Prosperity Engine — Update — Turmoil in the Now
On the path toward building our own Prosperity Engine, each one of us will have our own special set of challenges. Each of us is different in many respects. But some strategies are applicable to virtually everyone. Our experiences may vary, but the goal is the same—greater control over our subconscious so we can control the direction of our life.
In this Prosperity Engine series, I will be exposing many of my own raw experiences as I work through this material myself. This series will document both the ups and the downs so that you, the reader, can understand the types of things anyone might experience when building their own Prosperity Engine. Again, there will be differences, but also similarities. In the end, I want everyone who reads this to have their own, powerful Prosperity Engine.
My goal, as I mentioned in the first of this series, is to maintain at least $5 million in my bank accounts. That’s a short-term goal for this series of experiments and the exercises involved. Another short-term goal involves writing a book about this Prosperity Engine so that even more people can benefit. But I don’t want to be like so many other self-help gurus, getting rich solely on the hope and promise of getting rich. I don’t want a planet full of self-help mentors. Instead, I want to create a tool that can help anyone in any field make more to maximize their potential. I want to add value so that this world can have greater prosperity:
A Billion Millionaires,A Million Billionaires,Thousands of Trillionaires, andAt least one Multi-Quadrillionaire.
I don’t want fluff—everyone selling each other’s “get rich quick schemes;” that adds no value to civilization. Instead, I want a Prosperity Engine that works off of added value.
My long-range goals make this $5 million amount look like pocket lint (less than pocket change). To most people, such an outlandish goal could prove overwhelming. And on some days I do feel that overwhelm. But now, I’m learning to feel gratitude for any such negative feelings. I know that I’m stirring up the dust enough to reveal one of the barriers standing in my way.
One of the three areas of our work in building the Prosperity Engine involves the present. The other two, of course, are the past and the future.
Even before I had heard of The Secret, the Law of Attraction, Joe Dispenza or David Bayer (Mind Hack), I had figured out a lot of this stuff for myself. That type of success can make us cocky and even a bit reckless or lazy. Years ago, I had written an article called, “Now is so Passé” (originally 2013:0524), which talks about much of the same stuff Dispenza mentions in his interviews and lectures. There, I was talking about the past-driven “now” and working on getting into the future-biased “now”—the position of “cause,” as opposed to “effect.” In that article, I was struggling to describe what I was seeing with spiritual eyes.
Determination and Commitment
To build our own Prosperity Engine, we need to have ironclad determination. We need to be 100% committed—not 50% in and wait to see if it works. This stronger attitude is like, “I don’t care how long it takes. I don’t care what I have to do. I’m going to change this for the better.”
This is not the “importance” of urgency (egoistic, selfish, victim), but the determination of decision (cause, confidence, humility). This says, “I don’t know, but I’m interested in finding out.” This is us letting down all barriers, all defense mechanisms, all forms of self-concern. This is us baring our souls for cleansing with the bright light of calm, grateful awareness.
Part of my own turmoil has come from past successes butting up against current mental flabbiness. In a way, this is like being out of shape, physically, but wanting to get back into an exercise regimen. In our youth, we may have been in great shape—running every day, doing 50 push-ups, 100 sit-ups and more. Now, decades later, the memory of past success is making it difficult to start over. Impatience kicks in and we do too much too quickly. But like a strict yet kind teacher, we need to keep our body and mind on course. Like Dr. Dispenza says, treat the body like an animal we’re training: “Stay. Stay. Good dog!”
My Own Struggles
[image error]Statue of Liberty in storm clouds, symbolizing the world in turmoil. Image: #1922168 ParentRap (CC0) Pixabay.
When I first heard Dr. Dispenza talk about his own healing experience—correcting a damaged spine by concentrating a healing attitude so that he could walk again, I knew I had found what I had long known I had needed.
It’s not easy. But in my case, it may be a bit more difficult because I have to overcome the cocky (egoistic) certainty of past successes so I can keep still.
My past successes had allowed me to refine my intellectual clarity on what had happened, but now I need to reclaim that old spiritual viewpoint without the excess baggage of the past—the darkness of subconscious, negative beliefs. I need to scrub the subconscious clean so that it shines with the light of conscious awareness. Together, the conscious mind (thought) and subconscious attention (feeling) can create any logical future we desire.
I say “logical future” to clarify the boundaries of the impossible. Any logical thing is possible—levitating mountains, moving entire galactic clusters, or funneling $5 million into a bank account. All of these are logical and possible.
Let me give you an example of the opposite (the illogical): Forcing another free will person to love me romantically is illogical. Free will takes precedence over my own desires. Besides, I already have the love of my life, so this example doesn’t apply to me. But this should give you the idea.
Another example involves running our Prosperity Engine while being attached to what we’ve already acquired. This is like pressing the right foot on the accelerator of our car, while pushing hard with the left foot on our brake. The two actions are contradictory. It’s impossible to focus our attention on scarcity and lack while focusing our attention on prosperity and abundance. See? Impossible!
Three days ago I wrote a blog article, but didn’t publish it. Something didn’t feel right about it. This happened last week, too, with a client’s book project. My viewpoint is changing so rapidly that I’m no longer satisfied with my old ideas and viewpoints. Yet, the past beliefs powering those old viewpoints still persist, though they are weaker.
This morning, before doing my daily meditation, my mind felt a storm of turmoil. My “now” was a mess with the litter of past confusion, pain, discomfort and frustration. It took me a few moments, but I was able to find the gratitude in this. I was immensely grateful for discovering this storm—this mental turmoil. Each one of these negative things that I discover puts me that much closer to perfecting and fine-tuning my own Prosperity Engine. But that only works with the gratitude to view the turmoil with the peace, patience and confidence of spirit.
While changing my perspective on this turmoil, I caught a glimpse of another negative attitude—one which viewed the turmoil as “another setback in a never-ending chain of setbacks.” Interesting. I was also instantly grateful for seeing this.
For the “turmoil”—which seemed to be a confused mess of dozens of beliefs and attitudes—I didn’t worry about pinning down each one. Not right now. I merely looked at them as something that is making me stronger and more alert. Thank you, storm of turmoil!
For the negative idea of “setback,” I merely reasserted my determination that I didn’t care how long it took. I’m moving ahead toward my short-term and my long-term goals. It doesn’t matter how many setbacks there are. I know that each setback can teach me something. Thank you, setbacks!
Long-Range Goals and Fear
[image error]Thunderstorm symbolizing powerful potential. Photo: #3625405 FelixMittermeier (CC0) Pixabay.
My long-range goals are insanely huge. Well, that’s how the “old me” would describe them. The notion of “insane” anything provokes a degree of fear. But I don’t normally shy away from things like that. I eat fear for breakfast, when necessary (cause over effect). Still, I want to be more clever—more intelligent—about where I place the focus of my attention and the attention of others.
For one form of revenue, I’m setting up a patron account at SubscribeStar. The more time I can spend doing this work, the more progress I can make toward helping others. Some people are shy about asking others to finance their work. I used to have such reservations, but not anymore. Websites like Patreon and SubscribeStar make it possible for individuals to become patrons in support of people whose work of which they’d like to see more. This is like the Medici family supporting Galileo Galilei—the father of science, back in the late 16th and early 17th centuries—only today’s patrons can add their support for as little as a dollar a month. The internet makes it easy to grow the numbers substantially. Anyone who excites others with their past and potential (future) output can make it work.
Setting up that account had remained a stalled project for months. I had written several versions of the script for the introduction video, but didn’t feel satisfied with any of them.
Yesterday, I dusted off the project and looked again at the script. I even looked for potential voiceover artists who could read the script for the audio portion of my SubscribeStar video.
That script contained the words “insanely huge” right at the beginning. I had become uncomfortable with this wording, but now it seems to work. My long-range goals are big enough to provoke in some people a sense of “impossibility” or even judging them with the term “insanity.” Snatching that automatic reaction from them, before they can have it form in their own minds, works to help set their mind at ease. It recognizes the automatic reaction and explains how I will overcome the seeming impossibility of it all. I do this with the evidence of my own accomplishments.
Despite the crazy turmoil which greeted me this morning, I feel stronger than ever, and even more determined. This is despite the thoughts that crashed through my mind in the midst of that turmoil. For a few moments, I had lost hope. The future seemed, in those fleeting seconds before rediscovering gratitude, to be dark and full of danger. Perhaps you won’t have such a bumpy ride, but even if you do, don’t despair for long. Simply find the gratitude for discovering another source of darkness. By becoming aware of it, you are shining the light of awareness on it. And that is equivalent to you taking more responsibility for it. Like Christ said, know the truth and the truth will set you free. Isn’t it interesting that Absolute Truth involves responsibility?
[image error]Fishing boat and sunset, symbolizing effortless relaxation. Photo: #5541327 K_Malik (CC0) Pixabay.
Coming Up, Soon
Today’s breakthrough has helped me become more focused. Nice how that works. For now, I’ve scheduled the upcoming blogs to come daily, starting this Sunday. That’s for two weeks. After that, we’ll see how it goes. The list of topics include,
Past—Tools for cleaning up the subconscious (Sun:0913),Future—Tools for adding clarity to our goals (Mon:0914),Humility—The power of being a perpetual student (Tue:0915),Negative—Leveraging the power of pessimism (Wed:0916),Vocabulary—Clearing up the terms used in this work (Thu:0917),Change—Getting comfortable with the unpredictable (Fri:0918),Paramita Abundance—The ultimate goal for our Prosperity Engine (Sun:0920),Space—Exercises to build our spiritual mastery over physical reality (Mon:0921),Time—More exercises to build our spiritual mastery over physical reality (Tue:0922),Energy—Even more exercises for spiritual mastery (Wed:0923),Mass—Fourth set of exercises for spiritual mastery (Thu:0924),Four Elements—Summary and perspective on the previous four articles (Fri:0925), andMisguided Logic—How to handle skepticism on this work (Sun:0927).
