Scarcity: It Lives in You, It Lives in Me
There are not enough resources to go around, we're killing the planet, and we'll all need to move to Mars in the next 50 years to survive.
We've all heard it.
New idea: what if the collective resistance to scarcity (death) — is the very thing creating more of it?
Stay with me on this one.
To simplify the complex — repression, projection, and transcendence are 3 pretty incessant barriers to transformation. Or real change.
And a pretty high percentage of the population is avoiding scarcity visa vi one of these barriers in some way or another.
Be it through:
Repression: drowning in the harrowing sea of the world’s lack and suffering until you're sick.
Projection: living from the energy of 'the zero-sum game.' There's not enough to go around, so I gotta get mine. (Anyone remember grocery stores at the beginning of the pandemic? That was FUN.)
Transcendence: taking a nice new-age money bath to feel better. The universe wants me to be wealthy and welp — that's it!
In the previous email, we explored transcendence. Today, let's explore the energy that drives these 3 barriers – our friend and devious lover, resistance.
I'm sure you've heard the age-old adage that what you resist persists. One of my teachers astutely reframed this within the context of the energy body to "what you resist, you become."
When we approach money, resources, and essentially all we need to survive — mired in our own resistance to lack, we play the tune of scarcity. When we play this tune, we proliferate lack by–well, becoming it.
Once this happens, game on.
Enter—hoarding, over-taking, divide-and-conquer energy, selfishness, greed, loss of safety, dissociation from the intelligence of Life and nature, competition, power games, fear, survival responses, mass hysteria, the world suddenly becoming a very dark place, Life being something that couldn't care less about you… any of this sound or look familiar?
An issue we're facing at the moment: in our (sometimes very sly and subtle) resistance to scarcity, we become that energy, and we, together, exponentially multiply that reality.
Be it through repression, projection, transcendence, or a marble cake mix of the 3.
One of the most fascinating statistics is that there is enough on the Earth for everyone. The 'issue' is resource distribution, allocation, and use. Or, let's call it ~ the flow ~
From Carly Cassella, "There has been a tendency to simplify the idea of a good life into the notion that more is better. However, it is clearly within our grasp to provide a decent life for everyone while still protecting our climate and ecosystems."
This notion is vastly different from turning a blind eye to scarcity in the name of manifesting more money to drowning in a pit of despair or hoarding toilet paper.
This points us to the universal truth that we are nature. And we are meant to function like nature.
And you know what nature is an expert at?
Intelligent use of resources, life-giving ecosystems, and homeostasis.
Now, Plop, this is all very zoomed out and feels inapplicable to my day-to-day experience.
As I'm sure you're getting by now, none of us are exempt from the energy of scarcity because we are each essential components in its creation and continued proliferation on the planet. Scarcity, lack, and not-enoughness live somewhere in your system.
It lives in all of our systems.
The lie is the black-and-white idea that scarcity prevents you from having money.
Resisting engaging where scarcity lives in your system prevents you from having money.
Or, more specifically, (because we all know endless people with loads of money who most certainly aren't engaging scarcity, but rather, being driven by it) — it prevents you from having (stewarding) money in a way that feeds Life.
Our proverbial not-enoughness is an intelligent energy here to teach us about the true meaning of enoughness. As each of us begin to become aware of and live out our own personal enoughness manifesto, we might just begin to experience the symbiotic collaboration with money and resources we've been praying for… and along the way change the entire world.
