Prosperity Engine — Update — Tracking Down the Dark Negatives

[image error] The road through darkness can lead to the light. Handling the dark negatives of the subconscious will help us build our Prosperity Engine. Photo: #3120483_1920 JPLenio (CC0) Pixabay.

All of my life, I have toyed with miracles, building my awareness and strength in that area. But then something seemed to stop. For a long while, I sensed that progress was no longer being made in this area, but I was wrong. It took me more than three decades to understand the miracles on Wilshire Boulevard. Now that I’ve comfortably exhausted the need to clarify what actually happened there, I was ready for the next phase of my spiritual growth.

I started running into people who mentioned Dr. Joe Dispenza. I even had a client who had me ghostwrite several books, insisting that I include Dispenza’s work, and that of David Bayer (Mind Hack).

After taking one of Bayer’s courses, I started having a flood of ideas that made writing difficult for a few weeks. How embarrassing! But the client was cool about the process. He had a clear vision for the books he wanted and merely helped me past my own “flood mode” toward clarity. But even as I was learning and relearning Dispenza’s and Bayer’s ideas and methods, I was able to see beyond their work—not only making their methods my own, but expanding on them.

The Big Caution: Avoiding the Deadly Question

In his Mind Hack course, David Bayer recommends against asking “why” and “how” questions. This wisdom is nothing new. Mentors and coaches have long known that questions which start with “how” or “why” tend to be disempowering—they produce toxic or clumsy answers that don’t help. They cause the brain to go around in circles, as if chasing its own tail (if it ever had one).

“Why am I getting such poor results?”

The mind will generate a flood of answers like, “Because you’re stupid,” “Because you don’t deserve any better,” “Because you’re selfish and evil,” and other unsavory reasons.

“How can I make a 7-figure income?”

Again, the human brain will deliver lots of answers, very few of which are very useful—things like, “Rob a bank,” “Trick the Tooth Fairy with a giant tooth,” “Write a bestselling book,” and others. The last item could actually work, even if you don’t yet know how to write a book, but the motivation for writing it is all wrong. Working on any project from a position of egoistic weakness will not help you get to where you want to go.

The Template for Our Prosperity Engine

There are four key aspects of our work in building our Prosperity Engine:

Cleaning up the past so it’s no longer triggering self-sabotage.Cleaning up the present with gratitude and presence of mind so you have a solid foundation in the Creative Now.Gaining crisp clarity on the future by stating the goal with all of the right, positive details, plus gratitude to activate the “Not-Know” (allowing, shirking responsibility, manifesting) part of the creation.Asking empowering questions to give your brain some juicy, truly helpful work to do.

Past, present, future and empowering questions—that’s the combination—the Power Toolkit for our Prosperity Engine.

The Greatest Barrier—Subconscious Past Beliefs



[image error] Trapped by a ball and chain, the dark negatives of the subconscious can seem inescapable, but they’re not. Illustration: #1013600_1920 Peggy-Marco (CC0) Pixabay

Of the four, the most difficult, by far, is the element involving the past. This is the area where the greatest darkness resides. The other three are largely training issues—for instance, learning the difference between an empowering question and one that sucks the energy right out of you. Once you learn the difference, coming up with the right type of question becomes relatively easy.

David Bayer, Joe Dispenza, and others recommend staying alert during the day to catch the negative attitudes when they show up. Bayer goes a little further, recommending that we tackle the negative feeling and follow it back to the undermining belief that caused it in the first place.

Bayer points out that our self-emasculating beliefs are decisions to give some event in our past a specific, but negative meaning. That meaning defines one of our beliefs. The solution is simply to give the event a new meaning—a more empowering meaning.

Say for instance, that when you were nine months old, your mother made you feel utterly stupid, bad and wrong for not putting your toys away. She yelled at you, but you were still not old enough to understand English. The event, at such an early age, might not have left a conscious memory, but the feeling is drilled into your bones, anchored into every fiber of your body and locked in place by that part of your brain which takes care of survival in life-threatening situations. This is the primitive brain—the fight-or-flight system that kicks in and overpowers the body before the conscious mind knows what’s happening.

So, you grow up feeling stupid, or that you will make a mistake at any moment, or that you are never very far from another blunder that defines who you are. Sounds wonderful, huh? Yikes!

Well, this happened to me. I was able to build a set of feelings in parallel to this—feelings of competence, accomplishment, talent, skill and intelligence. But this pesky critter was always there, lurking in the shadows. I ended up feeling as though I were hurtling into the future, pushing hard down on both the accelerator and the brake at the same time. Sometimes, either foot would get tired, so I lurched forward toward my goals with an unpredictability that was frustrating.

Tracking Down the Dark Negatives for Conversion



[image error] Taking the dark negatives out of the subconscious is a bit like weeding a garden. Photo: #2432111_1920 Summa (CC0) Pixabay.

Finding these annoying animals during our meditation, or during the daily work, when we become critically aware of a negative reaction or feeling, can be quite problematic. If we’re doing a critical action, we don’t want this type of junk wrecking our performance.

Instead of waiting, why not develop a plan to “search and destroy?” Or better, “search and convert!”

So, instead of standing in front of a large audience and finding the “I’m so stupid” animal gnawing at our stomach, why not discover this beast in the safety of our own home? Why not deal with it on our own terms—during quiet time, when we can give ourselves the few minutes necessary to track this down, and to give it a better meaning?

David Bayer’s suggestion to avoid “why” and “how” questions should not be ignored lightly. Though not dangerous, they can waste a lot of time and energy.

Such negative or open-ended questions generate answers from our brains that contain all manner of negative meaning.

But isn’t this what we want to handle? Isn’t this what we would like to clean up far more efficiently? In order to clean up our past, don’t we want to be proactive, rather than reactive?

By asking a “why” or “how” question, we trigger all manner of answers that could disempower us. Normally, we don’t want to do this, but if we are prepared for the flood of negative answers, then it’s all good.

How do we prepare?

We need to be certain we have a block of time that will not be interrupted. We need a quiet space where we can write down all of the answers our brain gives to us, without interruption or distraction. Cell phone, off! Computer screen, off! Computer sound, off! If necessary, put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your door, or let others in the household know that you are not to be disturbed unless there is a dire emergency.

When you do this, if suddenly your mind is blank, then simply start writing. Anything! This will prime the pump in your mind. Write down what you ate for breakfast, describe the shape and color of your desk, describe the back of your hand. Literally, anything.

The direction you want to be going is to think of negative attitudes that disempower you, and the negative beliefs attached to them.

Step-by-Step: Search and Convert

The procedure, here, is fairly simple and straight-forward.

Find in your memory a condition in life that you don’t like.Ask a “why” or “how” question about it.Write down every answer your mind gives you. If it takes an hour for you to write them all down, do it. This is a gold mine of knowledge about your own subconscious. Be grateful for all the muck you dig up.With each negative answer, find the negative belief attached to it, and write that down, if necessary. Sometimes the answer will be the negative belief.Write an empowering replacement for each one.Decide that this is your new reality.Feel a deep sense of excitement and gratitude as you read aloud the more positive, empowering belief.

If you are stalled at the first step, simply ask yourself, “What don’t I like about my life?” That should start the ball rolling.

Prosperity Engine Progress



[image error] A race car prepares to go, tackling the sticky problem of distance within a limited time. Photo: #3415413_1920 Papafox (CC0) Pixabay.

This last week, I’ve been playing with time. Part of this last week, time was also playing with me. Let me explain.

One common, negative belief is, “I don’t have enough time.” Intellectually, some people will deny this for themselves, but they feel it, nonetheless.

For several years, I procrastinated completing my second novel because I didn’t have a large enough block of time to work through the details with which I was struggling. Finally, I created a block of time and finished the novel.

For years, I also had a fixation on being late and on finding justification, after the fact, for that tardiness. You name it, I likely created them all—power outage, equipment failure, car troubles, thick traffic and no nearby parking spaces. On that last one, when I realized the game I had playing with myself, I was excited to find a parking space right next to work. Ah, the power of Truth and Responsibility. And then, I found a surprisingly low-cost, moderately nice apartment only two blocks from work, so I could walk instead of drive. No more excuses involving parking. But old habits die hard. One time, when I had been working on a project for 36 hours straight, I went home for a 2-hour nap, but woke up 4 hours later with my arm draped over the top of the alarm clock. Ouch! So, I set two alarm clocks—one next to the bed, and a louder, more obnoxious alarm clock on my dresser, across the room.

That’s why the daily exercise of repeating Empowering Decisions with Gratitude is so wonderful. This helps to dissolve those old, bad habits of excuses and back-sliding into other old, bad habits.

This last week, I found myself working overtime on my next book. Everything seemed to be taking far longer than I had expected. As I did the required research, I discovered new, unexpected wrinkles in the information that required far more work than I had expected. I was happy to do the work. The entire book is a “labor of love.” But this made me aware of a different problem with time—sort of opposite to that of procrastination. This problem involved spending too much time on a project, to the exclusion of most everything else.

This is one “reason” for this article coming out on Wednesday, and not on the desired Sunday. Excuse? Naw. Observation.

I realized that one hidden belief is that, “I don’t have enough time to do this project.” So, I ended up stealing time from other responsibilities. I got pleasure from doing this, but it was “selfish” pleasure, instead of righteous (divine) pleasure. It made me place “importance” on time, which is contrary to the work of building my own Prosperity Engine.

I can decide to do anything. I have that freedom. But the best approach is to do it without the darkness of being guided by negative beliefs.

I also realized that I had become impatient to finish this book, because I was so certain it would sell a lot of copies. In reality, I don’t know how well it will sell; it could produce zero sales.

And this brings up another observation about the “how” question. Fussing over finishing this project earlier, instead of relaxing and treating it as unimportant, I am implying that I know “how” my $5 million will happen.

The beauty of the Prosperity Engine is that we don’t need to know “how” it produces the money. We merely give God the request, and He delivers. If we insist on telling God “how” to produce the money, then we may block the accomplishment with too many requirements. The audience which would eat up this current book project may not exist. Creating that audience may take several months, or years, or centuries! So, insisting on my own “how” may create delays I don’t want to have.

By leaving the “how” to God, I leave open the door (humility) to receive the inspiration which will lead me to the project which will produce the income in a shorter time span. In the meantime, while building my Prosperity Engine, I’m enjoying a project which may not produce any income, but will give me some interesting, and possibly much-needed, experience.

I’ve noticed flurries of subconscious, negative “dust” kicking up more often. But I’ve also noticed bright flashes of enthusiasm, confidence and well-being bubbling to the surface of my subconscious, as well. Gratitude truly is working. And like a muscle, the more I exercise it, the stronger the gratitude gets.

I am getting better at doing my half-hourly breaks during the day. It was amazing how my body, at age 70, thought it was still in fairly good shape, only to discover that it wasn’t. The half-hourly light exercises and stretching are helping to return some of that “good shape.”

And now, taking the time to do other, “responsible” things, takes the “importance” off of time. That feels good.

Coming Up Next

In the next article, I go back to my original experiments with miracles and examine what actually happened from my new position of knowledge. Has my understanding changed? Are there any new distinctions which will help in finalizing my own Prosperity Engine?