{"id":19067,"date":"2021-10-18T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T23:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/?p=19067"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:46:08","slug":"where-does-abundance-come-from-hope-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/where-does-abundance-come-from-hope-fitzgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Abundance Come From? ~ Hope Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"viewer-foo\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">To answer the question, &#8220;Where does abundance come from?&#8221; will take more than one newsletter, so I&#8217;m going to start with Part One.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_83610\"  width=\"696\" height=\"392\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4DaT8GPF6k?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div data-hook=\"rcv-block1\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-bfakq\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-5ocf6\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">My guess is you&#8217;ve already heard about or played with the Law of Attraction, most famously used by Esther Hicks as well as the 2006 film <em>The Secret<\/em>, though neither were the origin of the concept. To discover that, you&#8217;ll need to go back, waaaay back&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block3\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-f3f06\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block4\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-1dqn2\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">To keep it short and sweet, I&#8217;ll borrow from blogger Michael Boles, who sums the history up well:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block5\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-7ecs2\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block6\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-7rfd6\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>&#8220;A long time ago &#8230; Homer wrote book called the \u201cIliad\u201d. In it, Homer implies the principles of the Law of Attraction. He did not invent the principles, but only repeated what had been handed down from the antiquities (pre-writing).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block7\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-8vok0\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block8\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-6kvn8\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>We see reiteration from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the vast writings of Epicuris and Epicteitus, \u201cMen are not disturbed by things, but by the view which they take of them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block9\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-au44g\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>We pass by many great writers of fact and of fiction to Buddha, \u201cWith our thoughts, we make the world.\u201d Soon we\u2019re arriving in biblical times and quoting, Mark 7:15, \u201cThere is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person&#8230;\u201d and Proverbs 23:7, &#8220;For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block10\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-a7jvj\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block11\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-3c6gb\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>We soon discover Thomas Aquinas, Desiderius Erasmus, Rene Descartes, Voltaire, Emerson, \u201cA man is what he thinks about&#8230;&#8221; and Margaret Fuller, \u201cSay to yourself, I, too, am beautiful&#8230;\u201c Thoreau wrote, \u201cThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.\u201d <\/em> <em>There are more contemporary writers, philosophers and self-help authors and speakers, such as: Prentice Mulford, in 1889 (\u201cThoughts Are Things\u201d) and in 1891 (\u201cSome Laws of Health and Beauty and Good\u201d), Ernest Holmes, Norman Vincent Peale (\u201cChange your thoughts and you change your world\u201d), Napoleon Hill (\u201cThink and Grow Rich\u201d), and currently, Tony Robinson and even Bryan Adams, with \u201cLike attracts like&#8230;whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes, the subconscious identically creates.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block12\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"viewer-f95bo\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block13\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-1r2lf\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth2 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>The Law of Attraction and its principles have been in circulation for thousands of years. Really nothing new except terminology, awareness and perceptions of said awarenesses.<\/em> <em>The Law of Attraction is as real as the air we breath, the waters of the oceans and the lives we live. Science, through brain scans and other apparati, is proving the mind, body and emotional, even spiritual connections.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-hook=\"rcv-block14\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-1oj3n\" class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"> So, as you can see, what we have dubbed the &#8220;Law of Attraction&#8221; is something we realize exists in and of itself, and not something invented by any particular person. It has been woven into our existence since time began, and as such, is a dependable operating system that we can rely on. Once again, I hearken back to my lessons at <a class=\"_3Bkfb _1lsz7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findhorn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u class=\"_3zM-5\">Findhorn<\/u><\/a>, where I first learned the Law of Manifestation. What was so mind-blowing to me at the time were the many examples of how this law worked for the intrepid folks who started the Findhorn experiment. <em>(Read <\/em><a class=\"_3Bkfb _1lsz7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/the-findhorn-garden-pioneering-a-new-vision-of-man-and-nature-in-cooperation_the-findhorn-community\/263130\/item\/3982132\/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnoqLBhD4ARIsAL5JedICMSeDdQLO2Fc28YL9-YR7mdyNfNuaqYc39WYoO0ivrOFCUOAxHaQaAkTREALw_wcB#idiq=3982132&amp;edition=2333618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Findhorn Garden<\/em><\/a><em> for more details.)<\/em> Their finances were so depleted that they were forced to find other methods for survival. Coached by Eileen&#8217;s &#8220;still, small voice,&#8221; they learned how to ask the Universe for exactly what they needed and, over and over, precisely what they had asked for was delivered in a timely way. Any doubts they had shifted into faith as they understood that the Universe truly was working with and through them. What a joy to arrive at this realization through experience! Naturally, I wanted to try it out for myself and, lo and behold, I began to receive responses to requests not just mildly, but in ways that were inexplicably perfect. This made a believer out of me, too, as I came to trust that the Universe was on my side, ready and waiting to partner up. Not only that, but I learned that the Universe has very deep pockets &#8211; it&#8217;s infinite, after all! Over the years, I&#8217;ve added a few components to Findhorn&#8217;s Law of Manifestation, which I&#8217;ll share here in hopes that you&#8217;ll try an experiment this month with Infinite Abundance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><u class=\"_3zM-5\"><strong>Step One<\/strong><\/u> Imagine a boomerang. As we know, no matter how high or far the boomerang is thrown, it must return to where it was thrown. This is the metaphor we use to send out and receive what we desire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><u class=\"_3zM-5\"><strong>Step Two<\/strong><\/u> Summarize what you wish to manifest and <em>write it down<\/em>. Writing adds power to the request by moving it out of the abstract realm of ideas and into solid reality on a piece of paper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><u class=\"_3zM-5\"><strong>Step Three<\/strong><\/u> Remember in Proverbs 23:7, it says &#8220;&#8230;as a man thinketh <em>in his heart<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; Interesting, isn&#8217;t it &#8211; thinking in the heart? Biblical scholars, which I am not, may disagree with my interpretation but in this instance, I believe that this speaks to how our emotions can add extra voltage to our request. Just taking a moment to emotionally experience how it will feel when you have what it was you asked for creates a resonance with that outcome that almost guarantees its arrival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><u class=\"_3zM-5\"><strong>Step Four<\/strong><\/u> Send the metaphorical boomerang out with your request while in the emotional state of how it will feel when it returns. And let it go. No need to repeat the request &#8211; the cook has the order and will deliver it to you. If you wish, you can increase the level of receptivity in your resonant field by living as if your request has already arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"> <u class=\"_3zM-5\"><strong>Step Five<\/strong><\/u> Take one step, however small, in the direction of what you desire. Make a phone call, send an email, do some research &#8211; whatever. This signals to the Universe that you&#8217;re serious about it. You&#8217;ve probably already heard the story about how Jim Carrey, while he was flunking out of stand-up clubs in 1985, wrote himself a 10 million dollar checked dated for 1995 and stuck it in his wallet. Sure enough, in 1995 he received that exact amount for <em>Dumb&#8230;and Dumber<\/em>. But he didn&#8217;t sit around twiddling his fingers while 10 years went by. No, he got himself to LA and worked his tail off to get noticed. That&#8217;s cooperation with the dream. That&#8217;s partnership. So, have fun with this during the week\/month and let me know how you do with the Universal principle of Infinite Abundance &#8211; it&#8217;s already yours! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mm8Nw _1j-51 _1atvN _1FoOD _3M0Fe _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"_2PHJq public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Infinite blessings,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"viewer-60mid\" class=\"XzvDs _208Ie _1atvN _2QAo- _25MYV _2WrB- _1atvN public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span style=\"color: #993366; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span class=\"vkIF2 public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Hope<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guess is you&#8217;ve already heard about or played with the Law of Attraction, most famously used by Esther Hicks as well as the 2006 film The Secret, though neither were the origin of the concept. To discover that, you&#8217;ll need to go back, waaaay back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To keep it short and sweet, I&#8217;ll borrow from blogger Michael Boles, who sums the history up well:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A long time ago &#8230; Homer wrote book called the \u201cIliad\u201d. In it, Homer implies the principles of the Law of Attraction. He did not invent the principles, but only repeated what had been handed down from the antiquities (pre-writing).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the soil that went into the raised bed was particularly potent, because my tiny basil plant had morphed into a waist-high shrub! I&#8217;ve grown basil many times before but never had this kind of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":19068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,683],"tags":[165,2291,2190,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-19067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manifestation","8":"category-qa","9":"tag-abundance","10":"tag-abundant-life","11":"tag-hope-fitzgerald","12":"tag-living-librarian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21458,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19067\/revisions\/21458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}