Micro-dosing Abundance

This week, during a busy-ish few days, I impulsively made an appointment at the local spa and gave my long-neglected toes a shiny new pedicure.

For the last few months, I’ve been working my way through The Artist’s Way. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a book written for writers, or any creatives, really, who have lost sight of their creativity and seek inspiration.

Each week, I set aside a few hours to read a chapter and do the work. This week’s “work” centered on “Recovering a Sense of Abundance.”

Are you rolling your eyes? Stay with me.

For me, doing the “work” to manifest abundance involves deep reflective writing and reshaping my perspective on wealth. It means exploring the emotions that come up for me, how I define abundance, what I am doing to get there, and — most importantly — how are these thoughts and actions playing out for me? How are my thoughts on recovering abundance hindering in some way?

I often imagine abundance as a tidal wave of wealth and fortune, rising higher and higher in the distance, heading in my direction, and ready to overflow into every hard-working part of my life.

Abundance would flow in as cash in the bank, as clients on the calendar, as comfortable, or shiny things adorning my home.