Emotional Economics
The way I see it, there are two emotional economies via which we trade in connection.
In the economy of scarcity, emergency rules the landscape; you receive care when things are "bad enough."
Connection is a lifesaving device you may prevail upon, a burden you may place on others only if you are in dire need.
In the economy of Devotional Love, connection is a resource you're constantly snacking on, and it's hard to remember a time when things "really got bad."
The economy of Devotional Love runs on INTIMACY.
Intimacy is the ability and willingness to be with what is.
The economy of scarcity is constantly evaluating to a binary, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, toxic or sustainable, right or wrong. That’s why it’s so scarce; no more than half of all experience is welcome.
The abundance that fuels the economy of Devotional Love is the fact that every aspect of reality is acknowledged and honored as the resource that it is. The sweetness that infuses the intimacy of devotion is the sacred-holding of every precious human experience, NOT the fact that we exclusively have sweet experiences.
The economy of scarcity knows when something is going wrong, evaluates an event and creates separate repair events for the wrongs it has witnessed, the wrongs it predicts, the wrongs it fears and avoids. It inspires actions of crafting reality toward RIGHTNESS, which perpetuate the existence of success and failure.
The only guarantee in the economy of Devotional Love is that shit's gonna happen and we are going to meet it together. The only things to tune for are prosperity, luxury, and preference, in a way that is utterly detached, lighthearted, at ease.
Ironically, the commitment to receive resources only in a state of "bad enough" need requires that we frequently visit need. All we want is to finally get out of these emergencies! But emergencies are the only channels we have open for receiving resources! Resources are forever knocking at the door, and they will take any and every inroad we open, and they will be funneled to emergency if we require that.
Paradoxically, the willingness to have a good clean bad time means that we mostly have a ridiculously good time.
We are, first of all, opting out of the bad time of analyzing, criticizing, and condemning reality.
We are freeing ourselves of the doomed practice of crafting reality, and freed to the ongoing empowerment of meeting exactly what arises. Thus, we are beyond success and failure, in a meditation, in a process, in a practice here and now.
Abundance is here and now. Devotional Love is like the light of the sun, producing both light and shadows on the ground.
Untie your ideas of what is good and bad, what is right and wrong, what is welcome and unwelcome, and see wealth unfold before you.
