There is a belief system that says that the total supply of material in the world is zero-based. This means that if someone has a cookie or an apple, there is one less cookie, or apple, available for anyone else.
It seems very obvious - a plus on one side has to be balanced by an equal minus on the other side – simple math shows they add up to zero. If I buy a house, no one else can own it until I don’t own it anymore. If I am wearing a pair of shoes, no one else can wear them until I take them off.
It doesn’t just apply to material things either. This theory says that there is only a limited amount of happiness, joy, success, luck and love available in the world. If someone seems to be getting more than their share of these, someone, somewhere, will have to go without. And since we take things so personally, we suspect that this might mean that we are the ones who will have less.
This fear can cause all sorts of terrible behavior in people. On a larger scale, the fear of lack can actually create lack because fearful people hoard and cling to what they have. Scarcity is created, not because there is a true lack but because the natural flow and circulation of energy has been cut off.
As anyone knows who has grown one, one small garden can produce much more than one family can use. Nature is endlessly abundant and pays no attention to theories. Spiritual law also operates on a different energy level. Energy exists before it becomes visible in the material world. Energy is infinity-based - it can never be destroyed, it can only change forms.
I love my cat. When I acquired another cat, I didn’t divide my love between them; I had enough for both. If I had ten cats, there would be enough love for all of them because my capacity, my energy, of love isn’t limited; it flows and increases. It isn’t a question of more or less love available - there is love enough for all.
If I see someone eating an ice cream cone, I can sit and sigh and wish I had one. I can think, “There’s one less ice cream in the world now, and it isn’t mine.” I could get very angry and decide that they had no right to that ice cream when I didn’t have one! I might get so angry I that go and take that ice cream right out of their hands!! Ha ha! Now it's mine! And all this time there is an ice cream store right behind me where I could go and get my own, in exactly the right size and combination of flavors that I like best.
Life actually is a lot like an ice cream store, with thousands of flavors, and it’s never closed! When I see someone with an ice cream cone, I think, “Hey, there must be an ice cream store around here! Lucky me!”
When we see that others have what we want, instead of grumbling about what they have, we can realize that our own is out there too! The very fact that someone has it means that it’s out there - it doesn’t have to be invented, it’s available to us just as it is to them! How wonderful! It gives us a goal, creates a desire within us to bring something new into our lives.
Energy expands as we use it. We give energy a channel, a place to touch the earth and become visible. Energy is only limited by our use of it. Our thoughts can hold on to it so tightly that it can’t move and express itself. Our fear of lack, our envy of others, puts a death-grip on our energy. Energy isn’t meant to be held onto - its nature is to flow and change forms.
Life stands before us and asks, “Ice cream, anyone?”
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I choose to live abundantly. I'll have a banana split please. That's my answer to life :) Nice post @donna-metcalfe I like your application to life, nature and spirituality. I really want to go on a rant about economic theory and politics and how your post applies but I will spare you haha
Yes a banana split please! And make mine a double. :-)
Economic theory is where this came from and I'd love to hear your rant about it.
If we are talking about our budgets then zero-theory applies. But in Nature and Spirit we have to understand how energy works. And work with that energy.
This story came from something my Angels showed me - me obsessing over an empty gum wrapper and feeling sad. Then them showing me they were trying to take me to a candy shop. I made it about ice cream because I like ice cream!
based on your previous post, I think we both share a commitment not to talk politics on Steemit haha
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Excellent reminder for many of us regarding energy and our thoughts. Thank you Donna for sharing.
Hello @donna-metcalfe, how are you.. are you out on vacation or something? Missing your posts..
Hi @cicisaja! I fell in the bathtub and hurt my back! A foolish thing to do but nothing broken or permanent damage, just very painful. Feeling bad about not writing anything or checking up what others are writing. I think the pain pills make my brain fuzzy. Getting off of them starting yesterday and feeling better in body and brain! I hope to start catching up this weekend.
Thank you for checking on me!
oohh dear @donna-metcalfe, so sorry to hear that and I hope that you'll get well soon. have you checked on your back bone? uhmm.. if you can find any massage service around, you should try to get the massage, because according to my experience, no matter you found nothing broken or permanent damage, but if your body fell off and hurt so much, you should relax it through a simple massage to prevent the frozen blood.. uhm I don't know what is the right words for that, it is a condition when you hit something and some purple or red bruises emerge on your skin and it's hurt.
Get Well Soon!
That sounds like good advice, thank you!
I fell against the edge of the tub and because I tend to bruise easily I expected to see big bruises for sure! But I didn't except for a small one on my arm.
Two years ago I twisted a back muscle and I think I fell against the same muscle this time. So I'm thinking the muscle is bruised but it's not showing on my skin. Pretty weird.
Hope that everything will be fine, anyway.. how do you fix the twisted muscle in your country? We're even have some expert who can fix the broken bones through massages here in Indonesia.
When my left shoulder bone had broken 8 years ago, everyone suggest me to got the massage rather than surgery😊 but I knew how bad it feels even though for a few minutes, I couldn't stand such pain.but 4 month after surgery I still couldn't raise my hand, so I went to the massager to get full body massage except on the shoulder.
The massager said that she needed to make my blood circulation runs well through special massages so it will prevent me from having a serious problem in the future. It's a traditional treatment.
How I fixed my twisted muscle was just time. Resting and taking pain pills until I could move again. Plus I stopped doing chainsaw work! :-) Ever since then I have been thinking about getting a massage but haven't done that.
A broken shoulder is so much worse! In surgery did they just set it or did they have to put a pin in the bones?
A massage to get my circulation more balanced and flowing, that makes sense and maybe a regular massage would help. But for more than that I might have to look for someone more specialized? Right now I think I have too much pain to let anyone touch me! My poor husband has learned to be very careful.
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