True Prosperity, It Starts With A Thought

By Debi Livingston

Growing up, I was never taught about money. My parents didn’t invest in the stock market, didn’t own real estate or even talk about savings accounts in front of the kids. Dad worked two jobs and mom stayed at home. I knew we weren’t rich, nor did it occur to me that we could be poor. We just were, as were most of my other friends in the New England neighborhood I called home.
For years I believed wealth and material goods were just an ocean away. Knowing that my family had lived in Japan during the Korean War, I assumed that whenever I asked mom for a pony, or a new bike, or the Barbie Dream House and she’d say “Yes, you can have all that when our ship comes in”. I assumed there was a real ship still in Japan, loaded with all these wonderful items that would some day come to Connecticut and I’d have everything I always wanted. When I told this to the kids at school they thought I was nuts.
When I began studying metaphysics and mind science and started practicing the techniques to manifest wealth and prosperity, I couldn’t understand why I kept running up against a brick wall. I was saying all the affirmations. I believed all the affirmations. I knew I was a child of God and heir to all His abundance. Then why was I always short on cash? Not until I learned about the workings of my subconscious mind did I get the answer to those questions.
The subconscious mind is the storehouse for everything that has ever happened to us. Each emotional experience is imprinted within us and stored as a belief; either positive or negative. And, these imprints are also derived from the belief structure in which we were raised.
So even though I was saying affirmations to manifest wealth, my subconscious mind was filled with years and years of believing the ship would never come in, or that life was a game of Monopoly and people like us never won, along with everything else I was submerged in as a child. ‘You have to work hard to earn a living; only lucky people are rich’, are all the things I was taught to believe. It was only when I learned how to clean out my subconscious mind of this old way of thinking and started focusing on what I truly yearned to experience, that true change began to take place.
I discovered the importance of the power of imagination. The more I started imagining what it would be like to have total prosperity in my life, and dared to believe I could have these things, the faster the old beliefs melted away. New images were being imprinted in my subconscious mind.
Can you have true prosperity? Yes, of course you can. You can have prosperity and you don’t have to fight for it to be yours. You can learn how to clean out old beliefs and past time experiences that are stored in the subconscious. You can recapture the power of your imagination and imagine yourself as completely prosperous, be it financially, mentally, spiritually or physically, right now.
You can start by spending five minutes a day thinking about what you want to experience. If you want to be thin, spend five minutes, every day, imaging yourself as being thin. If you want to attract more financial abundance into your life stream, spend five minutes each day imagining what you would do with your wealth, and how it would feel to be doing those things. Do this, and you are beginning to create new imprints within yourself.
A great book to help you succeed is The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol. If you’d like to clean out the old beliefs and patterns from your subconscious mind that may be blocking you to success, I invite you to either check out our tape library or make an appointment at our Hypnosis Healing Clinic. Prosperity is your spiritual birthright. Anything that has you believing otherwise is a lie.