Ok. This is a bit of a personal rant so bear with me.

Please know that my intention here is to shine some light, not sound bitter or frustrated.

This week I have been hit with a barrage of emails from people who expressed “concern” that my recent emails are out of integrity for a “true” Prosperity Revolution.

One person wrote me to tell me that I should be happy with my client’s gratitude and I shouldn’t even worry about charging money.

I am very happy when my clients feel gratitude. And when the grocery store accepts my gratitude for toilet paper, delicious juicy apples and milk, I will stop charging my clients.

I promise.

Another was concerned that the wrinkled sheet in one my videos was “hiding” something.

Yes, I assure you, it was.

At the time when I filmed the video on my Prosperity Bootcamp information page, we could only film on a PC. The only PC was in my sons’ bedroom.

That wrinkled sheet was hiding a large pile of very old and smelly laundry piled on top of bunk beds that probably had not been made since we moved into that house.

I have a very real life. Sometimes inspiration has more power than “staging” in my reality.

Several others commented that I am not wearing enough clothing in my headshot to look “professional”.

I don’t want to look “professional”.

Look, I’ve had four babies travel through my body. A fifth one is on the way. I breastfed for 11 years straight. For at least 11 years I was covered in mud, slobber, finger paint and who knows what else.

I love my picture. It looks like how I feel about my life. I love it because it’s me, it’s real and authentic. I’m wearing a beautiful velvet dress that makes me feel like a goddess.

(And for anyone who has been home for years with small children, you understand the delirious delight in wearing “grown-up, dress-up” clothes, yes?)

I use that headshot because it reflects what I want YOU to feel. I want my clients to know that it is okay for you to show up exactly the way you want to; joyfully authentic and in alignment with the magnificence and beauty that is YOU!

I would look like a prisoner if you put me in a business suit.

I don’t want to convey any messages about feeling imprisoned. The whole point of what I do is to help you set yourself free!!!

I am so very, very grateful for these emails. I haven’t gotten any like these in a while and I know that what shows up in my outer reality is there because I attracted it. I created this experience.

(And, yes, sometimes I think my Higher Self goes out on a bender with her buddies and then comes home wasted and cooks up plots for my Little Self’s life.)

(But ultimately, I think Ms. Higher Self probably has some pretty good ideas about what she’s doing, much as I hate to admit that.)

There is a beautiful message here for me and I would like to share it with you in the hopes that it can help you, too.

Last week I taught a teleclass about “crazy, unshakeable” Faith.

(To access the recording of the class, Click Here.)

What is so “crazy” about faith? “Crazy” faith is believing something when you have no evidence that it is true in your reality at the moment. “Crazy” faith means you believe in something so strongly and you’re willing to do whatever it takes, no matter what anyone else in your life may think.

The “craziness” of faith gives you the power to ignore the collective conditioning field that teaches us things like:

1. You can’t make money doing what you love. Get a “real” job and do what you love on the side.

2. It’s bad to charge money for providing service to others. You should do it for free.

3. You have to work hard to make money and sacrifice a lot.

4. You can’t have it all.

And many other such beliefs.

“Crazy” faith and “crazy” people change the world.

What do you think Martin Luther King’s mother told him? What about Mother Theresa?

Did you think Obama was a little “crazy” to run for president?

It takes a little courageous insanity to go for what you really want.

Especially if your current outer reality doesn’t reflect your “crazy” dream – YET!

I have a lot of “crazy” faith. I have a mission:

My mission is to create total planetary prosperity by 2017.

I believe that all people have the right to consciously choose their life circumstances and create opportunities that are in alignment with their desires and Life Purpose.

I intend to support the conscious manifestation of a world where ALL people know how to create peace, prosperity and the fulfillment of their Divine Potential.

I intend to consciously create a world where all people are well-fed, deeply loved, valued and educated in a way that supports the growth and evolution of their minds, bodies and spirits.

My mission is to educate and inspire people to live in alignment with their divine birthright of Abundance.

I intend to fulfill this mission by:

Sharing The Prosperity Revolution system with individuals all over the planet through personal coaching, workshops and consulting. I know that every student is a key part in creating a prosperous world. There is great power in each and every one of us and we each serve a perfect and vital role.

I can’t fulfill my mission if I don’t fulfill my own prosperity consciousness.

In practical terms, that means that I can’t fulfill my Life Purpose and the deep, deep calling of my soul if I don’t have money to feed my children or myself. As harsh as this may sound, the same is probably true for you.

I can’t help others who are truly in need if I don’t have an income. Martyrdom is really not a sustainable or abundant model.

I’ll tell you a secret. I NEVER turn anyone away from any program that I offer because of money. If a person has a strong enough desire that inspires the courage of action and they ASK me for help, I will NOT turn them away.

But I can’t “afford” to do this if I am not in a solid financial situation.

Truth is, I have to market and “sell” my services so that I can create a strong financial foundation for myself, my two employees and my family. That foundation affords me the joy and freedom to be able to give freely to my clients, who I adore!!!

And the truth is, many of the Lightworkers in my practice struggle with this because of the collective belief systems I mentioned above.

Sometimes we resist the contrast in our life. When we react strongly to something, it’s often (or probably ALWAYS) something inside of ourselves that is out of alignment.

I thank all of you who sent me corrective emails.

You have inspired me on many, many levels. I will continue to be “crazy” in my faith and remember to not take things personally. I had gotten into kind of a “taking everything personally” (pregnant brain syndrome) rut lately and I needed a nice swift kick in the behind.

You have helped me deepen my clarity and my intention to help others achieve true prosperity by continuing to teach Prosperity Bootcamp, Inside the Body of God and my business development classes (we have a new, Teleclass Bootcamp coming up in December).

You have inspired me to learn even more about marketing so that I can have even more successful classes and seminars and increase my global impact.

And you reminded me how much I love that rebellious authentic spark that is Me. Yes, I am totally nuts. Yes, I love velvet dresses with spaghetti straps. Yes, I record videos and I’m not so good with lighting and makeup. Yes, my dreams are crazy.

But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Go forth and enjoy “crazy” Faith and lavishly abundant prosperity!!!!!!!

And if you want to take your prosperity consciousness to a whole new level, then please join me for Prosperity Boot Camp. It starts tomorrow evening!

I love you all!

Karen

My youngest son, Karson, loves the online game, World of Warcraft. He’s pretty incredible. He can run two computers simultaneously, participate in a chatroom, IM with one hand, play the game with the other and talk on the phone all at the same time!

The coolest part about this game is that he has made friends all over the world! In fact, he met his first girlfriend online and they dated for over a year.

The internet is amazing. It can truly be a great unifier. My entire business is run online. My emails reach over 20,000 people all over the world. Just a few short years ago, I had to advertise in magazines and newspapers. My impact has increased dramatically with the internet.

This past week we had an incredible global experience. Even though it was, technically, an American election, the impact of what we decided has profoundly affected the world.

As we evolve towards creating a New World, we are moving closer and closer to creating a true global community. Quantum physics teaches us that each and every event in the cosmos impacts us all in some way.

If our outer reality is a reflection of our consciousness, then the internet is clear evidence that we are moving more deeply towards being consciously connected to each other.

Last Friday, in San Francisco, Al Gore spoke at the Web 2.0 summit. (Web 2.0 is a trend in web design and development - a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services (such as social-networking sites, wikis and blogs) which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users….Yes…I had to look this up….!)

“The electrifying redemption of America’s revolutionary declaration, that all human beings are created equal,” Gore said to a cheering crowd, “would not have been possible without the addition of the empowerment of individuals to use knowledge as a source of power that has come with the Internet.”

The internet unifies us by giving us access to information. And information gives us power.

In small communities in Africa and India, micro-loans have enabled communities to purchase computers and to have internet access. Farmers are now able to “shop” the markets online and take their livestock and crops to the markets that offer them the best value, thus increasing their income.

Knowledge is power. And a key ingredient to creating prosperity. Knowledge is what gives you the understanding to deliberately create your world. Without knowledge we are left to “blind” fate and “dumb” luck.

But knowledge alone isn’t enough. The information about deliberate creation and alchemy have been around for a while (like thousands of years…). A lone alchemist may have the knowledge to metaphorically turn lead into gold but a group of alchemists can transform the world.

We have been moving towards this most creative moment in time for forever. Recently I received this Abraham Hicks quotation (in my email inbox, of course…):

“As you are born into these physical bodies, you experience the vibrational continuum of the generations that have come before you. Their desires as they have lived as individuals—and their Collective Mass Consciousness desire— has emanated to the boundary-less boundaries of the Universe, and Law of Attraction is answering all of those requests. So, each generation who follows the previous generation benefits by the desires that have been exuded by Mass Consciousness.”

As individuated expressions of One God, we have been moving towards unity for lifetimes. Our hearts and spirits have been crying out with this desire for generations. Within the last hundred years we have had horrific contrasting experiences that have collectively deepened our desires for a peaceful, abundant and free world experience.

I believe that there is more and more evidence in our reality showing us that our collective desire for unity is happening.

Being human is an interesting journey. Most of us have had some kind of exposure to knowlegde to “wake us up” to living intentionally and deliberately. Life without knowledge still happens. But for those of you who remember what it feels like to be consciously “asleep”, you know it’s much more fun when you get to wave your magic wand with awareness! (Remember Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Fantasia?)

But once we “wake up” we are often slammed with a great Cosmic Loneliness. So what if you know how to use your “magic wand”…what good is an aware life without playmates?

In witchcraft it is taught that to make a spell more effective you need at least three witches.

Jesus said that whenever two or more people are gathered with similar intentions then there is more power.

In Judaism, there are several prayers and services that can not take place without a Minyan, a group of ten or more men.

Let’s face it.

Knowledge is power. And knowledge in the hands of a group of like-minded individuals can change the world.

Now is the time to come together and share and support each other as we continue to learn and grow. Let’s share ideas, encouragement, opportunities, insights and love!

And even better, let’s come together and deliberately intend a New World…a world where all people are well-fed, deeply loved, valued and educated in a way that supports the growth and evolution of their minds, bodies and spirits.

Want to join me?

Recently, I joined Facebook, an online social networking website. (And, yes, my teenagers are teaching me how to use it…). I invite you to join me on Facebook. Just click on the link below to get started (It’s free.). Let’s use this as a platform to connect and reach out to each other.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1268312220&ref=name

“What happened in the election opens up a whole new range of possibilities, Gore said. “Now is the time to really move swiftly, to seize these new possibilities and to exploit them…Web 2.0 has to have a purpose. The purpose I would urge as many of you as can take it on, is to repair our relationship with this planet and the imminent danger we face.”

I don’t really think we are in imminent danger. There are way too many signs of hope. But, I do believe that we can intend, even more deeply, to co-create a New World in exciting, limit-shattering ways!

We’re all in this together!

And we don’t have to do it alone anymore!

Love,
Karen

What is your story about money? Do you love money? Does it come to you easily?

Or is your story a little different?

What stories are you telling yourself right now when you read the newspaper or your “Yahoo” page? Are you worried about finances?

Please join me for this week’s free weekly teleclass and discover how you can recession-proof your life:

Recession Proof Your Life
Thursday, November 6, 2008
9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific
Click Here To Register

There are three basic steps to creating abundance in your life no matter what your circumstances are…

Come master the secrets of thriving in tight times. (Psssst….these secrets are the same secrets used by the wealthiest people on the planet!)

In the meantime, here is a NEW money story for you to listen to. (I took this from the book, “Money and the Law of Attraction” by Esther and Jerry Hicks. Go buy this book, now!)

Sit back, relax, close your eyes and enjoy!

Love,
Karen

As a professional psychic medium for over 10 years, people often call me to connect with crossed-over loved ones. It’s easy to miss someone who is no longer with you in physical form. When a loved one crosses, you may find that you are left with a lot of questions.

When most people seek out a medium, they usually have one pressing question, “Is my loved one okay?” Always, the answer is YES! It is so difficult for us to understand that all the pressures, the pain and the density of being in a body go away for people when they die.

I have never done a mediumship reading for someone who has held on to physical pain. Moving past the body allows sous to be free of the physical issues that may have been a part of their existence on earth.

Every medium has different experiences and even different techniques. I would like to share with you some of my experiences to help you perhaps find a way to connect with your loved ones in your own way.

WHEN A SOUL FIRST PASSES
The first thing that I notice with people when they cross over is that in the first two years after passing they seem to keep a large part of their personality. Usually when I am talking to someone who has recently crossed over, their biggest worry is whether their loved ones who they have left behind are okay. If there is a lot of grief or trauma related to their passing, the soul who has left seems to stay very close, as if to provide comfort and support to their family and friends who are missing them.

For me, when I am “tuning in” to someone’s energy field, if someone has recently passed in their life, that person is very easy to connect with. The departed soul is usually hovering very close behind the person’s back. Almost always, they have a hand on the person’s back behind their heart, as if they are holding the person up and sending them love. Sometimes, particularly if the departed one is a male, their presence is so strong I almost want to tell my client to duck when they come in the door to my office because I don’t want the departed one to bump their head when they walk in. So far, no one has. They seem to be able to maneuver the physical plane quite nicely.

It is during this two-year period that the soul of the person who has died seems to be “working” on resolving issues that perhaps were left undone on Earth. For example, if someone dies and there are unresolved issues with anger, the departed soul will work from the other side trying to make amends or assure the people left behind that the anger is gone and forgiveness needs to take place.

ONLY THE LOVE REMAINS
When the interpersonal issues seem to be blocking the person left behind from moving forward, there is usually a deep sense of urgency to resolve the issue. The crossed-over loved one is anxious for the ones left behind to move forward and finish their grief and sorrow.

I have never connected with a crossed-over love one who has held on to anger or resentment. These energies do not seem to cross the barrier into the “other side”. In fact, one of the reasons why I enjoy being a medium so much is that I get to experience love from the other side in a way that we seem to not be able to experience it in the earthly plane. Truly, when someone crosses over, only the love remains.

UNEXPECTED DEATHS
Sometimes, if someone has died unexpectedly or suddenly, there is a little bit of shock that a soul can experience. I don’t encounter this often, but when I do, I can call on the soul’s family members who have passed and Archangel Michael to help the soul adjust to being on the other side. This takes about a minute to do and then adjustment happens quite quickly.

RELEASING GRIEF
The more grief a family feels, the harder it is for a soul to progress to the next level. When we deny our grief or we don’t surrender it, the soul gets trapped trying to make things better. This is so true when I am working with children who have died. Children always tell me to tell their parents that they will never leave their parent’s side. Children seem to stay in their parent’s energy fields for a long time and almost seem to “grow up” next to their parents even though they are no longer here.

As soon as we begin to resolve our grief, the soul can then go on to the next level of development. I usually see this around the two year mark after a person’s passing. At that point, the personality seems to fade away a bit and the soul begins to exist in a pure state of love and energy. Sometimes, at this point, it is difficult for me to “see” the person’s physical appearance and I can only connect with their soul energy.

Personally, this is an amazing experience. When I connect with a soul in this state, my own body, particularly my heart chakra, expands with this love-force energy and I feel so much beauty and peace. This is a love energy that we can all tap into if we just remember to feel past our physical form and remember that all the trials and tribulations of being on Earth are just dense forms of energy.

COMMUNICATING WITH DEPARTED LOVED ONES
Different souls seem to have different skill levels of communication. Sometimes I will encounter a soul who just loves to talk and can communicate quite clearly. I sometimes have to blink when I deal with these spirits because it is hard to tell that they are not in physical form. I connected with a sweet man the other day who was very good at communicating across from the other side. He was such a chatterbox and was so anxious to talk to his daughter, I couldn’t get him to be quiet!!

The most common way that crossed-over loved ones seem to communicate is through working in dream-time. Most of my clients will tell me that they have very different kinds of profound dreams just after a person has crossed over. If you have had these kinds of dreams, don’t discount them. They are very real communication from your loved one.

We have a tendency to believe that connecting with crossed-over loved ones is similar to the experiences of the boy in the movie, “The Sixth Sense”. My experience (and the experience of many other mediums I know) is not like this at all. We discount a lot of inter-dimensional communication from loved ones because it doesn’t look like it does in the movies.

If you are seeking to connect with a crossed-over loved one, let go of all your paradigms about how you think your experience or your communication should look like. You are probably connecting with your loved one just fine. You just may be doubting your experience.

Most souls will tell me that they talk to their loved ones all the time but that they just don’t listen. My experience with crossed-over souls is that they can talk to us sometimes in our head. You may actually hear (but not like hearing with your physical ears, more like talking to yourself in your head) your loved ones words or voice in your head but then discount it or think you are experiencing wishful thinking. Trust yourself and what you are experiencing. If you are hearing a loved-one in your head, you probably really are!

Pets seem to be able to connect better than humans. Many souls will show me images of dogs or cats. The crossed-over souls tell me that dogs, especially, will do strange things after someone has passed, like stand at the top of the stairs and seemingly bark at nothing. This is just your pet connecting with your loved one. Pay attention to your animals. They can perceive energy in a way that we can’t sometimes.

CHANNELED WRITING
One of my favorite ways to help people to connect with crossed-over loved ones it to teach my clients to do channeled writing. It is very easy to connect with departed souls through writing.

This technique is very easy to do. Simply write a question for your loved one on paper. You can even write them a letter if you want to. Once you are done with your writing, close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and ask that you be connected with your loved one.

As soon as you feel ready, (If your are deeply skeptical do this anyway, you may never feel ready.) write what you think the answer would be to your question or your letter. You may have to “prime the pump” so to speak when you first begin writing. Just write what comes into your head. You may find that as you continue to write, the words come faster and even the tone of voice of your words may change. This is just your loved one coming through for you!!

The biggest block to connecting with a crossed-over loved one is skepticism. We doubt so many of our Divine Messages because they don’t happen the way we think they should. Let go of your doubt and just play. If you think you can’t connect with a departed one, imagine what it would be like if you could and see what happens. This is not supposed to be so serious and departed ones remind me of that all the time!

Losing a loved one can be a devastating experience. Allow yourself to feel your grief and your sorrow. The more you allow for your sadness, the more quickly you can move past it. When my clients are not allowing their sadness, the pain and the grief goes on much longer and can even manifest in physical illness. As hard as it is, let it go. It has been my experience that time does truly heal the pain and that only the love remains.

Our departed loved ones encourage us to release our grief. Completing our grief sets us and them free, too. And it makes room to bring more love into our lives.

Love,

Karen

Today, October 22, 2008, is International “It’s All Good!” Day.

International IT’S ALL GOOD DAY is a special day in honor of my dear friends Martin and Connie Jordan’s son, Andrew, and the 1st anniversary of his passing. Andrew crossed over last year after a four-month battle with leukemia.

Even before his illness, Andrew had an amazing positive attitude and love of life. He was an inspiration and continues to be from the other side.

Andrew was diagnosed July 11, 2007 with AML Leukemia. During his nearly 4 months at All Children’s Hospital, he kept his attitude of “IT’S ALL GOOD!”, even when he got injections of chemo shot into his spine a few times a week. The hospital staff and patients regularly gathered in Andrews room noting that his energy was always calming and uplifing.

If a 16 year-old young man could keep his positive attitude while enduring excruciating pain, than so can we, for at least one day!

Andrews greatest desire was to touch, teach and inspire people all over the world. On the anniversary of his passing, we decided to do something to help Andrew keep his spirit and his legacy alive.

So, on Oct 22, 2008, in honor of Andrew, I encourage you to set the intention to consciously keep a positive mindset, no matter what. Smile at a stranger, hold the door open for someone. Be a part of the goodness that flows between us as Divine Siblings. Every chance you get, notice the Good that surrounds you! Remember that you will be joined today by many people around the world celebrating Andrew’s life and IT’S ALL GOOD DAY!

In honor of IT’S ALL GOOD DAY, I invite you to join me in a special project. I have a lovely 18- year-old friend, Sarah Parker, who has volunteered six months of her life to work with orphans in Nepal.

Sarah recently emailed her Dad and asked him if he could send warm hats, scarves and flea powder for the children. If you would like to help Sarah and her Dad keep the orphans warm, I invite you to send childrens hats, scarves, art supplies (especially pens and paper…we take for granted how lucky we are to be able to write anything whenever we want…) and anything else you’d like to share with the children to me:

Karen Curry
5321 Park Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55417

I will be giving Sarah’s Dad your donations to send in a package to Sarah on October 31, 2008.

If you would like to donate money instead, I can make your purchases for you:







Spread the word! IT’S ALL GOOD!

Love,

P.S. To learn more about Andrew’s journey, please visit: http://www.healive.org

P.P.S. To learn more about Sarah’s Orphans, please visit: http://www.oceannepal.org

Last week, I had the great honor of interviewing filmmaker and humanitarian, Jesus Nebot about his views on the current economic situation.

Sit back, watch this vidoe clip and get inspired by Jesus’s insights on transformation:

 

Here’s a quick update for our upcoming Virtual Party on October 14, 2008…

I am so excited that two of my favorite people will be part of our extensive line up of inspiring guests:

Brad Yates (http://www.bradyates.net), EFT Guru extraordinaire and one of the funniest men I know, will be joining us and to discuss how to use EFT to create world peace.

Check out Brad’s website.  He has amazingly fun movies and tons of information that can help you shatter your limiting beliefs and take your life to the next level!

AND

Jesus Nebot, (http://www.jesusnebot.com) founder and CEO of Zokalo Entertainment and Love Empowerment Seminars, is an award winning filmmaker as well as a renowned inspirational speaker and transformational trainer who has lectured in over 30 American states and 10 additional countries around the world for educational, cultural, non-profit, business and civic organizations.

His mission is to inspire personal and social healing and transformation through his speaking engagements, training seminars and artistic endeavors, including writing, producing, directing and acting.

Among his many accolades Nebot has been the recipient of the Aguila Azteca PERFORMING ARTS TRIBUTE AWARD, the Latinos in Hollywood STAR FILMMAKER AWARD, the Nosotros OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD and The Southern California Motion Picture Councils GOLDEN STAR HALO AWARD FOR HIS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

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This is just a small sampling of the exciting, amazing people who will be joining us!!!

Mark your calendar!

See you there!

Love,

Karen

What is true prosperity?

What would it feel like to be truly prosperous?

Take a minute and write down your answer.

I’ve been reading the news these last few days and, to be honest with you, I’ve had some brief panic attacks about the economy.

I mean, I have a service-based business.  Think about it, when you are struggling financially, are you going to pay your local spiritual teacher/coach/psychic/lightworker business consultant or buy bread?

(You don’t actually have to answer that one.)

Now, I know enough to know that my panic is just my Inner Wisdom talking to me.  My panic is helping me get clear about what I want to be experiencing and deepening my intentions for what I want to create.

When I panic I know that something inside of me is out of alignment.  And in this case, I realized I had unplugged from Source.  God is limitlessly abundant and God’s abundance doesn’t disappear just because we have a recession/depression/financial downturn/whatever you want to call it.

I am grateful for my panic.  It helped me deepen my intention to realize fully, in all aspects of my life, that God is my total fulfillment.

(This morning my spirit guides led me to Psalm 23:  The Lord is my Shepard.  I shall not want…)

As I thought more about our natural state of abundance, I started to think about the history of prosperity and humanity.

What did aboriginal peoples perceive as prosperity?  What about people during the Renaissance?

When I was a kid, I visited the Topkapi Palace Museum in Instanbul, Turkey.  The museum contained the most incredible pieces from the Ottoman Empire.  Talk about abundance – diamond and emerald-studded baby cribs, chairs - you name it!  I mean this place is incredibly opulent.

Our perception of prosperity can be quite mutable.  Most of us would think an outdoor shower is not abundant.  But, if you go backpacking and hiking for 7 days, an outdoor shower can be heaven.

When I first got out of college, I saved $10,000. I thought I was radically wealthy.  Now I spend almost that much each month feeding and clothing four teenage children.

My first house cost about $72,000.  My most recent house cost $378,000.  I paid $6,000 for my first car.  My most recent car cost $30,000 (a little less than half what I paid for my first house.)

Was I more prosperous in a bigger, more expensive house, driving a nicer, more expensive car?

I don’t think so.

(In fact, in some ways, I was happier in the smaller cheaper house.  My life was simpler then and my energy focused exclusively on my growing tribe of small children.)

What is the true measure of prosperity?  Is it our external belongings, our collection of “stuff”, gadgets and toys?

Or is it more?

“For too long we have been dreaming a dream from which we are now waking up: the dream that if we just improve the socioeconomic situation of people, everything will be okay, people will become happy. The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”

Viktor E. Frankl, “The Unheard Cry for Meaning”

I’m sure you’ve heard stories of “wealthy” people who are miserably unhappy.  My parents live in a very affluent suburban area.  The high school in their community has the highest per capita suicide rate in the country.

We tend to measure prosperity by our financial abundance.  And we seem to be conditioned to believe that our well-being is attached to our financial abundance.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  Having sufficient financial support and resources certainly contributes to well-being.  I’m not advocating asceticism or suffering here.

It’s just that life has a tendency to change.  Stuff happens.  Just this week, one of my favorite cats was killed by a car.  Some of you may be feeling the pinch of a seemingly volatile economic environment.

If our natural state is abundant well-being, how do we align with what is natural to us when our outer reality appears to “deal” us with unpredictable, sometimes scary or sad change?

Staying connected with Source is always the first step.

You are a holographic representation of the Divine.  (Yup.  You’re a chip of the old block.)

The word holographic comes from two Greek words, holos and gamma.  Roughly translated from Greek, the word hologram means the “whole word”.  The “whole word” of God is within you.

If God is abundant and as a child of God, you contain within you the same “code” or Divine DNA, then it is easy to remember that abundance is your birthright and your natural state.

A daily program of meditating with the intention to connect with Source is one of the most powerful things you can do each an every day.

Before you sit quietly for 15 minutes or so, write or say the following statement:

I intend to connect with my Divine Abundance.  I intend to fully integrate and understand that my natural state is abundance.  I intend to vibrate with total prosperity in all areas of my life including health, wealth, creative fulfillment, spirituality and relationships.  I know that God is my total fulfillment and it is impossible for me to have any unmet needs or desires.

You have contained within you the code for abundance.  But our logical minds and our conditioning sometimes make us forget.  Our brains are easily programmed to find evidence to support our beliefs.

If you have a belief that we are on the edge of a great depression, it’s easy to look at the nice graphs of the descending Dow and freak out.  We are habituated to placing our attention on the downward trend.  (So does the media.)

But if you are abundant in your consciousness, you probably noticed that the price of oil dropped yesterday.

There are equal amounts of good and bad news.  It’s up to you to see the news you choose.  Practice finding evidence of your eternal well-being and infinite abundance.  Shift your focus to prosperity.

Nothing can shift your focus faster than a good dose of gratitude.

One of my most significant abundance moments came one day after Christmas a few years ago.  I had spent more than I “should” for the kids for Christmas and I needed to make my house payment.

I realized that I only had $3.25 to my name.  For a minute I freaked out.  But, fortunately, the Christmas Spirit was still strong in my soul and I started counting my blessings.  It wasn’t long before I was thinking about how many things I could buy for $3.25.

My whole energy shifted and suddenly all I saw around me was prosperity.  Within two days I created enough money for my house payment and for all of my bills.

As soon as I shifted my focus and relaxed out of my panic, inspirations gently drifted into my awareness and I came up with several quick money-making ideas that saved my butt!

There is never a moment when there isn’t something to be grateful for.  And when you are on a quest to find what is good and a blessing in your world, then your focus naturally turns to abundance.

And once you find that abundant frame of mind, then you begin to draw more abundance to you.  When you maintain an abundant mindset, you also vibrate with abundance.  As you vibrate, you align with experiences that match your vibration and before you know it, your outer reality is changing right along with your inner state of prosperity.

We have all participated in consciousness in the creation of the economic problems on Wall Street and to the recession.  There are aspects of our economic situation that we are vibrationally aligned with.  Otherwise the experience wouldn’t be a part of our reality.  This is how the Universe works.

But, the cool thing is, if we created it, we can un-create it, too.

The article at the top of my Yahoo page today says that a run on the market and banks failing creates a “herd” mentality in the culture.

I say Wooooo Hooooo!

Let’s create a “herd” mentality of abundance and joy.  What if, instead of searching for evidence of the next Great Depression, we find evidence of the unfailing, unlimited Divine Abundance available to us all?

Spend some time today counting your blessings.

To quote my eternally sappy father (who still hopes some day I’ll get a real job), “Your friends and family are priceless on Wall Street.”

If you need to, ignore the news.  Your prosperity, your TRUE prosperity has nothing to do with the economy and Wall Street.

Love,

Karen

I have four children.

My oldest son, Keegan, is a senior in High School.  He’s a cool kid.  He’s one of those kinds of people who knows from the start why they are on the planet.  When he was two years old he told me that when he grows up, he’s going to be a movie maker.

He’s been making movies ever since.  (He stared with Lego Studio).  Last year he won several awards and even scholarship money.

This year, as a graduation present,  he wants to go to Paris and Barcelona with his art class.Now, I love this idea.  But, of course, I have to pay for this upcoming adventure!

So, this week I am offering all kinds of specials for you, so that I can pay for my son’s trip.A few weeks ago I offered and early-bird special for my upcoming Human Design Specialist Certification Training, which starts on October 14, 2008.

The tuition for this six-month training is normally $2,097.00.For this week, and this week only, I am extending the early bird tuition of $1,497.00.  (That’s a $600.00 saving!)

This is an excellent opportunity for you to learn a new skill that allows you to be in business for yourself and make the money you deserve helping others.  Call Chris, 612-799-3247, to sign up and to get more information!

   Human Design Specialist Certification Training

Stay tuned for more specials!

In the meantime, here’s a treat for you!  Click here to watch one of Keegan’s award winning movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJQ_XTJOwA

 I’m not too proud or anything

Love,

Karen