About Prosperity Meditation

For example, imagine that you were in sync with a movie star right now. Imagine that you were in sync with Brad Pit or with Britney Spears. Imagine you woke up tomorrow and you actually physically were tied to their emotions, tied to their feelings, to their level of happiness. You had their life, you felt as they felt. The emotions that went through their body were your emotions. When they got a big new deal and were excited about it, you felt the emotions of excitement. When they had troubles with a partner or a family member and felt down about those troubles, you felt down as well.

You did not have the physical things they had in their life, you did not have a new car or a jet airplane but your emotions were in perfect sync with theirs. This idea actually exists in physics. Eignstein called this ‘spooky action at a distance’. This happens when two particles were once the same particle and are now separated. If one particle is drawn left then the other particle suddenly goes left.

Imagine that when Brad Pit was happy, you were happy regardless of what physical things were happening in your life. You could be at a grocery store or you could be doing your homework or at work. Yet when Brad Pit was excited because of the movie he was in, you felt the same emotions exactly.

Now the trick is, what if you decided to start “leveraging” these emotions to improve your life?

For example, imagine that every day you are in a slump and feel hopeless. You goto work as a grocery store clerk and then go home, talk to friends who complain about life, and then watch tv. Suppose that as a result of being psychically linked to one person such as Brad Pit or Briteny Spears, every time they felt a rush of positive emotions, such as the desire to go talk to an agent, you decided to “harness” this emotion.

You knew that the emotion was not coming from you, you knew that the emotions you were feeling was coming from them. You knew that you were feeling Brad Pit’s emotions. Yet you very much wanted to get out of you slump. You wanted to physically improve your own life and get out of the slums that you were in. So every time Brad Pit spoke to a booking agent you felt Brad Pit’s positive emotional rush and because you wanted to get out of the physical slum you were in, you intentionally used this emotional rush to do something beneficial for yourself.

At first your efforts might be sloppy. For example, Brad Pit might be studying for a new movie script he was going to be in. As a result he might feel curious emotions of wanting to study. As a result you might decide to use these emotions to goto the store and buy a book on business success. Your first purchase might be a total waste of time. If you did something like this every time Brad Pit felt the emotion of studying for a character, you might gradually start learning some useful business knowledge. When Brad Pit felt like running, you might decided to “harness” this emotion and go running yourself. While harnessing these positive emotions in this way would not give you the life of a movie star, in time your new actions would start breaking you free of the physical slum you were in.

On the flip side of this ‘psychic connection’, every time Brad Pit got into an argument with somebody important to him, he would feel negative emotions. When he did, you would also feel negative emotions. If you knew that this psychic connection was occurring, when you did feel negative emotions, you might decided to ignore them. You would know that they were not fundamentally coming from you or from anything that was happening in your life. If the negative emotions were intense enough that other people would notice, you might decide to withdraw from situations if you were able to feel these emotions coming. Because these emotions were not ‘about’ you or anything in your life, it would be better not to allow them to influence your life.

While the above story is fantasy, is make believe, the truth is that because all people are connected, many of the emotions we feel actually do come from other people and not from ourselves. According to Buddhism, our mind is a radio receiver that is receiving emotions from outside ourselves. We are receiving thoughts, feelings, emotions, and even attitudes from other people in our lives, and even from people we don’t know.

There is a famous story told about Ghandhi. One day Ghandhi was filled with murderous rage. He wanted to kill the people around him. Then he realized that the food in the prison he was being held in was being cooked by a murderer. The thoughts and feelings of the person cooking his food was being temporarily transferred to him. Once he realized this, he was able to detach from the emotional feelings he was feeling.

The foundation of Prosperity Meditation is the understanding that many of the things we are feeling do not come from us, instead many of our emotions come directly from the world around us. Just like we can catch COVID or catch a contagious disease, we also ‘catch’ emotions. This applies to attitudes and beliefs as well. If we hang around negative people, we can catch negative attitudes from them.

Because our attitudes determine our actions and because the combination of our attitudes and our actions greatly influence how people treat us and influence what our future is, then it becomes extremely important to meditate on prosperity in such a way that we are linked to those people and events which tend to radiate realistically positive thoughts.