Survival Mode Escape

Survival Mode Escape - (6039)

It seems that this way of living is an experience so common in Africa. So many experience the situation where there is not enough money and the means to get money narrow down to apparently nothing right in front of one's own eyes.

Then the preoccupations begin. I need this amount of money to live and I have no way to get it.

Then the nervous system alters and we enter into an instinctive way of living called 'survival mode' where we are only concerned about surviving nothing else.

In such a mode we don't have space for anything else. We are all consumed by the need to survive which means get money, and then if we can't get money it means securing or finding food and shelter.

The survival mode is highly characterised by hyper focus on the physical means of getting money now. The other dimensions of life are erased from awareness. One forgets the Great Provider of all things - the Being. One also forgets the cosmic laws of giving and receiving and the many practices to work with our karma.

In survival mode one says: "how can I focus on God when I have nothing to eat!".

Focusing on the physical means entirely with no opportunities to make money forthcoming, leads to crime.

It is a storm like everything else and will too pass. The key is to not get identified as hard as it may be and to remember above all else the Inner Being and to go about physical recourses to solve the situation.

Often the essn3ece of such karmic situations are for us to learn the lesson to focus on the essential and maintain ourselves there in balance, and see all the unintelligent (living outside of our means) and perhaps dishonest behaviours that lead to the 'no money' situation.

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