Comments on: Unselfconscious Affluence

By: MM

MM — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:57:33 +0000

[quote comment=""][quote comment=""]Well Kenrick, you’ve really hit a nerve here with ” Me” this time. Over the last couple of years I have come to recognize deep seated subconscious patterns of lack. It was discovered during a class of “spiritual psychology”(in 05) in which the students traced their lives from childhood to that present time to unveil any potential conditioning which may be limiting a fuller, abundant expression of life. When I reflected on the fact that “scarcity” was almost a god in my environment, it was like a sudden shock of mental combustion. I grew up in an urban inner Northeastern city. Statistically, the area was classified as poverty level.Public, government subsidized housing comprised of 75% of all housing there. Most of my peers were on public assistance of some form. I was not. My mom raised me during the 50′s and early 60′s until I went to the Marines. Her checks were in the range of $ 60.00 for a 40 hour week. I know this because she told me repeatedly how terribly difficult it was to “make ends meet”. No one (except for maybe a handful of people) in my neighborhood who did work, went to work in “regular” clothing. Most people did dirty (yet honest) work.

My point in all of this is there were -no models of affluence- to be found anywhere. There were merchants, usually of a different heritage than I. Some were of similar heritage, yet my instructions were always to “get a good wage with benefits”. THAT was “making it”.

When I discovered commission sales in my early 20′s, after “NAM”, I was hooked. It was in that environment that I began to learn of Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Earl Nightingale(spelling ?) and others. Those whom I still associated with couldn’t really relate. My environment really didn’t change. I was beginning to. I relocated across country to a luxurious desert lifestyle. Yet I still feel the pangs of the conditioning that took place in my life for so long and often experience a false sense of “less than” which I’m now more aware of. Finally, to add to this formulaic mayhem, a collective ignorant consciousness has prevailed in this country (and worldwide)among many that people of African descent were created inferior.Therefore automatically,many of my unconscious patterns were formed due to a socialogical stigmitation which many in my own ethnic category,after a few hundred years of being sold on that pathological lie,are just beginning to see it for what it is.. an evil and wretched representation of fact. NOTHING could be further from the truth. Yet Right Now in our society it’s still NOT an assumption by the majority that “all men are created equal” nor is that “pursuit of happiness” (affluence et al) generally expected to be enjoyed by all.So I definately have to “remind myself” of who I am.

A Powerful Self-Affirming being of Noble and Great Destiny !

It works “most” of the time.If it’s not working I work harder to make IT work.

Prosperous Regards To You, Yours and All OF Your Clients,Readers ,etc.

MM[/quote][/quote]

By: MM

MM — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:53:31 +0000

[quote comment=""]Well Kenrick, you’ve really hit a nerve here with ” Me” this time. Over the last couple of years I have come to recognize deep seated subconscious patterns of lack. It was discovered during a class of “spiritual psychology”(in 05) in which the students traced their lives from childhood to that present time to unveil any potential conditioning which may be limiting a fuller, abundant expression of life. When I reflected on the fact that “scarcity” was almost a god in my environment, it was like a sudden shock of mental combustion. I grew up in an urban inner Northeastern city. Statistically, the area was classified as poverty level.Public, government subsidized housing comprised of 75% of all housing there. Most of my peers were on public assistance of some form. I was not. My mom raised me during the 50′s and early 60′s until I went to the Marines. Her checks were in the range of $ 60.00 for a 40 hour week. I know this because she told me repeatedly how terribly difficult it was to “make ends meet”. No one (except for maybe a handful of people) in my neighborhood who did work, went to work in “regular” clothing. Most people did dirty (yet honest) work.

When I discovered commission sales in my early 20′s, after “NAM”, I was hooked. It was in that environment that I began to learn of Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Earl Nightingale(spelling ?) and others. Those whom I still associated with couldn’t really relate. My environment really didn’t change. I was beginning to. I relocated across country to a luxurious desert lifestyle. Yet I still feel the pangs of the conditioning that took place in my life for so long and often experience a false sense of “less than” which I’m now more aware of. Finally, to add to this formulaic mayhem, a collective ignorant consciousness has prevailed in this country (and worldwide)among many that people of African descent were created inferior.Therefore automatically,many of my unconscious patterns were formed due to a socialogical stigmitation which many in my own ethnic category,after a few hundred years of being sold on that pathological lie,are just beginning to see it for what it is.. an evil and wretched representation of fact. NOTHING could be further from the truth. Yet Right Now in our society it’s still not an assumption by the majority that “all men are created equal” nor is that “pursuit of happiness” (affluence et al) generally expected to be enjoyed by all.So I definately have to “remind myself” of who I am. A Powerful Self-Affirming being of Noble and Great Destiny ! It works “most” of the time.If it’s not working I work harder to make IT work.

Prosperous Regards To You, Yours and All OF Your Clients,Readers ,etc.

MM[/quote]

By: MCM

MCM — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:44:09 +0000

Well Kenrick, you’ve really hit a nerve here with ” Me” this time. Over the last couple of years I have come to recognize deep seated subconscious patterns of lack. It was discovered during a class of “spiritual psychology”(in 05) in which the students traced their lives from childhood to that present time to unveil any potential conditioning which may be limiting a fuller, abundant expression of life. When I reflected on the fact that “scarcity” was almost a god in my environment, it was like a sudden shock of mental combustion. I grew up in an urban inner Northeastern city. Statistically, the area was classified as poverty level.Public, government subsidized housing comprised of 75% of all housing there. Most of my peers were on public assistance of some form. I was not. My mom raised me during the 50′s and early 60′s until I went to the Marines. Her checks were in the range of $ 60.00 for a 40 hour week. I know this because she told me repeatedly how terribly difficult it was to “make ends meet”. No one (except for maybe a handful of people) in my neighborhood who did work, went to work in “regular” clothing. Most people did dirty (yet honest) work.

When I discovered commission sales in my early 20′s, after “NAM”, I was hooked. It was in that environment that I began to learn of Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, Earl Nightingale(spelling ?) and others. Those whom I still associated with couldn’t really relate. My environment really didn’t change. I was beginning to. I relocated across country to a luxurious desert lifestyle. Yet I still feel the pangs of the conditioning that took place in my life for so long and often experience a false sense of “less than” which I’m now more aware of. Finally, to add to this formulaic mayhem, a collective ignorant consciousness has prevailed in this country (and worldwide)among many that people of African descent were created inferior.Therefore automatically,many of my unconscious patterns were formed due to a socialogical stigmitation which many in my own ethnic category,after a few hundred years of being sold on that pathological lie,are just beginning to see as a distorted representation of fact. NOTHING could be further from the truth. Yet Right Now in our society it’s still not an assumption by the majority that “all men are created equal” nor is that “pursuit of happiness” (affluence et al) generally expected to be enjoyed by all.So I definately have to “remind myself” of who I am. A Powerful Self-Affirming being of Noble and Great Destiny ! It works “most” of the time.

MCM