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This is the sixth in a series of posts on Creativity, Kindness, Love, Beauty, Expansiveness, Abundance, and Receptivity, which self-help author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the Seven Faces of Intention.

Abundance

The word “abundance” is tied to my memories of that one grade school Thanksgiving graphic with the cornucopia — the horn-shaped wicker basket — overflowing with food. At my grandparent’s farm house, food overflowed the whole Thanksgiving weekend with farm fresh vegetables, homemade pies, breads, and cinnamon rolls, and of course turkey with all the fixings.

But that is not the abundance Dr. Wayne Dyer talks about as being one of the Seven Faces of Intention. His explanation of this aspect of God or Intention goes beyond a bountiful table. For him abundance is a force more powerful than gravity that exists through all time and space that:

• Applies to money, skill, love, fulfillment, dreams, health, inner peace, etc.
• Is endless, unlimited and inexhaustible
• Is something we are created from and to which we are still wired

The picture Dyer paints is an unending, intentional reception of good and fortunate happenings, but he makes it clear it is not as if serendipity is now an Easy Button, or that screwing up your face in concentration and repeating your wish over and over again is the answer, or that clicking your heels together three times will help.

The key is mindset, worldview, perspective, and the actions to match. It can start with the “glass half full” way of thinking. But tuning into the power of abundance, like attempting to flow with the Chinese concept called the Tao, requires a letting go, a releasing, and a freeing of oneself from what I call the “neediness of wanting.” It means embracing the idea that “all my needs and desires are being fulfilled” on a level that is both cellular and cosmic.

How?

Assess your patterns of negative thinking, but only with the intention of releasing them

• Where does negative thinking crop up in your life?
• Does it apply to specific areas, like money, but not health?
• Can you trace them to your own baggage, issues, and preconceived ideas?
• Did you pick them up from your family’s way of thinking?
• What excuses (“I can’t because…”) do you use to keep yourself where you are?
• Honestly ask yourself if you are ready to let them go or if they serve a purpose for you.

Explore the “glass half empty” side of you with any books, tools, classes, personality tests, or counselors until you can see them for the limiting thoughts they are and you can motivate yourself to let them go – without guilt, self-recriminations, or regrets.

Embrace a more abundant way of thinking

Seeking abundance for our own ego gratification, to show off, or to feed some level of neediness and self worth will not plug us into abundance or help our lives resonate with abundance. Aligning with abundance and allowing it to come into our lives requires doing so with the intention of being able to give it away. The “way of get,” which uses pushing, scraping, and forcing, only works in the short term, whereas the “way of give,” which is also the way of abundance, works by embracing and allowing the natural flowing action of abundance to come in and then flow out of our lives.

With all that in mind, here are 14 ways to bring more abundance into your life:

1. Today, decide to feed your dreams, goals, and vision with forward-propelling thoughts and action.
2. Realize that you reap what you sow, so choose to sow abundance. Make giving a way of life.
3. See abundance as a powerful energy you plug yourself into, as something you dive into, and allow it to work.
4. Say goodbye to any neediness to have, neediness to want, or neediness to control.
5. Be a blessing to others — without expecting pay back or some pay off.
6. See setbacks as nothing more than life’s way of getting you to rethink things.
7. See people as better than they are, and they will see you in a more positive light as well.
8. Accept life as a gift.
9. Let go of taking things personally.
10. If doubts pop up, find a healthy default setting that rids you of them: prayer, music, exercise, talking to a friend.
11. Understand that what seems like adversity builds character, resilience, and compassion, because these have no shortcuts.
12. Understand you are worthy, even if part of you disagrees. Nourish the part that does agree and starve the other part.
13. Know that failure does not exist – it is a point on your learning curve toward success.
14. Understand that people are there to help, and look for ways to allow them to do so.

Many unwanted aspects of life will gain power as you resist them, such as in a war or an argument. In a shoving match, if you aren’t there to be shoved, the shove goes no where. If you “resist” poverty, negativity, people who seem against you, and your own inner faults; you sometimes give the negative energy of resistance a power and force to keep the conflict alive. That’s why releasing is better than resistance, embracing is better than grasping, and allowing is better than forcing. Instead of saying “I need,” or “I want,” or “My life won’t be complete until;” envision the goal you want for yourself firmly — as if it is a sure outcome. Focus on that thought. Add every affirming thought and action to move toward it.

Whether you believe Dyer’s view of abundance or not, envisioning a dream with unbending will and believing the world can align people and situations to make it happen is powerful stuff.

How about you? Do you think seeing the glass half empty or half full really matters to your successes in life?

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