Hello,
My name is Kelly and today I'd like to take you through a meditation around releasing the scarcity mindset and I'd like to start with a reading from a book by Lynn Twist called The Soul of Money.
For me and for many of us,
Our first waking thought of the day is I didn't get enough sleep.
The next one is I don't have enough time.
Whether true or not,
That thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think,
Question or examine it.
We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing,
Explaining,
Complaining or worrying about what we don't have enough of.
We don't have enough exercise.
We don't have enough work.
We don't have enough profits.
We don't have enough power.
We don't have enough wilderness.
We don't have enough weekends.
Of course,
We don't have enough money ever.
We're not thin enough.
We're not smart enough.
We're not pretty enough or fit enough or educated or successful enough or rich enough ever.
Before we even sit up in bed,
Before our feet touch the floor,
We're already inadequate,
Already behind,
Already losing,
Already lacking something.
And by the time we go to bed at night,
Our minds are racing with a litany of what we didn't get or didn't get done that day.
We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to the reverie of lack.
What begins as a simple expression of the hurried life or even the challenged life grows into the great justification for an unfilled life.
We have the choice,
In any setting,
To step back and let go of the mindset of scarcity.
Once we let go of scarcity,
We discover the surprising truth of sufficiency.
By sufficiency,
I don't mean a quantity of anything.
Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance.
It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough.
Sufficiency isn't an amount at all.
It is an experience,
A context to generate,
A declaration,
A knowing that there is enough and that we are enough.
Sufficiency resides inside of each of us and we can call it forward.
It is a consciousness,
An attention,
An intentional choosing of the way we think about our circumstances.
Now let's take a moment,
Get comfortable,
Close your eyes,
Resting your hands gently in your lap,
An alert back,
A soft front.
Let's take some deep inhales together,
Breathing in through your nose and exhale.
Just releasing any tension you might be holding in your body right now and just come into presence in your body,
Leaving behind any worries,
Feelings of not enoughness.
Just be present,
Noticing your breath,
Rise and fall of your belly or your chest.
Just sit in that presence for a moment.
Now we're going to go through some mantras so feel free to repeat them with me in your mind.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
And every time you say it,
Just let the words sink in.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
Just continue to keep coming back to the mantra and to your breath.
If other thoughts find their way in,
Don't worry about it.
Just let them pass through without any judgment.
It's all a part of the practice.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
I am enough.
I do enough.
I have enough.
There is enough.
Just feel that enoughness in your presence.
You have always been enough.
You always will be,
Just as you are right now.
In all your pain,
In all your joy,
In every flaw you think you have,
You are still enough.
We are enough.
We do enough.
We have enough.
And there is enough to go around.
Keep coming back to those mantras until you feel it right in your core,
Right in your heart.
Start to come back to the room,
Feeling the seat beneath you,
Wiggling your fingers,
Your toes.
And when you are ready,
You can open your eyes.
