Having lived in China, I have so many fond memories of the Chinese people, the country, and their wonderful heritage, customs, and culture (and Food – omg – especially Food). I felt it would be unjust not to write about the wonder that is the Chinese New Year. This was not a holiday that I was aware of prior to living in China but is one that I happily celebrate every year since then. I just love the fun and celebration, as old and young pour out onto the streets with colors and fanfare, and firecrackers to welcome prosperity health, and wealth into their lives. I wrote this piece to inspire you to respect and honor this wonderful celebration as I do and to celebrate welcoming prosperity into your life and have recorded a very special Hypnosis you can Download to engage your brain in beginning to think about what prosperity could look like for you.

Chinese New Year is the first day of the New Year in the Chinese calendar. It’s also known as the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year, and the date varies a bit each year. Celebrations can last for days as everyone wishes each other happiness and prosperity in the New Year.

Chinese New Year is a 15-day celebration and each day, many families rotate celebrations between the homes of their relatives. The festivities are day-long and sometimes, a family ends up cooking two meals for their relatives.

On the fifth day of New Year’s, it is believed that the gods of prosperity come down from the heavens. Businesses will often participate in setting off firecrackers as they believe it will bring them prosperity and good fortune for their business.

The 15th day of the New Year is known as the Festival of Lanterns and marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. All types of lanterns are lit throughout the streets and often poems and riddles are often written for entertainment.

Symbols

Gifts of red envelopes with money are prevalent during Chinese New Year celebrations. They stand for happiness, good luck, success, and good fortune.

Called “hong bao” in Mandarin, the red envelopes filled with money are typically only given to children or unmarried adults with no job. If you’re single and working and making money, you still have to give the younger ones the hong bao money.

The colour red denotes good luck/fortune and happiness/abundance in the Chinese Culture and is often worn or used for decoration in other celebrations.

The dragon is present in many Chinese cultural celebrations as the Chinese people often think of themselves as descendants of the mythical creature. On the fifth day of the New Year when many people have to start going back to work, they will also have dancing dragons perform in front of office buildings.

New year Traditions and Taboos

• Some ban people from cooking with uncooked rice, sewing, cleaning and doing business during the first days of the Spring Festival, are then removed on the fifth day.

• However, the most important tradition for the day is sending off the God of Poverty and inviting the God of Wealth, who Chinese believe was born on this day.

• According to tradition, setting off firecrackers and dumping trash drives away bad luck and poverty, while opening doors and windows and preparing banquets pleases the God of Wealth.=

• Before the beginning of the holiday, the houses need to be clean, and all the cleaning supplies are thrown before the New Year.

• One superstition claims that if you sweep during this period, you throw away the luck for the entire year. In general, throughout the Spring Festival, large quantities of food are consumed, larger than at any other time of the year.

• This huge quantity of food symbolizes abundance and wealth in the house they are served. In general, throughout the Spring Festival, large quantities of food are consumed, larger than at any other time of the year.

• During the last evening of the year, people don’t sleep even after midnight, to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the New Year. At midnight, they open the doors and windows for ten minutes to let the old year pass, and to make way to the year that is just beginning. The evening ends with fireworks to ward off the evil spirits.

Some say that those who don’t follow these rituals and traditions risk not having a very good journey in the coming year.

Prosperity is the flourishing, thriving good fortune and successful social status. Prosperity often produces profuse wealth including other factors which can be profusely wealthy in all degrees such as happiness and health.

Prosperity and abundance aren’t just for People who celebrate Lunar New Year. You can experience a level of abundance that you can’t even imagine at this point in your life.

Your imagination and time are your only limitations.

A positive, effective mindset is half the battle. The other half is taking responsibility for your future. As much as some people want to promise you that you can daydream your way to a billion dollars without lifting a finger, the reality is quite a bit different.

Use these strategies and enjoy prosperity and abundance in your life:

1. Release negativity. Negative thoughts have many negative consequences. Negative thoughts are paralyzing, exhausting, and prevent you from being your best. When you expect the worst, you’re not going to have great outcomes.

2. Keep positive thoughts. Have high expectations for yourself, your future, and your results. Monitor your thoughts throughout the day and keep them on a positive track. Expect good things to happen, and they will.

3. Be grateful. If you believe that you have nothing in your life to be grateful for, you can expect to struggle. So, remind yourself of how good things already are in your life. Put yourself in a position to receive more from the universe.

4. Be grateful and more things will happen that you can be grateful for.

5. Visualize. Visualizing requires you to figure out what you want. It also keeps your objectives fresh in your mind. Set aside a few minutes several times each day to visualize the future you want to experience. Feel positive emotions during your visualization practice. You’ll see the benefits soon.

6. Listen to our specially designed Hypnotic Recording for Prosperity

7. Take risks. Those with the most took the biggest risks. You can’t expect to play it safe and experience prosperity and abundance. Take calculated risks where the potential payoff is worth the risk.

8. Never be satisfied. That doesn’t mean you have to make yourself miserable all of the time. Instead, have a healthy curiosity of what it would take to experience greater levels of prosperity and abundance. Then see if you’re right! Experiment with your life.

9. Persist. The key to abundance is staying the course. It’s important to maintain your vision for the future and your effort. There will be work required on your part to bring abundance into your life. But this work will pay off!

10. Seek help. You don’t have to take on the universe all by yourself. The world is full of capable people that can help you. Someone out there has already accomplished the things you want to accomplish. Get some advice.

11. Hang around the right people. Surround yourself with positive, supportive, successful people. Who’s in your social circle? Are they lifting you up or dragging you down?

12. Dream big. If your dream is to own a three-bedroom ranch and drive a Ford, you’re unlikely to ever live in a mansion and drive a Mercedes. Set your sights high and you’ll experience more prosperity and abundance.

Are prosperity and abundance in your future?

It all starts with your expectations and attitudes.

Negative thoughts and expectations repel abundance.

Accept responsibility for the future you desire and be persistent.

Good things are coming your way!