If you’re a gazelle, you are indebted to the other gazelles that ran with you when the lions were chasing and that saved your life.
You are particularly indebted to the other gazelle that was injured or killed in the lion attack. You were spared but this gazelle wasn’t. You might your life because this other gazelle died.
The baby monkey is completely indebted to the mama monkey that feeds her and protects her.
The baby maple tree is indebted to the soil, indebted to the sunshine that peaks through the canopy and allows for her photosynthesis.
She’s indebted to the chipmunks that poop and give her nutrients. She’s indebted to the rain.
The bunnies are indebted to the grass. To the clovers that they eat.
Bunnies thump their feet to alert the other bunnies of danger. If you are alerted to danger and get to hide, you are indebted to that bunny.
In nature their is no morality mixed up with debt. There is no “good debt” or “bad debt”.
There is maybe thankfulness to the parents or to the gazelle that lost his life so that you could escape.
But their is no judgement in needing help and support and relying on each other.
In nature sometimes things do get out of balance. If a family of bunnies always go to the same part of the meadow and eat all the grass, the grass might not be able to grow back quickly enough. The meadow might be damaged, the bunnies might have to go elsewhere in search of grass and give time for that grass to grow back.
Again their is no morality.
There is no “what bad bunnies for demolishing the grass”
“What stupid bunnies?! Don’t they know about grass growth rates?”
Debt is natural and part of the cycle of life. The bunnies eat the grass and then poop which brings nutrients to the soil which helps the grass.
Taking and receiving and giving happen. And when things get out of balance, the whole ecosystem readjusts as best it can to bring things back into balance.
And sometimes death is part of the rebalancing, sometimes the grass in the meadow dries up and dies, until balance is restored.
Sometimes there’s a forest fire… and it’s not one blade of grass’s fault.
What if you looked at your debt from this perspective?
Your made up story of how “I’m a bad person because I have this debt” is what makes it painful.
Not the debt itself.
The cycles debt and wealth do not inform your goodness or badness. They are like the cycles of raining seasons and droughts.
If we put a clover plant in the desert and it died, we would not blame the clover for being a piece of shit stupid ass clover.
It’s a clover in an environment he’s never dealt with before. And sometimes you’re in an environment you haven’t dealt with before.
Debt doesn’t make you bad.
Money doesn’t make you good.
Being a millionaire doesn’t make you bad.
Being impoverished doesn’t make you good.
Drought and rain are part of the cycle of life.
Wealth and financial struggle are part of the cycle of life.
Wherever you are in the cycle, you’re in the right place.
Stop creating a weird morality story about it.
Release from this, and feel your power come back into your body.
The truth is… you’re more powerful than you think…
Love and hugs,
Bryn
PS Most of the moral bullshit stories about money and debt come from your experiences of asking, giving and receiving in childhood.
To examine your stories more deeply so you can free yourself from them, check out the Somatics to Heal Money Blocks Workshop.
Free access: https://mailchi.mp/c43286760ab8/somatics4moneyblocks
