The Ying and Yang of Indulgance

How much is enough? This thought came to mind when I was working with a client today. There is most definitely a scarcity mentality in the air right now. The most common scarcity being a feeling of not enough money but once you begin to dust off the surface and dig down a whole bunch of them pop up like worms in a flower bed. Not enough vacation time, not enough time to do my job, not enough clients, not enough time to meditate, not enough fulfilment, not enough love... Before you know you are swimming in a sea of negativity and scarcity in the midst of a hurricane. Have I mentioned, what you focus on expands. I know, I know you've heard me say it before but it so relevant. Focus on scarcity will bring you an abundance of...awareness, action, speech, and thoughts of scarcity. So if you want more scarcity go right ahead.

If however you are looking for abundance then the path to abundance is built on reserves. Focus on the reserves in your life. Reserves of tomato soup, toilet paper, ball-point pens. It doesn't matter.

Tips to Focus on Reserves:

• Look around your house and find the reserves that you already have
• Stack the 10 extra rolls of toilet paper in a pretty basket by the toilet and take a moment to enjoy how great that feels
• Empty the junk drawer and put all the take-out menu's in a file folder or binder and take a moment to flip through them and enjoy the order and abundance of resources for dining
• Clear off your desk and the areas around it and put all the pens in a pretty box or a pen holder on your desk so you can reflect on the abundance of them as you work
• Open up your pantry. Line up the cans of kidney beans you bought at Costco and take in the abundance of substance and possibility of all the dishes you could create or discover that will make your palate sing.
• Find an abundance of something you will never use? Enjoy the act of giving and find someone who loves or needs exactly what you don't and give it way. Then enjoy the abundance of space that creates
• Stroke your cat or dog and feel the abundance of love
• Each day acknowledge one area of abundance in your life

What you focus on will expand. The kidney beans will sprout like the beanstalk in "Jack and the Beanstalk" bringing you your golden goose. But only if you water and tend to them; only if you make room for them to grow.

Once you begin to shift your thinking to abundance the next idea to introduce is

How much is enough?

Seriously how much is enough. Take some time to put boundaries so that you can measure your success and feel complete. Only you know when you are full and how to measure that so create your own boundaries and put them around the things you crave, desire, love and value in your life. Instead of just ravishing after scarcity like a hungry bear destroying everything in your path with blinders on put things into perspective and be mindful as you prepare and portion out your meal and eat.

To bring this back to my challenge, indulgence, I am now chewing on the idea of how much is enough. This was prompted last night as I sat with my vibrating foot massage, transfixed in an episode of Lost, sipping on a glass of red wine. I feel my 100 day journey will also be an exploration and digestion of this question and I am excited to see how it unfolds.