By Jason
WARNING: This article is part of a longer-than-usual series based on assisting individuals out of scarcity thinking and into abundance living. The real rewards come after this second part, and most people WILL drop off after reading what is said below. Most importantly, PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE BEFORE COMMENTING/MESSAGING/EMAILING ME with your feedback.
If you can make it all the way through this second article, the rewards of major assistance await you on the other side with part three. I readily accept that most people will abandon this article before completing it, as well as possibly leave my site and mailing list entirely…but I’m posting it anyway.
My goal here isn’t to intentionally upset, aggravate, or offend anyone in particular; the entire point is to help you recognize the uncomfortable truths that are keeping you stuck and unfulfilled. Hopefully that assertion causes you to recognize the shift that’s taken place within myself (as I’m following my own purpose path), as well as offer a blatant example that it is possible!
A Quick Recap:
In the last entry in this series, we discussed the methods for beginning the journey of embracing a lifestyle of abundance over the socially pre-programmed expectations of scarcity living.
We talked about things like purchasing what you want first and foremost, and allowing the price tag to be a peripheral, secondary factor in that equation. Money becomes a vehicle in itself for what you want, and the quantity of said money doesn’t matter. We discussed the difference between knowing how to spend money on what you actually want, as well as not to think that this method condones reckless, aimless spending. There’s a huge difference!
If you haven’t checked it out yet, definitely go back and read Part 1 before moving on.
For this entry, we’re going to dive in and dissect the differences in the concepts of abundance and scarcity, go through a few examples, and extract that ever-so important self-empowerment by the end of it all. Let’s get abundant!
The Abundance Mindset
This mindset – or more accurately, state of being – is truly where you desire to be in this life.
It’s everything you hope and dream for, and it’s absolutely valid and real.
It’s represented by the part of you that always aches for more money, more time, and more energy to do things which are genuinely important to you.
It’s the state of being that allows you to seamlessly and harmoniously blend your purpose path and income without a hitch.
If you admire a wealthy person who seems very happy with what they do, earn, and have – I’m willing to bet that this person is expressing and vibrating with the abundance state, even if they themselves aren’t consciously aware of it.
Have you ever consciously payed attention to how such wealthy people present themselves? Do you notice the confidence they exude? How they don’t fret over small or even unexpected expenses, knowing with full confidence that they are completely capable of generating plenty of income?
Simply put: the essence of the abundance mindset (or state of being) is in having full trust in yourself and the universe that things will work out in your favor.
This obviously takes a bit of time, self-experimentation, and effort – but once you overcome your own learning curve (which is mostly comprised of resistance due to self-limiting beliefs and social programming), you can create abundance scenarios in all areas of your life whenever you choose.
Such abundant people typically serve humanity in a way that allows for much greater reach and influence than having a single boss or employer. Their impact is typically more focused and concentrated, and thus they reap the rewards of multiple income streams, network connections, and lavish opportunities because they aren’t allowing limiting beliefs to compromise their behavior or choices.
If confidence is the “secret” here, then conscious confidence is the skeleton key that allows you to open the floodgates for yourself.
These are all very key points I want you to internalize here. In a moment you’re going to see how the scarcity mindset is the exact diametric opposite of this state.
The Scarcity Mindset
This, unfortunately, is the state the majority of people on this planet are trapped in. Though externally it’s not their fault that they’ve succumb to intense, focused social programming at the hands of school, media, and family – it’s tragic that most never question said programming in the first place once adolescence has ended.
The truly unfortunate part is that people are in complete control of their own mental policing, but aren’t yet conscious enough to recognize that they keep choosing suboptimal choices for themselves.
A lack of conscious awareness to anything outside of their current thought paradigm is exactly what’s responsible for self-limiting behavior loops that perpetuate more of the same (as you’ll read plenty about in part three).
If this sounds incredibly harsh and insensitive to you, rest assured that you’re probably more mired in scarcity than you’d readily admit.
You’d have no reason to defend something if you didn’t genuinely feel a personal attachment to it on some level.
I want you to take a minute and really internalize that assertion. Don’t get upset because I’ve brought it up; use this opportunity to feel your relationship to the idea of getting defensive in the presence of an uncomfortable truth. It requires both courage and humility to do this; both are virtues nowhere to be found within the framework of scarcity thinking.
Notice how you most likely don’t get upset when someone condemns a wealthy person, yet you get all sorts of pissed when a wealthy person – or even an unbiased bystander – recognizes and questions why people live as you/they do.
You don’t get upset with the condemnation of wealth, because you don’t yet identify with it.
This is exactly why scarcity appears to run your life (and one of the main points of this article we’ll be getting to later on) you’re unconsciously choosing scarcity.
To put it more accurately: since you don’t know you’re choosing (because you’re unaware), you end up choosing the least empowering of the choices available to you by default because lower emotions like fear, worry, and doubt cloud your thinking.
Those the deepest in scarcity thinking will dismiss everything I’m saying as being unreasonably delusional.
Those who resonate with abundance (or are currently shifting toward it) are most likely nodding their heads and smiling at their computer screen.
Scarcity level thinking is built on the foundational assumption that you don’t have a choice in the matter, and that your environmental circumstances are something that are outside of your direct influence to control and change.
This is the single-biggest mistake of them all.
What keeps most really trapped is the secondary belief that you don’t have a choice in the matter. This is the most self-deprivating thing you can possibly do.
It’s also compounded by the belief that everyone’s success is more a matter of a “luck of the draw”, such as the situation and family you were born into. While it is true that some starting points may be more advantageous than others, reality is incredibly democratic when it comes to direct personal action in spite of circumstances.
Once you begin accepting the true responsibility for every level of choice you make – from thinking, to feeling, to behaving – you begin seeing how external circumstances and resources behave more like props than hard limits.
The second you abandon the true responsibility of choice, your external reality is going to consume you. Yes, it really is as simple as making an internal choice to no longer succumb to circumstance, and push in a new direction despite immediate outcomes. You can argue about lacking resources, having kids, a mortgage to pay, and all kinds of other bills. All you’re doing is making money a power source for yourself, as well as creating excuses as to why you don’t want to embrace your true power. If numbers in a bank account are enough of a threat to make you behave like a turtle hiding in its shell, you’ve got some serious self-work to do.
If that last line really pisses you off and has you calling me an overprivileged douche-bag who has no sense of reality, struggle, the economy, etc….
…take a moment to consciously question how you’re choosing to relate to the ideas and concepts that both represent scarcity and abundance to you.
It’s okay if doing this gets you a little heated. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than complacency, and especially denial and apathy.
Those who adopt (more like succumb) to the social programming of the scarcity mindset invariably believe that the world is a wild west scenario, with people all fighting over resources. These resources are limited, and with the way the economy is set up, not everyone can be wealthy because money is limited in supply, and jobs are becoming more and more scarce. Opportunities for employment and wealth are at an all time thin point as of 2015.
If you aren’t already established with many years under your belt with a stable employer, you’re pretty much screwed.
This is 100% bullshit. Actually, it’s closer to 1000%. Let’s cut the bullshit and get to the core of this problem, shall we?
The Reality of Reality, and My Own Personal Growth Situation
If I haven’t pissed you off enough to make you leave my site and unsubscribe yet, congratulations; you’re most likely about to experience some serious self-revolutionizing revelations.
I know that last bit seems incredibly harsh, but recognize that relative to your current position, any truth that’s required to progress is going to sound absolutely insane, unreasonable, delusional, and all-out incompatible with your current state. This is your first sign that growth is around the corner for you. This is especially true during the process of transitioning from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking.
The reality of this situation is that I sympathize with anyone and everyone who’s presently battling the scarcity mindset, because I was trapped in it for the first 26 years of my life…and I turned 27 last week.
One full month of committing to doing things completely outside of my comfort zone has proven to me without a shadow of a doubt how much my own beliefs were crippling my ability to take action in alignment with abundance. I’ve made more progress in the last four weeks than I have in the last four years.
The key to this for me was to:
Stop identifying with the scarcity mindset – essentially stop identifying with employee thinking, political propaganda, and especially friends and family who insist that the world is more difficulty than it was a decade ago…
…and
Start taking action in conscious directions of my choosing on a daily basis – even when I can’t be certain of the outcome, nor how I’ll obtain the resources required to complete said goal.
Coincidentally, this is exactly the attitude required to unlock all sorts of synchronicity, because you’re not staying attached to one particular outcome.
Notice how abundance involves detachment from outcome coupled with unconditional, disciplined, and consistent action…
…And how scarcity involves vehement insistence on things having to be a certain way, or all is lost.
Action is entirely conditional on external prerequisites being met FIRST, as well as undisciplined and inconsistent action due to lack of emotional intelligence and balance. Is it any wonder the second group attracts and manifests scarcity scenarios when you see it like that? Can you see how the latter operates within a much more narrow bandwidth of choice, and thus genuine opportunity?
The Responsibility of Choice is a Privilege
You may have noticed somewhat of a new tone in this article. You might begin perceiving me as a “sellout, know it all blogger”, or an incredibly ignorant, arrogant, judgmental individual trapped in his own bubble, with no clue about the real struggles people deal with on a daily basis.
Your opinions are all valid, and I respect your ability to choose. However, at the same time, recognize that I myself am using the power of choice as well. I was very much mired in the scarcity mindset, and I’ll bet I’ve made it through a few scary spots that even you’ll admit resonate very, very well with that state of being:
I’ve gotten kicked out of my apartment for not being able to make ends meet as a freelance designer.
I also lost my car due to being unable to pay my bills due to lack of a job when the above was really tanking.
I’ve been robbed of hundreds of dollars in money that I could have used to pay said bills, but instead I chose to risk it. Most of that money was used to help others in dire straits who promised to pay me back, but then disappeared completely.
Reality was showing me that I wasn’t in a position to help anyone yet, because I wasn’t yet helping myself.
Reality has shown me time and time again that it will restart the game against my favor the longer I resist my own power and potential, and continue to scamper on the floor for crumbs left by the generosity of others. The moment I started committing to a path where I would prove I was valuable to others, everything in my life changed.
All of that may sound incredibly foolish to you, but recognize that through that temporary struggle I came out very confident on the other side. I now know my true power, because I pushed myself to failure several times, just like a muscle.
By consciously stating things that may aggravate you initially, I’m offering you the chance to grow beyond your current reality. In the process, I myself am starting to no longer resonate with scarcity, and a larger portion of my reality is beginning to resonate with abundance. I can see this is becoming more and more true because even my “off” days are of a higher quality of awareness and constructive activity.
The key difference here is that you might believe that you win by unsubscribing and talking trash about me in the comments. The truth is, I win whether you decide to follow me on this journey or not, because you either embrace conscious growth and abundance, or you’ll make space for someone who’s more congruent, and thus can use this material and make a difference in the world.
For every nine people that think this article is ridiculously delusional, there will be one person who gets it, changes their own life for the better, and begins servicing humanity on a higher level.
I’m more than willing to gamble with those odds at this point in human history.
The key points I want you to walk away with today are:
You can’t help anyone else – whether a future employer or customer – until you learn to help yourself by ditching the scarcity mindset and embracing abundance
You cannot provide your greatest service for the greater good of humanity by constantly avoiding difficult decisions like embracing a career that fulfills you versus sticking with what you’ve got now just because it pays the bills
You really do have to buck up and accept that you’re going to have to move through some temporary discomfort if you ever want to truly experience some serious growth and fulfillment on the other side
This requires the conscious application of courage, and your consciousness expands according to your relationship with said courage
As long as your reality is consumed by fear and scarcity level thinking revolving around material security, you’ll never reach the levels of awareness that allow you to see why service to others from your place of power and purpose is the way out of said mess
The ideas and concepts in this article are incredibly oversimplified, and I understand that 100%. It’s very difficult to express this level of thinking without falling prey to excessive abstraction.
I personally despise when personal development writers do this, and insist that all you have to do is change your mind and all is well. While changing your mind and working on the level of belief is absolutely imperative, there’s obviously much, much more to it than that.
That’s precisely why in the next entry to this series I’m going to dive right in and talk about the actual groundwork required to change your state of being in ways that actually give you confidence instead of more “…I hope this is what the author meant” BS.
This article serves the purpose of shaking you out of your shell enough that you begin seeing other possibilities. As long as you accept where you are and embrace where you’d like to go consciously, you’re already miles ahead of most people.
So, am I a douche-bag? Or am I simply another conscious individual who refuses to cater to scarcity level thinking, and empower others – no matter how jarringly at first – to embrace higher levels of consciousness and free themselves from their own mental, physical, and spiritual prisons?
That choice is yours to choose.
However, recognize that you’re choosing, and do so consciously.
About the author:
Jason Demakis a frequent Expanded Consciousness contributing writer. Read more of Jason’s articles HERE. Jason is best known for his writings of consciousness and meditation, and has profound knowledge in each.
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