I decided a while ago to MEMORIZE the Financial Meditation created by Abraham-Hicks as a way of deepening my connection to the material (and keeping my brain alive.)
I also think it harkens back to a piano teacher in college who was big on memorization, insisting that you didn’t really “know” a piece until you could play it from memory.
Anyway, having all those lines from the 15 minute meditation under my mental belt is fascinating.
I find them seeping into my thoughts in all sorts of situations.
I was particularly appreciative of them when I started doing sensory deprivation floating because it gave me a focus –– even though I always fall asleep for a little bit while in the tank –– that I could keep coming back to.
Oddly, they have proved astonishingly useful now that I am swimming because I use them to remember which lap I’m on. Otherwise, I find myself always wondering “Is this 16 or 18?” as I’m splashing away.
Now that I have a meditative focus, it’s somehow made the swimming that much easier, too.
I literally have something to think about and repeat mentally for each length. (It turns out that the way I broke up the meditation in terms of individual lines somehow just gives me enough time to recall the line and reflect on it for a bit before I’m at the other end of the pool.)
Anyway, one of my favorite lines in it –– #9 in my breakdown –– is “Your work is not one action. There are no courses to complete, there are no requirements for you to meet.”
I have found myself –– particularly with an ebook about to be released –– convinced that I should take every internet marketing seminar known to man (along with attending every webinar as well).
And this weekend, a friend shared with me a very popular program that I actually thought was pretty good in and of itself, and definitely a nice refresher of basic marketing principles, and with maybe like a 5 to 7 percent new information/powerful re-framing that was helpful. [And don’t get me wrong, sometimes that 5% upgrade is enough to get you totally back on course –– think of a rocket ship totally sailing past its target planet and then redirecting –– or gives you an effortless improvement to your website that doubles your mailing list.]
But my dominant take-away –– besides being super-appreciative for my friend –– was that it turns out that I actually am pretty much on track and, in this instance, Abraham is really right: “there are no courses to complete; there are no requirements for me to meet.”
[And now maybe I can finally watch the third season of DOWNTON ABBEY and/or the last TWILIGHT, thereby rejoining civilization and reunited with all my assorted demographics.]
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