H A R M O N I C W E A L T H™ The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want Ja m e s A r t h u r R ay with Lind a Siv e rt s e n C o n t e n t s WELCOME 1 Chapter 1 One Quest, Five Pillars 5 Chapter 2 My Journey 21 PILLAR I – FINANCIAL 31 Chapter 3 Grandeur Is Our Birthright 33 Chapter 4 Money Is a Spiritual Tool 40 Chapter 5 It’s Already Here 48 Chapter 6 Your Results Are a Reflection of You 59 Chapter 7 Money Is an Inside Job 79 Chapter 8 Getting Real 92 Chapter 9 Unstoppable Steps—Unstoppable You 101 Chapter 10 Your Wealth-Building Routine 114 PILLAR II – RELATIONAL 129 Chapter 11 Know Yourself 131 Chapter 12 Become Your Higher Self 141 Chapter 13 Become the Person You’d Like to Fall in Love With 153 PILLAR III – MENTAL 169 Chapter 14 Your Marvelous Mind 171 Chapter 15 What You Believe,You’ll Achieve 182 Chapter 16 Thoughts into Action 200 Chapter 17 Energy in Motion ...Emotion! 208 iv CONTENTS PILLAR IV – PHYSICAL 217 Chapter 18 The Universe Loves Order 219 Chapter 19 Nourishing Your Temple 224 Chapter 20 Exercise: Moving Toward Life 252 Chapter 21 Body Language: The Power of Your Words and Emotions 264 PILLAR V – SPIRITUAL 275 Chapter 22 The Bridge to Spirit 277 Chapter 23 The Universe Says Yes 290 Chapter 24 Turning Prayers to Thunder 305 A CALL TO ACTION 317 Acknowledgments About the Author Praise Other Books by James Arthur Ray Credits Cover Copyright W ELCOME EVERYTHING’S ABOUT TO CHANGE You’re about to read a list of counterintuitive statements that will rock your world and alter everything you’ve ever thought about life and wealth.While reading this list, ask yourself how your life would change if every word were true.Would you move forward with more courage? Give yourself more freedom? Treat yourself with more respect and self-love? Walk through the world with less guilt? Experience more joy? In short, what would you dare to dream for yourself and those you care about most? How would your actions, habits, and feelings—your entire life—transform if these statements were, without question, absolutely true? 1. Balance is bogus and you don’t want it! 2. Positive thinking doesn’t work, but optimists achieve more. 3. You always get what you’re looking for—always—even the negative things you give your time and attention to. 4. All significant breakthroughs in life must be preceded by a break- down. 5. All goals are spiritual goals—including abundant material wealth and mind-blowing sex. 6. Your current bank account isn’t who you are; it’s who you were. 7. When you pursue greatness, don’t expect others to support you. You’ll represent the courage, strength, and vision they don’t yet have. 2 HARMONIC WEALTH 8. The greatest competition you will ever have is the competition be- tween your disciplined and undisciplined mind. You must constantly study, understand, and immerse yourself in that which brings you value and power, and avoid at all costs anything that weakens you. 9. Your willpower will never be stronger than your unconscious mind, no matter what. 10. Be the real you. Whatever is suppressed will be expressed, in later days, in uglier ways. 11. If you don’t love yourself, you’ll never attract a soul mate who truly loves you—not ever. When you think of yourself as unlovable in any way, you’re actually in love with that unlovable version of yourself, and your relationships can only reflect that. 12. C students often own the businesses that B and A students work for. Do some of these statements seem counter to what you’ve been taught or believe? Did they make you uncomfortable or maybe even a little anxious? Good. My purpose is to challenge you . . . to get you to move beyond your self-imposed boundaries, otherwise known as your comfort zone. That’s the only way you’ll grow. Unless you’re ready to think, feel, and act in dif- ferent ways than you’ve done prior to now, you’ll continue to live the life that you’re living with the results you’re getting. You may be thinking, Now, wait a minute, James, my life’s pretty good in several areas! It probably is. But I’ll bet there’s at least one area of your life (if not two or three) where you know you deserve more than you’re currently getting. If this weren’t true you wouldn’t have picked up this book. Congratulations. You do de- serve more and I can help you to have more. But you have to be willing to keep your mind open and to challenge your current thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions. So, back to our list of twelve counterintuitive statements. Guess what? Each and every one of them is indeed true, as I’ll prove in this book. In- trigued? That’s my intention. We live in the most exciting time in world history. Right now. A time when spiritual traditions and scientific findings have stopped opposing one another and have become sister studies. The quantum physicists, the chaos theorists, and the biologists of today are the mystics of the twenty-first cen- WELCOME 3 tury, proving the timeless truths that mystics and spiritual elders have been teaching us since antiquity. They’re doing it through hard scientific evidence. But for all of the excitement, we’re also at a turning point. Modern sci- ence proves that everything in our world is comprised of energy—everything. What appears to be solid—from your house, your car, to your body—at the quantum level is 99.99999 percent energy or light. All energy vibrates and we call that a frequency. The fact is that you’ll never create high-energy results from a low-energy vessel. Like attracts like. So it’s imperative that we continue ramping up our vibrations, which can only happen by redefining what spirituality really means and by overhauling our views on wealth across the globe. We need to do this quickly, not out of fear, but out of enough already! If you’re anything like me, you’re completely over the age-old belief that life is a struggle. And aren’t you suspicious of the idea that virtuous, spiritual, or religious people—the very men and women we look to for inspiration, high ideals, and leadership—are supposed to suffer as paupers to somehow justify our trust, not to mention the guarantee of their cushy afterlife? Have you swallowed the pill that life is hard and then you die? I’m sorry, but I call that bullshit. I had that tablet caught in my throat for years, but I coughed it up and will help you do likewise. If anything I’ve said rings true for you, stick with me. We’ve got a lot to cover. I’m going to show you a whole new way to think about and create wealth in every single aspect of your life. By the time you’re done with this book, you’ll know exactly how to create a fulfilling life of true wealth— what I call Harmonic Wealth®. I’ve been living and teaching this life for more than twenty years, and it’s time you lived it right along with me. And I’m not kidding when I say I want you to live this. Of course, I want you to read this book—to enjoy it, to feel it, to believe it, and question it, too—but I want more than that for you. I want you to participate in this book, to make it your own, a conversation with me and a dialogue with yourself. So, with that in mind, I’ve extended the book beyond its covers, so what you have here is actually so much more than what you’re holding in your hands. Curious? As you go through these pages you will notice icons throughout. These icons are a signal to you that further support material (worksheets, exercises, questions, and cues) is available online at www.harmonicwealthbook.com. In 4 HARMONIC WEALTH addition to the integrated workbook, this Web site also contains a special video component prepared exclusively for readers of this book. I urge you to make use of these resources to heighten the experience of this book. More than that, to heighten the experience of your life. Harmonic Wealth is an experience of life that few have understood but that once grasped becomes second nature. I’m talking fulfillment in every area of your life, not just in one or two. This is what you and everyone on this planet really desires—and I’m here to tell you once and for all that you totally deserve it. You always have and you always will—but deep down in- side you already know that, don’t you? Time is of the essence. Let’s get started.