7 Effective Habits From Tossing For Abundance

Tossing for abundance or “yusheng lohei” is a local customary practice that helps us draw good fortune for the year. For those who do not already know, I would like to introduce it here. “Yusheng” refers to a dish of raw fish salad. The practice of tossing for abundance during Chinese New Year has gained much popularity here in Singapore. If I may add, it might have worked!

(Photo: yusheng platter)

For the record, Singapore has been a nation of success, with a set of impressive growing economic figures. So let’s borrow some magic from a toss and see how it can help us attract wealth.

This year, Chinese New Year starts on February 3. The season of “yusheng lohei” during a meal get-together is therefore coming. While yusheng is traditionally eaten on the seventh day of the lunar New Year, it is now served practically almost any day during the 15-day festive period.

The practice of tossing for abundance or “yusheng lohei” may have originated in China; however it has been adapted and made popular by resourceful local restaurant owners hoping to cash in on the festive period. In fact, “yusheng lohei” is not considered a traditional practice in China. Even though other parts of Asia have also contested the claim to having popularize the dish, Singaporeans undoubtedly had a part to play in the version that is served today.

What is Yusheng Lohei

The salad platter is usually part of a multi-dish dinner. The dish of raw fish salad consists of strips of raw salmon, shredded vegetables such as carrots, turnips, red pickled ginger, sun-dried, white radish, red pepper, peanuts, jelly fish, chopped peanuts, toasted sesame seeds, chilli and key lime leaves. It is served with sweet plum sauce, sesame oil and other ingredients.

Virtually all the ingredients selected has a “prosperity” significance to it. For instance, fish shares the same sound as another word, which means “abundance”, in Chinese. Sheng, on the other hand, means increase or born. So when you say “yusheng”, it means an increase in abundance. “Lohei” means the tossing action to a high.

You can easily buy the raw fish salad platter from the supermarket. They are widely available. Almost all Chinese restaurants would also have this on their menu during this period. However, dining out in a good-class restaurant would be slightly more expensive. Most certainly, if you run a business, then you might want to consider booking a table for a meal that includes the raw fish salad. You toss to wealth in the company of your associates, partners and friends.

At the time of the meal, all diners at the table would stand when the yusheng platter is served. As each ingredient gets added to an empty plate, an abundance affirmation related to its prosperity significance would be uttered. When all the ingredients are added, the tossing begins. Everyone gets a pair of chopsticks to toss and mix the ingredients together. Words of auspicious wishes continue. It is said that the higher the toss, the greater heights the fortune of the diner. You can imagine the racket that the ceremony involves 🙂

7 Effective Habits for Tossing For Wealth

The ceremony of tossing for abundance is something that I would recommend as a kick-start to a year-long intent of building wealth. In case you have missed the signs, all that vigorous tossing are backed by habits that can go a long way in helping us magnetize wealth. And the habits are…

1. Express affirmations for abundance. Conservative parents would issue warnings of not speaking a word of negativity during Chinese New Year. Any inauspicious word is taboo. During a “yusheng lohei” ceremony, you are also expressing abundance affirmations.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Words come from thoughts. At the mental level, you want to think of “fortune” rather than “misfortune”, “out of luck” or “born unlucky”. Working at the mental level is not enough to attracting wealth. Your words have an energetic component to them too. If you are in the habit of saying negative words, it is time to make a change. Click here for a list of abundance affirmations to say!

2. Being in good spirits. The yusheng lohei ceremony is usually made in good spirits. Almost all the diners would tune in and feel good at the thought of enjoying more abundance.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Being in good spirits or being vibrationally positive is a great way for manifesting wealth, by virtue of the law of attraction.

3. Express gratitude. During a toss, one cannot help but remember of all the wonderful blessings that one is already enjoying. So essentially a yusheng lohei ceremony offers you the opportunity to recall and express your gratitude too.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Express appreciation and gratitude often. Learn how to start a gratitude journal by clicking here!

4. Garner support from your community. For a vision to come true, garnering the energetic support from your community is important. A collective effort usually manifests more powerfully. So, arrange a lohei ceremony with your business partners, associates and friends. (Maybe someone can implement the idea of a digital version for a lohei ceremony with businesses online.) There is a oneness vibe to the lohei ceremony.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Organize more meet-ups and sharing sessions of dreams, projects and collaborations.

5. Be open to receiving. During a “lohei” ceremony, it is unlikely that you are thinking about your underserving issues. Tossing high helps you in forward-thinking. It shifts you out of feeling stuck, allows you to think of what is possible and be open to receiving it. And you need to do more of these throughout the year.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Receive compliments, gifts and offers for assistance with grace and appreciation. Open yourself to the receipt of abundance. In fact, be ready to claim it!

6. Engage in expansive acts. So the lohei ceremony is but one expansive act that you can do. What about others? Abundance has the energetic quality of expansiveness. You want to come up with a list of action ideas that can help you with the same energetic resonance.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Do acts that make you feel free!

7. Celebrate. Celebrate on every occasion. We can become lazy over the years, skipping events like birthdays, or even Chinese New Year. I used to think why bother too. However, I have since change my mind. I don’t just celebrate special days but small achievements too.

Effective Habit for Abundance. Every celebration is an affirmation of our love for life, and the Universe will respond with more loves in our life. So, celebrate, celebrate, celebrate!

My recommendation is to practice all 7 habits throughout the year, beyond a simple “tossing” ceremony. They are habits to inculcate for the blooming of wealth and abundance.

A Prosperous Chinese New Year To You

Wishing you a Prosperous Chinese New Year, a year-long of abundance, wealth, luck and good fortune….

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