Prosperity Engine: How would you react to switching places with a prince, if you were a pauper? Prince Edward VI in 1545, illustrating Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper (1899). Drawing by unknown artist (PD).

When you achieve your goals, be prepared for some discomfort. The Old You is used to a different way of living—a different lifestyle. Simply relax into it. Be grateful for the momentary discomfort; it will pass. Just persist with the new beliefs and attitudes so the prosperity will continue to last long enough for you to practice being comfortable with your new existence.

When you are brand new at a new outlook on life, there may be a tendency to fall back into old habits.

Life happens and new, incomplete habits fall by the wayside. That can be frustrating, until you put frustration aside, and ask, “What do I need to do next?” or “What lessons do I need to learn next?”

The answer that came back to me involved two steps:

Reasserting the daily exercise routine with which I had started, andFlooding each day with massive progress until the new routine is a natural habit.

My own routines currently include half-hourly breaks to do light exercises. My loving wife doesn’t want me sitting for long hours at a stretch. And I wholeheartedly agree. Our physical bodies were not optimized for a sedentary lifestyle, yet my work includes mostly computer-related work—research and writing.

Starting yesterday, I began repeating a mini version of my morning routine, which had been completely dropped out in the mornings leading up to Christmas. This mini version included,

A few moments of meditation to reassert the spiritual viewpoint.A few moments of spiritual viewpoint shifting, first several points in my office, then around town and then around the planet.Another look at my inspirational, SubscribeStar invitational video.And a few moments writing down any negative feelings which were triggered by this half-hourly routine, plus the positive, deeply grateful replacement beliefs.

In addition, I’ve implemented a post-dinner routine of 15–20 minutes (between half-hour breaks) to attack proactively the subconscious negative beliefs with the “dangerous” How and Why questions you’re usually not supposed to ask (see “Prosperity Engine — Update — Tracking Down the Dark Negatives,” for more details on this approach). At this point, I figure that once a day is enough for this “deep dive into darkness” type of activity.

Of course, each negative belief triggered by the “How” or “Why” question-of-the-day, needs to be replaced by a positive decision with a powerfully positive feeling.

If a positive replacement is compelling enough, I’ll add it to my morning affirmation routine.

Reversal Tactic

On Christmas Eve, feeling the spirit of the season, I realized that a laziness had crept into my life. On closer inspection, I discovered that a strong “must have” intention had plowed me into a dark bank of forgetfulness and failure. This was actually quite funny to me, making it easy for me to look upon it with humor and admiration, at ego’s cleverness at thwarting my forward progress.

Solution?

Gear shift knob, with reverse gear marked “R.” A handy metaphor for building our Prosperity Engine.

Easy! Whenever there is a feeling of grinding gears with any and all forward progress, try reverse gear.

Ego, the physical, false self wants to protect itself against erasure and replacement by the true, spiritual self. Spirit is invulnerable, so physical self-sacrifice is easy from that viewpoint. But so is spiritual self-sacrifice.

Taking full responsibility for the blockage means taking the viewpoint and intention of ego’s selfish self-protection. But taking responsibility makes it impossible to be victim to ego’s intent. Taking responsibility also sucks the persistence (time) right out of ego’s temporary barrier.

When you take full responsibility for a barrier or problem, you return that barrier or problem to its timeless, “instant of creation.” The time dimension for that problem rotates in the time stream, going from infinitely long potential duration, to zero (infinitely thin) duration. The next moment, the spiritual “cursor,” in the physical realm, moves to the next moment, and suddenly, the problem is in the past; you are free of that problem entirely.

Remember what Christ said about the truth setting you free. That truth unavoidably involves responsibility.

An upside-down car is not exactly what I had in mind for the Reversal Tactic, but inspiration can lead you to many seemingly bizarre ideas which work like a charm. Photo: #1572638_1920 by LeeBest90 (CC0) Pixabay.

Even the intention of gratitude (composed of love and humility) unavoidably triggers responsibility. When gratitude is used to dissolve problems and barriers, the responsibility is aimed at those problems and barriers. When gratitude is used to help a creation persist, the triggered responsibility is also aimed at any and all barriers or negative considerations which would otherwise block that persistence.

Responsible gratitude is an act of generosity.

One example of this Reversal Tactic is to wish for everyone else in the universe to accomplish your goal before you do. This completely eliminates the sense of urgency or importance. But the commitment is still there. When you finally achieve the zero ego point—between desire and aversion—the goal is ready to ripen. Letting go of the picture of your goal, while maintaining full confidence that it is done, allows the goal to manifest in physical reality. Even to me, this felt counterintuitive, at first, but it starts to feel more and more natural, especially once you see it work on things that are not nearly as important to ego.

In summary, using an attitude that is the reverse of your goal can sometimes help unstick ego from building up a barrier, and restart the forward progress.

Prosperity Engine Progress

I’ve been making some interesting breakthroughs, including starting to see more clearly my spiritual intentions. There is still a lot of darkness to clean up, but large swaths of awareness now allow me to see some of the patches of fog. Plus, I can sense more easily when an intention has become stuck and needs the above reversal tactic.

I’ve also noticed that I occasionally become too insistent about my current, Prosperity Engine goal—$5 million in my local bank. Commitment is good; but importance can sometimes get in the way. The trick is to have commitment that isn’t leaning toward desire and away from failure. Lately, I’ve included in my meditation an exercise to push toward the goal, and then a push away from it, observing the effects it has on me and my environment. I’m starting to see more clearly with spiritual eyes.

I also had some breakthroughs in cleaning up specific items in my own subconscious. I had already discovered a previously hidden belief in my inability to follow through as promised. I traced that back to an event at 9 months of age where my late mother was enraged that I had forgotten to put away my toys. Yes, 9 months of age! At that point, I still did not fully understand English, but I understood the emotion my mother had used. I was terrified and confused. I couldn’t understand why I would have forgotten to put away my toys. But there they were—sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor and not on the white bookshelf next to the trailer door.

I felt the desire to do good, and the sense of self-betrayal that became drilled into me by my mothers outrage. Though she had only made things worse for me, at the time, suddenly, upon taking full responsibility for her actions against me, I could only feel the deepest love for her. After all, we are all in this school together. We are all guilty of far worse crimes and need to forgive, plus take 100% responsibility for everything.

With this breakthrough, success now seems even more inevitable.

Steady, methodical progress. The tools are all here. All I need to do is to keep using them and success is ensured.

Coming Up Next

In the next day or so, I’ll have another blog on “The Dimensions of Leftist Corruption.” And I used to be a Leftist. Imagine that! I’m getting smarter in my “old age.”