Today, in our Gratitude Circle, we discussed the Scarcity State which is essentially the opposite of the below. I wanted to reflect here about some of the conversation that we had and elaborate on what scarcity is and what it feels like.
The Scarcity State is born out of a fundamental belief that our lives are happening to us and that we are not, on some level, creating our own experience. Certainly, there are many things in life over which we have no control and it behooves all of us to let those things go as soon as have the capacity to do so, but scarcity specifically refers to clinging to things, experiences, people, or money because we simply do not believe that there is more out there. When we enter the scarcity state, we are victims to other people and we get into arguments with reality and our circumstances that we simply cannot and will not win. This, by its nature, leads to suffering. When we cling and do not believe that something greater than ourselves is bringing us the things...
Thinking about self-limiting beliefs today. Are there limiting beliefs that you’ve held in the past that have kept you stuck? How did you move past them?
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One sentiment that is, in my opinion, easily identifiable in our modern culture is the concept of “Safetyism.” When I say this word, I mean an obsession with safety, being risk averse to the point of being pathological. The increase in fear in our consciousness is very apparent, so what could be driving this heightening fear? I think the truth of the matter is that people have a perception that things are more dangerous than they are because they have been informed by a less than credible internet source or their perception is skewed by their feed. As an example, many people believe there’s more violent crime being committed now than some years ago. Meanwhile, FBI data illustrates a different picture of this, showing that since the 1990s, crime is overall on a downswing. What could be the reason for this stark contrast? I would posit that it relates to the availability of information through the internet and social media. It’s much easier for violent crimes and atrocities to come into ...
When I was a younger man, I discovered a community and a whole world within dance music. When I started to fall in love with this scene, I began going to events where people danced until sunrise, were obsessed beyond measure with niche artists that no one’s heard of (but we gag over), and made fast friends with the strangers standing next to you. When going to events, the thing that I probably loved the most was how connected to people I felt. I felt as though I had permission to say hi to the strangers next to me and ask them about themselves. Some of my closest friends to this day came from these sort of interactions - probably because if a person is at that sort of event, you can ascertain that you have things in common.
Experiences like this are healing. Most of the time, we walk around judging each other as if we’re high and mighty, everyone is in our way as we indulge our egos and try to get through our respective days. But in these moments, we can mostly let that go and connect to ...
I’ve been reflecting about the concept of rest and why it appears to be very difficult for many of us in the current state of affairs. When I say rest, I mean both physically and mentally…but especially mentally. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that we’re all very overstimulated and I think because of this, our ability to push the “off” button has become…suspect, at best.
We are existing at the corner of hustle culture and an attention economy (social media, instagram, etc.) that has made it seemingly difficult to unplug and just be. I often find that if I’m honest with myself, a lot of time that I’m “resting” I’m not even rested, nor relaxed because I’m consuming two or three forms of media at once. This is not relaxing….it might be relaxing if we’re just intentionally allowing ourselves to scroll but the thing about a living, breathing algorithm is that we don’t even know what we’re going to get sometimes. We could be trying to relax and in pops a ...
