The world has told us from the day we were born that our value and worth are determined by our productivity; by what we do and achieve. At school we are taught that we must study hard; do well in our tests and exams; find a good job or do well in higher education. Our parents who were conditioned by the same lie will have inadvertently reinforced this message of self worth being dependent upon productivity. A smaller percentage of parents may have been so neglectful or actively harmful to their children – because they were the children of intergenerational neglect too – that the self esteem of their children feels beyond reach. For them the cultural message of worthiness being based upon productivity is etched into their psyche but they may lack the skills to pursue the untruth of “productivity”, and so feel even less worthy in the game of life. It’s no wonder therefore that for some people, feeling inadequate or having a sense of imposter syndrome is their core experience of being. For some, the pain of feeling inadequate may make them defensive or self sabotaging. For others life may feel like an experience of automatic pilot alongside quiet desperation. But for many, life is an endless process of just getting on with things – getting through each day and telling themselves that the weekend or the next Netflix show isn’t far away. This is the growing experience of western people especially now living in a world that is too expensive, too debt ridden to live “productively”, but still driven by the belief that self worth is based upon productivity.

 

One of the saddest things I have heard from so many people with advanced incurable illness is that they feel worthless because they are no longer “productive”. They have learned to determine their sense of self worth through what they do, rather than because of who they are. This is not surprising because our consumerist and individualistic culture places self worth upon our productivity, despite the obstacles that stand before us.

 

Today we are living through a time of scarcity where wages are stagnant and everything is expensive and increasingly becoming more expensive. Pay cheque to pay cheque is the experience of many. The dominant culture, nonetheless, continues to tell us that we should work harder and be just be more productive. It blames us when we can’t cope and tells us that we are inadequate for struggling.

 

The truth is that we are valuable just because we exist. We are valuable because we are beings of infinite dignity, purpose and worth. We are beings of the clear light of divinity. We are divine creations who are eternally loved and are made from the substance of love itself. We do not experience ourselves as such because of the conditioning of this broken world, however that is who we are. We are children of the Living Light. The question is, how can we make conscious contact with the essence of our being when we have been told for so long that who we are, depends upon what we achieve? Part of the path to freedom from this thought from of scarcity is realising that our conditioning is a lie. It really is a terrible lie.

 

There are powerful spiritual forces in this world guiding us into a greater level of evolutionary transcendence. But there are also archonic forces trying to destroy this next step into greater consciousness. Through this knowledge of our true identity, we can start the process of rejecting the pathogenic lie that we are inadequate. Do not forget each day to affirm that you are a sovereign being and that others are sovereign beings too. Remember each day to stop, breathe slowly and deeply, and affirm with authority that Love is your natural state of being leading you gently into the light of truth. See the light hiding behind the eyes of all whom you encounter, even if they don’t realise it themselves, and feel compassion for their suffering because of their ignorance of who they truly are.

We have to start somewhere with the movement out of fear and into love