I’ve been a little obsessed lately with seeing what’s stuck on my eyeballs.
(I’ll be sharing this in a brand new experience I’ll be announcing on Black Friday!)
Here’s what I mean:
Whatever is on my eyeballs creates the world I see. Like a film of mud, the tint on car windows, or scratches on the window screen, when it’s there, I can’t not see it.
The trick is that it doesn’t look like mud or a scratch. It looks like reality.
And this morning, I noticed “not enough” on my eyes.
Not enough money.
Not enough time.
Not enough space.
The moment I saw the “not enoughness,” it wasn’t invisible anymore. And if I can see it, I can let it fall away on its own.
Because “not enough” is thought. A thought that’s been so habitual and ever-present that it doesn’t look like a thought anymore. It looks like a fact.
I know that everything we choose to see on our eyeballs, especially what feels unpleasant, we do for what looks like a good reason.
When I looked closer, I saw the reason to keep it around:
If I believe I don’t have enough, I’ll push myself to create more.
I thought I needed:
- Not enough money…to make me create more of it
- Not enough time…so I’ll get more done
- Not enough space…to take time for myself
I’ve created a world where not enough has to exist in order for me to have more.
But is that true?
My eyes fall on Little Mango, the plant my partner sprouted from a pit last year.
He did not need the thought “I am not enough” to grow new leaves and lean into the sun.
And neither did I.
As a baby, my bones lengthened, my skull fused, my lungs strengthened, my hands learned to grasp, my mouth formed words…all without the thought “not enough” fueling any of it.
Life grows because growth is its nature.
We expand not from lack, but from the inherent evolutionary impulse of the universe itself.
We aren’t expanding into something; we are expanding into ourselves. Because we are the universe.
Who would I be without this thought of “not enough”?
Whole.
I would know myself as whole in a world that was whole and complete.
Already the world is brighter. Clearer. Ripe with possibilities and infinite potential.
And I’m beginning to see more of it. Now.
I’ve been sharing this with 1:1 clients and friends. One of them just messaged me this morning:
“This really opened something for me, thanks.”
And that’s it. It opens our eyes and our minds to see the truth.
My greatest desire is to show you more of this effortless falling away of things that do not serve us.
This is the heart of what I’m bringing you in the special email series that begins tomorrow. I can’t wait!
Yours in love and play,
Steph
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