Living from God’s overflow.
- May 5
- 8 min read
Living from the Overflow: What Does It Really Mean?
What does living from the overflow mean for you? What does it conjure up? Is it money? Is that what comes through? Is it energy? Overflow of vitality? Overflow of love? Overflow of creativity. What does it mean for you?
Living from the overflow. We hear it so many times. We hear, "Yeah, don't give from an empty cup. Live from the overflow." Give from the overflow. Be the overflow.
And yet, when life is showing us all sorts of very interesting, seemingly challenging and stressful situations, giving and living from our overflow can be something that we just feel is not going to be even possible today because all of this is going on.
Recalibration: Returning to Love, Energy, and Alignment
This is where we need a recalibration because it is possible, entirely possible to live fully from the overflow, from the overflow of love, peace, prosperity, health, vitality at all times.
What it means though is that your responsibility, my responsibility in all of this is to recharge, is to come back to saying no. I put a video up there about saying no. You can watch that after here. It will pop up at some point.
If we're continually saying yes to things that don't align or aren't aligned with us, we're not giving from the overflow. If we're giving from a place of lack, limitation, or feeling frustration or resentment or bitterness, then we're not giving from the overflow.
The point here is that if you're not giving that to yourself first, filling up the cup first for you, then you can never give from the overflow.
And it takes a while. This is an art and a science. It's like a balancing act of how much we take in and how much we put out. And coming to a place where we can take in and put out and take in and put out or put out and take in and put out. This is the law of reciprocity.
And when this is happening in a really beautiful and aligned and flowing way, there is no such thing as burnout or exhaustion or pent up feelings of bitterness or resentment. There's literally an ease and a flow and a joy and a grace with everything that's being done.
The Middle Way: Balancing Giving and Receiving
So how do we keep ourselves in this beautiful loop of giving and receiving and then centered there as a resonance right there in the middle, living from the middle way as the Buddhist philosophy teaches us, to live from that place of knowing that there is always going to be enough and that we don't have to push ourselves so much into things to force things.
Allowing this flow to be the natural rhythm and cycle of our lives. It takes a willingness to bend like the willow and to be strong like the oak in our conviction.
It takes an awareness, a certain level of awareness to be fully present with ourselves and to really know our own energetic system and our guidance system and to be fully tapped in to our intuition.
That is so important because if we come off kilter with our intuitive knowing, wisdom, then we're going to be this open kind of energetic void of receiving and accepting things that we don't necessarily truly want or align with us for our lives.
Boundaries, Discernment, and Conscious Energy Use
Now, I get it. There are times when saying yes is really important. If loved ones are calling us to do something or we're pulled into a situation or we're faced with something that we know only we can help with or change, then that's about really prioritising what needs to be done right there and then and clearing the decks.
And I'm not really talking about that.
I'm talking about how much energy we give into certain situations and where we step back and say actually that piece isn't mine to do and I'm not going to take that on. It takes courage. It takes discernment and it takes a willingness to really create a boundary, create big barriers and borders sometimes with what you're willing to do and what you're not willing to do and standing firm in that conviction.
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The Slow Drain: Over giving and People-Pleasing Patterns
And then the other part is where we say yes to things more in a drip-fed way, in a more chronic way, less acute, where we're saying yes to things over time. Over time, it's like we become this porous sponge.
Okay, I'll do that. Okay, I'll do that. Yes, okay. Okay, I'll do that. Oh yes, of course I need to do that.
Do you recognise this in you? And maybe it's something you're working on right now, which I know that you are working on it and that it is absolutely working for you, that you are setting intentions and boundaries in place there.
And yet it's always a piece of work that we could be working on, especially as empaths, especially as healers and guides and teachers, especially as those that want to take the world on and say, "Yes, I'm here to heal and guide and make everything wonderful and everything perfect."
And then what happens is in our personal worlds, we become a model of doing that with those that are in our communities and families, saying yes and yes and yes because we're fed this idea that we have to give and keep saying yes.
And it really takes a very direct approach to practice no. No. No is a complete sentence.
And no can be the difference maker between exhaustion on one end of the spectrum and total living in grace and flow and joy and having coping mechanisms in place that support the energetic systems in the body and the nervous system.
Awareness Practice: Tracking Overflow vs Empty Giving
And so here I want you today, I'm inviting you to really get clear on your yeses and your nos and where you are giving not from your overflow and you are giving from any place where there is even the slightest smidgen of resentment or "do I have to do that?"
I want you to write that down. Get your page and literally draw a line and just see where you're giving from an empty cup.
And where you are choosing to give from the overflow. And just write a few things in there. Just create a running guide for you of awareness.
And you can journal on this every day. You can just pop it in your journal. Where have I given from my overflow today? Where have I given from an empty cup today?
And you'll start to monitor it and see a balance.
The thing is to monitor yourself and to get into a place within yourself where you are recognising patterns. Patterns within you. Patterns of people pleasing, patterns of over caregiving, patterns of putting others before your aligned energetic system.
Because if you're doing that, then you're not going to be of much help and service for yourself or for others. You'll drain yourself over time.
Money, Habits, and the Energy Behind Choices
Where are you doing that in your life? Where are you doing that in your business? This is key.
Where are you doing it with money? With habits. Where are you maybe consuming what you think you should have and yet you're not consuming from an overflow. You're consuming from a place of "I have to have that because if I have that then my life will be better or fuller."
Putting the emphasis on the physical world rather than choosing to fill up first within yourself.
That top that you want for 50 quid, it's not going to make your life better. It will be gorgeous and you deserve it. But let's get it from the right place, from the right attitude, from the right knowing that it's not being purchased from desperation. It's being purchased from an overflow.
There's such a different feeling there. An overflow of "I could have it or I couldn't have it and either way it will be great."
Reflect, Rewire, Realign
And so that's where I'm inviting you to look at your habits, your behaviours, your overflow and measure it and see where there are times where you feel like you're exhausted with the things that you've said yes to and set up as systems in your life.
And then take that, thread them back to when you said yes and why you said yes. Was it through guilt? Was it through pressure from yourself or from others? Was it from feeling that you should?
I really am inviting you to go back and do the work here because being in full alignment with the overflow is going to be more and more necessary as we move through this year and into next year.
Energetic Responsibility and Living in Flow
Because if giving is getting in the way of refilling and re-energising, then there is an energetic and consciousness imbalance there.
And our work is to be harmonised, fully harmonised the whole time.
We want to be this flow the whole time and this is a magnetism and a knowing that as we are giving we are receiving and we're not over giving and we're not under giving but it's an awareness of where we feel pulled and where we feel overstretched.
Life will ask of us continually to be doing and serving and helping and correcting and making things better for others. Life will be on a constant ask of that and your energy in all of this matters.
Choosing Alignment Over Burnout
I gave up everything that I was doing for a year, 14 months to write my book. And I did that on purpose because I knew that if I carried on in the same way I would be prone to what has happened before and that's burnout and exhaustion and I don't want that anymore for my life.
So it's a rewiring and a realigning with what is really important.
I'm not talking about those acute moments where we drop everything and show up. I'm talking about the things that have been taken on over time through habits or pressure or feeling that if we do that thing we will be accepted as more than enough when you're already enough.
Final Reflection: Are You Giving from the Overflow?
Being at one with the divine and knowing there's an infinite flow also comes with a responsibility for how we use that flow within us.
So my question that I asked at the beginning, are you giving from the overflow?
Take that into your heart and if you feel that maybe not, then really do the exercise and look more deeply within and see where you can begin to offload things or say no to things or come to a completion with things that you know are not yours to do anymore.
And it's okay. It's okay. This is self-care, self-love.
And that's what I want to share with you today.
So yes, leave a comment. Yes, subscribe to the mailing list.
And more importantly, be the light that you are. Be the truth and the beauty and the power that you are right now. And don't make any excuses for it. Be the wholeness of who you are. Giving from the overflow.
Blessings and light and love.
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