| As a financial economist my motivation | | | | minds not bodies! This offers an |
| has long been to understand a simple | | | | explanation that miraculous physical |
| academic koan: "why is there scarcity in | | | | healing stems from a healing of the |
| an abundant world?" A koan is a question | | | | person's mind by deciding to make a |
| in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) | | | | fundamental shift from a fear to love |
| Buddhism, to which the answer is | | | | based personal thought system that does |
| inaccessible to rational understanding, | | | | not allow the perception of any form of |
| yet may with great effort be obtained | | | | scarcity such as disease. |
| through accessing our higher collective | | | | Think about it; are you really anything |
| mind. The motivational force driving my | | | | else? Are you really anything but a |
| financial studies and research rests in | | | | thinking mind directing a temporary |
| the little known fact that the planet | | | | physical vehicle you call a body in this |
| earth and this universe have such great | | | | temporary physical world? Ponder the |
| abundance that no living being need lack | | | | koan that "you are a mind not a body |
| anything! | | | | that has the power to choose to focus |
| Here is another real noodle twister. Did | | | | exclusively on love and abundance!" Over |
| you know that quantum physicists are | | | | time you will experience a radical |
| people who have dedicated themselves to | | | | change for the better in your thinking. |
| trying to figure out what the smallest | | | | This is because you will slowly |
| building block of the physical world we | | | | recognize that everything you see in the |
| see about us is? Did you know that as | | | | world about you is derived from your |
| they keep splitting apart the little | | | | (our) thoughts. |
| pieces of atoms they reach a point where | | | | All of this has allowed me to come to |
| there is nothing physical left? They | | | | see that all scarcity in the world about |
| cannot reject the very real possibility | | | | us happens when a mind chooses to focus |
| that the smallest component of matter is | | | | on the emotion of fear. This focus on |
| pure thought that never diminishes or | | | | fear stems from the thought that "there |
| dies! | | | | just never is enough to go around." This |
| This is an astounding concept because it | | | | causes people to act COMPETITIVELY based |
| means that your mind may not even be | | | | on perceived scarce resources. |
| housed in your brain at all and that | | | | Alternatively, I have come to see that |
| your "subconscious" is just your greater | | | | all abundance in the world happens when |
| mind that is collectively linked with | | | | a mind chooses to focus on the emotion |
| all other minds in existence. If this is | | | | of love. This causes people to act |
| the case it could well explain the | | | | together harmoniously as CO-CREATERS |
| documentations of Tibetan Buddhists who | | | | based on perceived abundant resources. |
| have tracked people through successive | | | | What this world needs is not welfare but |
| cyclical transmigrations as they | | | | a complete change of the collective |
| reincarnate from one body to the next. | | | | focus of thought from fear to love and |
| It would also explain the bizarre | | | | hence from scarcity to abundance! |
| documented phenomenon of "The Mind of | | | | Let me give you a couple of places where |
| Pure Light." This occurs when Tibetan | | | | you can learn abundance. Dr. Tharp |
| Buddhist monks who achieve this exalted | | | | teaches students learning to create |
| mental state "die" in a meditative | | | | wealth in their lives at the Van Tharp |
| position but the body refuses to decay | | | | Institute (IITM.com) the necessity of |
| for days, weeks, or even months! A | | | | allowing the mind to focus on abundance |
| western corollary are documented cases | | | | exclusively. As a cognitive psychologist |
| of Catholic saints who's bodies remained | | | | Dr. Tharp has spent many years devising |
| fresh and sweet smelling for a similar | | | | a methodology to help people clean the |
| period after death. | | | | fear out of their thinking with regard |
| A great breakthrough in my understanding | | | | to financial wealth building. |
| of the answer to my academic koan came | | | | Another friend of mine, Matt Bacak, |
| when I learned an important | | | | teaches people how to promote their |
| psychological fact from a friend of | | | | expertise on the internet at in his |
| mine, Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D. Our mind | | | | seminars in Atlanta. Matt promotes |
| may experience only two emotions; love | | | | abundance by teaching people to market |
| or fear. Another critical fact is that | | | | from a place of love for all mankind. He |
| the mind cannot experience thoughts of | | | | also promotes collective thinking in his |
| love and thoughts of fear at the same | | | | JV calls where everyone shares ideas as |
| time; only one or the other. Over time I | | | | co-creators instead of competitors. It |
| have come to understand that the | | | | was a conversation with Matt that gave |
| recognition of the exclusive existence | | | | me the idea for this article that I |
| and nature of these two emotions is | | | | truly hope encourages you to stop |
| critical to the enrichment of our lives. | | | | competing and start co-creating! |
| I have also come to see that we are | | | | |