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"There's enough for everybody"
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The world is a generous place if we choose to see it that way. It gives
us satisfying relationships, a home, and love. It provides work,
recreation, and time for reflection. It continually offers us new
learnings and opportunities for growth.
One of the best things about the world is that there's a vast reserve
of prosperity available for everyone. Prosperity won't just
run
out one day. There's no coveted reserve. As long as we're
open to
it and attracting it, there will always be favorable circumstances in
our lives.
When it comes to evaluating if there's enough prosperity to go around,
we might ask ourselves how we go about expressing the concept in our
own lives. How do we draw from it and make it our daily experience?
One excellent approach to holding the attitude of prosperity is very
effective and ultimately quite rewarding. But first a word of warning:
Initially we may fight this practice with everything in our power.
Because of prior conditioning, we may think it to have the complete
opposite effect. Nonetheless, the practice of "Giving it Up" works.
What is "Giving it Up"? Physically, the practice is giving something up
to another when our survival instincts initially ask us not to. For the
mind it's tough, but in the end it's a conscious exercise
that
proves to us there is enough to go around.
There are healthy opportunities for "Giving it Up" every day. It's a
smile and motioning someone into that parking space after both arriving
at the same time. It's eye contact, a friendly wave, and allowing
another to go first at a four-way intersection. It's not speeding up,
and giving space to the car ahead of us so that it can make the lane
change. It's giving $40 this month, that could be used for a nice
dinner,
to children suffering from starvation in Africa or in a city near us.
It's pleasantly allowing that person to get in front of us in the
grocery line. (Amazing reactions from this one.) It's not arguing over
the last remaining sweater at the department store. It's
opening
the door for someone behind us.
What happens after we give it up? We change for the better.
First of all, we find out that we're not really losing anything -
but gaining a great deal. With a little patience, we are making a
statement about sharing and supporting each other. We are acknowledging
a universe that is generous. We are saying that we're not just isolated
individuals, but a part of something much larger. Our model of how we
experience the world now says that we look out for one another.
"Giving it Up" also provides a personal cleansing of sorts. It
minimizes a lot of those unhealthy expressions in our lives. Lack,
selfishness, impatience, and anger are replaced with their opposites.
And in others, we can feel the change. The reaction is palpable. It's a
mini restoration of faith. It's contagious.
Best of all, it might not have been such a bad idea to give it up. A
better sweater could be waiting for us a few racks over. A slightly
longer walk from our parking space can burn some extra calories and
help us stay healthier.
The point of it all is that a higher good awaits us when we realize
that there's enough for everybody.
Another lesson learned...
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