Our circumstances in life are the outcropping of thoughts and beliefs that have been gathered and accepted in our subconscious minds throughout our lifetime. As long as those same beliefs exist, circumstances are perpetuated and remain the same. In essence, everyone already has faith. Someone who has never experienced abundance and wealth still has faith - their faith is in lack and scarcity.

Subconscious Resistance

Now, in order to experience abundance and wealth, one must shift those subconscious patterns and beliefs to faith in abundance and wealth. But here is the glitch: the subconscious mind does not like change, it is resistant and will argue against new ideas or thoughts that are opposed to what is entrenched (you know how hard it is to break a habit). The subconscious keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing, controls our autonomic nervous system and retains the perfect memory of every cell in our body, but it also keeps those negative thought forms that have been fed into it, deeply ingrained and static.

One cannot just decide consciously to have faith. As I have mentioned in previous posts, the conscious and subconscious minds must agree on an idea in order for that idea to come to fruition and become reality. So if you consciously want something, but your subconscious does not believe you have it, then you will not have it.

Why Affirmations Usually Don't Bring Results

I have an intuitive hunch that 80% of the people who use "affirmations" do not get results for the following reason. If you have a subconscious belief in poverty or lack and use an affirmation such as "I am wealthy" or "I am prosperous", your subconscious will argue with that statement because your entire being knows that you are lying, that it is not the truth. You will be feeling; "Who am I kidding? Look around." So what happens by creating that subconscious resistance is that you are now concentrating more on lack and your circumstances can get worse. It's sort of like "don't think of a white elephant".

Affirmations are an outstanding tool, but there are distinctly different kinds of affirmations and you must have the knowledge to use them effectively to create results. And you must use them when you mind has become "fertile" and receptive.

So based on the above, how does one create faith in the new idea - faith in abundance and wealth? Well, this is my answer:

Friendly Persuasion

There is a lot of material on the market today - books, seminars, coaches, it goes on and on. Yet many people are not getting results and keep looking for that next person or product that will help them. Much of the material that is taught is based on mental and spiritual laws that are sound. And you may intuitively know these principles are correct and have faith in them, BUT there is a missing link. They are not teaching you how to incorporate these principles into your own consciousness so that you can use them to get results. They are not giving you the correct and specific "nuts and bolts" techniques that you can put to use right this moment to create subconscious acceptance and change. Also, when you take all of this information into your mind at once, it creates "overload" in the subconscious and will not be accepted. I am convinced that information must be, as one of my students has stated, "spoon fed" to the mind in order to be effective.

I was fortunate enough in my 30 years of study to be drawn to the specific information that allows us to bypass our analytical mind and influence the subconscious through what I have labeled "friendly persuasion" - specific techniques that do not create resistance in the subconscious and allow it to accept the new idea of wealth and abundance. These techniques bridge the gap between belief in the principles and subconscious acceptance of them. Analytical types (I am one) do very well with subconscious, mentally based techniques because they are practical, scientific, if you will, and do not challenge the analytical mind. The spiritual component need not be involved to create results. However, the results from the application of the principles will often open the door to someone's spiritual growth.

Subconscious Acceptance Through Faith and Repetition

There are two ways that new ideas can be accepted by the subconscious mind - through faith and repetition. Let me give you examples of faith as it applies here:

In France, there is a fountain at Lourdes, and when people step into this fountain, they will often experience instantaneous healings. Now the waters in the fountain are not healing them, it is the belief and expectancy, or faith in their subconscious mind that the waters will heal them that really does the healing. Another example: A parent gets angry and says to a child, "You're stupid and you'll never amount to anything". Do you know that the child can grow up and play out that statement through a lifetime and never know why he cannot succeed - all because the element of faith was involved - the emotional impact of that statement caused the child to accept it in faith by the subconscious. And many, many people are playing out these childhood influences, whether subtle or severe.

The repetition factor...Subconscious beliefs can be changed through repetition of the right ideas. You are currently experiencing the effects of thoughts and words that you have been repeating to yourself and reinforcing over and over again. These ideas keep feeding on themselves and your circumstances remain the same. You are in essence "hypnotized" by these thought forms. It is vitally important that you know how to word the new information that you wish to instill in the mind to create new circumstances. Again, that's where knowledge comes in – the knowledge to shift the “faith factor” to one of prosperity and the feeling that you are indeed the child of a universe that is willing to provide and fulfill your wants and needs.

Once the subconscious shift occurs, and it can happen "in the twinkling of an eye", the new consciousness is free to grow and expand into a greater and greater realization of the abundance that is in the world and our right to receive it.

Yes, It's There For You, Too!

Most people already know that wealth and abundance exists. They just don't accept that it exists for them personally. That's where the proper knowledge and techniques come in. But in order to expand their consciousness and change their circumstances, they must be sincerely ready and willing to change. They must have an openness and not be stuck in a state of hopelessness and defeated by what has occurred until now. They must have just a teensy weensy feeling that there is something better for them, and that if it can happen for someone else, it can happen for them. If someone can come out of extreme circumstances in the ghetto and create fantastic wealth and success, does it not seem likely that someone with a better start could expand their mind to create more? There is a way, no matter who you are or what your life circumstances have been. You CAN overcome any past life circumstances and beliefs.

Everyone already has faith...we all have faith that the sun will rise, don't we? (well, except for a few doomsdayers).

So, you already have faith. The important thing is: in WHAT do you have faith? And what can you do to change the focus of that faith?

You learn and apply techniques to gently shift the subconscious beliefs so that they agree with your conscious wants and desires.

As within, so without.

Quantum Physics, Brain Science and Spirituality in the Movies.

So many have brought this movie to my attention, I figured I am supposed to share this with you. 

Students have seen it and said it was unbelievable. Theatregoers are going back to see it several times.  It's supposed to be extremely entertaining and about...quantum physics for the lay person and all of this good stuff we're learning here - about how our thoughts shape our reality, etc. 

Yeah! Independent Film Makers :-)

This is the movie Hollywood wouldn't make. From the promo:

Have fun checking out the site and movie. I can't wait to see it.

Student Glenn Osborn submitted this and I thought you would find it fascinating. Of course, anything relating to the power of words gets my attention!

The photographs and information in the article, Miraculous Messages from Water – How Water Reflects Our Consciousness, reflect the work of Masuru Emoto, a creative and visionary Japanese researcher. The water molecules were frozen and photographed and it shows the molecules making startling changes when affected by words. Emoto's findings were also highlighted in the movie above.

Looks legitimate to me...what do you think?

http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp

Student Monica Holbrook, owner of Nutshell Design, has done an absolutely amazing job on the Feel Free to Prosper website - it's extremely creative but professional. Definitely one of a kind - I never would have thought of the colors and logo, but it is so-o-o-o me.  My gratitude for her talent and loyalty cannot be expressed in words.

It is her creativity that has inspired me to create the Wings newsletter you are now reading, and again she has done an extraordinary job.

Monica's current endeavor is creating the new Marilyn Jenett Locations website for my business, which will contain more of the spectacular photos of the events I produced, articles about me and articles I have written.  I hope some of you will be interested in seeing more about how I have used the laws to create in the business world.

Readers are invited to submit questions to Marilyn at

Question: Could you tell me the difference between mental and spiritual laws? - HW

It doesn't really matter by what names one describes the laws - laws are absolute and immutable. They just are.

One can teach or learn from the spiritual standpoint of Universe, God, Formless Substance, Infinite Intelligent, Divine Mind or Universal Mind;

OR from the mental standpoint of Subconscious Mind;

OR from the scientific standpoint of Energy, Quantum Physics or Relativity.

The only thing that is important is to learn how the system works. AND USE IT.

Successful people are using the mental and spiritual laws, they just may not realize they are doing so.

Someone who is ready to learn will resonate to the source of knowledge that is right for him/her. Your intuition knows where the understanding and answers are just for you.

I was fortunate to have been exposed in my life's journey to all of the above areas - my study of medical hypnosis rooted me firmly in my knowledge of the subconscious, although I never became a hypnotherapist. My heart and soul yearned for the spiritual laws and understanding that took the mental work to a higher level. The scientific support in recent years only gave the whole package more credibility.

What a great age of discovery we live in! The mental, the spiritual, the scientific aspect of the laws of life - any or all of it is there for the asking...

- MJ


Question: Marilyn, do you think there is a “formula” for becoming a millionaire and how does that fit in with your prosperity principles? - SM

Short answer:

Many years ago, I saw a panel of self-made millionaires on a television program (at that time a million was really a lot of money!). These were people who started with nothing - zero. For example, one woman's husband had left her with three kids and no support and she borrowed $500 to start out. None of the panelists started with advantage.

There was one common denominator among the group, without exception. When the interviewer asked them what they would have done had things not worked out, the answer was always the same - that the possibility never entered their mind.

Not one of them ever entertained the thought of failure.

It never entered their minds.

- MJ

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Sometime in the 80s, I had dreamt that I was on the set of the television show, The Rockford Files , sitting on the floor speaking with James Garner. A few days later it happened completely "by accident" in a business high-rise and every detail from the dream played out precisely. Read the details in the next issue and find out how incidents that defy the senses prove that we can tap deeper into areas of the mind than we can ever imagine.

If there is any doubt in your mind that our words and consciousness can affect the healing of our bodies or that consciousness can reach out to influence the healing of another person, then you won't want to miss the scientific evidence presented in next month's newsletter and the link to the interview with a renowned medical doctor and best selling author.

Here is how student Glenn Osborn responded after reading the interview:

Thanks - great article!

Opens up entire unsuspected horizons.

Prayer Circle power.

UMPH behind your assertions of how important it is to choose the words you think with.

The thoughts you think…

Science behind avoiding negative people - seems they really do physiological damage...!

WOW - The consciousness being able to go back into the past and change the future - "HOLY QUANTUM PHYSICS rewritten, BATMAN!"

You'll enjoy these and other life-changing topics next month.

Marilyn Jenett is an accomplished businesswoman and owner of Marilyn Jenett Locations, a renowned company servicing the corporate arena. She founded the Feel Free to Prosper program to mentor and teach others to become aligned with Universal laws and accept their right to prosper. Her students are from around the globe and from all walks of life.

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