Category: Abundant Breath/Abundant Life

INSPIRATION

Humpback Whale

“Your true support system is in each breath that you take.  It is your inspiration: the movement of air that spirals in and out of your mouth and lungs each second of every day.  It is the breathing-in of your Divine Self; your connection with Divine Mind.

And it doesn’t stop with you.  The breath you draw at this moment is the same breath I am drawing.  Wherever you are – whether you are in America or Fiji, Venezuela or Japan – you are breathing the very same breath.

Think about it for just a moment.  There is nothing between the air surrounding you and the air surrounding me.  It carries on in one seamless, invisible network of nitrogen, oxygen and other gasses.  It covers the whole Earth, permeating everything: even the waters of the ocean (there’s just a little more hydrogen down there) and the miles of frozen tundra.

It binds us together as surely as the moon draws the tides across the planet: moving to an unseen tune: guided by the Divine Design.

We are all inspired by the same force of life.

And it doesn’t stop with us humans, either!

The breath that is filling your lungs at this second is the very same breath that swirls around the lungs of the jaguar in the deepest corner of the rainforest and expands the bronchial tubes of the albatross as it wings its silent way far out to sea.  It inspires the tiniest pigmy shrew, which must eat every two hours if it is to survive.  It gives life to the seventy-foot whale, which must eat more than a million shrews could eat in their whole lives with one gulp of its gargantuan mouth!  

It gives colour to every plant and substance to every crustacean.  It touches us all in this instant.  We are all connected: always.  We just have to wake up to who we are.  And to do that, you must take the leap of faith that you took with that very first breath.  You must follow your own inspirations. “

Richard Cawte, Ph.D.   Excerpt from a new book being released soon!  Divine Path –  Stay tuned !!!   www.richardcawte.com

I start this post with Richard’s quote above for many reasons.  This past couple of weeks for me has been driven by “inspiration” and fueled by “intuition”.  Reaching Richard’s website by what I call “divine providence” as I explored one day, I was so taken by the work he is doing in the world that I wrote him an e-mail of gratitude.  Out of that e-mail has come a meaningful and delicious connection that has inspired me tremendously already, and has me more often utilizing my intuition and creative inspiration at every opportunity that I can.

As I read the passages that contained the excerpt above, tears streamed down my face.  To wake up to the immense interconnectedness of all living things is almost more than one can hold.  I do know that your breath – which is your inspiration and your creative expression in the world – is shared by all, including the earth and all of nature – expanding out into the immense universe.  We create it all by our thoughts and the actions stemming from those thoughts.

I invite you to take in the deepest, most expansive breath that is possible for you in this moment and remember….. as you exhale and come to that still pause at the end …. right before the next inspiration  – who and what you are sharing this breath with.  We in-spire each other….

Gaye Abbott, A Breath Inspired Writer

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The Wise Blueberry – Metaphor For Abundance

Wise Blueberry Bush

Oregon is well known for it’s magnificent blueberries and I certainly take advantage of that during picking season – which is right now!  Just the thought of those luscious berries with all of their sweet taste and antioxidant elixir brings me into pure pleasure.  As the scarcity “default” is slowly ebbing it’s way from my thinking I notice even more acutely when it shows up, which is a good thing as I get to choose how I want to think and believe in the moment.  Feeling pretty “on top of things” this past week I realized today that I was taken in by the culture’s “scarcity “and “fear of not enough” models without even realizing it.  That scarcity template is really embedded in our culture, and I couldn’t have resonated with it if it wasn’t in me too!

This last week we have had some blazing hot days and I was hearing from here and there that it was taking a toll on the blueberries and that soon there wouldn’t be any to pick.  Even as recent as yesterday a blueberry grower at the local farmer’s market said that this was the last of her berries and that there would be no more picking on her farm.

Well, I had put off picking every weekend as something else would come up and the month of August has certainly flown and with it the blueberry season.  I noticed a slight panic inside that I wouldn’t get to pick any this year because “they would all be gone!”  I needed to get out there right away!  Many voices around me were saying the same sort of thing buying in to what had been passed down to them.  No wonder we go running about in fear that we won’t have enough – or maybe none at all!

As I called my favorite picking place this morning my question was “are there any more to pick?”.  I had bought in!  The kind woman’s voice on the other side said that there were plenty to pick and that there would be for at least another couple of weeks, maybe even three.  I hung up the phone and said to myself “abundance vs scarcity, now which one do I chose to live in?  A good question and one well worth posing every single day.

Arriving at the blueberry farm this morning I waited to be assigned to my rows to pick.  I was to pick between rows 26 and 27 about midway down as their professional pickers had stopped before the middle.  I then found myself in blueberry heaven, literally!  They were everywhere hanging in huge dark blue/purple clumps just waiting for me to gently remove them from their stems into my waiting buckets.  The sun shone through big puffy clouds and the weather seemed just perfect for picking.  Definitely a breathing space!

Someone in the next row said to their picking partner, “I bet we could come back down this row many times and still find more to pick”.  It was after that comment that from time to time I would turn back and look at where I had picked just moments ago.  It was almost as if I hadn’t even picked there as my eyes would light upon an abundance of berries that I either missed because I was not fully taking in all of the abundance right in front of me, choosing instead to look down the aisle for the next bunch…. or that better yet the blueberry fairies were placing berries back on the limbs faster than I could pick.  I kind of like the idea of the fairies myself…but know that it was most definitely the former reason!

Abundance or Scarcity?

The belief in scarcity/lack communicates to our bodies and many things can and will happen over time.  Our breath most certainly will become shallow and tight, our muscles contracted, as we grasp for more and more and more – never able to “fill up”.  Taking a very large and deep breath I realized that when we believe, feel and think in abundant ways  – that will be our experience.  When we believe, feel and think in scarcity/lack modes – that will be our experience.  The wise blueberry bush had taught me a deep lesson for the day – more is here NOW, in this very moment.  What would our lives be like, the health of the planet and all life on it if we perceived everything as abundant with more than enough to have and share for the well being of all living things?  Live in that question – and try on the blueberry metaphor.

Gaye Abbott
Blue handed and caught in joy…

Blueberry Breathing Space:  For my favorite local Oregon blueberry picking go to Facebook and look up Radke Blueberries in Corvallis!

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