True Abundance is Sufficiency.

Not so long ago, while I was in India trying so hard to make things work financially (before giving up on my app because it didn´t pay off well), I came across an old post of mine from several years ago.

It said "real abundance is sufficiency".
It’s about not having too much and not having too little.

It’s about knowing and trusting that you always have enough. Having sufficiently.

Wow. What a reminder that was. And so needed at this time in my life.

The false matrix (including blurred spirituality) wants to make us believe that we must have thousands of unneeded dollars flowing into our bank account for abundance, that we must have big houses with fancy pools and tons of luxurious stuff we don’t really need or use.

Is that abundance?

Or is it disguised internal suffering made visible?

Being back here in the Westernised European world, after my 80 days in India, made me realise again how much material comfort we have here in Europe (most people at least).

Although I enjoyed that comfort at first and although I felt a relief from that “saving-mode and financial tightness feeling” that I experienced in India, 

I soon came to realise how much burden that material comfort brings as well.

Big houses, cars, things and stuff need constant maintenance, investment, physical work, money and time.

Yes we have a lot here in Europe - but it’s a trade with time and constant work, constant doing, constant stressing.

Everything comes at a price.

Same with spirituality and religion.

Too much spirituality and forgetting about material needs (like in some parts in the East) also comes at a price.

While some people in the East don’t have enough material comfort, nutrition and security - people swim in it here.

What more to buy, what more little material fun things we can invent and produce, what more fancy luxury food creation can we sell…

But what are the consequences?

Apart from the environmental and health damages - now we need to get rid of that over-abundance.

Finding ways to loose our internal and external weight, to recycle, to donate, to organise flee markets and trading groups to get rid of all that stuff…

That’s why - for thousands of years - Yoga teaches us NON-ATTACHMENT. APARIGRAHA, as part of our ethical considerations for a life with less suffering.

Non-hoarding - not holding on to things, to stuff, to thoughts, emotions, past experiences…

It’s a lot about letting it flow and not blocking the flow for others or for the new to come.

Having 50 pairs of unused shoes, 5 unused rooms in a house or 5 million unused euros on your account - will block the flow for someone who might need it.

Whatever extreme you create - there is a polarity on the other side. Law of polarity…

Someone already thought it all through back then (Patanjali) - but apparently we needed to experience it for ourselves. That is the game.

But now we have grown.

So Abundance is not about hoarding and having in overflow. Nothing in nature is too much - nature always finds a way to balance.

Having enough is Abundance.

Trusting that you always have enough is abundance.

Abundance in trust. Not in money or things.

Having little - having just enough- liberates you. Frees you.

Observe. Where do you have too much so that it makes you suffer or have an unwanted influence in your life?

• Where do you have not enough?
  
  
• Where do you create imbalance for the collective energy?
  
  
• What do you possess that you can let go off or share with others, with a community?

Find a balance with all in life.

Balance between Materialism and Spirituality. Health and work.

Don’t trade material possessions for health and mental wellbeing.

In the last months, I have been struggling with not having enough money with my job as a self-employed professional.

It’s rough to see people choosing to buy another thing, another tool, another restaurant meal, another piece of clothing or furniture - but not wanting to invest 10€ for a yoga class to give themselves some goodness and some time for health and balance, for taking care of themselves, for investing in a business that brings them more wellbeing and evolution...

People rather trading their money and time for short term pleasures - instead of investing in their long-term health and personal development? Isn´t that quite sad?

It’s a question of choice.

Let’s choose with maturity and wisdom.

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