Monday, February 1, 2010

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

I'm not a financial analyst and I can't help you with dealing with any financial fall out that you've experienced over the last two years. Some people have desperately turned to abundance principles to try and turn their lives around quickly. My take on this is that the problem goes much deeper on an individual basis. The scams seem to be getting worse rather than better. In some of the advertisements those in debt are being told that they can just forget their debts and start over as if it never happened. No one wants to give anything up in order to restore balance to their lives.

How can visualization and the abundance principles help us now? We can't gloss over the wound by covering it up with a band aide. The wounds are inside of us. The debts have been created by each of us because we believed that it was ok to buy our dreams in advance and pay for them later. That's what the media told us, that's what the credit card companies told us, but how we will reverse the damage is a very personal decision. Self responsibility requires that we admit when we have made a mistake and move on. Sometimes it requires selling a home or living without a car. It seems like everyone is learning how to cut back and live a no frills life. Some businesses are responding by lowering their prices.

This can be an opportunity for spiritual growth. Instead of looking to our bank accounts for healing we need to look within. Seeing the truth about ourselves is usually not attractive. There is always a darkness that has to be reckoned with. That hole and the vacuum were created from past wounds. We keep trying to fill them up with stuff. Think of the times in your life when you were happiest. Was it because of the money in the bank or something else? Did those times involve other people? Focus on one event that stands out from all the positive events in your life. Hold it out and look at it carefully. What were the components that made you happy? I am guessing that some hard work and steps were involved, There were other people sharing the joy. There was growth and even some pain perhaps. Take the time to write it down and really look at what it was that made you happy and successful. Then try to apply it to your life today knowing what you know now that you didn't know then.

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I am a seasoned psychotherapist who has been on a spiritual journey. I believe in the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy. The field of psychotherapy is rapidly changing and I am part of this change. The old traditional ways don't work anymore. I also do health coaching and have worked for programs at AETNA and ABILTO as a coach.