Scarcity is wired into us. Think back to when humans still lived with the cycles of nature. We had to be. There is still a wiring, a conditioning in our physical, mental and energetic bodies, to recognise a pattern of abundance and take as much as we can, so we survive the time when scarcity comes.
Like a squirrel gathering as much food as it can before winter. Or after a big storm, when lots of dry branches have fallen: it would be helpful to have an instinct to collect all that dead wood, knowing that in spring there will be fresh wood, but the dry wood might be rotten by then and we may still need it to cook.
Our physical bodies are wired the same way. They store fat to keep us alive, because the body knows there are cycles of scarcity and abundance. A mother gaining weight in pregnancy is not doing something wrong: her body is preparing to feed her when the baby is there and she has no time to go and collect food. These days we forget that, because food is delivered to our doorstep.
We have lost the cycle
So what has gone out of balance? We still carry the wired-in feeling of scarcity and the instinct to recognise abundance. What we have lost is the understanding of the cycle, the waves of scarcity and abundance.
I believe it is because we are surrounded by abundance. Sit in your home and look around you: most of the time, everything is there. I am not talking about the really hard moments, when at the end of the month there is not enough money to feed your children. But in general, even when you walk into a shop and cannot pay, the food is still there in abundance. We have added money in between, and we have lost our trust in abundance.
A tree in winter
Nature is abundant in everything. It is as abundant in scarcity as it is in fullness.
Look at a tree. In winter it has no leaves left, and you could say there is an abundance of bare branches. That abundance of bare branches should still give us, at the very base, the understanding that it will become an abundance of fresh green leaves. And the more green leaves we see during the year, the more bare branches there will be next winter, because the tree grows.
Scarcity and abundance are in co-creation, in equal polarity. It can't be only green leaves all the time, or the tree would never grow.
A river seems endlessly abundant. In Switzerland, where I live, the water comes from a glacier. From my tiny perspective there is an abundance of water. Looked at globally, there is an end to it, and one day there will be an ice age again and an abundance of glaciers. Our perspective is often too narrow to see the cycle, but if we go deep enough, we can always find it.
Your breath knows the cycle
When we feel there is less, we fall into an energetic anxiety, and it shows in the body: we hold back, we no longer take in the fullness of the air.
If you do breath work, you know the cycles. When we hold the breath, we create a scarcity of oxygen, but we are in charge. Then we breathe in fully and let go slowly. On a very deep level, this teaches the body to trust again.
This is what I want us to come back to: trust in abundance and in scarcity. Getting out of the victim role and being real. Both coexist.
Our natural state is the movement
Our natural state is not scarcity, and it is not abundance either. Our natural state is the movement from one to the other.
It is not natural to be stuck in scarcity, because we can't survive it. And we can't live stuck in abundance either, because then we are blind to the scarcity that naturally occurs.
What happens now is that most of us live most of our days in a feeling of scarcity. We have inherited it from our parents and our ancestors. When abundance comes, it is almost euphoric, a little dopamine hit, and then we are back in scarcity. It is never enough. We become a bit like addicts.
What is missing is trust, and being present in abundance without it being "oh my God, this is so amazing". It is simply your birthright. And when the abundance is used up, the scarcity that follows feels like the pause in the breath. Not anxiety, not fear. A pause, in which you can relax, because abundance does come back.
It is still a practice
I have worked on this for about ten years, and only this morning I caught myself. I was ordering an organic oil for my skin, something of self-care, something that would create abundance. As I saw the number at the checkout, the feeling of scarcity crept in. I recognised it, and I was able to release it physically and energetically on the spot. It took me maybe two minutes.
I tell you this to say: no matter how much work you have done, the little moments will still come. What changes is how you react to them, and how long they stay with you.
What helped me most over the years: becoming aware of it, a very practical and honest look at my money when I was young and building my first business, and practices that move my frequency. One of them: walking up the mountain in the morning with loud music, dancing a little at the top where no one could see me, and then, with an empty brain under the trees, looking up at the sky, breathing deeply and feeling what it would be like to already live in abundance.
Everything is energy. When you change the frequency, the cycle can move again.
If you would like to work on this together, the free conversation is a good place to begin.
