Balancing Fullness & Spaciousness

We have rounded the corner into full-on Fall. Our days continue to shorten as the nights grow. We've put our Halloween costumes and decorations away. The weather continues to cool as the fiery Sun softens its touch upon the Earth. We're stacking up the firewood and getting our pants, jackets and blankets out. We are moving into the home stretch toward Winter Solstice.

November bends its energy to Thanksgiving as a signpost of what our year's harvest has been. I've heard talk of how this year feels a bit lean compared to years past. Yet we each have something to celebrate, whether the movement has been framed by having more or less of something in our lives. Neither is better or worse; both frames hold whatever is aligned to the highest good, regardless of how we might define it with our minds.

Flow works in both directions. Sometimes the flow is in and sometimes it is out, just as with each breath - Prana and Apana - filling and emptying. Filling up brings fullness from what's been; emptying out brings spaciousness for what's next. However the flow has moved through your life, recognize that it is a gift. Fullness and spaciousness are on equal terms when it comes to the energies of life; they both serve. You must experience each to know the other; you must empty out the old to make space for filling up with the new...

This year, throw away your mental measuring stick and take the opportunity to celebrate and honor all that life offered you. This year, hold gratitude in equal measure for what left as well as for what came or may come into your life. Recognize that true abundance is in the way you experience life with your heart, not in how you measure it with your head. 
 

May your Thanksgiving celebration be one filled with gratitude for all of life's wondrous opportunities of filling and emptying.