ABUNDANCE
Part I: Visualization
Find a comfortable seated position and gently begin to close your eyes. Begin to bring your awareness into your body, feeling your body grounded, supported and relaxed. Then shift your awareness into deepening your breath, which will anchor you throughout this visualization.
This visualization will be focused on visualizing living a life of abundance, one that is meaningful, whole, and plentiful.
Slowly begin to visualize the answers to the following questions about your abundant life, without letting any limiting ideas of a lack of money, time or other resources enter your mind.
What does your home look like in an abundant life? Describe the various rooms such as your bedroom or living room? Any special spaces or rooms that come to your mind such as a reading corner or another sacred space? What does the environment look like outside your home? Do you have a view of the mountains, a river, or a beautiful garden?
What do your relationships look like in your abundant life? Do you have an ideal partner? What about your friends? Your family? Are there ideal qualities or characteristics of your relationships?
What does your day-to-day abundant life look like? What does your daily work look like? Do you have an ideal job, or do you spend time being creative or volunteering? How do you spend your leisure time? Do you take time to exercise, to take a painting class, to cook, to meditate, or to spend time with loved ones?
Once you have a good visual of all the different pieces of your abundant life, then take a few more minutes to visualize yourself living this abundant life. Specifically imagine yourself in specific time and place in this abundant life, whether that is sitting amongst good family or friends, or reaching a goal you have always wanted to reach? Imagine yourself there as if it is really happening in the present.
Stay here for as long as you need to experience your abundant life, and when you are ready bring your awareness back into the body, tuning into your breath again, and begin to open your eyes.
Part II:Expressive Arts Activity
Supplies: You will need a pen, notebook, a sketchpad, and some drawing materials of your choosing such as markers, colored pencils, etc.
Directions: Begin by drawing out a scene or a few scenes from your abundant life. Don’t overthink this process, just allow your body to guide you to the drawing materials and form of expression best to illustrate your abundant life.
After completing your drawing, then reflect upon your abundant life visualization and the drawing in your notebook. What three things seemed to be of most importance in your abundant life? Where there things that are already present in your life? If so, can you expand upon those in your current life?
Part III: Meditation
You will need 15 to 30 minutes for this meditation
Find a comfortable seated position and gentle begin to close your eyes. Begin to bring your awareness into your body, feeling your body grounded, supported and relaxed. Then shift your awareness into deepening your breath, which will anchor you throughout this meditation.
Once you are centered in your breath and body begin to slowly go through a list of things you are grateful for in your mind. As your go through your list pick one that jumps out at you. Imagine that feeling of gratitude you have towards that particular thing and begin to tune into the felt sense of your gratitude. Find where that felt sense of gratitude resonates in your body?
Once you have that felt sense, bring your awareness and your breath to that place in your body, and for the remainder of the meditation breath in and out from that space. Try to maintain that felt sense of gratitude, while using the breath as a tool to anchor you in the here and now. If you mind starts to wander, first return to the felt sense of gratitude in your body, and then resume the focus on the breath from that space.
Namaste