By now this topic is not new. Many writers and teachers are talking about the importance of releasing thought patterns (conscious and otherwise) and emotional processes that prevent us from experiencing optimal abundance.

Remember that abundance is a feeling, not a tally of your net worth or an inventory of what you own.

By this simple logic, if you have limiting beliefs or bad feelings regarding money, your own ability to get rich, the economy, and so forth you seriously erode your chances of creating abundant feelings. This is GREAT news for many people!

This means you can, with relative ease, find and let go of the energies that are keeping you from getting the abundance you crave into your life! There are a host of exercises to help you release negative thinking and toxic emotions, and to help you change your beliefs.

A few examples of things you can do to actively release or transform limiting beliefs and negative thoughts/emotions are…

Emotional Freedom Technique

Positive Affirmations

Practice Simple Mindfulness

Metaphysical Practice & Meditation

Basic Dowsing

And more. These practices are very proactive, and may be a bit “far out” for some people, but consider this: You’ve already decided you can change the world and manifest your own reality, so take this to the next level by trying some new energy shifting work that has been proven to help thousands of people just like you!

The above exercises represent applications that work on both the conscious and unconscious level. Many of these methods apply subtle transformation to change the actual vibration and energy patterns associated with negativity.

But you can and should also engage more traditional approaches like talk therapy, sitting with your negative beleifs until they simply fade out, questioning your bad beliefs to see if they hold up to a logical challenge, and simply reading positive content often to fill your mind with the right thoughts.

It doesn’t matter so much what you do, as long as you DO something to actively let go of the thoughts, feelings, and vibrations that are holding you back.

I’ve noticed an interesting, somewhat limiting perspective from people who are not actively involved in self-development and/or personal discovery programs and pursuits. The general attitude I see in people who don’t read self-help books, and the sentiment projected by the mainstream/prime time media is…

Only losers and people who are “messed up” need self-help. This kind of book, course, and general content is for people who have something “wrong” with them.

Wow. What a sad, pathetic point of view!

First of all, people who don’t feel they can benefit from self-knowledge and personal development are fooling themselves and contributing to the “dumbing down” of our planet. EVERYONE has work to do in terms of finding out who they are and becoming their ideal self… this is perhaps the whole point of life!

Second, the most successful, happy, and wealthy people on this planet are the biggest market segment for self-help sales volume! Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and every other wildly successful person you can think of all understand the immense value of personal development and actively engage the pursuit of self-improvement.

Like me, you may have friends and relatives who think you’re a cook for spending so much of your time listening to personal improvement audios, reading self help books, watching spiritual DVDs, and so forth. Instead of being irked by these obtuse people, think of ways you can show them by example just how much of a great impact intentional self-discovery and development can have on an individual, family, and community level.

Seriously consider: If everyone took complete responsibility for being their personal best this world would become heaven on earth in many ways!

The power of thought alone can transform our society. And with every individual spirit vibrating at the optimal level we will have the power to manifest the ideal world.

Every new moment contains absolute pure and infinite potential. We are free to have a new experience and begin a completely new journey at any time.

There is the tendency to recreate the sameness over and over in life. People find the same jobs, meet the same types of mates, complain about the same problems, create the same results, because they believe this is the nature of life…

But life is about the continuous opportunity for renewal and rebirth!

The past doesn’t really exist. We are certainly not bound to any events in our perceived past.

Furthermore the physical realm is constantly vibrating and rearranging itself to form the next moment. At any time we can choose to interrupt familiar patterns and manifest a new reality.

The real adventure begins when we simply acknowledge the law of pure potentiality. You and I can become anything, and can have any experience!

Spend a few minutes right now pondering the possibility that you truly are not bound to repeat the same cycle again and again. You can and should allow new experiences to enter your awareness.

What has happened up to this point is meaningless, unless you decide otherwise. It’s true that we are all currently living out the manifestation of previous vibrations, but this in no way implies we must continue to vibrate in accordance with (or feel attached to) our “historical patterns”.

Your brain and your molecular makeup allow you to be something a little different in this moment than you were when you started reading this article.

In our society many people labor under the bizarre and ridiculous intention to think, act, feel, and express a very specific persona. It is implied that one must be “true” to himself or herself, striving to always remain consistent with the personality and tendencies previously exhibited in life.

Rarely are people really telling you how they feel about things like politics, religion, and their deepest emotions. They are typically relaying to you the pattern of being that is appropriately coordinated with how they have thought, felt, and acted over the course of their life.

You are free to be anyone you choose. Reject the idea of the self as being limited only to what you can define when filling out the application form for an online dating program!

There is NO LIMIT to how the source energy of the universe can choose to manifest. You can absolutely begin a brand new life this very second and choose to never look back.

A person can live in poverty his whole life, decide with every fiber of his being to become wealthy, and thus be instantaneously and forever changed. We want to think this sort of instant, drastic transformation is difficult, rare, even impossible, so for many of us it is.

Ask yourself why you need to be held back, and wait for an honest answer. Believe that anything is possible and that no limits exist regarding what the next moment of your awareness can reveal, and you will transcend the mundane and embrace a life of miracles.

Start with this present moment and allow yourself to believe that anything can happen next.