I have been slowly getting what the mindset of abundance truly means now. It’s funny that I feel that understanding this concept of abundance feels even better than making money or closing a sale.
I really understand what it means deep down that you don’t attract what you want but you attract what you are. If you are someone that truly believe in the wholeness of life and of every moment, then you are said to be in a state of abundance. In fact, I even titled this blog topic wrongly (on purpose, of course) to highlight this. You can’t actually attract abundance. YOU ALREADY ARE ABUNDANT. How can you attract something which you already have? It’s only an illusion that you are not.
We have to recognize that every single moment is as perfect as it should be. We have no lack whatsoever. We do not lack anything. We are abundant as and where we are.
If we fail to recognize the fact that we are abundant, we would be constantly finding for things. That “finding” for things represents a state of lack. We do not need more money. We do not need a better car. We do not need a better job. We do not need someone in our lives to make it whole. We are already perfect and full in the moment.
We just have to acknowledge them.
Personal Experience
It’s funny to say that there always seem to be something which guides me to learn something as and when I need it. It’s this feeling that whenever I need to learn something, some situation or event would pop out which allows me to learn something. After that, there would be an epiphany.
I actually love that feeling where you know that we learn constantly from things which happen.
This has also happen in the field of my work. Whenever I feel as if I’m in a state of lack or wanting something to happen, I often feel as if my work would get tougher or no one would call me. Whenever I am in a state of abundance and fullness, I find myself receiving more phone calls and that I meet the right people at the right time.
It is this strange and unexplainable thing but it brings to me to a real concrete belief that we really do create our world. Our thoughts create the world we live in.
I would try to explain some situations about lack and abundance. After that, I will explain how to put ourselves constantly in a state of abundance.
The Feeling Of Lack
The feeling of lack is this feeling that we need something better and more now. Most of us have no idea that this becomes the driving force of many people’s lives. The feeling where we need something more. We might use different “instruments” to feel whole and better about ourselves. It might be a person or something material. That’s why our society is so ingrained in this culture of more is better, because we believe that we need more and more to feel whole.
We are all so hungry for this feeling of wholeness within ourselves that we use such “instruments” to feel better. That’s the reason why people are so ingrained in making relationship, making more money, buying more things and so on. Almost all their actions are based upon a state of lack, because of their inability to find for the wholeness in the present.
The Feeling Of Abundance
The feeling of abundance is one of the greatest feeling someone could have in their lifetime. I can rightfully say that I am in the state of abundance as I am typing this. I write without a plan and the ideas just flow out easily with effortless ease. I have no plans on how to write. I have no need for it to please anyone. I just type it out based upon what I first have in mind. So easy. It’s like I am not even here as I type.
This feeling of abundance is what all we are finding for deep down. We just fail to recognize that this is what we actually need.
It is a feeling that you know you do not need more. It is a deep knowing that your life is already full. It is this feeling where you know you do not have to worry about anything whatsoever because everything would turn out perfectly. You are completely here in the present and you do not need anything because you are already whole.
This is a state of what I call self-referral, where you do not look for things outside of you to feel better. You do not need a nice word or a praise to feel whole. You just feel good because you know you are created from a substance that feels whole and good. From something which is just abundance.
You come to a realization that you are just completely happy and fulfilled, regardless of what happens. You know that you create the reality and the reality that you choose to accept is the reality which you would experience.
You are just in the moment whatever you are doing. You do not think about the past or the future. Very often, the person who looks in the past or the future is in a state of lack. The individual feels that this moment isn’t comfortable and tries to look to the past or the future to try to make the present better.
That is why I feel there is a real spiritual approach to goals. It doesn’t matter what goals you set, but the real essence of a good goal setting is that you feel good in the process. That is the key to a good goal.
So many times I seen people setting goals which doesn’t feel good to them. They set something and fail to follow through and blame themselves completely. They fail to see that deep down, they just don’t want to achieve them. The key to a real fun-filled life is to be essentially in the state of joy, every moment.
Steps To BE Abundant
- Learn to let go. The key to achieving a worthy goal is to let go of us trying to force outcomes and just go with the flow of things. This definitely go against what we are taught. So many times I read books and hear from people and they say we have to work hard or have to do things we don’t like to achieve something. I just choose to disregard such advice. The key to abundance is to know that we do things with effortless ease and we don’t force outcomes. Forcing outcomes states that you are not sure about what you are doing. It’s funny that I seen it in my working world, in relationships and other areas of life. Letting go shows a confidence in the outcome.
- Meditation. I know that I always stress this but this is because I have a real clear reason for so. Meditation lets us understand our thought process. Understanding our thought process allows us to really see how we create things and how events happen. Besides, meditation also is a tool to let go from fighting the current. So many times I have seen people doing so much to try and fight the current of things, without realizing that this actually ends up against them. Meditation allows us to truly let go of that desire to control things.
- Gratitude. The practice of gratitude taps into the fullness of life. If we were to really meditate and check our thoughts, we would come to a realization that we often do things in a state of lack. We do things thinking that we have to do them or with the feeling that we need to achieve something to feel whole. Be grateful, for it brings about a state of fullness and fulfillment.
- Understand that abundance is truly a mindset. Abundance is not about achievement or getting something. It’s about just being in the moment. Just feeling the fullness of the moment. Is not something you go and “get”, but something you be.
- Study abundance. If you want to be good at anything whatsoever, study it. Study from those great teachers on how they discover abundance and what they really mean by that. It is truly a lifetime study of the great teachers that make us understand them better.
- Realize that abundance and fulfillment is truly not dependent upon circumstances. Circumstances refer to things that happen outside of us. It is those things like a praise or a promotion or other things which are out of our control. Abundance is an inner job. It is this feeling of wholeness and certainty that things would just unfold.
- I would like to end with a quote which I have been telling myself all the time. It is by John Demartini: “When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound than the opinions on the outside, then you begin to master your life and do something magnificent and extraordinary.”
End Notes
I realize that I have been attracting abundance all my life without realizing it. Abundance does not only mean money or material items, but it also means situations, opportunities and other kind of feelings. I don’t believe that I was born with it, but I believe that the feeling has been in me since I started meditating from a pretty young age.
Abundance is what we are truly are. We don’t seek to change circumstances. We just have to change our perceptions.
Our lives is controlled by our perception and attitudes towards them.
When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.
