I’ll only be creating a single weekend post. (I intend to stay in the mode of “playing my way to prosperity” along with all of you.)
So, for your weekend assignment:
1. Continue playing the ‘Prosperity Game’ (the internal shifts that come from playing really add up.) Go to:
http://www.choosingprosperity.com/game
2. Keep your eye out for evidence of prosperity flowing to you and share here on the Blog – under the topic of “It Works”
3. This weekend I would love to hear what this quotes stirs within all of you…
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
~ Do you resonate with it?
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
Once you are clear about your own personal truth, share your perspective and to peruse what other’s have written.
To add your comments to the Blog:
Have a delicious weekend!
Love and light,
Elyse

122 comments
August 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Starra
When I read that quote, it made me think “What would my life be like, and what would my choices have been if I’d heard that quote when I was about seven years old? I don’t ponder this thought with bitterness, shame, or blame, but simply with curiosity. I truly believe my life would have taken another course, and most likely, a more positive course.
However, I have now heard this quote and many others similar to it, and I can change my life in this moment. I also think perhaps my life contract included the fact that I have chosen to live a fear based life up till now, and I’m turning it around. I can also help other people who are searching, and/or wanting to turn their lives around by just sharing my experience.
Those are my thoughts on this quote. Fabulous quote too!
Namaste,
Starra
CPG
August 30, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Catherine Behan
Hi Everyone,
I am in the process of revamping my inner view of my value to the world and it has been an interesting week!
The Universe has such a sense of humor. On a flight between Nashville and San Diego, I happened to be sitting next to a man who owns several homes, an airplane and a couple of race horses.
He was a kind and friendly man and it struck me that I attracted him to sit in my row (the airline is Southwest and you DO choose your seat). I had a quiet thought before I sat down that I would like to sit next to someone significant. Hmmmm.
People of means are the same as people without and the illusion of some sort of special qualification that wealthy people have is dissolving. Hooray!
To all of our abundance and wealth!
Catherine
http://www.HowToMakeYourManPerfect.com
August 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Sandra
The message is stay awake – and be the planner and builder of our daily experience. It feels active and responsible to onesself and one’s experience.
I need to shift into FULL trusting and FULL enjoyment of life and each moment like a child, without fearing that something will burst my bubble and that I can’t handle it. Here we go!
August 30, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Chaela
I know this is true becaue I now live it. I have a fantastic life. However, as for “All the abundance in the world is available to us,” I still limit the amount of financial abundance that can flow through my life…for instance, I was playing the prosperity game today….and had a “check” for $56,000…and felt SO STUPID to be playing the game. I felt uncomfortable and squirmy. Thoughts flowed through like “this is so dumb” and “I can’t imagine how playing this game will affect anything,” etc etc. So there is always a ceiling for me….and I have to find ways to play through to the other side of my resistance.
I am open to being surprised and delighted and discover that playing the game really works.
August 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm
jenn
This quote shows exactly how my life is when I am in alignment with my hearts desire. I go through the day with grace and peace. No matter how tough the day at work may be, I can come home with energy to enjoy the rest of the day. This is living the life God intends me to live.
There are days like today, when confusion comes in, and I can not vibrate as high as I like. Those are the days I have to work harder at this and dont seem to have the energy of other days. I am also aware that it is a simple choice that I must make. I choose prosperity, I choose to claim this relationship, and all my hearts desire. I choose to reach for the moon.
August 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Betsy
What is the central message of this quote?
i love this quote, and it is one of my favorites!! There is so much to do be have, and it is saying it is ok for us to do all these and have all and enjoy our live. If we would let ourselves, and not spend so much time, and energy and thought dwelling on “stuff” ( I think that is what makes us tired and want to collapse) We just need to see that, and be aware, and change our habits.
How do you resonate with it?
I just love it. As I child I could totally see this and feel it and wondered why adults didn’t see it. They seemed so miserable, and I knew a shift would set them free to be happy, because life was so great. It was easy as a child for me to be in this state, and I think that as I have gotten older, I still believe this, but I have had some layers accumulate of fears from experiences, disappointments, and imagined failures, that I have to work a little more at being in that state that I did feel so easily as a child. So I do totally resonate with this quote.
How does it feel to read these words.
It feels right. I can still remember specific times when I felt as a child the glorious feeling of being alive, and the enthusiasm I felt, and I couldn’t understand the bitter behavior of adults in my life, when it looked to me like they had it all, and they as adults could make decisions and choices and really no one would tell them no!! It seemed as a child I could get into that state of awe and enthusiasm very easily, and I could forgive, I could let it go, get over it, and find something to be happy about very easily. I didn’t understand why others couldn’t. It was sooo obvious, that God loved us all, and God was good. ( to me it was so obvious) So this quote is right on to me and I love it. PS my mom was on the couch alot, and so were other adults. I actually do not like that picture at all!!
What shifts will you have to make to be living in alignment with this quote?
Well, I realize now, that as a kid I was there, and as an adult some accumulated experiences have affected me in a way that I have to work on being in that state of believing it. I have had some experiences that have affected me, and maybe as we get older it is a bit more difficult to bounce back so to speak. I am hoping I can get that place in my being again, centered, and unwavering, and truly feeling that joy of being alive and not afraid of “stuff” that some core beliefs, that were there, can shift, and that my focus ( which now takes discipline!!) keeps choosing to see things in the way I would love them to be… How easy if we just do it. Just like I thought when I was a kid. Choose the focus, and pretty soon, you may automatically just see through the wonder of the eyes of a child!! Love everywhere, beauty, creativity, ideas, laughing, playing, having fun, and feeling safe.
August 30, 2008 at 1:56 pm
clairedeRose
I thought “Wow, have I really got permission, from the boss of bosses himself, from the very highest authority imaginable, to actually have plenty?
YOU MEAN IT’S OK, AND EVEN HOLY, TO BE ABUNDANT?”
This was quite a shock, and my reaction just shows that even someone like me who’s been working on this issue for years and knows it all intellectually, still has big resistances. It’s evidently in the air we breathe, the air our ancestors have breathed for nearly two thousand years, that normality is suffering and sacrifice – and I’m not even religious! Never have been.
Even so, despite my apparent lack of interest in what “God” thinks, it’s a really nice idea, a thought that brings lightness and fun and possibilities. It has raised my energies and there’s almost a smile on my lips. I like it. I’m amazed at how important it turns out for me, a rebellious type, to have permission from on high. Permission! That seems to be a key word for us, brought up with so many rules and restrictions. And not only permission, but actual encouragement!
So let’s do it. I’m ready, and looking forward to the fun to come.
August 30, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Feythe
This quotation reminds me to keep my arms open wide and my palms up, too, to welcome and receive (allow?) all the love and good the Universe has to offer!
August 30, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Georgia
I remember as a child growing up in Brazil, my favorite TV shows were “Bewitched” and “I Dream of a Genie”. I just thought it was so cool Samantha and Jeannie manifesting all they wanted. I love all that magic. Deep inside of me, I believed in the magic. I kept wanting that magic in my life somehow. When I was introduced to LOA in my 20’s, I was ecstatic because I reconnected with that feeling of magic and that everything is possible. And then, I let go of all that sin talk and got that God loved me no matter what. ANd that I deserved to have everything I wanted, I didn’t have to prove or do anything, just trust and allow it. Then I met Abraham in my 30’s and my life changed. Totally. Now, I am in my 40’s and I find myself being so grateful for all that I have created in my life. Even the fear. It brought me where I am. And now I feel like I am in the threshold for something deeper. I am the chooser. Always. I am getting it. Every day. More and more. Until it is embedded in my very cells. I can have everything I want. God wants me to have everything I want. I believe that. And that feels REALLY good.
August 30, 2008 at 3:21 pm
rosemary
What is the central message of the quote?
That it is perfectly OK and it is our DIVINE RIGHT to be prospersous in all ways.
~ Do you resonate with it?
Absolutely… I do have some off days, but I work very hard to not have them.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
I feel it is the permission from the highest order of God for me to be Happy and Complete.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
To ALWAYS feel that I am worthy of these good things in my life…sometimes I struggle with that, but it’s getting STRONGER every day…..:-) and I am getting richer, wiser, healthier, happier and more loved every day….
August 30, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Cili
Take responsibility!
Actively choose to be prosperous; knowing I deserve it… allowing myself to receive gifts, compliments, opportunities cause they’re availabel to me everyday for me to enjoy!
August 30, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Teresa - IM12CR8
~ What is the central message of the quote?
Prosperity is ordained by God!
~ Do you resonate with it?
Yes! Absolutely!
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
I feel enthused. I feel at ease. I feel relaxed and self-assured.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
I need to relax more. I need to learn how not to be emotionally attached to bad situations that happen in my life. I need to find the balance and tools that will allow me to maintain my connection to Source (God, Universe).
It is well with my soul!
August 30, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Stephanie
It’s true! I was coming home tired and falling out on the couch too tired to do anything but rest so that I could complete the work that I brought home. My home life, my spiritual life, my love life all disappeared due to work. Everything was out of balance. Worst of all I still couldn’t seem to make ends meet. I started hating my job, dreading to get up, feeling ill on Sunday at the thought of work on Monday. I started voicing to my coworkers I just wanted to be home relaxing and being home with my daughter, spending Christmas with my dad and not having to rush back for work. Having the summer off to have fun with my daughter. Well to make a long story short I lost my job in Dec went home to Mich and had a wonderful 3 weeks with my family, spent the summer with my daughter and have travelled back to Mich on several occasions all without a job!!!
I’m my best, health wise than I’ve ever been, still at home and making ends meet effortlessly and still unemployed. It’s all in faith. It is written I will never leave you nor forsake you and ALL your needs are met. I am a witness to that.
My daughter stated that her friends families were having things cut off and they work and I didn’t work but we have everything we want. I told her it is because I choose to be prosperous and I believe the Universe will provide! It gets better and better everyday and I’m loving it!
Now I truley understand the song Don’t Worry Be Happy.
August 30, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Frank
I think that when I hear that quote, it makes question what I actually think about scarcity/abundance. I think what may be more important is what I believe that is more important. If I call into question hat I think, it will change the belief that I have that there is everything right about having everything that I want.
Mostly what I think when I read that quote is that I feel very right about who I am. I am creative, I am everything that I need, I am everything I want and that everything that I still want will only make me as happy as I am right now. I will be no happier than I am now. Things do not make me happy, I am happy and things flow from that.
Thank you for the opportunity to realize this.
I have realized four new websites in the last month that I intend to pursue as business interests and the link here is just one of them. I am very excited about this and it comes about as a result of some great mentorship of which I am very grateful.
Frank
August 30, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Mary K
The part of the quote that really speaks to me, is that we should be employed in work that give us energy – not that drain our energy. I used to work at a job that I wasn’t very proud of but that was fun a lot of the time and that paid a lot of money. Still I would end the day needing to flop on a sofa or go to a movie or meet friends for lots of drinks. Now I work at something that I find more fulfilling;now when my work day is over I am already relaxed and ready to enjoy something else. I have energy for exercise, helping with children, volunteering at a charity. Or go back to my desk and work some more. I have the energy to appreciate those around me and the terrific beauty of my hometown of Dublin. When money is short I have wondered if I could return to my old career and I was filled with dread…nothing wrong with that work it’s not for me anymore and my emotional guidance system told me so, loud and clear.
I choose to prosper in my new career and to be open to ever increasing abundance. Thank you all for bearing witness that it is possible, thanks especially to Stephanie, you seem like someone it would be lovely to be around.
August 30, 2008 at 7:29 pm
shirley
I feel that it is my divine right to have prosperity in all aspects of my life but I feel that God and I are n ot on the same page. I have shifted away from the God of religion and speak with the divine universal and i feel that someone out ther listens to my plight much better. I feel more open to possibilities when I shirked off organized religion and became more spiritual. i feel truly aligned with my universal source and i look forward to many more happy ventures
August 30, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Suzanne
All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” —
I became “abundantly aware” that I must open myself to God today.
I have a huge debt to pay and I realized that I have never believed that I could actually pay that debt off even though I would consider that to be my greatest business success. And I crave that success.
I feel prosperous in many ways – my hibiscus had 5 blooms on it today – the most ever! Business is picking up and I am attracting good employees.
I want to believe that I can open myself up to God, and that’s my start.
August 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Regina
I really like this quote. It flows well with the Abraham-Hicks CD I have been listening to — the one that was included with the new book. AH says right from the beginning that the universe, God, etc intends for us to always be in the flow of abundance, but WE must accept and allow it into our lives. I grew up with parents who were raised during the depression. Although we were middle class, there was a pervasive sense of lack, of “we can’t afford that”, a sense of “that’s for rich people”. I don’t blame my parents for perpetuating that myth; I am glad that I now recognize it, and can change MY story to one of abundance and fulfillment and deserving.
August 30, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Denise
It feels great and expansive to read that quote. I have experienced evidence of when I open myself up to God that abundance flows freely in my life from money to unexpected gifts to having more time.
I cried all week at speeches at the DNC and realized I still had within ‘voices’ from my working class upbringing that work brings you dignity and that you needed to sacrifice. These beliefs do not serve me- yet I feel a sense of connection with that clan. Possibly like Caroline Myss talked about a lower chakra group identity.
Feels liberating to read that I can choose to identify with God. Which I have done before and to know that God wants me to live my highest and best life and to identify and resonate with my TRUE family. People who feel we can create whatever we like and are ALWAYS encouraging to each other !!!
I can choose and do choose to identify with light, with my good, with the god in me, and in everyone and with abundance.
Thank you for this quote and to everyone above in this thread.
August 30, 2008 at 10:04 pm
aalleyne
We are all co creators of interdependent on each other for our purpose, to generate prosperity and to experince abundance. The message reonates with me very strongly and I feel abundant just reading them. During the last month, without thinking too much about it, my automatic pilot is shifiting to abundance. A few evening go by then I remember I didn’t lie down in front of the TV. Instead my work is various projects around the house – and more time being present with the Prosperity Game. Without effort my automatic pilot is shifting to abundance! The shift itself is one thing – staying in alignment needs my awareness one day one hour one minute at a time…that’s the challenge
August 30, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Kristi
I so needed this quote. I didn’t play the prosperity game yesterday or this morning like I usually do and boy did I plunge down into lack and scarcity! It was terrible! It was like every shift I had made was gone and I felt that dark ickiness of despair. It was just awful!
As I read the quote I got an image of God/dess, Divine crying for us each time we are not in alignment with our joy and prosperity, everytime we are not living in the abundance that he/she totally and completely expects us too. It’s like the divine created us and said “Here look at all this fun you can have! I have so much to give you and you have so much good and joy to experience! Take it!” And here I am pushing it away and feeling angry at what I don’t have yet and scared at how I’m going to pay for groceries. How frustrating for the divine to watch us struggle and push away our joy through feelings of lack and fear. God/dess never meant for us to experience lack or fear.
I feel like I want to say I’m sorry to the universe for not trusting that his/her creation is perfect, that I’m perfect, that every moment is perfect. I made a decision today to feel lack and scarcity. I chose to feel angry. But I also need to choose compassion for myself and not beat myself up that I had a bad day. Because the day is gone, the present moment is all there is, and in this moment I choose to slide back into the flow of love and abundance that the universe is always sending to me. Its like getting back on the rainbow and forever sliding on the beauty of color.
In the future when those dark moments come and try to pull me down the rabbit hole, I plan on paying attention to my breath to bring me into the present moment and then I think I’ll imagine a rainbow pouring down to me from the hands of God/dess, I’ll jump on and go for a ride!
I just finished the chapter by Eckhart Tolle where he says “this too will pass” I like that. Every moment passes, so every moment is an opportunity to ride the rainbow!
August 31, 2008 at 1:31 am
vienna_babs
Here is a spooky experience I made: last week Thursday and Friday I happened to feel very strong positive energies – and what happened? Two people (friends & friends of friends) asked me for my business card saying they knew people who needed new websites….
I felt so overwhelmed by this instant reaction of the universe that I thought: it`s all about relaxing and having a positive mindset. It`s like Japanese archery (Kyudo) I`m practising: you need physical strength, but it has to come from within your body/soul which needs to be totally relaxed.
Working on it and good luck to all of you from Vienna/Austria.
August 31, 2008 at 4:26 am
garry
he sang IMAGINE so i did and prosperity is all abound imagine the one who has the least,as rich as the one who has the most,how richer will we all be,IMAGINE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,unlimited ,eternity is imagination,,,,ehm! many thanks,,garry
August 31, 2008 at 9:13 am
peg
I send a prayer out to God , please enter my heart and anchor yourself to me. I WANT to take a closer walk with you. Help me “deal/manage” the insane commitee in my head, regarding my son’s illness. I am sending this prayer out to you , on this the last day of August…..Thank you…
MY love/gratitude, flows from me to the moon & back
Peg
August 31, 2008 at 10:32 am
Gwyneth
Although I still have resistance I’m aware of, this quote reminded me of one of my few “breakthrough” meditation experiences (from back when I was meditating seriously and regularly) — I remember I was tuning my breath in to the sounds of the woods, and I suddenly had this deep-seated certainty that universal consciousness/god not only wanted us to be happy, but *needed* us to be happy … it felt a bit overwhelming, but I think that the feeling was a sudden intuition of how much we (I) block the joy and prosperity and health that’s available to us every day. It’s so important to have people and information to counterbalance the negative beliefs that are pervasive in this culture — thank you for this Web site and to everyone participating!
August 31, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Alison
This quote stirs within me an image of who I am becoming. I am becoming a woman who loves her work. Who is inspired by the world around her so much that she incorporates all of it into her work. So that work is not even really work, but playtime. I am becoming a wife who is loving and patient and allowing of her husband and best friend to be whoever he wishes to be. And I am becoming a mother of children who are so tuned in tapped in turned on that they make her laugh all the time. I am becoming the kind of woman who chooses to be closer to source at all times, because it feels good. I return home to have fun with my loving family. Prosperity abounds within my work.
August 31, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Toni
I recently watched an interview with the actor Will Smith in which he made a comment that what one had to do is to “decide” what they wanted to do, be, or have (paraphrase). “Make a decision,” he said. This quote says the same thing. I’d like to add another thought to it. That is that not only do you have to make the decision to prosper, but you have to make that decision daily…oftentimes moment to moment. That’s the challenge I’m working on.
Peace and blessings to you all!
August 31, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Maryanne
I do believe this. To me we are God’s expression, the means of knowing greater depths of Itself. Like all of us, God, too wants to know the rich, loving nature of Itself, through us. We create our own pain when that creative, expressive spiritual part within us goes to sleep. And that is exactly what happened to me, It went to sleep because I allowed distraction and got caught up in drama of others and my own. But now, I am awakening God within me, to again experience life in all its richness and beauty, the abundance of health, wealth and love that surrounds me because I am not seperate from God, but part of the One. (Don’t know if I’m able to adequately express this……)
August 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Betsy
Suzanne…I can totally resonate with what you just wrote!! That is me too!! I love that you saw the hibiscus with 5 blooms!! I would love that too.!! Great signs. I am sure it will keep coming with staying in alignment!!
Best wishes
Betsy
August 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Kim
What does that quote mean to me? It means I no longer have to be in a career , job, relationship that doesn’t fulfill me or bring me joy.. It means that life is meant to be joyful not exhausting..
For several months now, I have been praying, intending and desiring and committing my thoughts to a career that is more creative and fulfilling and joyful for me. My current job has provided me with a wonderful paycheck, however the environment is not uplifitng and kind and honest and happy and I want to live in an environment that is and I want to be in a creative career that fulfills me, gives me my freedom and autonomy and in which I can make a ton of money!
August 31, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Jaki
The abundance is right here in what everyone has to say – I keep saying this but I am moved by the wisdom, clarity and committment of everyone to this process. Thank you.
This quote, I feel, has lived inside me all of my life. In some dark recess. Every once in a while its knowledge would flash within my awareness and then be overshadowed by the cacophony of doubt. Its imprint is now winning the internal challenge over doubt and for that I am eternally grateful. I have worked hard to change the weightiness of my life into something light and joyful and propserous. So I definitely resonate with this quote and what I need to do is stay conscious when the doubt or fear arise. Watch the internal scripts and change them to match what I wish to create in this life. So far, so good. Winnipeg, Canada
August 31, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Atlantic
A wonderful woman, an elder of our Quaker Meeting, now dead after years of pain, once said something incredibly strong -she quoted GOd’s word in the koran to the silent Meeting
” I have made you rich – why are you poor?”
Wtached Project Runway last evening – the designers made glorious clothes out of car seatbelts, floormats and other car materials … that creativity and freedom will come back to America …. although banned from schools ….and I have cleared my studio – old ideas let go freely, and laid out fresh paper and my charcoal and paints …
My DA (Debtors Anonymous) group advised that instead of seeking better work by changing jobs – CHANGE the job by changing myself- not to be more miserable and boxed in, but by positive leadership when I can and cheerfulness in the face of what I cannot change – and lo and behold my boss is nicer to me, and I don;t feel that awful dread at 4am on a MOnday … and am grateful for the [aycheck and benefits and my lovely garden and cottage full of potential and peace. I am still discriminating but not carping and critical and complaining – (I keep wprking on it)
my evenings are now occupied by seeing friends talking with them meeting new people and caring for myself, my home, my daughter ..and NOT in doing additional work.
My weekends are for my renewal and pleasure – NOT for work, nor for any of the enemies within ….
peace out
August 31, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Sunny
To me, the central message is that the universe is alive and infinitely abundant. As we are a part of the universe, then we not only have access to that abundance, we are an integral part of the abundance of this universe. Therefore we simply “can’t not” be a part of it ~ UNLESS ~ we make the choice to be less than the perfect beings that we are. I also believe that it is our work to assist others in knowing this (not proselytizing, but living by example).
The most feeing liberating choice I have ever made in my life was the undeniable realization that I am part of the all that is. I AM universe, I AM inner being, I AM source, I AM creator, and I AM goddess. When I let go of the fear that I once held tightly that there was some dead guy who was bigger, smarter and better than me judging from afar ~ my life changed in an instant. It changed because I really “got” that I am responsible for my life. Do I need to frequently remind myself? Of course, but once I really got in my gut – it was tremendously freeing.
How does it feel to read these words? Exciting, expansive, comforting, fulfilling, sparkly, a sense of positive wonder. I feel incredibly blessed and I am so grateful that I have this knowing.
My work is to be ever open to my guidance that tells me in a split second whether or not I am allowing my full source energy to flow from with-in or if I am blocking it and keeping myself apart from my loving source / universe. My intent is to have fun, laugh more, open up more time in my life for feeling good. With that – I’m signing off for a fun filled Sunday! I do hope that you all have an amazing weekend! ?
August 31, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Patrick from Holland
The central message is I think that it is our birthright to live in total abundance, to be perfectly healthy and surounded by love. In order to achieve this we must choose it. It makes me feel good to read these words, it reminds me that life is easy when I allow it to be easy. Focusing on all good and blessings really shifts my vibration into alignment
Thanx
August 31, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Jo
I really get at times (and then I lose it at other times) that it is up to me to generate the feelings that I want to experience. I want to live my life fully alive and awake and engaged and related to others. I don’t want to waste a minute of this precious life in dullness. Till relatively recently that was exactly what I was doing. I get now that when I do bring myself forth when engaging with others, or just being present in the world, the quality of my experience is transformed. I now get that it was my decision to bring myself forth that was the cause of the transformed experience. I am the one at cause in my life! This is a relatively new revelation — and this game is helping me to integrate this information at a deeper level. Thank you Elyse!! So what this quote inspires in me is: I choose God!! I choose Good!! There is an infinite supply of abundance and well-being, it is up to me open to those expressions.
August 31, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Roseann
Hello everyone,
It is Sunday afternoon and I am not feeling the positive effects of the two weeks of this process. I know it will be back. I did not even see one butterfly. I know that many years ago while scrubbing a floor I had an insight that God wanted me to be happy. He did not put me here to be miserable. It was shortly after that realization that I began to move toward a divorce.
Hmmm, so I am not happily married to a wonderful man for 32 years. I have a lovely home. I live very comfortably. I do not really want for anything except to travel. My job pays be very well for the few hours I need to do it. I just want so much more. I want excitement. I always think there just has to be more. I thought I would be doing some type of spiritual work helping others. Maybe I already am and I just expected it to be more.
I am a bit down today. But that is ok, I am human and it is allowed. I am grateful to have this blog to spill my thoughts out and know I am never alone.
So, I must feel better. A better feeling thought is I have always been guided and I have always found the new way with greater ease than I could imagine. I will be guided again and my path will open and the abundance I desire is there for me to see.
thank you for this avenue.
August 31, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Greg from Australia
I’d have to agree it’s next to impossible to be perfect and upbeat 24/7. Over the weekend, I let my state slip and I didn’t feel quite as pumped up when readng the blog. It’s human nature, and our emotions are like simply like waves. As I age I am learning how to better control my own inner state, and usually reside in a very optimistic place, but still I have down days. Thing is, even on a down day, I just feel “normal” and not amazing. I figure if that’s my low point, well, things are indeed looking up.
To me, life is an endless journey tainted by our inner emotional state. The purpose of these 30 days is to focus on the area of “prosperity” whatever that means to each person. I think it’s a falicy to expect it to be 30 heaven sent days, and in fact there is no better time to face real, life transforming challenges, for the vast majority never have the faith or courage to do so, and remain stuck fast.
Today I’m feeling my emotional state rising back to where it usually resides, and know that even with the odd hiccup and pause, that no matter WHAT I am prosperous, even if I get in my own way of noticing it. My present, and thus my future is indeed bright.
Any journey, if taken in that instant, may appear off course. And yet, when you arrive at the destination, did each minute, each course correction really matter?
I know where I’m headed : )
August 31, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Deva
~ What is the central message of the quote?
“My freedom and power equals the courage I expose
to give every life experience the meaning, which thrills me
the most. There are no limits!
Life is nothing more than I can imagine!”
I am not separated from what is called God.
God is me.
I am God.
God is not outside of me.
When I am in alignment with the whole, with my wholeness,
physical and non-physical,
I am prosperous.
There are no limits, just freedom.
Co-creation happens, as a natural consequence.
~ Do you resonate with it?
I want to fully recognize that I am God, I am a divine Being.
When I recognize my wholeness, I am God.
There simply is NO division.
I can only let my prayer be one of surrender,
one of allowing myself to be whole.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
It stirs up a strong desire to trust and align with my
OWN INNER GUIDANCE.
My inner guidance is part of the whole and the whole is God.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
I want to completely merge into a state of loving awareness.
I want to be mindful of my alignment with the whole.
August 31, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Atlantic
don;t worry – be happy …
don;t worry be happy
August 31, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Sahila
When I read the quote, I realise that our world doesnt encourage us to value ourselves… if we did value ourselves as wonderful creations and co-creators, would we allow ourselves to live lives of contraction – physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual poverty?
We bring babies into the world and we have hopes and dreams for them to grow into all they can be, but somewhere along the way, we and our society fall short and mostly teach them that life is small and wearisome and not to expect/hope for too much….
Is that the Original Sin? The Fall from Grace? To forget that we are God and to settle (through fear) for living (squandering the life force) limited lives?
I choose to accept the gift of unlimited Life …..
And So It Is
Blessings Be
AUM
PS – we went on a day trip to the beach yesterday and everywhere I looked there were green cars/trucks, even boxcars! Today, on the way to church and home again, not a green car in sight but zillions of beige ones!
I’ve been asking to see butterflies all day today (with no luck), and when I was sitting in the supermarket car park this afternoon deciding what to spend money on, a moth (butterfly?) fluttered up from under the steering wheel and out the partly-opened front passenger window – am sure the moth wasnt there last night and I hadnt had the windows open this morning to let one in!
In gratitude for the signals from Life that accompany me on this journey….
Namaste
Sahila
August 31, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Greg
wasn’t even consciously TRYING to motive butterflies….and the little buggers are everywhere I go today! Hmmmm….
September 1, 2008 at 2:07 am
vienna_babs
Since I`ve started playing the prosperity game the most noticable form of prosperity that entered my life has been a new and truly magnificent relationship. Moneywise there have been a lot of bits and pieces arriving (free meals, people inviting me for dinner etc). I`ve also noticed that the turnover of my business has been increasing steadily in recent months. However, I feel it`s still a long way to go, and I`m continuously worrying about money, which I know I shouldn`t.
September 1, 2008 at 5:33 am
Paulien (from the netherlands)
it is absolutely true!!
but I realse that I see myself still to much as not worthy and limited… so that’s what I get…
I see this now and let is go.. (I clear all the ways I feel limited and unworthy… thank you, thank you, thank you.. (the Zpoint-way)
also, I really have to MAKE a consious decision that I live in prosperity!!
if I can set my consious to see green cars, I can now set my mind and consious to see, feel, smell and taste abundance in all aspects of my life
therefor:
I give my consious and uncounsious the instruction to see, feel, smell and tast well-being on every level of my existance.
I now decied to live my life as it was the intented..
I now decied to live in an ongoing and unlimited state of abundance, freedom and love on every level.
I now decied to live my natural state, in all its glory, happiness and greatness
amen
thank you, thank you, thank you..
September 1, 2008 at 6:48 am
Sabine South Africa
I’ve tried yellow cars today. So far 9 – incredible!
September 1, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lisa
~ What is the central message of the quote?
To be open to everything that comes to us. to be in the flow. and then to have gratitude for what flows to us.
~ Do you resonate with it?
when i am in the flow, there is nothing like it. it also feels like the easiest thing in the world. i feel giddy when what i want appears. it all seems so effortless. i have ot remember this when my vibration is lower and i feel not so good…and then i attract more negative things…and the more i stay there, the more i attract that which i do NOT want, and then i spiral downward, and yes, want to just sit on the couch.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
it feels warm and golden and like flowing honey. or maple syrup (i was just in vermont this weekend where maple syrup abounds…what a beautiful state. i felt like i was in heaven.)
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
i will need to just do the next right thing and feel good. do things that make me feel good!
September 1, 2008 at 11:05 am
Kjersti
The quote is a reminder of who I truly am!
As I have been witnessing myself this weekend, I noticed;
- I was not able to see neither green cars nor butterflies
- instead, my brain was very scattered; lack of focus
- there was a resistance inside me when I read the quote of today
- combined with the resistance; a sigh …
- how much longer will I keep myself in this state?
- when is it my turn; will it ever be my turn…?
Thank You for helping me get this out in the open.
No I can handle it. Yet again.
The Truth I desire to really click with me, is that this dance of resistance is here only as long as I choose to believe I am not worthy. I desire to let this dance go, and open up to all that is written in the quote.
I choose to let this be my truth:
All the abundance in the world is available to me, because I have opened Myself to my Creator within.”
September 1, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Jaki
The car green car sighting didn’t go so well but the butterflies they were abundant.
September 1, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Miquel from Spain
Happy to be part of the Experiment. I’m still getting momentum as I started some days later after returning from same days away on holidays. Today I saw a butterfly which came quite close to me while I was riding my bike. It was a nice proof.
The quote is a good reminder of our freedom in every situation to choose.
I am choosing prosperity, I am choosing joy, I am choosing love.
My heartfelt blessings to all.
September 1, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Firegirl
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
That we are all deserving of prosperity and abundance, which also allows us to live the life we truly want to be living, and that we have to make a conscious choice to embrace the decision of being abundance, without focusing on the negative or reinforcing our embrace of scarcity and lack on the opposite end of the spectrum.
~ Do you resonate with it?
I do resonate with the quote but honestly, I also felt some resistance to it because looking outside my own life for a minute (and being thankful for all I already am and have and all I am manifesting), there are over 27 million people living in poverty in the United States alone. Thus, I find it hard to believe that all of these people are actively embracing lack, scarcity and poverty. When I think about it, this gets me angry because while there are definitely the lazy people, the criminal element and those that choose that way of life, there are others who do not, who are born into lack and find it hard to even garner the opportunities to change their lives. So without going on much further, I understand why sometimes life just feels too tough, too hard and I want to just collapse on the sofa and watch reality tv to escape rather than do the work to change the cycle. And I’m in a far better place than some of these others folks so if I find it hard to do the work and embrace prosperity and manifest the life I desire now, how can they do it.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
I like that these words put the focus on us that we have to be deliberate and conscious creators if we want to see change in our lives. We have to do the work. Yes, sometimes fate will step in and bring some amazing things our way without our even trying, but honestly, looking hard at myself, I know I have to make the committment to change my life and embrace my right to be prosperous even after all the programming in my life has been focused on survival, fending for myself and lack. The thought that I am by default unconsciously choosing to stay in a place of lack makes me angry at myself and makes me focus on the idea of self-sabotage and the role it has definitely played in my life.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
Hopefully, by committing to this prosperity experiment and looking for and giving thanks for the everyday miracles, big and small, all around me, I am putting my Higher Self on notice that I am ready to embrace change, I am ready to be wealthy in all areas of my life (creativity, career, love/soulmate relationship, finances) and embrace and honor the committment I have made to myself here and now.
September 1, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Marisela
~ What is the central message of the quote?
Be open to God, being conscious, decide what do I want to create in my life and Choose Prosperiity.
~ Do you resonate with it?
Yes I do !!!!
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
So simple… so easy…
It’s like preparing meals… I do not eat garbage, I like nourishing food. So, I counsciosly choose to nourish my body with healthy food. All I have to do is to CHOOSE, counsciosly choose.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
Consciously remembering I choose the way I want to live. Focusing in what I want and raising my vibration.
September 1, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Shakeh
When I read the quote I agree, specially since last few years that is all what I am reading, listening and working on. However when I am not careful subconciously I go back to my old habits and beliefs such as I need to work hard, no body said life is going to be easy…. What really catches my attention every single time that I read the quote is “If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity.” This is so true that is what I am doing most of the time. Every day I need to remind myself that “All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” same as when I was looking for butterfly and I saw it.
This propsperity experiment helped me to know myself better everyday.
Thank you,
September 1, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Sharon
Life is meant to be joyous, fulfilling, fun, abundant, free, peaceful, exciting….you name it! Whatever turns you on is the way life is meant to be for you. I never knew this. I’ve never seen this in action until recently. I intend to live this way for the remainder of my chosen time on Earth. I choose to choose!
September 1, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Teresa
My own personal truth …
I had some major issues come up when I read this quote
I have been feeling irritated for the last few days
I am still working on creating my own definition of prosperity
I can certainly “BE” a better friend
I am most frustrated with my unfulfilling job
I know I created this job … but like a piece of clothing … it just doesn’t fit, its too small for me with all of my experience, education and abilities.
Here’s what I want. I want support from upper management to manage a division, have my own office, have a management title, administer a budget, and receive well over $120,000 a year in salary and benefits.
Now that I am aware of the BE DO HAVE Formula, I will use that to get clearer about my Intentions. I also know there is a significant vibrational discord between my desires and my emotions. I will work on this.
Thanks for providing this forum. I feel better being able to express my own personal truth.
September 1, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Maria Elena
I did the cars and found 40 the butterflies 12 and I am very excited because I know how to declare my intention and get results. Thank you
September 1, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Adriana
I found about 30 cars, but what impressed me mostly was how I found butterflies. I really wasn’t looking for them (as I did with the cars). They just appeared everywhere I go!
September 1, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Adriana
This quote is amazing. It makes me realize that everything I want is out there for me, but I have to be faithful, positive, and always keep an “abundance mind.”
September 2, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Anita
This experiment is wonderful and the timing couldn’t be more apt for me at this moment…the quote I completely understand and feel grateful to God for and myself for having recently really consciously choosing abundance…I have a vision board of my as the “fish eagle” of rhythm and the “mountain peak” of non-attachment and wakefulness…I have drawn my life’s worst-case scenario and my life’s best-case scenario…I have been able to be OK with the worst-case if it was to happen and I have chosen and choose the best-case scenario…however I am stuck with knowing the answer to your question – What shifts do I need to make to be living in alignment with this (the quote) perspective?
I can feel some resistance as I’m writing so maybe that’s what I need to work on by keeping on focusing on my vision boared and best-case scenario…thank you, thank you, thank you
September 4, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Bella
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
prosperity is there at your reach
~ Do you resonate with it? totally agree
~ How does it FEEL to read these words? feel empowered like YEAH!!!
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
open myself 100% to God…….brigde the gap of the 2%
September 6, 2008 at 12:55 am
Suzanne
It strikes me that the central message of Ms. Morrissey’s quote is one of free will. We have the freedom to choose between prosperity and scarcity. And, I suppose, also the freedom to choose a God who intends prosperity.
The second sentence speaks to me the most: “God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa.” That was my life in a nutshell until a year ago when I took a huge risk and went back to school for something entirely different. Even as utterly miserable as I was, that leap of faith was perhaps the most difficult choice I’ve ever made. But I find that it is even harder for me to make the seemingly smaller daily choices to live in prosperity. I had an AHA moment this morning when I realized that even now, halfway through the experiment, I still have not invested myself fully on an emotional level. Intellectually I may “get it,” but I’m still subconsciously protecting myself emotionally. So another leap of faith is in order.
I choose a God of Light, Love, and Life. I choose Joy. Drudging is right out. : )
September 7, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Sudha madhuri devi
Yes, Central message is EFFORTLESSNESS and CONSCIOUS CHOICES
Yes, I resonate with this.
I keep bringing all of me into light with my heartfelt longings and desires. I open my heart to receive the support from the Universe.
September 11, 2008 at 1:40 am
SufiBoye
130 green cars. Interesting how easy it is to loose focus and how easy to get it back.
As for the quote:
~ What is the central message of the quote?
The Universe supports and expects us to prosper – it is our natural state. It is the natural state of all living things. You just have to look at a flower growing in a crack in the side walk, to know this is true.
~ Do you resonate with it?
YES YES Yes DUHHHH! This is one of those pieces of Truth that I’ve always known, but not really lived, not believed. Self doubt!
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
Smile. Feels like the seed of possibility just found a ray of light.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
Focus on green cars and anything else I want to manifest.
Focus & practice belief.
Trust inner truth.
Choose to not drudge through each day, rather choose joy.
September 26, 2009 at 2:53 am
Vibhavari
This quote really brings home the meaning of “CHOOSING Prosperity” no matter what the reality around you is.
It does not matter what your bank balance is telling you or what your job is telling your or that that promotion you thought you deserved did not come to you. All you got to do is CHOOSE prosperous happy thoughts that do not cost a thing….. WOW!!
I wonder why nobody ever told me that as a child. Maybe because I never wanted to hear it. But I will ensure my kids don’t say the same things so I make a conscious effort to educate my children about this reality- just choose thoughts that feel good, no matter what seems to be happening around you. Choose Prosperous Thoughts. Choose powerful thoughts.
September 26, 2009 at 3:53 am
Dani
Hello again,
I can feel the deep truth in this words. I can also feel a little resistance, for the first time in my life!
I actually know in this moment, what thougth is holding me down……..
This is a great step for me, getting conscious of my own pattern!
Now I have the abbility to let them go -
just wanted to share this with you all.
In all parts of my life, it´s getting better. Things, that I ´ve spend my vitual money on, beginning to show up in my life, without me having to pay for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 26, 2009 at 7:31 am
Sharon
I think the central message of the quote is to live consciously, rather than on automatic pilot. I’ve experienced both parts of this message: when I worked in London many years ago, I used to just ‘get through’ the day and then collapse on the sofa at the end of a long commute home. But now, many years later, having made a conscious choice to pursue work that I love and then to move to a beautiful part of the country that feeds my soul, I enjoy my days and have lots of energy left to the enjoy socialising in the evenings too.
It feels good to read the quote and to realise that I’ve made significant progress towards achieving it. I just want to continue appreciating all that I have so that more and even better things will come to me
September 26, 2009 at 9:04 am
hmog
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.”
— Mary Manin Morrissey
The central msg is that, as I’ve heard in AH many times, we are meant to live fulfilling lives. We are meant to enjoy life. We need to find what makes us happy- find where we connect and in finding that, we find our abundance and our joy.
How does this make me feel? I appreciate it, because I know I can create scarcity or abundance- I choose either one. I’m learning more and more that I choose and invite my life. I see that today is a result of yesterday’s decisions. So today I choose to have a great day. I’m going to enjoy my drive to work. I will have a good time at work (and I know I will, we have a little workplace celebration planned today) I’m going to be present in the moments, concious of my self interacting with others. I’m going to plant seeds to create a positive energy field for today and tomorrow.
Lastly, when I play the prosperity game I’m going to make sure I list something in my gratitude journal every time. Stay connected to the joy, and take a moment to make note of all that is GOOD.
September 26, 2009 at 10:50 am
Patrick
It is our birth right to live in total abundance and prosperity and it is up to us to claim this birth right for ourselves.
September 26, 2009 at 10:56 am
David
Last night I went to a concert in the park and found $15 sitting on the grass – a gift from the Universe.
September 26, 2009 at 11:18 am
Tamara Hellgren
To me the quote and the idea sound so obvious–like, well, of course we didn’t come to this place to suffer and be miserable! Who would?
I feel like the understanding of it is natural & instinctive.
But then of course it’s the application that takes a little more effort.
…but only if I believe it does?
Honestly, thinking about all this stuff can have you going in circles sometimes!
September 26, 2009 at 11:19 am
prizebig.ru
Really Good Work…. You Helping People A lot
September 26, 2009 at 11:51 am
High Priestess Harriet
I love this quote because it’s absolutely true. This is an abundant universe and all the riches of the Creator’s kingdom are available to us when we are open, receptive and simply choose. Granted we carry alot of excess baggage that is the baggage of lack and limitation thinking. Put it down and make a new choice to experience the freedom that choosing prosperity brings. It’s so much lighter!
September 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Jules
I signed up knowing that this experiment would assist me in realigning my thought process around prosperity and everyday it just keeps getting better and better. I choosing my best possible scenario each time and now I have my business goals back on track. I’ve aligned with 3 new clients and I can really see where it’s all going and where I’m going to end up because my thoughts are so there. I am so grateful for the reminders and for the shift I so needed to assist myself and my clients to achieving their goals. The great part is I know it just keeps getting better from here… and so far I feel absolutely FABULOUS….and that’s my present!!!!
September 26, 2009 at 12:29 pm
suhailah
i love that david found $15.00 on the grass. a small but a grand gesture from the universe that it’s working. thanks for sharing, david.
i love the quote elyse posted today. especially the part that says “God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us.”
that was me for a very long time, i had no problem working 60-80 hour work weeks regularly. i used to actually think i enjoyed this (at some point i actually might have…seriously), as if if i wasn’t thoroughly exhausted, i hadn’t thoroughly given it my all and, so, i hadn’t earned my keep.
two christmases ago, one of my best girlfriends bought be a book called “the 4 hours work week” it’s all about forgetting the concept of retirement and the deferred life plan and living your dreams NOW, without working hard. it seemed like such a far off dream to me back then.
because to elyse’s question today: “What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment?” for me, i’ve always made the money that i need and the salaries that i wanted, but i always feel this comes with hard work. i have a belief system (and a formula that worked!!) that says hard work = money. and money = being able to have the things that i want and need and to take care of myself . i believed that by working hard i was being effective and that this was a great character trait. i actually admired people, including myself, people who worked very hard and made good money. this went hand in hand for me
so, this is a belief system i have worked to change and a shift that i need to make in order to be completely in alignment with being prosperous and abundant. because i still sat times find it challenging to believe that real money can come without also working hard for it. as a result i always want to take ACTION when i know i need to make money (because i know i can make it easily through my actions), as opposed to ALIGNING my energy first, taking inspired action only (not action out of fear) and attracting it to me.
i am happy to say that this year i have been working closer to a 4 hour work week than an 60 or 80 hr. work week. and this week i started working with the progressive affirmations elyse offered in order to align myself even more with this.
this week i spontaneously decided not to do any work, or to only work minimally. i decided that i just wanted to spend the week enjoying my life, doing nothing, relaxing, watching throughtless programming (soap operas!!) and oprah, spending time in the park, and just being content – aligning my energy in ways that were relaxed and natural.
as a result, with the exception of a few short phone calls that i made (no more that 5) and a few short emails that i sent (3 to be exact) – because i had promised i would before i made this spontaneous decision – everything lined up perfectly (meetings postponed, etc.), so that i could do this. – relax and not work!. it was a great week!! i barely did anything.
and i STILL received PROOF THAT IT WORKS:
* received my monthly retainer from my client a week early.
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* thursday received a call from a potential partner/investor for my restaurant that he still wants to meet with me and see/hear my vision.
* last night i received an email from a woman i met a couple of weeks ago who owns a successful business and she wants to hire my marketing/branding company to develop strategies to package and market her proprietary products/goods in exchange for a percentage of sales.
*met a nice guy a couple of weeks ago. we connected this week for the first time. i spent a few hours on wednesday, thursday and friday getting to know him – and he me. (thursday and friday in person). nice.
have a lovely weekend all.
love.
September 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Sandra Mauck
I love reading all the comments each day. Miracles abound!! I received a twenty dollar bill from a dear friend as a simple gift, just decided to pass it on to another person who had done a favor for me, seems money flows easily in my life. The quote was valuable to remind me of the kindness and love the universe provides, and I am worth it. Still eroding those old messaging about not being good enough and that quote helped. I came home from a trip to new flooring in my old house. I’ve been working and saving all Summer for them, but the ease of which I was able to amass the money feels like my miracle, there was no drudgery at all and yet there it was and transformed into beautiful floors too! Thank you universe and thank you me.
September 26, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Danielle
I look for evidence in small ways that my work on prosperity is working. I am at a point where the small things thrill me and I can continue to shift my vibrational set point in baby steps!
I am currently fostering a wonderful puppy and will be adopting her, but she was sick and I had a very large vet bill. The shelter told me they will waive the adoption fee and re-imburse me for half of her vet bill. A small amount of evidence that LOA is beginning to work!
I want to be sure not to let the small things go unnoticed, because It gives me an opportunity to be grateful and let the Universe know I want more of the same!
September 26, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Kristi
I know right now I am being pulled by my boss to do the “drudge” work and put in my “time” and do the “hardwork” now so that I can earn my “dues”. And I am resisting it. At the same time I’m reading Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and even Eker says you have to do the hardwork and make the sacrifices to get your riches. My boss works 14 hour days, she tells me she hits the ground running when she wakes up at 5:00 am, she’s up till late at night, she works weekends and I know she expects me to put in the same to “earn” my keep. But I refuse, so therefore since she holds the purse strings, my paycheck qualifies me for welfare! E
Elyse says we can “play” our way to our prosperity. Abraham says if you think you have to work hard then you will have to work hard. The above quote says we were not meant to drudge and collapse. So I believe all this, but feel the pressure from my boss to put in her kind of hours.
So I feel conflicted right now, like if I don’t start putting in the time my boss wants me to then I’ll never get past the current amount I am earning.
I am looking forward to breaking through this!
And I realize that I have to CHOOSE, not just sit back and wait for it to happen, but make it happen, which means action, but inspired action.
September 26, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Ferry
Although it is simple, it is never easy to let the LOA works for you consciously.
I feel and know God wants me to be healthy, prosperous and joyful and most of the time I am. Yes I really am. So I do resonate completely and I see the proof every day; in the good things (a lot) but also un the less good things (a few) all resullts of my own mindset and my own thinking .
I am so lucky to be aware of this because God is always there, the Universe will always answer….So I go within and ask God to guide me once more and I choose again, to be prosperous
I know I am I can do it I Do it NOW.
Thank you God, Thank you Elise,
Love to all fellow travelers
Be well Be blessed.
Ferry
September 26, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Betsy
I truly love this quote. It feels soooo right. I believe this with all my heart. I have had friends and family and much conditioning to the opposite. I have been questioned as to my choices for a profession as a dancer.. ( when are you going to get a real job.. in other words, a job you hate just to make money ) As long as I have been pursuing my career as a dancer, which comes from the soul, and gives me joy, I have had people challenge me about this choice. I love that more and more people are waking up to realize that we can do what we love, and make money, and be happy, and shift this old belief about the drudgery of making a living, and being miserable. I have at times felt like a trailblazer in this, and at times faced adversity because of the audacity of it. I am a woman, mother, wife, daughter, friend, and I am also a business owner, doing what I love, and passing on the love to others. I have had amazing successes and I have had to face challenges I never expected. The times when I have felt such amazing AHA’S I felt confirmation that I was on my path. It is a choice always, and being happy with your life choices are the key. I had a strong inner calling for my dream, for which I was very thankful, because it felt like no choice at all. I know some of my friends did not know what that felt like, so I have always have been grateful for this knowingness. I really believe this quote can apply to every area of our lives, as well as relationships, with family and friends, and signifigant others. So I totally resonate with this quote, and would love to support everyone in this experience, and I see more and more people finding this, and it makes me feel so good to see this. I am so glad to see people at least believing that it is possible, and taking steps toward their greater understanding that it is true. I am really grateful that others are trailblazers as well, and are there with so many great tools, for helping as we all go through the challenges releasing the old conditioning that so many of us experienced, and the role models we had and were taught to believe. I love that I can be a differant kind of role model for my daughter, and that she is so far beyond me, when I was her age. She has a completely differant sense about herself than I did when I was in high school. So much more confidence. So much happier too. I know she is learning how to create what she desires and seems to know how to make them happen. So great to see. Thank you for this fabulous experiment and for the courage and committment from everyone here. lots of love, Betsy
September 26, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Samantha
For me, this quote really just served as a reminder to verbalize, internalize and adjust my vibration to let the universe know that prosperity, abundance, wealth, joy, peace, and love are the things that I want to manifest and nurture in my life.
September 26, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Mardy
How easily I forget that it is just not that serious! In fact life is meant to be playful and fun. Thank you so much for the audio which really helped me see to play the game as a game that it is. To have fun!
Here is to the lightness of Being!
September 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm
KarenO
I work in cancer care…it is easy to forget that God wants us to be happy and to prosper and be abundant when I daily see and hear and deliver “bad” news. I am glad to be back here again, to refocus on what is good and to gather my fill of positive energy so that I can shift back to what is good for ME. When I stay tapped into what is good, then even as I walk along the path of those who are finding life full of limitations, I can offer even momentary respite for the journey.
September 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Kathleen
This quote has really stirred me up. Having a stress-filled job without any management support. I do come in home and collapse., I do not need that type of stress in my life. I phoned a good friend last night as I was so upset and stressed, and it helped me get through the night along with
Praying to God to help me.
Tonight I realized I am filled with dread and fear going into work on Monday.
So far I have spend my weekend praying and telling myself positive nice things and tapping my way to support me but it is all living in the moment.
Not a very nice and clever way to live. This is no new pattern.
I need this program this experiment so that these pattern every weekend every night will shift and that God will manifest a breakthrough and change for me
My other prayer is that I open myself to God that I trust in Him to help me to have the grace to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
Tonight I go believeing in God’s love and support for me knowing he has heard my prayer.
Peacful reading that God wants me to be happy. I receive and feel comfort coming into my being.
God my father I really need you to look after me and care for me. I feel safe.
writting has helped me . Thank you one and all and gods blessings on each of you
Thank you one and all
September 26, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Roseann
Hi fellow prosperity observers. This post brought to mind something that happened to me over 40 years ago. I was in my 20s and scrubbing the floor while my children napped. I now know that this was a form of meditation for me at the time. I did not know this then. As I scrubbed, I remembered thinking. God did not make me for me to be miserable. God wants me to be happy. Just because I married someone who no longer makes me happy does not mean I must stay in this marriage forever. God wants me to be happy.
these thoughts seemed to come from the depths of my soul. It was the first step in my moving toward divorce. For me, as a Catholic in the 70s. That was a tough move. But, I did what I needed to do and every night I dreamed of the man that would come into my life and how happy we would be.
Yes, he did come. Yes, we are still happy after 33 years and we are deeply in love.
How is it I knew so much when I knew none of the things I know now.
So, the post today reminds me that God also wants me to prosper and only I get in the way. Just being in the flow will be the prosperity I seek each day.
Thank you all for keeping the flow of prosperity energy moving and increasing so we can all be swept up in the joy of it all.
September 26, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Mary
I will pray for you too. God is supporting you and does hear your prayers and knows what to do. Please keep believing and keep up the positive thoughts no matter what they are. You need to find out why you dread and fear your job and face that and you will be surprised how much better you will feel. A hug from me to you, smile and pass it on.
September 26, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Eliana
Sharing…
First, evidence of prosperity: I have a new client in the work that’s been hardest for me to manifest clients, yay!!! Thank you Universe and ready for more!!! I have plenty of money today, right now. I am banking my prosperity checks because that feels so good.
What is the central message of the quote?
Open, open, open. All you could want is within reach. Get aligned, release resistance and history and patterns of lack. Open to the endless flow that is the fullness that is G-d. Choose, choose choose. Be the center of my own universe.
I do resonate with the quote. I feel good when I read the words, and I am reminded of the moment by moment choosing, sometimes subtle, that is mine to do. I am happy to have no resistance, no “buts” as I read. i don’t know what my prosperity will look like exactly, but I do choose it – in all my relationships, in my work, in my home, in my heart and soul. And so I enter the new year.
September 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm
dorothy
My abundance this week came in an understanding of how much lack of love for myself played in created the underlying energetic dissonance that has affected the quality of relationships, money, communication and my best-laid plans and intentions. Abundance in one way in my life will be in the form of really loving myself unconditionally, which I know will only bring better and better things into my life.
September 26, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Kathleen
Mary I am smiling as I write. I even cry with a great sense of gratitude and thanks to you for your kindness
My abundence is right here with you and all on this path, of this most worthwhile experment.
Yes I am thankful for these 30 days so much will be revealed to me as to my fears and dread. They can no longer stay hidden.
I am finding out so many new ideas revelations good and not so good and today to find out tonight that God wants me to be happy is having a big impact on me.
A thought just came to me that maybe what I am experiencing is a major form of facing harsh reality – facing myself – fear – dread – work. They have shows on showing us how to de-clutter our homes here I feel I am experiencing major open surgery in de-cluttering on mind body spirit.
This is powerful. TO night I will hold on to the knowledege that God wants me to be happy and sleep with that as my prayer and Let go and Let God.
Thank you again Mary may god shower you with blessings
September 26, 2009 at 9:46 pm
GENEANE TYSON
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
~ Do you resonate with it?
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
The revelation I had today and maybe it ill serve you, “LIFE SHIFTS.” I had the most awesome experience for the past two days. The first day I was on my way to pick my husband up from work,and I was nearly to his job, a block away infact and the police had the street blocked off. I stayed there for a minute, then I turned the car around and informed my husband I would be a little late because traffic was being redirected. The same thing happened a night before. Life is always speaking to us, and on the level we are at at understanding it, is really up to you. I could have stayed in the traffic and waited or became indignant with the police for doing there jobs, and become angry, or I could do what was best for all who were involved. It’s really funny that without being aware, I called my husband and let him know I would be running late. My husband had for years been trying to get me to call him when I would be running late, and I used to get offended when he would ask this of me, because I honestly thought he should just wait until I arrived and be happy that I would get out of my bed and come and pick him up. Without any notice, my spirit answered him and understood, that life does shift, and the people you are involved with that it effects are important enough for you to offer them the same courtesy that you would want if the shoe was on the other foot. Prosperity is really not just about physical abundance it’s also about mental awareness, soul awareness, and being able to recognize GOD, no matter how big or how small. It’s about that awareness of I AM THAT, I AM. I can tell you that at one time this particular incident my husband and I would have been up arguing for hours trying to get the other to see the others point, but here of late, that really wasn’t all that relevant of who is more right or more wrong. He asked something of me, and my soul was willing to ablige, THAT was the GOD in me willing to see that even without my own comprehension or awareness, that life shifts. What’s the point of getting angry or mad choose a new route we’re all trying to get to nowhere fast. I turned that around to I am now here.
The second incidence was I was really angry when I went to my account to find that all the funds where redirected to a check that I had written and got an insufficient fees. First of all I tithe, pay taxes, give when I can. I do all the things that a good Christian girl does, therefore I felt out of nowhere the universe would provide me the rest of the money to cover this check, and it did, it just cost more that I was willing to pay. This is where the anger and the disappointment and the rage came to play, but who was I really mad at. Myself for writing the check knowing the funds weren’t there, or the universe for doing just what I had asked of it, give out of lack, and that is just what I got. Talk about revelation, there is a really awesome thing about being honest with your self, and allowing SELF to bring you to awareness. I told myself why title, God doens’t care, and what is that really all about, I told myself I give, what’s the use of giving when I need I am not provided for. I told myself, I give up this prosperity crap doesn’t work and this is all a big joke, but you know what without any notice, life shifts. I am brought to the clear reality that I am able to make choices. I made the conscious decision to write a check that I knew there wasn’t enough money in the account to pay, and I made the conscious decision to deal with things the way and however they came. I can sit around and have a pity party or I could have an awareness party, and I decided to be more aware about the choices I make and no matter what happened like the quote that was used for this weekend. I believe that GOD wants me to prosper in every area of my life AND SO IT IS.
Just know I am totally committed
Peace and blessings,
Geneane
September 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Cindy
Yet another long post from me…thanks for reading it:
A big part of the clinical depressions I’ve been experiencing in the last few years has to do with wondering what the purpose of life is (more specifically, my life). Why are we here? What are we meant to learn?
When I have moments of true connection with my children, my husband, or other loved ones in my life, the answer floats up to me – the purpose of life is love. We are here to love. We are meant to love. Unfortunately, I have had a tendency to lose sight of this which makes it harder to climb out of depression. That said, on “good” days, I honestly feel that if we are not meant to enjoy our lives, then what is the point of getting up every day? I cannot believe that the human survival instinct is that strong. Rather, I believe that the instinct to search for love is what keeps us all going and once we have it, the instinct to share it grows so that others who are searching can find it.
Let me be clear that I do not mean romantic love, but the experience of love that feels like a miracle, like nobody has ever felt like this before, like the entire world makes sense and was created just so you could have this exact opportunity to experience love. For me, those moments come most frequently with my children, when I look at them or hold them and know without a doubt that no child has ever been loved more than I love my children – it isn’t possible for there to be more love than that. And yet, of course there is, there is always more love; won’t my future grandchildren be loved even more than their parents were?
God (or Source or Universe) provides the opportunities for love and prosperity but we must choose to be aligned with love, abundance, prosperity, or we will never be able to recognize the opportunities when they appear. I’ve seen lots of evidence on the blog that people are receiving “proof” that the experiment is working. I wonder if the same proof had been there a month or two months ago, and we just didn’t recognize it as the sign we now see it to be. Does that make sense?
Overall, I trust that there is immense truth in the quote because, after being an at-home mom for the last nine years, I am now looking to reenter the workforce. I have felt utter despair when considering jobs that I genuinely don’t want to do, even though the money is good; in those moments, I now believe I was feeling limitation and scarcity. Now that things are shifting within me, I trust that I will find a job that will provide me with the money I want, plenty of time to spend with my friends & family, time for me to do things I enjoy, and will be abundantly fun, fulfilling, and rewarding. I have no clue what sort of job it will be, but I know it will find me or I will be led to it. I know it will bring wonderful people and experiences to me. I know it will allow my true self to emerge. I know it will bring abundance in all things to me. I am choosing abundance, I am choosing God.
For the last couple of days, I have felt happier and less misaligned than I have in ages. I think it has everything to do with the experiment, the blog, and the gratitude journal. My postings have become longer and more reflective – an abundance of words and epiphanies. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
September 26, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Akoshia
I am so happy and grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!!!! Thank you all for your comments which are so encouraging:)
Today I woke up with an urge to go to visit my favorite gardens at the Central Park conservatory. Although I had not been there in some time, this special place has served as a sanctuary for me – a place to connect with God through nature amidst the noise and haste on New York City.
What greeted me there moved me to tears of joy and understanding. The quiet hush welcomed me with all manner of brilliant colors, shapes, textures, smells of the flora and fauna. As I watched the flowers dancing in the breeze, the bees that were industriously collecting nectar, the birds flying to and fro and the water lilies standing majestically on their pads I felt the unseen energy operating through and around me.
All of this happened effortlessly as the animals, insects, trees, shrubs and flowers all were enjoying their natural birthright to be supported by Source Energy. Nowhere did I see a flower worried about getting enough nitrogen, or a bird rushing to catch a wind current – in perfect alignment all around me simply flowed.
As human beings, we have the same birthright only we sometimes get in the way of the natural flow forgetting who and what we really are. The garden demonstrates to me that all in life is provided when we are in alignment with the Good Orderly Direction of the Universe and when we trust and let it flow. How wonderful!
I did not want to leave this place, and knowing I had to eventually, I had the idea to use my camera phone to document the splendor I was witnessing. With each snapshot I took, my joy increased as I captured bits of this powerful essence; all the while bubbling with the intention to keep myself aligned with the silent yet powerful energy of effortless abundance all around me.
As I left to go home, as if God wanted me to have a sign, a beautiful ruby red feather lay at my feet on the stone path. Red is my favorite color of all and I smiled wondering what on earth kind of bird this could have come from – the color being too deep and rich for a cardinal’s feather. I picked it up as a reminder that I am indeed on the right path!
September 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Susan
This is the point in these exercises where my cynicism begins to surface full force. How do we know God wants us to be happy? What about spiritual teachings that we are here to learn lessons and that some of them aren’t very pretty or happy? What about the teachings that if someone loses a child, it was to teach them to value that child? What about teachings that someone disabled is here to learn to have compassion? Where is the “God wants you to be happy” in all of that?
I get so confused. All of these teachings, so contradictory. And there’s me, wanting to do it “right.” Which right?
Plus the Law of Attraction sounds pretty crazy. How do we KNOW it works? That it’s not just another mumble-jumble of words that exists only to give us a sense of control in an insane world.
Well, Elyse is right. There is only one way to know if that works, and that is to commit to the experiment and give it an honest workout. Yet, I wonder if my doubts will get in the way, create the resistance that will keep it from working?
I don’t know. I just feel very confused, and unwilling to commit to a teaching unless I have clarity. I have no clarity about the above. What do I do? Just do it anyway?
To complete the experiment, yes, do it anyway. But sometimes I just feel like a nut case.
September 26, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Dearne
thankyou this quote ispires me that all is well and that the universe and god are willing and striving me on to be abundant and prosperous they want this for me and l desire it to so together l will be abundant with the love and support from the universe and god as it is said we all deserve abundance and it will be by opening my heart mind,spirit and arms to recieving all the prosperity that is mine.
thankyou for all the joys l have and see in my daily life
September 27, 2009 at 12:27 am
Francine Jackson
This is my first posting to this site. I have been traveling for most of this month and I found this experiment quite by accident. I have had opportunities to read some of the experiences of others that are participating in this experiment. I have found most of them encouraging and uplifting. I have found a few sad and discouraging.
I am aware of the “Law of Attraction”. I have seen some results in my own life that are mind blowing to me. They may not seem so to others. Miracles do happen and as I allow them to, they become a way of life. I still have a long way to go but I will take this journey in purposeful stride. I would like to take a class on “Believing: What, Why and How”.
I know that prosperity is mine to have. I fully expect that by the end of this experiment I will experience an abundance of money, happiness, awareness, gifts and much more.
September 27, 2009 at 6:51 am
Kimberly
The quote to me is what I am striving to live. I have a friend that always tells me that I make everything hard (of course everything comes easy to her!!) It is true when you focus on joy & happiness things just come to you. I am in sales & feel that I stress out all the time about work & making my sales quota. I have been focusing on being happy & the Prosperity mind set and this month I did 200% of quota. Everything just is flowing to me easily!! I am actually in Aruba on vacation and before I left I got confirmation on my clients accepting my proposals!!
This is the first time in my life that I bring myself back to focusing on being happy & prosperity when I am getting stressed out or worried. This really works!!
Thanks everyone for contribution to the good vibrations
!!
September 27, 2009 at 9:10 am
John Overton
YES!!!!!!!!!
September 27, 2009 at 10:24 am
joel
If we are not living the life of prosperity or what we understand to be success, then it is because of the thoughts, feeleings and actions that we have choosen. The Universe has prosperity waiting for us, we just have to choose the path to accept it.
September 27, 2009 at 11:40 am
Starra
Evidence of prosperity huh? Well, I’ve been lurking on this blog and getting my emails for the experiment, but haven’t been able to post yet. Now I have a breather and something fabulous to share too!
I went into the Sprint store yesterday, because my cell phone battery died. I have some money issues, but I had to get the battery, as my cell is my only phone. I was prepared to pay $50 for it after looking it up online. He told me (because my phone is 3 1/2 years old) they don’t even make that battery anymore. But, I can get a new phone for the same price. I was cautious (because he’s a salesman), but I saw the phones and chose one. Two were $50, and a third phone was $79. I of course, chose the $50 phone, but I really liked it. Then, he’s ringing me up, and says there’s also a mail in rebate for the $50, and I’ll get it back in 4 weeks. The total was $65.00 (with tax, etc), and he also said I benefit from his mistake. What mistake? He told me the phone I chose was $50 – it was actually one of the $79 phones – but since he told me it was $50, he was obligated to sell it to me for that much. Wow! I got a $79 phone for $15.00 (after the rebate check arrives). Then – he also said if I didn’t want to pay out of pocket, they can put the phone on my October bill, and I’ll pay for it then (which will be easier for me). I was on cloud nine! Still am! Boy, am I turning my energy around, and I think it was thinking of all of you and peeking at these posts and emails.
Thank you! Keep the abundance flowing and that white light surrounding you!
September 27, 2009 at 12:17 pm
suhailah
i look forward to reading everyone’s quotes every morning. it isuch comfirmation that we all want the same thing, ultimitaley – LOVE. JOY. PEACE (peace of mind) all equal ABUNDANCE.
i love what everyone is sharing. akoshia, roseann, dorothy – loved your postings from yesterday.
geaneane – love love love your realization that “life shifts.” i love your realization that abundance comes in all ways and once you stop resisting (your husband’s request to call when you are running late) – peace and joy follow. it touched me deeply when you wrote:
“He asked something of me, and my soul was willing to ablige, THAT was the GOD in me willing to see that even without my own comprehension or awareness, that life shifts.”
wow! thank you ALL for sharing.
wanted to share a quote i found in a very old personal journal yesterday that i must have written down 15 years ago:
“to be ambitious for wealth yet always expecting to be poor. to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. there is no philosophy which can help a man succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure.” – jean baptiste baudine (physician/philosopher)
i love this.
i feel my soul opening up in a new way the last couple of days. on several occasions throughout my day i have teared up for no reason at all – just for the sheer gratitude of my life and where i am standing. i can tell it’s an energetic shift because i can’t find the words to describe it – it’s not in my head, but in my heart. and i find myself being able to somehow be fully in the present moment in all things and still excitedly expecting what’s next.
happy day!
September 27, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Laura Jean
Reading through the comments, I found Georgia’s comment – “I can have everything I want. God wants me to have everything I want. I believe that.”
This knocked me out.
God wants me to want and God wants to give me what I want. I know I need to leave room for interpretation of my requests. There are more things out there than I can imagine all by myself. The surprising ways the Universe is responding to my requests is really fun! In need of money, FedEx delivers a package that includes cash — that’s hilarious. And much easier than what I originally had in mind — I intended to work for the money. At first. Then I set the intention to have money come quickly and easily, ideally I wouldn’t have to work to “earn” the money. 2 hours later — voila!
September 27, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Kris
When I read that quote, I realized that despite my choosing prosperity and abundance every morning, I’m still coming home after work, tired and collapsing on the sofa. What is happening to change my energy from the morning to my exhaustion in the evening? There has been an unconscious limitation that I’ve imposed upon myself.
My thought is clear, I choose prosperity and abundance, energy and good health.
September 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Akoshia
Today I opened up my heart and let all of these wonderful ideas/visions of abundance walk right in!
September 27, 2009 at 3:34 pm
hmog
Day 13- It’s Sunday and I am living in a place of gratitude. I am so thankful for so many things: a day off, being able to take a grandmother to lunch, giving her flowers, changing my partner’s mood by realizing his value to others, coming home to a great place to live with exactly what we need in it.
I know I am meant to have a great life, that life be easy and enjoyable. I know I can make it so. I know I need to focus more on clarifying what I want, trusting it will come in some form or another as opposed to trying so hard to control control control things, or think and plan them out to make them happen. Like Suhailah said on Day 11- stop thinking things out and recognize how you feel (I’m paraphrasing, sorry Suhailah!!) Not that thinking and planning and intellectuallizing is ineffective (certainly not) but if while you are doing those things you do not FEEL like the goal is really what you want or need, or you do not believe in the results then what do you expect to happen. So I’m focusing on what I FEEL, being happy and grateful, seeing what is as opposed to what is not.
September 27, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Jan
I too believe that had I really known the choice I had back in childhood I would have created a different life. Although I have had difficulties and obstacles and fears and just about every roadblock one can imagine in my life, I continue to plod along looking for an opportunity to truly move forward from this place without all the chaos. I do feel that I chose this lifetime to learn to walk through all the negatives without judging them or others. And I too have the life of going to work (something I had to do since circumstances forced me to do so) and coming home and dragging around and wishing for a better way. Now it’s beyond wishing because I know I open my heart and allow the abundant blessings to come to me and I am prosperous. Amen. Thank you GOD for giving me the insights to come to play the prosperity game. I am so grateful.
September 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Lerie
I had a house full of visitors for the past 3 days and could not get to my game to my distress. However, I’ve just caught up with listening to Elyse & Max’s one hour session and, I have to say: Thank You to you both and all the participants. Sitting here in SA and even after the event, I felt the energy of sharing and felt how the shift was taking place. For me, the shift is definitely beginning to take place on a cellular level. Grasping the concept – that money is merely another energy and a another Divine energy at that – has opened up and shifted many blocks. Thank you for empowering us in this way.
the central message of the quote:
To let go of all the residue fears and doubts and to really believe that I am included in the greatness of what the Universe has to offer.
YES, I absolutely resonate with it and it feels very comforting and heartening to read these words.
I only need to open my heart and my awareness to seeing the good that is already happening in my life and to receiving the greatness waiting to happen!
September 27, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Rainforest
Hello everyone, I love to read your posts, hearing you say the things i need to say to myself. I am definetly feeling the shift in thinking, in perspective anout the money issues. I hae so much to be grateful for, GOD truly does want ME to be in abundance and I look around me and smile. From this view point,Now. i realize that these very same things I gloriously appreciate, i did not always appreciate so much, only because, monwy was (seemingly) lacking, so it made everything else look like less. SOO happy to hae anew perspective and be Living.
September 27, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Cricket
Prosperity messages come to me in such a timely, much needed manner. This message today resonated strongly with my future plans and goals. Creator God loves me, and offers prosperity beyond my design. I am the co-creator of what happens with my prosperity and spending time building my business to help nurses is a drive not only from myself, but from creator God as well. I must continue to do my part of opening my heart, life and circumstance to allow prosperity to flow. ( both to me and right through me!)
The message resonated a feeling of immediate relief. Although the drive and passion is there to assist nurses, I am blessed by the direction, prosperity and creation of Creator God ( universe).
The shift I have to make is one of increasing the discipline for working on my passion. Focusing time and energy on my passion. Allowing myself to listen to the quiet messages that come from the universe. Embrace and Release the falseness of fear. Rest in the security and safety that the universe provides for those who are open to the flow of abundance.
September 27, 2009 at 7:56 pm
queenelizabethmcfadden
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity. If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
This quote reminds me a little of the biblical scripture that says, “I know my plans for you… to prosper you.. to give you hope and a future” Jerimiah 29:11 I feel that the central message of this quote is to make up our minds to have an abundant mindset period, as well as to know that there is an abundance in the Universe without any shadow of a doubt. To rest and relax and be assured that we don’t have to go through the daily hustle & bustle that makes us so tired at the end of the day so that we don’t get to really enjoy each other during the week. Plus, here it is again Decide, make a decision, Decide, Decide, Decide… a must, there’s no way around it. And to open our minds is how I can best put it. By opening our minds to God/Source, the abundance becomes available to us.
~ Do you resonate with it?
I resonate with this loud and clearly… I’ve made that decision to be a prosperous co-creator! This is why I’m here now!
~ How does it FEEL to read these words? To read these words feels like I’ve already passed that “jumping off point” and am well on my road… to a more prosperous, joyous life.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
The shifts that I will need to make are already in progress… I’ve made the shifts such as; the decision to be prosperous, the decision to live life more calmly and go more with the flow so to speak, the decision to be more relaxed and therefore more able to enjoy my family (and my family enjoys me more too as a result). In these decisions, I will continue on learning what it takes to live life more abundantly, appreciatively & more joyfully.
September 27, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Rainforest
I watched the movie “COOL RUNNINGS”last night about the Jamaican bobsled team. it completely made me realize how the desire to do
something is really what is takes to gt it done. These fellows and their coach went up on tremendous odds, but did not look at it this way. thier pespective was that they wanted to be in the olympics and they cd do it, for themsleves.
September 27, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Linda B
“God intends for us to live in prosperity: to enjoy rewarding
relationships and fulfilling careers. God never intended that
we drudge through the day and come home to collapse on the
sofa, too tired to appreciate those around us. As co-
creators, however, we have to make a decision for prosperity.
If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose
limitation and scarcity. All the abundance in the world is
available to us, once we open ourselves to God.” — Mary
Manin Morrissey
~ What is the central message of the quote?
For me it is that God is always the positive force that is waiting for us to expand into the God essence/positive.
~ Do you resonate with it?
Intellectually, I get it.. Am I resonating with it? Sometimes, but admittedly not always.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
It feels like I am coming home to a place that I have always believed in, but somewhere along the way, the world showed me otherwise. As I write this, I realize that, YES, I have always believed DEEP down that these words are true, that God intends for us to live a positive, abundant place always.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
The shift I will need … hmmm …. sink into that “childlike” belief that life is good.. always good and look out from that perspective and focus on that perspective.
September 27, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Sandy
~ What is the central message of the quote?
Choice! For me that is the central message. I choose my life, my core beliefs, my values. For years I accepted what came into my life and thought that was the way it is. I am excited to know that I choose my life. Giving up old patterns and beliefs is not easy. It is a daily process to learn. I can say that I now give and receive where before I gave. I now believe that God wants to bless Sandy as well as everyone else in the world. I love Sandy and forgive her and want God’s best for her. I choose to believe and to receive. Sandy deserves God’s best.
~ Do you resonate with it?
I now resonate with this quote. I love it and practice it more each day. I will also create the energy for each day in my life.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words? It feels energetic. Occasionally there is still some fear, some sadness when I feel the fear. Each day I choose again – and each moment of the day when I feel the beginnings of anxiety – I choose.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
I will continue to play this game – to have fun – to choose to believe that it’s easy. Like someone else in a previous post, I always believed that hard work was rewarded and so worked harder and harder. I had great jobs and promotions – because I worked so hard. I now realize that nowhere does God say that He will bless based on the amount of work we do. God blesses and rewards base on His performance – not ours. I love this game and I love the game of life. I understand that money is nothing to be feared and that I can create abundance for my life. I choose to shift my beliefs, my thinking, etc. to live in alignment with this perspective.
September 28, 2009 at 12:13 am
amber
The central message is enjoy your life and this totally feels right to me…I have gone to school getting my degrees in Recreation and Child Development…I did this because my two passion are enjoying life and the way children grow and learn…I remember being in class learning about how little time people take to play in contrast to how much they work and struggle and it is disturbing…I am glad that there is a shift and more and more people are seeing the importance of enjoying their life and how we are so much more effective as individuals when we are loving the life we live… Although this is my passion I do fall in holes and half to climb out again… I keep myself surrounded by inspiration….Inspirational friends, writings, children, and nature…. To stay in tune with this quote, I wear a bracelet that reminds me daily to love life… To love my life…And so it is… Love to you all…
September 28, 2009 at 8:21 am
jetun b
so far i have not been experiencing unexpected sources of money however i am beginning to realize that prosperity is not only monetary gain or fulfillment but success in my relationships, for example. i have been noticing a change in how i relate to my children and loved ones. i am a lot more patient and attentive with my children since practicing this experiment. I have also noticed an expansion in my mind. i am not as much burdened by limiting thoughts of lack and limitation. i see all things are possible if only i choose.
September 28, 2009 at 11:46 am
Sandra
I’m starting my first day of seeing green/sunset beige cars. I got confused and both colors are now embedded, so I figured I could do both. Why not?
Since I live in Tucson, white or silver cars are always, always around, but I had a little doubt creep in about green or sunset beig cars. Wrong!!! During my morning walk, I was gifted with three sunset beige (I guess that’s the color) and two green cars. I know I seldom notice green cars, but there they were, one drove right by me and the other was parked in a driveway. More to come. I love to play this game.
BTW – I was reminded of the first time I had this kind of experience. It was each time I was pregnant. Guess what? Pregnant women abound when you are too. When you’re not, not so much!!! New cars seem to hold the same attraction. As soon as you get one (new or used, but new to you) you see them everywhere! I think the excitement and other feelings with the newness of pregnancy and cars has something to do with it. I’m excited to find butterflies tomorrow too!!!
September 28, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Courtney
If we don’t consciously make the decision to prosper, then we are making the unconscious decision for limitation.
Here’s what I don’t understand–WHY is the default unconscious decision limitation and lack? Why aren’t we programmed for prosperity instead?
I am now choosing to program myself for prosperity! Prosperity is my default mode of being!
Somewhere along the way we chose to come into this world of limitation and somewhere along the way we decided that lack and scarcity are what we see all around us. Why? Is it so we could have the joy of discovering prosperity again? Is it because we can? Is it because a cat yawned or a fly landed on a chicken?!
If we as a group consciousness made that decision, we can unmake it.
I choose to un-make that decision by making a new one:
I CHOOSE PROSPERITY!!!
September 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Xelen
Ti me it means “lighten up”….
September 28, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Veronica
When I read that quote it reminded me that we always have a choice, and to not choose prosperity is to choose to not prosper. I resonate with it a great deal because I can feel the difference between when i am actively choosing than when I am simply accepting what is even if I don’t like it.
I’ve made many shifts over the past two weeks and feel so much more in alignment than before I started the prosperity game. The evidence is showing up in surprising places and it feels really exciting when it does.
I choose to live in prosperity. I choose rewarding relationships. I choose a fulfilling career.
September 28, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Amanda
The central message of the quote is that we are supposed to have it all. There is no such thing as lack unless we choose it. I feel empowered by these words. It’s a good reminder because so often we get bogged down by other people wanting us to be more serious or spend significant time doing things we don’t enjoy and we don’t have to live like that. I choose the life I want and in doing so I will need to learn to say yes more often to the things I enjoy, say no more often to the things I don’t enjoy, and find a way to enjoy those things that must be done but I’m not necessarily excited about doing (aka laundry). Also, I need to tune out the naysayers who haven’t yet discovered this truth so that I can continue to attract what I choose. And surround myself with others of like mind.
September 28, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Stephenie
~ What is the central message of the quote?
God has no intention for us to suffer or go without. One of the main reasons we may be suffering or feeling a lack in our lives is because we do not have faith and are therefore projecting our doubt, our lack, our fear, rather than allowing ourselves to have faith and thus manifesting all that we need simply through that faith.
~ Do you resonate with it?
I feel great resistance to it and simultaneously know on some level I already know and understand this.
~ How does it FEEL to read these words?
It feels surprising. I realize I am resisting opening myself to God and I also realzie I resist associating prosperity, especially financial prosperity, with God or spirituality.
~ What shifts will you need to make to be living in alignment
with this perspective?
I need to allow myself to open up to God; to allow, to accept, to have faith and trust. I need to let go of the idea that I must always DO and WORK and TRY and instead just be and feel and allow.
September 28, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Lynn
I loved reading everyone’s different interpretations of the quote…I could relate with so many. Both the unsure, doubting ones (me, sometimes) and the completely optimistic, knowing, joyful, and grateful ones (me, other times). It was only a few years ago that I started even wrapping my mind around the concept of “God,” so thinking that “God intends for us to live in prosperity” still takes some mental gymnastics for me! But I wholeheartedly believe that life is meant to be fun, prosperous, and full of energy, and that it is a conscious choice to look at it that way and make it that way. The line “If we don’t decide to prosper, we unconsciously choose limitation” was impactful for me, and something I’ll remember…not a new idea, but I love the way it was put.
September 28, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Liz
I am loving the rewarding lives intention from God. Yet I find myself loving to often collapse on the sofa-not necessarily too tired to appreciate, but loving the down time and it makes me wonder if in order to resonate all of the above statement whether NOT wanting to collapse will be a sign that I’m living more abundantly….hmmm.
I am choosing to prosper, however the routine of doing my finances in my head continues to haunt me and and I continue to think of things that “aren’t happening” or at least don’t seem to be happening and know full well that I am limiting myself-it’s still happens when i go onto auto pilot though. Also, my dreams are challenging me-sending in those voices I do a fairly good job of avoiding back subconsciously.
Next challenge, focus my brain before bed to focus on my goals and positivity. Manifest instead of fall asleep to the TV.
Oh yeah, how is it all of you have already done the butterfly expiriment and it was just sent to me today? We are on day 14, right?Go team!
September 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Mariette
God intends for me to live in prosperity and I have to align myself with that intention by choosing prosperity. That is smart. I’m feeling reassured to read these words. I’m choosing prosperity.
September 29, 2009 at 12:33 am
Kathy
This quote brings up many feelings for me. How wonderful it would have been to have been taught this
from an early age. What life could I have created? Could we lessen or eliminate some of the negative
that comes with today’s society’s view of money, like greed, lust, cohersion, oneupsmanship. If we truely
taught our children that God(Divine/Universe) wants and actually intends for them to be abundant and
prosperous, could we change our world? If we taught each person how to create their own prosperity from
a very young age, would there be such a need for people to compete with each other? Could we, in fact,
change the focus of our societies, end war, poverty, sickness and lack.? Yes, I’m a dreamer.
The fact that this knowledge came later in life for me only reinforces that I want to help as many as possible
to learn about this. To this end, I choose to start a self-sufficient farm school. I would like to show people
that we can live in harmony with the earth and still be abundant and prosperous. By self sufficient I do not
mean some kind of something where we are doing it all on a limited budget or none at all. I want to show
that stewardship of the earth, self-sufficiency, prosperity and abundance can go hand in hand. We should be
doing things in life because we love doing them. What wonders could we create if we did not have to worry
about where the money comes from. There is nothing wrong with using all the tools and technology we have
created. On the contrary, technology has allowed it to be easier to be stewards of the earth.
I am looking at being able to take children and adults into this “school”. I am looking at setting up greenhouses,
an orchard, vegetable gardens, chickens (maybe rabbits), composting, traditional and alternative methods of
heating and electricity, self sustaining wood lots, and a market for selling. The intention is to show and teach
how all of these things work together to give back to the earth and each other. State of the art technologies
could make it possible to market some things on line, or to spread what we are doing to other areas of the
world and other interested people. I would like to show people that this is only one way and that the possibilities
with the LOA are endless. To some this may sound like an awful lot of work. To me, it sounds like play. That is
the whole point. God wants us to be happy. We should not have to worry about how to support that happy. If
we learn to align ourselves with what the Universe wants for us, then we can live in abundance and prosperity
doing the things we love. I know the Universe will bring me the means to follow my dreams. It is happening NOW.
I already have it. I wait in excited expectation for its appearance.
This quote brings questions of what our world would be if we were taught this from an early age. How exciting
to know that it is our birthright to be abundant, prosperous and happy.
Do I resonate with it? Absolutely. I have always known (somewhere deep) that this is the way it should be, not
the lack we have been taught. It excites me to see more and more people coming to this awareness.
What shifts do I have to make? I have been making them for a few years now and this experiment has seemed
to accelerate the process. They are inner shifts of knowing and accepting. Trusting those feelings from long ago
that said there is more to all this than daily drudgery. Letting go of the negative thoughts and ideas of others
about money. Inviting money energy into my life. It is exciting to know that all this is mine for the choosing.
I choose prosperity.
October 4, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Nakira
The central message of this quote is, God created all of us to live up to our fullest potential and by settling for a life without prosperity we are not living the lives he has intended for us all to live. Yes I absolutely reasonate with this, I have known this all along, I have to adjust my fear meter in order to be in alignment with all that God has in store for me.