Widening
“Poverty consciousness can be so deep and can rule every single action of every day. It may not show up in the classical ways - fear-based concerns about money - it may show up in other ways. For instance, you might have an impoverished way of relating to yourself and to the world. You might feel like you have no time (time poverty), you might fear taking risks (safety poverty), or you could be stingy in your love for others or your love for yourself (love poverty). However it shows up, this poverty consciousness is draining your energy in a way that you are not able to deliver to the planet what you came to deliver. Then you can’t experience the fulfillment of delivering your unique creative payload. And if you don’t have fulfillment, it won’t matter how many millions of dollars you have or don’t have.”
“The mind has to be trained to organize your thoughts in a certain way if you want to inherit the respective treasures, whatever that may mean to you in this lifetime. There are yogic prerequisites to the enjoyment of these treasures, though: you need to be strong enough and generous enough, and you have to widen your capacity, perspective, nervous system, and radiance to lay claim to the wealth of human experience there is to be had and enjoyed.”
“Widening is a combination of actual biophysiological nervous system strength and an emotional and psychological perspective. So it’s a little like stretching your physical body. You are stretching your nervous system in order to receive the literally immense wave of prosperity that’s coming at you. If your nervous system is only able to conduct a limited amount of pleasure, happiness, joy, and prosperity, then no matter how much of these things are available to you, you can only experience as much of them as your nervous system can uptake.”
“And you have to widen your perspective. If you have the nervous system to conduct more prosperity but your psychology and your emotional habits are still scarcity oriented, then you won’t tap into the full capacity of the nervous system, which limits your experience of, and appreciation for, abundance. It’s like having a computer but not turning it on. You’ll never access the internet.”
“One way we widen our perspectives is by starting to look at life as a whole spectrum, life as a whole journey - life as a whole blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed incarnation. It’s just so big and vast and beautiful and such a precious gift. When we begin to relate with the immensity of our entire being, we can move methodically, step by step, in the direction of our greatest fulfillment. When we widen, we experience less tension. When we experience less tension, we can begin to relax deeper and deeper, and then more things can happen for us.”
-- Guru Jagat, Invincible Living
