Last Friday, was “Black Friday” across the United States. It is the day when merchandisers cut their prices and consumers get the opportunity to save money. It is marked as the beginning of the Holiday Season. I took that idea into my own life in regards to my own prosperity and fluidity in my thinking about finances. I experienced the Black Friday of consciousness and so in the out-picturing in my life.

Firstly, I took the stigma of greed off of Black Friday. Instead, I understood that Black Friday was actually a time of giving and receiving. The stores had the opportunity to move from the red to the black in their financial flow, and we, the consumers, received reduced prices and a more abundance. It wasn’t a one way street at all. Black Friday was a time of giving and receiving.

Taking this idea, I did a Spiritual Mind Treatment (affirmative prayer), and the realization broke through that the One Power is always in the black because it is always supplying its creation, giving from itself in love. It is never depleted. It is always on the affirmative side of life, supply us in every way, whether it be in health, finances, love or our boundless creativity. Can we believe this? To the degree that we believe in abundance, so it becomes our law, the Law of our life.

I am grateful to have had this realization and it did show up yesterday, firstly in peace of mind. A shift of my consciousness occurred and then out-pictured in different experiences yesterday from my finances to my relationship to everything.

Really, it is not difficult to shift our life experience. It’s all about our perspective and moving ourselves to a higher way of thinking about what is happening. We can say it is just as easy to sink into despair, but I believe we are at choice. We are at choice in how we react to everything happening in our life.

Another realization I had yesterday was how much I was condemning my own self for my negative thought patterns. Instead, I turned it around. I realized that my obsessive thinking about certain areas of my life was merely myself caring deeply. Instead, I realized I could let go and release my hold and allow that abundant potential of Spirit take over. I was responsible for doing my Spiritual Mind Treatment, but not for the outcome. That was the Law’s work. I truly let go, but not until I blessed myself and let go of the condemnation.

If you are going through something in your life where you feel “less than,” I invite you to sit with the Principle that there is a Power, one Power, that works through all of creation. It is the very breath that breathes you and it is always “in the black.” It never lacks and it is just waiting to pour through us in new and unexpected ways. Then, take action from that place. Today, I look for all the synchronicities and I bless each one.

Love and Aloha,

Rev. Rita Andriello-Feren, Author, Teacher, Co-Founding Spiritual Director CSL Kaua’i

PS: If you want to find out more about Spiritual Mind Treatment, check out my book: “This Thing Called Treatment” on Amazon