How to minimize resistance to maximize joy.
Do you believe you are worthy of all the beauty, joy and abundance in life, simply because you are here living out your most authentic and unique experience? Do you believe that you inspire others just by being yourself? Do you believe that everything happening in your life is in your best interest and higher purpose? Do you believe that you deserve good things to happen to you because you are a good person? Do you know at your core that you’re worthy and deserving of stability, freedom, success, wealth and all the pleasures life has to offer?
If you didn’t burst out in a confident and resounding “HELL YA,” then you might be resisting feeling worthy and deserving of abundance. Not to fear! Embracing gratitude, acceptance and unconditional love can joyfully jolt and align you with an abundant mindset.
What is an abundant mindset?
Your mindset is a structure of thoughts, beliefs and attitudes you hold about yourself and the world around you. Your mindset establishes how you speak to yourself, what you feel you deserve, how you interact with others, what you think you’re worthy of receiving and the value you believe you have.
An abundant mindset is when your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes are grounded in love, expansion and overflow instead of fear, lack and scarcity. You’ll feel aligned with an abundant mindset when you feel whole, complete and enough just as you are, and extend that unconditional love and acceptance to everything and everyone external to you.
Not only that, you understand on a fundamental level that all your dreams and desires have purpose and are available to you because your heart and mind are open to ALL the possibilities in life.
The key to embracing an abundant mindset is identifying what your limiting beliefs are and intentionally shifting your dialogue and emotions to love, acceptance and expansion.
Having an abundant mindset is knowing on a deep intuitive level that you are enough. What you do is enough. What you have is enough. Who you are is enough.
“What I do is enough.”
The shift from “I have to work hard to be successful, the more I do the more value I have, the more I do for others the more they will appreciate me” to “what I do is enough.”
Naturally, most of us have grown up to believe that our worth is determined by our output and what “we do.” What tends to block us from accepting an abundant mindset is the fear of not having control, when in reality the only things we can control are our thoughts, feelings and actions. What can’t we control? Other people’s thoughts, actions and feelings.
We try to gain this false sense of control by trying to fit in, searching externally for love and validation, people pleasing, doing what we think others will appreciate instead of doing what we feel is right for ourselves. We try to fit into all the expectations that society, our family, work environment and friends instill in us instead of trusting our heart and intuition in following what feels GOOD and in alignment with our own happiness and journey.
To align with an abundant mindset, It’s important to understand that your value is “being” not “doing.” You are worthy of joy, belonging and happiness regardless of your output, productivity and accomplishments. You deserve to be seen, heard, loved, celebrated and accepted for who you are, not what you do. You deserve to receive love and abundance just for being you.
When you believe “what I do is enough,” you are able to accept all outcomes and not place judgment on yourself and others. You’ll surrender to unconditional acceptance and receive all experiences with gratitude.
“What I have is enough.”
The shift from “I need more to be happy, I don’t have enough, I can’t get ahead, I’ll finally be happy when I get…” to “I am grateful for all I have.”
Often, when you feel this drive and desire to attain more, buy more, do more, work harder for happiness, you are coming from a mindset of lack and scarcity, placing more value on the things externally to you instead of feeling the power of your own value. Happiness and comfort become a concept of what you attain in the future instead of how you live and feel today.
When you are constantly looking forward or externally for happiness and fulfillment, you can become blinded to all the blessings, beauty and bounty you already have in your life.
Abundance, wealth and stability all start from within and are all happening in the present moment.
Money as an example is just coloured paper. But we place a certain value on it, that we can use to exchange for things that create an emotional response and experience. What we really want from receiving money is the excitement, freedom, stability, exploration and generosity that we feel when we use and share it.
Once you realize that you have ALL of those positive and expansive feelings and emotions already within yourself with what you already have, you will experience more happiness and joy because you are mindful of appreciating the present moment and allow yourself to be fully in that energy. Your innate value and wholeness will begin to energize and expand your physical reality because you will be acting from a space of gratitude. You will know you are aligned with an abundant mindset when you feel unconditional appreciation and acceptance for what you already have, right now, in this moment.
“Who I am is enough.”
The shift from “I need to be better, I can’t be a failure, what will they think” to “I love all of who I am.”
One of the most common and deadly blockages that keep us from embracing unconditional self-love is perfectionism.
Attempting to be someone we are not, trying to fit into the expectations others put on us instead of standing strong in who we are and what we believe and staying in non-reciprocal relationships out of fear of loneliness or not being accepted by your community. Trying to be perfect is completely unattainable and can put you in a disempowered headspace of constant self-doubt, guilt and shame.
If you’re hard on yourself, placing unrealistic expectations on yourself, or place judgment on your choices and actions if things don’t work out as you expected, you are acting from a space of fear and lack, signalling that you do not deserve love because you do not have compassion for yourself.
Your authenticity is your true currency in this world. You attract what you feel you deserve. Let me say that again. You will attract the people, opportunities, things, experiences into your life that you feel worthy and deserving of receiving.
The energetic value of unconditional love that comes with self-acceptance and self-awareness will naturally align you with your unique desires and human experience, and bring more love and abundance into your life. Like attracts like. It’s a universal law. Be it to receive it. To receive love and abundance you have to be abundant in unconditional self-love.
It’s time to simplify. It’s time to release all the beliefs, actions, people and circumstances that do not feel aligned with your growth, joy and happiness. It’s time to feel the ease, brilliance and beauty of just being YOU and loving ALL of who you are.
Empower Your Abundance with Affirmations and Gratitude
Consistent use of positive affirmations and gratitude journaling are a powerful practice that can take your energy of abundance from thoughts and words that can be articulated and transform those thoughts into emotions and feelings that can be physically and energetically felt.
Your thoughts and feelings are the energetic force that will transform your physical reality. The more positive, uplifting thoughts you think, the better you feel, the more emotionally balanced you become, the more you act and attract from that space of happiness and well-being.
If you’re interested in embracing affirmations and gratitude as a self-love practice to align with an abundant mindset, explore the Glow Your Worth affirmation and gratitude journal to ignite abundance.
Available on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.
