The logic of abundance

To have or not to have? This is today’s question. To pay or not to pay? To give up or not to give up? To let things go or not to let them go?

When I was a child, I felt it like a burden each time I had to give money. Because this is how I would see it: giving money away! For nothing! It didn’t matter that I received something in return, it didn’t matter I finally had my dream toy or the experience I’d been waiting for. No! All that mattered was that I GAVE MONEY AWAY! I was never greedy, nor did I stick to my money, as a young adult, regardless of anything, I didn’t starve myself to not buy necessary things, but I still had, a rather unpleasant feeling, whenever I had to pay with money.

Luckily for me, credit cards got invented meanwhile, and that made is easier for me, in the way that I was spending numbers, not money. I was still very cautious with my finances, but part of the burden felt a little lighter, as I didn’t consider the currency anymore, I was paying with plain numbers. It seems like the currency gave the entire value aspect to any of my purchases!

Somehow, the currency meant the real deal, the real value, something serious and not to be played with, something that needed to be treated with respect and, overall, the real abundance.

A few years ago, I decided to take on a financial workshop, to see how I could improve my finances, of course, but also get to understand where the money issues and mentality come from, why are people so afraid of something they long for so deeply. I was also fascinated by the dualism of the man-money relationship, as everyone seems to want it, but nobody admits it openly, we love it and hate it at the same time, we consider we need it for everything, including happiness!!!, but then we curse it. This relationship always fascinated me because it was the most complex thing I could ever see, the most complex relationship between man and a manmade artificial value: money!

Beginning with the basics of economy (I am no expert, but I love ancient history), people started trading: what they had, for what they didn’t, but they needed. This would be the basis of commerce and money: need. But although what we need is intended for basic survival (see Maslow’s pyramid), the commerce flourished and started taking over the world because of what we wanted! Our desires started becoming more complex, more expensive. The price that we put on things got rapidly related to how much we wanted something, not how much we needed it! Although the needs keep us surviving, what we want feeds mainly our ego. So there you go, out of a twisted feeling that we will perish if don’t want get something (Ego’s death actually, not the real person’s death), we created a synthetic and artificial value scale and money.

Let’s take a look at what we had in the beginning, as human inhabitants or the Earth: free and endless food and water, all the land needed for hunting or crops and heat from the Sun. These alone could fulfil the basic needs. But control and possession came afterwards, once the Ego started to gain more and more territory into the human mind, and all this combined with the fear that if we don’t have something, we will perish, created the first scarcity mindset. Like any construction of the mind, this mindset developed into cultural values and beliefs, leading to the idea that if one person has more out of something, the others will have less. Which is wrong!

There is no amount of definite energy in the Universe! As we know today, from a scientific perspective, the Universe is infinite. The Sun still has energy for the next 100 generations of people (at least) and, most importantly, the Newton’s Third Law states that energy is always preserved, nothing gets wasted. So coming back to my issue with spending money, I got to the same conclusion.

Let’s assume money is energy and the human being is an object or a system. In this case, money originates from the Universe, passes through a system and changes! Just like the potential energy becoming kinetic energy. Going further with the hypothesis, everything originates from the Universe, which is infinite (at least for the human mind), so everything is available in infinite quantities. The only thing that matters is the system that the energy passes through: how does it affect it, change it’s behavior and change the frequency of that energy. Therefor, I have everything available at the same time, in infinite amounts, the only thing that needs calibration is the system that uses it, and that is the actual person.

If you assume money or resources are insufficient for everyone to feel good, the scarcity mindset will affect the way money flows through life. That flow of abundance will be modeled and adapted to the system that affects it. Just like light goes through a glass pyramid, with a single visible beam on one side, and a multitude and abundance of lights on the other side, compared with when it passes through a rather opaque element, where the same input beam gets dimmed and maybe even nulled on the other side.

The infinite possibilities are there, always, as time is just another way of explaining dynamics. We have everything and nothing in the same time. It all depends on what kind of a pass through system we work on becoming, so that the entire infinite flow available to us can be used in the best way.