BOOK / COURSE The Flow of Abundance Part 20

Conclusion

Your mind is going to tell you you must have gone insane! It will tell you that it doesn’t understand a thing about this way of creating. Actually, it doesn’t understand a thing about this entire Manual! It will ask you how! How does this all happen in practice? It’ll defy you to prove that this works. Your mind will feel confused and somehow put to the side, because this simple way of creating is non-mental, it is intuitive. It comes from the heart, not the head.

As you gradually silence the mind through the practice of Conscious Breath/Meditation, it feels more and more ignored. All of a sudden you don’t need it as much as you did before. All of a sudden it isn’t the mind that’s in charge, it’s you that does the choosing. All of a sudden its warnings don’t move you and its fears don’t scare you anymore. All of a sudden it speaks, but you ask it to silence, it gives advice but you aren’t listening to its advice anymore.

The mind becomes worried. How are you going to live without its guidance?

Invite it. Invite the mind to express itself, without entering a conversation. Listen to it. And then invite it to live in a new way, to be useful to you in a new way, which is in fact the way that indeed fulfills its purpose. To organize, to make lists, to make accounts, to learn theoretical concepts which have some form or practical application in day to day life, remembering the essential, making charts, filing… The mind is and shall always be very useful when it is placed at your service – you, the creator of your life. Do not underestimate it. Do not reject it. Accept it and invite it to participate in this new YOU that is born while you use all of the exercises suggested in the Manual in everyday life. The changes occur naturally. They are an intrinsic part of your greater awareness, as you keep on questioning yourself about what is appropriate and what no longer serves you… and about all the rest that is proposed here. Your life changes on its own, as you observe yourself and your reality, making conscious choices.

It is a natural change process and it can be as simple as you allow it to be.

This is how it all happens. This is how this Manual “happens” in your life.

I repeat: have fun! J There is no way you can go wrong because everything is always right, even when it seems to be wrong. And life happens in zillions of different ways. Celebrate its diversity.

Another thing: please always remember that the choices you make are for you. You cannot choose for others. They are their own Masters, or shall be whenever they feel motivated to recognize so.

Nevertheless, and knowing we live in this world with each other, how do the people who are on the same wavelength as you stay in or come into your life and the ones who aren’t move out? It is very simple. You choose what it is that you want for you, and all the rest just falls into place by itself, according to your choice. For example, if you choose to experience serenity, after having looked inside of you and having seen and transformed what took you out of your serene space, everything in your reality will then be according to that choice. All of the situations, all of the people, all of the place. It is really as simple as this.

When it comes to your interaction with others, you can even choose which part of each person you choose to relate to. It could be the creative part of a person, or the confident and honest part of another, and so on. You can choose that because all people have different parts and you can choose not to play certain games and rather create productive relationships, by addressing the parts of each person which best serve productive purposes. The benefit, of course, is for both, but you were the one who made the conscious choice.

Play with your choices. You can always transform a choice that you conclude does not serve you after all. Play with your choices on a daily basis, defining how you want to live your days. Not in detail, just the broad strokes. For example: “today I choose to experience Joy and Spontaneity in my day”. Keep on choosing and experiencing the practical results of your choices…

Of course you can also play with specific choices like for instance “I choose to eat this”, or “I choose to have_____”, whatever. A pair of specific shoes, clothes, a car, a house, etc. “I choose to do _____”, “I choose to have _____ experience”. Try choosing in detail and also try leaving your choices more open, whatever you feel like in the moment. For example: “I choose the car with this brand, colour, model, horsepower…” or simply “I choose an economic car, with 5 seats and 5 doors, new (or semi-new)…” Then see how the materialization unfolds. It is not necessary to write everything down, to draw everything or to stick it on the fridge. Choose and that’s it! Then let go and trust. But really trust. Boundlessly. How is it going to materialize? I have no idea. Neither do you. It’s no use thinking about it. Meanwhile LIVE, CREATE, CELEBRATE, LOVE, SMILE, BE THANKFUL, just BE!

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BOOK/COURSE The Flow of Abundance Part 19

Dreams, Hopes and Reality

We are all, indeed, excellent creators. It doesn’t really matter what it is that we are creating. Without judgment, please take a look around you and see what we are able to create.

Someone once said that dreams command life. It is said that we need to have dreams, that we have to believe in our dreams, go after our dreams, in order to live our dreams. In order to live.

The dream is therefore the desire, the creative passion that leads us to want to materialize something in our reality, the burning flame of life in action. Fantastic.  

So – we desire / we have a passion for creating something, and in joy and simplicity, with total trust in the statement that all is possible, we allow our creation to find a physical form and manifest in our reality, by bringing towards us the people, places and means for it to manifest. The dream does it on its own, if it is allowed to and you put your energy behind what you have dreamt for you!

The problem is that many times this is not the path that we choose in order to manifest our dreams. Many times we start by placing obstacles in its way right at the beginning, limits that might justify why that dream is hard to achieve. We get all tangled up in complicated ideas as to how we shall achieve that dream. We get swallowed by possible obstacles and many times about the final result. This is how we place the dream further and further from our reach. Anyhow, we still dream about making that dream come true, one day. However, that dream gets stuck, trapped in all of our limitations. It becomes more and more intangible, far far away, somewhere out there. And yet we keep on dreaming, until we even lose the notion of what the dream’s purpose was, what moved us to dream it in the first place? We lose it. But, we still keep on dreaming about it because we have to dream about something! We need it to feel some sort of motivation, something to chase after. We need it in order to justify or lives, our purpose, our daily toils.

This whole process takes up huge amounts of energy. Stagnant energy, yes, but nevertheless, a lot of energy. What if you were to dissolve that dream? Like that you would be able to set that stuck energy free and have it available to create something worthwhile, something you believe in. You could dream a new dream and trust it and let it happen in your life.

It is simple. All you need is a simple choice, a simple blow and… it disappears. And you feel an enormous weight lifting off of you. The weight that you put there yourself with the search to fulfill a dream you had made impossible. And you feel light and flexible and with renewed strength.

Well, since you’re at it, why not release all of them! All of the dreams that are somewhere out there in your castles of impossibilities. Ffffffffffff. Blow. Allow them to dissolve in the lake of all that you Are and feel yourself being reborn.

Now you can choose to trust what you choose to manifest and receive the result of your choices.

About Hope. What I have to share about Hope is that no matter how beautiful the concept may seem, it is just that… Hope. It is of the very same quality as those dreams you believe to be impossible. What if, instead of Hope you had TRUST? What are you waiting for? That’s what Hope is, after all.

Since we’re at it, why not also release all of the promises, vouches and votes you have made so far? The thing is that these intentions, which were created with extreme zeal and passion, have an enormous strength and the aspects you created with them influence your reality a lot. You can make a choice today for instance, but if by any chance the energy of a vouch or promise is lingering somewhere in your reality it blocks your choice. If there was a time when you swore that you would never do something again, if you promised something for ever and ever, if you made a poverty or chastity vote, for example, this stops the energy from flowing freely in order to serve you. There is a blockage which you have placed in your reality yourself, to stop anything to go against those votes, promises and vouches. So you will do yourself a great favour by consciously letting go of all of that. You don’t remember having made any promises, votes or vouches of any kind? It doesn’t matter whether you remember or not, because these actually linger lifetime upon lifetime. That’s why these votes, promises and vouches made in other lifetimes linger on, until you tell them that they are not necessary any more. You don’t believe in reincarnation? It doesn’t matter. You have nothing to lose by letting go of what is fixed, in order to make your energy more fluid, and consequently your life.

How do you do this? With much gratitude for the purpose these promises, vouches and votes have fulfilled (even though you don’t remember them, and with no need to specify), invite all of them to come back Home, to you, their creator, and allow them to dissolve within your Essence, thus allowing all of that energy to become available again, clear and pure. Do the same as you did with your dreams. Fffffffff, blow, and that’s it. Now you can choose and trust in you and your thoughts, behaviour, choices, not needing to place those limits of “forever after” and “never again” any more. After all, you are the one who is responsible for your choices, aren’t you? And you do trust yourself, don’t you? 

Your reality is right Here, right Now. It won’t be here only tomorrow. It is here today! Come on, don’t spend any more energy, that is time, that is space, that is Money, that is you – on what you expect things shall be. Live what is and transform what doesn’t serve you. Live what is and choose what serves you. Live what is and accept what you choose. Live what is and create your dreams NOW. Then get out of the way. Don’t squelch your dreams’ fulfillment with doubts, difficulties, limitations and so on.

Do you remember the formula? Choose, trust and receive. Simple.

No. You’re not going to lie around on your sofa, waiting. You’re going to live life completely. You are going to participate in your creations moment to moment, witnessing the magic in motion! You are going to see for yourself as the result of your creations comes forth. You are going to enjoy them. You are going to expand, play, dance with LIFE!

Have fun J

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BOOK / COURSE The Flow of Abundance - Part 18

How does the Magic happen?

Here it is.

Simple. Actually, simplicity is the key. That’s why it seems so hard to BE: we like to complicate!

First: Have you made your choice about LIFE? In other words, have you truly chosen to LIVE?

Don’t take it lightly, please. Stop. Look within you and see. Have you ever really chosen to LIVE?

We tend to move through life because we are here, not because we truly want to be here! It is called survival and the shift from just surviving to actually living is the first greatest shift towards the magic in life… The thing is, life can’t give you anything if you aren’t accepting to live it… to be in it… to participate in it… to tell it what you choose… to play with it...

And choose to live not because your children need you, because your husband or wife needs you, because your friends need you, because your parents need you, because your work needs you, because the Earth needs you, because you have a Mission, because you’re going to save the World… Just because you accept to finally receive this magnificent gift you have been given, and have been rejecting, pretending not to have! Because  you finally choose to respect life and all that it contains, including taking care of your body – the Sacred Temple that you inhabit – otherwise LIFE cannot inhabit you!... And you cannot receive what you choose… and you cannot give the SPECIAL ONE that you are back to LIFE – you cannot share your unique treasures and all in all, you cannot BE… if you´re not at HOME.

The hitch is when you truly choose to LIVE, death cannot save you! You can no longer wish you would die or disappear whenever the going gets tough! You finally assume yourself, your body, your space, your time, your place in the perfect orchestra of existence. No more running away – it’s time to PLAY!

Once you choose to live and accept you are alive – you realize you have all you have sought for, all you will ever possibly need – it’s there in you in all forms and sizes. That’s where you start seeing the miracles and living your PURPOSE.

Second: Each moment you have the choice to FIGHT against or to COOPERATE with… What do you choose?

The law of survival obeys the “fight or flight” principle. Either you fight against what you consider endangers your survival, or you run away from it, pretending it can’t hurt you – so you alienate from feeling love and believe in the illusion of fear – actually, you alienate from LIFE, because it seems too painful to bear at times. The thing is, when you build your walls, keeping feeling out, you close up to everything – the so called good feelings as well. And then you sleepwalk, and sleeptalk, believing you are living – but you are just surviving.

Cooperating with life is opening up to it – all of it, not just the parts you consider are worth opening up to. It is being bold enough to dive into it, even when you have no idea what you’re going to find! I mean, you know all about surviving, you know the results it usually brings… but if you haven’t chosen to Live, you realize you know nothing about living, so you fear what you will find. There’s no way to know but to jump! Go on… it’s ok… and it's worth it. Really!

Third: But before moving on, consider – DRAMA or SIMPLICITY? In fact, it is the same as FIGHT of COOPERATE? Do you choose to live in a battlefield or a playground?

Adrenaline is a very addictive self-made drug. It costs no money but it costs you your LIFE and all that it could contain!!! Drama is the main source for adrenaline and it works wonders to remind us that we are alive…surviving the hardships, the struggle, the strife, we are strong, we are still here! Well if you are still here, why not use the precious time you have making things simple for a change, and see what results that brings you? Afraid of becoming bored? I can assure you when you choose to LIVE and open up your FEELING sensors full blast, life is INTENSE! Very intense! Non dramatic is much more intense than dramatic! It’s full screen, High Definition, total Surround System, the Highest Technology you can possibly access! And you will have more energy available than ever before, because you’re not wasting it in the struggle for survival, which is pretty hard work, I must say.

Fourth: YES or NO?

Take a look at your daily mind chatter. How much rejection is there in it? How many no’s do you say? How many impossibles can you find? How many doors do you close? How many opportunities do you deny yourself? How many people do you exclude?

This is not about a mind game of substituting YES for NO! That might seem to work at a more superficial level, but deep down the “shit” (sorry about that!:) remains!! Saying YES, means shifting from rejection mode to acceptance/cooperation mode – saying YES to LIFE. “Yes, I choose to Live” could be a mantra, initially, just for you to consider it long enough, until it becomes a real, firm choice, from deep within you. That’s when the shift truly happens.

Fifth: WORRY or PLAY?

Yes, that’s it. You can either worry and get lost in it, or you can play with each experience as it comes to you and find yourself (and let the solution show you its own way). When you worry, you hinder your magical “problem solving” capacities! And since you are a master problem creator, you are also a master problem solver, one could not exist without the other. Now, do you want to concentrate on the problem or on the solution? 

SOULUTION, I like to call it.

Sixth: Last but not least – Shhhhhhh… SILIENCE!

Stop polluting your world with worry, stress, anxiety, drama, fear – SMALLNESS!!!!

Yes. SILENCE allows you to see your GRANDNESS – and you are so grand it might be frightening to accept at first. But sooner or later it’s inevitable that you assume your grandness. That’s just the way it is. It’s WHO YOU TRULY ARE! You can keep on playing the pretend game for as long as you like, eternity never ends – it is the compassionate breath of ALL THAT IS, watching your film, no matter what it is, and knowing all is well in all of creation, simply because who you are can never be taken from you – IT IS – YOU ARE!

Breathe SILENCE and discover your TRUE SELF.

And that’s it. This is how the MAGIC HAPPENS.

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Introspection Exercises:

Have you ever truly chosen to LIVE?

 Each moment you have the choice between FIGHTING against or COOPERATING with… what do you choose? 

 DRAMA or SIMPLICITY – do you choose to live in a battlefield or a playground?

 YES or NO?

Please look at your daily mind chatter. How much rejection is there? How many no’s do you say? How many impossibles do you find? How many doors do you close? How many opportunities do you deny yourself? How many people do you exclude?

 Do you choose to concentrate on the problem or the solution?

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Life is Long / A Vida é Longa

BOOK / COURSE The Flow of Abundance Part 17

The Formula Beyond the Formula

So it goes like this: choose – trust – receive. Right?

Yes, it is true. It works and it is very simple indeed.

When you start allowing this to happen, seeing how it works, having definite proof of it, you invariably fall in love. No, not with someone else, though that might be an added bonus – but with YOU!!! With your Essence, with your entire Self, with your Divinity, with your Humanity, with Life itself, with everything, with everyone – you slowly but surely become LOVE, you release judgments, shames and guilts, you stop bickering and complaining. You stop wishing you were somewhere else living a different life because you start living the life you are actually choosing to live!

Note: while you feel fed up, while you are complaining about your life, while you wish you were somewhere else living a different life, everything will remain exactly the same because your insatisfaction validates itself with your being fed up – keeping you in that state and perpetuating it.

Back to the moment when you fall in love… for yourself. You respect yourself as never before, and therefore respect others as never before, and that becomes the place where your choices stem from – not from your victimness – from your grandness, and you see it in you, you see it in everyone.

Grandness doesn’t fit into smallness, you see. When grandness moves in, smallness instantly disappears. It’s like a drop in the ocean – when it falls into its vastness, it is no longer a drop, but the entire ocean!

So Love. You are Love. Love is step number 1.

When you Are and you Love – you ARE LOVE -there is this never ending fountain of youth bubbling from within you, TRUST becomes natural.

What is there left not to Trust?

When you are Love, Fear disappears.

It’s like entering a dark room where you seem to see shadows and then switching on the lights and realizing the shadows were nothing but your overactive imagination telling you stories of fear.

And fear fosters doubt. And doubt leads you to believe in smallness, in impossibilities, in limitations.

When you switch on the Lights of Love all of that – “pooft” – disappears!

Step number 2: TRUST.

You choose in Love, you Trust, and then you simply enjoy it all! The receiving part is a given fact, since there is no doubt. That’s why all that remains to revel in is the guaranteed result of your choices – 100% of the time! No energy wasted at all.

Step number3: ENJOY.

How does this benefit the world?

Firstly you spare everyone from spending energy fostering your victimness and you spare yourself the energy spent on struggling to keep the victimness game active in your life – and in everyone else’s life. Can you figure just how much energy is saved and used appropriately for the greater good of each one and therefore of all?

Secondly, you lead by example. If you can do it, anyone can do it. And if one chooses to, they can live like this – no matter how dire their reality seems to be. But is that what everyone wants? You have no idea, and you have no right to interfere with other people’s realities.

Therefore just live and let live and all shall fall into place of its own accord and in its own perfect rhythm.

Thirdly, as you live your life, honouring each living creature, in gratitude for everything and everyone that crosses your path, in simplicity and respecting the natural flow of existence, you open up new doors of consciousness and lay new tracks that bring in a whole new array of potentials for the entire planet – an infinitude of possibilities which stem from Love, Peace, Balance, Harmony, Joy, Bounty, Purity, Serenity… Now you tell me: can you think of any greater gift to give the world?

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BOOK/COURSE The Flow of Abundance Part 16

The Passion for Life

Many human beings complain that their lives are monotonous, routine and uninteresting. Others, on the contrary, spend their time staggering from one drama to the next, totally numb by suffering, hating their lives nonetheless.

Some do have interesting lives, but there is always something missing. They are not as free as they wished to be, or so… as they would like to be, the list could go on and on.

There is, however, a minority of human beings who are completely satisfied with their lives, living the fulfillment of being here, in total satisfaction.

Once our basic needs for food, shelter and some sort of comfort have been satisfied, I would go so far as to say that everyone would like to be part of this last category of human beings, and the recipe is quite simple, much simpler than everything else.

First: CHOOSE!

Choose what you really want in life… Yes, yes, you’d like to but you can’t because this and that and the other. Please stop! I didn’t say “think about how you’re going to get what you’ve chosen”, or “think about all of the obstacles and limitations between you and what you want”. I said “Choose” – CLEARLY AND FEARLESSLY.

Second: TRUST.

Without expectations or doubts. Doubt kills the possibility. Expectation kills creativity.

What changes are you ready to make in your life in order to finally trust? In order to finally choose?

Third: RECEIVE.

To what extent are you willing to receive what you have chosen?

If you are believing in all sorts of limitations, thinking that life is something that happens to you and not something you make happen, that you don’t deserve to receive, that you have to take care of everyone except yourself… your life will always be something tasteless or a bit bitter, sometimes bittersweet but rarely very sweet.

Invite passion to enter your life. Allow yourself to taste it, to feel it, to nurture it. Allow yourself to let go of what no longer serves you with gratitude for the experiences you have had with what you are letting go of and allow yourself to choose and create something new in your life… willingly, with courage, determination, focus, freedom, joy, for the pleasure of playing the unique melody which is the DANCE OF LIFE.

Introspection Exercises

What changes are you willing to make in your life, in order to trust totally? In order to choose?

To what extent are you open to receiving what you have chosen?

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Seeds of Creativity / Sementes de Criatividade