When You Know You’re Rich

April 9, 2009

For her 15^th birthday, my daughter wanted to sponsor a child with World Vision. This would be the same child whose favorite activity is watching Ice Road Truckers with her father.

Having more than enough

Barira is a 10 year old girl from Niger who sits on our fridge and looks out. It’s somehow ironic that she adorns the food repository. Her father farms as does my husband so she connected with all of us. He can’t feed his family in a good year and nor can Canadian farmers, but of course the scale is completely different. We know that.

We wanted to send a birthday gift. It had to be flat for mailing and not extravagant. My daughter wanted a musical singing birthday card, which I feared would scare the pants off the child. We find ourselves at the Dollar Store trying to find something not too extravagant.

We are TOO rich to find a gift for this little girl. Everything seems wasteful and excessively adorned. For us it’s disposable, for her unimaginably frivolous. In the cheapest store there is, where we could afford anything, our wealth is still too great to find an appropriate gift. Your whole frame of reference changes when you know what “too rich” actually feels like.

Money and the Law of Attraction

I’ve been reading Jerry and Esther Hicks’s recent Money and the Law of Attraction : Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness. The book is as good as any of the previous and doesn’t rehash the old material. There are a lot of new ideas here, presented in their most practical and possible style.

I really like this stuff because it helps me get through the day with a real undercurrent of openness and joy. People who know me are ROTFL right now. Well, I’ll have you know I really am joyful. If I look more intense than joyous, it’s because I’m part Winter.

I’ve learned to find the best things about what I do, even the things I like less (except producing meals day after day). I’ve learned that we all create our own reality. I don’t have to feel bad for others who aren’t getting what they want because they can make different choices anytime they want to. What’s happening to them isn’t happening to me because I didn’t make their choices. I know nobody can block me or even slow me down from getting what I want because nobody controls the Universe – as a result, I am never irritated by the behavior of others. That’s quite a cathartic milestone right there.

How others have failed me is never important, only how I’ve failed me. There is never a need to get involved in the actions of others, only in my reaction to them. I do have control of my character, every aspect of it. Everything I’ve sent out there, good and bad, is on a trajectory aimed at my face. Energy stays equal so what goes out comes back in kind.

In this clip from the Abraham-Hicks site’s video clips, watch the 11^th clip from the top on the right side. The video title is the same as the book, an excerpt from the DVD. Listen to how she (Abraham) answers the question at the end.

When does the creating start?

Though I thank Jerry and Esther for modeling such a powerful and easy way to learn calmness and happiness, I’ve run up against a question I can’t answer. This is it : I can’t think of anything I’ve manifested or attracted. However my life changed, it changed because I stuck my claws out there and made a few attempts to drag something in and finally got a hook that stuck. It never just came with “ease” (and by ease, I do not mean absence of effort; more like, you just looked up one day and there it was, like it had been there all along).

It didn’t come with struggle or worry either. I love doing it. I love the ride and my river moves fast because there’s a lot I want. I’m reading the money book to attract more of money to stay in the raft. Money is an energy (infinite) not a resource (finite). It’s flowing in the streets, kind of like guns. Just because you don’t have one doesn’t mean there’s a shortage of them. How many guns I have doesn’t affect how many you can have.

I live wealth like it’s happened. I look at my house, I see a castle. I used to worry that I wouldn’t be able to afford to educate my kids, but a friend said “Who do you know that didn’t go to University because they couldn’t afford it?”. I stopped worrying.

I quite get what they mean by Leading Edge. My toes are touching the line. I’m not impatient. Our needs are more than met and that’s the only story I tell. I’ve found that thing in life that I would do even if I weren’t paid. We CAN make things just by thinking about them, I’m convinced of it.

The question is not how to get more money, though to realize my dream will take more than I have. It’s how to have it appear by thought, not action. Nothing is getting created that I didn’t build. No doors are presenting themselves, closed or open, that I didn’t go out and ferret out. How will I manifest money if I can’t manifest anything else?

Was the manifestation that I chose these actions and not those actions? You could say that I manifested everything I live. Yes, right thinking brings right actions. There is just no feeling of letting it happen. I made it happen. And, anyone who has manifested money can measure it by the ways of our physical world. I have yet to manifest a cent.

Realizing a downstream dream

My Easter will be spent becoming a Color Analyst. If women could see themselves as their most effective, beautiful, powerful best, I’d be happy. That’s the vision I have of them when I meet them. That’s what I want to help them do – and learn to resist the marketing onslaught that makes us think age is more ugly, more abnormal, and more weak than youth. Aging, or more precisely “anti-aging”, is a marketing phenomenon and nothing else.

My speaking tour will be called You : Gorgeous And Fearless. Everything will turn out fine, but when does the manifesting/creating begin???

So, Abraham, from a purely intellectual perspective, what are we supposed to think next? The bank account is going down but I can ignore it with ease. I could sell the piano on eBay but that feels upstream so I won’t do it. Will it have to reach a crisis before I manifest something? Does the room have to be completely empty before the new furniture can fit? I don’t mind waiting but you might take the line “as early as tomorrow” out of your teachings.

Is this like dieting? You can start tomorrow but you won’t look different for a month. Until the new eating kicks in, you will look like your old eating patterns. In the same sense, until the new thinking starts to shift the Universe, life is still bringing you the rewards of your old thinking ways.

Keep your day job. And your fat pants.

Posted by Christine Scaman | Filed Under Color Analysis, Happiness, Money

Comments

4 Responses to “When You Know You’re Rich”

jaycee on April 11th, 2009 5:28 pm

I’ll be your first [practice and free-of-charge!] customer for color analysis!!! I simply cannot figure out myself but I believe it is important and lends an energy to a women when correct.
Christine Scaman on April 14th, 2009 7:28 pm

Hi, Jaycee,

I’m a color analyst now… but I got the rug pulled out from under my feet in the process. Everything I thought I believed has changed and I’m still lying on my butt. Once I get my thoughts together, I’ll tell you about it. We agree on one point for sure-it lends an energy. In fact, it brings you into focus inside and out. People will lock onto your eyes and be so busy looking at the color intensity that they won’t see any imperfections. You will lose 20lbs and look like you have foundation on without makeup. It is that powerful and it is that simple.
gina on April 15th, 2009 12:10 pm

Do me! do me!
Almost wrote a thank-you note for the Deep Autumn column and then looked and again with the second guessing so…even though I think I know, I want someone to confirm……
Make a Maritime tour…we need help down here…:)
I do think that, as a whole, women from smaller communities have less exposure and are more tenuous about reaching out and trying new things…possibly because there are fewer examples of success with this around them to feed off of. Either way, if a correct colour chart can help, and I BELIEVE it does ….let’s go!!!!
Christine Scaman on April 16th, 2009 7:49 pm

Gina,

I always love the energy in your comments. Brings a smile to my face. I hear you about the need for confirmation. And it’s hard to do without controlled lighting and the drapes. On most people, given enough photos of the person wearing enough colors, no makeup and hair pulled back, you could get the season. Even being close is great for women who cannot travel or pay to see an analyst, because they’ll probably get more good color guidance than they ever had before. The general improvement over how they used to look and the confidence in buying clothes/hair color/makeup is priceless.

In person, with the full drapes, neutral gray room, lights, complete with makeup and color advice, it’s not very portable. And it would take 3 hours. I can’t imagine doing it any other way (but that’s how I was trained) and I don’t see it for less than $150-200.

But you are right to BELIEVE ! It will change your life. You will come into focus and people’s gaze will rest on your eyes, not on your worst feature. You will look the way you were put on Earth to look. It is astounding.