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Are You Turning Down Your Good?
by Paula Langguth Ryan
This issue, we discuss COMMITMENT FOUR: In my relationship
to money, I am committed to the full financial empowerment of the people around
me.
One of the most important people you need to commitment to empowering
financially is yourself. Earlier this week, I was talking with a couple that
I've been coaching. They've been diligently tithing from all sources of income,
but their financial house is in even greater shambles than it was when we first
started working together. They couldn't understand what was going on, so we
delved into it a bit.
Turns out they're having all sorts of good come into their lives, but
they're actively turning the good away whenever it approaches. For example, the
husband's parents told them that they'd like to sit down with them and discuss
their financial situation. The parents know that they're having a tight time
financially and wanted to give them some money to help them get by during this
time. But the husband kept turning down the offer. He decided for his parents
that they really shouldn't be offering to give them money, since they're retired
and all.
I explained to the wife that they had manifested this opportunity and the
parents obviously knew what they were and were not capable of giving away.
Tithing puts the energy out into the Universe that you are open and receptive to
receiving your highest good. It shows that you're capable of handling the good
that you've already received. The Universe responds to your stewardship by
sending you opportunities. You may not always recognize the opportunities, but
you need to start being on the lookout for them. And you need to stop refusing
the gifts that are offered through these opportunities.
Often, we'll turn down gifts with the excuse or explanation
that we're looking out for the best interest of the giver.
But the real truth is, we're usually turning down the gifts
because somehow we don't think we're worthy of them, or
because we're allowing our pride to get in our way. Somewhere, somehow, we
incorporated the mistaken view that we have to EARN the abundance that comes
into our lives.
That if we aren't GOOD ENOUGH, then we don't DESERVE to
have the good that is being offered.
This is a gross distortion of the Universal flow of prosperity. We are loving,
deserving children of God. We deserve all the good that is in our lives and then
some. We deserve abundance overflowing in all areas of our lives. And we need to
get out of our own way and allow that good to come to us.
Martyrdom does not become you, me or anyone else. If you want to have
greater abundance in all areas of your
life then it's up to you to take the first step. Those
outdated thought patterns have no place in your world
anymore. Let them go. Let them go and let the Universe
provide for your every want, need and desire. And let go of your attachment to
HOW those wants, needs and
desires will be provided.
I'll let you in on one of the most little known prosperity
secrets: You don't EARN any of the abundance that comes
to you. Not one single penny. Everything that you have
came from the Universe because you thought it into being
and then you took action toward those thoughts. And the
only thing you have control over in your life is your thoughts. Are you going to
continue thinking that you don't deserve abundance in your life? Or are you
going
to start thinking about what you deserve more of in your life and start focusing
your energy on creating that?
The choice is up to you.
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Motivational speaker and prosperity coach Paula Langguth Ryan
(http://www.ArtOfAbundance.com) is the author of Bounce Back From
Bankruptcy, the number one book for people looking to rebuild
their lives after financial difficulties. Paula travels the country helping
people heal their relationship with money, If this story fed your spirit, tithes
can be sent to: Paula Langguth Ryan, 1121 Annapolis Road, Suite 120, Odenton, MD
21113 or via Paypal at paularyan@artofabundance.com
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