sufficiency

Daily Creator L.P. sends this for our consideration:

SUFFICIENCY: RECLAIMING THE POWER OF WHAT IS THERE

"We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don't mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough. Sufficiency resides inside of each of us, and we can call it forward. It is a consciousness, an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think about our circumstances......Sufficiency is not a message about simplicity or about cutting back and lowering expectations. Sufficiency doesn't mean we shouldn't strive or aspire. Sufficiency is an act of generating, distinguishing, making known to ourselves the power and presence of our existing resources, and our inner resources....We engage in life from a sense of our own
wholeness rather than a desperate longing to be complete. We feel naturally called to share the resources that flow through our lives - our time, our money, our wisdom, our energy, at whatever level those resources flow...."

- Lynn Twist from The Soul of Money

Daily creator I.L. is writing a character who suffers an extreme case of insufficiency, even though she has much material wealth. Her contemporaries suffer similarly. To me, this condition of "not enough" is pandemic in our country, fostered by social mores, consumerism, our education system, an overly competitive aspect of sport, art and professional pursuit. Perennial dissatisfaction, a constant need for more, bigger, other, younger, faster, whatever effects even our youngest citizens.

If we can cultivate a feeling of sufficiency in ourselves we can then send it out to the universe. Are you in?

THANK YOU L.P. FOR THIS AMAZING NEW WAY TO THINK!

TODAY'S CREATIVITY CHALLENGE:

Are you feeling insufficient? Does your artisitic work feel insufficient? Does your career feel insufficient?

What would it feel like to embrace the spirit of sufficiency in both your personal life and in your creative work?

What if you have already everything you need? What if your work is already everything it is supposed to be?

What if who you are right now is already enough to share!