| Meditation for Prosperity and Abundance? To be | | | | it wasn't just me. |
| honest, that connection had never even occurred | | | | What came next really got my attention, though: |
| to me until fairly recently, or else I would have | | | | The most effective way to "allow" was to |
| started to meditate much sooner. For years, | | | | meditate, Abraham said. Meditate, I thought? Not |
| people told me I should meditate. I tried it a few | | | | again! But this was different. Meditation according |
| times, but it just wasn't my thing. It felt boring. | | | | to Abraham was basically being in a relaxed |
| And I failed to see the point. | | | | position and thinking of nothing (much). The best |
| I also may have had exaggerated expectations of | | | | part:10 minutes would be enough. Now that I could |
| what it would feel like to meditate. I guess I | | | | do! |
| thought it would be much like hypnosis, of which I | | | | I practically ran to my bedroom, lay down, closed |
| had exaggerated expectations as well. Any of my | | | | my eyes, and tried to think of nothing. Okay, so |
| attempts at either of the two techniques just | | | | that didn't work too well. But I could think of |
| didn't come close to what I had expected, which | | | | colors. Just one after the other, focusing on |
| was a state of blissed-out oblivion. So I figured it | | | | imagining myself surrounded by them. Before I |
| didn't work. Either that, or it just didn't work for | | | | knew it, the 10 minutes were up. I did it again the |
| me. | | | | next day and the next, and every day since. Well, |
| Fast-forward quite a few years... | | | | nearly every day. And the most amazing things |
| I was listening to an Abraham-Hicks CD when | | | | started happening almost immediately. |
| Abraham suddenly spoke of "allowing." All the | | | | Only two days later, seemingly out of the blue, I |
| prosperity and abundance would be mine if only I | | | | came across an opportunity that ended up helping |
| could refrain from pushing it away. I had first | | | | my cash-flow significantly. And only a day after |
| encountered the term "allowing" during an | | | | that, I found a flier where someone was looking |
| advanced Quantum Touch workshop and felt at a | | | | for help with a project of the very kind I wanted |
| loss. Allow? How? What exactly was I supposed | | | | to get some experience with but didn't think I'd |
| to do? | | | | ever get the opportunity because I had no |
| This had been very frustrating because it | | | | experience. Yet I called, and the project was |
| appeared to be a key part of the process. Since | | | | mine, and it worked out great. |
| then, I had also come across it when reading | | | | Now I have to admit that things don't flow quite |
| about manifestation. And that left me even more | | | | as dramatically every day, but they do go a lot |
| frustrated. How am I supposed to manifest | | | | better on the days I meditate. And when I've |
| prosperity and abundance when I don't know how | | | | slacked off for a little while, I can really tell the |
| to allow? | | | | difference. |
| So when Abraham brought up allowing, I sat | | | | In fact, it's been a few days - I can't imagine how |
| there poised to take notes. Maybe I would finally | | | | I could have gotten side-tracked like that (must |
| learn what it meant and how to do it. And I did! | | | | have been the holidays), and it's high time to get |
| Abraham explained that allowing was basically the | | | | back to my daily practice. So if you'll excuse me, |
| absence of resistance, something that was | | | | please. I've got to go lie down right now and |
| actually not easy to accomplish! Aha! I thought. So | | | | meditate. |