How we get conditioned into Scarcity as a Society.

“For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is “I didnt get enough sleep.” The next one is “I don’t have enough time.” Whether true or not, that thought of not enough occurs to us automatically before we even think to question or examine it. We spend most of the hours and the days of our lives hearing, explaining, complaining, or worrying about what we don’t have enough of… Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we’re already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds are racing with a litany of what we didn’t get, or didn’t get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack… This internal condition of scarcity, this mind-set of scarcity, lives at the very heart of our jealousies, our greed, our prejudice, and our arguments with life”
― Lynne Twist, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

Think about this for a moment the next time the thought comes in about “not enough”.  I know my mind goes into comparisons around what others have and I don’t.  Conditioning revealed.

This sets up a stress response in the body!  It ages us, closes down higher wisdom centers, creating separation .

I like the play on words also.  Scarcity….scare city or scar city. The scare comes to me from watching the media speak of linear facts about the world economy.  I know I must pay attention and feel the sway.

The Scar comes from once again responding to the world from an unhealed scar in me. We all been conditioned in this way.

When this pattern shows up in me, now I have the consciousness to ask “am I scared” or is this a “scar” showing up.  Either way, my heart knows the answer!