chapter 1

Understand How the Subconscious Mind Works to Create Wealth

Your subconscious mind is like a genie in a bottle-whatever you desire and believe true, your subconscious mind will find a way to bring it to fruition. If you desire and believe you will be blessed with good health, prosperity, and fulfilling relationships, you will be. If, on the other hand, you expect or fear illness, poverty, and loneliness, those will be your fate. To get what you want out of life, first you must learn how the subconscious mind functions.

The whole world and all its treasures-the sea, the air, the earth, all living and nonliving things seen and unseen-were here when you were born. Begin to think of the untold and undiscovered riches all around you, waiting for the intelligence to bring them forth. Look at wealth as the air you breathe. Develop that attitude of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed this succinctly when asked by a woman how she could prosper. He took her down to the ocean and said, "Take a look." She said, "Oh, there's plenty of water, isn't there?" He said, "Look at wealth that way and you'll always have it."

Realize that wealth is like a tide forever flowing out, forever flowing back. A sales manager said to me that an associate of his sold a million-dollar idea for expansion to the organization. You can have an idea worth a fortune, too. Wealth is a thought image in your mind. Wealth is an idea in your mind. Wealth is a mental attitude.

You can have an idea worth a fortune. Moreover, you are here to release the splendor within you and surround yourself with luxury, beauty, and the riches of life. But you must develop the right attitude toward money, wealth, food, clothing, travel, and all things good and desirable. When you truly make friends with wealth, you will always have a surplus of it.

Many people mistakenly believe that you can feel wealthy only when you are in possession of riches. However, the contrary is true; you attract riches only when you feel wealthy. Waiting or hoping for money to come your way is a trap. You must take the leap of faith; you must live in expectancy and gratitude of the wealth you imagine before you can begin to attract what you desire.

Look upon money as a divine idea, maintaining the economic health of the nations of the world. When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy in the same manner as when your blood is circulating freely, you are free from congestion. Begin now to see money in its true significance and role in life as a symbol of exchange. That's all it is. It has taken many forms down through the ages. Money to you should mean freedom from want. It should mean beauty, luxury, abundance, sense of security, and refinement. You are entitled to it. It is normal and natural for you to desire a fuller, richer, happier, and more wonderful life.

Are some people destined or chosen to experience and to enjoy riches of this world, while others are destined to suffer hardship and deprivation? Absolutely not. We define our own destiny. We receive what we think and truly believe and accept is ours to be, to do, and to have. The Divine Power and Presence within us continuously models and fashions the conditions and circumstances of our daily lives according to the conscious thoughts we impress upon our subconscious minds as images, feelings, and beliefs.

Why the Rich Get Richer

and the Poor Get Poorer

Those who enjoy the true abundance and prosperity of life are those who are aware of the creative power of mind, thought, and belief. As they continually impress their deeper...