Attracting Wealth
We need to paint our house. We also need to rip out our living room rug and put down some kind of flooring. We’ve needed to do this for almost five years. We always pledge to do this with our tax refund, but end up using it keep up with daily expenses.
My son is very sick right now. He has pneumonia. His doctor says we are on the right course of treatment, but it’s been several days and I don’t see the kind of recovery I think I should be seeing. My husband and I were talking about it a few minutes ago and I looked around at the crappy rug (I’m actually looking at it right now and thinking “What color is this? It’s greyer than pond water. It’s browner than phlegm.) So I said to my husband, “I think we’d all be a lot healthier if we would tear out this damned rug and put down some flooring.” And we pledged again to use our tax refund to do this, and paint the house.
I work hard and under-earn like loads of people who are – as they say – “lucky enough to have jobs.” I am a remote candidate for a better position in my field. Better means loads of things, but among them it does mean more money. I thought to myself, as we pledged yet again to use our tax refund for some basic home maintenance, “If I get this job, we can easily afford to fix up the house, but if I don’t, I wonder if we will end up spending our tax refund on the mortgage and food.”
Then I thought, does getting this job and improving my general station in life preclude ripping out this stained sludge-water grey-brown rug and painting? Or does painting the house and ripping out the rug preclude improving my station if life? If I don’t get this job, it will be very hard to save the money we need for paint and flooring, but we can do it. We’re capable of doing the labor and we are capable of saving a few hundred dollars. It will just be hard. Regardless of whether I get this job, we will improve our station in life by giving our home the care that it needs and making it a healthier place to live. In doing that, I may also create little changes in myself that may attract this or another “better job” – a healthier, happier place for me to work.
But even that is a somewhat causal explanation for what I feel is actually more mystic. I sort of feel like putting in shiny new non-dust-mite-and-allergen-harboring flooring, and putting a fresh coat of paint on the house – a color we pick, a color we like! – will be kind of like a ceremony. We make a sacrifice to perform this act of renewal and in doing so we demonstrate to the universe that we value health and the ability to care for each other and our surroundings. And the universe provides more opportunities for us to demonstrate our values. One way the universe provides opportunities is through wealth.
(Money is energy.)
We are in a sick economy and the primary reason is policy. We are all here at DU because we understand that political action is necessary, that we must affect policy in order to improve our condition. But we are here in ASAH because we know there are other forces at work and ways we can access power right now.
It’s both frightening and encouraging to know how much the power to change my life is in my own hands. It’s encouraging for obvious reasons. It’s frightening because I have so many flaws. I’m tired and sick. I could work harder but I want to zone out – it’s so painful to constantly stay connected to your own life. But if you don’t progress through pain, you will never get to the other side.
I’m going to try. I think I work hard now. I think I have an austere lifestyle and it would be difficult to give up any more – but it’s not true. We can use our tax refund to rip out the damned rug and paint the house. I think the entire process will be transformative. I think my family and I will attract abundance by doing this. I am ready to help to allocate such abundance in service to what I value – health and the ability to take care of each other and our surroundings. (By surroundings, I do not only mean my little house, but my neighborhood, my community, and extending such reach as I am able.)
Thanks for reading all this. It’s meaningful to have a place to share; i.e. you all are cool.
Good night.
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You ARE cool.
Thanks for sharing such a personal and profound post! First, I wish for the speedy recovery of your son. He has a lot of love, that's for certain.
I think everyone here is wishing for more abundance. Money is energy and can get stagnant in so many ways. We must move, money must move, everything is a circle. Something always moves forward when action is taken. You should remain proud of your home improvement decisions.
I wish you great money energy for your new job/prospects /positions as well!
I already sense that you'll be happy with the results coming your way, and I hope to receive a bit of that money energy as well, and pass it on to the others here in a whirlwind of wealth attraction for all!
Whistling and winding it's way-a little SOUL MONEY!
And thanks for caring and taking the time to respond.
That's abundance right there.
you want that is in your highest and best interest. I hope plenty of money comes to you for your home improvement project regardless of the source, but most of all sending prayers and good thoughts for your child's speedy recovery.
and is based solely on personal experience, but I have used shiitake mushroom broth to break a fever, and presumably boost my immune system. I don't remember where I had originally read it, but I took dried shiitake mushrooms I had on hand, steeped them in boiling water for half an hour, and drank the broth straight. My flu-created fever went from 104.1 to just over 99 in a few hours! Again, though, this is only my one experience. If you have the mushrooms, it might be worth a try, or make the recipe in this link if you want something more palatable 
As for your money issues, I'm going to PM you something I can share, if you want it 
one of them turns out to be one I've bookmarked just now: Planet Green Flooring Guide
I don't know what flooring I'd go with as there are so many good ones. One of my brothers and his wife installed real linoleum in their kitchen and living room, and it looks great! It's definitely a very "green" material, and I'm glad it has been rediscovered.
what you want and need. Good luck!
Go for IT!!! And I'm sending for you and the whole Family esp Your son!!!
You got it girl...you are onto something!
I recently have had so many similar thoughts... and there are times I want to stick my head in the sand as well, but you are SO right in making the simple act of claiming your health and happiness a ceremony!
our LIVES are the ceremony, right? and if we can't have some love and faith in the universe, we will just keep manifesting the lack we always had...
I say NO MORE!
A few months ago I started a mantra "following my bliss pays me well"
Now, I had some vague idea of what that meant, but I kept it posted on my desk and stayed positive in the face of whatever 'setbacks' i experienced...
I also decided to stop reading all the news that said the economy and recovery were failing, that things weren't gonna get better. I decided to "un-hook" from the OLD Paradigm of what was crumbling, and "plug-in" to the new paradigm, that I could be taken care of and enjoy what I did at the same time. I was going to create my OWN economy recovery!
So while I am not 'out of the woods' by any means on paper...I am enjoying working on my own terms and getting a new contract or two as well...
and when anyone asks how i am doing...I say I am just 'plugging away' 
