January 3rd, 2010 by rob white
The world offers you a fabulous opportunity. Without the abundance of contrast that you find in the world, this rich physical realm of existence would not exist. But because it does exist as an environment of opposites, it offers you marvelous opportunities to experience relativity. What side of the stick are you relating to: sufficiency or insufficiency? The choice is entirely up to you.
When you relate to insufficiency, the idea of abundance feels illusory, and because it feels illusory, abundance becomes a fleeting experience.
When you are willing to relate to all that is enriching and beautiful in the world, you find it easy to attract benefits of every nature your way. The world always has been complete and always will be complete, for it exists in tune with the infinite.
There is no one who misses the enriching sense of self-worthiness when he chooses to relate to the enriching side of this world. So how do you do that? It requires living in the everyday world, appreciating all that is sufficient and beautiful.
It is a lost person, indeed, who thinks he is here in physical form to simply survive and get by. There are no rewards to merely getting by. This thought-vibration serves as a shaky idol that will always lets you down. The worshipper of ‘merely getting by’ causes self-panic. There is absolutely no redeeming value to that.
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Self panic and insufficiency – I know that feeling too well. Thanks for the peek at reality, which is infinitely sufficient!
My love life feels illusory. I guess I focus on insufficiency. Is it me that’s insufficient or is it the lack of men available?
Hi Karen, rob will tell you that a lack of men in your life is because you are vibrating NO by thinking in terms of insufficiency. What is lacking is your positive attitude. There is a lot more to you than what you are putting out there.
appreciation is everything. Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate. It is cold and snowy here… today Im going to notice how beautiful the snow looks on the trees.
I must be a ‘worshipper of just getting by’ because I often have panic attacks.
Panic attacks are a consequence of depression, which are a consequence of inaction, Norman. Get off your butt and create an empowering relationship with your life. Try something new. That’s all it takes
It is clear to me that I enjoy a powerful relationship with a thousand parts of life. I also struggle with some of my relationships with life. From my struggles comes strength.
Hi Joe, yes from our struggles come strength, if we know enough to learn the lesson they offer. Great observation.
I can see in my life where I relate to insufficiency. There is plenty of scarcity when it comes to money and friends.
Hi Raymond, the clearer you can see the relationships you set up with life, the more power you have to change them if they are not working for you.
I must relate to insufficiency with almost everything in my life. I find there to be not only a lack of money and love in the world these days, but a lack of general good spirit.
Colby, you are right that there is a lack of general good spirit in the world these days, and that’s precisely because so many folks are relating to life from an attitude of sufficiency. You can be one of the few who begins the ‘turnaround’; be a transformational figure – begin now appreciating all there is to appreciate in your life.
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We’re working on more boogs due to demands; thanks, Shep
I must be relating to scarcity more than I think, because the insufficiency side of the stick is coming up side of my head a lot lately.
That insufficiency side of the stick can have a lot of clout when it whacks you.
I am beginning to see a lot ot relate to that is enriching my life experiences – one step that has helped me with this is spending less time in the local pub that I spend far too much time frequenting.
When it comes to my wife, I find I relate to the negative side of the stick far too often. We are on the verge of a splitup, and it is because of me more than her.
This environment of opposites will lean heavily on the positive side if we think it does. and it cannot lean in that direction if we think it doesn’t. I have lived this fact.
I love that life pays attention to what we believe, Enroy. Otherwise it is all a crap shoot.
I just lost my job. Insufficiency does not feel illusory to me
Hi Laura, losing your job can present possibilities beyond your imagination, but only if you discipline your attention on all that is really great about your life right now (in spite of the loss of your job).
I have been making an effort ot appreciate all that is around me that is beautiful. It was difficult to find things to appreciate at first. Now it is getting easy. it’s fun.
I can see how opposites give me something to relate to. My best friend is very different than me, and that is why I enjoy his company so much.
Everything is a relationship. The biggest one we have is with ourselves. Until we recognize this, we sell ourselves short.
The world is complete because it is in tune with the infinite. I am complete when i realize I am in tune with the infinite. The world contains devils that stop me from realizing that – devils that insist I have to look good to feel complete. How foolish.
I’ve related to insufficiency all of my life; my parents and my grandparents also have. Is it ever a time for change!
It is easy to live in my everyday world seeing plenty of good, and that’s because I now am the proud father of a tiny, healthy baby girl. What a remarkable feeling.
The world is always complete and everything in it is always complete, except me according to my parents. Teach them to see me complete and I will find it easier to feel complete.
The idea of abundance feel illusory to me when I look at all the unpaid bills hounding at me; yet, deep inside I DO know that I can turn it all around if I change my attitude and mood about it.
You’re right, there is no redeeming value to causing self-panic; yet that is precisely what I do every time I watch the evening news and think the world is going to hell in a hand basket. I get the news doesn’t do this to me – I do.
Hi Lana,
I stopped watching the news years ago. It’s interesting that there are so few positives. It’s not that there is not good news so it must just be that good news has no appeal for the media. Well, I’m stepping away from that mindset and if I’m a little slow to hear about the tragedy in the world it hasn’t hurt me yet. Allowing my attitude to be hurt is my own tragedy.
My environment has few opposites these days; I got a raise, my wife is pregnant, and I just broke my best bowling record – all good!
The earth’s in tune with the infinite, and when i’m in tune with the earth, I’m in tune with the infinte.
I’ve just now decided to choose the enriching side of life. I know I have work to do to attract it. i am beginning by cleaning up my grumpy ways. I am looking forward to enriching changes coming my way.
My future felt clear and then my wife left me; leaaving me with a future that felt illusory. It is difficult to get back on track when your life partner (who you made future plans with) leaves.
Acknowledging abundence and claiming is new for me and I have been trying to share my new perspectives with my kids, an alternative to the scarcity attitudes I raised them with. They are teasing me about claiming and inside I am thrilled that are hearing it. They are becoming aware that there is a choice which is the first step to change. They re mind me some days.
Dawn, its so great that you are teaching it to your kids. They will be way ahead of the game. It is so hard to change the longer you are locked into a belief (I know I’m working hard now and wish I could have reached my children before they became adults). They may be saying it tongue-in-cheek now, but rest assured; it will sink in.
I love the idea of relating to enriching experiences in my life. Relating to them implies I am interacting with them, and they are not just passing through unnoticed by me. Great new way of seeing my life,
I wish I could convince my firlfriend that there is no redeeming value in self-panic. First, I’d have to convince her that it is SHE that causes her panics (not the world), and then I could show her how the self-panic always adds more problems to her problems (never helps solve anything).
I hate it when I get caught up in trying just to survive and get by. I can feel the frustration. I’m doing it right now in the work force.
I can feel how lost I am when I caught up in the idea that I am simply here trying to get by. I need this kind of blog to remind me. thanks.
I just won the lottery! The idea of abundance no longer feels illusory. It happened that quickly. I thought abundance was illusory for the past 42 years, but not anymore!
I cannot relate to what’s enriching in life if what’s enriching doesn’t show up for me to relate to.
I have found gratitude is a sure path to the bright side. Some days I would start with thanks for being alive, my health, my friends…simple basic stuff. Now I am thankful for choices, and opportunities, and a blog with this kind of conversation.