How to Use the Powerful Powerful Pri rinc ncipl iple e of Gratit ratitude ude To Att A ttract ract What You Don’t Don’ t Yet Yet Have Have
Marilyn Jenett
Feel Free to Prosper www.feelfreetoprosper.com
Copyright © 2003-2011 Marilyn Jenett, Feel Free to Prosper All rights reserved
Copyright © 2011 Marilyn Jenett, Feel Free to Prosper
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Marilyn Jenett Los Angeles, CA 90025 www.feelfreetoprosper.com
About the Author
Marilyn Jenett is a renowned prosperity mentor with an international following. She is also an accomplished businesswoman and owner of a company, www.marilynjenettlocations.com, that served the corporate arena for 20 years. Her achievements were the result of the prosperity principles she now teaches in her Feel Free to Prosper Program, www.feelfreetoprosper.com, a simple yet powerful lesson and mentoring program based on mental and spiritual laws. Students traditionally experience results within two weeks!
Marilyn founded the Feel Free to Prosper program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. Her students, from around the globe and from all walks of life, are enjoying remarkable success applying her lessons and participating in her private and group sessions, teleclasses and audio programs. Her fascinating memoir, Feel Free to Prosper: an Entrepreneurial Memoir of Synchronicity and Guidance, was written completely online, has attracted over 47,000 views, hundreds of rave reviews, and literary agents and publishing offers based on her teachings. Both the memoir and Feel Free to Prosper - Two Weeks to Unexpected Income with the Simplest Prosperity Laws Available, the book based on her teachings, will soon be published.
Message fro m Marilyn You and I have much to be grateful for but there are many people whose life experiences are keeping them from tapping their mental and spiritual resources and they are stuck in survival mode. Just having a life jacket to land them on firm ground may be all that is needed to bring new hope and purpose to their lives.
I believe that the universal laws and prosperity teachings ARE that life jacket. They were MY life jacket years ago when I was kicking and screaming at the Universe for help and I was guided to my firm foundation. That’s why I was destined to become a teacher of these prosperity laws. I can think of no better way to help others than to offer them my knowledge of the laws. For many people, the holidays are not the most joyous time – statistics show this – but it's especially true when there is a lack of finances and supply. This material is based on The Gratitude Call, a special teleclass I conducted for Thanksgiving in 2004 and again in 2009. The call is available as an audio program on the website and is considered one of my most compelling calls, not only because of the content and the heartwarming response it generates, but because it creates such wonderful results for the listeners. Now I’ve created this written version that will be a great boost for your prosperity – whether you need encouragement and are just beginning to use the prosperity laws and or if you have achieved success but want more tools to expand.
Marilyn Thanksgiving 2012
Table of Contents
Message from Marilyn
4
Introduction
6
Preparation
7
Gratitude For What You Don’t Have?
9
The Universe
11
The Laws
11
Dominant Thought
12
There Is Only Now
12
Gratitude as the Magnet
13
Affirmations/Affirmative Prayer
14
Gratitude Attracts More and More into Your Life
17
The Simplest Gratitude Prayer
18
One Grateful Bird!
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Introduction
Gratitude:
Thankfulness
Thankfulness:
Conscious of benefit received; for what we are about to receive; expressive of thanks; well-pleased
The “attitude of gratitude” is one of the greatest – perhaps THE greatest – spiritual principle that can be applied to attain happiness, inner peace, health and financial prosperity. It is easy to be grateful for what you already have. But can you be grateful for what you don’t yet see? Not only are you about to learn the answer to that question, you are going to receive an even greater benefit from this teaching. You will learn an aspect of gratitude that is not commonly known – using the powerful principle of gratitude to attract what you don’t already have. If you apply it, it will change your circumstances dramatically, often at an astounding speed. The purpose of this teaching is to help you to become spiritually centered and to focus on spiritual principles that can help you create more of what you desire in life. First, I want to express one of the items on my personal gratitude list - my gratitude to you for embracing my teachings. I consider it an enormous blessing to be given the opportunity to share my thoughts and experiences with you. Let’s begin by putting you in a perfect state of gratitude to receive your prosperity in all its forms…
Preparation To create the mood for this lesson, please take a few moments to quietly contemplate and make a list of ten things in your life for which you feel grateful. Do that right now. Next, think of one or two things in your life that you are NOT grateful for at the moment. A challenge, issue or condition that you would like to change or something missing that you would like to create. I am going to teach you how to use gratitude as a powerful force for turning those situations around.
Jim… I received the photo below when it was included in a mailing for donations for DAV (Disabled Veterans of America). I was so taken and inspired by Jim's picture that I had to save it. It brought so much into perspective when I realized how easy it was to complain about things in our lives when in reality we have so much to be grateful for. Jim wasn't born this way. He served in Vietnam. His note that came with the photo read (in part): "I thought I lost everything in Vietnam, but thanks to the DAV, my life was turned around..."
If this man can turn his life around, find his peace and express gratitude for what he has in life, then shouldn't it be that much easier for us to take our gratitude consciousness to another level? After seeing Jim's photo below, make another list of TEN MORE things you have in life for which to be grateful.
"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have." Ralph Marston —
Gratitude For What You Don’t Have? Gratitude is one of the greatest prosperity principles that can be applied to every part of our lives. Only, we’re not just talking about the philosophical aspect of gratitude. I’m going to address gratitude from a practical standpoint – you are going to learn how to use gratitude as a very effective tool for manifesting results in your life. I am going to help you understand the relationship of gratitude to what is known as “affirmative prayer,” which is actually scientific prayer and I will explain why. We all know how to feel grateful for the blessings we have in life. But I want to teach you how you can feel grateful for those things you don’t have and don’t see yet and as a result draw them to you. How can you acquire gratitude when there are appearances to the contrary? You’ll learn how.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen — Hebrews 11:1
You are going to learn how to create the “substance of things hoped for” and the “evidence of things not seen.” Here is what I’m going to cover in this teaching material:
First I am going to give you a summary of basic mental and spiritual principles that lead to our discussion of gratitude. Then I am going to share my knowledge of how the principle of gratitude works when we align it with what we call “affirmative prayer.” By using this principle, you can turn your negative situations around dramatically. I am also going to include with this program, my own story about when I was held up at gunpoint that resulted in an experience that was against all odds. This was one of my greatest lessons about the power of the gratitude principle. If you have read my entrepreneurial memoir, you will remember the story.
To create the mood for our theme of gratitude, I asked you to make a list of 10 things in your life that you are grateful for. Have you done that? How about this for another perspective:
If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
—Anonymous
Next, I asked you to think of one or two things in your life that you are NOT grateful for at the moment – a challenge, issue or condition that you would like to change or something missing that you would like to create. If you haven’t done this, please do it now. You will learn how to use the gratitude principle combined with affirmative prayer to turn those very situations around by expressing gratitude for the solutions before they appear. Finally, I shared with you the photo of Jim, the Vietnam veteran who lost both his legs and one arm, and yet was able to turn his life around and find peace and purpose. I asked you then to make another list of 10 MORE things in life you have to be grateful for. Was that easier after seeing Jim’s photo and spirit? I remember hearing this quote when I was growing up. Then I found it paraphrased by a popular motivational speaker:
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. — Denis Waitely
So many in the military have suffered so that we can maintain our freedoms and I am so grateful to them. Please remember to include them in your future gratitude lists.
The Universe The Universe as we know it, see it and experience it, is not all there is. The Universe is always in motion – it is a vibrating, pulsating, resonating, magnetizing force and at the molecular level everything is in motion. It is pure energy. What we are talking about here is the pure formless substance of the Universe – we can think of this in spiritual terms as God, Higher Power, Spirit or the Universe, or address it mentally as Infinite Intelligence, Universal Mind. Or we can take a giant leap into the area of quantum physics, where it is known as the field of all possibilities. This Power – however you conceive it – is the source of everything we desire. It is awaiting our recognition and will create, attract, guide us to inspired action, magnetize and mold itself to whatever form we desire if we align ourselves with it through certain laws – called Universal laws.
The Laws What are these laws? Well, we know that there are laws of physics, laws of chemistry, laws of mathematics. But most people are not aware of the mental and spiritual laws that govern our existence. Or you may know something about them but don’t know how to relate to them or how to use them. This knowledge has of course become more mainstream in recent years, however the majority of people are still seeking ways to put these laws to work in real life. So how do we know these laws exist or that this Universe or Power exists (aside from any intuitive feeling that it does or because Marilyn says it does)? We know because of its responsiveness – by the results we experience when we align ourselves with it. And I can tell you from my own personal experience, that once you became aware of the response of this Universal Presence, you will never be the same. You will feel a love and a connectedness and a sense of security that is greater than anything you have felt on an earthly level.
So how do we align ourselves with this Power? We connect with this Power, this creative force of the Universe, within, through the channel of our subconscious minds – through our thoughts and our feelings. The subconscious mind is the most fantastic computer you could ever imagine. It keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, and has perfect memory of every cell in our body. It has also recorded and stored everything that we have ever heard, said, felt, and experienced. Unfortunately, that includes all of the faulty beliefs and negative patterns from others that we have acquired from the time we were very young through our lifetime. Our thoughts and our feelings, our deepest beliefs are the key to connecting with the Power that responds to our desires. But first we must break through and overcome the negative thought patterns and beliefs that we have acquired since childhood.
Dominant Thought The subconscious mind does not like to change and will create r esistance. But there are techniques and methods for influencing the subconscious in a way that does not create argument. I call this “friendly persuasion.” We gently shift the consciousness to create a new dominant thought in the m ind. THAT IS THE KEY. The DOMINANT thought. The dominant thought in our conscious and our subconscious is what determines our circumstances. So we must shift our consciousness to a new dominant thought – a new awareness. When we do so, we then open ourselves to the influence of the creative power of the universe – to what I call our “invisible means of support.”
There Is Only Now Now there is another aspect of mind that we must understand fully in order to create what we want. And by the way, this is all getting to our theme today. Just follow my thoughts here and it will all make sense.
There is only one reason you do not have what you want now. You do not have what you want because your consciousness is filled with the thought of not having what you want. As long as the thought of not having remains in your mind, you will continue to not have. So if you accept this premise, then the way to have what you want is to change your consciousness to the thought and feeling of having what you want. The reason you have not had the prosperity you desire is because somewhere along the way you have accepted as fact the idea that you are not prosperous. And everything that happens seems to support that fact and prove that you are right, doesn’t it? Well, the fact is that everything that happens in your outer world is mirroring to you exactly what you have accepted in your inner world. Those circumstances are reflecting back to you what you believe at this moment. This is the reality: As long as you continue to believe the same fact in the present moment, conditions will remain exactly the same and you will continue to have the same experiences. The subconscious mind will create for us and attract to us those circumstances that it accepts to be true in the present moment. That is its nature. It’s compulsive. Our job is to condition our subconscious mind to accept what we want as if it’s an existing reality. Tomorrow never comes. It is always the present moment or now in consciousness. When what we call later or tomorrow arrives, it will actually still be the present moment. It is always NOW. And what we are thinking and feeling NOW is what determines our future, its outcomes and experiences. We create that future right this moment.
Gratitude as the Magnet Let me ask you this. If you were in possession of your desired good, what else would you be feeling besides your joy or security in having what you want? If suddenly you experienced a “windfall” or found the right job or new clients or finally had that new car or were free of your physical ailment, what emotion would fill your consciousness? Gratitude
If the subconscious responds and acts on what we feel in the present moment, then in order to feel like we already have what we want, what feeling would we need to create? Gratitude By giving thanks, we acknowledge that we are receiving our good now or that we have already received it and we are grateful. So to create this feeling of being grateful, we use gratitude in our words and affirmations. We are expressing our feeling of gratitude for the good that we have already received, even before we actually receive it. We think of it as and feel it to be an accomplished fact. We are grateful. Gratitude is one of the surest ways to bring your desires into the present moment. It’s the magnet that reaches out into Universal Mind and pulls our good to us. It is our bridge between our desire and its manifestation. Gratitude is the umbilical cord that connects us to our Universal parent. If you will replace any doubtful thoughts or begging prayers with a heart full of gratitude, you will be thrilled at how fast you’ll learn to manifest your desires. Faith is to believe what you do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—St.Augustine
Let’s talk about affirmations…
Affirmations/Affirmative Prayer I intuitively believe that probably 80% or more of people who use affirmations don’t get results and certainly don’t get them consistently. Why?
Why wouldn’t affirmations work?
My students don’t learn about affirmations in the beginning of the Feel Free to Prosper program and there is a very good reason.
My knowledge about affirmations is based on decades of study of the subtleties of the subconscious mind. I was fortunate to learn from some of the most brilliant minds in the area of mental and spiritual science and clinical hypnosis. Many of these subtleties are not addressed by today’s modern teachers. There is specific knowledge that allows us to bypass our analytical mind and influence the subconscious through what I call "friendly persuasion" -specific techniques that do not create resistance in the subconscious and allow it to accept the new idea of prosperity and abundance. This bridges the gap between belief in the principles and subconscious acceptance of them.
Resistance
It’s my intuitive guess that 80% or more of the people who use affirmations don't get results. That’s because they are not aware of those important nuances of the mind that would allow them to overcome its resistance. Let me explain what I mean by resistance… Let’s say your subconscious mind has an established pattern of lack. You might apply the type of present-tense affirmations that are generally recommended, such as "I am prosperous" or "I am wealthy." Do you know what happens? Your subconscious mind does not accept this and knows you are lying. Your entire being feels like you are lying, you look around at appearances and you say, "Yeah, right. Who am I kidding?" So now, what are you thinking about? What are you focused on? YOU ARE NOW FOCUSED MORE ON LACK! And because you are now focused on lack, your undesirable circumstances will continue to exist or may even get worse. This reminds me of, "Don't think of a white elephant!" The subconscious mind does not like change. That part of the mind does not reason - it just accepts input as an order. Once it accepts a thought pattern, it will resist any effort to change it. So the answer lies in not creating an argument or resistance in the subconscious. The key to heaven is to create the agreement between the conscious and subconscious minds.
Mental Gardening
We can refer to this as mental gardening. Once the subconscious soil of your mind is tilled and prepared, it will accept the seeds that you plant. Otherwise, it will not. That’s why we don’t study about aff irmations until the second Feel Free to Prosper lesson. By that time, my students have learned to prepare the mind to accept their affirmations – they can then learn to compose them in a way that will produce the results they want. They have done their mental gardening. You should be aware that affirmations are not just one breed. There are many types of affirmations and different ways to use them. As I mentioned, if you don't use them correctly, you may very well create the opposite of what you want. Now the good news – let’s make that the fabulous news – is that there are ways to make your subconscious mind your best friend so that it will support you and help you – even compel you – to create what you want. Knowledge is indeed power. One of the most effective ways to use affirmations is to phrase them from a standpoint of gratitude. It is a gentle and non-resistant form of affirmative prayer that does not create resistance in the subconscious. The feeling of gratitude that wells up counteracts any doubts or fear thoughts. Let me give you some examples of affirmations of gratitude: I give thanks for wonderful new clients coming to my business now. Thank you, Universe, for my wonderful romantic relationship. In the perfect mind of the Universe, financial prosperity is mine already and I give thanks that so it is. I am grateful for the quick and immediate solution to this situation now. I am so grateful that I have found my perfect job. Thank you, Father, for my wealth. Thank you, Father, for my health.
So, when we use gratitude in our affirmations, what we are really doing is giving thanks for gifts we are already receiving or have already received. Remember that the subconscious responds to what is happening now. So by giving thanks, we acknowledge that we are receiving our good now and we are grateful. I want to emphasize the importance of feeling that what we want is already existing for us. Gratitude in our affirmations brings our consciousness to that level. It is an exquisite form of affirmative prayer. Affirmative prayer means we are affirming that our desire is an accomplished fact and by doing so, we are aligning ourselves with the greatest manifesting power in the Universe. Our prayer is an acceptance of our good before we see it. This is scientific prayer because we are aligning ourselves with the laws of mind and nature that are supported by science and the field of quantum physics. At the same time this is the ultimate in spiritual prayer. For those of you who know the bible…Christ taught that whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have it and you will receive it. He didn’t say believe that you will have it. He was a mental scientist. He understood the laws. I give thanks for a quick and substantial increase in my financial income now. I give thanks that harmony and peace prevail in my relationship with so and so.
Gratitude Attracts More and More into Your Life An “attitude of gratitude” and the appreciation for the gifts we receive from the universe open the channels for more good to be received. The more gratitude we feel, the more we attract to be grateful for. What we focus on increases and expands. The more we complain, the more we will attract to complain about. (That also means that the more we criticize our partner or spouse, the more we will have to criticize!) The more we express our gratitude, the more we are giving the subconscious and Universal Mind the message that we have much to be grateful for, and we keep attracting more.
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. — Dr. Christiane Northrup
The Simplest Gratitude Prayer If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice. — Christian mystic Meister Eckhart.
That simple prayer has turned situations around for me miraculously in my life. There are times when I am out of words and I just reach out with my heart to my Source and I simply say, “Thank you. Thank you.” I will drop off to sleep with those words. I will murmur those words during the day. It’s not just the words we use in prayer that are important, it’s the feeling that we evoke from our heart center. With a heartfelt “thank you,” fear, anxiety and doubt will dissipate. You will be on your way to meeting your heart’s desire.
One Grateful Bird!
A holiday lesson about the power of words and the relationship of cause and effect...
Attitude of Gratitude A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music, and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up, and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot, and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hands, grabbed the bird, and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute. Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and s aid, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."
John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. He was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, when the bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"
[author unknown]
Happy Thanksgiving!
More grateful birds…
Dolores Delgado is a fine artist who lives in the rural city of Sebastopol in Northern California. The small town charm attracts many visitors, including these wild turkeys who take up residence in Dolores’ neighborhood only around the holiday season each year. Dolores actually saw the two brothers above being born one year. The third fellow leaping for joy on the left is most likely sharing good news that again this year, they have not been invited to anyone’s dinner table.
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