Prosperity consciousness is a way of thinking that gives you more power over what you have in your life. It's a concept popularized by New Age thinking, but it's a principle that's been around for a long time. Developing your prosperity consciousness requires a few key things that, once you truly understand them, can change your life.

To understand the concept, you need to understand the basics of the law of attraction. This universal law basically states that like attracts like. Think of old adages like "you reap what you sow" and "like birds flock together". They all express the law of attraction in a familiar way.

If you make one bad financial decision after another, you will lose money and get into financial trouble. Making those bad financial decisions is the result of not thinking about money correctly and in the way necessary to attract more money to you. Developing a prosperity consciousness will help you see money differently, and end up with more of it.

You have to realize that prosperity is not based on chance or luck. This is the first step. Because if it's just luck or chance, then you wouldn't be able to control it, but you can. And you also need to realize that there is enough to go around. There should be no guilt associated with prosperity because no one has to do without it for you to have what you want.

One of the tenets of prosperity consciousness and the law of attraction is that the universe creates everything in abundance. And that you can have what you want if you just believe it is possible and focus on that belief.

Once you decide that money and prosperity are not things you achieve through luck or by taking from others, you decide that they are things you can have without guilt. That belief will automatically steer you away from bad decisions because you won't feel you have to fight to get your share before someone else takes it.

There is no need to fight or compete for it, as there is enough to go around. You really need to focus on that thought and make sure you believe it to develop a prosperity consciousness that allows things to flow in your life.

Once you believe it, then you just have to welcome prosperity. Whether you pray or affirm or ask the universe in general for the things you want, you must make the invitation for those things to come into your life. In doing so, you create an aura around you of openness and acceptance of the abundance and prosperity you say you want.

The principle is like magnetic attraction. You want to attract certain positive things, so you surround yourself with positivity because like attracts like. If you doubt that you can get something, you attract more doubt.

But if you believe that something can be yours through developing prosperity consciousness, then you can attract that very thing to you.