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Author Insight
Ditch the Distractions: Embrace
Have you ever bought anything from a print catalog, especially one with beautiful pictures and inviting descriptions? Are you as inundated by follow up mailings as I am? And are you, like me, tempted to order things you don’t need when you are offered one incredible bargain after another? One of my limiting beliefs is that more stuff is good. It’s a leftover from childhood. I grew up eagerly anticipating the arrival of each Sears Catalog, so I think I am especially susceptible to the promises of what we used to call the “wish book.” Then, I only had a few things and needed new school clothes each year. Now, my closets and shelves are bursting. Then my budget was limited by my mom. Now, I can easily afford anything I want. Then abundance was having enough and perhaps a little extra. Now abundance is measured differently, because my challenge is having enough space, not enough stuff. Do you share my all-too-common limiting belief? Would your life be enhanced by more stuff or more space? Enjoying abundance and prosperity means different things to each one of us. In “Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance” we have lots of activities to help you figure out just what abundance means to you. When you take your energy back from all those temptations you are free to focus it where it will create the most joy and satisfaction for you now, wherever you are in your life’s journey.
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
Too Much Isn’t Abundance Either
In order to experience abundance, you need to be able to experience enough.
When a group of workshop participants were asked what they experienced as scarce in their lives, answers included money, savings for retirement, time, space, help, education, appreciation, etc. In trying to define what enough would be, a new question arose—enough for what?
In the same workshop, answers to the question “What do you have too much of in your life?” focused on stuff. Paper, email, clutter, and collections of all kinds of things, were reported as detracting, not adding to anyone’s experience of joy and satisfaction.
Accumulating too much is one way of trying to compensate for an experience of or a belief in scarcity.
I am realizing more & more that my happiness is tied to my money, so I try to soothe unhappiness with things. I am realizing that spending is bringing me no joy, in fact it's making me more aware of unhappiness in my life. I don't feel like I have enough even though I make a solid mid-range salary. I just feel really disconnected. And that can lead to further destruction. I am hoping this search will lead me to abundance. PL
Accumulating too much may also be something you learn from someone else who experienced scarcity. You save things just in case you might need them some day.
Michel had trouble throwing things away. Magazines and reports were stacked in piles waiting to be read—when he had time. He realized how he had learned to save things when he helped his parents, who had lived through the great depression, when they moved to a smaller home.
He discovered that they had carefully saved every rubber band and paper clip. They had accumulated enough to last a small office for many years and enough band aids to stock a clinic. Bed linens and towels they didn’t ever use were stuffed into the linen closet.
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