HERE are suggested mantras to make you very prosperous in 2010:

Money flows to me easily and effortlessly.

The more I give, the more I receive; the more I receive, the more I?m able to give. And the happier and healthier I become.

Thank You, God, for my financial abundance.

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What is a mantra?
It is a syllable, phrase or sentence used in Eastern religious rituals or meditation.
Mantras are believed to establish a link with the Source of All Creation. By chanting them, you connect with your Creator.
A word said over and over is a mantra.
A mantra becomes a reality even if you don?t believe in it.
That?s the reason why people who keep saying they don?t have money to keep away loan-seeking friends and relatives soon become broke no matter how much money they have in the bank.
They invite penury because of their self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Another way to invite prosperity in 2010 is to discard old things?clothes, shoes, bad habits, bad relationships.
Nature loathes a vacuum. It immediately fills a void.

If you give away clothes you haven?t used in years, they will soon be replaced with new ones.

If you give away money to the needy so much that it hurts your pocket, expect money to multiply when it comes back to you.

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I know you?re laughing your head off while reading this column.
?Tulfo has become insane,? you are probably saying.
That?s what I thought before of people who teach self-development like Deepak Chopra and fellow columnist Jaime Licauco.
Whenever I read Licauco?s column in the Lifestyle section of this paper, I always had a good laugh.
I said to myself, ?This guy is really crazy.?
Well, the guy I thought was insane is now my teacher on inner and higher consciousness.
And I have become richer?materially and spiritually?
reading books like Chopra?s and others by Catherine Ponder, Rhonda Byrne, Diana Cooper, US Andersen, Shakti Gawain, Ernest Holmes, Janet and Chris Attwood, among other writers.
Am I insane?
Well, are the people I mentioned insane?