Day 6
Love, love, love...
Matt Rivers
11 Suggestions for Abundance Consciousness
Life is literally bursting with abundance. It is flowing
from every corner of time and space and if we notice it then we take part. Each
orange tree produces a plethora of leaves and a bounty of oranges. There are
millions of orange trees on this planet and billions of oranges! Then there are
myriad other plants, vegetables, species, animals and insects. That is just the
stuff that lives on top of our beloved Earth.
Check out the grains of sand, the molecules of breathable
air, the amount of life-giving sunshine that reaches us. We are in the midst of
a reality so fantastical, it is laughable to think that we feel that we are
lost, lonely and poor. We couldn’t be further from the truth. That is why it
feels so weird and wrong when we contemplate such limiting beliefs. Our emotions
are literally screaming at us that our thinking is not up to speed with
reality. That is why sadness and desperation and despair hurt, because they are
telling us we are in the wrong place in our minds.
This life is wealthy beyond belief. This life is filled with
endless abundance and opportunities yet we have to switch on to them. We have
to lift our eyes from our pain and shift our perspective. No longer should we
continue to bang on about how shit things are because life emanates from the core
of us. The 'shit' is created by how we perceive life to be. The more shit we see…
the more shit we get. That is the basic law of karma, or resonance or attraction. It all has the same name. See shit, get shit; see love, get
love. Very simple, very basic yet we have grand and strange structures of
thought living in our heads, put there by generations of souls before us, by
skewed education systems and archaic religions.
We can empower ourselves and let go of those old patterns.
There is no point waging a war against old things, they are what brought us
here but we can choose to let them go and move forward into a new paradigm of
thinking and being. It doesn’t take much. Just a little adjustment here and
there.
- Breathe – Calm your body and mind down with the most effective stress management tool you have. Your breath is directly linked to your autonomic nervous system and when you consciously step in to slow it down, your body begins to relax and your heart beat is reduced which will send calming signals to your brain. A ton of information flows from the heart to the brain all based upon your rate and depth of breath.
- Be present – Use your senses to feel your current reality, smell the air, look at the shapes of things, the colour, the textures, listen to the sounds around you, feel the wind, the floor, the temperature. But more, be present with your emotions and thoughts. Don’t try and fix or push your emotions away. Just sense them in the body and breath into where any tension lies.
- Sit – Learn to sit and watch. Watch your breath. Watch your thoughts. Watch life come and go. Watch how nature just flows. Watch yourself and how you are connected to everything. Allow yourself to just be, no distractions, no media, no activity, no television.
- Let go – Let go of judgement, especially of
yourself. Let go of the need to fix everything. Let go of the worry about
tomorrow. Let go of the pain of the past. Let go of the anger. Let go of the
need to do something with your emotions. Let go of blame. Let go of criticism.
Let go of ideas of lack. Relax. Breathing helps with this.
- Meditate – Find the silence often. Especially when you catch yourself judging, criticising, or focusing on shit that pisses you off. Use all of the above to help find that silence in between thoughts. Don’t try and stop thinking, just start breathing, being present, sitting, watching and letting go.
- Appreciate – Look at what works in your life. Find joy in the moments you have, in the blessings and support that surround you. Find things in your life to feel good about. Friends, family, sunshine, drinking water, children, lovers, material blessings. All are things to appreciate. Even if it is just one thing, search for it, hold it close.
- Fan the Flames – Make good feelings bigger. When you feel great, take note, explore it. Notice your thoughts. Remember it. Revel in those good feelings. Just because the world is full of things that are unpleasant it is not a good enough reason to not find things that feel great in this world. There is far more good than bad anyway. That doesn’t mean we should ignore problems, but rather, it means we begin to frame things differently and bring a different energy to problems so that we become solution orientated, able to find the gift in each moment.
- Imagine – Use your greatest gift. Imagine solutions. Imagine well-being. Allow yourself to play again and imagine what you want in your life. Feel the changes in how you feel. Imagine your dreams come true. Imagine the person you would be when your dreams are alive. Imagine your joy, imagine your peace, your creativity, your light, your wealth, your health. Imagine what you would give and do for others.
- Trust – Your desires lead you directly to your purpose. Trust your heart. Trust that you are worthy. Trust that you are loved by so much more than you know or can see. Trust that well-being flows to everything. Trust that nature thrives and wants you to thrive. Trust that you are a powerful creator and your thoughts become your perceptions and beliefs and create your life. Trust in the power of your heart and what it truly loves - that spine-tingling, unity creating, present moment, deep breath flowing passion. Trust that when you feel it.
- Act – Sometimes you have to start in order to kick-start the flow of passion. Take baby-steps toward your dream or desire. If you don’t know what your dreams, passions or desires are, then act as if you do. Move toward clarity. Find a way to start acting as if the answers are there. Do what you need to in order to move one step closer to your visions, abundance and dreams, however humble or small the step is. Show up every day.
- Have fun – Most importantly, life is not a big serious thing. It is for loving and playing. Forget about the whole growing up thing. You are allowed to play. You are allowed to have fun. You are allowed to express love as loudly and as raucously as you want. Play, love, and have fun, even if for just one moment!
Love, love, love...
Matt Rivers
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Create February Fabulous!
is an idea or challenge to try and show up with your own creativity
every day for the month of February. It is a simple idea. The creativity
can take any form, and take any amount of time. Any media, any
discipline, the only condition is to have fun. No critics, no judgement,
just a celebration of our own unique human quality of creativity. You
are encouraged to share your projects anywhere you like (only if you
want) using the hashtag #createfebruary. Join the Facebook group,
share on Instagram, blog about it, invite friends to some daily
creativity. Let's see what we can create together.
Matt
is a singer/songwriter, musician, poet and writer of words. He is
exploring the forests of consciousness, time and space, and surfing the
waves of thought, love and being. Getting lost and wiping out are
adventures in themselves!
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