5 Ways to Embrace an Abundance Mindset and Start Thriving

An Abundance Mindset Starts Here

Your mindset—the way you see the world and your place in it—has a huge impact on your reality. It can change your day-to-day mood, relationships, career success, health, and virtually every aspect of your life.

Women who live with a scarcity mindset might view everything as a competition. They believe that there is a limit to the amount of success in the world, so anyone else’s win is their loss.

“There just isn’t enough to go around,” they might say.

On the other hand, women who look at life with an abundance mindset embrace the notion that everyone can flourish. They take control of their personal and spiritual development, and have faith that things will work out.

They understand that everyone is on a unique path and that competition and scarcity just holds them back.

Luckily, an abundance mindset is one you can step into anytime, even if you’ve been more comfortable living with a scarcity mindset.

Read on for five ways to start embracing a mindset of abundance, success, growth and opportunity!

5 Ways to Embrace an Abundance Mindset

1. Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating awareness of the present moment. It involves tuning into your senses and non-judgmentally observing whatever arises.

As you notice the here and now and quiet your thoughts about the past or future, you’ll be able to perceive things with greater clarity. 

This clarity is important. So often when we are lost in our own thoughts, we miss out on opportunities and relationships that are right in front of us. It’s easy to live on autopilot, but it won’t help you reach your most rewarding and fulfilling life. 

A seated meditation or breath work practice are two popular ways you can strengthen your mindfulness muscles. You can also practice mindfulness while walking, driving, doing the dishes, or as part of a bedtime routine.

As you start to become more mindful, you will naturally notice more of the positive things in your life.

This will lead to pleasant reminders of the abundance in your life and in the world – which will make you feel even better!

2. Practice Gratitude

Once you have trained your brain to see more of the good, take it a step further with a gratitude practice. There are many benefits associated with practicing gratitude, like improved health, stronger relationships, and greater happiness.

But gratitude can do more than just make you happier in the moment—it’s a key part of developing a mindset of abundance. 

When you take time to think about all that you’re grateful for, you are training your brain to focus on that which you already have, instead of focusing on what you lack.

Counterintuitively, it’s this type of thinking that will actually help you to attract the things you want. 

Infuse your life with gratitude by writing a thank you note to a loved one, doing a gratitude-based meditation, or keeping a gratitude journal.

Try out a few different practices and see which one invokes the deepest and most authentic feelings of thankfulness in you.

3. Celebrate Your Community’s Wins

When someone in your circle gets a promotion or a great new place to live, what are your first thoughts?

Are you excited to see them succeed?

Or do you find yourself resentful, jealous, and upset that they got this great thing instead of you?

People who move through life with a scarcity mindset have a difficult time celebrating other people’s triumphs. This is because they let jealousy and envy take over.

So, anyone else’s wins are perceived as a threat to their own success.

On the flip side, those with an abundance mindset recognize that there is more than enough joy, success, and love to go around.

If celebrating your loved ones’ happiness and achievement doesn’t come naturally to you, try to investigate where that comes from. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. Remind yourself why you love them, and how much you want happiness and peace for them.

If you still find yourself envious, take a moment to reframe the narrative. Instead of thinking, “they achieved that and I’m so jealous”, try to shift to “they achieved that and they are showing me what is possible”. 

4. Shift Your Self-Talk

Everyone has an inner voice in their head. This voice narrates your experiences and forms the core of your identity. It affects how you see yourself, other people, and your relationship to the world.

With such a profound impact on your life, it’s worth examining how this voice is talking to you.

When you’re trapped in limiting beliefs, your self-talk might center around victimhood. Perhaps you tell yourself that people and the Universe are out to get you. You might see obstacles as immovable barriers on the path towards what you want.

This mindset allows challenges and setbacks to drastically impact your self-esteem, believing you deserve more of the same. 

On the flip side, trying to shift to gentler, more compassionate self-talk can help you embrace an abundance mindset.

Next time you find yourself spinning an unproductive or scarcity narrative, try to view challenges as part of the journey and opportunities for growth.

Remind yourself of all the things you love about yourself, and that there are many wonderful surprises to come.

5. Visualize Your Dream

A mistake people often make on their road to abundance is not allowing themselves to dream big. Perhaps due to beliefs you internalized while growing up or a predisposition towards cynicism, you may find yourself believing you need to “settle”, or that your dreams are impossible.

Reserve time to dream fully, without any constraints. Visualize the life you want for yourself, including your career, relationships, and health.

Ask yourself, if everything went right for me, what would that look like?

What would it feel like? 

When you let yourself dream big, you honor your wishes and desires, signaling to the Universe that you trust yourself enough to make it there. You embrace the idea that abundance is available to you. Most importantly, you no longer have to settle for scarcity or living small.

Visualizing your dream, in all its richness, is the first step to achieving it. Then, you’ll want to start setting goals to make them a reality!

Choosing Abundance

If you have been living with a scarcity or failure mindset, it’s not too late to put these tips into practice and start living in abundance.

With some intention and commitment, these small shifts can dramatically retrain your brain, and in turn, change your life.