Scarcity or Abundance? What will you choose…?
Abundance Thinking
Recently whilst helping some clients I was reminded of the importance of having “abundance thinking” and the horribly debilitating effect of having any kind of of it’s opposite- scarcity thinking.
Sadly the vast majority of humans actually live in scarcity, created by their past scarcity thinking… And perhaps our ancestry of “survival of the fittest.” A much smaller percentage of humans find a way to live in abundance thinking
Scarcity Thinking…
What is scarcity thinking… and what are some examples of what it creates?
Scarcity thinking arises from a place of fear and is associated with very specific beliefs as follows. When you are in the place of fear or scarcity, to validate yourself you must now hold the belief that you must compete for the limited resources in your environment. You believe that your external environment survival relies on your ability to compete…
Since you now compete, you’re now in a scarcity self-fulfilling doom cycle and increase your circle of scarcity energy and fear further by increasing your concern worrying now that others may compete back or retaliate in some way including attacking you…
And now your really off and running in scarcity… Your looking for multiple opportunities to increase your scarcity protection (therby further increasing competition) and start judging the actions of others from your increasingly competitive viewpoint reading all of their actions as potential , imminent or actual attack… Which is what you now constantly think about… And then create the reality in your life!
Of course at any given point in time (like right now), one of your now multiple competitors in the form of other humans, time, wellness, money, spiritual, career, businesses, even inanimate object, etc “attacks” you – and wins! You lose your job or your job stinks, you lose a client, you have time stolen from you or it works against you, you bang you your head, leg, etc on something and get angry at it, your body lets you down and you become unwell, etc.
Now your scarcity thinking, the scarcity energy you’ve allowed, turns internal and you compete with yourself. You start to feel the fear energy of abandonment - “I’m not good enough…”, “I can’t make it work”, “I’m not old/young enough…”, “I’m not liked/appreciated/acknowledged”… You’re actually talking to yourself, about somehow seperate parts of yourself, negatively judging one or more parts of who your are! Enough of that kind of self-talk leads to just one place – despair or “the place without any hope”… And off you go creating your reality piece by piece, thought by thought, self-talk conversation by self-talk conversation.
Abundance Thinking…
On the other hand abundance thinking and energy works from the place of love and is it too is associated with a very specific set of flow on beliefs – and outcomes.
Consider this – some parents have their first child and love the child fully. Then they have another – and love that child fully too. Do they love either of the children less becuase another was born? Of course the answer is no. And so it is with all other abundance thinking. No loving parent would even begin to consider that there is a competition for their love by their children. It dosn’t even enter their thinking. Could you think about your money that way?
Abundance thinking creates…
Creates abundance, wealth, health, respect, wellbeing, wholeness in others. It builds trust as opposed to competition and makes others feel safe as opposed to the “in danger” feeling that scarcity creates. Abundance thinking allows that others can make mistakes… That they can be forgiven for mistakes, we can forgive them for their mistakes… And so that when we make the mistake, we will forgive ourselves and be forgiven by others too.
In growing families, association, businesses and communities of any kind the ability to for-give is what makes risk taking and creative growth possible. And don’t you just love the word in english, for – give. It indicates a form of investment right? Giving before the event. Wouldn’t you love to have everyone in all your circles of association investingly for-give abundance energy to you? I know I would love that. I do love that…
It is my blessing to know at least some of that.
Abundance Thinking- getting in to action…
My suggestion for getting your abundance thinking going…
- For-give yourself… And find ways to learn to love and accept yourself…
- For-give everyone in your various communities career, local community, spiritual, sport, business until you can feel that you hold no competitive or “in danger or retaliatory” energy. I ‘ve found that this needs to be practiced regularly – part of my morning meditations
- “Feel out” important situations in your life, re-imagine them if you like, as if you had all the abundance in the world. Then ask,”how would I act in this situation…”
- Look in the mirror of your life… Eveything in my life and your life is a reflection of what’s going on inside you, your thinking. So review your whole life situation – your car, your house, your relationships, your bank balance, your love life, get really honest with it all and ask “Is it really meeting what I believe I am capable of?”
In those areas where it’s not identify where you have been using scarcity thinking versus abundance thinking. - Schedule time out each month and year to ask the same questions again.
Well that about it from me… But I would love to know your thoughts on this… And your strategies for identifyng scarcity thinking and turning it into abundance thinking.
