What is abundance and scarcity?

In this blog, we have a look at abundance and scarcity.

(Spiritually, abundance is the enlightened mind, and scarcity the ego)

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Abundance is usually thought of as material abundance, and from the mindset of scarcity consciousness, abundance represents the ability to endlessly consume. Different forms of consumption include food, money, power, love, and the consumption is driven by an underlying sense of emptiness and deficiency.

Abundance, as we use it at www.connected2success.com represents a story that we tell ourselves. The story has some key principles

· There is enough for everyone and more can be created

· You exist to contribute to each other and to the planet

· Everyone has unique relevance so there is no need to fight and compete.

· You are connected to Spirit and to a context much greater than yourself

· Spirit is infinite and is your true source

· Life is intelligent, there are no accidents and everything is fortuitous

The advantage of being in abundance consciousness is a fearlessness, because Spirit, your true identity, is eternal and indestructible. This allows you to face scarcity, see it, and transform it through staying present to it. Abundance doesn’t mean always feeling good; it means being willing to face whatever arises, and if you keep doing that, you eventually start to feel really good. Because abundance feels connected to Spirit, in its mature form it is full and overflowing, giving and loving.

Scarcity is driven by survival needs. It’s felt as an emptiness, and someone in scarcity consciousness never feels they have enough. Scarcity always wants more, for example money, more achievement, more love and more food. Scarcity feels disconnected from Spirit, and so tries to attain fullness through consuming and controlling the world. As scarcity places its wellbeing in the material world, it is prone to being a victim when conditions change outside its control.

Scarcity is accidental and arose as a survival mechanism in a world of physical threat, where it was necessary to fight of predators, other tribes, and hunt for food. In a world of few humans, abundant rescources and limited technology, scarcity was an excellent survival mechanism, and didn’t threaten the environment.

As technology has improved, and the number of humans has increased and demands on natural resources rocketed, humans can no longer fight, compete, and accumulate and expect to survive. What is needed is a new way of being, one of contribution, connection to Spirit, care and relationship. Abundance is the spiritual solution to the limitations of scarcity.

The implication of moving into abundance consciousness is a life of creativity, wellbeing, spontaneity, and most likely increasing financial and material abundance. Abundance relationships are open, supportive of growth, trusting and accepting of difference.

The implication of staying in scarcity, is one of increasing struggle, limitation, desperation, and eventual annihilation. Scarcity relationships are manipulative, controlling, cold, and resistant to change. In a world of change, inability to change becomes a threat to survival.

What can you do to begin to move into abundance? Learning to be present to challenging emotions, and not identifying with their story, is the golden key.