Chrysalis: 1.1 – Some thoughts about giving

February 27, 2010 / Self Development / No Comments

Gratitude & Giving: Day 1

I’ve always been afraid to give because I’m afraid I will have nothing left for myself. I’m afraid that I will give more than I am able to and exhaust my own resources. Today I found myself wondering whether this whole idea of ‘scarcity’ (the constant, nagging belief that you never have ‘enough’ and always need to acquire more) really is true or if it’s just a paranoid thinking pattern that we learn somewhere along the way.

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Very early in life I felt intuitively that our needs are naturally somehow always provided for. This was just a belief that made sense to me in a very natural way and I’m not sure where it came from. Sometimes I still feel the resonance of that belief and it makes me feel really good.

Today I found myself considering this: What if my ability to give to others could in actuality never be exhausted? This is a way of thinking I’m actually very interested to experiment with. Imagine if I could focus simply on giving unconditionally and let everything else take care of itself… I think it might be possible. You know, I actually want to give it a go.