A Year to clear what is holding you back by Stephanie Bennett Vogt
It is all about slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Theme – Being Enough
An opportunity to rewire the part of the brain that is still attached to scarcity and the concept of being and having enough.
What helps you feel more abundant?
This has been an interesting week. I have been extremely busy proof-editing my new book, but I made a conscious effort to still do these daily tasks even though I have set myself a publishing deadline. Repeating the phrases - "I am enough, I have enough. There is enough" did somehow help when I got myself all worked-up about not being able to get the edit bit done, when I got myself all caught up in the notion that I just couldn’t do it. I would make a coffee, take a deep breath, repeat the phrase and crack-on. It worked for me, but then deep down I knew that I could do it and more importantly I really wanted to do it.
I really like the audio meditation repeating - I am enough, I have enough and there is enough. On a very personal level this works for me and I find it a great way to boost my energies, especially when facing a formidable task (like proof-editing) and can see me doing it often in the future.
What did it feel like to complete yesterday's statements out loud?
- I am enough because______ I am all I need to be right at this moment
- Why I know that I am enough is______ because I am happy
- How I know that I have enough is______ because I am where I want to be in life
- Why I know there is always enough to go around is______ open for discussion as yet
I was fine with the first three statements and could easily shout them from the rafters if I felt like it but the forth got me. How can any of us ever know that anything is for always. Life is predictable in that is that nothing ever stays the same and we simply do not know if what we have right now will last, or that whatever comes along will be better or worse than we have right now. I am content with where I am but would be naive to even contemplate that is was what my life would always be like from now on. Also, I don’t think there is always enough to go around. If there were then there would be no suffering, on a private level or globally.
I can see the value in the concept that we are enough, especially enough for where we are and what we are doing right now but cannot truly buy-into-it as if that were the whole premise for the rest of life then we would maybe never do anything that took us further and so never achieve anything.