A Spiritual Perspective on a Scarcity Mindset.
- starofavyon
- Jun 20, 2023
- 5 min read
Updated: Jan 12
Exploring the deeper roots of lack through spirituality, collective trauma, and awakening.
There’s a point in every awakening where you realise that scarcity isn’t just a mindset issue or a personal flaw, it’s a wound woven through generations, systems, and the collective human experience. Many awakened souls feel this heaviness not because they’re ungrateful, but because they can sense the deeper imbalance beneath the surface. Scarcity, from a spiritual lens, is far more complex than “think positive” culture allows.
The Deeper Knowing Behind Spiritual Scarcity Mindset
What if those of us who are awake have that inner knowing, that deep knowing that our view on lack is not just about a mindset or a fear of never having enough?
The spiritual perspective of a scarcity mindset has us feeling frustrated and angry, for the most part, which continues to be caused by the outside control of circumstances that we have endured for centuries.
The Imbalance of Wealth and Power
It isn't about being ungrateful or feeling a sense of lack. The core of lack, I believe, comes from the imbalance of wealth held by governments, institutions, and some of the 1% of the population.
If that is not enough, we have to deal with unhealthy levels of pollution. Not to mention chemtrails. Our environment, water, livestock, and produce are tainted with chemicals. While big pharma and the Bill Gates of the world lasso us into a corner by making us believe we are unwell. And the only way is to live in fear while reminding us what we lack.
Or that we are unable to heal ourselves and will be forever ill. While the same institutions hide their agendas and push genetically altering "medicines" and make obscene amounts of fortune. More ways to kill us slowly, energetically, emotionally, and spiritually that misguide us, and that monetary wealth or otherwise is what really causes us to have a lack attitude.
Living Under Systems That Withhold
We live in cities where, for some of us, the cost of living is some of the highest in the world. And many other influences are out of our control, such as taxes, interest rates, property prices, and inflation. For the most part, corruption is where all types of wealth are withheld from all of humanity.
It is not to say that we could have a more positive outlook, and many of us are consciously working on reframing our limited beliefs around lack and learning to be more accountable. It is one of humanity's most significant lessons that we are here to learn.
We are exposed to this way of thinking via our external environment, we see every day on the news and social media of sports personalities and their clubs and sponsors walking away with multi-millions. Or the latest must-haves - $2000 for mobile phones. A lucky few spend millions on houses, yachts, and cars, further driving our insecurities around lack as we attempt to keep up with the Joneses.
The Problem With Labelling Everything a “Mindset Issue”
The issue I have is that we create a label, a lack mindset, and then throw everything under it and burden many souls to feel they are not good enough. Not everything is a "me problem" if some accountability is not taken from those in position to guide us and represent us, it wouldn't be so severe.
Many of us, after a spiritual awakening, develop our own spiritual perspective around scarcity and have gained an awareness of the social and unjust issues, while we see lack all around us. We know we can do better as a collective. To try to move past what we see, yet we keep feeling the deep emotions of sadness and despair that don't seem to go away.
Can you blame us? We are hurting when there is a disregard for basic human rights. Not living the good life that is only for a select few. No one should be in lack.
Why are we not calling out those who take and steal what doesn't belong to them from others and the planet? So they can feel powerful and have even more to control? Where is their greedy mindset? If we are labelling people, let's mark this also.
Our voices are not being listened to. Our emotions are not acknowledged, and our basic rights are not respected.
Generational Scarcity and Collective Trauma
My lack mindset is not something I woke up with. It's also a generational chord. One that runs through many of us and through our ancestors who experienced wars or poverty. Becoming harder to break the longer it goes on. Maybe we don't have a scarcity mentality. Perhaps we are sick of all the take, take, take from humans and the planet.
Then expect people who lost their jobs and homes due to the pandemic, with a bit of toxic positivity to think rich, practice gratitude and see what we are thankful for.
Does this positivity also apply to someone displaced from their home and family because of job loss, violence, or war and who finds themselves living in cars or tents? Their way of thinking didn't cause them to be in that situation.
The heaviness I feel in my soul isn't all about my scarcity mentality or not because I'm not grateful. It is because I see little hope in the world of things changing and waiting for the day it does change. I do what I can when I can. I'm sure many other people are doing their best also.
Scarcity as a Collective Energy System
I don't have a lack mindset because I dream of being rich. I aim to be wealthy enough in heart and soul to give more than what's in my wallet or bank account if I weren't exhausted trying to survive while watching my income disappear in taxes.
Lack is similar to a tube of consciousness that feeds the collective. Sometimes the pipeline may have blocks or kinks that block what needs to come through. We are drip-fed and given breadcrumbs of hope wrapped in lies. This is stopping us from nourishment by those behind gold-plated doors.
When our feeding tube becomes blocked, no nourishment can make its way to us. Inevitably, leading to the lack of many things that are designed to give us life, not take our will for living.
We are all accountable for our well-being, but labelling us with a lack of mindset or toxic positivity as it is solely our problem, does not feel right to me.
Many of us who are lacking in some areas of our lives are actually the ones with the biggest hearts who want to change the world and help others in any way we can.
Final Thoughts
In spirituality, we understand that there is duality — the light and the dark — and that both exist on a spectrum. Scarcity sits in that grey space, shaped not only by our beliefs but by the systems, histories, and energies we inherit. The more weight we place on the darkness, the darker it becomes. The more we lighten the load, the more possibility returns.
Scarcity isn’t a simple mindset issue. It’s a collective wound. A generational imprint. A spiritual imbalance.
And healing it requires more than affirmations, it requires accountability, compassion, and a willingness to see the full picture.
It’s time to revisit how we define lack, how we internalise it, and how we can begin to shift it together. A spiritual perspective on scarcity asks us to look deeper, acknowledge the roots, and co‑create solutions that honour both the soul and the collective.
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