Is There a Deficit Anywhere?
Is There a Deficit Anywhere?
When we have a deficit model of the universe, and we do, then we see deficits everywhere. We see a lack of attention, of love, of money, of appreciation, of time, of friends, of freedom, of job opportunities, of sex, of romance, of peace, of health, of power, of immortality, of belonging, etc. We have a scarcity attitude. We assume that there is a deficit. We believe there is a lack. We create the lack outside that we assume inside. And the more we focus on lack, the more we have. We don’t see presence, we see absence. We plan and prepare for disaster. We catastrophize about the bad that may happen. We complain that we don’t have friends, and that we don’t have enough of this or that.
We criticize those who seem to withhold what we tell ourselves we don’t have. We blame those people and circumstances around us for not giving us what we “need” and don’t think we have enough of. We create more and more of what we don’t want. Silently or verbally we nag our partners, bosses or parents to give us more. We threaten to leave the relationship or to leave town if someone or something doesn’t change to make us more comfortable. The more we criticize, complain, nag, blame, threaten and punish others or ourselves, the worse it gets. Finally we get so disappointed that we get disgusted or depressed.
What’s right about this picture? What’s right about it is that you deserve more, you are entitled to more, you ought to have all the good you ever imagined that you want. Yes, I said you are right! Deficit and lack is not right. No one should have to suffer deprivation, disappointment and depression. No one should have to manipulate to get what they want. No one should have to divorce to go find a new love. No one should have to lie and fake to gain acceptance. No one should have to do all of their lazy co-workers’ tasks at work in order to keep his or her job. No one should have to give up being themselves in order to be accepted. As one of my clients said “I’m a whore to the man (boss) and I hate it.” It is true that “not enough” is unfair. It is true that it is mediocre to accept “less than.”. You are right in feeling that you can’t stand mediocrity. You are right in being angry about being bored. You are right if you can’t stand our poor methods of education in the schools. You are right in thinking that we are in a stupid war. You are right in thinking that you should have a purpose in life and not be doing repetitious meaningless tasks every day. You are right in thinking that it is not good enough to just make a living, do chores, get old, get sick and die.
You are right in being sick and tired of being sick and tired. You are right in wondering why the doctors can’t cure anxiety and depression. It’s no wonder that you think of suicide now and then, or even killing the SOB’s that make life so miserable for so many people.
So you have raised heck about it, and gotten no results! You have suffered silently and gotten no results! You have prayed and gotten very little response. You have given up on praying and no change occurred. You have told God off and nothing happened. You have said “What’s the use! and nothing changed.
So here we are, apparently stuck. Apparently? Yes, apparently. The deficit model of the universe is just an appearance. We are stuck not with a deficit universe, but with a deficit model of the universe. There is no lack anywhere except in our minds. There is no scarcity anywhere except in our story. Infinite potential lies all around us, waiting to be brought into sight and into form! We are not stuck except with a very self-limiting thought system!
What if you were right in feeling angry about not having all that you want, and then found out that you do and/or can have all that you want? Wouldn’t that be a nice and shocking surprise? What if you have overlooked the fact that what you want is already yours in potential? What if unawareness was your only problem? What if you could experience all that you want right now if you could just be aware and present right now? What if unawareness and un-presence were your only problem? What if the treasure of life is within and without if you just had the eyes to see and the ears to hear? Don’t be insulted. Everyone has the same ignorance you do. Everyone. Ignorance is the only problem we geniuses have!
We think we see reality but we don’t. We only see a deficit model of reality. Reality has no deficits. Reality is abundance. Misery sees misery. Lack sees lack. Anger sees anger. Desperation sees desperation. Weakness sees weakness. Sickness sees sickness. Fear sees fear. Evil sees evil. Deprivation sees deprivation. Ugliness sees ugliness.
Abundance sees abundance. Love sees love. Power sees power. Health sees health. Freedom sees freedom. Beauty sees beauty. God sees God. The law of the universe is that as you think, so it is. So which are you? Are you lacking or abundant? To answer that question truthfully, you have to ask yourself a prior question: Are you ignorant or aware? If you are suffering lack, you are ignorant. If you are transcending your ignorance, and coming into awareness, you are beginning to see and create more abundance, and to focus less on deficits. Do you think God sees any lack in the universe? Then why should you if you are like God?
All “evil” or :”bad” is based upon the belief in deficits. Do you see lack? Then you are still operating in the deficit model of the universe. Does God see evil, lack or wrong? Does God promote suffering, fear, pain, sickness, old age and death? Mine doesn’t. My God is infinite goodness, infinite health, infinite abundance, infinite life, and infinite peace. You get to choose your god also. In fact, we already have. Most of the time we have chosen the god of deficiency. You get to choose your universe. Most of the time we have chosen a universe of deficiency. You get to choose who you are. Most of the time, we have chosen a story of lack. You get to choose again. Right now you can choose again. This time you get to choose what you want.
Do you want to choose lack, disappointment, pain, anxiety, depression, sickness, old age and death? I doubt that you do, but we did in the past. So we get to choose again, now that we know that all of our experiences sprang from our previous unconscious assumptions, reactions and choices. We can choose again, this time consciously. We can choose reality this time, not some nightmarish story about reality. We can choose the abundant universe. Right now we can choose what we want and not what we don’t want. What we do want is right in front of us, right inside of us, covered over by our previous opinions, thoughts and judgments of lack, evil, unfairness, deprivation, and entrapment. All you have to let go of is your story of misery.
Is there an international or national deficit? Is there a lack of resources, a lack of food, a lack of intelligence, a lack of opportunity, a lack of free energy, a lack of human talent, a lack of creativity, a lack of unlimited wealth? Could we have heaven on earth? Do have to have shortages, wars, starvation, financial deficits, national insecurities, illiteracy, and religious antagonisms? Who said so? If we live in a universe of unlimited potentialities, free energy and great resources, why can’t we tap into and manifest those desired and wanted possibilities and actualities? We can. WE can start with you and me, and it will spread. We have five years to do it. Let’s start today. Start a spiritual revolution. You and I can do it. It only takes one or two of us. Jesus was just one guy who wasn’t afraid or ignorant, and he turned the whole world around, and he said we can do the same, or even greater. How can we do even greater? We have the unlimited internet ready to serve us in discovering and sharing the unlimited universe.
You have no one to talk to about your interests, wants, questions, doubts, and your growing edge? All people want to do is to gossip, watch meaningless TV, indulge in the misuse of drugs, alcohol and sex? Remember, they too are seeking a quick escape from what they don’t want. Buy a copy of the new CD, The Secret, for $30, or rent it online for $4.95, and/or buy a copy of the book (216 pp) from Amazon for $14. Invite a friend or two over to listen to it, and have a discussion afterwards. Meet several times to discuss if The Secret works for you, or any difficulties you have in making it work. Use the book by the same title for further group study and application. If this friend isn’t interested, invite someone else to join you. Start a little cell group for personal growth and fun challenges. Share other ideas or books that spark your intuition and excitement along the line of spiritual self-knowledge and financial success. You may need your group’s support if you run into doubts or fears, or need further techniques for abundance-realization.
When we have a deficit model of the universe, and we do, then we see deficits everywhere. We see a lack of attention, of love, of money, of appreciation, of time, of friends, of freedom, of job opportunities, of sex, of romance, of peace, of health, of power, of immortality, of belonging, etc. We have a scarcity attitude. We assume that there is a deficit. We believe there is a lack. We create the lack outside that we assume inside. And the more we focus on lack, the more we have. We don’t see presence, we see absence. We plan and prepare for disaster. We catastrophize about the bad that may happen. We complain that we don’t have friends, and that we don’t have enough of this or that.
We criticize those who seem to withhold what we tell ourselves we don’t have. We blame those people and circumstances around us for not giving us what we “need” and don’t think we have enough of. We create more and more of what we don’t want. Silently or verbally we nag our partners, bosses or parents to give us more. We threaten to leave the relationship or to leave town if someone or something doesn’t change to make us more comfortable. The more we criticize, complain, nag, blame, threaten and punish others or ourselves, the worse it gets. Finally we get so disappointed that we get disgusted or depressed.
What’s right about this picture? What’s right about it is that you deserve more, you are entitled to more, you ought to have all the good you ever imagined that you want. Yes, I said you are right! Deficit and lack is not right. No one should have to suffer deprivation, disappointment and depression. No one should have to manipulate to get what they want. No one should have to divorce to go find a new love. No one should have to lie and fake to gain acceptance. No one should have to do all of their lazy co-workers’ tasks at work in order to keep his or her job. No one should have to give up being themselves in order to be accepted. As one of my clients said “I’m a whore to the man (boss) and I hate it.” It is true that “not enough” is unfair. It is true that it is mediocre to accept “less than.”. You are right in feeling that you can’t stand mediocrity. You are right in being angry about being bored. You are right if you can’t stand our poor methods of education in the schools. You are right in thinking that we are in a stupid war. You are right in thinking that you should have a purpose in life and not be doing repetitious meaningless tasks every day. You are right in thinking that it is not good enough to just make a living, do chores, get old, get sick and die.
You are right in being sick and tired of being sick and tired. You are right in wondering why the doctors can’t cure anxiety and depression. It’s no wonder that you think of suicide now and then, or even killing the SOB’s that make life so miserable for so many people.
So you have raised heck about it, and gotten no results! You have suffered silently and gotten no results! You have prayed and gotten very little response. You have given up on praying and no change occurred. You have told God off and nothing happened. You have said “What’s the use! and nothing changed.
So here we are, apparently stuck. Apparently? Yes, apparently. The deficit model of the universe is just an appearance. We are stuck not with a deficit universe, but with a deficit model of the universe. There is no lack anywhere except in our minds. There is no scarcity anywhere except in our story. Infinite potential lies all around us, waiting to be brought into sight and into form! We are not stuck except with a very self-limiting thought system!
What if you were right in feeling angry about not having all that you want, and then found out that you do and/or can have all that you want? Wouldn’t that be a nice and shocking surprise? What if you have overlooked the fact that what you want is already yours in potential? What if unawareness was your only problem? What if you could experience all that you want right now if you could just be aware and present right now? What if unawareness and un-presence were your only problem? What if the treasure of life is within and without if you just had the eyes to see and the ears to hear? Don’t be insulted. Everyone has the same ignorance you do. Everyone. Ignorance is the only problem we geniuses have!
We think we see reality but we don’t. We only see a deficit model of reality. Reality has no deficits. Reality is abundance. Misery sees misery. Lack sees lack. Anger sees anger. Desperation sees desperation. Weakness sees weakness. Sickness sees sickness. Fear sees fear. Evil sees evil. Deprivation sees deprivation. Ugliness sees ugliness.
Abundance sees abundance. Love sees love. Power sees power. Health sees health. Freedom sees freedom. Beauty sees beauty. God sees God. The law of the universe is that as you think, so it is. So which are you? Are you lacking or abundant? To answer that question truthfully, you have to ask yourself a prior question: Are you ignorant or aware? If you are suffering lack, you are ignorant. If you are transcending your ignorance, and coming into awareness, you are beginning to see and create more abundance, and to focus less on deficits. Do you think God sees any lack in the universe? Then why should you if you are like God?
All “evil” or :”bad” is based upon the belief in deficits. Do you see lack? Then you are still operating in the deficit model of the universe. Does God see evil, lack or wrong? Does God promote suffering, fear, pain, sickness, old age and death? Mine doesn’t. My God is infinite goodness, infinite health, infinite abundance, infinite life, and infinite peace. You get to choose your god also. In fact, we already have. Most of the time we have chosen the god of deficiency. You get to choose your universe. Most of the time we have chosen a universe of deficiency. You get to choose who you are. Most of the time, we have chosen a story of lack. You get to choose again. Right now you can choose again. This time you get to choose what you want.
Do you want to choose lack, disappointment, pain, anxiety, depression, sickness, old age and death? I doubt that you do, but we did in the past. So we get to choose again, now that we know that all of our experiences sprang from our previous unconscious assumptions, reactions and choices. We can choose again, this time consciously. We can choose reality this time, not some nightmarish story about reality. We can choose the abundant universe. Right now we can choose what we want and not what we don’t want. What we do want is right in front of us, right inside of us, covered over by our previous opinions, thoughts and judgments of lack, evil, unfairness, deprivation, and entrapment. All you have to let go of is your story of misery.
Is there an international or national deficit? Is there a lack of resources, a lack of food, a lack of intelligence, a lack of opportunity, a lack of free energy, a lack of human talent, a lack of creativity, a lack of unlimited wealth? Could we have heaven on earth? Do have to have shortages, wars, starvation, financial deficits, national insecurities, illiteracy, and religious antagonisms? Who said so? If we live in a universe of unlimited potentialities, free energy and great resources, why can’t we tap into and manifest those desired and wanted possibilities and actualities? We can. WE can start with you and me, and it will spread. We have five years to do it. Let’s start today. Start a spiritual revolution. You and I can do it. It only takes one or two of us. Jesus was just one guy who wasn’t afraid or ignorant, and he turned the whole world around, and he said we can do the same, or even greater. How can we do even greater? We have the unlimited internet ready to serve us in discovering and sharing the unlimited universe.
You have no one to talk to about your interests, wants, questions, doubts, and your growing edge? All people want to do is to gossip, watch meaningless TV, indulge in the misuse of drugs, alcohol and sex? Remember, they too are seeking a quick escape from what they don’t want. Buy a copy of the new CD, The Secret, for $30, or rent it online for $4.95, and/or buy a copy of the book (216 pp) from Amazon for $14. Invite a friend or two over to listen to it, and have a discussion afterwards. Meet several times to discuss if The Secret works for you, or any difficulties you have in making it work. Use the book by the same title for further group study and application. If this friend isn’t interested, invite someone else to join you. Start a little cell group for personal growth and fun challenges. Share other ideas or books that spark your intuition and excitement along the line of spiritual self-knowledge and financial success. You may need your group’s support if you run into doubts or fears, or need further techniques for abundance-realization.
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