You Get What You Ask For: Abundance is it a Mindset?

Polly Behringer
Mar 22
5 min read

At My Mother's House

Standing in the doorway of one of my mother's spare bedrooms, my brother asked me about chakras... This comes on the heels of our conversation about him building chairs he's been working on....

Flipping through the pages of his sketch notebook, He showed me ideas sketched out and some sketches of work he brought into fruition. He what he's been working on and ideas sitting in his mental queue. How he's looking for a machine to sew leather and brought up he remembered me doing upholstery work back in the day. Yep, I reupholstered a boat as a project once.

He shared with me a comment made to him about his entrepreneurial spirit and it made me sad... I shared with him ideas about incorporating chakra symbols, colors and conduits into his design. His face lit up and I could see the wheels moving behind his eyes. And then asked if I would share more information about chakras; the colors, names, how they worked - alone and in tandem with each other.

Throughout our conversation, he would drop in words - limiting the expression of what was possible; limiting the flow of prana surrounding his ideas. We talked about how our language limits us or empowers us and he spoke about things our parents use to say that he remembered (and I'd forgotten). Words strung together linking them to a scarcity mindset.

So, brother... this blog is for you... (and anyone willing to read on)... I hope this helps you on your journey to abundance.

The Universe Listens

I've was teaching a holistic biohacking class the last three months. In the second class, I spoke about the manifestation flow and how the flow must move through the sacral chakra, 6th energy center and the root chakra, 7th energy center.

Here's the deal, these are the two most avoided and difficult energy centers / chakras to work on when leaning into healing. We'd rather dive into connecting to our spirit guides, prayers, divine connections and anything spiritual than work within the physical realm - dealing with people that are our blood family.

Why do you think suicide and depression is up around the holidays; thanksgiving and Christmas?
Why do we people point out a person flawed as having daddy and mommy issues?
Why do you hear people blaming their parents still as adults?
Why do you hear people unable to have uncomfortable, emotionally intelligent conversations with their parents or family members without reverting back to childhood feelings?

It's because those areas are unhealed; these are the two most difficult areas / chakras / energy centers to work on...

The Blood Tribe and the Flow of Abundance

The Root Chakra deals with your blood tribe, your blood family. And the Sacral Chakra is your 1 on 1 relationships within your blood tribe, your blood family. Moving through these unhealed and painful energy centers, opened me up to healing... which had a butterfly effect on other areas of my life.

Week after week I was getting what I asked for, doubled what I asked for and then tripling what I asked for... It's not coincidence. It's the MANIFESTATION CURRENT moving through me; uninhibited and flowing. When we heal areas in our root and sacral areas... remove limiting beliefs... we create the world we want.

The Last Stop for Abundance

The statement that the root is the "last stop" or foundation for abundance aligns with philosophies that true, lasting prosperity stems from inner work, foundational beliefs, and grounding. If the roots (root chakra) are planted in beliefs of scarcity or unworthiness, the tree will be stunted.

By changing our limiting, subconscious beliefs, we're able to reprogram our lives for increasing abundance instead of accepting what we think we are worth.

The Funnel of Abundance

The funnel of abundance didn't open wider... instead... by removing blockages... the flow of abundance was uninhibited. Things I asked for, thought of... said out loud... wrote down came into fruition. (There's a podcast in here somewhere...)

I drew this funnel of abundance in my journal when I first began writing this blog.

The squiggly dark lines are symbolic of emotional and mental blockages.
The hearts represent energy centers, chakra centers within us powering our bodies... moving vital energy through areas designed and connected to internal systems, organs, emotions, energy...
Root Chakra is the heart located at the BOFU (bottom of the funnel).

If we avoid working or healing areas connected with our root chakra / energy center this center would become congested, stagnant with unhealed energy, blocked, soured... and swelling like an infection.

The flow of abundance pouring in from the TOFU, top of the funnel of infinite possibilities from the universe, god, divine energy, whatever you call it flows through your body (the funnel). If the sacral and root chakra houses unhealed trauma = blockages, it limits what is able to pass through the bottom of the funnel.

How much of the abundance that came in through the TOFU made it through?
How much is stuck in other energy centers?
How much aligned with issues surrounding the root and sacral - and is now stuck in those energy centers...

Closing Thoughts:

my brother working in nature - getting grounded

I deep dive a lot and I'm working on releasing work and not diving too deep. This blog spurred a recorded podcast episode and two other blogs. But my goal is to release... not overwhelm... and provide the information...

My brother and I were estranged for most of our life and didn't speak for the last few years. I was working on healing my root and sacral chakras... taking ownership of my position in the our adult -sibling feuds.

When I decided to heal wounds with one of my daughters I came from a place where her feelings were valid. If they were true to her they were true to me; and that flow of decision has altered our relationship and the relationship of my family. I took the same sitting across the table at breakfast with my brother and mom. I wasn't her favorite; I felt my brother was... but was he...or was that me still holding onto that limiting belief? And did it matter as an adult? What a weird way to think as an adult; from a childish perspective... I was being a victim of what I believed I couldn't control then... but could very much control now.

I wanted to heal.... and that meant taking ownership of my relationship and what ever that might look like. I hope you enjoyed this blog.... I'm shifting how I'm showing up. And I hope this blog, my journey and the knowledge I bring to the table allows you to heal areas you may be overlooking too.