Learning to recognize if you are in abundance is scarcity is essential, because when you act from scarcity, scarcity is strengthened and manifested in your life, and when you act from abundance, abundance is manifested and strengthened.
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. When circumstances are difficult, it is easy to blame them for your discomfort and your powerlessness. When life is tough and not going your way, it’s easy to fall into the victim mode. Yet, the assumption of abundance is that we are intimately connected to our results in life, and you can always change your response. Instead of being a victim to circumstance, you can change your circumstance.
The scarcity response to difficult circumstance is to try and exert power over the world, and to try to take control to avoid further discomfort. The scarcity response is a reactive response, driven by fear, doubt and anxiety, and is experienced as ‘work harder, try harder, be more disciplined’ and in getting others to do what you want. The scarcity response is seen when you are caught in the rat race, racing against everyone else and against time to get ahead in life.
The abundance response is to know that your results in life are not divorced from your inner consciousness. The moment that this is recognized, the movement into abundance has happened.
The first thing abundance does is to stay present to the inner tension of discomfort. There is a willingness to be with the feeling of discomfort, and to not allow the feeling to drive the stories of scarcity that so easily result. As the tension is stayed present to and felt into, sooner or later it will liberate, and there will be a felt release of tension.
After the release of inner tension, a feeling of openness follows, and from this open space, you can freely engage with the world, giving your gifts, receiving the gifts of others and engaging in authentic relationship. From the place of openness, there is no sense of being threatened or having to survive, and there is a sense of there being enough for everyone. From abundance, there is a confidence in your unique relevance, so there is no worry about becoming obsolete. You simply commit to learning and continually doing your best.
I have found this time and time again. When I can open up, my world opens up and abundance flows us. When I am closed, my world closes down and I experience scarcity.
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