Reginald Cuffee

Have you ever heard the proverbial joke, “How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?” 

I am sure you know the answer — “Just one, but the light bulb has to really want to change!”

This may be an old, simple joke, but it contains great wisdom, and it is applicable to our lives.  Although most people say they desire to live a more prosperous life where they are experiencing joy, happiness, financial abundance, peace of mind, good health, and fulfilling relationships, most do not.  Instead, most people live a life of struggle and mediocrity.

Why does this happens?

It happens because most people have not used their free will, which is their power to choose, to improve their current situations. 

Unless you are truly prepared to change and unless you are thoroughly fed up with your current situation, no amount of personal development, therapy, or positivity will help improve your results in life.

The good news is, it is still possible to change your situation and experience true prosperity.

 

“We must become the change we want to see.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Until now, you have limited your enjoyment of life, and it is time to leave that in the past and choose to become prosperous.  

Becoming Prosperous

Did you know that the journey to being prosperous requires a spiritual awakening?  It’s true!  You can not change what you have (the results in your life) without first changing who you are being.  If you are not experiencing prosperous living, you are stuck in a comfort zone made up out of your current reality concept, which includes the limits you have set on what you may have from life.

To raise those limits and BE prosperous, you will have to change your mind about who you are. 

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — - Galileo Galilei

 

Who Are You

Although the most people believe we are just human beings, we are actually spiritual beings having a human experience.  We are an individualization of Source (God), and we are made in the image and likeness of God, and that, my friend, makes you an individualization of God.

That doesn’t make you God, any more than a drop of water is the ocean, but as an individualization of God, you have awesome powers you have not yet begun to understand, nor learn how to use.

Although we have awesome powers, many people have amnesia to who we are and how powerful we really are.  As a result, most people are suffering and few are happy, and this is occurring because most people give too much importance to the illusion of who they think they are.  Most people are unaware that they are the ultimate cause of everything that exists and occurs in their lives. 

Instead, most people believe that life just happens, and they are basically at the mercy of random events and circumstances.  They fail to recognize that they are creating experiences at all times, whether the experience is one of being powerful or powerless, being sick or healthy, being financially wealthy or poor, being joyful or depressed. 

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Gustav Jung

You must first awaken to the reality of your inner power before you can choose out of your self-limiting self concept and be prosperous.

Don’t you see that it is in waking up to that spiritual power in you that you will find the power to choose out of your limiting comfort zone?  There are many excuses for accepting the security of our lives, even if that security is limited and uncomfortable, but if you are reading these words, you are obviously ready to take the necessary action to make positive change in your life. 

How does change happen?

There is only one way. You must use your free will and decide that continuing to live your life in the same way will cause you more suffering than deciding to do the necessary effort to change your life.  You know very well that repeating the same limiting patterns of your life will only leave you dissatisfied and unfulfilled.

Therefore, you must make a decision to go on an inner quest and release the psychological and emotional debris in your mind that is causing you to struggle, and toss it out like yesterday’s trash.  By taking this action, you will meet with a spiritual awakening.

A Spiritual Awakening

As we change our mind about our life, our life begins to mind and change.  — Peter Kemmsies

A spiritual awakening happens when you are transformed by the renewing of your mind.  It can be as simple as flipping a switch and as easy as turning on the light that allows you to see the truth about who you really are.   

Your spiritual awakening, that ah-ha, will happen, (the light will come on), while applying your God-given power “to BE” in transforming your life from struggle to prosperous living.

If you are ready to begin a new life, start NOW in this moment.  The past does not exist; therefore, you can not change it, and the future is a dream.  It is only in this present moment that you can take the action to make the change.   

Only you can choose the direction of your life.  Today, choose growth over decay because you are either growing or declining. 

Have you ever heard the saying, “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”?  This is a true axiom because there is no such thing as stagnation.  Everything changes all the time!

As it has been said by others, today is the first day of the rest of your life, so it is up to you.  You must decide that you will move from a life of struggle to a life of prosperous living.  You must realize that in this moment, you have the power to choose the direction of your life.  Seize this opportunity to choose growth, happiness, and prosperity. 

Do it!  Do it now!  Take a few minutes, right now, to feel the truth of these words:

NOW IS MY POINT OF POWER.  THE PAST IS OVER.  THE FUTURE IS NOT YET HERE.  IT IS ONLY IN THIS PRESENT MOMENT THAT I CAN TAKE ACTION TO CHANGE MY LIFE.  NOW IS MY POINT OF POWER. RIGHT NOW, I CHOOSE TO TAKE THE ACTION NECESSARY TO CHANGE MY LIFE.  AND SO IT IS.

 

Namaste,

RC

written by Reginald Cuffee \\ tags: Metaphysical, propserous living, Prosperity, spiritual awakening

A reader to this blog emailed me and asked “is prosperity about being rich and having large sums of money?”  I responded “yes and no”.  Being prosperous is not just about financial abundance, but it is about being happy, joyous, and being in harmony in the five main areas of your life - Spiritual, Financial, Relational, Mental, and Physical well-being.  You can compare being in harmony to a musical symphony in which different instruments are played to create an elegant musical composition.  During the composition, all the instruments contribute to whole; however, not all of them are played in unison or at the same tempo all the time.  Sometimes the bass instruments take the lead in the composition.  Other times, the percussion or the wind instruments take the lead in the composition.  And sometimes, all the instruments are played in unison; however, all the instruments play it part of a magnificent thing called music.

This analogy of a musical symphony is the essence of prosperous living, which is about all the areas of your life moving toward an elegant whole that’s more than the sum of its parts.  Just like the musical symphony, sometimes all the areas of your life are not in balance.  Sometimes your spirituality has the lead the in your life.  Other times, the relational, financial, or physical well-being area of your life is leading.  However, this movement is about having good health and vitality, close relationships with your primary partner (spouse, significant other, etc), your kids and accepting all people in all situations including yourself.  It is about having a spiritual connection to Source (God, Universe, etc) and discovering who you really are, and it is also about being wealthy where you have money to pay for the experiences that you desire in life.  For example, if you want to spend six weeks or more exploring the Caribbean Islands, send you children to the best universities, or donate $100,000 to a charity, you can easily pay for it.

Now there is a misperception about being rich and being wealthy.  When a person is rich, it means this person has a large sum of money for example five million dollars.  However, a rich person has neglected the mental facet of his or her life because most rich people have a scarcity mindset instead of an abundant mindset to handle financial abundance; in this case money.  The abundant mindset is the money beliefs, attitudes, level of consciousness, energy vibrations, and habits to maintain financial abundance.

This scarcity mindset explains why most lottery winners are worst off financially in five years than they were before they won the lottery and why many professional athletes retire broke even though they earned million dollar annual salaries.  Although they have they the money, their scarcity mindset caused them to lose it through bad investments, theft or conversion, and poor money management.

A wealthy person on the other hand has an abundant mindset that is actually a vibratory feeling about prosperity and a trust that there is enough right now and that there is enough for all of us.  And this explains why a wealthy person can lose all his or her money, and usually earn it back in a few years.  When a rich person loses his or her money, this person usually remains stuck in a life of financial struggle.

Furthermore, if all the money in the world was equally divided among all the people, can you predict what would occur?  Within five years, people with an abundant mindset would become wealthy by investing and creating value for other people such as building houses or creating music.  People with a scarcity mindset would become financially mediocre (middle class) or poor because they would go on a spending spree and/or make bad investments that will cause them to lose some or all of the money they received.  This is the Law of Attraction at work.

This principle about wealth applies to all areas of your life.  Just because a person is wealthy, doesn’t necessary mean this person is experiencing prosperous living.  If a person has neglected the physical well-being, spiritual, relational, and/or mental areas of his or her life, this is not experiencing prosperous living.  For example, there are many wealthy people who have toxic relationships with their primary partner or other family members.  There are people who are awakened spiritually; however, they lack the money to buy he experience they want in life.

A truly prosperous person, who experiences harmony in all areas of his or her life, will have a sense of fulfillment and well-being that transcends ephemeral moments of happiness and lopsided achievements in one or two areas of life at the exclusion of the others.

You must understand that all areas of your life are interdependent, and when you focus on each of them, all increase in strength.  As they strengthen, you will begin to experience harmony in all areas of your life.  The result is prosperous living.

Namaste,

RC

written by Reginald Cuffee \\ tags: abundance, financial abundance, Prosperity, prosperous living, spiritual