Secret #8 of our ten principles of abundance is below.
As you probably know by now, I’m calling this series The Abundance Manifesto. This is to help pave the way for my new audio program, The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation (coming out on November 9th).
These are my observations about how you can attract personal and planetary wealth. Wealth, of course, is more than money, so these ideas are more sweeping than you may at first realize.
Since I’m just sculpting these thoughts, please be forgiving in reviewing them. In fact, what I’d love is your opinion. Please comment on each to help me refine them all. The end result will be a useful set of insights for you, me, and everyone else.
Here’s secret eight:
Thou shall help others
Helping others expands your worldview to include the rest of the planet. It also expands your energy to move it from ego to Spirit. Helping family, friends, community and world increases abundance for all. The more you extend a hand to others, the more you feel abundance as a reality for you. Helping others helps you.
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Note: My new audio program is The Abundance Paradigm: Moving from the Law of Attraction to the Law of Creation. Comes out November 9th.
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Thank you, Joe, for secret eight. I love you and your work.
Having recently volunteered at a 5K race and chatted with other volunteers during and well after the race, I can confirm that this little bit of time spent helping others had a HUGE positive effect on all of us.
If anyone is afraid of making too much of a volunteer commitment, try something like volunteering for a local, short (5K or 10K) race. It only takes a few hours of your time on a Saturday or Sunday morning, and the gratitude that you will get from the runners and walkers will make your day, if not your week!
If you are ready for a several-hour commitment, then volunteer to support a marathon or half marathon.
My book Mental Tricks for Endurance Runners and Walkers explains how this experience can also help marathoners and half marathoners prepare for their own races, too.
My copy of The Abundance Paradigm is already in the mail to me, so come on, US Postal Service!
Health/Love/Happiness,
Kirk
Joe
As I have absorbed every ounce I can from your writings and once when I met you, this has become one of the most important things in my life recently. I have written books, taken your words and run with them, but every person needs help. We all need to share. Our knowledge, money (though small), advice, simple pat on the back can inspire them to do great things, we may never know. We also do not know where it leads us in our path.
I heard someone say, ‘always offer value to others, always ask how can I serve you?’. It’s profound, helping others adds value all around, but it also allows us to step into the flow of abundance. We aren’t breaking the cycle, there is plenty for all, you have taught all of us that, we simply have to step into the stream and get it, but that also means allowing things to flow from us.
Help and abundance go hand in hand, we grow abundantly wealthly with every soul we extend ourselves to. Maybe not monetarily, but in knowledge or experience.
I have been on a mission to promote you to a group of seminar coordinators, because someone has to stop the scarcity factors running rampant today. If this has been in your divine inspiration, I’m working for you.. Didn’t you mention abundance television?
Well thank you for giving me advice and ideas so that I may act on them.. 🙂
Your words get me through some down times and drag me through my darkest hours..
Abundantly yours,
Bekah
RD Jentsch
Author, Hot on the Range
Dear Joe: Like I told you yesterday when I saw you . . . your skill & effectiveness at uplifting & inspiring others just gets better & better! The fact I’ve long felt the “sufficiency paradigm” got a kick in my behind from ATTRACT MONEY NOW. I realized that it’s true I have pretty much everything I want . . . & yet my primary purpose as it’s always been is to serve others & encourage them! That’s partly genetic, coming from a long line of ministers & missionaries. Keep up the excellence! Peace, Bruce
Joe,
While I find you and your writing inspirational I cannot help wondering why the coincedence of 10 commandments and 10 rules for Abundance. Let me know your take on that.
Danya
Beautiful abundance secret today Joe!
I have been living this way as an example for my two grown children for many years, but only recently was I able to actually absorb enough of it inside of myself to be living it and thus be able to freely let it flow from me.
It took me over 15 years and two bad relationships to finally wake up and start growing again. I have told you in past posts briefly about what I went through losing my career as a veterinary technician to a serious back injury.
During that dark, depressing time in my life I had a love affair with a friend of mine that I have cared deeply for for over 26 yrs. We are both single, no worries there, but he is a man that lives his life in fear.
I cannot describe all of them but the major one that affected me stems from his fear of love and failure which of course hails from childhood. While I know he had deep feelings for me he broke it off and I spiraled into a very bad place with a shattered heart. I truly feel like this man is my soul-mate but he is so terrified of being hurt again (his wife cheated on him then tossed him out) that he won’t even get physically close to me anymore- except for the occasional hug. I have nurtured and lovingly cultivated a close friendship with him, and I am happy for that.
I recently lost a lot of weight and he was really blown away by how I looked. I also just graduated with my bachelor’s degree so he told me he would take me out for dinner to celebrate. We have had a few dinners together over the last few months so I took the opportunity to share with him some of the things I have been living in conjunction with the Key and most of your teachings. He told me that he had seen a lot of photos of him as a child on his last trip to Michigan (he was born there) and that he wondered where that happy guy went.
He has a tendency to stress over a lot of things, money, work, etc. I told him that it is much easier to live life if we focus on healing ourselves rather than what is going on in Wall Street, etc. He agreed that he has a tendency to take too many things too seriously. Seems the only time he laughs is when he is out with me.
On the other hand, I found via Facebook my very first love and his life was not going where he wanted it to either. I have sent him two of your books and the Awakened Millionaire dvd and he has made such changes in his life that is amazing!! I truly think I was finally able to find him after looking for him off and on for 37 years, to help him become “aware and awakened” and to help him growth spiritually. He is very excited about all that he is learning and is very eager to start his life over. He is moving back to California as soon as he can and he is going to concentrate on getting the rest of his life on the path he wants it on.
I wish my ex-lover was as receptive as this man is, but I will eventually leave the Key with him in the event that he finds himself wanting to change his life. He knows he is in a rut and is depresssed about it, but seems frozen by fear once again, to do anything about it.
I know we can’t lead a horse to water but we can bring them to the water trough yes? We can shine with a light that radiates what we have learned and I am so blessed to have found you Joe. Your words resonate with me more than any one else’s out there.
I do have another question for you off this topic. I read your post about the stem cell product and you stated that your asthma was gone. I am an asthmatic as well and would love to rid myself of this once and for all. I got asthma while I was pregnant in 1987 and being exposed to a lot of chemicals in new carpet.
So are you able to stop any medications? My asthma is moderate controlled to mild. I had a breating test today and the tech told me that my lung tissues were still very healthy so I think, know that I can get rid of this. I have been using Ho’ ponopono on my lungs but I am not sure that is the best approach. Thoughts???
When I get paid I am going to sign up under you so that I can get some of this product IF you are sure it made your asthma go away for good…..
That was supposed to be know with a strike out through it! I KNOW, not THINK, that I can beat it.:-)
Thank you Joe,
For sharing without fear – it only returns in abundance.
I believe the more we learn and the more we are willing to teach others from our learnings we help shape or influence a better future for all of us including ourselves. Just as one goes about making an investment in a book or cd, sharing the information they learn with three people helps them to learn it even deeper and creates a resonance and perhaps inspires others to realize dreams they thought were out of reach.
dear joe, helping others makes my life better, feel inspired, thank you for giving me the ebook Give To Live, i love it. It’s not just about money in this world, well money is a tool, we need it in this world to help, but the SPIRIT OF HELPING in this world is the most important thing in our lives! Godbless joe. Jessie
thanks Joe
you asked for some feedback.
In general: If you plan to give / help others, tithing is one option.
Another option is selfless service “seva” – this is a vital spiritual practice – but the secret is to NOT expect thankyou or gratitude or to even be known for doing it. Why? the ego is less involved
Hi Joe, I like your blog, and your Manifestos. I would love to go on a mastermind ride with you and have it on my list of goals. Keep up the good work! I belive that when you do good for others it always comes back on you. Maybe not even from the exact person, but in other ways. The Universe is keeping score, so we do not need to be so critical. Love your work, and I like how you write and you always say Love Joe at the end. You are putting love out there and this is something I am working more on for myself. Love Jill!
Dr. Vitale,
As always I enjoyed reading the blog. The 8th manifesto feeds from the principle of Giving. I understand by giving weather, monetarily or with effort exercises our manifestation muscle, but how is helping others, and giving differ and are separate? As always I will let my blog readers at http://www.successwithLoa.blogspot.com link to your blog and thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Dr Vitale,
What I have observed is that we can help others only when we come from the domain of Spirit. We need not be consciously aware of that domain, but when we are in the act of helping, we are there.
Thanks for your secret manifesto.
Regards,
Shankar, India
Hi Joe. I’ve been trying to buy the “Psychic on demand” book but it keeps telling me “Your order was not approved (2)” Is it because I live in Uruguay?
Kind regards
Fernando
Wow, this came at an ideal time. I was just telling my husband yesterday that I was upset with how many great people were struggling just to survive and what small amount of effort it would take on my part to help them break through it. I just didn’t feel that I was doing enough to help others, wasn’t giving enough.
Thank you so much for all the great work you do and for how much you give. You have truly been instrumental in helping me make a quantum shift in my subconscious thinking about abundance, money, jobs, and business. All these things have just been coming together in the past 10 days or so.
Keep up the great work and live with passion and purpose,
Vanessa
Helping is great if you do it from an abundance and loving mindset and feeling. It will enhance your abundance and the abundance around you.
On the other hand, it is of little use to help due to feelings like
* guilt,
* identification with scarcity,
* wanting approval from others,
* because you “must” do it so that others tell will you that you are “so spiritual”,
* because other blame you of not helping them and you do not want to hear the blame anymore…,
* because you feel guilty for having more than somebody else,
* …
That will only lead to problems and will increase scarcity for everybody involved. ( that’s what psychologists refer to as the “helper syndrom”…)
In short: If your help is based on your ego, it will not work.
If your help is based on love, it will be a joyful, abundant expierience for everybody involved.
Exactly. That’s why there are the other nine principles.
Nice Joe,
I do not know how to thank you for your book .. especially for you =) it helped me a lot, especially mentally. I hope I can dedicate the other members of my family to this wonderful miracle which your wonderful books. Thank you very much.
with love Michaela
((I apologize for the inaccurate translation))
(czech republic) =)
Mr. Vitale:
I’m a 22th year old recenlty graduated psychologist in México.
I started to read “The key” today (thanks to my aunts insistence),and I want to thank you (and my aunt) because, even though I haven’t finished it yet, I know and I feel that it will work in my life.
As for the secret #8, when I speak to my patients, I do receive abundance in learning and knowledge, and that’s how they help me when I help them.
Again, thank you so much.