When economic woe offers you a new dawn

Noticed how glum people are at present? Are you feeling glum, or least a bit anxious? Times are difficult. Belts are being tightened and people are worried about their homes and their jobs. Confidence in the economy is lower even than during the last recession in the early ‘90’s. And there’s a whole generation now in employment who have had no previous experience of this.

We seem to be headed towards another of those economic downturns that threaten recession and the upheavals that that can imply for large numbers of people.

This time we have the nasty combination of fast rising prices in key areas that hit people at the survival level, fuel and food, along with a slump in the housing market. Government can’t easily intervene as it’s strapped for cash. Also this is now a global phenomenon: we live in a global economy.

When you are thinking of cutting back by not going out for that meal, spare a thought for those elsewhere, and not just in the developing world, who are wondering about having a meal at all.

This pushes all our ancestral survival buttons about poverty consciousness. “There’s not enough for me”, we think.

For those of you who are interested in where we can go in our minds in times like these, there are some important tools to use. Of course, it depends on your “take” on this. So use those bits that seems useful and move on from any that seem too whacky. What we are doing here is intentionally, deliberately using thought to manifest. Remember that as you think anew, your thought impacts others.

Right, so here’s a few of them in, as they say, no particular order:

“Poverty consciousness” is a state of mind to get out of, to drop, irrespective of what seems to be happening. Remember, what we think, comes about.

Lack is a state of mind. If you take responsibility for your mind, then you need to think abundance, not lack. You shift your mind into abundance awareness. The mind does not know the difference between “fact” and “fiction”. What you think, you become. Each time your mind slips back, challenge it, use the will, and bring your awareness back to abundance. It’s like a meditation. Take yourself back to your centre, if you like to Source, and act positively from that space. What you ask for from that space, will come about. As your Self, in your centre, as Source, you have infinite potential, irrespective of conventional belief systems.

You choose to create abundance in your life. So you design and act on ways to do it. Recessions are great times for creativity. It’s at these times that the old has given way to the new in terms of technology, industry, trade and commerce. So, what new things are you choosing to invest your energy and creativity in?

Recessions bring redundancy in train. Now’s the time to be re-inventing your career. When Richard Branson was faced with a crisis, his policy was to move up to the next level. If what you are doing is in danger, notice if you are finding yourself on the defensive and trying to defend the status quo. If things are pulling away, it’s for a reason. In the seeming crisis lies a new opportunity. That is what you need to embrace. We are constantly in process; we are constantly in change. So, start to design and develop the new project to give your life renewed meaning.

What is your vision? What is your statement about yourself that you are now choosing to create? What is your purpose in the world right now? What would give your life meaning right now? Think and reflect and meditate on this. And then take the courage to act. Because it’s probably calling to you, if you only choose to look. This is what we’re doing at the new level of sensitivity. Tuning in, being aware, and manifesting in physicality what we sense.

In adversity lies opportunity. It’s the opposite, hidden polarity with which you probably need to integrate. What we need to do is turn it around and focus on what we want, what we are about.

This is the time to write your mission statement and then your CV. Even go on-line and post your CV on the many networking sites that are around. Embrace this rapidly expanding medium. Who could you link in with who thinks like you do, is inspired by the same things and can support you in growing in the direction you wish to grow? Remember that in all networking you first need to be a resource to others. Help others – unconditionally. They’ll reciprocate. Just don’t expect it.

Set yourself powerful intentions. Read Wayne Dyer’s book, The Power of Intention, and discover the power of intentions for your self. Then act on the intentions. And stay on purpose with what you intend.

Cherish and build your career. Choose new ways you can build it. Explore ways you can raise it to another level. Are you currently in something that’s past its sell-by date? Look at your skills, interests and experience and investigate what’s new and growing out there. Then put yourself out there to meet with people of like mind who are doing it and need some help.

Or develop a business to meet the need yourself. Anyone can set up a business. And the information is readily available to learn the basics of doing that.

We are in an age where it is all about how we take control of our destinies, where we intentionally, deliberately create our own reality. Are you doing this?

(c) John Gloster-Smith 2008