Today, we are in a perceptual economic crisis. People are being laid off, losing their houses and their life savings. Sadly, when people run into these challenges they are more likely to focus on what they’ve lost rather than what they still have or what they may have gained. Surely we can have a different experience if we change how we perceive the world around us. Today I want to share a few powerful tips for creating a more positive perspective – a perspective that creates a foundation for abundance under any circumstances

As you can see in Figure 1. to the left, consciousness is central to all perceptions and experiences of our internal environment (self) as well as the external environment (the world). What you are inside can only be there because it came from the outside. If you were to take stock of what you are as body, you would amount to:

• 60-70% water
• Connective tissue
• Bone
• Roughly $3.00 worth of chemicals

People who perceive the world as abundant are made of the very same relative ratio of water, connective tissue, bone and chemicals as you are, yet their perceptions may be the polar opposite. How does that happen?

To answer this question we need to look at the origins of our beliefs. At the bottom of Figure 1., you see “Conditioned Beliefs”. The conditioning of our beliefs begins with the conditioning of our bodies, and this process starts in the womb. In the period of gestation, you began as an egg in your mother’s womb. From that single egg, your body grew through some 54 phases of cell division. During this period you developed a body, but had no ideas of your own.

While in the womb, your body’s hormonal and nervous systems began reading the chemical impulses of your mother’s hormonal and nervous systems, which reflect her perceptions. To the degree that she was happy and fulfilled, her hormonal and neurological signals told your infant body that the environment was safe. Research shows that children who gestate in a safe environment develop a larger forebrain – the brain of creative problem solving abilities. Yet, those children who gestate in the womb of a mother experiencing a stressful existence are born with diminished forebrains and exaggerated hindbrains. I will paraphrase Joseph Chilton Pearce (1992) who explains that children raised in stressful environments are born street fighters! Their problem solving capacity is minimized and they are always on the defense. From my own experience, I can tell you, they are like little paratroopers jumping in to a HOT landing zone. Without guidance from a stable, skilled teacher people in this situation have a very hard time seeing the world as a safe place and a place of abundance. It’s difficult to see abundance when you are operating from a consciousness of lack. What we all need for an abundance perspective is love.

Until we are willing to look at our parental, familial and sociocultural programming through honest eyes, we are unlikely to ever change our conditioned beliefs. While it is beyond the scope of this article to show in full detail how I empower my students to re-condition their own beliefs, I will point out that effective reprogramming of conditioned beliefs requires a working knowledge of the structure of language and an understanding of how the nervous system learns.

The nervous system is an electro-chemical system. In the study of human physiology, we learn that when a given neurological pathway is created through excitation, such as when an infant tries to lift its head, or mimic its parent’s words, each successive repetition of the stimulus creates facilitation. This means it takes progressively less energy to reproduce the same neurophysiological expression.

What does this means with regard to prior conditioning? If we think in terms of our discussion here, the lack consciousness passed onto us by parents, family and the sociocultural environment, particularly during the first 12 years of our life while the nervous system is open and forming, is highly facilitated. Imagine how many times someone told as a child, “you will never amount to anything”, or, “you are useless”, will have repeated this diagnosis in their own head? By the time you become an adult you could have literally THOUSANDS of repetitions of these disempowering ideas etched into your neurological pathways. This means that the disempowering ideas, as terrible as it may be, require far less energy to express than any newfound ideas, regardless of how appealing they may be.

The negative behaviors attached to those beliefs are much more easily executed too. Let me give you an example here. If you are walking or jogging down the road, there is a given amount of energy being consumed by the body to execute the command. Yet if I, as your coach, give you the instruction to alternate between a 90˚ turn left and a 90˚ turn right each time I blow my whistle while you are jogging, you will find that you become tired very fast.

Now, consider that going from lack consciousness to abundance consciousness is typically a 180˚ turn! Moreover to establish a more positive pattern you may have to witness any disempowering thought thousands upon thousands of times, consciously choose to change direction a full 180˚, and run the empowering thought through its pathway. Most people give up because they find this process of witnessing, recognizing and changing to be exhausting.

Looking now at the middle of Figure 1., you will see that consciousness is created by a merger between your external and internal environments. We already discussed what you are made of, but how far from that original composition has diet taken you? The average person consumes 175 pounds of white sugar each year. Refined white sugar isn’t on our list of human components. Nor are nicotine, caffeine, food additives, preservatives, colorings, emulsifiers, stabilizers, pesticides, herbicides, rodenticides, fungicides, or the thousands of other invasive chemicals now in our external environment.

Whenever we eat anything that diminishes our vitality, we diminish how much energy we have available for all of our biological systems, including the nervous, hormonal, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, eliminative and immune systems. Once the body’s vitality drops below about a 7 on what I call the vitality scale of 1-10, my clinical experience shows that fungal infections, colds, pimples, joint aches and other nagging problems often challenge body. Below 7 on the vitality scale, the body has to work much harder to defend itself against invasive organism. As it mounts its defense against these organisms, the body’s temperature rises and as it does so it emits greater amounts of infrared radiation. As Philip Callahan’s research (2001) shows, infrared radiation is the “homing beacon” many parasitic organism use to find their food. Thus the more your body has to defend itself against invasive organisms, the more it calls out to those organisms.

If your body feels threatened for any reason, be it lack of sleep, dehydration, malnutrition, or too much or too little exercise, it sends alarm signals that are typically misinterpreted. For example, instead of getting the thought, “I’m thirsty”, you are likely to get the thought “I’m afraid”. It’s very difficult to determine the source of the signal if you’re in this state. Since most people wanting abundance in their lives suffer energy deficiency from maintaining an unhealthy relationship with their external environment (their water, food, exercise, sleep patterns and lifestyle in general), the internal environment reflects these very deficits.

Because fear and lack consciousness are likely to be far more facilitated in tired people, they can’t afford to spend the energy required to shift an entire paradigm. It would be like taking a starving person and demanding he build a multistory pyramid by hand!

When I’m working with people to create a paradigm shift, I typically tell them something like, “let’s create physical abundance first – then we will have the energy it takes to create financial, emotional and mental abundance”. The more tired and challenged my client is, the more simply I start. When I work with someone to help them create physical abundance, inevitably we start with four fundamental steps:

• Adequate Rest: Sleep and non-essential time.
• Optimal Diet: We must eat organic (clean) produce and meats for optimal nutrition and energetic support.
• Hydration: We must also drink about ½ our body weight in ounces of water daily (KG x .033 in liters for the metric system).
• Movement: we must move our bodies at least 20-30 minutes daily. Such movement should be full-bodied movements, such as walking, hiking, participating in aerobics class, lifting free weights, tai chi, or yoga. Tired people should NOT work out! They should work in! This means they should not perform any exercise at an intensity that:
  • Would disrupt digestion if they had a full stomach
  • Elevates respiratory or heart rate
  • Leaves them with less energy than when they started.

These action items are listed in order of priority, and the more tired and unhealthy the abundance seeker is, the higher on the list I focus their attention.

Once we’ve brought our nutrition and energy supplies beyond base-line levels and we have a surplus, our instinctual fear messages are squelched. This means we now have enough energy and vitality in the system to perform the much wanted, and often needed, 180˚ turnaround! As long as we can maintain the optimal lifestyle, that energy and vitality will persist.

Reaching a state of wholesome vitality as I’ve described here is your first legitimate step into abundance consciousness. Expecting to create a healthy mind from an unhealthy body is like expecting to pull clean clothes out of a dirty suitcase! Building a healthy body means bringing vital foods brought into your body. Eating whole, organic food is one clear example of how the outer environment changes the inner environment.  When nutrition and energy are abundant, instinct releases intellect from an alarm state. This is critical, because whenever the instincts are threatened, we become stressed. Stress naturally activates our left-brain functions because the left-brain is the brain of doing what you’ve always done. Adequate management of lifestyle factors facilitates access to our right-brain functions. These are the big-picture, integrative, holistic functions of the brain. This is critical to understand if you want to create abundance in your life because abundance and wholeness are synonymous terms. How could one possibly have long-term abundance in their life, while at the same time be divided within? You may have financial abundance, but real abundance is physical ~ emotional ~ mental and spiritual abundance.

Once you achieve health and vitality, you will be surprised at how greatly your perception has changed. You will be surprised at how much abundance consciousness naturally emerges. After all, human beings are highly creative beings – they always want to create something better. And if they are not, something’s wrong!    

In conclusion, achieving long-term abundance consciousness can only happen when the paradigm shift is supported by abundant application of optimal diet and lifestyle principles. As we improve our inner environment by bringing in a more abundant outer environment, our perception improves to the degree that our wellbeing improves. Soon, it becomes natural to make the often-needed 180˚ turnaround from poverty consciousness to abundance consciousness!

If you are ready to create long-term abundance physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, I suggest utilizing the following resources:

Chek, P. 2007. The Last 4 Doctors You’ll Every Need – How To Get Healthy Now!
(multimedia ebook available at www.thelast4doctors.com)

Chek, P. 2004. How to Eat, Move & Be Healthy! C.H.E.K Institute, San Diego, CA. (avaliable at www.chekinstitute.com)

Chek, P. 2005. The PPS Success Mastery Program. “Lesson 2: How to Manage Your Self.” (available at www.ppssuccess.com)

This is the second section in my online course, complete with slide shows and a downloadable manual. It covers the science of memetics and shows you how the mind is programmed. This lesson also reveals how language influences our beliefs so you can easily spot, filter, and alter ideas to suit your needs. You can also create abundance consciousness with this technology!

References:

Callahan, P. 2001. Tuning into Nature. 2nd revised ed. Acres, USA.

Pearson, E. Norman. 1996. Space, Time and Self. Quest Books, USA.

Pearce, Joseph Chilton. 1992. Magical Child. Plume, USA.