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Infinite Abundance Exercise 1
Receiving Your Breath & Receiving Abundance
by Naisha Ahsian

Often, when people think of how abundance would manifest in their life, they think of having their needs met. A decent home, a drivable car, enough money to pay the bills this month, and so on. If any one of these "needs" is not met, we feel a lack of abundance.

But what of the most basic needs for life? If you define abundance according to your needs being met, then surely the first place to begin to look for abundance in your life is in actively receiving, honoring and celebrating the meeting of your most basic needs such as clothing, food, shelter and water. These things are constantly provided for you by the Divine, yet often are taken for granted.

Perhaps the most important need that is met continually and abundantly is the need for breath. Simply breathing is the first requirement for your life. Every other need in your life can be met, but if this one is withheld, you will cease to be alive. If you have this one thing, then all other needs can be put off-at least for this moment.
By focusing on receiving the gift of your breath, you are opening yourself to receive on many other levels. By developing this practice, you become aware of how very little is really needed to maintain life, and how unimportant "things" are to your true self. In other words, you begin to recognize true abundance, which is a state of joy in receiving the abundant gifts of the Divine; and gratitude, which is the act of giving energy back to the Divine in the form of thanks. This cycle of give and receive is vital to your experience of abundance in your own life.

The following exercise is one that will help you to begin finding abundance in your life in two ways. First, it will draw your attention to the first gift of abundance that is given to you at every moment - the gift of your breath. If you practice consciously receiving this gift from the Divine, you will find it easier to recognize that most of your other "needs" - the things that you think you have to have in order to be abundant-are simply desires and not needs at all.

Second, this exercise is about entering into a state of receiving. We will focus on receiving the life giving breath that is being supplied to us every moment. In this state of receptivity, you will learn to stop striving for abundance as if it is something that exists outside yourself, and you'll begin to find abundance in this very moment.
Learning to receive from the Divine Creator is one of the most important lessons we have. Often times we ask for something, then don't even recognize it when it arrives. We are like insatiable children that cry for a certain toy, then when we get it, we throw it down and demand another more exciting toy. This inability to receive from the Divine is caused by a constrictive attitude and energy that is geared toward acquiring and becoming-not being and receiving. When you make the shift from this constrictive attitude to one of receiving, you will be in a proper energetic state to receive abundance on all levels of your life!

Receiving Breath/ Receiving Abundance
Meditation Exercise

1. Move into a comfortable seated position, in which your body is fully supported and you can deeply relax.
2. Take three long, slow deep breathes , fully exhaling each one as you release tension from your body.
3. As you inhale, allow yourself to focus on the idea of receiving the breath-instead of forcing or directing it. Simply allow your lungs to open to completely receive the breath.
4. As you exhale, check your body to see where you are holding tension, and release that tension with the exhale.
5. Continue this cycle of receiving breath with your body on the inhale, and releasing tension on the exhale.
6. Try to keep your full attention on opening your body to your breath while you completely release and relax
7. Once you have fully opened your body to your breath, begin to say in internal "thank you" to the Divine with each exhale. Consciously receive your breath on each inhalation and give thanks for it with each exhalation, as you relax your muscles and continue to release tension.
8. Continue to do this for five minutes-noticing the emotions and feelings you have through the process.
9. Welcome to the state of abundance! Allow your self to move into this state and experience it at least once per day for 7 days.

Tip: Use an egg timer to time your five minutes of practice so that you can focus your total attention on receiving your breath.

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