SELF AWARENE SS


What do turtles have to do with abundance?


Are you hiding out in your shell or collectively doing your part to create the abundant world we all want to live in?


by Julie Ann Cairns


THE CREATION OF A COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned about creating a life of abundance, freedom and choice is that we’re all in it together. I can only access abundance if I


live in an abundant system – a system that affords me opportunities and possibilities that I can participate in to create the life of my dreams. And that means I’m not an island. We’re all part of an interconnected whole, and what we’re jointly creating as a collective has


We’re all part of an interconnected whole, and what we’re jointly creating as a collective has a real impact on every individual’s own personal opportunity set.


6 MARCH 2017


a real impact on every individual’s own personal opportunity set. I recognise that. And, I see that my


own beliefs and approach to life play as big a part in the creation of that collective consciousness as anyone else’s. If as a collective we believe we’re a


species that’s destined only to fight for survival, if we believe that competition is eternal because there’s not enough to go around and we’ll always be fighting over the scraps, if we focus on problems instead of solutions, if we’re suspicious of each other and practise xenophobia; then we end up in a system based on adversity and fear. That’s the scarcity paradigm, and it’s not pretty. If as a collective we choose to believe


we’re a species that is ingenious and creative, that has transcended the fight to survive and actually has the ability to thrive, to focus on possibilities, to listen to each other with the intent to


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