Article 6: Wealth Begins With Your State of Mind

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” - James Allen, British author and poet

We all have several dimensions of mind that we work with and that work for us. Understanding the roles of your conscious, subconscious and superconscious minds is critical to becoming wealthy.

Our conscious mind is the day-to-day mind that deals with the “real” world of time and space (not to be confused with space-time because this starts us down the rabbit hole of quantum mechanics …. let’s stay away from there for now).

The subconscious mind is a kind of database for all the knowledge, experiences, trauma and triumphs that have ever occured in our lives. It supports the conscious mind by retrieving data based on the commands or needs of the conscious mind.

The superconscious mind is less familiar but the concept is broadly used. It has also been called the Universal Mind, the collective unconscious, Non-Local Intelligence, and many other names. For all intents and purposes, it fulfills the classical Christian definition of God

The classic book on success, Think and Grow Rich was about this very same topic. It is the core of the Law of Attraction and other aspects of the metaphysics of creating your own reality.

Of all of these, the conscious mind is the most familiar to us … we have the most experience with it and the most control over it. When we get to the subconscious mind, things start to get a bit more tentative as to who is controlling what. It is critical to train your subconscious to focus on the things you want. The information held in your subconscious can be a self limiting belief that keeps you from a dream or a persistent determination that pushes you on when your conscious mind wants to quit. It is important also to note that the subconscious mind does not really “think” all that well. More than anything else it is important to pay attention to your emotions as this is how the subconscious communicates best with the conscious - this will give you an idea of how aligned your actions are with your true desires.

The subsconscious is also how the conscious mind communicates with the superconscious mind, the source of creativity and intuition - it is what some people say is our sixth sense.

Harnessing the power of all of our minds is critical to manifesting wealth, hence Article 6 of The Wealth Manifesto: wealth is exactly what you think it is. More next time on how our beliefs, attitude and intentionality figure into the equation.

Divine Grace - The Consecration of Your Soul

This title sort of came from, well, divine grace? Out of the blue? My subconscious? Today’s writing goes deep…

One of things about writing a book is that you and your ideas at the time of printing are frozen forevermore. One of the nice things about something like a blog or a newsletter is that you can keep your readers up to date on what you thinking about, how your thinking is evolving, what new revelations have come your way. The idea - I have been told this is the idea anyway - is that you build a relationship with those readers, they get to know you, and if they appreciate what you have to say, they hang around to see what you are going to say next.

In the course of writing The Wealth Manifesto, a number of profound changes have come over me. I have told a few close friends that the book is the way I plan to live my life. In it are many things that I have learned and experienced and do in fact live everyday. Others are things I know to be true by observing others or through research. Still others are the way I would like to be but just don’t have my act together to quite be there yet. One of these is my own spirituality. I’m on a journey - just as every other conscious being - to discover more about my own spiritual wellbeing.

One of the ways that I suggest as an avenue to discover that about yourself is through your Wealth Potential. In my book, I proposed the idea that this is one of the most tangible methods to uncover purpose and create meaning in your life. When you are using your capacities, your passions, working in alignment with your values and what feels good, you are fulfilling your part. You are doing what you were meant to be doing. This does not mean you have to believe in anything - God, Higher Power, etc. - other than yourself. You and you alone are able to create meaning in your life. I can figure out what my gifts are, what I am passionate about, what interests and fulfills me. Attaching significance does not need to go beyond ‘I am enjoying life. I am content. Doing (this) makes my happy.’ If your beliefs are religious and you are fulfilling God’s will, God’s plan for you, deploying and putting your Wealth Potential into use works seamlessly with any religious preference. God is the Creator of all things, including you. If you are using your God-given talents and everything else that you are, it is impossible for you to be doing anything but operating according to God’s plan.

I do believe of course, that there is a connection between us and the Infinite. That our Wealth Potential - our ability to create value and enhance our own wellbeing and that of others - is a form of personal sacrament. It is our connection to the superconscious mind that is the Source of all intuition, the Source of unlimited abundance and how we do indeed play our part in this synergy of life. Our Wealth Potential is the real world manifestation of our sacred purpose, the consecration of our heart and soul to creating wealth. For ourselves and the world.

That is big ….