Happy Holidays to you!
This is a fun time. This is a time of celebration, laughter and gratitude. It has also been a time of financial expenditure for many. I am already seeing people worrying about the bills of 2010. I hope these words provide some insight for you stepping into 2010.
Alot of my life was spent believing that there was not enough. Even to this day, when I notice the feelings of lack or fear, I remind myself that when I allow myself to remain connected to God’s grace, I do have always have enough. Being a GratiDude was my calling to really make sure that I could believe this. Starting out as a GratiDude I did not believe it, but ensuring that I live our message has guaranteed that it becomes my truth as I am blessed to pass it on to others. There are times when I slip and so these words are as much for me as for you.
Christmas was always a time of stress, never believing that I would have enough to buy presents for people. Feeling the shame when I received gifts from others and could not give in return. It was not the time of joy that I felt it could be. It was the time of year when my belief in “not enough” was most validated. I was an intelligent person, in many ways, yet I was frustrated that I could not create the money that I needed. I was unaware that it was the belief itself causing the stress and the results in my life.
Think of Ebeneezer Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol”. In his eyes, there was never enough, and he hoarded it for himself, and would not give. The amount of money we have is not important, it is whether we believe we have enough or not, that affects our feelings and our actions. He realized by the end of the story that he did have enough, and that it turned him around. Do we need the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, to remind us that we choose whether we believe we have enough or not?
I know that some people are going through very challenging times in their life and it can be easy to refute. You may be feeling anger as you read these words. I can relate. That anger was what was stopping me from owning this truth. BradiDude and myself used to put together whatever dollars we could to be able to buy a bag of trail mix. Even now, we are working through challenges, and gratefully so, for we are learning from each of them.
No longer victims to what has happened to us, but allowing ourselves to enjoy the blessings hidden in them. I would get angry when people told me that all I needed to do was believe that I had enough, and it would materialize. Eventually after hearing it enough times, I took on the challenge. In order for it to be my truth, I needed to affirm, and I needed to release the emotions and memories that surfaced that were preventing me from fully believing this. I just thought, if I have a choice between 1) believing that I do not have enough, and 2) that I have enough, #2 feels like one that I would rather believe in and I know well enough that it becomes my truth if thought often enough.
Gratitude has been the power that we GratiDude’s have called upon to realize that we have enough, of everything. Money, energy, time, love, joy, peace, happines. It has brought us many blessings. It has been an inner journey of galactic proportions and has been worth all the moments of pain, and I am grateful, and wouldn’t have changed any of it, mistakes and all.
So when some are worrying about bills and necessities of the New Year, may I recommend some teaspoons of gratitude and affirmations of plentitude in this recipe for 2010.
A GRATIDUDE’S RECIPE
What you will need (you already have enough and……).
A mirror.
Openness.
Will power.
Faith.
Instructions
1)1) If you know EFT you will know what to do with the following. If you don’t, then just repeat the following phrase over in your mind or out loud ( preferably in front of a mirror) in those times when you catch yourself stressing or thinking that there is not enough. See which of the following resonates the most and repeat it until you feel at peace with it. It may be a daily practice for some time.
“Even though I don’t feel like I have enough, I completely and deeply love and accept myself”
or
“Even though I feel this fear that I won’t have enough, I completely and deeply love and accept myself”
or
“Even though I feel this shame that I don’t have enough, I completely and deeply love and accept myself”
Repeat them until you feel any anger, frustration, shame or guilt subside. There will be other negative thoughts that surface that you can apply the same acceptance process too. They will be different for each of you, but be open to insights from the world around you that wants you to believe this for yourself.
2) Then stir in 20 repetitions of:
“I am so happy and grateful that I always have enough of everything I need”
And list of everything that you do have in your life that you are grateful for!
3) Repeat this every day for a month, and see how you begin to feel. Also, repeat it every time you find your thoughts going the opposite way. This is where the will power comes in. In the times when it feels darkest.
4) Release control now. It is in God’s hands. You will begin to see the truth of this showing up in your life, acknowledge it gratefully when it does. Miracles that you missed before will stand out. I have received unexpected blessings already this holiday season and I am grateful for each of them, and the ones that I don’t know about. I wish this for you too.
5) Serve with love. Pass this message on to all those who you see throughout this season. When you and they believe it, you will see it.
Happy Happy Holidays!
MattiDude
One of the most powerful tools that has made the biggest difference for me and helped recreate my inner world and release old traumas has been the Emotional Freedom Technique which I use with all my clients at some point or another. There is a teleseummit taking place now that I highly recommend you join in on. It is FREE. It has started already ( Feb 21st 2010 ) but the replays are up and available for 24 hours after the call!
December 28th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I ‘practice’ gratitude most days when I’m meditating as well as at other times however lately feelings and fears around lack particularly to do with money currently. Then I received your email today! I’ve printed it off and intend following your ‘receipe’ for the next month.
I would like to say a hugh ‘thank you’ for that and also thank you for being an inspiration!
December 30th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hi Matt,
Thank you for your heartfelt words of wisdom, I resinated with so much of what you said. I too have had very simiular feelings, especially the one’s about people telling me, all I need to do was believe. Over the last six years I have been in and out of believing in the law of attraction, mostly believing, and yet I still went bankrupt, lost everything, I currently live in a one bedroom apartment with my mum, (I pull out a blow up bed every evening)I have been teaching karate since emigrating to Canada in 88. Since my awakening and realisation that everything is about LOVE, it has been increasingly hard to teach in the same old way. I lost my club three months ago because of my lack of conviction to teach fighting in the same old same old. I found myself resenting some of the top authors/speakers, talking about the laws of the universe, and yes I have to admitt, feeling envious that they were abundant in all ways. I knew deep down that they were right, and yet I still continue to struggle to this day. I awakened in a very short period of time, after many years of deep heartache, (women, L.O.L.)I started to understand profoundly the teachings of Jesus and the other enlightened one’s. From that moment I just wanted to spread thier message. I could not continue doing meeningless things just to make money. So here I AM, six years later moneyless L.O.L. I tell you this hoping that other people will read these words because I AM about to be proof positive, (like yourself I BELIEVE)of how GOD/SOURCE/DIVINITY truly works. Over the last six years I have been blessed with a lot of spare time on my hands to read some of the works of our modern day pioneers, Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Louise Hay,etc, etc, when you put their findings together with Dr Emmotto’s work on what positive or negative energy does to water, the wisdom of Jesus and other great one’s like Buddha etc, it proves 100% how we do create our own reality 100% it seems an ongoing process though, I LOVE the quote of Jesus when he speakes about the lillies in the field, and the birds being fed, if God does this, would he not do this and more for his creation, the likeness of himself/herself. The kingdom of heaven is within, although very hard to understand the outside is an illusion or a mirror to our beliefs/perceptions, what we truly believe, (subconciously also)we will achieve. I believe that very shortly the entire planet will know this, we will then conciously create heaven on earth. I AM about to create my abundance, I have given up my E.G.O.(edge God out)thinking, I AM aout to put my 36 years of martial arts training together with the wisdom of my teachers to teach children, (re-mind them) of who they are and what they are capable of, I got this through a medditation, and I believe that I have been put through these trials and tribulations to bring me to this point in my life, to bring “MARTIAL LIGHT” into the world. Thanks again Matt for being you, I know it is not an easy path, my family and friends still do not understand me, L.O.L. I know a lot of other people are going through this also, L.O.L. but hey !
WE ARE THE ONE’S WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, and THE TIME IS NOW.
APPY NEW YEAR MATE,
Love and “LIGHT” and living in D “LIGHT”
Carlo.
November 8th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Really proficient post. Theoretically I could write something like this too, but taking the time and effort to make a good article is a lot of effort…but what can I say….I’m a procrastinater. Good read though.