Living In The Abundance
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living in the abundance
5 simple strategies for enhancing your daily abundance vibrations
Feet at St. James, self portrait, Winter 2011 | I love, love, love dancing barefoot in warm, sunny spaces. This was one of my favorite places to dance in Trinidad, the St. James Amphitheatre, not far from downtown Port of Spain.
By mother mother binahkaye joy
This week in the Garden we’ve been celebrating the many ways we can live inside the abundance. We are finding again and again that abundance really is a way of life, a frequency that we practice feeling into and embodying in all the ways that feel good to us.
So how do we practice this abundance magic everyday? In the Garden we experiment with ways of living, breathing, sharing, spreading, oozing, radiating, speaking, and activating the abundance as much as possible. Abundance consciousness is like a spiritual muscle that we exercise and strengthen over time. Every little gesture of abundance matters. Indeed, learning how to recognize the abundance in the seemingly mundane moments of life is essential to experiencing abundance in more profound ways.
What we are discovering through our experiments and practices in the Garden is that we can read and interpret any thing through the lens of abundance. How did this thing grow me? How did that experience open up a new possibility? How did the ending of this relationship bring me into greater communion with myself? How did this heartache lead me on a path of healing that has been what my heart has really longed for all along?
It’s infinite, really, this ability to see, feel, and witness the abundance in all moments, in all things. And it takes practice, practice, practice! The magical thing about being a part of the Fertility Abundance Garden is that you don’t have to ever practice this vital skill alone! As a sistership we consciously create spaces and opportunities to develop abundance consciousness together. We witness each other. We affirm and echo each other’s dreams. We nurture a spirit of remembrance and take turns reminding one another of our brilliance, our magic, our superpowers as creators.
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#1 Do what you love
Doing what we love keeps us feeling deeply aligned with our heart brilliance and fluidly responsive to the creative ways we can integrate what we love doing throughout each day. This situational adaptability aids us in experiencing the multidimensionality of ourselves and the many forms our creative practices can take. We become experts at accessing and actualizing the windows—however tiny, however fleeting—where we can be engaged in doing what we love.
When we are deeply immersed in our love labors, and doing the thing(s) that make our soul feel luminous and expansive, then we vibrate inside the fertile frequencies of joy, curiosity, discovery, and gratitude. The momentum and energy to create increases in these moments. We are most generative when we are doing what we love. Our love labors seed more abundance by softening us, keeping us warm, and opening our hearts to more possibilities within our creation majesties.
love abundance practice
For every hour of today, attempt to spend at least 5 minutes in that hour doing one thing you love, even if that means thinking or dreaming about that one thing. Set a reminder on your phone, or pick an easy point in the hour to remember, like every half-hour mark. Experiment with doing the same thing you love every hour, or try filling your 5 minutes up with something different each time. At the end of the day, write in your journal about all the things you did today. Write about how you feel and what you’re excited to explore more tomorrow.
what do you yearn to create?
Everything we create is creating us. The Garden is where we lovingly witness each other while unpacking our sacred stories and discovering the creations that we feel must come from us.
#2 Feel for the Yes
Feeling for the Yes means living radically in what is really true for us at all times. The Yes is realized in different ways for everyone. However it presents, there is often a particular sensation that we come to recognize as the Yes. When we feel it in our body, we know we’ve actually identified the Yes that aligns with what our heart and soul yearns for. The Yes begins as a tiny point of clarity that pierces through the darkness, illuminating the way forward. It doesn’t matter if we can’t yet see the whole road ahead. Every Yes lights the way.
By feeling for the Yes, we practice cultivating deeper receptivities to the frequencies of abundance. The conscious acts of choosing our Yes, of choosing ourselves, again and again, creates powerful feedback loops with the world around us. Everything we communicate, everything we say out of our mouths, everything we put our energy towards is somehow connected to the greater Yes. The more fluid we are with living in our Yes, the more synchronicities become apparent and our capacity to read the abundance everywhere grows exponentially.
Yes abundance practice
Look around your space. Choose at least one thing to take away the doesn’t serve you, that doesn’t feel like a Yes anymore. Once you have removed it, fill it with something that does feel like a Yes, even if that means leaving it as an open space in which you can create or live more joyfully.
Dancing Mother, the long-seeded, newly-sprouted synthesis of Mother Mother’s creation labors, is in its seed spiral. Sacred witnesses are invited to lovingly hold space for Mother Mother as she brings the spiral movement galaxy to life.
#3 echo patterns of abundance
Recreate the frequencies that make you feel abundant. There might be colors, textures, shapes, places, smells, movements, songs that activate a sense of expansion, newness, and wonder inside of you. Saturate your cells, your space, your body with the sensations that echo the abundance vibration for you.
Wear the colors that makes you feel bold and daring, confident and expressive of your visions. Decorate your space with the images and affirmations that keep you connected to brilliance. Listen to the music or the recordings that stimulate your creative flow. Post up pictures of the magical spaces that you’ve been to (or are planning go to one day) where you experience radiant, expansive knowing within. Do the dances and rituals that keep your grounded in your brilliance as a creator. Whatever the pattern of abundance that speaks to your heart, let it echo and take up more and more space in your everyday life.
echo abundance practice
Begin collecting words, images, songs, or poems that resonate deeply with who you are as a creator. Hold these things in your heart, or in a note on your phone, or in a pocket of your journal. Revisit your collection often, especially in moments when you are feeling disconnected from your flow. Add to your collected echoes whenever you can. Notice spontaneous moments of reference to these things when you’re living your life and not even thinking about it.
“We are most generative when we are doing what we love.”
#4 witness the abundance
Be a witness for the abundance happening in your own life, and in the lives of the people around you. Witnessing the way abundance is experienced by others signals more recognition of abundance in our own moments. Studying the many pathways abundance can take helps us to create more nuanced narratives of what we feel and envision for ourselves. Our dreams grow more specific, and the language we use to share our stories becomes more affirming of the dreams.
As witnesses, we hold loving space and a certain energy of presence that expands the knowing of this moment of abundance. By consciously seeing and mattering* the micromoments of abundance happening all around us, whether witnessing ourselves or witnessing someone else, we are exercising those innermost receptivity muscles that actually do the continuous labors of seeing and identifying the abundance.
*see an exploration of “mattering”, a word created by araba evelyn johnston arthur
witness abundance practice
Play a mental game with yourself all day today. For everyone you interact with, listen to what they say with full presence. What do you hear them communicating to you about their story or journey? What can you lovingly acknowledge or affirm back to them? If the moment permits, and you feel the Yes to share with them, begin your response with, “Thank you for sharing. I witness you…” and continue with your loving reflection of their share. If there is something to celebrate about what they have shared, let them know that you are celebrating them and why.
If you are not in a space to connect with anyone today, play this game with yourself. Write or record yourself talking about how you’re feeling, and what’s going on in your world. Then read or listen to yourself, and respond back to yourself with your oral I witness you and I celebrate you for statements.
“By feeling for the Yes, we practice cultivating deeper receptivities to the frequencies of abundance.”
#5 express gratitude often
Gratitude increases abundance, always. Every thank you and I am grateful seeds more abundance and expands the frequencies of abundance that we can touch and feel in our lives.
Expressing our gratitude sends waves of abundance energies out into the invisible activation fields around us. Our warmth and kindness expand as they now have more space within which to radiate and shine. This continuous loop becomes another fertile space for abundance cultivation. Inside the gratitude we discover more and more reasons to celebrate the abundance, and this in turn helps us to see and experience more and more abundance.
gratitude abundance practice
Make a list of at least 5 things you’re grateful for before you go to bed. Slip the list under your pillow, or leave it in a journal beside where you sleep. In the morning when you wake up, see if you can recall everything on your list, without looking at it, and speak these gratitudes aloud, with affirmation statements like, I am grateful for… Repeat the process everyday for one week. Notice what expands, shifts, or changes in your world.
“It’s infinite, really, this ability to see, feel, and witness the abundance in all moments, in all things. And it takes practice, practice, practice! The magical thing about being a part of the Fertility Abundance Garden is that you don’t have to ever practice this vital skill alone!”
who lovingly witnesses your sacred labors?
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