As we go through life, we tend to identify with certain people and and their thinking. For one particular way of thinking there does not seem to be any middle ground as there is in many other areas of our lives. I believe for those opposite of myself and others like me are missing out on most of life’s greatest gifts.

The thinking I am referring to pertains to whether you feel life holds endless abundance, or scarcity and there is never enough. I am part of those who know there is enough for everyone if we choose. No matter what anyone wants or needs, there is always enough.

The other side, or the other group believes there is not enough to go around. These folks do whatever they can do to ensure they keep as much as they can for themselves. In most cases it does not matter in the least if the amount they have is more than they can manage or use in their lifetime. What matters to people in this group is they keep as much as they can in their control.

This thinking is most prevalent or obvious in political affiliations. Whatever you think about, whether it is love, money, or knowledge, someone believes the opposite. If you see abundance, they see scarcity. If you share and are generous, they see you throwing important things away, or wasting something precious. They believe there is a finite amount, and it needs to be kept under control or better yet hoarded. Some of the most violent and vicious people that ever walk(ed) the earth believe(d) in scarcity or finite thinking.

If you are part of the group of people who believes there is not enough, who taught you to think this way, and why? This belief is used as a method of control. Perhaps it was used on you in various ways to control your actions as a child. Perhaps you learned from role models who felt the need to control you by reserving those things that cost nothing to give? Perhaps there are reasons deeper or more complex which you may not know what they are.

How much healthier it is to know and believe in abundance. Knowing no matter what, there will be enough for everyone as long as it is freely given, or freely shared. We are all inhabitants of one single earth, and we have access or control of everything the rest of the world needs to survive if not thrive. All we need is to change this scarcity, fear based belief system into one of abundance.

We were born in abundance. We were given everything we needed to grow and thrive to the point we are now at. For most of us, our life is very rich and we are very wealthy compared to most of the world, in that we have everything we need and more to live a comfortable happy life.

Thinking abundantly, we know there will always be enough of everything we need. At times it may take more effort than other times, but generally we have no need to worry about not having enough.

Because we are masters of our own personal universe, if we allow ourselves to believe that there is not enough, there never will be. We will be like two children trying to decide who really has the right to one piece of candy. Living our lives in such a limited scope that we will never be open to the life of abundance we could have is a sad state of life. Life will always be a struggle, always on guard, protecting our few hard earned possessions. Life will always be a juggling act, where we have to do more, and be more than the person next to us, to ensure we have enough for us.

Believing in scarcity, is a limiting belief. It limits an individual to being a big fish in a small pond. Believing everything is scarce or limited introduces fear into life. Fear there will not be enough. Fear introduces hoarding, withholding, and other acts of greed into life. Living in the shadow of fear, is at best a meager existence. At best believing in scarcity, and living in the shadow of fear keeps one from knowing that the sun shines on us all equally.