Inner Peace Dance Party, Anyone?

I'm in a gifting club that meets once a week by conference call to talk about all sorts of inspiring topics. Following is the topic for this week's call:

Topic: The well respected author and educator, Dr. Vernon Woolf, who is head of the International Academy of Holodynamics, related in one of his workshops a fact published in an Australian magazine: That if all of the combined wealth of the world were gathered up into one place and then re-distributed equally to all of the worlds' seven billion people, we would each be billionaires. We would each have 4.7 billion dollars! Now, this information is staggering, yes? Well....are we not aware that we live on a very fertile planet in an infinitely abundant universe?
The question: If money were this abundantly plentiful in your life, what would you choose to do with your time on planet earth? Describe the life you would create if money were no object....

I love the question, and I feel that it is very much in alignment with what I write about here. However, first I want to share that I did some looking into that statement. So, it turns out, if all the wealth in the world were evenly distributed, we would each get about $9000. Quite a difference from each of us being billionaires.

But am I bringing negative talk into this conversation?

I don't mean to. What I want to do is contemplate the above question: If money were this abundantly plentiful in your life, what would you choose to do with your time on planet earth? Describe the life you would create if money were no object.

Let me first throw a little Wallace Wattles in here.

"Know that there are countless millions of dollars' worth of undiscovered gold in the mountains of the earth. Know that if there were not, more would be created from the thinking substance to supply your needs. Know that the money you need will come -- even if it is necessary for a thousand people to be led to the discovery of new gold mines tomorrow.

Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them. Nobody, by cornering the visible supply, can prevent you from getting what is yours."
(The Science of Getting Rich, Chapter 5)

So here's the question again: If money were this abundantly plentiful in your life, what would you choose to do with your time on planet earth? Describe the life you would create if money were no object.
I think when I come to Chicago, I would stay in a nice hotel or find an apartment to sublet. I might buy a small house or a condo in Austin to have as my nesting place while in town. It would surely have a great big claw foot tub like I have now and like I saw at Shelly's the other day. It was good for me to see her tub because I think my bathtub keeps me attached to my place. Great to see great big claw foot tubs elsewhere!

Now here's the big question: would I grab an Airstream and a truck and a dj and a chef (can it all be the same person? anyone want to enlist? I can think of at least one person . . . though he suggested we get TWO Airstreams) and hit the road for towns with mild climates and throw impromptu dance parties and food giveaways? What stops me from doing that now?

Am I lazy?

I feel a little tense right now. My nose is stuffed up and runny and I have a head ache and it's cold and windy outside and I'm confused about what I'm doing here and and and and I think about what I read yesterday: Nothing is worth closing your heart over. Nothing. You can relax.

Who am I trying to please in this life?

Am I resisting the Airstream Dance Party idea because I don't want to do it on my own? Could I put an ad on Craigslist? What kinds of weird freaks would I get then? Am I resisting it out of loneliness and not wanting to go alone? Am I resisting because I want my Airstream Dance Party partner also to be my romantic partner?

One thing I know: I'd go to Hawaii in December for the Ram Dass/Krishna Das retreat. That one I know for sure.

And I know that the dance parties are ALL ABOUT increase and more life for all. That is FOR SURE.

I watched some of The Ellen Show today and I'm so glad I did. She had a thirteen-year-old boy on there who loves dancing and she talked with him about how FREE it feels to dance. Yes. I have felt that she would be a great supporter of the Free Organic Veggie Hippie Food Love Van Dance Party.

What stops me?

Yes, being on the road and discovering this country (this WORLD!) is my passion. As is awakening my consciousness, which is my primary purpose and commitment. Does that focus keep me from spreading my focus on this plane?

What stops me?

In contemplating the question for tonight's Diamond call, I wondered how much energy I spend worrying about money? I can feel the pressure that seems to hold me in place. Am I kidding myself to think that that's not the case? What is it that I need to create? What is the clear mental image that I need to create in order to do what I really want to do?

Mr. Wattles tells us that we must work in and on our present place and situation in order to get where we want to be. I can go to work at Austin Lakes Hospital, filled with gratitude, as I typically am there. I can more than fill my present place and hold with faith and purpose (insistence) that I get what I want. And allow it to come to me. It doesn't seem to make sense, but I am committed to this certain way, 30 days at a time, am I not?

I don't know what I want.

It feels like there's a SHOULD out there. That these visions somehow are to lead to happiness, when what I really want is inner peace and a deep knowing of the infinite love and peace within us all. Everything beyond that is icing on the cake.

And, YES, free dance parties and A BIG FAT ROAD TRIP would be a blast.

Will you come with me?

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Um, oh yeah, I'd get myself to the dentist. And buy my mom her retirement, however she wants it.

Cash Flow!

Last night I was moved to pull The Secret off of my bookshelf. It was given to me by a friend years ago and I only made it half way through, not really connecting with it at the time. Last night I opened to the page where I'd left off, and, now having been a student of The Science of Getting Rich for 3/4 of a year, I resonated much more with it.

So even in my nervousness (wow, it's so interesting to watch my body's response to this statement), I'm welcoming $5000 or more fun cash from unexpected sources, added to my bank account within the next month!

I'm grateful.

This is the first time I've actually taken on creating a number and sticking with it. I have other visions that I'll get to a little bit later. In the intro to SGR, however, Wattles says that this book is for people whose primary need is money and who don't have time to go exploring in the metaphysical, spiritual, etc. In a way, I say, yeah right. I mean, this book is totally spiritual, if you ask me. In another way, I love his directness. I'm taking on the scientific practice.

Right now I'm going to go get in the bath and read Chapter 7: Gratitude.

Can't possibly go wrong.

How are all you doing?

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Well it's a few hours and some beautiful contemplation later . . . I could share much here, but I specifically signed in to clean up what I'm "asking for" above (asking vs. creating is another conversation that I look forward to having with you!).

I feel it is more downstream, for now, for me to create with a statement like this: always a surplus of cash . . . always more than enough to do whatever I want.

That way it fluxes and flows with what I'm up to. If I commit to going into space, I'll create $2 million (or whatever the going rate is). If it's a ticket to Widespread Panic and the Allman Brothers, it's about 25 bucks. Easy! And it goes without saying, that covers my wonderful current lifestyle, of course.

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Okay, here's one more tidbit that goes with this whole topic of creation today:

I took a bath in my wonderful antique claw foot tub that my landlord found buried in the back yard when they were building their house. About six weeks before I moved in here, I made a collage poster of all of the qualities that I knew I wanted in a home. I took time to find words like Austin Family; peaceful, restful sleep; and inviting and pictures of lettuce and herbs growing in a garden, outdoor living space, people playing guitar and a claw foot tub.

So sitting in my bath today, I remembered this poster, whose predictions ALL came true within six months of my living here. And I had the distinct knowing that I created the tub in which I was luxuriously soaking.

Only something in me still resisted the deep knowing of that. So . . . we have some more kinks to work out, but we're also getting, this is it. We're doing it.