I did some grocery shopping this morning and as I was turning an apple over in my hand I started thinking about abundance. It makes perfect sense that
fruit brings this to mind for me. How I used to remind myself of my abundance was keeping a beautiful fruit bowl full of fruit. So I’m not completely weird…just a little!
There was a time in my life that I considered abundance to be something outside of myself. Things like how much money I made and what I possessed; sometimes I still get caught up in the rat race and my thinking goes there, especially if an unexpected large expense occurs. This happened to me yesterday.
At first I panicked and then I calmed down. Took a good look at expenses and figured out how to fit the bill in. Time and experience has taught me that there is always a way, more importantly that The Universe always provides.
True abundance is being able to look inside myself and find the resources to make things work emotionally and spiritually. Taking the time to remember that I have qualities about myself that I can use to ease any difficult situation. After all I not only have The Universe around me, I have it inside me as well. How much more abundant can one be?
The trick is to perceive my life from that place of abundance. It’s the difference between placing my focus on the areas that I feel less sufficient in, most people do this, to the holding on tight to the areas of my life that I know I am proficient in. I used to only focus on what I felt I needed to improve on, yet how could I move forward working from a resource that I didn’t have. It’s like being in a completely barren desert and trying to start a fire with nothing but sand. If there’s a way to do it I haven’t yet learned it.
When I use the inner abundance I have I am always true to myself and therefore all around me; for me that’s what life, love and The Universe is really about.
