Believing Makes It So

I've been re-reading Sylvia Browne's book, The Other Side and Back, given to me in a spontaneous gesture from a fan of my novel Field of Destiny. The fact that someone just gave me the book is, in itself, an experience of abundance and we need to be mindful of the small ways people "gift" us and all the nearly invisible acts of grace in our daily lives. The more we're thankful for the abundance, the more that will come to us.

Anyway, back to Sylvia's book: she talks about affirmations and the importance of self-love. Not in the "how great I am" ego-centered kind of love, but in the "I am a child of God" and should honor myself kind of way. Through positive affirmations, we release the negative talk we actually believe about ourselves — I'm too fat; I'm poor and will never amount to anything; I'm hopeless, ETC — and we begin to  embrace our positive loving side. A funny thing starts to happen, as we begin to believe we're worth something, we begin to attract all kinds of abundance.

The gift of her book to me was a sign of abundance; so was the new writing client that came my way after my daily affirmation for the past month. Like everyone, I sometimes focus on the wrong side of the coin. I see what I don't have instead of what I DO HAVE. As soon as I flip it around and affirm my belief, good things happen.

In Dancing Under the Full Moon: 101 Ways to Attract Money Into Your Life, there are all kinds of affirmations for you to try. Or you can write your own. When we write our own, we are writing from the heart and we own those beliefs.

Hope your day is wonderfully abundant  — ps