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The outer world does not contain money waiting to be found,
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competed for, or earned through the right combination of effort
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and circumstance. The outer world is a mirror.
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It reflects back what you carry within you.
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This does not mean you do not take action, you do, but the
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action, the opportunity, the circumstance through which money
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flows into your life, these are arranged by consciousness, by
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the law of assumption, not by the random mechanics of a
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competitive world. This is that's why two people
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with identical skills, identical backgrounds, identical
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opportunities will arrive at dramatically different financial
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results. Not because one worked harder or
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was luckier, because one inhabited a different
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assumption. One carried the felt sense of
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sufficiency, of things working out, of their particular gifts
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being valued and sought, and the world arranged to confirm it.
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The other carried the subtle assumption of the ceiling that
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people like me don't simply have wealth and the world arranged to
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confirm that. I'm not blaming anyone for the
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assumption they carry. The assumption was formed in the
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only way. Assumptions are formed by
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experience absorbed without the knowledge of the law.
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Before you know that consciousness creates reality,
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you naturally form your assumptions from what reality
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presents to you. You cannot be blamed for
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operating according to a law you did not know existed.
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But now you know it, and knowing it, you can no longer claim that
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the ceiling is outside yourself. You can no longer say if only
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the economy were different, if only the opportunity were there,
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if only I had the right connections or the right start.
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The ceiling is an assumption, and assumptions change.
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The most important conversation you will ever have is the one
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you hold with yourself. And for most people, the most
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important and most unexamined conversation is the one about
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money, about what is possible for them, about what they
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fundamentally are in relation to material abundance.
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That conversation, held habitually in the inner world,
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is the cause. The financial situation, in all
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its apparent solidity and stubbornness, is the effect.
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Change the cause, and the effect must change, not might.
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Change must. This is the law.
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And in the next sections of today's teaching, I'm going to
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give you the specific practices that change the deep assumption,
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the conversations about money that run below the surface and
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begin to crystallize a new in reality, we have established the
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foundation. The financial ceiling you
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observe in the outer world is not a fact of your
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circumstances. It is the crystallization of an
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assumption held in the inner one.
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The assumption was formed, not chosen, through experience.
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And it can be changed not through effort in the outer
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world, but through the precise inner act of inhabiting a new
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assumption with genuine feeling. Now I am going to go into the
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specific mechanics of how the assumption about money is formed
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and why it is particularly sticky, and then I will give you
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the exact practices that dissolve it.
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What I'm about to show you will change the way you understand
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your entire financial life. Stay present.
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The assumption about money is particularly sticky for a reason
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that is worth understanding deeply, because understanding it
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is part of dissolving it. Money carries more emotional
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charge than almost any other the desire more than most
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relationships, more than most career aspirations, more than
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most health concerns. Because money is, in the modern
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world, the symbol of security, of freedom, of sufficiency, of
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the ability to protect yourself and those you love from the
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worst possibilities. This means that the assumption
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about money is never just about money.
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Beneath the assumption about money is always an assumption
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about safety, about worthiness, about the fundamental question
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of whether the world is a place in which there is enough for
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you. And assumptions about safety and
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worthiness are among the deepest, earliest formed
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assumptions a human being carries.
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They were formed, in many cases, before language, before the
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capacity for conscious reflection.
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They were formed in the felt experience of early childhood,
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in the quality of abundance or scarcity, security or precarity
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that surrounded the small consciousness in its most
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formative period. This is why intellectual
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understanding does not change the financial assumption.
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You can read every book about wealth, understand every
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principle I teach, affirm every morning that you are abundant
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and prosperous and the deep assumption can remain unmoved
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because the deep assumption is not stored as a thought.
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It is stored as a feeling, a visceral, pre verbal felt sense
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of what money is and what it means and whether there is
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enough and whether you are the kind of being who simply has it.
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To change it, you must work at the same level at which it is
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stored, which is the level of feeling, of genuine, embodied,
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inhabited sensation. This is why the technique of the
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state akin to sleep is so powerful for the specific case
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of money, because in that threshold state, at the
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borderline between waking and sleep, you have access to the
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subconscious in a way that bypasses the intellectual layer
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entirely. The conscious mind with its
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objections and doubts and evidence from the outer world is
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relaxed, and what you impress upon the subconscious in that
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state goes directly into the layer where the assumption
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lives. Now let me give you the specific
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scene for the money assumption. Most people, when they attempt
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to use the imaginal act for wealth, make a critical mistake.
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They imagine a number, a bank balance, a specific large
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amount, and they feel excitement.
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The excitement of imagining something they do not have.
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As I have told you before, excitement is the signature
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feeling of the thing being outside, being future, being not
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yet here. It is the wrong feeling, the
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right feeling for the wealth assumption.
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Is this the feeling of money being normal?
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I want you to think about what it actually feels like to have
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enough money. Not a fortune.
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Enough. Enough that money is not the
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primary variable in any decision you make.
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Enough that when a bill arrives, you pay it without a spike of
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anxiety. Enough that when you want to
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give something to someone you you love, you give it without
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the inner calculation of what you cannot then afford.
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The quality of that, the actual felt quality of money being a
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non issue, is the feeling you must inhabit in your imaginal
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act, not the excitement of southern wealth.
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The ease of sufficient, normal, established sufficiency.
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This is the state from which wealth grows, because the ease
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of sufficiency is not the state of someone who is just beginning
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to have money. It is the state of someone for
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whom having money is simply their life.
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And the law will crystallize around that state, the material
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reality that corresponds to it. Now I want to address something
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specific about how people who grew up in genuine scarcity,
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real scarcity, not imagined, need to approach this practice.
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If your earliest experience of money was truly difficult, if
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the anxiety about it was real and pressing and formative, then
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the felt sense of ease around money may feel not just
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unfamiliar but uncertainty safe. There may be a part of you that
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holds very deep down that allowing yourself to feel at
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ease about money is tempting fate, that vigilance and worry
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are somehow protective. I want to be direct with you
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about this. The vigilance is not protective.
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The worry does not prevent bad outcomes.
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It crystallizes them. The anxiety about money is not a
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safeguard. It is the very assumption that
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maintains the condition you are anxious about.
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The practice of ease is not recklessness.
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It is not ignoring legitimate responsibilities.
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It is the deliberate inhabiting of the state from which genuine
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material stability flows. You are not pretending there are
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no bills. You are practicing the felt
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sense of being the kind of person who pays bills easily,
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because that felt sense will crystallize a world in which you
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are. There is a phrase I used many
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times in my lectures. I said there to assume the
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feeling of the wish fulfilled. The word there is important.
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For many people, feeling at ease about money genuinely does
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require courage, The courage to release an old assumption, even
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a painful one, because it is the only assumption they have ever
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known. There, then there to feel the
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ease of sufficiency there to inhabit for the minutes of your
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imaginal act each night the felt quality of a person for whom
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money moves easily, abundantly, and as a matter of course.
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The law will do the rest. We have seen why the money
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assumption is particularly sticky, because beneath it lies
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the assumption about safety, worthiness, and sufficiency that
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was formed before language, before reflection, before you
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knew the law existed. We have seen that the imaginal
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act for wealth must target not the excitement of Southern
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riches, but the ease of normal, established sufficiency.
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And we have seen that for those who grew up in genuine scarcity,
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daring to feel that ease requires a specific kind of
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courage. Now in Part 2, I'm going to take
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you into the deep, deeper layer of the wealth assumption, the
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one that is rarely spoken of, and give you the complete set of
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practices for dissolving it. Stay with me.
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There is a teaching within the teaching of wealth that I want
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to give you now, something that the surface level approach to
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financial crystallization almost always misses it is this.
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The assumption about money is always also an assumption about
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deserving. Most people who struggle
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materially do not, at the deepest level, believe they
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deserve to be healthy, not because they are bad people.
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The opposite is often true. Some of the most generous,
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conscientious, morally serious people I have ever met have
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carried the deepest assumptions of unworthiness around money.
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The reason often is that they have absorbed a teaching,
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cultural, religious, familial that associates wealth with a
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kind of moral deficiency. The idea that spiritual people
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are not meant to be rich, that desiring money is at some level
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embarrassing or shallow, that those who have a great deal of
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money must have obtained it at someone else's expense.
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These ideas exist in every culture, in different forms, and
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for people who have absorbed them, the desire for wealth
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creates an internal conflict that the law can only resolve
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one way, by maintaining the condition of not having it,
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because having it would violate the deep assumption that good
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people don't. If any of this resonates, if
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there is any part of you that when you imagine yourself truly
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wealthy, feels a subtle discomfort, a sense of that's
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not really me or I would not want to become that kind of
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person. I want to address it directly.
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Wealth is not a moral quality. It is a material condition, and
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it responds to the law of consciousness with the same
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impartiality as any other condition.
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Wealthy people are not morally superior to poor people.
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Poor people are not morally superior to wealthy people.
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Wealth reflects an assumption. The assumption reflects the law.
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The law is neutral. The consciousness of abundance
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does not belong to a particular type of person.
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It is available to everyone because the law that creates
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wealth is identical to the law that creates any other
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crystallization of assumption. It is available to you right
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now, tonight. It does not require you to be a
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different kind of person. It requires you to inhabit a
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different kind of state, and inhabiting a different state
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does not compromise your values, your general generosity, your
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care for others. In my experience, it deepens
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those qualities because fear and scarcity produce contraction.
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They make the world feel smaller, more competitive, more
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0 sum. Genuine abundance, genuine ease
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around sufficiency produces expansion.
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It makes generosity easy because there is always enough.
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It makes care for others natural because you are not operating
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from depletion. The consciousness of wealth is
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not the enemy of your better nature.
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It is the condition from which your better nature can express
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most fully. So release the conflict if you
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carry it. Release the idea that wanting
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financial abundance makes you less spiritual, less genuine,
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less morally serious. To replace it with this, I was
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made to have abundance. The creative power of
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consciousness that underlies all of reality is the same power
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that operates through me, and it is not a power that knows
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scarcity. Scarcity is a condition produced
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by the assumption of scarcity. The source itself is without
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limit. Now I want to go into the
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specific practice for dissolving the deep wealth assumption
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because I have given you the understanding which is necessary
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and now the practice must follow.
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The practice has three components that work together.
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The 1st is what I call the wealth state session.
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This is distinct from imagining a specific outcome.
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Each morning for 10 minutes. You do not imagine a bank
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account or a check or a business success.
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You inhabit the state, the felt quality of being someone for
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whom wealth is simply normal. You close your eyes, steal the
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body, and ask yourself, what does it feel like to be this
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person, the person for whom money is easy, for whom the
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bills are a formality, not an anxiety, for whom giving is a
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pleasure, not a calculation. Find that quality, not the
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words, the feeling. Let it permeate your awareness
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for 10 minutes. Then open your eyes and carry as
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much of it as you can into the day that follows.
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The second component is the before sleep imaginal act,
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separate from the morning practice.
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This one is a scene, one specific sensory scene that
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could only exist if your desired financial state were already
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your reality, not a number. A moment.
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Paying for something you previously could not afford with
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ease and without calculation. Writing a check for a 'cause you
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believe in feeling the pleasure of giving rather than the
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anxiety of cost. Looking at a figure on a page
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with the. The same mild, unremarkable
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feeling that you look at the time, inhabit the scene in the
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state akin to sleep. Feel it from the inside.
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Let it be normal. Repeat it gently until you drift
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into sleep within it. The third component is what I
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call assumption hygiene. Throughout the day, notice the
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conversations you have with yourself about money.
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Not the overt ones, those are easy to catch.
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The subtle ones, the automatic calculation that runs when you
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see something you want, The body response when the topic of money
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arises in a conversation. The habitual inner narrative
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about what is and is not available to you.
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When you notice these, do not fight them.
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Simply observe them and substitute return for 30 seconds
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to the felt quality of the wealth state.
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The ease, the normalcy, the simple established fact of
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sufficiency, this substitution done consistently throughout the
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day, is what changes the habitual assumption at the speed
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I described earlier. Because every moment of genuine
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inhabiting is a moment of planting, and every moment of
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the old assumption is a moment of not planting the new one.
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The ratio determines the pace of change.
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Now let me tell you what happened with the man from the
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front row. He did not change his job
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immediately. He did not suddenly receive a
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windfall. What changed first was the inner
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conversation. He told me, weeks into the
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practice that he had noticed something.
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He had stopped calculating. Not deliberately.
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Simply the automatic inner calculation that ran every time
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money was at stake had gone quiet.
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The ease was seeping in. Within three months, an
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opportunity appeared at his firm, a new position created
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specifically because someone in leadership had noticed qualities
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in him that had apparently always been there but had
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somehow not registered before. He was offered a salary that was
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nearly double what he had been earning.
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He called it luck. I told him it was law.
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Nothing about his skills had changed.
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His experience had not changed. The outer world had not changed.
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What had changed was the assumption, and the assumption,
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having changed, rearranged the outer world to conform to it.
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The people around him who are, as I have always taught,
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extensions of his own consciousness, began to see him
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differently because he was now inhabited, did differently
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because the eye and he clothed himself in each morning was a
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different 1. Persist in your assumption and
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the world must rearrange itself to conform.
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This is not poetic encouragement.
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It is a precise description of how the law of consciousness
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operates. We have covered the complete
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framework, the deep wealth assumption and why it is sticky,
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the assumption of deserving that underlies it and must be
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addressed. The three component practice,
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the morning wealth state, the before sleep imaginal scene, and
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the assumption hygiene throughout the day.
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We have seen in the story of the man from the front row how the
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law works in practice, not through dramatic outer events,
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but through the gradual quiet crystallization of a new
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assumption into a new material reality.
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Now the visualization, then the advanced teaching, and then the
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clothes stay present. The most important instruction
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comes last. The practical framework I want
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you to leave with today is concrete enough to begin to
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tonight, and flexible enough to adapt as your practice deepens.
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The first priority is the morning wealth State 10 minutes
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before the world begins, before you look at your phone, before
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the tasks of the day have colonized your attention.
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In those 10 minutes, close your eyes and do only one thing.
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Inhabit the felt quality of wealth as your normal state.
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Not a number, not a specific outcome.
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The quality, the ease, the spaciousness of someone for whom
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money is not the question in every equation.
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You may find this difficult at first.
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The mind will want to present evidence for why this is not
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true, the bills, the balance, the specific anxieties of your
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particular situation. Do not argue with this.
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Simply keep returning gently, the way you would redirect a
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child who keeps wandering off the path to the felt quality of
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the state. Each morning you do this you are
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depositing into a new account, not a financial one, an imaginal
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one, the account of of the new assumption, and over days and
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weeks it accumulates until the new assumption begins to have
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more weight behind it than the old one.
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The second practice is the before sleep scene, specific
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rather than general, one small quiet sensory moment that
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implies your desired financial state.
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I recommend rotating through two or three different scenes over
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time, not because variety is required, 1 scene used
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consistently will work, but because rotating helps you
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identify which scene carries the strongest feeling for you, and
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feeling is the engine of crystallization.
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The third practice, assumption hygiene, is the one that
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determines whether the 1st 2 hold their gains or lose them
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each day. Here is what I mean.
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You begin each morning with 10 minutes of the wealth state.
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You end each night with a before sleep imaginal act.
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But between those two practices, there are 16 hours in which the
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old assumption has many opportunities to assert itself.
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Every time you experience a financial friction, a bill, a
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price, a calculation, the old assumption sends a brief
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broadcast. This is how it is for you, and
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if you receive that broadcast without substituting the new
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assumption, you have effectively undone some of what the morning
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and evening practice built. Assumption hygiene is the
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practice of catching those broadcasts and replacing them
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not with denial, but with the felt quality of the new state.
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A brief return for 30 seconds to the ease of the wealth
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assumption, the settled sense that this is a passing detail in
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a life of abundance. There is a specific question I
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want to address here because it arises in nearly every serious
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student of this teaching when they apply it to money.
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The question is, should I take action while I am practicing the
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imaginal acts and the wealth state?
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Should I also be pursuing opportunities?
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Yes, of course, but with a specific attitude.
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The action is not the cause. The action is the channel.
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The cause is the assumption, and the assumption, when it
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genuinely changes, will organize the action in ways you cannot
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predict in advance. It will direct your attention to
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opportunities you are not looking for.
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It will make certain actions effortless and certain others
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unnecessary. It will connect you to the right
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people at the right moment through a chain of circumstance
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that will look from the outside like coincidence or luck.
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So take action, but take it from the state of the wealth
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assumption rather than the state of the scarcity assumption.
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Take it with the ease and the confidence of someone who knows
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that what they are moving toward is already theirs in
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consciousness, that the outer world is simply in the process
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of catching up. This attitude, the assumption of
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the thing already done, expressed in action, is
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completely different from the strained, desperate action of
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someone trying to force an outcome from a state of fear and
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lack. Both people may appear from the
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outside to be doing similar things, but the assumption
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behind the action is the determining factor, and the law
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will crystallize accordingly. Persist in your assumption even
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when the outer world continues to report the old condition,
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even when the bank balance has not yet moved, even when the
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circumstances have not yet shifted.
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The inner work is real, the law is operative, the
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crystallization is in process. Man's imagination is the only
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redemptive power in the world, and in the matter of money,
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which so many people treat as the one thing imagination cannot
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touch, this is precisely true. The imagination inhabited with
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the right feeling, in the right state, consistently and
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faithfully will reorganize the material world.
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I have seen it too many times to have any doubt about this.
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The law does not have exceptions.
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It has only faithful application or incomplete application.
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Apply it faithfully tonight. close your eyes, let the body
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settle completely, Feel the weight of it resting.
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Let the hands open, the shoulders drop, the jaw
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unclench. Take one slow breath, let it
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release fully. Now I want you to bring to mind
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the feeling. Not a thought, not an image, but
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a feeling of being at ease. Simply at ease.
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Nothing pressing, nothing anxious, The particular ease of
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someone who has enough. Let that quality begin to arise
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in the body. Perhaps it is a warmth in the
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chest. Perhaps a the kind of
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spaciousness in the shoulders, perhaps a particular quality of
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the breath, slower, fuller, less guarded.
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Let it come. Do not force it, Simply make
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room for it. Now let that ease specifically
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color the way you think about money.
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Not a balance sheet, not a number.
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Simply, money is fine. Money is normal.
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Money moves easily. In my life, there is enough.
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There has always been enough. There will always be enough.
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Let that not be a thing you say. Let it be a thing you feel in
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the body. Let it settle in as fact.
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Now bring to mind the specific scene you have chosen, the one
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quiet, ordinary moment that implies your desired financial
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state. Perhaps you are paying for
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something with ease, with pleasure, without calculation.
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Perhaps you are in a space that speaks of abundance,
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comfortable, well appointed, simply and naturally yours.
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Enter the scene from the inside, not watching from outside.
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You are there. What are your hands doing?
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What is the quality of the light?
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What is the particular, small, all sound of the moment?
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Feel the ease of it. This is your life.
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This is simply how it is. There is no anxiety in this
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moment, no calculation, no question about whether there is
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enough. There is simply the quiet,
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ordinary, established fact of abundance.
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Breathe slowly. Let the scene become real around
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you, the way familiar rooms are real.
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You stop noticing the details because they are simply home.
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Stay here. This is your life now, not in
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the future, now in consciousness and what consciousness holds.
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The law crystallizes. Let the feeling of normal,
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established, natural abundance settle into you deeply into the
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layer beneath thought, into the place where the assumption
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lives. This is the wealth state.
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This is the feeling you are planting.
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Breathe. When thoughts arise, return
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gently to the feeling, not the scene, the feeling, the ease,
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the normalcy, the doneness. Stay as long as this feels true.
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When you are ready, open your eyes.
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But carry the ease with you. Let it be the quality from which
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you move through the rest of your day and into tonight.
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This is the practice. This is the law at work.
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I want to share something with you now that goes beyond the
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standard application of what I have taught today, something for
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those of you who are ready to take this further.
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The ordinary teaching about money and the law of assumption
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says change your assumption about having money and you will
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have more money. This is true.
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This is the law operating at the level most people access.
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But there is a deeper layer. The deeper layer is this.
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The assumption about money is always at its root, an
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assumption about your relationship to the infinite, to
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the source of all supply, to the creative power of consciousness
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itself. When a person holds the
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assumption of scarcity, they are at the deepest level, assuming
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that the source from which their supply comes is limited, that
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there is only so much, that what goes to one person cannot also
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go to an another, that the abundance they want is finite
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and must be competed for. This assumption, the assumption
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of a limited source is the route.
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The specific money beliefs are only the branches.
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The most powerful imaginal work for wealth, then, is not the
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imagination of abundance at the level of outcomes.
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It is the imagination, the felt inhabiting of your relationship
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to the infinite as one of unrestricted access.
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I am the consciousness that underlies all of reality, and
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the consciousness that underlies all of reality knows no
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scarcity. It does not have a limited
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supply. What you call money is one form
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of the energy of creation moving through the channels available
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to it, and the channels available to it expand or
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contract in precise accordance with the assumption held by the
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consciousness through which they flow.
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When you inhabit the I am the bare pure awareness that is your
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deepest identity, and you hold that awareness as one of
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absolute alignment with definite supply, something shifts in the
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money assumption that no specific scene or affirmation
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can quite reach because you are working at the root, not the
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branch. The practice for this advanced
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work is simple but requires depth in your morning wealth
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state. After you have inhabited the
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feeling of ease and sufficiency, spend the last two minutes going
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deeper. Let the specific financial ease
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fall away and simply inhabit the felt sense of being, the
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consciousness that is always connected to supply, not wealthy
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in a material sense, connected, aligned, a channel through which
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abundance flows always a naturally because the channel is
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aligned with the source. Feel the quality of that.
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It is not the same as imagining money.
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It is quieter, more fundamental, less specific and more powerful.
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From this place. Material wealth is not something
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you pursue, it is something that flows because what you are
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aligned with, the creative power of consciousness, is the source
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of all supply in all forms, and when you are genuinely feelingly
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aligned with it, the forms it takes in your life will include
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the material abundance you desire.
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This is the edge of what most people reach, the advanced
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territory. Most people do not reach it
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because they are too focused on the specific outcome to go into
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the deeper alignment that makes the specific outcome inevitable.
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Go deeper. Behind the money belief is the
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source belief change. The source belief inhabit the
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felt sense of being a consciousness aligned with
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infinite supply, and the money belief changes automatically
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because the branch cannot survive if the route has
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changed. This is the teaching beneath the
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teaching, and it is yours now. I told you at the beginning
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about the bookkeeper, 43 years old, eleven years at the same
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desk, a ceiling that felt to him as fixed as the ceiling of the
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building he worked in. When I asked him what he meant
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by a man like me, he could not at first answer and I told him
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whatever you mean by that is your ceiling and it can change.
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Tonight what changed for him was not his skills or his
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connections or the policies of his employer.
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What changed was the assumption, the felt sense of what was
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possible for a man like him, the inhabited quality of what his
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life contained and could contain.
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And when that changed, when the morning practice and the before
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sleep imaginal act and the daily assumption hygiene began to
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genuinely shift, the habitual I am, He carried the outer world
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rearranged. People who had always been there
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began to see him differently. An opportunity that could have
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existed much earlier finally became visible to those who
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needed to see it because they were now looking at someone who
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inhabited abundance rather than limitation.
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The law is faithful. It does not play favorites.
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It does not hold grudges. It responds to what you present
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to it in consciousness with the same precision with which a
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mirror responds to what you hold before it.
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You have a ceiling. Perhaps you have felt it.
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Perhaps you have been pressing against it for years, wondering
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why effort and intention and even some previous application
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of these teachings has not dissolved it.
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The ceiling is an assumption. The assumption is in
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consciousness. Unconsciousness is the only
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reality. Change what is in consciousness,
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not the surface, the habitual deep felt assumption.
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Change it through practice, consistent, faithful, patient
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practice, and watch as the only ceiling that ever existed, the
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one within you, simply ceases to be there.
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Begin tonight, not with the ambitious scene of the fortune
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you desire. Begin with the ease, the simple,
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quiet, settled feeling of sufficiency of money being
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normal in your life, of the bills being paid and the
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breathing being easy and the future being open.
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Lie down. Enter the threshold of sleep.
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Inhabit that ease, and in the morning, 10 minutes before the
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world begins, the wealth state, the felt quality of normal,
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established natural abundance. Do these two things for 30 days,
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30 days of consistent, faithful practice, and then look at your
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outer world and tell me what you find.
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I say this not as a promise, but as an invitation.
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An invitation to test the law for yourself, as I have always
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invited people to do, not to believe me on faith, to try it,
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to inhabit the assumption genuinely and observe what the
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law does with it. The law does not fail.
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The practice fails sometimes when the feeling is not genuine,
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when the assumption is not truly inhabited.
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But the law itself does not fail.
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You are imagination, and imagination creates reality.
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In the matter of money, as in all other matters.
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Dare to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled tonight and
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every night that follows. Come back when you are ready.
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There is always more here waiting for you, yeah.