MAKE LITTLE/MAKE MUCH

Here’s one from the archives:

Make little of striving to be good.
Make much of knowing your essential goodness.

Make little of living the right life.
Make much of aligning authentically with this moment,
choosing what's right & good right now.

Make little of all you know or could next figure out.
Make much of curiosity, openness, letting in what life wants to show you.

Make little of sorting the stuff of life into good & bad bins.
Make much of allowing the spectrum of experiences & emotions
to touch your being, open your heart, change your mind.

Make little of concepts of silence or rules of meeting it.
Make much of the felt experience when it strikes at random,
in the wee hours, during a shower, in the pause between thoughts,
between snowflakes, in this sip of hot tea.

What you make much of affects you. Your mood, your state, your thoughts, your experience—your life. Especially when you make much of what bothers you, what’s lacking, what isn’t to your liking. Making much of it reinforces it, turns it into a lens you keep looking through (missing other things you might otherwise see), creates something you get rigid about and insist upon when perhaps life is inviting you to let go—or at least open to what else is possible.

Unless you make much of what makes you more spacious & generous & kinder & easier & more trusting & more curious & more open and … Then all of that expands & EXPANDS.

What you make little of affects you. Life will be full of things that aren’t to your liking, aren’t what you’d vote for if you had a vote, bring up your fears & stuff & desire to control. Life will extend any number of invitations for you to go to war, with anything or anyone, if you choose to head that way.

If you make little of those things, you can say yes to more good stuff.

Make little of things you :

• Not what I wanted
• Not to my liking
• Not the way I do it
• Not the way it should be done
• Not how I want them to show up
• Not how I want them to talk to me
• Not comfortable
• etc, etc, etc

Mindsets or stances you might reach for to allow you to make much of the good stuff:

• This is all part of a normal human life
• I don’t need to figure this out right now
• So much supports me to get through this
• This could be so much worse
• I’m equipped for this
• I see this is an opportunity to practice going against tendency
• Here’s where I can trade judgments for curiosity
• I have so many tools to soothe myself
• I’ll prioritize getting my alignment back and then I’ll look again
• I will not abandon myself; I will walk myself through this kindly
• I’ve come so far and more good stuff is on the way
• I can focus on my vision, not get stuck on current conditions
• I like building muscles

Good stuff you might make much of:

• There is magic everywhere
• I run into kindness wherever I go
• Everything is always working out for me*
• I love my life
• I’m growing & learning & healing all the time
• This tastes so good
• This is so beautiful
• This is so kind/soothing/comforting
• How do animals [stars, rainbows, bubbles, seahorses] even exist?
• This is hilarious
• The Universe/life has and/or I have a great sense of humor
• There’s so much love here for me
• I am love, I get to feel love, I get to express love
• I love the symbology in the waking dream
• I love the knowledge/tools I have access to
• No matter what’s going on, there’s music
• I love the care of body, heart, and head I have access to
• I fucking love my life

We’ve talked about where to put your focus. We’ve talked about GETTING OFF THE TOPICS that don’t serve you. Those. Make little of those. Take your focus off that.

Then consider what to reach for that would serve you well to make much of.

Love & blessings, Jaya

* The link on Everything is always working out for me above will take you to an Abraham-Hicks rampage on that topic that I love. Here it is again. It helps a lot with what to make much of.