I agree that poor is a state of mind. There are many states of mind that we inherit as children, because we accept our family's vision of life as the only one. As children we know nothing else. My childhood, while middle class was quite dysfunctional, and I just believed somehow that everyone's was like that. becasue as children we don't know better. It's only when we grow up and experience life outside our family, that we can see what our family was actually like.
Gary Craig (EFT founder) calls it the writing on our walls. Imagine you mind to be like a house you live in. Your birth family writes all over your house walls, things like; brush your teeth before you go to bed, don't get Dad angry, we can't afford the nice apples, etc. You then go through life not even knowing where these things come from, but you find yourself following them anyway. In most people they don't even know they're there. They just think everyone is like this.
It takes a fair bit of self-examination and untangling of the knots to figure this out, and if you're working 2 jobs, I can see how it's just not going to rate against something that offers more immediate gratification. And you just carry around all the stress associated with that writing until you can sort it out.
What I'm trying to say is that coming from a poor environment is going to make it that much harder to even think about PD, unless something breaks to force you to consider it. More power to those who do.
And writing a book about it is a great idea!
Joy and prosperity to all
Hazel |