User!

Sunday, September 7, 2014

          A couple of months ago I received an email. In part it read, “Dear Rev. Brad… we have so many wonderful Unity authors who understand how to manifest prosperity. Could we have one of them come here to do a workshop?”

          The very first thing I did was get on my high-horse and think, “Really? That’s exactly what we are talking every “Prosperity Sunday.”

Then I remembered something I’m usually keenly aware of and I usually tell it this way, “When Jane and I were attending church and I was on the other side of the pulpit Jane might say something like this to me after a Sunday Service, “Wow! Did you hear when Jack said such and such? That was powerful! And I’d be thinking to myself, “Well, yeah, he’s been saying that over and over for the past 6 months.” And I also know the reverse has occurred, too. I have exclaimed about something that Jack said and Jane would look at me with this cocked head and say, “You never heard him say that before?”

          What I came to choose to believe about this - once I began to think about it - is that everyone moves at their own pace and hears what they need to hear when the time is right for them to receive it. So in regards to the suggestion about bringing in a speaker to talk about the very thing I’ve been talking about… Almost as quickly as I mounted my high-horse, I dismounted.

So let’s talk some more about “manifesting;” “manifesting” (or attracting) that which we want in our lives… and that which we don’t.

One of our handy Unity catch-phrases is, “Our way of thinking creates the experience of our life.”

This statement is general in scope (which makes it powerful in all situations), but maybe something a little more specific would be good, such as, “Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.”

I think where I haven’t done well enough is in helping you to understand this in not and intellectual exercise, but a feeling realm exercise. We have feelings attached to everything we think unless we make it a mechanical exercise.

What are you looking for in your life?

“You have to feel it to find it.”

One of steps to prosperity is to prepare a place for it. On several occasions it is noted in the Bible that Jesus went off to be alone and pray. When we begin a garden in which we want something from the nowhere to be now here, we have to prepare a place and cultivate it. The better the preparation, usually the better the value of what comes forth.

Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind.

Spend time in silence holding before you a change in consciousness, both in thought and feeling. If we are willing to hold a thought, visualize it, and feel it, we’ll achieve what we seek sooner, deeper, and clearer.

While you are in the silence feel the joy of having what you seek, as though it were present right now. What would it feel like? How might your life be different?

Acknowledge it exists.

Acknowledge that you are a co-creator with God (or divine substance, or creative substance, or “Miralce-Gro” for human life).

The awareness you have to hold is

(1)             That you are a part of the creative process. Acknowledge that the creative substance of life exists; call it stardust, call it God substance, call it creative substance, call it energy, call it Life, call it Spirit… whatever you call it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you acknowledge that it exists, that it   is all around, and you are the User of it. It’s up to you to use it however you see fit.

(2)             The creative substance of Life always responds with an unconditional yes!

(3)             Acknowledge that the largest part of you – however you define you – lives in and from this creative substance.

“Now, imagine in your mind’s eye what it feels like to be in this space. Think of a time when all was going well and everything seemed to work easily.

Reach for the best feeling thought you can find.

Be alert to your thinking. Does this thought make you feel better or make you feel worse?

“I don’t have enough.” How do you feel when you think that?

“I’ve never had enough.” How do you feel when you think that?

“I don’t know anybody who has enough!” How do you feel when you think that?

“Where is all this headed?” Who’s going to fix this?” “Those maniacs in Washington have no idea what they’re doing.” The people who brought this down on us are greedy self-serving… oh… I can’t say that in church. How do you feel when you think that?

“It would be nice to have more money.” How do you feel when you think that?

“But where am I going to get it?

“But it would be nice.”

“But I don’t know where I’m going to get it”

“But it would be nice…”

We may have had several negative thoughts and we also had some good ones, so we’ve started turning things around.

Look at it his way, “Are my thoughts bringing me anxiety, or desire?”

Desire is what starts stirring the creative substance into action.

Desire puts you in a better place for manifesting what you want to appear in your life.

The universe responds to the feeling of your thoughts.

Imagine what you want and feel it.

Imagine what you want and feel it.

Imagine what you want and feel it.

The way you close the distance between where you are and where you want to be is by releasing any though that contradicts where you want to be.

Focus on what you do want and not what you don’t want… our way of thinking creates; thoughts felt deeply and held in mind produce…

You were created to be a user; a user of spirit substance.

Be playful about it all. Joy is what you really are. If you come at it with heaviness you will, in a manner of speaking, weigh down (restrict) the fullness of your desire.

Here’s a tip to accelerate manifestation in your life: Adopt the attitude and practice that I am offering this visualization for the pleasure of this visualization rather than I am offering this visualization to get…

Think, in the initial stages of conscious co-creation, about contrast rather than specifics. Which side of the contrast do you want; the feels bad side or the feels good side?

Are you a chronic thinker of lack or plenty?

This isn’t an exercise about looking at what you have in the world, but what you chronically hold to… enough or lack?

In summary:

Acknowledge that The substance of God (or divine substance, or creative substance, or “Miralce-Gro” for human life) is a pool of becoming and you are a co-creator with God.

The awareness you have to hold is

(1)             That you are a part of the creative process. Acknowledge that the creative substance of life exists; call it stardust, call it God substance, call it creative substance, call it energy, call it Life, call it Spirit… whatever you call it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you acknowledge that it exists, that it is all around, and you are the User of it. It’s up to you to use it however you see fit.

(2)             The creative substance of Life always responds with an unconditional yes!

(3)             Acknowledge that the largest part of you – your Being – lives in and from this creative substance.

Every thought is like a firework sent up to display for you and all the world to see.

(P.S. One of the things I neglected to make a point about this particular Sunday is that it’s important to have a daily practice of some sort. That will work to change default thinking from lack to plenty. Additionally, I would like to thank the Abraham-Hicks work for helping to inspire this talk. You can see their fine work at by searching abraham-hicks on YouTube)