Never a Lack

People often say they have a problem with lack. Usually, they mean lack of money, but they may also mean lack of time, lack of love, lack of opportunities, or lack of freedom. Although certain experiences may look like lack, the issue is not really lack at all. If we understand this, the whole playing field of life will change significantly.

We are never without creative energy. We are never without life force. We are never without the ability to create experiences. Human beings are creating all the time. We cannot help but create, because our very experience of being human is itself a creative process. We have dreamed existence into reality, and moment by moment, we continue dreaming things up as we go. The problem is not that we lack the ability to create. The problem is that most people dream up their lives from unconscious, unhelpful beliefs.

A person may say they want more of something, but end up creating the exact opposite. Not because they are bad at creating, but because they have unconscious beliefs running underneath their conscious desires. Our deepest beliefs always override our more surface-level ones.

Someone may want money while unconsciously believing they are unworthy of having it. Another person may fear what other people will think of them if they become successful. A person may worry that if they become more abundant than the people around them, they will be judged, rejected, envied, or seen as different. Someone else may carry beliefs that money is shallow, selfish, corrupting, or spiritually wrong.

Others may have ingrained beliefs around struggle. They may believe that work should be hard, that sacrifice is morally superior, or that people only deserve money if they exhaust themselves earning it. If ease appears, they may distrust it because struggle feels more familiar.

If these deeper beliefs are not clearly seen, they will continually override our conscious desires because the deeper mind is more powerful. When things are not working the way we would like, we need to look honestly at our deepest beliefs. We need to understand where they come from. Were they inherited from parents, culture, religion, schooling, relationships, or experiences?

There is never a lack. Human beings are innately powerful. We are never without the capacity to create movement and change in our lives.

Don’t turn your abundance of creative life-force into an experience of lack. That is like trying to breathe through a straw while standing in the vastness of pure, open air.

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