I love this topic, because shifting my mindset towards more abundance and satisfaction

has been a game changer for me.

Now, if you already think and feel through a prism of abundance, that's fantastic.

But I, like I think a lot of us, grew up with the idea that life was sort of a zero-sum game,

that things were limited, that I had to struggle for my piece of

the pie and then protect it, and maybe even feel guilty about it, that if I had a lot of something

that automatically meant that someone else didn't have enough. Now, this way of thinking causes

tension and a feeling of lack and sometimes guilt, which tends to make the squeezing and that sense of longing or self-pity or self-flagellation, even worse.

But in my 20s, I began to study a way of looking at food that taught me many,

many things about life. And one of the sayings that would get batted around in this philosophy was

one grain, 10,000 grains. Meaning, from one grain, nature produces thousands and thousands more.

Effortlessly. That nature's economy was not only more abundant than the one I had in my head,

but it was sort of magical and exponential.

Life itself in the natural world is abundant.

From the billions of bacteria in your gut to the hundred billion stars in the Milky Way alone.

The sun is the size of more than a million Earths.

But I don't even have to think in those extremes in order to perceive abundantly.

Even when I simply consider what I have enough of, ways in which I feel

satisfied, my brain switches to the abundance channel, and by thinking abundantly, I attract more good

things and thoughts.

Yes, we have issues. Yes, we need to continually learn and adapt, but the thing about switching my brain to one of satisfaction is that it helps me to feel engaged and creative and hopeful,

as opposed to afraid and tense and in lack.

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