Fear of poverty is one of the most difficult fears to overcome in life. It is the fear that actually dominates among all the fears of life. The feeling or thought process that we won’t have enough money, food, love, relationships, and home to live, it is what the fear of poverty is all about. Fear of poverty makes us doubt our self-worth and believe in all the world’s problems where poor people complain about not getting enough in their lives.
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Fear of poverty often strikes us when we lose trust in God’s process in ensuring that He will always provide us with enough resources to handle life’s matters. This fear of poverty is a state of mind of a person that we will not be able to save enough for our needs after retirement or when we won’t be able to work or if we face a major life crisis. This fear of poverty is also called money madness by a noted author who had written a book on how to grow rich by overcoming psychological fears.
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The fear of poverty actually is man’s biggest suffering that he lives with throughout his life. He doesn’t feel the secure whole of his life fearing that he won’t have the food, water, shelter, and money to fulfill his basic needs of life. This makes him actually work too much and invest in so many different things that may not be even of use to him in his lifetime. Like, I have seen a couple who used to live in different nations and had kept their child with their in-laws because they were afraid that they weren’t earning enough for a suitable livelihood.
Their fear made them do everything calculative and this also involves calculations in spending quality time with loved ones and with their own kid. One day their kid became so depressed because he didn’t actually enjoy the riches, technological devices, and the online world that his parents were sending him. He really felt like running away from his home just because his fear of not getting enough love was overpowering the fear of poverty of his parents.
The classic personal finance book was written way back in the 1930s talks about why the fear of poverty actually stops people from actually enjoying life’s real riches. Individuals who had a scarcity mindset often lived in poverty throughout their lives because they didn’t actually desire to improve their lives. Whereas, people who had enough but still were threatened by the fear of poverty eventually lost everything in their life because every win or joy was not welcomed by them wholeheartedly. Instead, they kept manifesting poverty in every good thing that came into their lives, thus putting an end to their existing riches.
Fear of poverty is also called Peniaphobia. The way to overcome the fear of poverty is by changing your way of thinking or perspective in life. When you make a connection with Nature, you will be able to understand that Nature has abundant things and provisions. When you shift your focus to the real world (not the one shown in the newspapers), you will be able to know that the miracles of life continue to keep going around us.
