I'm afraid I agree with Hartreefoch and Jeanne and by the way THIS IS NOT A NEGATIVE MESSAGE!! For the record, my reason for taking part in any or all of these forums is to help cultivate healing and deep connection - not to promote negativity. The art of criticism often gets a bad press but it does not necessarily mean outright "negativity" - rather being honest enough to highlight something that is "not" for you can actually represent a positive and honest approach. Surely diversity and difference is good?
Do "I" create my abundance - do I create my life? No - the "I" we are talking about here and which, unfortunately I think this type of commercialised approach can encourage (at least in my case) - is merely an extension of ego; a greedy, fearful, needy false "self". To be honest, if we want to really wake up to abundance and truth in our lives, we need to park our "selves" at the door and open up to the unknown - to the real abundance, which isn't owned, marketed, sold or easily packaged. I'm not affiliated to any particular religion but it's the stuff that is bigger than ourselves - the essence that is beyond us and our self-absorbed concerns - that is what creates life - and what creates abundance. And it still remains a mystery to our limited minds and concepts.
So please don't read this as a negative trashing of an evident attempt to help people to cultivate positivity in their lives. If it really works for some people, great! It's just that to "me", an ego that unfortunately responds well to the potential trappings of material wealth, this particular method or path or tool, simply reinforces the very "self" that I am trying to park by the door. Hence the suspicion on my part.
That said, this of course doesn't mean that this particular tool won't work for others. It's just not for "me". And in the end does any of this really matter anyway in the grand scheme of things? Does "me" really matter anyway?
Thank God (pardon the pun) for the Unknown...
lots of love
Ingrid :0)
