What if I told you that lacking things, missing things, not having lots of things is also a part of your abundance? You are severely limiting your abundance potential when you pray for, and visualize only millions of $ in your account, a beautiful house and pool, a Ferrari (or similar!) in your garage, an intelligent, stunning and rich partner or a healthy and vibrant body.
“Only” is the operative word here. It’s perfectly all right, of course, to wish for all those things and make vision boards. But abundance is so much more than that. You must not limit it to just the things you want; recognize and appreciate it wherever you see it.
Wealth – the thing we all appreciate so much – is indivisible from lack: don’t you think there is an abundance of things you don’t like and don’t want? When you have lots of things you don’t like and don’t want, isn’t that an abundance of those things?
So let’s look at a lack of money. We are told the only way to achieve financial stability is to develop a consciousness of abundance, a feeling of “having” money. If you don’t have that feeling, any money you make will immediately leave you; for your rent, food, clothing, schools, holidays – at the end of the month, you end up with nothing, or even debt.
So how do you cultivate a feeling of being abundant, if all you see in your life is lack, limitation and “not having”? Simply by acknowledging the abundance you see everywhere around you and also in your life, without judgment as to whether you want it, or like it; just look at it objectively rather than subjectively and you will start seeing how abundant life really is.
Look at the profusion of needles on a pine tree; that’s abundance. Look at the stack of unpaid bills on your desk and think: “Wow! I have an abundance of bills!” Look at your credit card debt and realize: “I have an abundance of debt!” It may not be an abundance of what you want, but it certainly is abundance, if you don’t judge it. Maybe even see a Ferrari pass you by in the street and instead of being envious, acknowledge how abundant the owner must be.
