A radical and powerful way to attract abundance is to learn to BE abundance rather than chase it. When I speak of abundance, it’s more than just finances. It’s also about our quality of life, relationships, time and more. I’ve found over the years of teaching others to live this that in the beginning it takes practice, but eventually, Divine abundance begins to guide you. Any need to constantly try to manifest, visualize, or co-create starts to fall away for most people, because Love begins to reveal all needed actions in a spontaneous way.
While there are many tools for how to do this here is one of the simplest: the release of the word “my” from all problems, desires, and even achievements. This disentangles the rulership of the ego and creates an almost immediate spaciousness and peace. Many people have expressed what freedom comes from that one small change.
Offering is the heart of this teaching.
It’s handing any burden—whether a desire, attachment, illness, finances, or anything—back to God. After all, it was Hers to begin with! In a way, doing so says, “This is persecuting me so much, I can no longer lean on my ego’s own strength. Please show me Your will.”
True offering takes what can be an unbearable cross and returns it to Love. It untangles you from the seemingly inescapable thicket of doership. One easy way to begin is simply by replacing ‘my’ with the. We’re taught to think of ‘my money’, ‘my body’, ‘my partner’, ‘my happiness’, ‘my failure’. Even ‘my awakening’. In Western culture, the trance of ‘my’ is king. But here’s the catch: If it all belongs to you (the ego), the burden is all yours as well.
With the simple substitution of ‘the’, grasping softens, and offering begins.
Take, for example, “I’m worried right now about this business . . . and I’m thrilled to be offering all to Love for the right actions to be shown at the right time.”
This can be applied to anything. Sally had built an entire agonizing identity centered around her terrible rheumatoid arthritis, which is so easy to do. She was always saying, “my illness,” “my restrictions,” “my expenses about all this” with increasing anger and desperation.
I suggested that since she had nothing to lose, she could offer the entire mess to the Divine and release the my.
She began to say, “I give this illness fully to You. Please, please make me open and show me the right actions. And if there’s not currently a solution, please at least let me accept this for now and make clear what I need to learn.”
She immediately felt more spacious simply from dropping that my. And over time, the process of offering, acceptance, and disentanglement brought healing she’d never imagined. She felt guided to return to an acupuncturist she’d seen many years before who used treatments, herbs, and diet. However, this time it all worked, perhaps because she’d finally released the grip of her ego’s identification with the problem. Although flare-ups still come, she’s much improved.
Also a part of Sally’s process was acceptance. While this idea is currently popular, it can be far easier to invite through prayer than by trying to convince the ego to accept what it hates. This means praying to embrace something As It Is in the now. Not forever, just right now, since in God’s world, things can turn on a dime.
Radical acceptance in the now opens the Flow.
The concept that “whatever you resist, persists” has some truth. One of the greatest revelations of my life was that I could pray for this radical allowing, especially when stuck in total resistance. I could say, “Let me embrace this only for the moment. Let me say yes just for now.” Acceptance is neither resignation nor powerlessness, but an opening of the Way for the next right actions.
© 2019. Tosha Silver Excerpted from the book, It’s Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance. Hay House.
