Archive for April, 2010

Scarcity defined – and another example

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about how scarcity is all around us – our choice is to allow it in or not.  Some people, I realized aren’t clear what I mean by scarcity, so I thought I should define it here.

Scarcity thinking is fear-based and assumes there isn’t enough for everyone.  For me to win, you have to lose.  Abundance thinking, in contrast, assumes there is more than enough for everyone – we can all win – and allows you to find win-win-win solutions for all.

In yesterday’s post, I spoke of how our house sold in a day.  Scarcity thinking says we under-priced it and lost money.  Abundance thinking says we put a fair price on our house, we got what we wanted and the buyer got what he wanted, all due to clarity of intention.

It’s strange that another example of scarcity just popped into my e-mail box – a letter from the community association for the community we’re leaving.  The kids from this community will be going to a new school in September.  In this letter, someone from the association suggested that the residents boycott the (old) school’s Spring Fair, and its requests for donations since the kids will be going to a different school this year.  “Why should we help a school we won’t be benefiting from?” is this person’s argument.

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This, to me, is such blatant scarcity thinking.  Why help this school when we won’t get any further benefit from it?  There’s not enough to help this one now and the other school next year.

What about all the years kids from our community have been going to the (old) school and getting benefit from it?  My son and my two stepsons went to this school and it’s been wonderful for them.  Why would  I want to take away from that school when it has given such wonderful gifts to our kids?

And what are we talking about?  A few items?  A few dollars?  Do we really have that little that a few dollars will hurt us?

A boycott of a Spring Fair.  I just shake my head at this type of thinking.  Is this what we really want to teach our kids?

That’s my 2 cents.  What do you think?

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Everyday scarcity

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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Two weeks ago we put our house up for sale and it sold the next day for just shy of our asking price.  Several people I mentioned this to said we priced it too low (which, given the market, we didn’t).  This reaction shows fear-based scarcity thinking – suggesting that we lost money – rather than understanding flow.

In our marketplace, there were several houses in our price range that had been on the market for several months.  We were actually advised by our realtor that our price might be too high, so we weren’t priced too low.

One way of looking at the quick sale is that we could have earned more for the house.  That’s not my way.

The way I see it is that there was strong and clear intention for the house to sell for this amount, and that attracted the right buyer who valued what we had to offer and was willing to pay that amount.  I give full credit for that intention to my ex.  I honestly didn’t expect it to sell.  Iwasn’t putting any energy into it ‘not selling’ – just not putting any energy into it at all.  I was focused on my new home.  However, she had a clear and strong intention, and that’s all it took.

Once that happened, the flow continued.  Within a week I had closed on my house which I obtained at a great price and which has most of what I had envisioned.  It just flowed.

Could we have charged more?  Maybe.  I think we charged the right price to get fair value for what we wanted.  And I paid within $1000 of what I was willing to pay for my house.  It’s all about clear intention.

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Presence and the Akashic Field

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Just as there are gravitational and electromagnetic fields permeating the universe, so to there is an information field, called the Akashic Field, that we can tap into, and that we can influence.  Stepping into a deep state of presence allows us to not only access information from that field more clearly – it also allows us to influence it deeply.  These are the doorways that open from living more authentically in our lives.

Evidence is growing in fields from quantum physics to cosmology to the social sciences about a vast informational field that fills the universe, a field that has been called the Akashic Field.  Just a few of the many observations of the Akashic Field that are being recorded include:

  • The Global Consciousness Project at Princeton has 38 Random Number Generators (called ‘eggs’) around the world.  On September 11, 2001, just before the first jet crashed into the WTCC, the data from these eggs became non-random and stayed that way for 2 days
  • Incidences where large numbers of people are gathered to pray for peace show a significant reduction in the crime rate in those cities for some days following the gathering
  • Double-blind studies clearly show that prayer has a measurable impact on health, even when the person being prayed for didn’t know that (s)he was being prayed for, and even when the person doing the praying didn’t personally know the person for whom they were praying
  • Scientific experiments with the same apparatus, and participants selected randomly from the same pool produce different results based on the beliefs of the experimenter

Simply put, this Akashic Field connects all of us, and as quantum mechanical and cosmological evidence of this field shows, distance is not an issue. This information is transmitted instantaneously, even across the universe.

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What we are discovering is that stepping into deeper states of presence allows you to attune more deeply to the information available in this Akashic Field.  What’s more, stepping into deeper states of Presence impacts not only people around you, but potentially people all over the world.

Something else that is being discovered is that one plus one equals far more than two.  If two or more people enter a certain state or entrench in a certain belief, their influence is far greater than the sum of the two.  The studies on praying for peace also showed that you don’t need everyone to focus on a given intention.  There were only a limited number of people in each case, and yet the impact was felt across the whole city.  Only a small critical mass is required to influence the broader world.

This is the philosophy behind Presence Hour, on May 8, 2010.  The intent is to have a number of people in each time zone simultaneously stepping into deeper states of presence, amplifying the impact of each individual who participates through the Akashic Field.  What we are hoping for is to have a ‘wave’ of deepening presence sweeping around the globe, impacting the broader consciousness.

Won’t you join us at 2pm (your local time), to engage in your practice of deepening presence?  What it is – nature, yoga, walking, meditation, running or whatever you choose – doesn’t matter.   What does matter is investing that hour for yourself and the world to step into deeper presence with the world.  Go to www.PresenceHour.com for more information – and please pass the word on.

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