I just saw a meme online that contrasts Abundance Consciousness with a Scarcity Mindset. The content was interesting; but the comments were even more telling for me.
Some people looked at the Abundance side and reacted very negatively--angry, defensive, and frustrated. Others reacted with a kind of blissed out Zen energy.
Mostly, I was just interested in how when confronted by something, our reactions say so much about how we view the world, and how we protect our belief systems.
It occurred to me that the whole world presents us with these opportunities. When I start looking at the world as a mirror, and as a way to know myself better by my reactions, it becomes a very different place.
I had a nasty bout with feeling judged this week. Wow. I can't believe how much work I still need to do around this. But now, I can look at it a little more objectively, and recognize that I'm not done growing. What people think of me, what they say, how they feel about the way I live my life, still makes me defensive and hurt.
But it's more about old hurt than new. It's more about feeling like I don't belong than the reality that of course I do. I have my place on this earth, and I want to stay graceful and fluid with that place. Because it's not really mine. It's borrowed. And that's ok.
But it has been a fragile understanding and I still have work to do.
Maybe the world is telling you a lot about yourself, by just being there as a neutral party. What's the smallest thing you will do today to treat it like a teacher?
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