Abundance is everywhere but often doesn’t seem to inhabit our minds. If you’re focusing on lack rather than abundance, there’s an excellent chance that you’ll attract more lack into your life. That’s how the law of attraction works. But the good news is that providing you can switch that round and start focusing on abundance you’ll get more abundance.
Which might sound like a pipe dream but you really can start getting an abundance mindset if you start changing how your mind thinks about things.
Think big!
The universe is incomprehensibly big. Our planet isn’t exactly small – one trip round the world would be nearly 25,000 miles.
Which means there’s plenty of room for you to think and act big.
The good news is that thinking big automatically forces your mind to worry less about scarcity. And that’s good news.
Big obviously varies according to the project you’re thinking about but if you aim to be amongst the top people in the country or the world for whatever it is you’re wanting to do, that should do the trick nicely.
Smile, laugh and be grateful a lot
Smiling is infectious – it’s hard not to smile back at people who are radiating happiness by smiling. That lifts moods – the mood of the person smiling and the mood of the people being smiled at.
So do yourself to be more cheerful more often – that will lift your mood.
Laughter is an even better medicine. Find some video clips that you laugh along with – things that are deliberately being funny rather than laughing at someone else’s misfortune are good and there are plenty of them on sites like YouTube to keep you occupied and lift your spirits.
Being grateful is also well worth doing. If you’re organised, keep a gratitude journal and write down at least three things you’ve been grateful each day. It doesn’t matter if they’re big or small things, just the fact that you’re grateful they happened is fine.
If you’re less organised, it’s still worth running through a mental checklist of things you’re grateful for each night before you go to sleep. The negative side of just thinking rather than writing the things you’re grateful for is that it’s less tangible – there’s only your thoughts drifting out to the universe rather than an ever-growing diary of them. But it still means you’re expressing gratitude.
Get back in the habit of saying “thank you” to people when it’s appropriate in conversations, emails, even texts.
And when good things happen during the day, thank them for it. Out loud if it’s appropriate, in your head if it would be awkward to say thank you out loud. The things could be small – the online checkout went smoothly or a traffic light stayed green – or they could be bigger. But the more you express your gratitude, the more you’ll be training your mind to be grateful and that will indirectly help your abundance mentality (especially when you remember to be grateful for the things that are abundant in your life).
Embrace change
Change happens whether we like it or not.
Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s less good, sometimes changes are so small we barely notice them, sometimes we’re left scratching our heads wondering who thought a particular change was a good idea.
The trick is to be grateful for change regardless of whether it seems to be a good idea or not.
Change happens for a reason – even if just seems as though the website programmer was bored and wanted to bug you.
If you can work out a way to ride on the back of a change you’ve spotted, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to grow with the change. Because changes often shift the status quo. So if you catch a change that’s rising, you’ll rise along with it.
Sure, sometimes changes can be challenging but if you turn that challenge into a fun activity (knights used to go on quests which are challenges with a different name) then you can make it more of a game and bring out that side of your mind.
The thing is, change often opens up new opportunities and you can grow at an extraordinary rate just by being part of that change.
Look for the upside
Apart from a shadow, nothing is two dimensional. Which means it must have at least two sides and, almost by definition, one of those must be an upside.
The upside might be staring you in the face, waving its arms at you. Or it might be hiding in the shadows. But it’s there if you look for it.
Looking for the upside will help train your mind that things are abundant.
Look for abundance
This is a double edged sword.
The mere fact that you’re looking for – and focusing on – abundance will help attract more abundance because we get more of what we focus on.
And the more you look for abundance, the more you’ll find.
Whether its things growing in a garden – grass keeps growing all season, it’s only because humans cut it and animals chew it that it doesn’t grow too tall. The same happens with everything else. Seeds are incredibly abundant to take account of the fact that (fortunately) not all of them will grow into new plants.
Elsewhere things are equally abundant. You’ve only got to do a quick search on Google to be told how many thousands or millions of pieces of information there are related to your search. I can’t remember the time I last got a “no results found” message, even for the most obscure topics.
Keep focusing on abundance as much as you can. And thank the universe every time you find it so you’re notching up your gratitude quota for the day as well.
Be careful how you word things
This is trickier but well worth doing.
If you’re always saying things in the negative – “I can’t”, that kind of thing – consciously turn your words around. Even just saying “I don’t find that easy” can help because the message that will get through to your subconscious mind is “I find that easy” – your subconscious struggles to process negatives which means it usually ignores them as though they’d never been there in the first place.
Work on this and catch yourself whenever possible.
Chances are you won’t catch yourself all the time – that’s normal and you’d be superhuman if you did otherwise. But the more you focus on saying things positively, the more you’ll do it. And so on – like most of the things I’m suggesting, this has a cumulative effect.
Go back to first principles
When you were a toddler, everything was massive and abundant.
If you’re able to go back to that discovery mindset, you’ll automatically open up all sorts of new things.
Be open to the idea of being a newbie again and having to learn new things. Take yourself by the hand and start a new hobby or go to the next level on a puzzle site. FreeRice does that automatically for your vocabulary as well as helping other people so it’s win-win.
Develop your win-win mind
There’s no universal rule that says there have to be winners and losers.
Lots of things (with the possible exception of competitive sport and even that can develop team spirit and personal bests amongst the competitors who don’t come out on top) can be win-win.
Look for the upside for everyone involved and do your best to ensure that everyone experiences at least some kind of gain.
This will help train your mind in abundance because it will start to notice an abundance of winners.
Say abundance affirmations
There are lots of these around the web – pick ones that resonate with you and refer to them and repeat them to yourself on a regular basis.
Here are a few to start you off (quite a few of them mention money as that’s what a lot of people associate with abundance):
I am a money magnet
My life is overflowing with abundance
I attract the very best of everything
Money comes to me easily and effortlessly
I say yes to financial freedom
Put them somewhere you’ll see regularly – I use a file on my computer desktop, others use a screensaver or wallpaper – and repeat them regularly. Out loud or in your head as appropriate.
They all work in slightly different ways to train your mind to be more abundant.
I like all the methods and mix and match between them depending on my mood on any particular day – subliminals are the laziest option, hypnosis next and the online programs tend to involve more work so it feels like I’m really doing something if that makes sense.
Choose which you get on with best and – most importantly – do them on a reasonably regular basis to give your abundance mindset chance to grow.
The universe is incomprehensibly big. Our planet isn’t exactly small – one trip round the world would be nearly 25,000 miles.
