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What's Love Got to Do With It?

What’s love got to do with prosperity? Everything!

And we are going full speed into the “Love” zone prior to tomorrow's upcoming Valentine holiday…

In this special holiday workshop, we'll discuss:

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Universal Love (Loving Mankind)

It is more commonly known that the subconscious records everything that you have ever thought, said, heard, felt and experienced. It has a perfect memory of everything that has happened and ever will happen to you.

Now, what I am getting to here is that when you think of someone else in a critical, negative, disparaging way, guess what? Your subconscious thinks you are talking about yourself. And the subconscious mind does not reason or analyze…it just accepts your words and ideas as an order to be carried out.

So you have just called someone a jerk…or something more expressive. Your mind hears this and records it and as far as your subconscious mind goes, you are now a jerk. I’ll bet you’ll be thinking about that one for a while.

This gives a whole new insight to that old expression: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all."

Interesting bit of trivia: Did you know that Thumper said that in the 1941 animated classic, Bambi?

What we focus on, we create. What we repeatedly focus on, we create even faster. So if we are constantly criticizing our fellow man – finding fault, complaining, concentrating on flaws – then…we are helping to create and perpetuate the very thing we are critical about – and it doesn’t matter if your target is a family member, a neighbor, a boss, a politician, a president, a terrorist. And who is really the target of these negative thoughts and words? That’s right. Ourselves. We poison our own systems with these negative ideas that we think we are projecting elsewhere. And what we are concentrating on, we will attract more of, and then we will have more to complain about and the cycle goes on – whether on an individual level, as a community, or as a nation.

So the way to contribute to the beauty, goodness, positivity and healing of this world is to keep our minds and energy focused on the goodness and positive qualities in our fellow man and in this world. Then we will not only attract people of quality into our lives but we will be participating in the manifestation of more goodness and quality in mankind. When enough people on this planet realize this, then and only then can our world be truly healed.

Dr. Joseph Murphy said, “What we wish for our brother, we wish for ourselves.”

~ Marilyn

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Loving Money

Let's start out with the words we don't want to say and hear, but they may hit home and cause you to take stock...

Do you criticize money in thought and speech? Do you speak negatively of your bank balance or business income? Have you thought of money as a “necessary evil”, “the root of all evil”, “filthy lucre”? How do you feel when others have more money than you do?

Well, this Valentine's Day is a good time to take stock of these patterns and understand once and for all, that any of these ideas will certainly prevent the flow of prosperity to you.

Dr. Joseph Murphy taught...if you criticize money, it will fly away from you.

Why Is This So?

Remember that what we focus on we attract. If you focus on not having enough money, you will continue to not have enough money. If you envy someone else’s money, you are really telling your subconscious that you don’t have any. Your mind gets the same message if you live in a state of fear about money or give money a negative connotation. Remember, spiritual substance responds to our words and thoughts. Money has no more negative attribute than gold, silver, wheat, sheep or any other form of value exchange ever used.

How many of you are gardeners? How many of you believe that when you love your plants, you nurture them and they are happier and healthier plants?

How about your children? What happens when you love them and nurture them? Is there anything you can think of in your life that does not grow and prosper when showered with love and blessing and praise? If you love your body, it will respond with health and vitality. If you love your work or your business, it will grow and prosper. Well, you can also love money right into your life.

Dr. Murphy said that if we criticize money, it will fly from us. We must learn to love money. That means to love your checkbook, your bank accounts, your online statements – everything associated with money. Love money and you will attract it. Anything that you love, praise and bless will grow and prosper – be it human, animate or inanimate. Spiritual substance responds to our blessings and love.

I had one student who feared looking in her checkbook. I had her think of her checkbook with human characteristics and feelings. A feeling object that didn’t want to be rejected and feared. It wanted warm and fuzzies – love and appreciation. We laughed picturing her checkbook wanting hugs. She released her fear of looking in her checkbook. And she was well on her way to attracting money so that there would be even more to love.

Another student had checks jumping and running with glee into his pockets. This was an Internet businessman who used constant humor to attract money.

Do these methods feel silly? Will you feel silly loving money? Sure. Why not? I say feel silly all the way to the bank. :-)

Think of the larger picture. Aren’t you learning to “embrace” your prosperity? And haven’t we learned that the subconscious takes things literally?

Love money and have fun with it - and have fun making it. The more fun you can have with prosperity, the more you will attract.

What Is Money, Anyway?

I want to share a few excerpts from Charles Fillmore – the founder of Unity. These are excepts from his work entitled Prosperity. This is part of the introduction to my Feel Free to Prosper program.

"The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it. It is not affected by our ignorant talk of hard times, though WE are affected because our thoughts and words govern our demonstration. The unfailing resource is always ready to give. It has no choice in the matter; it must give, for that is its nature. Pour your living words of faith into the omnipresent substance, and you will be prospered though all the banks in the world close their doors. Turn the great energy of your thinking toward "plenty" ideas, and you will have plenty regardless of what men about you are saying or doing.

"The spiritual substance is steadfast and immovable, enduring. It does not fluctuate with market reports. It does not decrease in "hard times" nor increase in "good times." It cannot be hoarded away to cause a deficiency in supply and a higher price. It cannot be exhausted in doles to meet the needs of privation. It is ever the same, constant, abundant, freely circulating and available.

"This Spirit substance stands back of and gives support to man's every thought and word. It is ready to provide food for all living creatures everywhere.

"If we are to go forward spiritually, we must not waste our thought stuff in idle thoughts, in thinking thoughts of poverty, discontent, jealousy. We should positively weed out of consciousness all thoughts of poverty and failure, and in thinking or speaking of our affairs we should use the very highest and best language at our command."

[End of excerpts]

Now doesn’t this description of spiritual substance suggest a Divine form of love – the love of the creator for its creations. "Ready to provide for all living creatures everywhere." I can think of no higher form of love than the Love that Spirit holds for us. And all we need to do is open our minds and hearts to the Divine gifts. And included in those gifts is money.

Yes, you can love money - pure spiritual substance in the form of money. We have discussed what happens if you don’t love money. If you criticize money, you will repel it. If you buy into some antiquated belief that it is the root of evil or filthy, you will repel it. If you envy someone else’s money, you will repel it. If are afraid to go to your checkbook or bank account to see the balance, you will repel it. If you are in a constant state of worry or fear about money, you will repel it.

Isn't it time that you became a magnet for money and prosperity? Isn't it time for you to learn to love money? How about starting now - for Valentine's Day?

Here's a reminder...

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Money

~ Marilyn

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Loving Creatures

To continue our prosperity "Love Fest"...

It's almost Valentine's Day and thoughts of love are in the air. This was sent to me some time ago by an FFTP student,  just in time to share some "warm and fuzzies" from a couple of warm and fuzzie children of the Universe...

The Story (at that  time)...

A woman found the fawn under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car)...her Ridge Back dog is helping to look after it. The family named the fawn Bella. Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the family found her) they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two orphan deer and released them to the wild. Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog, Hogan, has basically taken over. The fawn even shares his bed.

Looks like true love to me.

~ Marilyn

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Loving Chocolate

So…what’s the real scoop on chocolate?

That depends.

First, the bad news…

Your favorite chocolate bar is 55% fat, depending on the amount of cocoa butter it contains. Besides a small amount of caffeine, chocolate contains theobromine, which is also a stimulant. (This is why hot chocolate before bed isn't a good idea.) Also, chocolate must contain a considerable amount of sugar in order to be edible.

Columbus found this out when he returned to Spain and presented Queen Isabella with a cup of pure hot chocolate, Aztec-Indian style. Her reaction was, "Yuk." It wasn't until 20 years later that the king of Spain thought to add sugar and vanilla.

Now, the good news…

Although a daily dose of chocolate could turn you into a "chocoholic," it can be helpful on occasion. According to the book Mood Food by William Vayda, one of chocolate's amino acids, phenylethylamine (PEA), called the “love chemical”, acts as a painkiller and antidepressant, which makes chocolate the "feel good food."

Consumption of chocolate and this amino acid helps trigger the release of endorphins, the body’s natural opiates, which provide a sense of well-being. Enhanced endorphin-release reduces the chocolate-eater’s sensitivity to pain. As if the Valentine's Day chocolate tradition needed an even greater boost, it is speculated that phenylethylamine is the chemical that the brain releases when people fall in love.

It is also said that the carbohydrates in chocolate help the brain release serotonin, a neurotransmitter that plays a central role in simply feeling peaceful and well. Concerning the fat issue, even though cocoa butter is a saturated fat, recent research shows that stearic acid, unlike other saturated fats, doesn't raise cholesterol levels. (The exception would be milk chocolate, which contains milk solids). No wonder folks fall in love with chocolate.

Throughout history, chocolate has been considered a natural aphrodisiac—an elixir for love. Casanova, the original ladies' man, ate chocolate to inspire romantic feelings. Montezuma, emperor of the ancient Aztecs, consumed chocolate to increase his virility.

In the 1800s, doctors routinely advised their lovelorn patients to eat chocolate to ease their pining over an unrequited love. This cure is no longer medically advised, but is still widely practiced—often with the help of two men named Ben and Jerry. :-)

In 1860, an English Quaker named John Cadbury joined with his brother Benjamin to create a chocolate business called the Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham. John touted his belief that imbibing chocolate was much healthier than drinking alcohol. A year later, his son Richard Cadbury introduced the first heart-shaped candy box for Valentine's Day. The tradition of buying chocolate for your sweetheart has blossomed ever since. Today, Americans spend more than a billion dollars on chocolates for Valentine's Day each year.

That’s a lot of love.

The above information about chocolate was found on MotherEarthNews.com and FoodFit.com.

And now THE LATEST GREAT NEWS!

Since I first gathered this information a couple of years ago, widespread news has surfaced about the health and antioxidant benefits of dark chocolate. Current medical “gurus” are now endorsing dark chocolate as a health food when eaten in moderation. Yippee!

~ Marilyn

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Love That Rock!

Some time ago, a Ryze friend sent me the following message that I found rather amazing. First, his message, then links to this amazing discovery. I cannot help but think that a bit of mind expansion into the unlimited resources of the universe will help with our prosperity work...and remind us of the truly unlimited abundance of this vast Universe...

Hi Marilyn,

I've recently learned of your call for "distant horizons" and thought you might enjoy reading about this newly discovered infinite source of "abundance" the Universe has to offer. Can you envisage a nicer symbolic gift for all the planet’s women on Valentine’s Day?

What you see below is not a photo. But what it depicts is rather amazing. It is a crystallized white dwarf named BPM 37093. A white dwarf is the hot core of a star, left over after the star uses up its nuclear fuel and dies. It is made mostly of carbon and is coated by a thin layer of hydrogen and helium gases.

And in this case it has now been found that the core of this star is SOLID DIAMOND. It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, if you want to measure it as an earth diamond. Supposedly our sun will end its days as a diamond as well.

Adrian

Click to See Photo Image Details from Harvard-Smithsonian:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0407image.html

Click to See Press Release from Harvard-Smithsonian:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0407.html

Thanks a trillion, Universe. :-)

~ Marilyn

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Love and the Other Stuff

And finally, to wrap up our Valentine love party…

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

~ Kahlil Gibran

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

~ 1 Corinthians 13:13

Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way.

~ Quote From a Kid

Happy Valentine's Day!                    

~ Marilyn

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Hello Marilyn and FFTP Family,

It has been a while since I have been here, and Marilyn, I so appreciate your call last night.  This Workshop is a wonderful reminder of so much we already know and can apply more completely.

  The truth is, THERE IS SO MUCH LOVE!  I remember when I first began to work with your Lesson One, the first thing that poured in from my abundant universe was Love!  The desert I had been living in was suddenly flooded with what I craved most to nourish my soul, and the money followed soon after.  And the lesson for me has always been to fill my heart with love and everything else will just be taken care of (sounds like "seek ye first the Kingdom.... "  doesn't it? ) Well, we live in the Kingdom of Love.

This was my 3rd Valentines Day since I met you here at Ryze, and it was the best ever.  The whole day was filled with Self Love, which I lavished upon myself.  I was in the midst of a week long process with myself, so I just focused on loving myself, and I even wrote a Valentine letter to myself, to bring that love to an even higher level of completeness. Part of the purpose of the exercise was yet another deeper level of self-forgiveness of anything that might still be interfering with the most full expression of my life-work on this beautiful planet.  Here is an abridged version, but you get the idea:

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