The Prosperity Consciousness Blog

It is a month since Haiti suffered such total devastation with the earthquake that destroyed their country. But it did not destroy their spirit. I remember when we first found out about the earthquake. It made me cry. My heart broke for the people of Haiti and for their loss of their loved ones and homes. Their lives would never be the same.

But I am reminded that the Chinese symbol for crisis is also opportunity. It is an opportunity for us to practice living abundantly even in the face of our own feelings of limitations and lack. It is an opportunity for the Haitian community to feel the abundance of love, support and money from the world. Opportunity abounds here. But what does that mean? Haiti has to be totally rebuilt from the ground up. It is an opportunity for all of us to give to the Haitian community a new sense of purpose, of starting anew. The biggest thing it takes to make that happen is money.

I know money is a tough issue to talk about today, given so many people out of work, given our own financial limitations. But I would suggest to you that we can think outside our notions of lack and limitation. It isn’t about how much money you donate, it is about the belief that you can. It is about the belief that we all can make a difference. It is an act of faith, a belief in the abundance of the universe that if you give, it will be returned to you tenfold. Even if you are out of work or your circumstances and conditions in your life make you feel like you don’t have much, try donating one dollar. For someone with a little bit of money, it will be a very generous gesture on your part which has real implications for the vibration you live in around money.

When I was younger, my parents didn’t talk to me about charitable giving. They always said that I didn’t make enough money to donate anyway. In fact, I didn’t learn that my parents engaged in charitable giving until I was an adult. When I first started to donate, it made me feel a part of something bigger than myself. I began to see that there is enough money.

Everyone can do something. Give up Starbucks for a week or bring your own lunch to work and donate the money you would have spent. This is a teachable moment for our children on giving. See if your company has a program of giving and suggest the charity or need that you are passionate about.

Here is a site that lists where you can donate and rates the organizations.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1004

We all can do something. We don’t have to feel or be helpless, crying while we watch our televisions. There is action we can all take. I am posting my favorite Jewel song which reminds us that, “we are God’s hands.”

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I want to wish everyone who celebrates a Joyous Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is by definition an expression of gratitude and a pre-cursor to having a prosperity consciousness. It is in the living of gratitude, that we can raise our vibration which will allow us to attract to us all that we desire.  The universe is abundant, it is we who forget that and live in lack and limitation.  So on this day and every day hereafter, remember that when you are living in an abundant universe, you can never take more than your share.

So for all my friends whether you celebrate this day of Thanksgiving formally or not, may you be blessed with abundance and prosperity.  May you live in a state of Thanksgiving!

Susan Bonfiglio

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Gratitude is the key to a happy life. Brother Davide Steindl-Rast said it best, “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.”

We are what we pay attention to. We can tune into any feeling we want. It’s like a radio with many stations…country, rock, easy listening. Each produces a different mood. When I am in the mood for dancing, I am not going to listen to a radio station that plays elevator music. That would only make me fall asleep. If we want to know what kind of vibration we are in, all we have to do is look at our emotional state.

If I am feeling angry, I am living in a negative vibration. When I am feeling angry, it sets in motion a way of being that produces a certain result, one I am usually not pleased with.

Gratitude is an emotional state that produces a positive vibration. When we are living with a grateful heart, we become open to prosperity.

Wallace D. Wattles wrote in The Science of Getting Rich that lack of gratitude would keep us in poverty. Gratitude keeps us hooked up to our source of supply, some call God and others call by many other names.

Having an attitude of gratitude will keep you from falling into lack and limitation thinking.

So let’s take an action this week to keep us hooked up to our source of supply. Let’s keep a gratitude journal. If you don’t already do this, start. It is life changing. Every day, write down at least five things you are grateful for. They don’t have to be earth shattering. When it’s hard to find things to be grateful for, I think of things like coffee and blue skies. That’s ok.

So if you are already keeping a gratitude journal, great…keep going. If you are not, give it a try. It will change your life.

Susan Bonfiglio

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