Deepak Chopra
Archive for May, 2010
Rhonda Byrne
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.”
“Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.”
“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.”
On May 1st a dear friend of mine was visiting with us and our newborn twin sons after taking Sagey (age 6) and Phoenix (age 3) to a fair at her daughter’s school.
She is a total “baby person,” and was eating up every moment of the time she spent holding Dakota, as I held Montana.
While we were talking, Montana spit up a lot of breast milk—the very first time he’d ever done so.
He and Dakota were also super gassy.
Hmmmmm.
I wondered what was up as my intuition said something was indeed off.
I waited for the answer to appear.
A few moments later my friend’s husband called and said that the water in our town and many surrounding towns was “undrinkable,” because of a pipe bursting.
All water had to be boiled before it was consumed.
“Ohhhhhh,” I said, “That’s why my babies are gassy and Montana spit up. Makes total sense.”
Just then our twelve year old blasted into our bedroom in a panic—“I’m soooo thirsty! I need water!”
Now when I tell you that this kid rarely drinks (unlike her Mom, who’s thirsty all the time), it’s an understatement.
So I watched with curiosity as she and her 6-year-old sister and 3-year-old brother all became “dehydrated” immediately upon hearing about Newton’s “undrinkable water.”
Talk about a perfect example of what a scarcity mentality does.
All of a sudden, everyone was soooo thirsty!
And panicked!
About an hour later when seven of our 12 year old’s BFF’s arrived for a sleepover (yes, I have 3 week old newborns—yes, my friends think I’m certifiably insane—LOL), they all declared how THIRSTY they were and giggled with delight at the “drama” of it all.
Later when we scooted to the market to get a “Red box” movie rental, the girls ran to the water aisle…sold out!
“Wow,” I thought, “if people rushed to their yoga mats with such immediacy, the world would be a different place.”
So this is what scarcity creates.
Panic.
Where there need not be any.
All you have to do, people, is boil the water for a few minutes before you drink it.
You don’t have to clear out the market and the drug store and Target of their water supply.
And what you need—water, money, love, whatever—will always come.
At the perfect time.
In the perfect amount.
So rest easy.
And breathe.
And expect that it will come.
Whatever it is that you are having scarcity mentality about.
Find the feeling of abundance that is your birthright.
Remember who you are.
You are light.
You are love.
You are divinity.
You are divinely protected.
And guided.
So start listening, Sisters.
And allow the life of abundance that is awaiting you.
“People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.”
Carlos Castaneda
Joyce Maynard

