“Abundance”

[Wandafishcake]

Anybody else with spiritual friends and acquaintances on facebook hearing a lot about abundance lately? Abundance of what exactly I have no idea, but promises of an abundance of abundance are abundant on my timeline.

AIBU to ask if anyone knows what they’re on about?

Ooh, I'd love to go to a bun dance. I expect it would be like a tea dance but with cakes too. Mmm.

It's appreciation of life, not in material terms, but cultivating respect for the creative energy of the universe and finding joy in living and being a part of that energy. It's personally cultivating a healthy mind, body and soul. The way Buddhists live their religion, daily, in thought and lifestyle.

It’s a Jupiter moon in the 4th house, it’ll depend on your sign but could be an abundance of good fortune, or money, or love or fuck all. Who knows?

@FromBeanToCupYouFuckUp

It’s a Jupiter moon in the 4th house, it’ll depend on your sign but could be an abundance of good fortune, or money, or love or fuck all. Who knows?

Or it could be Christian friends because we’re coming closer to harvest festival time and people’s home grown veggies etc are doing ok. This time of year all the Christians I know start posting about their abundance of blessings in their life.

@ViciousJackdaw

Ooh, I'd love to go to a bun dance. I expect it would be like a tea dance but with cakes too. Mmm.

This made me laugh 😂

I think it's about recognising and being grateful for what you have, rather than expecting a windfall.

@Ponoka7

It's appreciation of life, not in material terms, but cultivating respect for the creative energy of the universe and finding joy in living and being a part of that energy. It's personally cultivating a healthy mind, body and soul. The way Buddhists live their religion, daily, in thought and lifestyle.

I like the concept of respecting the creative energy of the universe and finding joy etc, but why don’t they just say that? Why the word abundance? You can have an abundance of pestilence and plague as much as joy. Is it a Buddhist concept then??

@ViciousJackdaw

Ooh, I'd love to go to a bun dance. I expect it would be like a tea dance but with cakes too. Mmm.

I haven't heard anything about it tbf.

Is it because we're entering autumn, traditional time of harvest and abundance?

Better a bun dance than a bun fight, any day of the week.

@ViciousJackdaw

Ooh, I'd love to go to a bun dance. I expect it would be like a tea dance but with cakes too. Mmm.

It's another word for gratitude.

Peppa is it? Have you got a dictionary reference as that's not a definition I've ever come across.

“Are you ready to dive deep and change your inner beliefs from a mindset of scarcity and need to one of abundance? If so, send me a pm about my holistic crypto and 15 awakenings program”

That sounds like a crypto currency scheme - either a (barely legal) MLM one or outright pyramid scheme. In which case the abundance is financial abundance as opposed to scarcity (because you mental blocks around money are holding you back from abundant wealth).

Abundance in the sense your friends are using it is generally seen in the social media of MLM reps and/or lifestyle/life/spiritual coaches. It all gets a bit vague and, in some cases, outright scammy.