Enough Already!

When is enough enough? When do you ever get your fill and know that it's time to quit? Now many of you are probably thinking this is just related to food, but it's not.

There are those that don't know when to stop smoking, drinking, eating, fighting, agruing, spending money, having sex, shopping, and the list goes on and on. Anything we do can be done in excess, including spirituality. Some would disagree but I'm sure you've witnessed it yourself when people have gotten out of balance knowing too much spiritual information and not enough application.

Here my dear friends is the key to the situation of excess, application!

I shared with a friend one time that if we had to kill, butcher, and store our own meat we would not kill as many animals that are being killed right now. If we had to grow our own food we would value it more and not waste it. There would be more conscious thought in the process of life.

You see application has a value to it. When anything has value to us we are able to balance it with the right application. Meaning that if we value money then we will apply it properly throughout our lives in order to maintain balance and ease. Many people believe money is bad and it is evil. There are those that resist this belief within them and try as hard as they can to go out and make as much money as possible, and then there are those that give everything away leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of others because now their families are taking care of them.

What about the person that is always feeling they need more money to do something they've dreamt about their whole life? Because they are putting what they value off, that means they are also putting the application off. Why? Because they are conflicted with the sense of enough and will remain torn until they DECIDE. That person would literally have to take responsibility for the decision.

When we look at our value we are truly looking at the degree of self worth each of us has for self. Value and worth are the same when it comes to this application because we begin to see the correlation between a person not finding value in themselves and now able to see the imbalance that occurs with excess in another area.

We all do it, we all hide it. If I don't think I'm valued in the eyes of God then I'm going to go into excess to PROVE my worthiness. If I believe I deserve something because I want a reward for my worth/value then I move into excess in any of the above catagories I choose.

But what happens on a day to day basis with peoples worth? It's judged through others! That's pretty resonable, right? However, by judging ourselves or comparing ourselves to others we are now allowing what they value or find worthy to affect us. Is that true? Well the only way it affects us is because it's true for us.

If you work for a person that doesn't have a sense of enough do you think you are going to be treated with respect? Well that actually depends on your level of respect you have for yourself. If you are complaining that someone is being mean and doesn't respect you then there is some place you have come out of alignment with your heart and integrity.

The manipulation in order for a person to feel better about themselves is to make others feel bad about themselves. So whether this is an employee or friend that is trying to make someone feel bad about making them feel bad, or the other way around. It's the same manipulation. You did this to me so now my life sucks, or I did this to myself and now my life really sucks.

No one is responsible for your happiness but you. Look around in your life and it will be easy to see where you have fallen out of alignment with yourself. What do you have too much of? If you don't feel you have too much stuff, look around in your life and might be in excess in another area. Do you have a harmonious work place? Is there too much traffic for you, is there too much heat for you, or is there just too much of lack for you? You see even lack is just another degree of greed.

Our sense of enough is when we value the application of life. It's when we are able to find peace even in the middle of a heat wave because we are applying what is occuring at that moment and having fun with it. I realized in a moment in the middle of an Alabama heat wave that I went to sleep in order to allow myself manipulation.

Now why do we do this and why do I have value and worth together? It's quite simple when you start reviewing how you have not valued who you are in life. When we love who we are we're not going to be eating ourselves to death, sexing ourselves to death, working ourselves to death, or starving ourselves, isoloating ourselves, or living in poverty. They are all to be a part of our experience within balance. We enjoy these things from the heart.

Here's a clue for you! Anytime we begin to experience pain with our excess then we are bringing ourselves out of balance. So if you are a person that gets upset at others rather quickly but do nothing constructive about it then you are moving into excess. If you are having dinner and you're feeling full and do nothing about it and keep moving forward, then you are in excess. If you are having sex with different men and know this is not right for you, then you are in excess. This signal eventually weakens and we're unable to hear that subconscious voice that says this isn't good for you, and so it switches to "this is good" for you. The mind is trying to protect itself. But what mind is this?

The divided mind is constantly swinging the pendulum from one end of the spectrum to the other. It does this to keep the division occuring in order to experience contrast. However, speaking from experience, the contrast does not have to be experienced in this way. When you find peace and balance in your life you naturally begin to see the beauty in everything and nothing all at the same time.

It is when we allow our perceived beauty or goodness in life to be our gauge in being worthy or not worthy of God's love that begins the journey into greed.

We all know we're expansive and constantly growing and expanding; which direction we want to swing depends on the experience in which is needed at the time for our growth, evolution. Enjoy the ride. If you need a ride on the greed train that will show up as either excess or lack. If you decided to ride the grace train then you will find love in every experience and not judge it as a punishment, or that someone else deserves punishment, and begin to look at it with loving eyes that we are all in the heart and mind of God.

Enjoy your day today and make it the best day ever!