Come into stillness however that looks for you.
Sitting or lying down,
Feet on the floor if you're someone who needs to feel grounded.
However it looks take a breath and let it go slowly and take another and then work through your body as you release your breath and take another and release it.
Notice the different muscles relaxing.
Notice your weight settling.
And as you settle in I want to offer some honesty.
Scarcity is exhausting and not just the circumstances that create it but the actual experience.
That low hum underneath and not-enoughness that's running underneath everything and the way it makes your mind narrow and tighten and the way we're always scanning for the next gap or shortfall or thing that isn't there.
So if you've been living in that hum for a while it might feel normal by now like a kind of background noise that you've stopped hearing but your body hears it and your nervous system hears it.
So this meditation is about putting it down for just a little while and that way it's easier to recognize when we're picking it up again.
So breathe steadily in and out.
I'm going to offer you an image to hold today and maybe carry with you.
If you hold out your hand literally or in your mind and imagine a dice.
A beautiful solid and heavy dice.
Feel the weight of it in the palm of your hand and notice the color and the texture.
The material is made of.
This dice has a particular quality.
It could be a regular dice for a children's board game but it cannot land on nothing.
No matter how it falls,
No matter how uncertain things feel,
The dice always shows a face.
The very lowest face is a one and a one is real.
One counts.
Scarcity is the feeling that we're rolling a zero.
We might roll a zero.
We already did but there's nothing there.
But look closer.
The dice never rolls a zero.
So let's look at what has already landed in your life and this could be the big things but not necessarily.
Not the wish list or the things you're hoping will arrive eventually.
But look at what is already here,
However small.
Think of one relationship in your life.
A person or an animal or even a place or a system where you have felt genuinely known and cared for.
Even if that relationship is complicated,
Even if it's changed over time.
Let that rise up in your mind.
That's a face on your dice.
Think of one ability that your body has that maybe you take for granted.
Maybe walking or seeing.
Breathing without thinking about it.
Hands that can hold and feel and touch.
A voice that can speak.
There's another face.
And think of one thing that you have learned in your life.
Something that you know now that you didn't always know.
Maybe it was something hard to learn or maybe it was a skill you learned that you now use without thinking.
Or maybe just something interesting that you didn't know before.
And that lives in you now.
There's another face.
You're not rolling a zero.
You have never rolled a zero.
The dice has always landed somewhere.
So for the next few moments,
See if you can let the scarcity scan rest.
Just turn it off for a little while.
Not forever.
But for a while,
Just remember as you sit here breathing in your body,
You don't have to solve anything.
You don't have to figure out what's missing or how to get it.
Just let the dice sit in your hand.
Feel its weight.
See its surface.
Look at the face that's already showing.
What number can you see?
And now wrap your hand around that dice.
Put it somewhere safe in your pocket,
In your mind.
Hold it close.
Know it's always there.
And take a breath in slowly.
And as you breathe out,
Let your body soften just a little.
And carry the dice with you today and always.
And when that scarcity hum starts up again,
And it will,
Just notice it.
And remember the dice always lands on something.
Even a one is real.
Come back slowly.
Take your time.
Thank you for sharing your space with me today.
Have a wonderful day.
