The more I experience and think about it the more I start to apply the analogy of letting money flow onwards in trust of abundance to other areas of my life.
It really isn't only about money, it could be applied to all sorts of things and situations, regardless of the recipient. Sharing a skill, sharing resources, giving a helping hand, offering the unexpected.
The main factor I have started to check when wanting to give is: Does my intuition agree? It's not about how much the recipient of my gift already has. I used to balance these sorts of things in my mind, overtly so, to the point that I would start to create some unwitting balance sheet of perceived fairness - is it really fair to me and the other to pass this on, to make this gift?
But I find that the only thing that matters about giving gifts and spreading abundance is how I feel about it. If my intuition says "do it" - I do it. I care less and less for reasons to do so, and more and more about the initial little voice inside of me speaking before the mind can muster up any reason for or against.
In this way i feel truly free, bypassing judgments and old concepts of fairness as molded by my ego. After all, we can never really know all the factors involved in any situation so what we think is always merely a fraction of the actual.
Giving in this way is also prone to becoming a habit more easily, probably because there is so little mind chatter involved in making a decision. Acting spontaneously with pure intent and no sense of pride, righteousness, guilt or obligation starts to pick up momentum and feels really healthy.
I may meet a homeless dude in the street and where I may have considered to give in the past out of sheer unspoken social obligation now I only do when my intuition says so. At the same time, I may choose to give a gift to someone who apparently has no shortage of monetary funds or wealth simply when my heart says it's what I want to do.
The unexpected effect is that getting in this habit of giving out of sheer intuition tends to lean more and more to giving more overall. Maybe because it's in our human nature, maybe because it feels good, maybe because it actually started to increase the abundance in my own life. But rather than anaylizing and hijacking these thoughts I check myself on my intent and act accordingly.
There is also this nice sense of increasing abundance for people around me and the environment in which I live, manifesting in more readiness to respond to the universe in an integral fashion - a feeling that is really rewarding and actually has the potential to shift broad energetic fields like a fractal from the minute to the grand scale, from the inside out. Like watering the surroundings of an arid environment wherever I am by becoming more and more of a spreader of life-energy, letting it fly and land where it wants.
Money Is Like A River - If You Dam It Up, It Simply Drains Away | Pt 1/2
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