Abundance is a spiritual quest ...

Unless you are born rich or got rich pretty easily by doing things the right way by accident, getting materially rich really is a spiritual quest.
I notice this more and more.  I have been one (as so many) who has been raised with the 'save your money because bad days maybe coming-consciousness'.  Although I never did that (I always spent my money :-), the fear of lack is deeply programmed in my mind.
My life has always been a quest for independance.  Very soon after I graduated, I became self-employed in life insurance.  Even then, I was already confronted with the responsability for my own income, which is something completely different than being employed and getting your paycheck every mont.  Even this 'certainty' is an illusion obviously, because someone 'keeping' his job is as 'uncertain' as a self employed getting enough customers. But we 'think' we are more certain, which makes it more certain.  See the trick? :-)
And this is what it is really about.  It is about what you believe is your 'source' of income. (funny word, now I look at it in this perspective :-)  Now that I am a fully self-employed life coach for some time, I get confronted with these old fears again, and even on a way stronger level!  Because now (as opposed to my period in life insurance) I do not live with my parents anymore, but in a beautiful house in Brussels, I don't get company trips anymore and pay for my for luxurious travels around the world myself, I don't drive the car anymore I got from my parents when I was 21 yo, but monthly pay off a decent amount on a nice car.  And although my finances have never been as good as now, this little old voice still wants to convince me of the bad that might be coming, of the customers who might stay away, of the big bill I will not be able to pay ...
And so it (still) is quite some practice to keep my focus on the way of thinking that already got me where I am.  (which is pretty good already even if I say it myself :-p).
You wanna know why?  Well, because I am never satisfied.  And I always want more.  I want to see how far I can take it.
And that, my friends, really is spiritual practice.  Because what is enlightenment anyway?  It is being able to only hear your souls voice, to only listen the voice of the universe, of source and to always focus on the idea that shows your highest vision.
Without my quest for 'more', I would cease to do this.  I would just glide into a new comfort zone, albeit a very comfortable one :-)  Without wanting to know how much abundance can flow trhough me, I would just get stuck in new paradigms, in new ways of fixed thinking and 'security'.
Many times in my quest in the last years, in small moments of despair, I have thought: 'I'm just gonna go to India and meditatie in some Ashram for a few years'. Although this is an experience I am most certainly going to have (albeit for a few months instead of years :-), it would just be an escape.  It would just be spiritual weakness.  Because there is nothing 'hard', nor 'enlightning' about spending your years in a convent. (don't get me wrong, I am a great proponent of mediation - I'll tell you about that in another blog!).
You would just be escaping the opportunity of being able to do what you came to do here in the first place: create.  Mould the clay.  Make the vision reality.  Train your mind to focus.  Master your mind.  Live all days in joy and abundance.
So sure, the money is not the goal, the toys are not the goal.  But they are a great means for you to focus.  They offer a great chance for you to see how great you faith really is.  How much you really trust your self.  How much you really trust source - god - the universe - life - whatever.
So please do not feel guilty for wanting more!  Know that it is your Source who is calling you towards it. Make the downpayment for the trip you so want to make!  Fill out the registration form for the seminar you know will change your life!
Here's to all yours abundance!
That you may be rich without trying!
That you may be joyous without 'having'
That you may know your inner wealth,
which is the wealth of the universe,
infinite love
and life.

Big hug,
Dietrich x