Activate True Joy By Connecting to Something Bigger Than Yourself

Insights from the Activating Abundance Book

We all love to give back to humanity and share what we’ve learned with others.

Where many of us miss out is viewing our contribution as something we’ll get to after we achieve everything we want from life. Here’s why that approach is a mistake:

Every area of your life is connected to your contribution.

Your ability to find joy in your wealth, relationships, health, and the other areas of life will be severely restricted if you don’t activate contribution to tie them all together.

If you’re struggling to prioritize your contribution, here’s one way to get it going.

Reconnect to Something Bigger Than Yourself

Contribution comes easier—along with true joy, satisfaction, and purpose—when you remember that you are connected to something bigger than yourself.

Shift your viewpoint from a micro viewpoint to a macro one. When you do, you’ll realize that everything you do—no matter how big or small—affects that bigger picture.

It becomes difficult to see our contribution as meaningful when you slip into the micro perspective and see yourself as insignificant. You may feel like you’re too small to make a difference or have any impact; however, you have tremendous potential for impact.

For instance, if you throw a piece of trash out the window of a moving car, you might think it’s just one piece of trash, right? Wrong. What happens if everyone has the same micro perspective and over seven billion people in the world start throwing pieces of trash out of windows? That’s a big effect on the planet and humanity.

Everything is connected, so remember your connection to the bigger picture.

A humbling experience takes place when that happens. You realize that your ego has been responsible for every occasion you delayed contribution or ignored it entirely.

That’s the first limiter keeping you from contributing: thinking everything is about you.

The second is mistaking contribution for taking something from you. Everything you give to humanity serves you as well, because you’re part of that collective source of energy.

Activate Contribution Internally and Externally

We’re going to walk through a physical exercise now to awaken the connectedness inside and activate your contribution. As you do this, remember these words:

I am always connected to something bigger than myself.

Now, stand with your feet parallel to each other and hip-width apart.

Warm up the spine by inhaling to open your chest. Exhale by relaxing your neck and slowly moving your head and upper body forward.

Inhale as you slowly move your head and upper body, vertebra by vertebra, back to an upright position. Repeat this process three and four several times.

After your last inhalation, stretch your arms high over your head. Exhale through your mouth with a verbal “Hah!” while bending your knees and bringing your arms all the way forward in a sweeping motion until they are behind your back but pointing upward again.

Repeat this and feel the tension being released from your body with each exhalation.

Next, inhale while raising your arms high over your head again. Hold your breath and feel your body expanding into something bigger than yourself. Exhale while bringing your arms downward and to their natural resting position along your sides.

Visualize yourself opening up to infinity.

Realize the Ways Your Contribute

Many of us make contributions every day and don’t realize it.

You might contribute time to your child’s school. Contribution could be something as small as doing something nice for your partner or friends. Explore the ways that you are already contributing to humanity and write them down somewhere.

After you’ve written about all your past and current contributions, ask yourself, “How do I show up as the higher version of me, contributing at a massive level?” By doing this, you’ll tap into the next level of contribution. Journal about what the upgrade is, how it would affect you, how it would affect others, and how you would commit to it.

Now that you’ve written down some bigger contributions you can make, it’s time to act on them. After you’ve completed them, celebrate how you made a difference!

For more advice on activating joy in your life through contribution and connectedness, you can find Activating Abundance at https://activatingabundance.com/the-abundance-codes-book or, comment below with “Abundance” and we’ll send you more details about Activating Abundance.

Regan & JuanPa
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