Maybe 10 hours into a 30-hour medicine ceremony, and my mind is doing what minds often do in a context like this: It is creating problems.
Specifically, it is trying to tell me that I don’t have enough.
It’s whispering that I haven’t had enough medicine. That I don’t have enough insight coming. That my pillow isn’t big enough and my blanket isn’t soft enough and…
ENOUGH!
From somewhere deep inside me, a new voice takes over. A wiser voice. One full of will and clarity.
“Stop focusing on what you think you don’t have. Try something else. What IS there enough of right now?”
And in a moment, the Enough-storm is born.
I begin brainstorming every single thing I can think of in that exact moment that I have enough of.
I have enough light. (The flickering candles are magical)
I have enough air.
I have enough space.
I have enough strength.
I have enough water.
I have enough medicine.
I have enough love.
I have enough time.
I have enough trust.
I have enough warmth.
And the kicker, the one that nearly takes my breath away as it comes to me: I have enough peace.
I have enough peace.
Seriously, let that sink in.
You. Have. Enough. Peace.
Have you ever let yourself believe that before?
Scarcity is the default state of the survival brain.
Without redirection, our minds will constantly be looking for what isn’t here, scaring us with thoughts of the future.
Joy and fulfillment and wisdom and peace start with deliberately practicing the opposite.
Here’s how my mentors at The Conscious Leadership Group frame it, as Commitment 12 of their 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership:
From a state of fear, feeling like the world is happening to me, I will see it one way: I commit to a scarcity mentality choosing to see that there is “not enough” for me and others in the world and therefore I have to be conscious of making sure I get and preserve what is “mine.”
From a state of trust, knowing that the world is happening by me, I will see it another way: I commit to experiencing that I have enough of everything… including time, money, love, energy, space, resources, etc.
I’d been studying these commitments for almost a decade when the Enough-storm idea came to me.
Yet suddenly it landed in a new way. The enoughness was there. I just had to go looking for it.
This tool is available literally anywhere, any time, in any circumstance. Think your circumstance is too extreme? That’s just a story. As Victor Frankl wrote after four years in Nazi concentration camps, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Here’s your challenge: Try this RIGHT NOW. Start listing things you have enough of. See what happens to your body, mind, spirit, and state.
Let me know how it goes.
Sufficiently yours,
Rachel
PS – Once you trust you have enough, your whispered longings for more become even more clear as guidance from your deeper self. If you know there’s a bigger version of you waiting to emerge from the cocoon, can you trust there’s enough time, enough money, enough approval to get support with it? Not from scarcity. From joy and abundance. Let’s discuss—hit reply and we’ll set up a time.
