Go on a Vibrational Spending Spree

Posted by shooperman on Mar 11, 2008 in Money | 2 comments

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There’s an old Chinese saying, “how much you eat and how much you clothe is fixed in this lifetime.” Older chinese folks believe that everyone of us can only ‘hold’ so much wealth in our lives. For example, if you can hold $100,000 and then win a million bucks in a lottery, chances are, you’d lose 90% of it in good time.

The older I get, the more evidence I see, in myself and people around me, that this is the way things work.

So, should we just give up and accept what is?

Hell no!

Like any computer programming bug, there’s a couple of ways that you can ‘beat the system’ and get more from life. This post talks about one of them – going on a vibrational spending spree.

The Essence of Spending

Have you notice lately how spending doesn’t seem to work anymore?

I’m not talking about spending money to buy food or daily staple needs. I’m talking about spending money to get yourself something special.

This could have something to do with age. As the years pass, it becomes harder and harder to think of something I really really want. There’s fewer things that I want and when I get them, the excitement of acquisition barely last a couple of days.

And the fact is, I don’t really need these things! They are really just a ‘new and improved’ item over something else I already own!

This got me thinking about spending – why spend? There’s really no good reason for it. When I pare it down, I can only conclude that I spend because it makes me feel good. That is, the final act of paying the cashier for that 12th t-shirt is so that I feel something good. (Am I addicted to spending?)

Can you recall that feeling? That tingle of joy when you buy that new-new thing? The blood rushing to your hands when you unwrap the item from the packaging? The pictures that you play in your mind how you’d be enjoying the product?

I believe these are the real reasons why anybody buy anything today.

The essence of spending is emotional.

The More You Make, The More Your Spend

Have you known friends for at least a decade and see them advance in their careers? And over the years, the more income they make, the more they spend. It’s not like they can eat double or triple the average human intake of food; it’s that they eat more expensive stuff, wear more branded clothing, and drive bigger cars.

In the end, they will still be the same people that grumble about how little they have and how tight the money is.

Fortunately, the next promotion or pay increment is always around the corner. And when it arrives, our dear friends will once again upgrade their lifestyles.

The point I’m making is this: life provides. If you have the capacity for it, it will come, no more, no less.

What is Vibrational Spending?

I learn about vibrational spending from one of Esther Hicks’ Abraham CDs. There are two versions of the exercise.

Version 1

• Put $100 cash in your wallet.
• Throughout the day, spend that same $100 over and over again in your mind.

Version 2

• On day 1, put $1,000 in your vibrational wallet and spend it.
• On day 2, put $2,000 in there and spend it.
• On day 3, $3,000.
• Personally, I write a short entry in a journal about the ‘spending’ part.

In both exercises, the notion of spending vibrationally can be achieved by 1) visualizing your buying, unwrapping, wearing and using the new item; and 2) emoting the same feelings of anticipation, excitement and satisfaction when you buy something.

Both are simple mind exercises that will produce the same results: attracting more wealth into your life.

Why does it work?

I’ve tried the second exercise and it worked. I’m in my second week of vibrational spending and have witness more wealth (OK, money) flowing in my direction.

I think this is how it works – when I emote feelings of spending money, vibrational dollars flow out of me. This creates a gap, or vacuum in my state of being (the state of not enough moola?) and causes life to draw some more of it to me. Since there isn’t an emotion associated with counting money, real dollars have to come into being to fill that void.

Sounds weird? The theory is still work-in-progress. In the meanwhile, why don’t you give the exercises a shot and tell me if it works for you too?