The last couple of decades have seen an interesting evolution in the business world. Today we see people who create businesses in order to create positive change rather than going into business just to make money. We see people using the tools, cash flow and power that their business provides to create new jobs, fund charities and develop more resources and empowerment for the people around them.

Rather than embracing poverty and lack these entrepreneurs are opening themselves up to the unlimited abundance of the Universe and then using that abundance to help others. This is a major shift among those who walk a spiritual path. For a long time we’ve been trapped in the self-defeating paradigm that to be spiritual one must live in poverty and eschew all wealth and abundance.

Recent movies such as The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know? have awakened millions of people to the Law of Attraction and the Law of Reciprocity. However this is NOT new information! Napoleon Hill published Think and Grow Rich! In the 1950’s and Wallace Wattles published The Science of Getting Rich in 1910! The Science of Getting Rich was one of the books used as the basis for The Secret.

So what has changed recently to cause this shift in awareness about abundance? The information has always been there. The simple fact is that many spiritually oriented people saw wealth as evil or bad. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve met Lightworkers who held full-time jobs and then spent their ‘spare time’ teaching and healing, often for free. In almost every case, when asked about money the Lightworker would respond “Money isn’t important to me.”

Well, if money is not important then why are we spending 40-60 hours a week working for it and then teaching and healing on the side? If our true path is to be teachers, healers and Lightworkers then shouldn’t we be doing that rather than working a job that we probably don’t like in order to pay the bills?

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I don’t want it to seem as if I’m criticizing these people who work so hard to help others. That’s not my intention at all. I simply want to point out that those folks could be helping so many more people if they didn’t have to spend so much time working for something (money) that they don’t think is important in the first place!

The last few years have seen a major attitude shift as these same Lightworkers have started to see that it’s OK to be paid for their time, skill and education. Why shouldn’t it be? Some Western doctors have charged exorbitant fees for decades on the premise that they should be reimbursed for the years of college and the expenses incurred there. The average Lightworker probably has at least as much education and training as the average medical doctor. I know people who have studied and trained for decades in order to be able to teach and heal for free! The insanity of this double standard never ceases to amaze me and I’m thrilled to see us finally beginning to move beyond it.

Money as a Tool

Today more and more spiritually oriented people are beginning to view money as a tool that can help them to be more effective in their life’s work. To these people having a lot of money is not about a big house or a fancy car or any of the ego bound trappings of wealth. Rather it’s about being able to promote their classes and create better materials and tools for their students and being able to empower more people.

The reality of our modern world is that money is important. Very few of us are willing to give away everything we own and live a path of poverty and asceticism as an example to others. While I’m certainly not knocking that path and those called to it, the point here is that there are other paths and other groups of people that we have to make contact with.

The ability to use money effectively and manifest abundance is a skill set of its own. It’s what the rest of this book is about.

© 2007 by Robert Morgen

“The Spiritually Aware Entrepreneur” is an excerpt from Robert Morgen’s new book The Spiritually Aware Entrepreneur which can be downloaded as a FREE Ebook (for a limited time) at www.sae.holisticplus.org

Robert Morgen experienced a near-death kundalini awakening in 1992 and spent over a decade discovering what had happened and how to adapt to the changes in his life.

He's a Reiki Master with a Black Belt in Hoshinjutsu and a Deputy Black Belt in Combat Hapkido. He's the founder of Work From Home Magazine, Harmony Magazine, Combat Hapkido Journal and 2 Kundalini Awakening Podcasts.

He's the author of Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-0979040054), The Spiritually Aware Entrepreneur and 'Easy Meditation for Martial Artists' and has produced 4 guided meditation CDs. He writes a regular column on subtle energy for Fight Times Magazine and is the editor of Kundalini Awakening Magazine.

By now you should be experiencing some of the benefits of connecting the mind and body. If you are incorporating the exercises into a regular practice then you should be experiencing better balance, better health and an increased awareness of the space around you. You should also find that your mind is working faster and that your memory may also be improving.

This mind/body connection will continue to improve as your energy flow increases. Think of your body as an electrical cable that can only carry a certain amount of energy. There are two ways to increase the amount of energy it can carry.

1. Reduce the resistance – The best way to do this is to relax. Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles. Stress and tension also provide resistance and tighten muscles.

Those of us who practice the more linear martial arts styles (Tae Kwon Do, Shotokan Karate, etc.) often find that our forms become much smoother, our speed increases and we can fight, spar and play for longer periods when we relax. There are times and places within the forms and techniques where we need to be tight, but usually only for an instant (as a punch connects, for instance).

2. Increase the energy flows – As we run chi through our body it gradually builds up the ability to move even more chi. The more we practice and use energy the more energy we can use. There are no shortcuts or magic pills for this. One simply has to put forth the time and effort and use their energy in order to increase it.

Combining these two techniques actually creates a synergistic effect within our energy systems. As we relax and decrease the resistance, our body is using more and more chi. As our body uses more chi it grows accustomed to it and our ability to use chi increases.

© 2006 Robert Morgen. This article may be used by anyone, anywhere as long as the author’s bio and links are included.

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“Connecting the Mind and Body” is an excerpt from Robert Morgens book Easy Meditation for Martial Artists (ISBN: 978-0977380138). His book Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-0979040054) is currently available at a bookstore near you.

Robert Morgen experienced a near-death kundalini awakening in 1992 and spent over a decade discovering what had happened and how to adapt to the changes in his life.

He's a Reiki Master with a Black Belt in Hoshinjutsu and a Deputy Black Belt in Combat Hapkido. He's the founder of Work From Home Magazine, Harmony Magazine, Combat Hapkido Journal and 2 Kundalini Awakening Podcasts.

He's the author of Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-0979040054), The Spiritually Aware Entrepreneur and 'Easy Meditation for Martial Artists' and has produced 4 guided meditation CDs. He writes a regular column on subtle energy for Fight Times Magazine and is the editor of Kundalini Awakening Magazine.

By Robert Morgen

This exercise is available as a guided meditation on Robert Morgen’s “Kundalini Awakening” Podcast!

Breathing is the MOST important part of meditation and Kundalini Awakening. It’s the foundation of all the exercises and skills that come after, so taking the time to learn it now will make things much easier.

From our birth until death we breathe more or less continually, yet for the most part we do it without any awareness of our breath and its effects on us, and believe it or not most people in the western world do it wrong!

Breathe in through your nose and draw your breath down into the area just below your navel, allowing your stomach to expand as you breathe (Baby Breath) and filling your lungs entirely with each breath before exhaling through your nose.

Take a moment right now and feel your breath. Pay attention to the air as it flows in through your nostrils and down into your lungs. Don’t think about anything or do anything other than just breathe.
1. Are you taking a relatively shallow breath and just filling the upper lobes of your lungs?
2. Does your stomach move out as you breathe?
3. Do you feel the bones of your ribcage expanding and opening with each breath?
For most people the answer to 1 is YES and the answers to 2 and 3 are NO so lets expand this exercise a bit.

This time draw your breath down to a point about 2 inches below your navel (the body’s center of gravity). When you do this you’ll feel your stomach expand and push out in front of you. Most westerners usually keep their stomach pulled in and their chest out, so when you do this you’ll have to relax all those muscles. Just take a moment and be aware of your breath as it flows down into your center.

Now as you inhale and draw your breath down, also let your ribcage expand. You’ll feel your floating ribs at the bottom of your ribcage spread and move, and you may get a few pops out of your spine also. Just take a few moments and breathe this way. Don’t think or let your mind wander, just breathe. If you’ve never meditated before then congratulations, you just did! It’s exactly that simple.

There are many benefits to proper breathing. The extra oxygen in your system means that your heart doesn’t have to beat as fast, lowering your pulse and your blood pressure. Drawing the breath down into your center also helps to massage your internal organs, providing more oxygen to them as well as helping to release the accumulated stresses that build up there. The long term health benefits are immeasurable and have been repeatedly proven for thousands of years.

Breathing is by far the most important part of the kundalini awakening exercises, although it sounds so simple. Paying attention to the breath is the beginning of opening up your awareness and it’s seen in every meditative culture on the planet.

Take some time to practice this, as it’s the foundation for everything that comes next. If you have to dedicate your meditation time to breathwork for awhile then that’s good, as we all proceed at our own pace.

I recently read a translation of some of Jesus’ teachings from the original Aramaic (the language he actually spoke, although he apparently wasn’t literate) and it was very interesting to me that in Aramaic they used the same word for ‘wind’, ‘breath’ and ‘spirit’. Those with a Chi Kung background might find it interesting to take another look at the New Testament and insert the word ‘breath’ every time you see the word ‘spirit’.

It’s funny that something as simple as proper breathing can have such a profound effect on the rest of your life, but don’t take my word for it, you can find out for yourself beginning with your next inhale.

© 2006 Robert Morgen. This article may be used by anyone, anywhere as long as the author’s bio and links are included.

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Robert Morgen experienced a near-death kundalini awakening in 1992 and spent over a decade discovering what had happened and how to adapt to the changes in his life.

He's a Reiki Master with a Black Belt in Hoshinjutsu and a Deputy Black Belt in Combat Hapkido. He's the founder of Work From Home Magazine, Harmony Magazine, Combat Hapkido Journal and 2 Kundalini Awakening Podcasts.

He's the author of Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-0979040054), The Spiritually Aware Entrepreneur and 'Easy Meditation for Martial Artists' and has produced 4 guided meditation CDs. He writes a regular column on subtle energy for Fight Times Magazine and is the editor of Kundalini Awakening Magazine.