so abundance and money are triggery things for me...
i have so much compared with the many who have so little... a roof over my head, a full cupboard
and yet in my heart i still long for the freedom that rests in true abundance, being able to do what i want, when i want knowing that i will be safe to do so...
being the one who doesn't earn in the household and living in a society that cannot place value on someone who doesn't earn is a tricky thing...
just this week i was reading an article in an influencial New Zealand magazine that inferred women who didn't work and had qualifications were just sitting on their bums....
this burned me... made me think about how women (it was a woman who was quoted about the bum thing) turn on each other when success is mentioned....
i asked in my facebook thread about what success meant and overwhelmingly the women who answered said success was measured in intangible things like happiness and connection and fulfillment... not things that could be measured by the taxman or the accountant but things that could be measured by the heart
and that is where my picture of abundance was getting stuck...
the discordance between what my heart knows to be true (ie that true value is only fractionally measured in monetary terms) and what society measures(ie: any valuable work is measurable by money transacted)
this was all going on alongside a SouLodge discussion about money and women
and so i listened here to Maggie Hollenbeck's fantastic recording about abundance and the way that the feminine archetypes play a role in the abundance mentality, the way money shows up in our lives and i had a revelation- please take an hour to listen to the recording it is really worth it!( hee hee spend an hour your time and you will be richly rewarded i see the abundance talk there!)
my revelation was the smaller i live my life (the more i play down my gifts, my bigness,my purpose, the more i live my live staying open to people who would have me shrink down in order to keep the stasis in their lives going...) then the less space i make for abundance... money can't fit in the small spaces
abundance is about limitlessness and flow
and if i squash down i close out....
Maggie also addressed our willingness to receive - we have to be willing to receive... to turn away from the archetype of martyr the "oh-no-i-couldn't-possibly-be-so-selfish-as-to-get-something-for-myself" tyrant that bosses me (and many other women) around- and open our hands and our hearts to what is wanting to come in to us
so my questions are... what are you willing to open yourself to today?
what would you like to grow today... what can you see yourself growing into to allow more in...
for me ...i am allowing in rest today i have the flu (recovering now) and i am allowing replenishing rest,tenderness (getting some major poodle love) and luxuriating in the softness of my bed and my tissues.... please tell me what you are receiving and what you are opening yourself up to <3 lets get some good abundance energy going together <3 lets get that rainbow's pot of gold opening right in our own hearts!
i have so much compared with the many who have so little... a roof over my head, a full cupboard
and yet in my heart i still long for the freedom that rests in true abundance, being able to do what i want, when i want knowing that i will be safe to do so...
being the one who doesn't earn in the household and living in a society that cannot place value on someone who doesn't earn is a tricky thing...
just this week i was reading an article in an influencial New Zealand magazine that inferred women who didn't work and had qualifications were just sitting on their bums....
this burned me... made me think about how women (it was a woman who was quoted about the bum thing) turn on each other when success is mentioned....
i asked in my facebook thread about what success meant and overwhelmingly the women who answered said success was measured in intangible things like happiness and connection and fulfillment... not things that could be measured by the taxman or the accountant but things that could be measured by the heart
and that is where my picture of abundance was getting stuck...
the discordance between what my heart knows to be true (ie that true value is only fractionally measured in monetary terms) and what society measures(ie: any valuable work is measurable by money transacted)
this was all going on alongside a SouLodge discussion about money and women
and so i listened here to Maggie Hollenbeck's fantastic recording about abundance and the way that the feminine archetypes play a role in the abundance mentality, the way money shows up in our lives and i had a revelation- please take an hour to listen to the recording it is really worth it!( hee hee spend an hour your time and you will be richly rewarded i see the abundance talk there!)
my revelation was the smaller i live my life (the more i play down my gifts, my bigness,my purpose, the more i live my live staying open to people who would have me shrink down in order to keep the stasis in their lives going...) then the less space i make for abundance... money can't fit in the small spaces
abundance is about limitlessness and flow
and if i squash down i close out....
Maggie also addressed our willingness to receive - we have to be willing to receive... to turn away from the archetype of martyr the "oh-no-i-couldn't-possibly-be-so-selfish-as-to-get-something-for-myself" tyrant that bosses me (and many other women) around- and open our hands and our hearts to what is wanting to come in to us
so my questions are... what are you willing to open yourself to today?
what would you like to grow today... what can you see yourself growing into to allow more in...
for me ...i am allowing in rest today i have the flu (recovering now) and i am allowing replenishing rest,tenderness (getting some major poodle love) and luxuriating in the softness of my bed and my tissues.... please tell me what you are receiving and what you are opening yourself up to <3 lets get some good abundance energy going together <3 lets get that rainbow's pot of gold opening right in our own hearts!
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