A few weeks ago, while I was recording my new audio program for Nightingale-Conant (The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation), I was inspired to share five ways to shift into the abundance mindset. Here’s one of them:
Most of us are so caught up in our thinking and reacting, feeling and fearing, that we miss the miracle of the moment. While I’m sure you’ve heard that before, how do you actually escape the monkey mind and move into the Divine?
One of my favorite meditations is where I lead people through a questioning process that takes them behind the curtain of life to find the wizard behind it all.
Here’s how it works…
It begins with asking you to notice your thoughts….You have them but if you can notice them, who’s doing the noticing?
It then asks you to notice your feelings, your emotions…You have those, too, but if you can experience them, who’s doing the experiencing?
It then moves to asking you to notice your body…You have one, obviously, but if you can notice your body and feel like you’re “something” or “someone” inside your body, who or what are you? Who’s noticing your body?
This background awareness — the “noticer” or “witness” — is essential to making the shift into The Abundance Paradigm.
As long as you associate with mind, body and feelings, you will remain separate from life and tend to come from scarcity, lack, limitation and fear; but when you shift to being the observer, you experience non-duality and live abundance, faith, trust, magic and miracles.
Of course, I’ve already talked about this in my best-selling audio program, The Awakening Course. It’s the fourth stage of awakening. This advanced spiritual thinking goes beyond my book The Attractor Factor, and Zero Limits, and even ho’oponopono. It goes beyond thinking period and into the direct experience of living from or even as the Divine.
Said another way, “Enlightenment is not what you think.”
Meaning, enlightenment can’t be thought, as well as enlightenment is not whatever definition you think it is. It’s not what you think. It’s behind your thinking.
My new audio program will go into all of this in great depth. It’s the most spiritual and experiential program of my career. It comes out late October. Of course, I’ll be sure to tell you about it when it does. You might also watch the Nightingale website for any news bulletins about it.
Till then, what are you observing — and who’s observing it?
Ao Akua,
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Note: My new audio program will be out late October. It’s called The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation. Stay tuned for details. Visit Nightingale-Conant.
8 Comments
Hi Joe,
Thank you for another great blog post.
I look forward to try the meditation you describe.
Take care,
Claus 😀
Hi Joe,
Thank you for another great blog post.
I look forward to try the meditation you describe.
Take care,
Claus 😀
Hi Joe,
I’ve been rediscovering non-duality teachings over the last month so I don’t believe it’s an accident that I stumbled upon your latest blog posts previewing your new Abundance Paradigm audio program. I’m finding that noticing and reconnecting with my presence awareness (or “awareness of being,” as Neville would describe it) brings me a sense of peace, a knowingness that “there’s nothing wrong right here and right now” and that somehow everything will work out for the best. It’s a subtle sense of serenity (and lack of worry) more than a palpable feeling of material prosperity. Should I expect abundance and prosperity begin to naturally flow (for example, via inspired ideas flowing in to my awareness) from this sense of well-being?
Dimitri
I don’t know who is behind the curtain, but I know what you’re talking about. Four years ago, I was primary caregiver for my terminally-ill Mother following a long year of hospitals, doctors, the death of my father, and moving back home to care for Mother in her final days. I was, quite frankly, completely exhausted. And I got sick with a really good case of bronchitis.
Then I had this odd experience (before I admitted defeat and dragged myself to the doctor for Prednisone). I was sitting on the couch in a haze while the homecare folks took over for a bit. I felt so terrible! And I sort of… separated out.
“I” felt removed from “my body/self”, and I remember “thinking” something about how the body is to the car as the self is to the mechanic, and I need a better mechanic to fix the problem in this body because I don’t have the knowledge to do so. I wasn’t my body. I wasn’t even “in” there—it was like I was outside of myself, observing myself as an object, the way we’d observe our cars as we chat with the auto mechanic.
Maybe it was a fever causing the disconnect, but it gave me insight into the separation between body, mind and whatever this thing is that we call Spirit.
I like the way you introduce the witness, Joe. Nicely done.
And my Get Wealthy First Program is based on this idea of pressence first, Devine first, which leads to Deep Wealth.
As you know…
Blessings,
William
Hi Dr. Vitale.
This post is an eye-opener or more precisely self-opener for me.
When I looked inside me I didn’t find me. “Me” was nowhere. There was just “I”. What or who is “I”? I can only be 1 and that’s God.
If it’s true then why do we pray to God? Isn’t every prayer a sin? A major sin?
lovely. just the path i’m on right now… looking forward to the program.