Out with the fear. In with the good!

The Starving Artist

“It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
Rick Bragg

You may be wondering, “What the heck is up with Bianca? Why is she obsessing and moralizing on the issue of poverty?” The answer is simple: it is an issue I am intimately connected with.

Yup. Most of it is perceived now. I have a home where happiness reigns freely. There are wonderful meals cooked up in our kitchen. Life is good as proclaimed by my 9 year old son just yesterday. Yet the feeling creeps in. I am on a mission to exorcise the poverty of mind that has set-up shop inside my psyche. In Rick Bragg’s quote he mentions two things that I find are key elements: fear of losing the good fortune that comes our way; and the truth of the power we exert in keeping good things from coming in the first place.

I remember when we moved into our home, Marc left the next day to go work in Vegas for a month run. For the first two weeks I felt sick. In my life I had a man I loved (and still very much love!) deeply, who had chosen to make a home for us all because of he loved us too. I realized I was struggling with this good thing and truly having trouble accepting my good fortune. Another great example was a musician I worked with that just seemed to have all these good things fall into his lap. He would just smile and say, “Thanks!” (huge grin smile) Then I had the thought that he never got in his own way. It is an important part of our process to also allow or receive the good things that are just waiting to come to us. Yet we often are our own greatest impediment.

So there you have it. I do not live in poverty by any means. I know this. So now when I feel this way, I let it pass (as quickly as possible) and replace it with where I am going now. I welcome all good things. As they come, I will travel to where you are and sing my songs for you. So get make room for good things to come to you too because they are coming!
Namaste!

Bianca

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Bianca Pittoors & Marc Langis are Bianca Basso. Creators of original music with a vintage flavour, they are distinctive in their contemporary style.


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