The Great Secret To Activating The Law

The lady on the phone had a question. “I’ve been giving money away for years and I haven’t seen my own prosperity grow at all. What am I doing wrong?” “Where are you giving money?” “To my local church.”

“Why are you giving them money?” I asked. “They need it.” “How do you feel when you give it to them?”

“Like I am helping them out of a hole.” “But how do you really feel when you give them money?”

There was a moment of silence. “Well, it’s a pain,” she admitted. “I cringe when I write them a check.” Not good.

“If you feel lousy when you give money, then you are associating money with bad feelings,” I explained. “You probably don’t want to attract more bad feelings, so you probably won’t attract much more money, either.” “Wow. I never thought of it that way.” “And if you give because someone asked for it or even pleaded for it, then you are reinforcing need,” I explained. “In order for you to experience increased wealth, you want to give money wherever it makes you feel good to do so. In other words, giving to someone who needs it is a noble thing to do. Do it. But that’s not the principle I’m talking about here.” “I get it!” she said. I couldn’t help but think some other part of the universe was helping her understand what I couldn’t explain. “What did you get?” I asked. “I’ve been keeping the church in a begging mode,” she said. “My heart wants to give money to wherever I feel spiritual nourishment. Sometimes that’s my church. Sometimes it’s not.” “You got it!” I said. And there you have it. You can give money to any causes you like. I’ve helped The Red Cross, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, cancer funds, and more. But I didn’t expect my finances to increase from that giving. That generosity was helping, yes, but not necessarily activating spiritual law. The spiritual law of financial income seems to happen when you give money freely to wherever you get your spiritual nourishment, with a small expectation that somehow, some way, some day, your finances will increase as a result.

Giving to worthy causes might activate the law if you feel you received spiritual nourishment from those causes. But if you didn’t, and you give anyway, you are probably just helping people in need. That, of course, is noble. I say do it. Again, the subject of this book is the greatest money-making secret in history. And you activate that secret when you give freely, joyously, to wherever you currently get spiritual nourishment and nurturing.

“Money is an outer form of spiritual substance.” Georgiana Tree West, Prosperity’s Ten Commandments

The Great Back-Door Secret to Wealth

I received a check in the mail today from a long-lost friend. The check is for only a portion of the money he owes me. But since he took almost ten years to send this amount, I am glad to see it.

Ten years ago he hired me to write a detailed marketing strategy for him. At that time, I charged a few thousand dollars for such a service. He agreed to it and said he would pay. I did the work and he

didn’t pay. Because he was my friend, I let the invoice slide. Months went by. Then years. Then he moved to another state. And I moved to another city. He went on his way in life and basically dropped out of my awareness. I went on my own way and fairly quickly became somewhat famous on the Internet for my books and tapes.

One day a few months ago I received an email from someone who wanted to co-author a book with me. He said he knew some of my friends, and mentioned the one who owed me money. As soon as I saw my old friend’s name, my blood pressure rose. I felt myself get angry. I felt ripped off. Betrayed. Hurt. I took some deep breaths and calmed myself down. I talked to myself. I reminded myself that the universe is a big place (some understatement) and that wealth can come from many avenues, not just from past invoices. I decided to forgive my friend. And I did, mentally. I sincerely let him and his debt go. I didn’t need the money. And I didn’t need to be right. After maybe nine years, my friend sent me an email. He said he knew he owed me money. He explained that he had tough times, that he had moved, that he was trying to make it as a professional speaker. He added that he wanted to bring peace to our old friendship. I wrote him a brief note saying we already had peace. I also invited him to pay off his invoice by sending me a check for a tiny percentage of what he owed me (about twenty percent, as I recall). He agreed. Well, he didn’t send me a check. Not right away, anyway. Several more months passed before I heard from him again. This time it was another email, and this time he was again explaining his situation to me. I remained at peace. I knew I would have money. It didn’t have to come from him. The universe---whatever you want to call that power bigger than you or I---would see that money came to me as long as I stayed in the flow. And being at peace is a good way to stay in the flow.

And, as I explained in the beginning of this chapter, the check arrived today. I have no idea how my old friend felt as he wrote that check. I hope he did it with a heart full of joy. If so, he activated the money attracting principle. I know when I wrote a check for $500 to my brother, who had helped me out of a bind twenty years before and I finally paid him off, I felt exhilarated. Writing that check to Ted made me feel like a king. And it gave me such an inner sense of peace that that alone was worth a million dollars. I’m calling this sense of peace---or forgiveness, if you will a backdoor secret to wealth. Where in your life are you holding grudges because someone owes you money? Or maybe because you owe someone money? Let it go. Talk to yourself. Allow yourself the heavenly awareness that the universe provides, not your friends. Money doesn’t come to you from them, it comes to you through them.Once you can let the grudges go, you free yourself to receive.

The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History! – Joe Vitale www.summitachieverseduc.com