Our culture is so money oriented that we collectively see doom when people stop spending money. The corporations are, of course, at the forefront of the fear-mongering, for it is they who have the most to lose.
Anyway, regular people get so stressed out about money matters that nothing else seems to matter and it's mere moments until shear panic sets in:
"How will I pay the Country Club fees?"
"When is the bank going to foreclose?"
"Who am I without my Porsche?"
"Cut up my credit cards, you've got to be kidding!"
" No more $10 lattes? Oh honey!"
Resources grow scarce and unable to service the debt people start looking to sell off their assets. But wait! It's a buyer's market and if you're selling, you're losing big. All worldly possessions are suddenly worthless: they no longer have any value. Nothing makes sense anymore. What once had meaning is now irrelevant. What now?
Perhaps a mindful look with in?
Instead of allowing social expectation to define success; a look within enables the Self to assign meaning and value to that which the individual finds important. Mindfulness training frees the practitioner to to challenge social expectations and to see meaning everywhere. There is no longer validation in a fancy cars or a big house. Practitioners are content to BE.
When living mindfully we define our own success, live in the moment and open our Self up to the abundance we deserve. Uncertainty is removed as we choose our own definitions and free our Self from the cultural confines placed upon us. The practitioner is then free to realize individual success beyond expectation...