Topic 13.2. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Healthy, Wealthy (Well-thy) and Wise

As we awaken to the idea that there must be more to life than the limited view we currently experience, the word abundance takes on new relevance. And, in order to understand true abundance, we must understand the concept of lack. Many people do not understand that their uneasiness and pain is tied to a sense of lack because, as with most discomfort, we have learnt to hide it from ourselves and others.

This lack we feel, is our basic desire to feel love and acceptance. Something in our past led us to disconnect from our inner knowing. We no longer have the courage to trust our instinct— our sense of what is right for us and what isn’t, of what feels good and what doesn’t. Without that courage, we cannot acknowledge our painful feelings. Instead, we mask them with addictions, or attachments to something outside ourselves. This is one of the learnt behaviours that prevents us from healing the uneasiness and discontentment that we feel.

Most people’s ongoing need to feel worthy, originates early on in life. The sense of lack they feel (both emotionally and materially) could be channelled into a drive for financial success, with the belief that financial success will erase their sense of lack. The flaw in this perspective is clear. Looking outside to relieve an internal struggle can only provide temporary relief at best. Without addressing the underlying cause, the symptoms will always resurface. No amount of external success in the form of money, position or things can eliminate that sense of lack at the core of your being.

The only real solution is to look within, to understand and treat the origin of this sense of lack. Feelings of lack often propel the drive to work and play, endlessly thinking of ways to capitalise on a situation, trying to get further ahead. But you never really get ahead, as you always need more, and this drive only takes you further away from what you truly desire: a life of peace and joy with the people you love the most, and the ability to value life and live it with your eyes wide open.

Once you know that you cannot enjoy your life, even with all that you have, with your need to have and keep having, and attaching yourself to things without knowing the stresses it creates within you, you start to evaluate and learn what you truly value and start to live those values. In so doing, you find peacefulness and authentic love in your life. When you replace outer needs with an inner connection, you find love and acceptance. You feel tremendous peace and freedom, regardless of you having far less than what you once perceived as being vitally important for your life and that of those you love.