When you look at money, spirituality and abundance -- not necessarily in that order -- you may discover that there is a missing link. We live in a three dimensional universe where natural laws and their effects can only enter our consciousness through our emotional state. It is our five senses (I'm leaving out the sixth one for the time being) that we rely upon to experience our world, our universe.

Once the information has reached our outer consciousness is when the 'inner' mechanism begins to take over. What we experience in this dimension is by virtue of the contrasts that reach us through the polarities that abound. We can never appreciate well-being if we have never experienced illness and disease. It's the same with wealth or anything else that you care to think of. Everything has an opposite in this universe.

So what is the point that I'm trying to make? That missing link I mentioned earlier is the common denominator that puts all of our experiences into perspective. It is simply LACK. If you experience lack, then everything else begins to fall into place. The polarities in life which manifest through natural laws are what makes us realize that there is neither abundance nor lack. It is only the value that we place on something which determines whether we are 'wealthy' or 'poor.'

Moreover, there is no right or wrong in this instance. What are one person's thoughts are another's illusions. What is right for one person does not fit for another. When we place value, we give it substance. For a monk who has spent all or most of his life as a recluse will have very little in the material sense. However, the value that he places on his meager possessions will give him a feeling of having great abundance. By contrast, the entrepreneur who has spent a lot of his or her life building an empire could very well feel a sense of lack, simply because of the value he or she puts on the material aspects of his or her creation and possibly his or herself. It's down to value and that can only come from you. No two people are alike.

The spiritual aspects of this are determined by how you perceive the world and apply yourself and the material things which are at your disposal. Your intellect (or ego) is the only barrier to achieving greater things and when you begin to understand that you are simply a part of everything, value plays little or no part in your life. This is when you can begin to realize who you are and what you are about. Now your sixth sense clicks into gear and before you know it, you are on the road to progress. Now that's having abundance.