No matter who you are.

No matter where you live. No matter what you look like. No matter how much money you have. How much talent. How many possessions. How much power. How much glory. How much you are of anything. 

Life will hurt sometimes. It seems to be inevitable living on this planet. So truly the only way to combat that is to find peace with it. To accept it. To not be in fear of it. To not retaliate against said fears. To not let the fear of the pain scare you anymore. To look life squarely in the eyes and say "bring it on!"  Not in a violent way because that just adds more misery. But rather to do it in a loving and accepting way.  To say to yourself right here right now 

"Life isn't always going to be easy. But I refuse to keep living in fear. I refuse to live scared anymore. Because I only have so much time on this planet and I refuse to keep living it unhappily.  

I am going to let compassion, love, acceptance, and peace rule my life, instead of fear, anger, dread, despair, remorse, bitterness and all the other life sucking negative emotions that abound.

In my heart I now choose to float like a cloud in the sky. Wherever you send me; that's where I will be. Whatever you want of me life; that's what I will become.  Giving of myself completely, with heart wide open.  I will stop fighting the battle to try and be someone I am not. I will simply be me and with this alone; I will be truly happy."

There's no cheating here though. You really gotta feel it to make it happen.  So if it clicks with 1 time or not until the millionth...so be it. Just say it until
"Ya ain't gotta say it no more".  

Church lesson or just a life lesson?

Tithing

Ok. So probably anyone that has been to a church has heard of this. 

I used to find tithing to be abominable; I thought it was just part of the greed of the church (and I still feel this is true to some extent mind you). But now I think that money is like karma to some extent, if that can even be compared. The more positive energy you give it the more it gives back to you. I've heard some people swear that it can be as much as tenfold, even more if you are to believe Christie Marie Sheldon and her abundance theories. She makes it sound even easier than I do. Although in order for most visualization and affirmations to help you need to generally say them over and over. Right? For months, daily, as heartfelt as you absolutely can...which some days may be not at all (lol). *

So tithing does this as well. It puts chi into your money, it gives it life. It has now been put to good use, by someone who needs it much more than you, because I know no matter what your lot in life there are ALWAYS some far more needy. And when you do that it comes back to you. So you just need to let it go. Obviously life is calling on you to give, so give. Look at it this way...you get to give.***

Give willingly, give lovingly, give with only goodness in your heart and that money will come back to you.  So. 10% seems to the "gold" standard, not sure what falling short would do, but I know giving more is like platinum edition.  Point is, it gives it back to you in spades and in a happy way; not in the: your favorite relative just died way, or you just went through 10 years of litigious hell to get this money, or a million other horrible ways to get money "easily?".  

So yes. Bottom line. Tithing gets your money wheel cranking. Simply put. 

*The Silva Method seems to let you do this for yourself in one day. Which is why I am studying it now.

***Be like the Buddhist monk who caught a thief in their house and gave the thief everything...even the robe off the his back and bid the thief good night and wished that he could even have given him the moon; since that had been such a beautiful star filled and moonlit night.  In another version the thief comes back years later (after jail I believe) and begs to become the monks apprentice.  It's even said that when the police had initially went to question the monk he declined to file a report telling them that he had given everything to the thief gladly; wanting him to truly have it all.