Prosperity Lesson from Another Broken Broom

You might have heard the story from our life before we discovered the principles of prosperity and began to consciously abide them. I was in a relentless depression that held my thoughts in a discouraged, negative place of despair for a very long time. On edge over money problems, I snapped when I stepped outside of our two-bedroom apartment to find my broom had been broken in half by a teenager who lived nearby.

With my mindset where it was, the only way I could think to solve the problem was to call the police. I didn't have money to replace the broom, and I was too angry to see any alternative solutions.

In my prosperity seminars, I tell this story to illustrate "thought frequencies." We think at a certain level, and experience results which will always be in harmony with the way we think. If we want different results, we must learn how to think on a higher plane. Most of the time, it requires learning from someone else who already does.

If you continue to face similar problems year in and year out, you must consider that you cannot think your way out of a problem that you (consciously or subconsciously) thought your way into... unless you think differently than you ever have before. When you face a challenge, know this: a solution does exist. If you come up with a solution on the same thought frequency that you’ve had all along, it will not get you the results you hope for. If you cannot think of a solution at all, it is simply because you are not yet tuned in to the frequency on which the solution is broadcast through the room, even right now, as you read.

To help you understand this, think of a radio. When you turn on a radio, and adjust the dial, eventually you'll tune in to a broadcast and the sound becomes audible and clear. If you want a different broadcast, you adjust the dial. The radio did NOT "attract" the music... the music was already there.

Solutions to your dilemmas are also "already there". If you cannot think of them, it is because your "receiver" is not yet "tuned" properly. Once it is, the solution comes directly to your mind with clarity as an "aha" moment, or you are led to the person or resource which will reveal the solution to you. Your body, the tool of your mind, is a literal receiver, tuned according to its vibratory state, which is controlled by your thoughts and emotions. It’s that simple.

The first step to "tuning in" is to see yourself experiencing the relief you seek. See it in your mind's eye, as though it were really happening to you, right now. As you build the picture in your mind and allow yourself to FEEL the success, you are literally altering the vibratory state of your body, the physical tool your were given at birth.

Constantly entertaining the awful "what if's" keeps your body in a vibratory state which only tunes you in to PERCEIVED solutions and ideas that will actually keep you moving toward the disaster you're trying so desperately to avoid.

Alternatively, you're free to dream. It's the first step toward freedom! As you dream, you literally alter your energy-connection to things in the world around you, to begin moving all things prosperous into your life. Everything you need already exists. Prepare yourself to receive by thinking truth in spite of appearances, that life IS abundant. Prosperity abounds, and it is only an altered vibratory state away.

Back to the broom, now. Just last week my 12 year-old son came to me and sheepishly said, "Mom, I broke your broom."

My first thought was a flashback to the day I called the police (exactly ten years ago) because of my broken broom.

Then I smiled, because I realized that, even though I didn't really WANT to buy another one, I wasn't worried about it. So the floor might be messy for a while. Not a big deal. So I have to get another one. I'll get around to it. I have bigger fish to fry than to worry about something so trivial. I could think of a hundred ways to solve the problem now. Same problem, different experience, because I'm finally tuned in to a growing wealth of ideas.

Stress shuts the idea channels off. Calmness, or serenity, opens them up. Trusting God and melting into peace is flipping the ON-switch for your inspiration receiver.

"Peace... be still" is good advice at any level. Trust God. The degree of success you enjoy will be in direct correlation to your ability to remain calm and rely on Him through increasingly complicated challenges.

Your prosperity will grow as you demonstrate serenity at each level. In time, you'll look back and see that what was so hard for you before is child's play now. Whether it is the threat of foreclosure or concern that the application for something important is denied, in 10 years you'll laugh that you once worried the way you did about your "broken broom," figuratively speaking . . . But only if you improve your thinking and change your vibratory state now.

How?

Be inspired by feeding your mind with higher-level ideas. It doesn't have to be formal, just get around people who think right. Spend time with them in person, or read their books if they have some. Associate. (The Prosperity Forums are a great place to do that, by the way! Get to know each other, and identify those who understand things a little better than you. Pay special attention to those who are identified as FTMF Home Study Participants... they have a wealth of experiences to share!)

In truth, at every level there is a better way to think, which is why we (as well as OUR own personal mentors) keep learning and associating with better thinkers, too.