Personally, I’ve heard it said in the self-development world that money is the root of all evil… that we shouldn’t want for material objects.

I, myself, have said on countless occasions that money will not bring you fulfillment or sustained happiness. Neither will the lack of money, which means there is something else that provides that fulfillment.

But its not the fulfillment that I wanted to discuss today, its whether or not wanting material objects is a good thing or not such a good thing.

My own views on this topic are that we do live in a material world. There are certain material objects that we have to have in order to survive. Things like clothing and a home to stay in are all essential to our survival.

Because we live in this material world, having some of the material objects, including money, is perfectly okay. We get to define how we want to live. We get to define what experiences we want to have. We get to define it all, and so if I choose to have more money, and another chooses against it, that is perfectly fine too.

I don’t feel there is a way that you must be in order to live a successful and fulfilled life. The fulfillment can never come from a material object anyway, but only from within. The diverse setting that we live in where we each want something different, provides the perfect setting to create our own segment of reality that is heaven on earth to us.

Life is material.
Your home is material.
Our clothes are material.
Your body is material.

If we did not want to experience having and playing with the materialistic objects in this world, then why would we choose to live in a physical body? There would be no point to us coming here and so if we truly did not want material objects then surely we would choose to stay in the non-physical environment.

It’s important to remember that anyone can choose anything they please. There is no right or wrong with anything, including the wanting of material objects.

I say… go out there and experience it!

Go get some dollars… go and travel the world… experience other cultures… enjoy your life. Feel good and be happy. Your happiness should be regarded as the most important thing.

This video recently caught my attention, I’ve seen it before, but that was before I had a blog where I could share cool video clips! Check out this video showing the reaction to different sound frequencies…

(Note: You may want to turn your speakers down just a little for this first video)

There’s others like this that are pretty cool too. Here’s another one, but this time the container is being shaken at extreme speeds and holds a cornstarch liquid. The “fingers” at the end are really crazy in this one!

A friend of mine, Marcus Hochstadt from www.hochstadt.com is running a very special party contest which is giving away over $7,000 worth of prizes! There’s also 66,666 Entrecard credits up for grabs that have been donated by the party contributors.

The event is for blog owners who can participate in the party by posting on their blog and submitting the site to social bookmarking sites.

What makes this giveaway so special is the diverse gifts that are available. I have donated ten copies of my Manifest a Miracle system that sells for $97. But if self-development wasn’t your interest, then you can win prizes from weight loss products, Internet marketing products and even cold hard ‘PayPal’ cash!

So for all of you bloggers who are reading this, I encourage you to head over to Marcus’ site to check out what you need to be eligible to win. (Hint: It’s one of the easiest contests I’ve ever entered into! And will take very little of your time.)

Here’s the link to the Hochstadt.com Party Contest.

And here’s a list of all of the awesome prizes that can be won…

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Throughout your day you will make hundreds of different decisions. Making the right decision has always been considered the most difficult to get right.

Instead of engaging your logical thinking mind to make the decisions, try using your inner guidance to guide you into making the correct decision.

Abraham-Hicks shared with us that we have something called an Emotional Guidance System. It is this system that you can feel when you walk into a room with “bad vibes”.

How do you know a room has “bad vibes”?

That’s your emotional guidance system in action!

The emotions that you feel are your emotional guidance system. When you feel bad, bad things are on their way. When you feel good, you’re moving towards something that will please you.

Your emotions are quite simply the best way to make accurate decisions.

Let’s say for a moment that you get offered a new job. Ask yourself, “how do I feel?”. If you feel good about it, then this job is in perfect alignment with you and you will be moving towards things that give you more pleasure and more great feelings.

On the flip side of the coin, if you don’t feel good about the new job offering, or if you don’t feel much of anything at all about it, then that job is not in alignment with what you’ve been saying you want. It will not yield you joyful and blissful situations.

Recently, I hired a virtual staff member to help me run part of my business. I had narrowed my search down to two different people. One of the candidates had far more experience than the other. It would have been far too easy for me to go with my logical thinking brain and to simply have hired the more qualified person.

Instead of using my logical brain, I followed my emotions. The candidate with the least experience actually felt much better to me. In fact, we hit it off great!

The person with most experience didn’t give me any good feelings at all. I would have described the feelings felt around this person as “neutral”. As I discussed in a recent blog post, Neutral Emotions Are Negative Emotions, so neutral can be considered the same as bad.

So, I followed my emotional guidance system and hired the less skilled employee.

And the results?

We’ve been getting on great! This new person has been putting in way more hours than I expected and is completely over-delivering. Our relationship is steadily growing and I’m feeling very optimistic about what’s ahead. All in all, I made what I consider to be a very good decision.

I’ll never know for sure what would have happened if I had of hired the other candidate. Maybe his performance would have been just as good, maybe not? Focusing on the past is not productive, so I choose not to give it my attention.

Another example of when I used my emotional guidance system recently was when I was looking over an Internet marketing forum I visit now and then… Someone has posted a new thread saying that they will take on 10 people and coach them to make $100,000 per year business. The cost? Nothing, nada, zilch.

Of course, it sounded too good to be true, but never the less, it aroused my curiosity and I read the post. Immediately I could feel that it wasn’t something that would bring me any joy what-so-ever. In fact, it made me feel pretty bad!

My logical mind on the other hand was going in over-drive…

“Everyone would like a $100,000 business, why not just signup and see?”
“This guy wants nothing to get started! That’s nothing for $100k!”
“Let’s go for it!”
Etc.

Instead of listening to those thoughts, I passed on the opportunity very quickly and went on to read something that was more in alignment with what I was vibrating.

The message I’m trying to convey is stop listening to that logical mind no matter what is presented in front of you. No matter how good it sounds to that logical mind. Resist the temptation and follow your feelings. Always follow your feelings.