The energy bank account

Negative deposits

Stress

Pain

Anxiety

Anger

Frustration

Lack of sleep

Too much exercise without recovery

Poor nutrition

Lack of natural light

Social Media

Relational dysfunction or upset

Work that is soul-destroying

Greed

Fear

Precarity

Malice

Righteousness

Positive Deposits

Quality sleep

Vital alive food

Being in nature

Laughter

Joy

Love

Service to others

Dancing

Music

Having enough

Stillness

Being seen in our fullness

Community

Connection

Safety

Creativity

This is by no means an exhaustive list. 

We get to choose, as individuals, where and how we make our energy deposits. Some people have less choice. 

In the favelas in Brazil I was surrounded by laughter and generosity, more than I had experienced in many places where scarcity of most everything else is not an issue.

Our society gets to choose where it makes deposits. The neoliberal impulse is to drive up the negative deposits for all but the ‘righteous’ few. Keeping people in precarity, fear, soul-destroying work. Championing the mythology that says we must live this way to have a healthy economy. 

I wonder when we might become alert to the senselessness of that myth? When a Universal Syntropic Income might be a reality.

Creativity, joy, kindness…when we enable these things to flourish, everything gets better for everyone.

This is to be Syntropic.

Photo taken February 8th 2014