So is poverty a perception? Do we drive people into poverty because of how we see them? Or is someone poor because how they see themselves? And what comes first: poverty or the feeling that we are poor?
Yesterday I told you I don’t watch the news. Now I will tell you something that most people can’t conceive of. I don’t have any television reception at my house. So that means I don’t watch commercial television. (I am a musician anyway...) That means I don’t subject myself to a constant attack of “You need this dress, house, cleaning product, body, food, job, husband, car and on and on.” I shelter myself from the brainwashing of marketing that creates a need for their product. I don’t want to need. I want to be grateful for what I have. My previous years of T.V. conditioning have already created a pattern where when I get something I immediately see, and even focus, on what I don’t have. Getting more, creates an instant situation where I can see the more that I didn’t get. Unfortunately I am not from Kilanga. It occurs to me far too often to feel sorry for myself. Because I have become comfortable in the void, I seek it. I create it.
Our societal conditioning is stronger than we may realize. Even when we are aware it is happening, letting go is something that must be learned. I now understand that what I must let go of is the need to need. After all empty hands are ready to receive.
Namaste!
Bianca
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