Overcoming our survival mode

Getting money to eat and keeping us healthy is a cycle that never ends. What happens if we surpass that mode?

Juan Mantz
2 min readSep 8, 2019
Survival Mode On
Our inner caveman still wonders and hunts for survival.

We worry about how to survive so much that most of us can’t switch, look aside, or get over the way we think, feel, or act. Our survival mode wins, and we let it do so. We feel the urge to have the security of knowing what to eat and keeping our loved ones and us healthy.

We use our survival to understand our existence. Our scarcity mindset allows us to think only in ourselves and how to solve our infinite needs. We will overcome our scarce self by leaving the place to our abundant self. We will find that which lies behind our emotions and controls our present experience from our past one.

Our emotions are active conductors that empower or suppress our bodies, depending on our mindset. Convinced of knowing what we want, we lean towards something we believe can bring wellbeing to our lives.

Meanwhile, on the inside we have:

  • The ability to define ourselves
  • The ability to create feelings
  • The ability to create emotions
  • The ability to use emotions to create results outside of ourselves
  • The ability to perceive the external world as we believe it is
  • The ability to perceive the external world as it is

Being able to transcend our survival mode includes reconfiguring our main priorities and condition them to stop acting upon them. For that, it is a priority to find a method that allows us to perpetuate the solution of having food and health to start focusing on new ways of expansion, creation, and collaboration with others within ourselves.

Couldn’t that be the first issue we need to address to be at ease?

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Juan Mantz

Digital Nomad, Creative Director. Helping startups to increase their value through visual storytelling.