Using a chant to Lakshmi…or anyone else (including chants or prayers to Jesus, Mary, Buddha, God, etc.) is simply (and amazingly) an empowering tool.

The chant or prayer is an energy ignitor, a connector, a bridge between You and your most Tuned in You; the You that is Source itself.

The power of these chants is not in the chant alone.  It’s in what you activate vibrationally within yourself and in turn in the world around you.

That’s big.  Did you get that?

The power of these chants is not in the chant alone.  It’s in what you activate vibrationally within yourself and in turn in the world around you.

Power Source Inside ~ Inquire Within

It’s important to recognize that true power can only be sourced from within.

It’s tempting to externalize sometimes.  We have a tendency to look outside ourselves for the latest, greatest fix, fad, idea, pill, diet, self-help book, etc.  It’s not to say that any one of these things might not assist; they may.

The bottom line is none of these things work unless and until the ‘Inside You’~your Authentic Source Self is ready and prepared to make the shift.

No matter what the shift is.

When the you that is YOU is ready and says YES!; you’re in your POWER and magic happens.

You’ve Got Mail~

I’ve mentioned in previous posts that when I finish chanting I like to sit quietly in the energy and vibration the chanting created within and around me.  Some days I hear or observe something.  Others not so much.

Today I felt a message coming through.  Here’s what I recorded:

“Chants are meant to empower the power within.  Invoking my energy is meant only to awaken that part of you that is me.

The energy of prosperity and abundance is within you.  It always has been.  It always will be.

It is not outside of you, and therefore cannot be sourced in that way.

Yes, of course physical manifestations will reveal themselves to you outwardly.  You must understand they are the fruits of the inside nurturing you have done to allow them to sprout, blossom and ripen.

They are the outward manifestation of the beautiful inside connection to Source and therefore the aliveness of prosperity and abundance within you.

Can you accept this to be true?  It is so.  Trust in the power within and know that chanting, or any other ‘magical’ tool are only that ~ tools.

It is you alone who is the keeper of your power.  You alone can tap in and turn it up.  It’s easy.  Believe it so.”

I believe this came through me, from within.  From that part of me that is Lakshmi, from that part of each of us that is Lakshmi, from the collective Lakshmi consciousness.

So…What Did You Get??

Many ask, what has manifested for you since you started chanting to Lakshmi?

They want to know in $$$ or things because of course isn’t that what this is all about, they say?

While I have had outer manifestations ‘show up’ in the form of

• more perfect clients (another incredible one just yesterday!),
• unexpected money from the government in the form of tax refunds from years gone by (huge welcome surprise),
• our investments are growing beautifully (in a supposedly yet ‘downturned’ economy~my picture of the economy looks bright and cheery);

I have to say the biggest gifts I’ve received are those that woke me up to my inner knowing of

• worthiness,
• deservedness and
• connectedness.

I’ve been in touch with these qualities my whole life…and somehow over the past 2 1/2 months of chanting I feel the fullness of my worthiness, deservedness and connectedness.

Awakening the fullness of these three qualities within me “set me up” and “got me poised” for major receiver mode.

Receiver Mode Activated!

• I am ready, willing and able to receive.
• I am open!
• There are no blocks to my receiving.
• In fact receiving brings me so much JOY I am blissfully ecstatic!!

This is HUGE for me.  Can you relate?

Many of us are incredible givers; we know how to do that one REALLY well.  We love to give.  We feel SO GOOD when we give.  And…because we’re so good at giving…some of us aren’t that well versed in receiving.

To feel this immense freedom within me now around receiving just completely rocks so deep!!  Receiver Mode Engaged!  Full Throttle!!

• I am in my Power.
• I am Unstoppable.
• I am Happy.
• I am JOY FULL.
• I am Bliss.

• AND ~ I am a powerful manifestor, who is grateful for the energy of prosperity and abundance that is awake, alive and well within me.

Thank you Lakshmi for these gifts ~ and all those I am poised to receive!

Is your Internal Power Source turned on?  Is your Receiver Mode activated?

Tell me about it! 

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I’m a little over half way through my first 40 day cycle of chanting, “Om Shrim Maha Lakshmiyei Swaha” 108 times in a row each morning.

I look forward to waking up with Lakshmi.  I light a candle, center myself and call my attention to the energy of Goddess Lakshmi~the energy of prosperity and abundance.

When I finish chanting I sit quietly with Lakshmi.  Most mornings as I listen I receive a message from her.  Many times it comes in the form of an affirmation that I can repeat through out the day that supports manifestation in my life.

Today’s experience was interesting to say the least.  Very telling.

Today I could feel my ‘Inner Lakshmi’ charged and awake more than any other so far.

I literally felt the energy of prosperity and abundance buzzing inside me.  As I was chanting I could feel myself as the magnet.  I could feel the power of magnetizing that which I was attracting to me; in this case money, prosperity, abundance!

What a feeling!

I felt clear, strong, directly empowered.  
I felt happy, secure, self-assured.  
I felt as though when I opened my eyes I wouldn’t be surprised to find hundreds of thousands of $green$ glued to my body.  
The force was that strong.

When I finished chanting and sat in quiet listening I immediately heard, “I am a money magnet.  Prosperity and abundance are attracted to me.”

That felt good.  I repeated this several times:

“I am a money magnet.  Prosperity and abundance are attracted to me.”

And then I noticed something.  The positive charge I felt with it at first was dissipating. It was being replaced by thoughts from my judging mind.

Thoughts that said:

• “Hey, it’s not all about money” and

• “Where’s the consciousness in saying you’re a money magnet?!” and

• “What will people think if they know you’re thinking this way…about money…something so material.” and

• “Money.  Are you sure?  Maybe that’s being a little too greedy.”

As if caught in a tailspin, I started making up other affirmations I was more comfortable with:

• “My conscious inner magnetism is turned on.  Everything I want is attracted to me.”

Yes, and one of the things you want is money.  Just say it.  “I want money.”  There.

• “I am an abundance magnet.  I attract abundance on all levels.”

‘On all levels’ is one I’ll use often with abundance…it’s my way of telling the Universe that money is only part of the abundance   equation.  Like the Universe doesn’t know that already?

It’s MY head trip…I’m the one who doesn’t want to be thought of as money hungry.
Who’s thinking that anyway?  Where does that come from?  Why do I care?

Those are some good questions.  I’m sure Lakshmi will continue to enlighten me.

I am balanced in my perspective of abundance.  Of course I am.  I *so* am.  So why the discomfort with saying, “I want an abundance of money”?

There.  I said it.  “I want an abundance of money.”

Why?

Because having an abundance of money brings grace and ease into my life allowing me flexibility and freedom to be in service, to share with others and to have fun doing it.

Whoa Nelly.  Hold the phone.

What was happening here?  Something important.

Was I really interested in chanting to Lakshmi for prosperity and abundance…of which money is a wonderful part?

After all abundance can mean many things…the “on all levels” thing can and does apply.
What about the prosperity part?
I’m pretty sure that part speaks to the green, dinero, moola, cash.

Here I was switching up a perfectly good Money Mantra to the Goddess Lakshmi to reflect my squirming discomfort around admitting that it’s acceptable for me to be OK with money.
That I’m OK with wanting money.
In the process I created a Money Mantra with all kinds of side bars, disclaimers and clauses.  HAH!

Clear as Mud

I’m sure all of that is about as clear as mud to the Universe.

It’s a wonder I’ve been supported with prosperity to the level I have been!  …and perhaps not as full on as I may be if I just get over myself and get in the vortex* already!
*(Vortex:  The place Abraham says is where everything we’ve ever been aligned with resides.)

Wow.  What an exercise.  Lakshmi means business!

When you’re working with the Goddess of Prosperity and Abundance you can count on finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  More than once.  Unlimited times.

I believe I found one such pot today.  A pot of gold that reflects:  I am a Money Magnet.  Prosperity and Abundance are BOLDLY attracted to me. Notice how I added ‘boldly’?

Nice.

• I’m clear.
• I’m stating it boldly.
• I’m done feeling uncomfortable with money.
• Money is energy just like everything else.
• I am just as conscious with the energy of money as I am with the energy of everything else.
• Money is good.
• Money assists me in doing good.
• I love money.

Are you feeling it? Anyone relate to this experience?

Do share…

And in the meantime…say it with me:

I AM A MONEY MAGNET.  PROSPERITY AND ABUNDANCE (including $$$$$) ARE ATTRACTED TO ME!

$100,000 credit; ‘money magnet’ photo

You know how it is when something catches your attention and then suddenly it seems you see it everywhere?

That’s how my story with Lakshmi begins.

Near the end of February her image started floating through my awareness; I would randomly realize I was thinking about Lakshmi.  Several days after this I received a Lakshmi email that was being forwarded around talking about the positive power of Lakshmi and the energy of prosperity and abundance.

The email came with a beautiful image of Lakshmi.  I thought, how perfect!  I printed the image to hang next to me while I’m at the computer…it’s where I am.  A lot.  Where better to see Lakshmi’s glowing expression of prosperity and abundance than where I sit to work, write and do what I do.

Package of Three = Pay Extra Attention

I don’t know if you’re counting, but we’re on two Lakshmi encounters.  I wasn’t counting at the time.  And then, on March 5th…just days after I printed my image of Lakshmi the third encounter knocked on my door.  Well actually, she came in through the computer as a post from Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw.

Lakshmi is one smart goddess!  She knew that if she came in through Jeannette for her third entrance that I’d be alert and paying attention.  Jeannette’s post included a “money mantra”.  I read it and immediately unglued my poster from the wall and scripted the mantra across the top in beautiful magenta lettering:  “Om Shrim Maha Lakshmiyei Swaha”.

Jeannette’s post went on to explain how it’s been said that repeating the mantra 108 times in a row each day for 40 days consecutively will bring even more prosperity and abundance into one’s life.  That sounded really good to me.

The Attraction Factor

I consider myself a good money attractor; an overall good prosperity and abundance manifester.  Somehow over the last several years I seem to have gone left of center with my  “in the zone-ness” about money and attracting it.

My relationship with feeling good about attracting money was stressed.

I have my notions about how and why that happened.

What’s important right now is that my awareness of being out of the zone, out of alignment with attracting money has been increasingly apparent.  (I haven’t been attracting much…  and by the way, I in no way attribute that to the current supposed state our our economy.  I accept full responsibility.  I create my reality.  My attraction factor *was* out of sync.  *see?  stepping back in the zone!*)

Who’s that Knocking on the Door??

The timing of Laskshmi showing up is impeccable…downright serendipitous.  She may have been knocking earlier for all I know…if she was, no one was home.  We all know it’s only when we’re lined up with receiving what it is we need that it can actually arrive.

Having Lakshmi’s assistance now just makes it that much EASE-ier to move in the direction I was already headed with GRACE.  It’s like having a buddy to help when you’re moving the big stuff; just so much better to have company.

On the spring equinox I decided to get serious with Lakshmi. I created my mala necklace (108 beads strung together to help track the number of times the mantra is chanted).  Each morning from that day forward Lakshmi and I have been bonding.

That was 18 days ago as of the writing of this post.

I have had some brilliant aha! moments while doing this chanting.  Even more so as I sit in the silence after the chant.  Lakshmi’s energy is so alive and awakened within me.  It’s absolutely palpable, the energy I feel is super hero like.  I’m loving this and I see no reason to stop after 40 days at this point!

AHA!

My first AHA! realization came after the first 3 days chanting.  As I’m typing this I’m laughing because I could just as easily call it a DUH! moment.  :0)

At first it was as if chanting the mantra was like when I get a new pair of shoes.

• They’re not entirely comfortable right away.
• They belong to me, but I haven’t made them my own.
• The shoes feel good to me; I like them a lot…I spend time in them and as the days wear on they become a part of me.
• Suddenly they’re so comfortable it’s as if I’ve been wearing them forever.

That’s what the first few days chanting, “Om Shrim Maha Lakshmiyei Swaha” over and over, 108 times felt like.

I liked it, it felt good…and it wasn’t entirely comfortable or my own yet.

In those first days I felt like I was chanting the mantra to something, some where…outside of me.

This is the AHA! / DUH! moment…

On day four it hit me!

Lakshmi is a part of me.  Lakshmi’s energy is with me, within…all the time.  She’s not outside some where…never was.  She’s inside, a part of Source…where all the GOOD stuff is!

Is she always activated?  Not necessarily.

When I bring my attention to her, to the energy of prosperity and abundance, is that energy within me infinitely available?  ABSOLUTELY!

There it is!

From day 4 onward I felt the super hero charge of Lakshmi ignited within me and she’s been revved up ever since!

I live my life knowing that I have everything I need inside me.  I live my life knowing the truth and power of Source that resides within me at all times.  I know that I am the maker and the creator of my life experience; I relish in that knowing, I am grateful for that knowing.

And yet…  Here I am.  Being blown away by the powerful experience of recognizing the energy of prosperity and abundance within me like I’m meeting it for the first time.

Interesting, yes?  It’s all about layers.  Layer of experience.  Depths of knowing.  Infinite unfolding.  A continuum.  Life is grand.

I am eternally grateful for this AHA! moment.  I’m grateful that I can still be surprised and amazed each time I discover something ‘new’ that was there all the time.

The energy of Lakshmi is newly awakened within me.  The fullest potential of prosperity and abundance is awake within me!  YES!

OK.  So, now that I woke her up…  What next?  What has happened since?

Lots!

1. Unprecedented amounts of fresh energy and inspiration,
2. more perfect clients,
3. unexpected money
4. …and so much more.

Seriously.  In just 18 days!  Love knowing that it’s just going to keep getting better and better!

Have you met Lakshmi?
Is she awake in your life?
How about the energy of Prosperity and Abundance?

Tell me about it…!

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GoodVibeBlog~Jeannette Maw’ Post