Abundance with fear is no true abundance. As I said above, we are made to feel that we don't have enough, no matter how much we have. We worry at we will lose what we have and that the world is not trustworthy enough to help us. We also confuse freedom with egoism and think that having so much more than others is a natural goal to pursue, rather than seeking opportunities to bring others up with us.
Lots of programming to undo.
Absolutely a lot of programming needs to be undone.
Believe it or not, it took losing practically everything I worked for in order for me to lose my fear of losing everything! Perhaps that is why poor people are often happier than wealthy people? The poor have nothing to lose and thus no fear?
So easy to believe because I went through the same thing. ;-)
I don't really think there is any correlation between happiness and wealth whatsoever. I find 95% of people to be some kind of unhappy regardless of other factors until they deprogram and face their fears.