It’s fascinating how we often think of poverty only in terms of material resources, yet there’s a deeper, more insidious form of poverty that we rarely address.
This is the poverty of the spirit, the poverty of the mind constantly entrenched in negative thoughts and scarcity me-me-me, gimmee gimmeee energy.
It sounds like this.
This kind of poverty drains our vitality, leaving us empty and dissatisfied, no matter how much material possessions we have. It is the Hungry Ghost, the part that sees people as walking wallets for us to take from; it’s a hunter-prey thing that we used to need but now is rusting our insides.
Consider how much energy is wasted on envy, comparing ourselves to others, and judging how others make or spend their money. If redirected, this energy could be used to create, innovate, and connect more deeply with the world around us and everyone in it. Instead, it festers, creating a toxic environment both internally and externally.
When I hear that so-and-so doesn’t even deserve that thing they have because yadda yadda, I feel sick to my stomach. The memories I hold of myself doing this make me feel even more ill.
Imagine a world where we each focused on our paths, where we supported each other’s successes without feeling threatened or inadequate. The energy of abundance is limitless, but it requires a shift in perspective. We need to move away from scarcity energy and toward one of plenty.
We think if we stop worrying about money, it will all go away, or we'll never have enough customers or clients, or what we have accumulated will all disappear, and we'll be poor or, maybe worse, poor again.
But isn't this worry energy the worst kind of scarcity energy? The real poverty?
Isn't comparisonitis or judging people who are making money or looking out there and spending your time criticizing how other people do their business an even deeper poverty?
Meanness can mean being cheap with money or ignoble or small-minded.
Meanness can also mean being generous with your criticism and stingy with your love.
The more I see people saying shitty things about money - those who have it, those who sell their time or products and how they choose to do that, the more clear I am that real poverty doesn't mean not having enough money...
it means having no connection to life other than that of the Human Mind always scrambling and grabbing for something that never satisfies
it means taking your own breath and, rather than speaking new things into existence - waging war on others with your own words, which are imbued with life force energy
it means that times I engage in this, I am a warmonger - we are adding to the war energy of the planet through bitching about how someone else does their thing or how much they have and how they got it
Giving your power away to anything external is the most profoundly wounding kind of poverty.
Where is your focus right now?
What are you speaking into existence?
Are you in the arena or criticizing those who are?
You're the boss of your ENTIRE existence - how are you wielding this power?
XO,
LMW
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