Abundance Is Already Here
Dr. Jim Lockard
“Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
- Eckhart Tolle
Abundance is the expression of what is in consciousness, or potential, into actualization, or experience. Whatever we actualize, we have in abundance so long as it exists as potential. This includes wealth and poverty, health and sickness, freedom and bondage. To have abundance is to have whatever facilitating energy is required to manifest and live with freedom of choice and self-determination.
Some of us actualize and experience a wealth of problems, drama, illness, and disappointment. Some actualize the opposite. We can only actualize what we accept as realistic for us.
“Spirit can only do FOR you what It can do THROUGH you.”
- Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
In this quote, Ernest Holmes speaks one of the most powerful truths in metaphysics. What we experience must come THROUGH us by means of our consciousness. Our good, or lack of good, comes from within, not from without. If we see good (or lack) around us, we must accept it for ourselves before we can participate in that experience.
"In choosing security over growth, we outrage the soul, and the soul outraged, manifests in symptoms -- depression, anxiety disorders, envy and jealousy of others, dependencies and many others."
- James Hollis, What Matters Most
We must learn to create the image of what we desire and work to know that we are actualizing that and nothing else. This is the purpose of daily spiritual practices of treatment, affirmation, and contemplation of the good. We must practice accepting that we are the only channel for our good and that we already have the capacity to actualize more good. And work to know that we live in a universe of unlimited good.
We must practice until it is an automatic response to expect the good in our lives. We practice until we are surprised that the good is absent rather than being surprised when it manifests. This is building a consciousness of the expectation of good in our lives.
"Never let go of the mental image until it becomes manifested. Daily bring up the clear picture of what is wanted and impress it on the mind as an accomplished fact. This impressing on our minds the thought of what we wish to realize will cause our own minds to impress the same thought on Universal Mind.”
- Ernest Holmes, Creative Mind & Success
Affirmation: I live, move, and have my being in a universe of unlimited good. I actualize this good in my life easily, naturally, and regularly, as a matter of course. I am open to more and more of this good, and have enough to spare and to share.