Safety and security are important. However, one soon learns that obsessively pursuing external material needs at the expense of self-growth leaves behind an internal vacuum of mixed emotions and mental confusion.<\/p>\n
Consciously\u00a0<\/em>approaching and understanding these internal signals is what will propel you into a domain of\u00a0personal empowerment<\/strong>, progress, and exciting growth that most are unable to even perceive.<\/p>\n Simply put, if you have weak, fuzzy, or unclear goals \u2013 it\u2019s going to be very hard for you to feel inspired and motivated to take action.<\/p>\n As a result, most people will by default slip into \u201csurvival mode<\/strong>\u201d, whereby they\u2019ll simply resort to making the acquisition of material resources a priority.<\/p>\n Instead of facing the true challenges that are calling out from within them, they anesthetize themselves with external distractions.<\/p>\n Then, they reach a point where despite the amount of money or possessions they\u2019ve accumulated, they still don\u2019t feel fulfilled. In fact, they might even find that the more they amass on the\u00a0outside<\/em>, the worse they feel on the\u00a0inside<\/em>.<\/p>\n This is a life lesson that many people are all too familiar with, and it can be remedied entirely with a simple \u201cshift\u201d in the\u00a0focus of your conscious awareness<\/em>.<\/p>\n I know I literally just said this, but it needs to be restated:<\/p>\n Instead of facing the\u00a0true challenges\u00a0that are calling out from\u00a0within them,\u00a0most people\u00a0anesthetize themselves with external distractions. Then, they reach a point where\u00a0despite\u00a0the amount of money or possessions they have,\u00a0they don\u2019t feel fulfilled.<\/p>\n This is because\u00a0you can never find genuine fulfillment in external resources, due to the fact that\u00a0they are unstable by their very nature.<\/p>\n External resources are temporary, because\u00a0they require internal resources to generate and sustain them in the first place<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fulfillment is a constant.<\/p>\n External resources and circumstances are not.<\/p>\n True security\u00a0arises from a genuine\u00a0sense of fulfillment, which is always independent of external circumstances.<\/p>\n True security\u00a0begins and ends\u00a0within you, via your ability to\u00a0consciously exercise your internal resources.<\/p>\n Therefore, if you prioritize cultivating your\u00a0internal resources,\u00a0you thereby\u00a0<\/em>create the conditions necessary to allow external resources to flow more efficiently toward you.<\/em><\/p>\n If you prioritize acquiring money and other material assets\u00a0ahead of cultivating and strengthening your internal resources\u00a0(knowledge, skill set, experience, etc.), you\u2019ll be met with increasingly frustrating and demotivating experiences, because you\u2019re\u00a0actively approaching life from a\u00a0level of scarcity.<\/p>\n Scarcity consciousness\u00a0views everything as a potential threat to security. Bills are seen as threats. Unexpected expenses are feared, because they could require more than you currently have. Money is tight, only buy what you need.<\/p>\n If you understood that how you relate to life is how it\u2019s going to \u201crelate back to you\u201d, you\u2019d stop behaving this way immediately.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the temporary material rewards for following this path are often enough to keep people blinded from what\u2019s actually going on.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a quick moment to discern some of the differences between internal and external resources.<\/p>\n See how well these align with your perceptions of your current reality and circumstances, and try and envision them in ways that might allow you to expand said perception, and invite the process of growth:<\/p>\n External Resources:<\/b>\u00a0money (assets, land, home, etc.), people, places, food, technology (including transportation).<\/p>\n Internal Resources:<\/b>\u00a0conscious awareness, creativity, knowledge, passion, individuality, attitude\/mindset\/perception, intelligence, confidence, discipline.<\/p>\n Notice how all of the external resources are things that\u00a0depend entirely upon the responsible organization of your\u00a0internal resources<\/em>.<\/p>\n Even if you\u00a0unconsciously\u00a0ignore this fact, your negative emotional response to beingunconscious\u00a0is in itself a \u201cwake up\u201d alarm, alerting you that your perceptions require a bit of fine-tuning.<\/p>\n Your\u00a0thinking, feeling,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0doing<\/em>\u00a0are unaligned with your higher purpose, so you naturally manifest all sorts of knotted confusion and incongruent experiences as a result.<\/p>\n Your being behaves more like a clogged pipe than an open highway for optimal \u201cflow\u201d of more liberating thoughts.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve bought into the programmed assumption that acquiring as much money as possible is your highest calling in life, you\u2019re in a deeper hole than you probably assume.<\/p>\n The more important of a priority that you make\u00a0money, the more equal and opposite of a \u201cturn around\u201d tugging you\u2019re going to feel as you tread deeper and deeper down that path.<\/p>\n You\u2019re trying to build a house starting from the outside, and using only the shingles; you have no actual foundation.<\/p>\n You\u2019re operating under an unstable system that\u2019s designed to collapse.<\/p>\n And it will, time and time again.<\/p>\n Instead of falling for the either\/or trap like most people will, let\u2019s instead take a closer look at what\u2019s actually going on here.<\/p>\n People behave\u00a0unconsciously, and let seemingly intelligent logic guide them\u00a0toward a perceived \u201cpath of least resistance\u201d between themselves and let\u2019s say, a desired amount of money.<\/p>\n So, they place full priority of focus on acquiring external resources, believing this is all that\u2019s needed in order to feel truly fulfilled.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve explored above, however, the exact opposite is true. It often creates more of a mess and only adds to the frustration. This is the metaphysical equivalent of being caught in a Chinese finger trap.<\/p>\n However, the solution to all of this is to instead begin placing\u00a0full conscious focus on increasing and improving your inner resources<\/em>.<\/p>\n These are the things which are actually responsible for determining the level of use you\u2019re able to make out of external opportunity, and thereby generate external resources for yourself. Everything begins and ends\u00a0within you<\/em>.<\/p>\n When you ignore this and follow society\u2019s back-asswards dogma of \u201cget money\u00a0first<\/em>, live happily ever\u00a0after<\/em>\u201d, you\u2019re perpetuating the\u00a0survival mindset<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This is not living; this is merely perpetuating your own existence.<\/p>\n What\u2019s even more\u00a0empowering<\/strong>\u00a0is the fact that even if all of your external resources fall away in some major catastrophic event \u2013\u00a0your internal resources remain unaffected!<\/em><\/p>\n You\u2019re then able to simply keep using your internal resources as you\u2019ve always used them, and those external resources will naturally replenish themselves as a result.<\/p>\n This is the highest form of personal circumstantial immunity possible, because\u00a0your internal resources are what generate your external resources<\/em>\u2026and\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>you are in complete control of your internal resources!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n By\u00a0focusing on improving your internal resource of knowledge, you increase your\u00a0awareness of the opportunity present in your environment.<\/p>\n This new awareness can help you earn more money in the long run.<\/p>\n You wouldn\u2019t have reached this conclusion if you were too busy just chasing money in circles, nose to the ground.<\/p>\n If you\u00a0consciously focus on increasing your internal resource of creativity<\/em>, you might come up with faster, easier, more efficient ways of earning money for yourself.<\/p>\n These creative solutions might free you entirely from the frustrations you face from having a day job. That might be the entire source of your frustration all together, and the entire \u201cknot\u201d of problems is then solved.<\/p>\n None of that could have happened if you instead prioritized external resources ahead of internal ones\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026And yet, that\u2019s exactly what most people do.<\/p>\n The solution?<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be most people.<\/p>\n About The Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n Jason Demakis is a psychology, philosophy, and metaphysical\/quantum mechanics writer obsessed with all things personal growth. He inspires and empowers others on a daily basis through a variety of media, both online and off. Jason’s focus is on consciously bringing the totality of our being – mind, body, and spirit – into congruency, so we may experience our full potential, manifest our highest goals and desires, and achieve the highest levels of self-fulfillment possible. He is an ISSA Certified personal fitness instructor, owns and operates No-BS Health & Fitness where he teaches classes four nights a week, is a contributing author on ExpandedConsciousness.com, and also runs his own website JasonDemakis.com.<\/p>\nHAVING WEAK GOALS IS DANGEROUS!<\/h4>\n
GETTING \u201cSTUCK IN SURVIVAL MODE\u201d<\/h4>\n
INTERNAL V.S. EXTERNAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n
WHY THIS IS INCREDIBLY EMPOWERING<\/h4>\n