A warning about scarcity-minded

We attract into our lives abundance or scarcity.

Scarcity-minded is fear. It is immobilizing. It is believing that laws, regulations, restrictions, etc. should be enacted to control people because of fear of bad choices others make. Scarcity-minded leads to captivity, whether real or in the mind. 

Scarcity-minded relinquishes your choice and accountability to those who promise to reduce or eliminate your fear through increased security and protection.

If you are scarcity-minded you are allowing others (including the media or social media posts) to easily influence you and to manipulate you through your fears.

So, here's a warning: Those who lust after power, control, or authority over others use the fears of the scarcity-minded to maintain power, control, or authority. 

If you are swayed/convinced some regulation, restriction, and/or legislation is needed because of a fear (fear of a disease, difference in lifestyle or belief, violence, etc.) that a politician or the media pushes, then you are likely scarcity-minded. 

Politicians, and the media and organizations who support them, know that by appealing to and stoking your fears they are more likely to get your support. 

They use fear to gain control, influence, authority, and power over you. They use fear to justify taking away freedoms and rights because by supporting their "solution" they promise to reduce your fear.

Why did some many terrible regulations get passed in the Patriot Act after 9-11? Because politicians used fear--the fear of terrorist attack--to pass the illusion of safety, security, and protection through their legislation. But the legislation ended up infringing or regulation many freedoms.

Gun control advocates do the same thing. They use fear of violence, gangs, mass shootings, etc. to convince you why Constitutional liberties need to be infringed on, controlled, regulated, and even restricted. 

They have convinced people that regulating a tool, that is used for good and bad, will stop bad people from using the tool in a bad way.

This is akin to regulating pressure cookers because they can be used to create a bomb. 

Or let's use an actual tool and regulate pneumatic nail guns because they can hurt and kill people.

Fears are used to manipulate people, especially those who are scarcity-minded.

Consider this.

When a solution is offered by a politician (or anyone in position of power, authority, influence, or control over others) why are good parts mingled with bad?

For example, let's go with gun control because it's often easiest to see the good and bad. The ultimate desire for gun control advocates is to take away guns. Guns are pushed as the problem that needs to be controlled. But that's not true. Any reasonable person knows guns don't shoot people, it's the person holding the gun who pulls the trigger. 

So the gun control lobby has to mix some truth in, like mental health problems or people buying guns illegally. By mixing some truth in with the lies more people buy into everything as being true, including guns being the problem.

The solution is then presented that gun control is needed. Part of the solution includes help for those with mental health issues. Part of the solution addresses how to stop people from illegally purchasing guns. And, since most gun control supporters also buy into the false idea that guns are the problem, restrictions on gun/ammo purchasing and possession are included.

Just a note on the illegal purchasing. Gun control advocates want you to forget the fact that we already have laws for this. And if these laws are brought up they'll brush them aside as being insufficient. Here's the truth, the laws are on the books but they just aren't enforced very well. The real solution would be how to better enforce existing laws. But, doing this wouldn't allow the politician to justify new and additional laws that would further regulate, restrict, and/or prohibit guns.

Why can't a politician just include the good parts? 

In the gun control case, the good parts would be increased funding for mental health and better enforcement of exiting gun laws and not including anything that infringes on the ability of law abiding Americans to freely exercise their Second Amendment right, which includes freely buying guns and ammunition without additional regulations or restrictions.

The reason is the politician aren't gaining any influence, authority, control, or power without the bad parts. Most politicians are also operating from a scarcity mindset. They fear any loss of influence, control, authority, or power. So they act in ways to preserve and increase their power, etc. This is why politicians often flip-flop on issues, get persuaded by lobbyists and other special interests, and, as it used to be said, talk out of both sides of their mouths.

If laws only have good parts (only those things that are needed which actually preserve and/or increase personal freedoms and rights for all) then the politicians gain nothing in terms of power and authority over others. 

But laws that are all bad (items in the law which reduce, regulate, restrict, and take away liberties and rights of others and increase influence, control, authority, and/or power for a few) are hard to pass. And if bad laws do pass in a democratically-oriented government and society, and the politician(s) gets called out on it, then influence, authority, control, and power is lost. 

So, politicians craft laws that are a mix of good and bad. The good parts "sugar coat" the bad so they are more easily passed. The bad parts are masked as needed, necessary, or essential when the truth is they aren't.

Abundance is liberty. It is about giving people their God-given rights and freedoms so they can choose how to live. It is realizing and accepting that some people make bad choices that affect others. Abundance is having and recognizing that the power is within us to make our lives better and that we can help others to do the same.

How do you view life?

Are you influenced more by fear or hope?

Do you see more good happening in your life, or do you focus more on what is bad or not going right?

Focusing on the good and being hopeful of a better tomorrow doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But where is your focus?

If you focus on the bad, you will see more bad. And bad things will continue to happen to you and they may appear to get worse and worse (and they might actually be worse). It will become harder and harder for you to see what is good without pointing out what is wrong.

If you focus on the good, yes bad things will still happen but those aren't your focus. Even in the bad you can find some good. It is my experience and observation that as more good is focused on, and as we become more grateful and express our gratitude for the good, we will see more good in our lives. And more good will come to us.

Abundance and scarcity are the same. 

Where are your mind and heart where abundance and scarcity are concerned? What is happening in your life is a big clue to how you're really feeling and how those emotions are being manifested in your thoughts, actions, and results.