Back in the day of the New Thought movement, Florence Scovell Shinn penned a powerful affirmation to use in changing day-to-day reality. As a disciple of Neville Goddard, Shinn believed our thoughts create our reality and she practiced and taught methods of manifesting desired change through changes in thought. She said:
You must form the habit of living in the fourth dimension, “The World of the Wondrous.” It is the world where you do not judge by appearances. [Train] your inner eye to see through failure into success, to see through sickness into health to see through limitation into plenty. “I will give to you the land which thou seeth.” (From And Five of Them Were Wise)
Sounds like the Course, doesn’t it? Here’s another:
No man gives to himself but himself,
and no man takes away from himself but himself:
the “Game of Life” is a game of solitaire;
as you change, all conditions will change. (From Bricks Without Straw)
Forty-plus years later came these words from the Course:
To give and to receive are one in Truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.
(Lesson 108, P 8)
and
You make the world and then adjust to it, and it to you.
(T-20, III, 3:6)
And, as the Course also teaches, Shinn trained her “inner eye” (called our “spiritual eye” in the Course) with affirmations. Here is one of her most effective, slightly tweaked:
Spirit of Truth, open the way for my great abundance.
As I give, all that is good will come back to me.
The divine plan of my life now takes shape
in definite concrete experiences of peace, joy, and abundance.
I give thanks that thoughts of guilt and dismay now crumble away,
and I enter into my promised land under Grace.
Namaste.