Let’s take a moment to set a mindful intention for the holiday season whether you intend to shop, decorate or ignore the holiday completely! Let’s choose chill. Join me for today’s mini meditation and don’t hesitate to revisit frequently in this often overly-busy time of year!

Synchronistically, as we explore abundance this month as our community intention, within our Yoga + Meditation Teacher Training here at Sacred Chill {West}, we are also discussing non-stealing. Non-stealing is one of the Yamas & Niyamas, which are essentially tenets of living a mindful life.

This week for our mini practice, rather than thinking of abundance as a list of “wants” for our lives, let’s explore abundance as a feeling in our everyday, day-to-day moments. Shifting from a reverie of lack to an expression of the abundant life.

“For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is “I didn’t get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” … We don’t have enough exercise. We don’t have enough work. We don’t have enough profits. We don’t have enough power. We don’t have enough wilderness. We don’t have enough weekends. Of course, we don’t have enough money – ever.⁠

“To learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we’re given. This is our journey on earth.” ~Mark Nepo

Join me for this mini meditation designed to help us attune to the feeling behind our desires.

We kicked off this series with acknowledging the importance of slowing down and seeing what’s here rather than rush to respond to wants with busyness. Now, we are going to pay attention to what we really want… We are paying attention to desire.

This week, let’s use Mark Nepo’s wise words as our guidepost: “If you can’t see what you are looking for, see what’s there.”

Join me today for a 15-minute mindfulness-based meditation.

Oh, this is destined to be a good one… Working with abundance is THE WORK, isn’t?? Either we are following our passion and don’t want to cloud things with “money” or we are desperate for things to turn around and all we can see is the lack surrounding us. Either way, quite often, it shows up in our life as an ignoring (intentionally or not) of what is already there. It shows up as a lack of appreciation for what is already there, and a lack of intentionally stating what we want to grow.