Part 1
Being in abundance can mean different things to different people. Although most people consider abundance to be that of great financial gain and a continued out pouring of finances, there are other perspectives of what abundance is. Abundance is being balanced between what is thought, felt and created. Abundance is being happy and healthy. Abundance is having time to live life the way you desire. Abundance is having the awareness to know life is a joyful experience. Abundance is living life the way you love to live it, without lack or limitation. Abundance is being in gratitude and savoring what you have. Abundance is freedom (free to do what is desired). Abundance is pure energy that just is. Abundance is being fulfilled in the now – no matter what!
As you ponder your own definition of abundance begin by asking some of these questions… How does the world seem abundant? How do I feel abundant in: 1) Health – Do you wake up with energy and joy ready to start the day? 2) Finances – Do you look at bank balances and feel as if you have an abundant choice of what you desire to do or have? 3) Love – Do you feel the abundance of love around you from yourself, family and friends?
This article is written in two parts. The first, Part 1, will help you identify what keeps abundance away. This is the focus below, as you read on. However the focus of Part 2 will detail how to be in abundance continuously, in all ways.
What Keeps Abundance Away
There are many reasons and ways in which abundance is kept at abeyance. You may have encountered or are struggling with some of them presently:
- The Mind can hold abundance back like damned river water. The mind is a protection machine. It can keep you in a place of non-success. It’s not interested in success. It’s focused on what’s wrong to keep you surviving. The mind can trigger anxiousness, a form of fear, which most people have. And when you hear the voice in your head and think it is God telling you how to survive or thrive, it’s not. It’s just the mind attempting to keep you alive based on what it interprets is needed.
- Programming from birth to believe in lack more than abundance takes over. You receive a lot of information on what to do, how to behave, how to think, and what you should feel. You’ve gathered and collected information through experiences from ages 0 to 7 years. A few of the things you’ve learned are: fear, survival, worry, lack of control and lack of usefulness. They fill the subconscious waiting to surface when you’re busy with other conscious thoughts and tasks. When you’re thinking or doing, you’re not paying attention to what lies underneath the surface. The subconscious becomes the default mind with all of the information stored away that may not serve you. It kicks in when you’re engaged with something else. This is the programming causing you to self-sabotage and direct action away from abundance. Its tendency is to fix the mind on what you don’t want instead of creating what you do. How much time do you spend on focusing your mind and attention on what you truly desire?
- Negative Thinking is a huge stop sign for abundance to appear in your life. It started when you began defining yourself, from past experiences, that you are not enough or should have done something differently. Of course, there’s no proof to the truth of your negative self-doubts and belief systems about yourself. But the mind is focused on how to fix problems, not create new desired aspirations. Your thoughts lead to your feelings, which lead to your actions, which lead to your results. So, negative thinking leads to low vibrational feelings and poor actions, which are steeped in undesired results of lack.
- Fear of Failure and Success is also our real self-saboteur against abundance. The truth is that failing means nothing bad happens to you. The world forgives and forgets whatever short comings you had toward achieving your goal. Only you remember the failures. In reality, when unfamiliar territory comes up, fear comes up. It’s natural, so don’t attempt to eliminate fear altogether, because then your focus and intention will be more on fear and surviving rather than on creating. Let go of your self-judgment and allow new things to happen.
- Emotional Environments are the internal measurements about how you feel in reference to every experience you have and all aspects of your life. Take control over what you dream and think. When you don’t, abundance cannot flourish within to be reflected without. So, allow yourself to feel the positive emotions of those dream thoughts.
- Inner Conflict with Self is another major deterrent to abundance. The child-self says, “Yes, this is what I desire,” while the adult-self says, “But that’s not how I know it to be…I am afraid, I have to do what’s safe, I have to do what’s familiar for it to be right.” This conflict creates indecision and a split mind. Unless you are fully conscious that abundance exists all around you and you are the whole expression of abundance, it’s an uphill battle to experience it. Pay attention to what you are thinking, what you are feeling and resolve the conflict completely.