Step 6: Wrapping it All Up

Are We There Yet?

Twenty years ago prosperity looked very different for us than it might today. One year ago, one month ago, one week ago prosperity looked different. Our goals change, our ideals change, our values change, and our inspiration changes – some times from day to day. Although we choose goals and signposts to guide us on our path to prosperity, re-evaluation is a constant part of the process and where we go with our prosperity is changing with us. Prosperity is a journey of spiritual development and each day, as we participate in a spiritual practice - do a meditation, a yoga set or a prayer - and process the experiences we garner from them, we change. There is no “there.”

Keeping Up

In all facets of our lives, we have to keep up. It is no different on the quest for a more prosperous life. Each day, though we may be confronted with distractions, obstacles, and all the busy aspects of life, keeping up is the focus that allows prosperity to start and keep flowing in our lives. When in a great mood, it’s easy to remember all the positive affirmations, projections and qualities of creating that prosperous life. The real test is to keep it up despite stress, turmoil, a lucky break, a large bill, a sick family member, impatience, or the many other things we can experience and feel.

Continued Evaluation

To this purpose, continued evaluation is essential. Keeping up with exercises is important. It’s easy to forget to see our progression when we are reaching towards even greater goals we haven’t reached yet. But just as we take one step at a time, so do we need to recognize each gradual change we are experiencing in our lives, in our prosperity, in our awareness and projection.

More than ever going over your blessings each day will help you recognize the changes that are happening on all levels, subtle, pragmatic or otherwise. Keep up with the Attitude of Gratitude, keep doing your prosperity meditation, keep logging your process, your thoughts, any hurdles you bump against, and your progress. Read through it frequently and acknowledge the changes you are going through.

The Changing Times

We embark upon a Path of Change, and then we start changing! And that can baffle and confound those around us who may not be as prepared or excited about the changes we have made as we are ourselves. This is a critical subject and concern, because if we are not aware; 

• that it could happen, 
• that it could produce negative energy in a place we expected support, and
• that it could even turn into other things like camouflaged sabotage,

we could be in for surprises that could make us lose our equilibrium, momentum, and the positive strides we have made on the Path to Prosperity.

Proactive is the word here. It is natural for people to reflect upon their own situations when someone around them is changing. Here are some proactive steps you might consider taking:

• Look at your life and be real about your relationships.
• Discuss your plans for the prosperity program, and possibly even some of the processes you are or might be going through.
• Share with people what you expect from them, and make sure they are ok with your expectations, that they feel they can provide you with the support you are seeking.
• Let the people in your life know that your processes may trigger stuff in them, but that you want to be equally supportive and that you are trusting them to talk to you about things so that no negativity need arise between you.

If it happens? If your Path to Prosperity is an important personal investment of your time and space, if it is truth for you, you need to stick to it. It might mean taking more personal space from someone who is negative about it, until you can work things out. It might mean developing a support group that is not in your immediate circle of acquaintance. It might mean not sharing these experiences with people who are uncomfortable with the changes. Whatever it means, by knowing your own personal truth and sticking to it, and by meditating on your circles of interaction, you will intrinsically understand what actions you need to take to stay on course.

Support Systems

Support systems, internal and external, are like the vitamins of keeping up. Your commitment to the process is big, keeping up is big – and support systems are important to have in place because life is not a straight line. There are ups and downs, and we are pulled every which way in life. Being able to laugh or cry is a real blessing in the processes of change in life.

And, of course, although we want and expect support from certain people in our lives, there is, as described in the last section, not always the support we expect from them. Creating a support system is as big as all the other parts on our Path to Prosperity, and very personal, too. You have to know what works as support; what may work for one, might not work for another person. Here are some different examples of what might be helpful while traveling the Path of Change in your life:

External Support Systems

• Finding a support person in the way of a prosperity pal/partner on the adventure
• Making a time commitment to meet with your prosperity partner, to discuss, meditate or share
• Sharing with friends, family, or partners who are on a similar path
• Creating and participating in a support group
• Participating in positive reinforcement events
• Teaching what you have learned so far to someone else

Internal Support Systems

• Be committed. If you say you will do it, then do it. Do not allow yourself reasons, excuses or any other means of breaking your commitment. If, however, something were to come up, pick yourself right up and keep going. Don’t give up your momentum, step right back into place and move onward. Forget guilt, it’s a time-waster.
• A strong personal sadhana (daily spiritual discipline) and keeping up with your daily prosperity meditation are incredibly valuable. Make no mistake, the subconscious and unconscious minds, the ego and many other elements of our personalities are likely to pop up and offer us many, many reasons to stop what we are doing. But who’s the boss here? If you’re the boss, ignore them, kick them out, do whatever it takes to get rid of them and keep going.
• Other supportive meditations (i.e. for strength, courage, keeping up, Breathwalk™, etc.)
• Deep silent meditation
• Mantra/chanting
• Walking, or other forms of physical exercise

Epilogue

Like all elements of life, a spiritual path is continual evaluation, reflection and processing. Often it is described as a spiral path. Sometimes it might seem like we are addressing something we have encountered before; but we have grown spiritually, it may be at a deeper level now; each day we are, in essence, different people than we were yesterday. Prosperity is no different. Like our spiritual development prosperity is incredibly personal. We each experience life, the universe and the Infinite in our own personal way. No one path could possibly ever fit every unique being on this planet.

My goal here was not to write anything in stone, but rather to give you the guidelines you need to embark upon your own path, the Path to Prosperity. The questions I asked may not be the questions you would ask yourself, but hopefully they will spark in you the desire to ASK the questions you would ask yourself; hopefully these guidelines and steps will inspire you to look at your picture of prosperity, your habits, and your feelings about it, because with awareness, comes change.

"We’ve received many calls, many emails and many comments of appreciation, but ours is the blessing! "If you want to learn something, read about it; if you want to understand something, write about it; if you want to master something, teach it.”

~Yogi Bhajan

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May your life be blessed with the beauty of Spirit, Light, Consciousness, may your path always be prosperous and may you be blessed to serve.