Survival Psychology

Transcending Scarcity Programming to Build From Abundance

Author

Eric Viviers
August 29, 2025

A letter on rewiring ancient fear patterns that sabotage modern success

I made my first $1000 and spent it within a month.

Not on investments. On nonsense. Clothes I didn't need. Gadgets I didn't want. Experiences I barely remembered.

My bank account screamed scarcity while my behavior screamed abundance, creating a chaos that nearly destroyed everything I'd built.

That's when I realized: You can't out-earn your survival psychology.

Until you rewire your root code, success becomes self-sabotage in fancy clothes.

The Ancient Program Running Your Modern Life

Your nervous system doesn't know it's 2025.

It thinks:

  • Rejection means exile means death

  • Resource hoarding ensures survival

  • Visible success attracts predators

  • Safety lies in smallness

  • Different equals dangerous

These programs kept your ancestors alive. Now they're keeping you small.

Every time you:

  • Undercharge for your services

  • Sabotage your success

  • Hoard instead of invest

  • Play small despite big visions

  • Choose familiar suffering over unknown joy

That's not you. That's 200,000-year-old software running on modern hardware.

The Neuroscience of Scarcity

Here's what's actually happening in your body:

When you perceive scarcity (real or imagined):

  • Amygdala hijacks reasoning

  • Cortisol floods your system

  • Prefrontal cortex goes offline

  • Tunnel vision activates

  • Creativity dies

You literally become dumber when operating from survival mode.

I've watched brilliant entrepreneurs make catastrophically bad decisions because their body thought they were being chased by tigers.

The tiger? A client email.

The VISIONS Framework for Abundance Rewiring

Vision: See abundance as natural state, not exception

Interests: Focus on growth, not protection

Story: Rewrite your survival narrative

Insights: Recognize scarcity patterns as data

Outcomes: Measure expansion, not just accumulation

Negatives: Transform fear into fuel

Solutions: Build systems that assume abundance

Each element rewires survival circuitry.

The Four Pillars of Abundance Psychology

1. Safety Through Creation, Not Hoarding

Scarcity says: "Save everything." Abundance says: "Create everything."

When I shifted from hoarding to creating:

  • Money flowed instead of stuck

  • Opportunities multiplied exponentially

  • Energy increased rather than depleted

  • Joy replaced anxiety

Example: I gave away my best framework for free. Result? Three $1000+ clients who wanted deeper work.

Circulation creates abundance. Stagnation creates scarcity.

2. Expansion Through Expression, Not Compression

Your nervous system needs to know: Visibility equals vitality, not vulnerability.

The hiding instinct says:

  • Don't stand out

  • Don't share too much

  • Don't reveal your gifts

  • Don't claim your space

But in modern reality:

  • Visibility creates opportunity

  • Authenticity attracts alignment

  • Expression enables expansion

  • Space-claiming creates wealth

Every time you hide, you reinforce prehistoric programming.

3. Community Through Collaboration, Not Competition

Tribal psychology says: "Resources are finite. Others' gain is my loss."

Abundance psychology knows: "Reality is infinite. Others' success shows what's possible."

When I stopped seeing other creators as competition:

  • Collaborations appeared everywhere

  • Mentors emerged naturally

  • Peers became partners

  • Competition transformed to co-creation

We're not fighting over scraps. We're creating new tables.

4. Security Through Flexibility, Not Rigidity

Survival mode creates rigid structures:

  • One income source

  • One way of being

  • One definition of success

  • One path forward

Abundance creates flexible flow:

  • Multiple income streams

  • Multi-dimensional expression

  • Evolving success metrics

  • Infinite possible paths

Water survives everything. Rocks eventually break.

Practical Scarcity Pattern Interrupts

The Abundance Anchor Practice

When scarcity hijacks:

  1. Stop everything

  2. Place hand on heart

  3. Breathe into belly (not chest)

  4. Say: "I am safe. I am creative. Abundance is my nature."

  5. List 3 things you could create right now

This interrupts amygdala activation and brings prefrontal cortex back online.

The Circulation Ceremony

Weekly practice:

  • Give something away (knowledge, money, time)

  • Without tracking return

  • Notice body sensations

  • Document what flows back

  • Build evidence file

Your nervous system learns through repetition, not logic.

The Expansion Exercise

Daily edge-practice:

  • Share slightly more than comfortable

  • Price slightly higher than safe

  • Reach slightly beyond familiar

  • Claim slightly more space

  • Rest slightly less frantically

Micro-expansions rewire macro-patterns.

My Scarcity-to-Abundance Story

Three years ago:

  • Charging $30/hour feeling guilty

  • Hoarding every dollar in fear

  • Working 60-hour weeks from panic

  • Creating from desperation, not inspiration

The transformation:

  1. Started breathwork (regulated nervous system)

  2. Practiced giving (proved abundance)

  3. Raised prices gradually (built evidence)

  4. Reduced hours intentionally (trusted flow)

  5. Created from joy (attracted alignment)

Now:

  • Charging $250 for 4 hours

  • Investing in growth freely

  • Working 10 hours weekly

  • Creating from overflow

Same person. Different programming.

The Success Sabotage Pattern

Watch for these abundance allergies:

  • Making money then losing it immediately

  • Getting close to goals then retreating

  • Building momentum then burning out

  • Attracting success then destroying it

These aren't character flaws. They're safety mechanisms.

Your nervous system says: "Success = Danger. Return to familiar suffering."

The antidote:

  1. Recognize the pattern

  2. Thank the protection

  3. Update the program

  4. Create new evidence

  5. Celebrate small wins

Rewiring happens through patient persistence, not force.

Building Abundance Architecture

Structure supports new patterns:

Financial:

  • Automatic savings (remove scarcity decisions)

  • Investment accounts (normalize growth)

  • Giving budget (practice circulation)

  • Overflow fund (create evidence)

Energetic:

  • Morning abundance ritual

  • Evening gratitude practice

  • Weekly giving ceremony

  • Monthly expansion review

Social:

  • Abundance-minded community

  • Success celebration partners

  • Growth-oriented mentors

  • Collaborative connections

Environment shapes psychology. Design accordingly.

The 10-Hour Vortex: Abundance Systems

The Vortex works because it assumes abundance:

  • 10 hours creates more than 40

  • Giving attracts receiving

  • Flow beats force

  • Less becomes more

It includes:

  • Scarcity pattern identification tools

  • Abundance practice templates

  • Nervous system regulation techniques

  • Success integration protocols

Because you can't build abundance from scarcity consciousness.

Your Abundance Assignment

This week, practice one thing daily:

  1. Monday: Give something valuable away freely

  2. Tuesday: Price something higher than comfortable

  3. Wednesday: Share vulnerable success

  4. Thursday: Celebrate someone else's win

  5. Friday: Rest before you're tired

  6. Weekend: Notice abundance evidence everywhere

Document how your body responds. Watch old patterns dissolve.

Beyond Survival

We're not just healing scarcity. We're birthing new possibility.

When you transcend survival psychology:

  • Business becomes creative play

  • Money becomes energy flow

  • Success becomes contribution

  • Work becomes worship

You stop building from fear. You start creating from love.

The future belongs to those who can:

  • Create from overflow, not emptiness

  • Trust abundance over evidence

  • Give before receiving

  • Expand through joy

This is how we transcend survival and step into thriving.

Ready to rewire your root code?

Until abundance becomes natural, Eric Viviers

P.S. This completes our journey through the Nine Dimensions of Conscious Business. But really, it's just the beginning. The Vortex awaits those ready to integrate all dimensions into one flowing system. See you in the spiral.

Remember: You were never meant to merely survive. You were designed to thrive. The universe is abundant. Time to sync with its frequency.