 Having It All
by
Dr. Wayne Dyer
It really is
quite logical. Whatever you tend to think about is what you will focus on, and
create more of. For example, if you have some debts and some principal, and
your entire focus is on what you have, then you will expand your principal. If
your principal is only five hundred dollars and your debts are five thousand,
and you focus on the money that you have, you will begin to do something with
it. Whatever you do with it in a positive way will help it to expand.
Conversely, if you focus all of your thoughts on your indebtedness, always
reminding yourself how poor you are, and making that the focus of your
emotional life, that is precisely what you will expand. This is very clear when
it comes to minor illnesses. If you focus on your cold, always talking about
it, always complaining to everyone you meet about how lousy you feel, you will
expand what you focus on. That is, your energy will flow to the cold that you
are so proud of. But if you focus on all of you that is not sick, and tell
others how great you feel you will expand wellness.
We act upon our thoughts. These thoughts literally become
our daily life experience. Consequently, if you spend a great deal of your life
energy focusing on scarcity, that's what you are going to expand in your life.
I can give you a real-life example of how this works.
I have a dear friend named Bobbe Branch who lives in
Wenatchee, Washington. She is a spectacularly alive, higher consciousness
person who is a true joy to be around. In virtually all areas of her life she
has mastered the principles of abundance. Yet in the area of her career she
continually focused on what was missing in her life. Bobbe is a very talented
singer and songwriter and wanted to produce an album of her songs, but she was
convinced she did not have the financial ability: she was operating from a
scarcity mentality when it came to money. And this scarcity mentality took over
when it came to her performing in front of an audience: she was sure she could
not.
We talked for several hours one evening about her belief
that she would never have an album unless some angel suddenly emerged to
provide the funding. I tried to help her see that this belief was the very
thing keeping her from actualizing her dream of recording her own songs.
I invited Bobbe to sing her beautiful music at some of my
speaking engagements. In spite of her fears, she performed beautifully to
standing ovations and began focusing on what she could do rather than what she
felt was impossible or difficult. The more she thought about singing in front of
an audience, the more that very thing expanded in her life, and after a year or
so she was accepting singing engagements. Then came the big challenge for Bobbe
to view herself in a prosperity manner. In a phone conversation she told me
that she had finally mustered the courage to inquire how much it would cost to
produce an album using one of the finest arrangers and musical directors in the
Northwest. The total was more money than she had ever accumulated in her life.
I told her to begin focusing her thoughts on prosperity, and never to allow a
"lack" thought into her consciousness.
She began to get the message. One evening I received a long-distance
phone call from Wenatchee, and Bobbe announced, "I've been thinking about
nothing else but having that money at my disposal. I never let in a scarcity
thought." She then said that she and a friend at work were discussing ways
to make it happen. Bobbe said, "What if I asked fifteen of the people I
know to invest one thousand dollars in me and my music? I mean, people who
really believe in my singing?" To her delighted astonishment her friend
said, "I would love to invest that in you," and Bobbe realized she
was already one-fifteenth of the way there.
In three days she had drawn up investment portfolios and signed
up the necessary investors, all of whom invested one thousand dollars to be
repaid within one year. She was ecstatic that she finally overcame her belief
in scarcity, for when she focused on abundance. That is precisely what expanded
for her. Within two months she had produced her album, Happiness Is the Way,
with three songs on it that were conceived around Eykis, the lady about whom I
have written a book.
Now Bobbe is busy promoting her music and happily working at
making it a big hit. Focusing on abundance rather than scarcity is paying off
handsomely for her. She has repaid almost all of her investors and is in a
second run of the album. Her dedication on the album reads: "To my friend
Wayne Dyer. I appreciate all you have done to encourage me to dare to
risk." All I really ever did was help her focus on what she wanted to
expand in her life.
To experience anything other than abundance in your life you
actually have to deliberately resist it by focusing on scarcity!
When you live and breathe prosperity with a belief that
everything is in huge supply, and that we are all entitled to have all that we
can, you start actively treating yourself and others in this fashion. This
principle applies to the acquisition of wealth, personal happiness, health,
intellectual pursuits, and everything else. It relates to the ancient Biblical
promise, "To him that has, shall more be given."
It truly works. This universe is an incomprehensibly large
enterprise, too big for us to begin to comprehend from the perspective of our
limited bodies. Abundance reigns everywhere. The only limits we have are those
that we encourage with our belief in those limits.
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