Scarcity energy is the worst. It makes us feel small, insignificant, and desperate. It fuels the worst kind of competition.
I know firsthand that it feels terrible to see people use your work to go offer the same thing.
I know it sucks to hear people saying what feels like “your” words.
I know the pain of seeing others succeed with the same material that you couldn't get off the ground.
That's life, honey bunnies.
I recently did a Mediumship reading, and the man who came through lived a life of acceptance. He lived "it is what it is" without a shred of bitterness or sarcasm.
I was in awe of how he devoured life without fighting reality. We have to learn this as well.
Humanity has a handful of themes we deal with every lifetime.
This means Shakespeare, the Stoics, and the Upanishads stay relevant because they, and so very many others, speak to the human condition: love, health, needing resources to thrive, loneliness, feeling you don't belong anywhere, rage, jealousy, and fear.
Everything we say has been said before in one way or another. Ancient texts clearly show this.
I'm in a course now that has strong shades of Robert Scheinfeld’s work. Also, Byron Katie, who echoes Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, who echoes Shakespeare, who echoes Marcus Aurelius, who echoes Buddha, who echoes...
Artists and writers are encouraged to copy others to grow their own style. Van Gogh did it, as did all those we consider great.
The point is - wasting energy getting upset about others "copying" delays your receiving the next download of inspiration that will serve you best at this stage of development.
You are an infinite receiver of ideas and inspiration, but listen...you have to stop looking at what others are up to first. Comparing your work to others has to die so your new creations can be born.
Someone "stealing" your ideas displays an insecurity and lack of trust in the flow of Life itself. This is deeply embedded scarcity thinking at its finest.
Do you really think the Divine Beloved can't bring you more and more and more?
Do you trust your creativity so little?
So, what to do?
Sit down.
Turn your focus within.
Listen.
Create.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
XO,
LMW