In psychology, psychotherapy and management theory, abundance theory postulates a benign universe in which any individual with the correct attitude, training, or spiritual alignment can acquire personal abundance which should lead to material abundance: wealth regardless of economic or social circumstances (reality). Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos/-ology = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ... Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues of individuals, family members or a whole familys interactional climate. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Spirituality is, in a narrow sense, a concern with matters of the spirit. ...

This attractive concept goes back at least as far as mesmerism, and has become embedded in several modern psychotherapeutic and religious movements. It counters fatalism by propounding the idea that people can change their fate. Hypnosis, as defined by the American Psychological Association Division of Psychological Hypnosis, is a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or experimental participant experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior. ... Fatalism is the view that human deliberation and actions are pointless and ineffectual in determining events, because whatever will be will be. ... Destiny or fate refers to the inevitable course of events. ...

Compare:

• Cargo cult
• Economy of abundance
• Positive thinking

A cargo cult is any of a group of religious movements that occurred in Melanesia, in the Southwestern Pacific. ... The Economy of Abundance is the idea that resources are infinite and available to all, and therefore competition for resources is no longer necessary. ... Attitude is a key concept in social psychology. ...

References

• Cushman, Philip: Constructing The Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
• Abundance theory