Diane’s Blog

Q:  How am I not allowing myself to experience more abundance?

A:  “You are now ‘hatching’ your abundance through the opening of your heart, for that is the way always — through loving, expansive feelings for self and others.  You have held this state at arm’s length for most of your life only because it frightened the part of you who believed that to give was to experience lack and loss.  This is the poverty mentality applied to the heart. 

Only those who give freely know how false this state is — how it is an illusion.  When you give — of your time, your words, your belongings, your self — you actually expand your self and all that you touch.  You become a more expanded version of your self – one who knows that there is never lack as a result of giving, and that you must always come back to giving to self.

That is where it begins and ends.  Without love of self, all other giving is shallow and ultimately dries up, having no firm base upon which to rest.  You need only look to your own emotional needs for now, for that is where your abundance begins.  How do you still deny yourself emotionally of all you have to give in terms of support, love, forgiveness, and acceptance just for being?  Not doing.  Being. 

You still have a daily agenda that often requires certain specific goals or actions of yourself.  Failing to execute these more than adequately sets you up for inner punishment by the self who criticizes and judges. 

That part of you has relaxed her grip to a great extent, it is true, but she still dominates, and must be coaxed and supported in her neediness so that she will no longer need to withhold love — the love that you need in order to experience your abundance. 

You can discover how she still operates by simply bringing a bit more awareness to your everyday interactions with yourself and note the voice being used.  How do you speak to yourself?  Would you speak to a close friend in the same way?  That is how to recognize and step aside from the need to contract rather than expand.”              

Hi, everybody; meant to get this out there last week, but hey!  ‘Tis the season, and all.  Until  the new year I will be blogging as time allows; after that I will most likely go to a bi-weekly schedule. 

Here’s to a wonderful, warm holiday season to you and yours.  May we all live to see peace become as infectious as war has always been.  I know we can do this, because it only requires that each of us look within and choose peace for ourselves in every situation.  Pretty simple, no?