Feeling Successful and Abundant in Life (WD)

One of my secrets for feeling successful and attracting bountiful abundance into my life has been an internal axiom that I use virtually every day of my life. It goes like this: “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” This has always worked for me. The truth of this little maxim is actually found in the field of quantum physics, which, according to some, is a subject that’s not only stranger than you think it is, it’s stranger than you can THINK. It turns out that at the tiniest subatomic level, the actual act of observing a particle changes the particle. The way we observe these infinitely small building blocks of life is a determining factor in what they ultimately become. If we extend this metaphor to larger and larger particles and begin to see ourselves as particles in a larger body called humanity or even larger – life itself – then it’s not such a huge stretch to imagine that the way we observe the world we live in affects that world. It’s been said repeatedly in a number of different ways: “As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.” 

This being the case, your intention to feel successful and experience prosperity and abundance depends on what view you have of yourself, the universe, and most important, the field of intention from which success and abundance will come. The way you look at life is essentially a barometer of your expectations, based on what you’ve been taught you’re worthy of and capable of achieving. These expectations are largely imposed by external influences such as family, community, and institutions, but they’re also influenced by that ever-present inner companion: your ego. 

These sources of your expectations are largely based on the beliefs of limitation, scarcity, and pessimism about what’s possible for you. If these beliefs are the basis for how you look at life, then this perception of the world is what you expect for yourself. Attracting abundance, prosperity, and success from these limiting viewpoints is an impossibility. In my heart, I know that attracting abundance and feeling successful is possible, because I had an early life of enormous scarcity. I lived in foster homes, away from my mother and my absentee, alcoholic, often-imprisoned father. I know that these truths can work for you, because if they’ve worked for any one of us, they can work for ALL of us, since we all share the same abundant divine force and emanated from the same field of intention. 

The field of intention, which is responsible for all creation, is constantly giving—in fact, it knows no bounds to its giving. It just keeps on converting pure formless spirit into a myriad of material forms. Furthermore, this field of intention gives in unlimited supplies. There is no such concept as shortage or scarcity when it comes to the originating Source. So we’re looking at two major conceptualizations when we think of the universal mind’s natural abundance. The first is that it’s perpetually giving, and the second is that it offers an infinite supply. The power of intention is perpetually giving and infinite, so it seems obvious that you’ll need to adopt these same two attributes if you’re to fulfill your own personal intention to live successfully and attract abundance into your life. What should your message back to the universe be if you want to be abundant and successful rather than strive for it? Your Source is abundant and you are your Source; therefore, you must communicate this back. Since your Source is always serving and giving, and you are your Source, then you must be always in a state of serving and giving. This Source can only work with you when you are in harmony with it! 

The universal mind of Creation is in a constant state of supplying. It never shuts down, it takes no vacations, there are no days off, and it’s perpetually giving forth. Everything and everyone, without exception, emanates from this universal mind we’re calling intention. So if everything comes from this infinite field of invisible energy, why is it that some are able to partake of it, while others seem so separated from it? If it’s always giving forth in an endless stream of abundance, somehow there must be resistance to allowing it to come into your life if you’re experiencing shortages or scarcity in any way. Allowing this all-giving Source into your life means becoming aware of the resistance that you may be placing in the way of the abundance that’s always being supplied. If the universe is based on energy and attraction, this means that everything is vibrating to particular frequencies. When the frequency with which you’re vibrating is in contradiction with the frequency of the universal supply, you create a resistance, thereby inhibiting that flow of abundance into your life space. Your individual vibrations are the key to understanding the art of allowing. The non-harmonious vibrations are largely in the form of your thoughts and feelings. Thoughts that emphasize what you don’t believe you deserve set up a contradiction in energy. That contradiction puts a stop to a hooking up of identical energies, and you’ve created a field of disallowing. Remember, it’s always about being in harmony with your Source. Your thoughts can either emerge from a beingness that’s in rapport with intention or in contradiction with it.  

  (For an actionable 10-step program for implementing the intention of change to feel successful and attract abundance into your life, please get a copy of Dr. Wayne Dyer’s book The Power of Intention and refer to pages 183 – 186)
  — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

This excerpt is pulled from
The Power of Intention