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Today is 1st Jan 2010 - the new year day. I sometimes think that how come one day is so different from the other. Everyday the nature behaves the same way. But somehow we classify some days very differently. Be it our birthday, our anniversary, special holidays, or any other special occasion. The very nature of the day makes it so special, even though we all know that everything in the world has remained same. Even on the most special day of ours, the sun continues to rise from the east.

We have the phenomenal power of living our dreams, provided we can develop a full proof belief system. Faith is giving divine a chance to act, similarly belief  is about providing a platform for our mind to manifest our thoughts. Our mind is like a receiving station, where in millions of thoughts come to us in a day. Now it is up to us to shoo them away, or to welcome them with open hearts. We have to realize the power of abundance of our mind. The mind has a limitless power to manifest our thoughts. The only thing it needs is clarity of thoughts and the back up of our belief in those thoughts. The way it works is very simple - if we ourselves dont have clarity over our visions, and we dont know where we are headed, then the mind is bound to reflect this thought in terms of its manifestations. Most important thing we need to do it to have a purpose driven life. A life without purpose is like a boat without the radar.

The other day I had been to a doctor’s place with one of my relatives. The doctor was very methodical in explaining the problem. She drew pictures and explained the whole functionality of the body organ, and she also explained what can, and what has, gone wrong with that organ. I could easily make out that she had complete mastery over what she was telling, and had real life experiences of dealing with similar cases. I was in awe for this doctor.

We humans are a social animal. Everyday, we come across innumerable interactions with known and unknown people. Everybody has their own opinion about how things should work. We, also, as part of society, have to play different roles in every moment of our life. These are certain things which is completely unavoidable in the present era, and that is how it is going to remain. We have a tendency to get influenced by our surroundings, and we allow our surroundings and daily happenings to rule our mind and our thoughts. We allow others thinking to influence our own thinking. As a matter of fact, if you take statistical figures, surprisingly you will find that 99.9% of our thoughts are all about our surroundings, and about our daily chores. No wonder, we never give time to our mind to think the way it should and it is ought to think.

Passion and Detachment: Existing together - well, this may seem to be a paradox, and self contradictory in its true essence. Obvious question will be how can we be not attached to something we are passionate about. It is but natural, and some feel that is how it should be. Before going into this question in details, let us try to understand in what terms we are using Passion and Detachment here. Passion is something that you really want to do from your heart, it is something that you would love getting possessed with, something whose mere thought gives you a high. Detachment means not to get attached with things, to separate oneself from one’s activities and not get bogged down by its success or failure. Detachment basically means to maintain a spectator like attitude in life. Now, the million dollar question is - can we be passionate about something, yet remain detached to it? But before this question comes, we have another question in hand - Do we really need to be detached from our passion?

“The harder you work, the luckier you get” - I just love this phrase. Those who can blindly believe on this epithet, and work on it, can really revolutionize their life. There are too many losers that we come across everyday in our life, who just blame everything on the sheer bad luck. But do we really have something called as luck, fortune or destiny? Indeed we do have. I dont deny that at all. But you cannot spend your whole life, thinking that one good day the lady luck will come to you and shower you with all the prosperity and good things in life. Believe me, its never going to happen. If  you continue to live life, the way you have been, then you will remain at the same place as your are. If you want to take your life to the next level, then there is only one option - hard work.

I call these signposts as TSS ( The Spiritual Signals ). In the pathway of our life, we are always provided with these signposts, and then it is left to us to take the right road. I am reminded of a beautiful age old adage:

“God, provide me the courage to change the things I can,

and the courage to accept the things I cannot change,

and the wisdom to know the difference between the two.”

This article is continuation of my last article - “The feel of abundance - the real asset“. Now that we have understood the importance of having a feel of abundance, I will try to enumerate various facets of attracting abundance in life.

I would prescribe the below five fold path to attract abundance in life:

Think Big

We are really fortunate to have being born as  a human being. We all have taken birth for some special mission - the earlier we realize, the better it is for us. Through us, the universal cosmic principle wants to convey the message of its upteem potential and beauty. Abundance is our real selves - there is no scarcity ever. There is nothing called as ‘recession’ in the world of spiritual realm. We are all one of a kind. We all have the ability to assert our individuality and yet remain connected with the eternal truth.

Take this - “The world around us is nothing but a mere extension of our imagination and thoughts. What we think, what we speak - we become like that.  Our thoughts propel the surrounding around us in such a way, that it gets shaped up in the form we envision. Our thoughts emit vibrations and builts an aura around us, which has such profound effects that it starts manifesting materially. ”