G is for "Good"

It's Good for You!

Abundance means an overflowing, unlimited supply of all good things.
Many of us pray for Good to be granted to us - financial freedom, loving relationships, superb health - and then wonder, with increasing doubt and disbelief (the deadly duo that stops Good in its tracks), "Where the heck is it, already?" when we've worked and hoped and prayed so very, very hard.

Often, what keeps our Good from coming to us is an inability to accept it because, on the unconscious level, we refuse our Good for sound, solid, self-protective reasons, like:

• If I get what I want, I will lose love and/or approval
• If I get what I want, I will become greedy or selfish
• If I get what I want, God (or other people) will strike me down
• If I get what I want, I'll screw it up or lose it and be left more miserable than before
• If I get what I want, something bad will happen
• If I have more, others will have less

How much more Abundance will you experience when you stop "protecting" yourself from what you imagine to be the hideous consequences of getting what you ask for?
Are you willing to imagine, just for a moment, that you can ask for, receive and keep the Good you desire without losing love, approval, friendship, safety, your life, or the lives of your loved ones?
Are you willing to imagine, just for a moment, that you can still be a good person and feel good about yourself, even if you ask for, receive and keep all the Good you desire? 

G is for "Good Girl/Good Boy" 
Are you good enough?

The people-pleasers among us (including me) usually get programmed in early childhood.

How?
The people who raised us withheld love and/or approval until we did "X" or stopped doing "Y."
So we packed away the desires and feelings others dubbed unacceptable, and made ourselves as small and invisible as possible so that, if we did not please, at least we might not offend the Powers That Be.

Eventually we internalized those disapproving voices, so whatever we achieve, it is not good enough. We are not good enough. Ever.

Being "good enough" does not compute because it's not in the people-pleasing program.

Our self-esteem comes to depend almost entirely on how other people feel about us - even if we know, intellectually, that their feelings are always about them, never about us.

How abundant is it to give other people such power over you?
How abundant would you be if you took back your power by deciding you're fine just the way you are?

After all, you are as God made you. God knows all about you - all your secrets and sins - and loves you completely and eternally, no matter what.

If you're good enough for God right now, exactly as you are, when will you be good enough for you?

Try this at home for "Gratitude" 

To create more abundance today

Click here to listen to me walk you through this exercise

A highly effective prayer structure

that taps into the power of Gratitude goes something like this:

"I am so happy and grateful now that I have ... (a radiantly healthy body, a loving and supportive romantic partner, a steady and dependable income of $10,000 a month or more). It's even better than I imagined! Thank you!"

Feel the way you would feel if this prayer were answered.

What if you don't know how to do that?

Picture yourself enjoying the results of your successfully answered prayer.

See yourself with the splendid healthy body, with the fabulous romantic partner, or whatever.

Put yourself in the picture.

Give the picture movement, color and emotion, like a movie in your mind.

Swim in the feelings for as long as you can. 

Do this for 17 seconds every day and watch what happens!