When my children were young, we occasionally took them to an old-fashioned coffee shop downtown called Round-The-Clock. It was of a dying breed – linoleum tabletops, homemade cakes under glass domes, sugar jars with pour spouts, waitresses in candy-colored uniforms wrapped in white aprons. After consuming stacks of pancakes or grilled cheese sandwiches, they would rush to the front of the diner to take a spin at the giant treasure chest. There, the proprietor would direct each of them in turn to stomp their foot three times to open the chest, which they did with absolute conviction. Magically, the chest would creak open revealing a huge pile of tokens, sweets and little puzzles to choose from. It was such a potent moment, I could almost feel the racing of their tender hearts inside my own chest.
Eventually, as they grew older, the magic of the moment faded as they realized it was not them opening the chest but the restauranteur. As a mother, I watched as the enchanting sense of empowerment they had as young children was replaced with resignation at best, disillusionment at worst. And I can’t help but wonder -- isn’t this the effect a contemporary life has had on us all? Haven’t we all suffered a moment or more of thinking we aren’t as powerful as we thought we were? Haven’t we all believed someone or something outside ourselves must give us access to our treasure chest?
It’s not surprising given that we have been conditioned to think that our value is measured in currency, that we must earn our riches from the external world and that wealth is both finite and calculable. But these are just our misunderstandings.
The dictionary would define wealth as “the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.” This certainly defines the way we’ve traditionally viewed wealth – cold, dry and transactional. But, the truth is that there is a divine wealth that explodes the parameters of dictionary wealth.
Our riches come in many packages: money, yes, but also space, time, friendship, goodness, insight, ideas, confidence, creativity, comfort, community, contentment, rest, gratitude, opportunity, wisdom, laughter, breath, spice, sweetness, generosity, music, silence, love. And we do not have to earn any of these. They are free – our birthright. We draw these into our lives with our appreciation of their value and how worthy of them we feel we are.
Within The Cosmic Laws of Cosmic Awareness, The Law of Prosperity states that “one prospers in direct proportion to the enjoyment one receives in seeing the prosperity of oneself and others." And that "one’s prosperity is denied in direct proportion to one’s feeling of guilt for being prosperous, or at the envy and hostility one feels on witnessing other’s prosperity.”
Additionally, if we haven’t taken the time to define what wealth means to us personally, the riches do not become inspired to move toward us. This is nothing more than the physical law of resonance.
The nature of life is abundance, and we humans belong to life the way hearts belong to love. We are both the creators and the beneficiaries of abundance. But we must believe it is so. Our journey is not to figure out how to receive more and more. It is about our knowing that there will always be more than enough and that our access to the flow of abundance begins and ends with us. As with all personal growth projects, the wealth journey will test us and put us on unfamiliar trails. It will take us to places on the inner plane we might rather avoid. But the reward is only available where we are willing to go. It is only knowable in what we are willing to know and unknow.
Don’t you think it is time for the willing to stomp our feet and command the chest to open?
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