The Loving Breath of Abundance

We all know that inhalation cannot exist without exhalation. That no matter how much air you take in to stay under water for a certain length of time, you still have to come up for more eventually. It’s the natural course of things. It’s life.

So what happens when we apply this as a metaphor for the way we handle our feelings about abundance and money? That’s right…money. Even the word can have our spiritual natures cringing. Is it okay to live a spiritual life and treasure abundance at the same time? Is it possible to feel about money the way we feel about something so seemingly opposed—something like love?   

Try picturing yourself on a big ship, on the upper deck, watching as luggage is being loaded onto the ship, one steamer trunk, one suitcase, at a time. You watch it coming in, spotting your own luggage in the procession, with a sense that all is right with the world because you, and everyone else on the ship, will have everything you need when you need it, or you will be able to find whatever you need aboard. You relax, your shoulders relax. You prepare to have a safe and joyous journey, and…exhale.

Your journey is indeed a pleasant one, one where everything is easy and you lack for nothing. Now it is time to return to your place of origin. As the ship docks, you disembark and join all the other passengers to wait for the luggage you boarded with to return to you once again. You breathe in…and then breathe out…when, once again, it arrives at your feet, back where it belongs.

Luggage in…luggage out. No worries that there will be any fewer belongings than you packed when you left home. In fact, there are likely to be more, things you picked up along the way, gifts you will have in your possession only briefly, as you plan to share them with loved ones and friends. As you disembark, you know all is well in your universe.

This analogy is based on an experience I had while meditating about three years ago, and is the reason I started calling money “Love Energy Units,” or LEUs. In my meditation, I was on just such an old-fashioned steamer ship, watching as sailors carried trunk after trunk of coins and jewels up to the ship. The trunks came up, were parked behind me, and then carried off again without any hiccups in the consistent, constant flow: Simply the infinite repetitive act of coming and going, receiving and letting go. There was no need to “keep” any of it because it kept coming in. No need to fear lack because it kept coming in. No reason that I had to believe it was “mine,” and no reason to hold onto it or worry about sharing it in case there wouldn’t be enough in the future, because no matter how much I, or anyone else, shared, it would keep coming in, in an endless flow.

…Just like breath.

Breathe in, the air of life and prosperity enters the body. Breathe out, automatically another breath flows in. Share your love in all its forms, automatically more love energy flows in your direction, regardless of form or function.

Feel the energy of abundance as a form of the ever-infinite flow of loving Source in your life. It’s very possible that the way you experience abundance will forever be transformed.