The Emerson Cross-jostle

Creating Change

2011-06-17T13:02:00.012-10:00

Art is about creation.

And, people that create

are the closest thing you'll find

to religion in the world.

Without that, we wouldn't have dreams.

And, without dreams, we wouldn't exist.

(Marilyn Manson)

"If you made something, you've changed the world."

Turn Your Attention Someplace Else

2011-01-19T06:44:00.001-10:00

Well-being is just a thought, that feels good, away.

You could have every deadly disease known to man,
within you, today,
...and if you chose different feeling thoughts,
...tomorrow, they would all leave your body.

They are not physical things that have jumped into you.

They are the reflection of your not allowing
your natural Connection.

It’s nothing more complicated than
choosing better feeling thoughts.

For example, you just had a weak moment,

and now you feel guilty.

Guilt causes cancer ... and all kinds of other things.

You felt fear.

Fear causes cancer.

Fear or anger or jealousy, or guilt, are your indicator
that the thought you are choosing
is contradictory to, and is, hindering,
the Source Energy.

The key is to not give anything that you do not
want much of your attention.

As soon as you realize it doesn’t feel good,

... do your very best to turn your attention ...
someplace else.

Abraham-Hicks

You Felt Inclined to Go This Way

2010-07-02T14:08:00.004-10:00

The hypocrisy around the subject of sexuality is huge.

Early on, there were others who were a lot more interested in you satisfying what made them feel good than in satisfying what made you feel good.

There were so many things that you felt inclined to go this way, that you were forced to go that way, that at an early age, you made a conscious decision that if it felt good, it was wrong.

And if it felt wrong, it was probably right.

(Abraham-Hicks)

Ideal Citizen?

2010-04-15T18:05:00.003-10:00

GUEST: My question is how to participate as a citizen in a country in a way that would be positive rather than negative.

During the war in Viet Nam, I was in silent vigils that some people and I started.

And I felt good about that.

But I also realize that it’s very easy to get caught up in resisting and being negative.

So, I wanted to ask you what your thoughts are on that?

ABRAHAM: The ideal citizen, ... one who contributes enormously to the Well-being of the whole,

... is one who focuses so specifically on life giving projects that you act as a vortex that summons life into this dimension through you.

Some would say, “Well, you mean she shouldn’t get involved in bigger issues?”

And we say, “She can choose any issue she wants to be one of those life giving issues.”

It’s about choosing something and focusing upon it with the sheer intent of letting it summon to itself through you.

GUEST: I don’t want to see society become like those countries where women would be kept at home and not allowed to leave.

I would like to operate in my society in a way where I see to it that more freedoms in that way are preserved or enhanced.

ABRAHAM: What do you see as you look around you in this society?

You see mostly freedom.

And so, as you focus here, you can feel, as you observe, an environment that is a vibrational match to your desire.
You feel better.

As you observe another society that is not a vibrational match to your desire, you don’t feel so good.

Your role, as a productive citizen,

is to choose from those two perspectives

the one that you can feel the Energy flowing the strongest.

And, it’s not hard to figure out which one that is, is it?
You can tell by the way you feel.

Many people believe that if there are not protests, that nothing ever gets better.

And we say, well, there is accuracy to a degree.

If you don’t know what you don’t want, you could not know what you do want.

And so, it is the contrast or the diversity that helps you to formulate your decision.
And often the strongest decisions come out of the worst situations.
It’s those unbearable or deplorable things that often give the rocket of desire the greatest thrust.

But what goes wrong with so many people is, once the desire is born, then they keep looking back and trying to justify the desire by pointing out how bad things are.

And, when they look back, they just include that vibration which makes them a muted, clutter filter.

They are not a vortex that is doing any summoning toward what they want.

If you let a negative situation build that rocket of desire within you,
and you focus upon the way you want it to be,
and then you imagine that.

You dream that.

You amplify that. You look for evidence of that.
You talk about that. You script that.
You find the feeling place of that.

You imagine that.

You dream that.

You hold yourself in that vibration and you create that.

You open the vortex, single-handedly, that hundreds of thousands, millions,
then benefit from, because of your attention to the subject.

Most of you do not believe that you have that kind of power of focus.

So you gather all over the place, and then you feel crabby because you know,
from your Non-physical Perspective, the extraordinary power and value and reason that you have come here to focus.

You did not say, “I’ll come forth, but clean up everything that might bother me,

and then I’ll come.”

Instead, you said, “I’ll go forth into this contrast,
and out of it I’ll feel new desire born in me.”

When we tell you that you are on the leading edge of thought, we are not kidding you.

Here is the way it works:

So, you examine the contrast.
We are not talking about conflict.

But contrast might be conflict.
You examine the stuff, ... all the stuff.
You observe it, and out of it is born a desire,
and when that desire comes within you,

you feel it.

And as you feel that desire, then you talk about it,
and you think about it, and you think about it,
and you imagine it and you offer a vibration about it,
and then the Universe responds.

And, now you stand in a new place with a whole different set of contrasting experiences
giving birth to another desire that you then focus upon and think about
and find a feeling place of
until you are standing in a different place with a whole different set of contrasting experiences.

Sometimes we think you think that the work is to get it done.
You think the work is to get it all cleaned up.

And we say, you did not ever intend to come forth and get everything checked off the list.
You came forth to get more things on the list.

You never get it done.

Now you’re beginning to understand why we want you to enjoy the journey.
Because there is no end to this journey.
You could desire and it could be painful to you,
and you could stop desiring and you could croak.

But we promise you, that won’t be the end of you.

In your physical withdrawal from this experience,
all you get is a whole new lease on life from which you want to come forth into another physically focused environment,
so that you can begin the process again.

It is so satisfying once you begin to understand the rhythm of all of this,
and you begin to understand that the contrast is a good thing
... because the contrast gives you a new desire,
and then, as you fantasize and find the feeling place of it,
then everything in the Universe begins to respond to your vibrational output.

And then, from that new vantage point,
new contrasting experiences give birth to more desire.

And so, the fun of it is not getting to the place where the Universe yields it to you.
Although that can be fun.

But the fun of it is the birth of the desire to begin with, and then the bringing yourself into an alignment with the desire.

There is nothing more delicious than the Creative endeavor.

Friends, you have in your hands the Energy that creates worlds.
And you said, “I would like to take that powerful Energy,
and I would like to focus it through my specific physical human vortex.
So I will be a citizen in this environment,
and I will conclude as best I can from my vantage point.

And when that conclusion builds within me as that rocket of desire and I feel it,
I will revel in what this contrasting experience has produced,
because I’m on the leading edge again.

I’ve just given birth to a new desire.

I am going to focus on the desire.
I’m going to find the feeling of the desire.
I’m going to explain the desire.
I’m going to become familiar with the desire.

I’m going to become desire.

I am going to become the embodiment, ... the vibrational embodiment,
... of this desire.

I am going to radiate that desire.
It’s going to express through me so that anyone that comes into contact will feel a piece of that desire.
And, sure, Law of Attraction will manifest the heck out of it all around me,
but that’s not why I’m here.

I’m here for the experience of the Energy flowing through.

-Abraham-Hicks-

The Favor of Hardship

2009-10-16T10:07:00.006-10:00

...from the Field Center

When the gods want to make a poem out of a man’s life, they send him suffering. – Anonymous

Field training teaches that the reality of our world arises out of our intentions, defined as that structure of consciousness that comprises what we take to be real, and that with which we identify. Thus, for example, the belief, “I am a survivor” will fulfill itself in the manifestation of experiences for us to survive, “I am lucky” will produce its own sort of luck as efficiently as “I am unlucky” will produce the opposite, and so on. Note that it isn’t the words “I am” that spark the creative arc, but the underlying identification, the silent claim, the unspoken and perhaps even unthought assumption.

When we fail to recognize the causal role of our consciousness in a situation, when we believe that our reality happens to us rather than through us, when it seems that all the power and authority lie outside us, then we are in a state of what Field training calls “immersion” in another belief—namely, the belief that we are at the mercy of conditions, and this belief, too, tends to be self-fulfilling, until a nicely closed system is formed between the psyche and the world, and our experience continues to prove what we have assumed to be so.

From an immersed state, it may be all but impossible to recognize the great benefit, even blessing, of hardship, but things only start falling apart when they are no longer adequate to fulfill. Hinduism tells us that the nature of the Godhead is threefold, that it has three aspects: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer, and it is important to understand that often, Shiva must do his part before Brahma can do his. An old, decrepit building must be demolished before a new one can be built on the site where the old one stood, and in just this way, psychic structures of our life that have been burdened and exhausted too long by contradiction must be torn down to open the way to fulfillment.

Before we can receive what we want, our hands must be open, and this may require that we let go of an old identity that served us once but has since become too costly. So does every rite of passage involve a wounding, the loss of a certain version of self, and a dismantling of the old reality that belonged to it.

When we are moving though moments of dismantling, when it seems that things are falling apart, and we cannot see over the next rise to the gift that is on its way to us, it can help greatly to remember that Shiva’s work is not arbitrary. He destroys to make room for the new, for Brahma, for greater life, identity, and creative self-expression. To cooperate with Shiva is the mark of an advanced student, someone who has learned to stand in the face of facts without allowing those facts to impersonate a conclusion, who knows that the better outcome always has the last word. At such times, it isn’t necessary to have heroic faith, only to be willing to let things unfold, and to refrain from agreeing with facts or thoughts that would set us against our best interests by giving ourselves to worst-case suppositions.

If contradictions try to take our resolve hostage, we remind ourselves that any path is as steady under our feet as our willingness to see it through, and remain poised no matter what the world throws at us. Florence Scovel Shinn writes, “I do not move, so the situation moves.” Far from being a bad guy, hardship gives us the opportunity to rise above where we have been and acquire a new way of being in the world. When we choose to remain poised under fire, we do not have to wait long to hear the wings of angels, for the one who overcomes the enemy within overcomes the world.

Important That I Feel Good

2009-09-20T12:01:00.000-10:00

Concentrate on how you feel, and make a decision, “Nothing is more important than that I feel good.”

“It’s so important that I feel good, that I’m going to watch specific television programs. It’s so important that I feel good, I’m going to spend more time with this good feeling friend and less time with that not so good feeling friend.

It’s so important that I feel good, I’m going to change the magazine subscriptions that I read. It’s so important that I feel good, that I’m going to ponder thoughts from my past that make me feel better and I’m not going to ponder the ones that make me feel less than good.

-Abraham-Hicks-

"...Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands.

But wait, oh Lather's productive you know,
He produces the finest of sound,
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
Snorting the best licks in town,..."

from the song, "Lather" ... by Jefferson Airplan

Physical Reality Springs from the Imagination

2009-09-19T21:03:00.016-10:00

Because your imagination transcends time,
it is one of your greatest touchstones
to your own identity.

You must, of course,
be able to distinguish
between the world of imagination
and the physical world of fact
in order to be able to manipulate effectively.

But physical reality springs from the imagination,
which follows the path of your beliefs...

For more of this post,
click HERE.

...excerpt from
---
"The Nature of Personal Reality"
---
courtesy
of
Psycho Cat Lady

Present in this Moment

2009-09-17T12:20:00.010-10:00

“Allowing” means:
---
how much
of who I really am,
I’m allowing
by my choice of thought
to be present
in this moment.

When you’re ornery,
you’re pinching some of it off.

That’s why you feel ornery.

When you’re allowing who you really are to flow, you feel good.

You feel clear. You feel sure. You feel invincible.
You feel powerful. You feel eager. You feel adventurous.
You feel kind. You feel willing. You feel compassionate.
---
You feel understanding.

You feel like giving others
the benefit of the doubt.

The Secret to Life

2009-09-12T17:34:00.009-10:00

"Become a person who appreciates,
... and you will thrive."

That is the secret to life.

Abraham-Hicks

The Power of the Universe Inside You

2009-09-09T20:43:00.008-10:00

Every individual's consciousness is connected to,
and is a part of,
the mass consciousness.

When a small but significant number of individuals
have moved into a new level of awareness
and significantly changed their behavior,
that change is felt in the entire mass consciousness.

Every other individual is then moved
in the direction of that change.

And the whole thing may have started
with one individual who first made the leap.

So often we look at the world around us and feel terribly helpless to effect any significant positive change.

The world seems so big, and in such a mess,
and we feel so small
and powerless.

The hundredth-monkey story helps us to see how powerful one individual or a few individuals can be in transforming the world.

Because the world
truly is our mirror,
as we change, it must change.

You can see this easily
in your personal life.

As you develop
the habit of trusting
and taking care of yourself,
you will gradually release
your old patterns.

Soon, you notice that your friends,
family, and business associates
all seem to be feeling and acting
differently as well.

People you encounter seem to be dealing
with less serious problems
(or if their problems are serious, they are more quickly healed)
and more creative issues.

Things that previously frightened and upset you
seem to have lost their emotional "charge."

Even the serious problems of the world,
while they still concern you,
may not seem quite as scary as before.

The reason for this shift is that you are beginning
to feel the power of the universe inside of you.

To the degree that you experience
the presence of the universe in your own body,
you don't feel afraid.

Of course, every time you open up to more power,
more of the old fear gets flushed to the surface and released,
so in the healing process you will experience alternating states
of power and fear.

Gradually, however, a solid base of trust
will be established within you.

Others will feel this and in it will find the support
to open up to more of their own power and truth.

The people and things around you reflect you
in increasingly positive ways.

The more light you allow within you,
the brighter the world you live in will be.

(Shakti Gawain, ... from the book, "Living in the Light.")

Be What You Want to Experience

2009-09-09T17:14:00.005-10:00

...from Field Training

In the Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tze writes,

“Do you think you can improve the world?

You cannot.

The world is a sacred vessel.”

In many such statements in this remarkable text, Lao-Tze tells us that the way of wisdom opens only to those who approach the world with the willingness to be empty, to follow rather than lead.

“When the sage leads the people to victory,
they say ‘We did it ourselves!’”

The sage does not boast or assert or use force
to make anything happen.

Because “he does not contend, he cannot be beaten.”

He is subtle; he doesn’t brag about how great he is, or take pleasure in the defeats of others. “Victorious in war, he grieves for his fallen enemy.”

He knows that the world is a sacred vessel because it fills up with the consciousness poured into it, which it then re-presents as factual events and conditions.

Trying to change the world, the sage knows, is pure folly—
just as it would be folly
to try to wash one’s face
by scrubbing its reflection in the mirror.

The world changes only when the self changes;
it is an indirect path.

To feel more secure in the world, we have to become secure enough in ourselves to be willing to promote security for others. Rattling sabers will never make us safe.

This applies at every level.

To be prosperous, we must first become generous.

To be closer to people, we first have to be open to them.

Always, consciousness is first.

If this simple and profound principle were understood and practiced by national leaders, the world would enter a new era
of peace, mutual respect, and sanity.

But we need not wait for them.

It is for us to understand and practice it.
Then, without trying, we become leaders.

Now: Think of a situation you’re facing that you’ve been wanting to change. You may be alone and long to be with a partner who will complete you. Perhaps you’re facing a health crisis and want to recover. Or you may be struggling to make ends meet, and want to have more money.

In every case, we suggest that you let go of trying to change the world (conditions).

This means that you would stop trying to find your partner and begin being a partner to yourself; that you would forget about recovering and begin appreciating the ways you are already well; that you would release all worries, strategic thinking, and urgency about making money and start extending yourself generously in the form of whatever currency is available to you: a moment of real listening, a kind word, a gesture of tolerance or forgiveness, an hour of attentive and interested time with your child or a friend.

When you’re loving toward the world, the world reciprocates. It returns your love.

When you’re resting in gratitude for your life and whatever vitality you have, the world notices and increases their measure.

When you give more generously to others, the world gives more generously to you.

This is the way taught by Lao-Tze: to stop trying to make things happen and instead—not strategically,
but solely for the joy and relief of inner agreement—
be what you want to experience.

In this practice, you will discover the power of emptiness and living indirectly, and how all the power of a concerted will cannot even reach the hem of the effortless power of willingness.

source

What Matters is Your Vibration

2009-09-09T12:21:00.005-10:00

It only matters
what you are
doing.

It doesn't matter
what anybody else
is doing
with their
vibration,
...
it only matters
what you are
doing.

You cannot desire something
—and notice that it isn't coming—
without offering two
contradictory vibrations
that won't let it come.

Abraham-Hicks

What's the Plan, Stan?

2009-09-03T15:21:00.001-10:00

Whatever you're thinking about
is literally like planning
a future event.

When you're worrying,
you are planning.

When you are appreciating,
you are planning.

What are you planning?

Abraham-Hicks

Those Button Pushers

2009-08-30T16:05:00.000-10:00

Who are the people who seem to be able to push your buttons and send you into a frenzy?

Your spouse?

Your children?

Your parents?

A certain
employee?

Your boss?

A neighbor?

I'm talking about the ones who really seem to get to you.

Anyone else might say the same thing
and you are able to blissfully ignore them
and even respond in your most spiritual
and unconditionally loving tone,
"Thank you for sharing."

Obviously those people do not present any threat
to your being an instrument of peace.

It's those button pushers,
the ones who succeed in sending you
into a state of frustration and turmoil
with a simple look of disapproval or a frown,
who are your greatest teachers.

Begin recognizing that all of these people
are your master teachers,
assisting you in being an instrument of peace.

That's right, these are your guides,
and they have much to teach you.

The moments when you think someone else
is causing the disorder and chaos
that you are feeling
are moments to recognize
that that person is allowing you to discover
that you have not yet mastered yourself.

That's right,
you needed a reminder
that you have work to do on yourself
in order to be an instrument of peace.

Remember,
the state of enlightenment
is a state of being immersed in,
and surrounded by peace.

Anyone whom you have given authority
to remove you from that position
is a reminder to you
of just what you must do
in order to become more peaceful.

In my life,
my wife and children are my greatest teachers.

I call these very special teachers
my soul mates.

Now my definition of a soul mate
is not someone who agrees with you on every issue,
shares the same interests,
and is always attempting
to please you.

I define soul mates as
the ones you love deeply,
but whom you can never get rid of,
who always show up,
and with whom you are
often in disagreement.

These soul mates are
your greatest teachers
because they are
a continuous reminder,
sent by God(dess),
to help you
to master yourself.

So it is tremendously beneficial
if you are aware that these
are people to honor.

My wife is just such a person.

We have been together for many years,
weathering crises together,
but still I can be upset over something
she said
or the tone of voice she may have used.

I know full well that had anyone else said it to me that way,
I would have dismissed it and been at peace instantly.

Yet, with my soul mate,
I am not at peace.

Likewise, I have given my children the same power.

In moments of quiet reflection on my being upset
I realize that once again I have not passed this simple test
---
the ability to be at peace in the face of my master teachers.

To be an instrument of thy peace you (and I) must be able to radiate outward that which we are inside.

Regardless of what or when we encounter them,
our master teachers are there to help us
to become an instrument of peace.

Someday, gradually to be sure, I will be able to be at peace
even in those moments when my greatest teachers
are doing their very best work!

... from the book, "There's A Spiritual Answer to Every Problem,"
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Your Initial Knee-Jerk Response

2009-08-30T06:40:00.002-10:00

Sometimes you walk
into things that,
if you were paying attention,
vibrationally,
you would know right from the beginning
that it wasn't what you are wanting.

In most cases,
your initial knee-jerk response
was a pretty good indicator
of how it was going
to turn out later.

The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

Abraham-Hicks

Streams of Abundance

2009-08-29T15:30:00.010-10:00

Deliberately try to reduce your resistance around the word “money,”
and one way of doing it is to recognize that
everything is flowing to you on this Energy Stream.

There are many things that are of a wonderful nature
that are happening in life
that don’t have anything to do with dollars.

The abundance flows in many more avenues than dollars.

And so,
if you
could focus upon
the gifts
that the
Universe
gives you:

When you say “abundance”,
think about it in the abundance of health,
the abundance of vitality, the abundance of clarity,
the abundance of enthusiasm,
the abundance of delicious people in your life,
the abundance of loving letters in your life.

The abundance of
free-flowing
traffic
in your
life.

The abundance of
wonderful experiences
in your life…

As you start thinking in terms of this abundance
that doesn’t have anything to do with dollars,

... the abundance relative to the dollars starts flowing, too.

-Abraham-Hicks

The Gift

2009-08-29T15:23:00.006-10:00

The greatest gift you could ever give another

is the gift of your expectation

of their success.

Abraham-Hicks

What Are You Talking About?

2009-08-26T02:15:00.006-10:00

When you talk about what you want and why you want it,
there's usually less resistance within you
than when you talk about what you want
and how you're going to get it.

When you pose questions you don't have answers for,
like how, where, when, who,...
it sets up a contradictory vibration
that slows everything down.

Abraham-Hicks

Creation of Matter

2009-08-18T13:58:00.003-10:00

by Seth/Jane Roberts

Seth says that this is something we all do.

"You form the camouflage world or appearances with the same part of you that breathes." Session 23, p.167 , The Early Sessions, Book 1

"The physical world that you recognize is made up of invisible patterns. These patterns are "plastic," in that while they exist, their final form is a matter of probabilities directed by consciousness. Your senses perceive these patterns in their own ways." Session 803, p.29 , The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Emotions, instead of propelling a physical rocket, for example, send thoughts from this interior reality through the barrier between nonphysical and physical into the "objective" world -- no small feat, and one that is constantly repeated." Session 625, p.95 , The Nature of Personal Reality

"The intensity of a feeling or thought or mental image is, therefore, the important element in determining its subsequent physical materialization." Session 525, p.66, Seth Speaks

"The inner senses were always paramount in evolutionary development, being the impetus behind the physical formations; and themselves, through the use of mental enzymes, imprinting the data contained in the mental genes onto the physical camouflage material." Session 26, p.198 , The Early Sessions, Book 1

"Suggestion is no more and no less than an inner willingness and consent to allow a particular action to occur; and this consent is the trigger which sets off the subconscious mechanisms that allow you to construct inner data into physical reality." Session 68, p.215, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"A primary construction is a psychic gestalt, formed into matter by a consciousness of itself. Such a primary construction is an attempt to create, in the world of matter, a replica of the inner psychic construction of the whole self." Session 71, p.239, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Secondary physical constructions are those created by a consciousness of its conception of other consciousnesses, from data received through telepathy and other means." Session 71, p.240, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"In all cases consciousness is first, and it forms its physical constructions according to its abilities, first of all forming its own primary construction, and then brancing outward, constucting secondary images of other ocnsciousnesses with whom it comes in contact." Session 71, p.241, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"These simple remarks will themselves be the basis for further rather involved discussions, as the mechanisms that are set into motion in such mental or psychic manipulation of matter have never really been explained. Remember however that such psychic manipulation of matter is the normal occurrence. It is however usually operating at subconscious levels, and without either knowledge or intent as far as the conscious mind is concerned. To be able to bring these natural but subconscious forces at all under any domination by the conscious mind is a terrific task. Such domination will never be habitual, but conscious awareness of subconscious manipulation of matter may become habitual, and may often of its own accord follow the desires of the conscious mind, if certain conditions are met. First of all, the conscious desires must be in league with, and unopposed by, subconscious expectations. Two, sufficient emotional impetus must be discharged, and this will be on or from subconscious levels. And three, communication between the conscious and subconscious, or the inner and so-called outer parts of the whole self, must be excellent." Session 81, p.305, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Prayer has been extremely successful in enabling individuals to manipulate matter through use of their psychic abilities." Session 81, p.307, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"There are certain points in time and space, therefore, (again in your terms), that are more conducive than others, where both ideas and matter will more be highly charged. Practically speaking, this means that buildings will last longer, in your context, that ideas wedded to form will be relatively eternal. The pyramids, for example, are a case in point." Session 524, p.64, Seth Speaks

"To make this clearer, look at any table in the room before you. It is physical, solid, and you perceive it easily. Now for an analogy, imagine if you can that behind the table is another just like it, but not quite as physical, and behind that one another, and another behind that -- each one more difficult to perceive, fading into invisibility. And in front of the table is a table just like it, only a bit less physical appearing than the "real" table -- it also having a succession of even less physical tables extending outward. And tghe same for each side of the table. Now anything that appears in physical terms also exists in other terms that you do not perceive. You only perceive realities when they achieve a certain "pitch", when they seem to coalesce into matter. But they actually exist, and quite validly at other levels." Session 530, p.87, Seth Speaks

"Emotions then, in their own realm unperceived by the outer senses, have their own solidity, shape, and it is from these that your expectations are formed. The emotions indeed do form the expectations, and it is not the other way around. As physical objects can be manipulated, so can the emotions be manipulated, so can they be combined into various shapes and psychic constructions, A man"s expectations are the result of his emotional heritage, and his own ability to understand and manipulate that heritage." Session 76, p. 275, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Again, expectations are not only vital in the formation of physical constructions, but they also determine what inner data of all available, will be received by the individual; and then the individual interprets the data in terms of the same expectations. The core of individuality, then, is the individual"s expectations, for he will truly get what he wants, individually and collectively. If a man wants to change his fate, desire is not enough, but expectation is. Desire may grow into expectation, but alone it is not enough. Expectation is actually the main trigger that switches inner data into the realm of physical construction. Without it, no physical construction results." Session 76, p.276, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Expectation is the force, then, that triggers psychic realities into physical construction." Session 76, p.276, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Expectations are formed by the emotions then, it is obviously the basic emotions themselves that must be manipulated, since the expectations are the frameworks formed by the emotions. This is the starting point." Session 76, p.277, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"Emotional power behind your expectations powers your expectations into physical reality." Session 76, p.278, The Early Sessions, Book 2

"What you call suggestion is indeed expectation." Session 160, p.70, The Early Sessions, Book 4

"...you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your inner expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality." Session 253, p.114, The Early Sessions, Book 6

"So your soul, that which you are, constructs your physical daily reality for you from the nature of your thoughts and expectations. You can readily see, therefore how important your subjective feelings really are." Session 527, p.79, Seth Speaks

"We have spoken of expectations. These, you see, are electrical realities which may explain their importance; for you not only sometimes predict so called future events, but you create their actuality within the electrical field, and therefore insure their existence one way or another within the physical field." Session 127, p.240, The Early Sessions, Book 3

"If you direct your inner self with confidence to steer you through your physical existence, it will do so. If you concentrate upon difficulties you will not allow it to do so." Session 220, p.189, The Early Sessions, Book 5

Abraham-Hicks: "68 Seconds of Pure Thought"

2009-08-18T12:42:00.001-10:00

There Are Enough Resources For Everyone

2009-08-12T21:49:00.017-10:00

...if you have the ability to define it as a desire,
this time/space reality, in which you are focused,
has the ability to yield it to you...

Guest: I'm trying to understand greed.

There are all kinds of statistics that are batted around
about 5% of the population of the world
use 98% of the world's resources...

Abraham: Here's the thing.

We would quarrel with it a little bit,
but let's accept that it's an accurate statistic.

You're really going to like this:

If 6% of the population were wanting to receive like 5% does,
then the resources would expand to accommodate 6%.

If 10% of them wanted to receive like the 5% does,
the resources would expand to accommodate 10%.

If 100% of the population of your planet wanted to live
like the 5% have already decided that they do,
--
...the resources of your planet would expand
to accommodate 100%.

So it isn't that the 5% are squandering the resources.
It's that they are asking for what they want -- and are getting it.

And the other 95% are belly aching about it,
and holding themselves not in the receiving mode,
and, therefore -- not creating it.

There are enough resources for everyone
to have everything that they want.

Guest: So, there is really no such thing as greed?

Abraham: Most people would define greed as
taking more than I need,
or getting more than my fair share.

And we would say to you,
this is a Universe
that has infinite resources.

(People quarrel with that, but it is our promise to you that
if you have the ability to define it as a desire,
this time/space reality, in which you are focused,
has the ability to yield it to you, no exceptions.)

Now, whether you're talking about money
or something else,
here's what's at the basis of the shortage thinking:

Most people have this distorted view that there's
just one pile that's being divvied out.

And if I, this rich old bugger, go with my big dump trucks
and I carry away a great big piece of the pile,
then others who show up with their wheelbarrows or tea cups
will be deprived of what they would have gotten,
because the pile would, after all,be drastically diminished
by the hoarding that I have done from my greedy perspective.

And the reason that we wanted to put it in that dramatic way
is because all of that is such hogwash.

When you ask it is always given!

But, as you do not allow yourself to receive,
nobody else gets it.

When you think about physical Well-being, do you ever say,
-
"I've been healthy for so long,
I think I'll be sick for a few years
to let other people be well?"

You understand the resources that you would call clarity
are yours, or not,but you don't say,
-
"Oh, I've been so confused today,
there must be a really smart person
running around here somewhere."

The only thing that ever holds anyone apart
from something that they want,
is that they are choosing to focus upon
the lack of what they want,
and therefore they are a vibrational match
to the lack of what they want
-- and therefore that is their reality,
or
that is their creation.

Here you are, on the same planet that you've been on
for more years than you have the ability to count.

And just in the last 400 years,
look at the difference in your economy.

And it's the same exact planet.

Nobody has been trucking in or piping in any resources.

There are not more resources present today.

You are just vibrationally lining up with the utilization of them.

And, oh, this planet's ability to yield to you:
you have not even scratched the surface of it.

It is a continually replenishing environment.

And you would never be able to get your planet imbalanced
by utilizing more of its resources than it could produce.

It just cannot happen.

So we would go back to your earlier question and say to you,
greed is a non-issue because...it is an impossibility.

It is not possible for someone to get more
than their fair share.

Abraham-Hicks

Beyond What Is

2009-08-12T21:45:00.002-10:00

The ability to imagine what you are wanting,
rather than only observing what is,
is what takes you beyond.

You are a physical being, but you are much more.

Abraham-Hicks

Vibrating Abundance

2009-08-10T05:28:00.002-10:00

Question: Is my scarcity caused by my feeling a resistance to receiving abundance?

Abraham: If it feels like discouragement, fear, uneasiness, frustration, if it feels like anger—that’s what it means. That scarcity feeling has all those feelings wrapped through it. They are all indicators of some resistance within you.

What those feelings are actually saying is, “Ah, as I’m feeling this thing that I’m calling scarcity, I’m a vibrational mismatch to the abundance that I want. I want abundance, but I’m not vibrating there. So as I reach for the thought that feels better, reach for the thought that feels better… so that those negative emotions subside, now I’m no longer resisting. I’m allowing. I’ve lined up the Energy within me.”

Once the manifestations start coming in response, it gets easier and easier and easier. Now it’s easier to hold yourself in that good feeling place because you have more things of an appreciative nature surrounding you. Your second million will come much faster than your first, because as you get comfortable with the feeling of the first, the second is natural. And the third and fourth.

Esther heard a very wealthy man, Ted Turner, saying,
“The world is awash in money.” And he knew it as he spoke it.
It is his experience, everywhere he turns.
He gave a billion dollars to the United Nations.
Money is flowing to him and through him, more than he could ever, in this lifetime and a hundred others, figure out what to do with on a personal basis.

“The world is awash in money!” And as Esther heard him say that, she knew he knew that. And she thought, “I know that, too. He knows it so clearly, that now I know it.” It was something about the intensity with which he spoke it, that, in that moment, Esther knew it. And then, for the next month, she must have said that to Jerry 5,000 times. “The world is awash in money.” It was a titillating thought to her, because she, like you, had seen where so many people had pinched themselves off from Well-being, that she’d come to believe that the world was not awash in money. She had come to believe that only a few had it, and they had it stashed back there somewhere where others could not get it. She thought that there was a lopsided thing…

The world is awash in money! Do you hear what that means? It is awash in money. It is flowing for everyone. It is like Niagara Falls. And most of you are showing up with your teaspoons.

Your economy has always been about, the exchange of human energy: As contrast produces a new idea within any human consciousness, the Non-physical Energy to supply it flows forth. The economy expands proportionate to the idea. There is no shortage of anything.

Those who believe there is shortage, hold themselves over in this place where they disallow the Energy from flowing to them. And so, in their resistance, they have it not. And then they say, “I am proof that there is shortage. And that man over there that is awash in money is the reason I don’t have any.” He has nothing to do with your shortage. He is evidence that there is an abundance.

--(Abraham-Hicks)--

A Powerful Place

2009-08-09T07:02:00.008-10:00

It is extremely helpful for you
to use the
Segment Intending Process
to evoke the best
from others.

If you expect them to be brilliant and helpful,
you will attract that from them.

If you have spent some time
bringing your thoughts to a powerful place
before your physical meeting,
you will have a much more satisfying
co-creation
for yourself, and for them.

Abraham-Hicks

What You Choose to Focus On

2009-08-08T13:05:00.000-10:00

Whatever you are giving your attention to is vibrating,
and as you give your attention to it,
you include it in your vibration.

You can choose something that causes you to reverberate
in such fantastic harmony with your Source,
that your heart is singing all the time
...
or you can choose something to focus upon
that is gut-wrenching, or unsettling.

You do have those choices.

And the more you deliberately exercise those choices
and choose those things that feel good
...
and therefore connect you with the whole of who you are
...
then the less inclined you are
to try to control the conditions around you.

And that’s a happy day for you.

When you discover that it is not your work
to control the conditions around you,
...
then you are finally free.

Abraham-Hicks

Imagining It Completed

2009-08-08T12:59:00.005-10:00

If there is something that you have to do,
resist the temptation to do it under duress.

Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?"

And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it.

And then imagine what would it feel like
to have this done.

Spend a day or two, if you can,
just 15 minutes here,
5 minutes here, 2 minutes here,
here and here,
imagining it completed
in a way that pleases you!

And then, the next time you decide
that you're going to take action
about it,
the action is going to be
a whole lot easier.

Abraham-Hicks

The Positive Side of the Equation

2009-08-08T12:57:00.003-10:00

When you are feeling negative emotion,
you are in a very good position to identify what you want.

Because never are you more clear about what you do want…
than when you are experiencing what you do not want.

And so, if you will stop in that moment and say,

"Something is important here,
otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion;
I need to focus on what I want."
And, then turn your attention to what it is that you want.

In the moment of the turning of your intention,
the negative emotion and the negative attraction will stop.

And in the moment the negative attraction stops,
the positive attraction will begin.

And your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.

That is the process of Pivoting.

A very simple process of Pivoting would be to say,
"I want to feel good."

Anytime you are feeling bad, stop and say,
"What I want is to feel good."

And if you will offer that,
then thoughts will begin to come to you
on the positive side of the equation.

And as one thought attracts another,
attracts another, and attracts another,
...
you will very soon be vibrating at the frequency
that is in harmony with your greater knowing.

And then you will really be rolling in terms of positive creation.

Do not try to save the world; save yourself.
That means that you need to focus on what makes you feel good.

The process of Pivoting is the tool
that will bring you to what you want.

It is the process whereby you consciously decide:
"Yes, I want to look for what I want,
and I will no longer look in the direction of the lack of it."

Pivoting is the continual, hour-after-hour,
segment-by-segment process
whereby you choose the positive.

It is the way you get to feeling good.

And, it is a way that you can get whatever you want.

...excerpted from the book, "Ask and It Is Given." (Process #16...Pivoting)

Thoughts, Words, ... and Actions

2009-08-08T12:54:00.001-10:00

Your thoughts are powerful creators.

---

And, your words are even more powerful
than your thoughts.

---

But, your actions are more powerful
than your words
or your thoughts.

Abraham-Hicks

More of This, Please

2009-08-08T12:49:00.001-10:00

Every time you appreciate something,

...every time you praise something,

...every time you feel good about something,

you are telling the Universe: "MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!"

-Abraham-Hicks-

Source Energy Flows Through You

2009-08-08T12:45:00.001-10:00

“You are an extension of that which is Source.

Some call it God; some call it Energy.

Some call it consciousness.

It does not matter what you call it.

You will never be apart from it.

It will always flow to you and through you.

But you have powerful control
about how much of it
you let in,
in any moment in time,
and how much of it
you deprive yourself of.

And when you let it in, you thrive.”

Abraham-Hicks

If...

2009-08-08T12:42:00.001-10:00

If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back, it was and always will be yours.
If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

If it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff,
eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money,
and never appears to know
that you actually set it free in the first place,
---
then you either married it or gave birth to it.

You Are the Orchestrater

2009-08-08T12:41:00.000-10:00

The Universe is abundant with everything that you want.

It’s not testing you.

It’s benevolently providing for you.

But you are the orchestrater.

You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation.

If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster,
that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation.

It is excited anticipation.

Abraham-Hicks

The Oasis in a Desert of Contradiction

2009-08-08T12:40:00.004-10:00

the field center
explains the paradox
of the "The Secret"

I've had numerous emails asking me to comment on The Secret, the latest and massively popular New Age offering (available as a best-selling book and a DVD movie) on how consciousness allegedly can be used to attract health, love, and prosperity.

First off, one has to hand it to Rhonda Byrne and the crew at Prime Time Productions, who put together this collection of New Age wisdom on the subject, for their keen sense of what would appeal to a mass audience. The packaging is unquestionably first-rate.

Even a cursory reading of the book, however, reveals that it offers no secret at all, but only a reheated collection of the same instruction that's been available in the New Age literature since the 70s on a cultural scale, and since the 1800s and early 1900s somewhat less visibly in the work of New Thought writers such as Phineas Quimby, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Ernest Holmes, Florence Scovel Shinn, Emmett Fox, and others.

The essence of this teaching, to which Field training takes exception, is that one can, through visualizing or using affirmations or prayer or otherwise embodying a consciousness of fulfillment, create corresponding conditions in the world.

Note that Field training does not deny that the outer world corresponds to the inner, but points out that one cannot use this "Law of Correspondence" by setting out to use it.

There is an element of paradox built into the principle that Field training regards as central, and which the various New Age offerings on the subject, including The Secret, miss.

This paradoxical element becomes obvious once it's stated, but it is nearly invisible until then:

If our belief creates reality, and we seek to create, say, prosperity, then it is unavoidable that we must already be believing in a lack of prosperity (else why would we set out to try to create it?) and this belief casts the vote of our faith, as it were, mobilizing the Law of Correspondence against our desire.

It should be apparent that any attempt to use consciousness to solve a problem presupposes believing in the problem. Therein lies the paradox.

The idea that we can create conditions through consciousness techniques is nearly irresistible to anyone who has suspected that our inner life and our outer life are mysteriously commingled, but those who have made the experiment have learned quickly and sometimes the hard way that desire alone is not creative, and that visualizations and affirmations fail as a rule to have any creative effect on the world, which seems to roll on indifferent to our fantasies.

We can want something with every atom of our being, we can visualize and affirm it till the cows come home, and still find the universe unresponsive.

Of course, writing a book that tells us otherwise, that fosters and perpetuates the popular misconception that we can have, say, prosperity at the same time that we're believing in its absence and consequently the need to create it—writing such a book may well fulfill the author's expectation of prosperity, because there will always be a huge market for the idea that we can have what we want simply by wanting it, that "wishing will make it so," but in such cases, the authors have made use of something like a pyramid scheme.

As long as these writers can keep "selling" the idea, prosperity follows surely enough for them, but the tab ultimately is passed to those at the bottom of the pyramid who run out of customers, and are left wondering why this seems to work for others while they can't get results.

I don't say that the authors of these books are doing this intentionally. My guess is that they got excited about an idea and mean well, but this is the effect nonetheless.

The fallback position for the New Age's mistaken approach to conscious creating has been essentially the same as the fundamentalist's, who infers from the failure of prayer that we must not have had enough faith.

So, the New Age practitioner may wonder or even worry what he "did wrong" when the universe fails to deliver the goods.

It doesn't occur to him that the whole model is wrong, that the Law of Correspondence (also called Law of Assumption, Law of Attraction, Law of Creation, Law of Mental Equivalents, etc.) is elegant and unfailing but also in this sense ruthlessly thorough and efficient, and that he overlooked something essential, viz., that what we get in life corresponds not to what we want but to who we are.

The person who believes he lacks prosperity sufficiently to be trying to create prosperity uses the law perfectly, and ends up with more lack, though this was not his aim.

Here, then is the paradox:

We cannot use the Law of Creation to create anything. We can, however, assume the identity we desire for its own sake, that is, solely for the sake of the inner fulfillment.

Paradox requires that practice stop there.

Anyone who could practice this far and no further would find the Law delightfully surprising him, and at that point indeed would have discovered a great secret.

A few weeks ago, I received an angry email from someone who had visited the Field Center site, looked at our "how we're different" chart, and accused me of saying that other models "suck" as he put it.

Most of what he found upsetting, I never said and wouldn't. But even responding charitably, I don't see anything wrong with stating that one approach is better, more revealing, more thorough, or more useful if it really is. And we don't just allege this; we explain why.

Furthermore, we don't claim that Field training is the model. It's a model, certainly not for everyone. That said, nearly every student who has come to Field training came from some New Age approach that, in the end, had not "worked."

What Field training gave these students was an entirely different standard for what counts as "working" when it comes to deliberately taking on the great adventure of living consciously, complete with its creative implications.

It taught them that, as we say endlessly, "the aim of practice is alignment, not manifestation." It taught them to recognize, appreciate, enjoy, and work with the paradox of consciousness-as-cause.

And it freed them from the pervasive and obviously still very popular misunderstanding that we can have anything in the world that we haven't earned by right of identity.

Instead, through their willingness to look beyond the popular model, they saw firsthand that identity is the generative force of creation, that what we want also wants something of us, that we cannot have anything we believe we lack, and that we cannot make an end run around these living principles through pretending, visualizing, repeating affirmations, or any other strategy.

"The Secret" - Part 2

Last week, on 25 June, the Associated Press ran this story: (below)

The Secret: Big Sales, Loud Criticism.

Here's an excerpt: "While The Secret has become a pop culture phenomenon, it also has drawn critics who are not quiet about labeling the movement a fad, embarrassingly materialistic or the latest example of an American propensity
of wanting something for nothing.

Some medical professionals suggest it could even lead to a blame-the-victim mentality and actually be dangerous to those suffering from serious illness or mental disorders.

As with many publishing hits, the 'Oprah Effect' played a role.

Winfrey devoted two shows in February to The Secret, and Larry King and Ellen DeGeneres also featured it on their shows.

It was spoofed on Saturday Night Live when a man portraying a refugee in the Darfur region of Sudan was blamed for having negative thoughts.

However, the fear that The Secret will lead to a blame-the-victim mentality is a serious claim of critics.

For example, the book dismisses conditions such as a genetic predisposition to being overweight or a slow thyroid as 'disguises for thinking "fat thoughts."' And during times in which massive number of lives were lost, the book says, the 'frequency of their thoughts matched the frequency of the event.'

So, according to The Secret, the victims of the Holocaust were responsible for their extermination, the rape victim is asking for it, and the people in Darfur are being murdered because of negative thinking.

You see, this is a prime example of the sort of oversimplifications and confusions typical of the New Age approach to consciousness-as-cause, and one that Field training regards as particularly egregious and shameless.

Our response when asked how we explain the Holocaust and other calamitous or tragic events is that we don't.

We recognize that decency places a limit on how far theory can or should be willing to go, and we don't speculate about the experiences of people who are not present to take part in the conversation and present their experience firsthand.

We don't preserve our theoretical model at their expense.

It is true that many who have come through Field training who endured and survived such experiences found that they were not beyond the reach of Field practice to revise and redeem, and that the principles applied even in such severe cases, but this was their call to make, not ours, and this is perhaps why our program doesn't appear either on Oprah or Saturday Night Live.

The great mistake of The Secret and the many models, some of them far more rigorous and thoughtful, is the failure to recognize and incorporate paradox and what we call the "dialectic" into its principles and practices.

As stated in Part 1 of this piece, believing in a problem sufficiently to set about "consciously creating" its solution already places one in a position of checkmate. The game is over, because belief, not willful intent, not visualizing, not prayer, not affirmations, not wishing or hoping or knowing "the secret" is what creates.

This has a far-reaching implication, namely that we cannot use our creative consciousness to create conditions.

We can, however, believe in the desired conditions for their own sake, or as we say, for the sake of alignment rather than manifestation.

This is where practice must stop.

This is the oasis in a desert of contradiction to which we banish our practice the moment we allow it to be strategic.

And this indeed appears to be something of a secret.

At least the New Age doesn't seem to know about it.

This essential element of paradox...

This is one of the first things we give our students,
and it changes their view of who they are,
of what it means to be conscious and creative,
and as a result, their lives in many ways, all for the better.

There is no "secret" that will bring us to anything that we do not earn through the willingness to live up to the version of self to which that thing corresponds, and moreover, to live up to it for its own sake.

Conscious creating, it turns out, is an act of love, an act of giving the self to the ideal rather than trying to get things from the world.

We cannot escape the assumptions of our own consciousness.

When the creative moment is entered into lovingly rather than for some desired effect, then and only then are we operating at the level of cause. This means that it isn't enough for us
to visualize and such.

We have to become the thing we want, until all experience of lack has vanished in the joy of our having come home
to our ideal.

Then, as far as we're concerned, the world can come along
or not.

And the one who practices this way will discover a great secret indeed.

-
--
---

the field center

The Magicians

2009-08-08T12:37:00.000-10:00

Secrets of the Occult:

Part 1 ... The Magicians

(video)

Thanks, Alice.

You Are A Catalyst

2009-08-08T12:33:00.002-10:00

Your greatest value to others is when you are joyful.

Your greatest value to others is
when you are connected.

Your greatest value to others
is to be
radiantly healthy.

Your greatest value to others is
when you are happy.

Your greatest value to others is
to have and do all the things
that are important to you.

And as you are living that
and vibrating that,
...
then you are a catalyst
that is inspiring others
to an awareness of that.

Abraham-Hicks

Free
the
Poets!

Every Impression Becomes An Expression

2009-08-08T12:31:00.000-10:00

Multitudes of people are attracting the wrong things because they do not know the law. They have never learned that the great secret of health, happiness, and success lies in holding the mental attitude which builds, which constructs, the mental attitude which draws to us the good things we desire.

They have never learned the difference between building and tearing down thoughts; the difference between success and failure thoughts; in fact, they do not know that whatever comes to us in life, in our undertakings, great or small, is largely a question of the kind of thoughts we hold in the mind.

We can attract the thing we desire as easily as we can attract the thing we hate and despise and long to get rid of. It is simply a matter of holding the image of the thing in the mind. That is the model which the life processes will build into our environment and which we will objectify.

Like attracts like, failure more failure, poverty more poverty. Hatred attracts more hatred, envy more envy, jealousy more jealousy, and malice more malice. Everything has power to attract its kind.

The feeling of jealousy or hatred is a seed sown in the great cosmic soil all about us, and the eternal laws return to us a harvest the same in kind. What we sow we reap, just as the soil will return to us exactly what we put into it.

Nothing has the power to reproduce anything but itself. There is no exception to this law.

The law cannot pity or help you if you break a bone, or are injured, any more than the law of electricity can help you when you abuse it. It will kill you if you break the law.

To think about and worry about the things we do not want, or to fear that they will come to us, is but to invite them; because every impression becomes an expression, or tends to become so unless the impression is neutralized by its opposite.

If we think too much about our losses, too much about our possible failure, all these things will tend to bring to us the very thing we are trying to get away from.

On every hand we see this law of like attracting like exemplified in the lives of the poverty-stricken multitudes, who, through ignorance of the law, keep themselves in their unfortunate condition by saturating their minds with the poverty idea; thinking and acting and talking poverty; living in the belief in its permanency; fearing, dreading, and worrying about it.

They do not realize, no one has ever told them, that as long as people mentally see the hunger wolf at the door and the poorhouse ahead of them; as long as they expect nothing but lack and poverty and hard conditions, they are headed toward these things; they are making it impossible for prosperity to come in their direction.

The way to attract prosperity and drive poverty out of the life is to work in harmony with the law instead of against it. To expect prosperity, to believe with all your heart, no matter how present conditions may seem to contradict, that you are going to become prosperous, that you are already so, is the very first condition of the law of attaining what you desire. You cannot get it by doubting or fearing. Whatever we visualize and work for we will get.

What we most frequently visualize, what we think most about, is constantly weaving itself into the fabric of our lives, becoming a part of ourselves, increasing the power of our mental magnet to attract those things to us. It doesn't matter whether they are things we fear and try to avoid or things that are good for us, that we long to get. Keeping them in mind increases our affinity for them and inevitably tends to bring them into our lives.

It is a curious fact that many people seem to think that one must spend years as an apprentice to become an expert in any line of endeavor, in business or in a profession, but that in regard to prosperity it is largely a matter of chance, of fate, something which cannot be affected very much by anything they may be able to do.

They say, "Well, I was not built that way. I am not a natural money-maker, and never can be." Or they excuse themselves on the ground that their parents and those before them were never money-makers, and never did anything more than make a bare living.

There is nothing at all peculiar about prosperity any more than there is about legal efficiency or expertness in law or medicine. Its realization is purely a matter of concentration and of preparation; a matter of focusing all our powers upon the prosperity law in order to attract prosperity and to make ourselves expert in attaining it.

The law of prosperity, of opulence, is just as definite as the law of gravitation, and it works just as unerringly. Its first principle is mental. Wealth is created mentally first; it is thought out before it becomes a reality.

If you would attract success, keep your mind saturated with the success, idea. Develop an attitude of mind that will attract success. When you think success, when you act it, when you live it, when you talk it, when it is in your bearing, then you are attracting it.

When we once get this law of attraction thoroughly fixed in our minds we will be careful about attracting our enemies, contacting with them through our mind, thinking about them, worrying about them, fearing, and dreading them. We will hold the sort of thoughts that will attract the things we long for and are seeking, not the things we dread, and despise, and are trying to avoid.

It is just as easy to attract what you want as to attract what you don't want. It is just a question of holding the right thought, and making the right effort. There is no exception to the law of attraction, any more than there is to the law of gravitation, or the laws of mathematics.

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(Orison Swett Marden)

Conscious Attention to What You Want

2009-08-08T12:29:00.000-10:00

It is of great value for you
to give your conscious attention
to what you specifically want,
otherwise you can be swept up
by the influence of that
which surrounds you.

You are bombarded by the stimulation of thought.

And so,
unless you
are setting forth
the thought
that is important to you,
...
you can be stimulated
by another's thought
that may
or may not be
important to you.

Abraham-Hicks

Worlds and Universes in the Silence, Wait...

2009-08-08T12:27:00.000-10:00

Everything you long for,
Whether good or ill,
Shall at length be given
If you have the will--
If you have the patience
And are very still.

All is in the silence
Waiting to be brought
Forth to form and substance
By the Builder, Thought.
That is how God fashioned
Everything He wrought.

Yet I often wonder,
Looking at the earth
With its weight of worries,
If God finds it worth
All the force projected
Thinking it to birth.

Worlds and universes
In the silence wait;
Yours the power to shape them,
Either soon or late.
But be very careful
How you form your fate.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let It All In

2009-08-08T12:26:00.001-10:00

All is well.

You did not come here to fix a broken world.

The world is not broken.

You came here to live a wonderful life.

And if you can learn to relax a little
and let it all in,
you will begin to see the universe
present you with all that you have asked for.

- Abraham -

Unity of Tucson

2009-08-08T12:25:00.001-10:00

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Teachings of Abraham
...are Unity
...are New Thought

Q and A on Abraham w/ Reverend Swartz (audio)

True Knowing

2009-08-08T12:24:00.001-10:00

"Words do not teach.
True knowing comes from life experience.

We offer these words,
that they might stimulate your thinking.

Truly, a teacher is a stimulator of thought."

- Abraham -

Expectations and the Wood's Will

2009-08-08T12:23:00.001-10:00

... Hand-carved and assembled rustic benches,
---
using only salvaged, reclaimed or found wood.

"The wood has a mind of its own", explains Dave.

-
"Everything I make is the product of the struggle
between my expectations and the wood's will.
---
It's a messy, sometimes angry process."
-

Dave Sage is a rustic woodcarver living and working in Portland Oregon.

An Idea is Born

2009-08-08T12:21:00.001-10:00

There is no possibility whatsoever
anywhere in this Universe
that your desire is not being answered
in the moment that you give birth to it.

Abraham-Hicks

The Simplicity of Dudeism

2009-08-08T12:19:00.001-10:00

The beauty of Dudeism is its simplicity.

Once a religion gets
too complex,
everything can go wrong.

That’s why the
“To What/From What/By What Means” method of identifying a religion is a great way to summarize the Dudeist ethos for your un-Dude friends.

For example, if you apply this method to Buddhism
(a compeer of Dudeism),
you can easily answer what the point of it is.

From what is Buddhism trying to liberate us? ...Suffering

To what state of being is Buddhism trying to bring us? ...Nirvana

By what means does Buddhism attempt do this?
...The Noble Eightfold Path.

Isn’t that fucking interesting, man?

Now let’s apply it to Dudeism:

From what is Dudeism trying to liberate us? ... Thinking that’s too uptight.

To what state of being is Dudeism trying to bring us: ...Just taking it easy, man.

By what means does Dudeism attempt to do this? ...Abiding.

(...from the "Take It Easy Manifesto")

For Things

2009-08-08T12:15:00.000-10:00

You can't take sides against anything.

If you would just be one who is for things,
you would live happily ever after.

If you could just leave the "against" part out.

Abraham-Hicks

Exploding Epicenters

2009-08-08T12:14:00.002-10:00

Alex Steffen
June 26, 2008 10:55 AM

Ally Kevin Kelly has a terrific piece up about Brian Eno's concept of scenius:

Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or "scenes" can occasionally generate.

His actual definition is:

"Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius."

Individuals immersed in a productive scenius will blossom and produce their best work. When buoyed by scenius, you act like genius. Your like-minded peers, and the entire environment inspire you.

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The geography of scenius is nurtured by several factors:

• Mutual appreciation -- Risky moves are applauded by the group, subtlety is appreciated, and friendly competition goads the shy. Scenius can be thought of as the best of peer pressure.

• Rapid exchange of tools and techniques -- As soon as something is invented, it is flaunted and then shared. Ideas flow quickly because they are flowing inside a common language and sensibility.

• Network effects of success -- When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.

• Local tolerance for the novelties -- The local "outside" does not push back too hard against the transgressions of the scene. The renegades and mavericks are protected by this buffer zone.

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Scenius can erupt almost anywhere, and at different scales: in a corner of a company, in a neighborhood, or in an entire region.

I've been lucky enough to be involved (at least peripherally) in a few really vibrant scenes of communal innovation, and in my experience, the one thing they all have in common is what I've called an epicenter:

[E]very community needs the space where people who do innovative, creative, risky, noble, worldchanging things get together and fuel each other's ardor. Meeting your allies -- shaking hands, sitting down and eating together, talking, laughing, getting to look one another in the eye, getting to know someone in all the rich, primate non-verbal ways which can only happen in actual physical proximity -- is powerful. Epicenters are tools.

Kevin quite rightly points out that scenius is difficult, if not impossible, to create on demand, and the same is true of its epicenters. You can't just open a bar and expect collective genius to erupt.

Artists can tell you that the same thing is true of any form of human creativity -- it just doesn't turn on like a tap. But artists can also tell you that while you can't command creativity and innovation, you can create a welcoming space for it and increase the likelihood that it will show up. It can't be commanded, but it can be courted.

The art of courting genius is one that people hoping to solve the world's big problems would do well to learn, because truly worldchanging solutions don't arrive steadily or predictably on schedules as deliverables for rational investment.

No, truly world changing solutions tend to arrive in unruly clumps, in great non-linear spills of changed thinking.

This reality vexes today's philanthropists and social investors.

For the past two decades, the trend in the practice of giving money intelligently in an effort to do good has been all about measurable outcomes and predictable returns on giving.

This approach has had some benefit, driving social enterprises to leaner operations; but mostly it's been an abject failure.

Indeed, as I wrote last summer, many social investors are finding that in trying to bring predictability to their work, they've become incredibly averse to risk, and that this fear of risky giving has left them almost completely incapable of finding and funding efforts that would create the conditions for the emergence of the kinds of innovation we most need.

(Worse yet is the trend towards half-assed citizen media and social networking approaches, projects based on the insane assumption that all that's needed to court collaborative creativity is a website and a good advertising campaign.

This tendency to think that innovative collaboration comes free of cost, bubbling up out the Internet like spring water, betrays a poor understanding of the actual workings of either online collaboration or quality thinking.

Most often, when these open/ citizen-media/ online-collaborative approaches work, it's because a core group in the project provides most of the important input, and usually curates most of the other participants' input into useful forms.

So, frequently, funders' hopes that they can create transformation on the cheap actually just create a system that appears cheap because it externalizes the cost of expert participation onto the shoulders of others... and when their enthusiasm lags (or they need to get day jobs), the project falters or dies.

The examples of failed peer-based social innovation efforts outnumber the successful cases by orders of magnitude.)

I suspect what we need is an exploding number of epicenters, independent and creative people and groups, and well-designed networks to support them -- things that set the conditions for a planetary explosion of new thinking. We need to prepare lots of welcoming spaces where genius can take roost.

That's going to take some risk-oblivious, keenly perceptive, imaginative money.

But even more, I suspect it's going to take worldchangers understanding how valuable networked scenius is, and joining efforts to welcome it into their own lives and communities.

(...from World Changing)

Align With the Idea

2009-08-08T12:08:00.003-10:00

Physical humans are the only ones
in all of the Universe
that believe in lack.

Lack doesn’t exist.

But physical beings
have managed to vibrate
in a way where
they hold themselves apart
from things they want.

So they conclude
there is this thing called lack.

And we say,
“It doesn’t really exist
in any other reality."

And so,
there’s a little bit of that
within this question.

“What is it
that’s not going to be there
for me later
that I’ve got to do
a lot of here while I can?”

There is nothing
in the Non-physical Universe
that is lacking anything
that you would desire.

Nothing.

Anything that you ever want
is there for you,
and we have a bulletin for you, friends,
...
it’s the same here
in your physical setting.

You need never be without
anything you want.

You want more clarity?
Align with the idea of it.

You want more wellness?
Align with the idea of it.

You want more money?
Align with the idea of it.

You must find the feeling place
of what you want
and offer a vibration about it,
and then it must come.

By Law, it must come to you.

Abraham-Hicks

Eckhart Tolle Speaks of His Teachers

2009-08-08T12:01:00.002-10:00

...from an interview with John Parker

Question: You mentioned that after a profound realization had occurred you read spiritual texts and spent time with various teachers.

Can you share what writings and teachers had the greatest effect on you in further realizing what had been revealed to you?

Tolle: Yes. The texts I came in contact with—first I picked up a copy of the New Testament almost by accident, maybe half a year, a year after it happened, and reading the words of Jesus and feeling the essence and power behind those words. And I immediately understood at a deeper level the meaning of those words. I knew intuitively with absolute certainty that certain statements attributed to Jesus were added later, because they did not "emanate" from that place, that state of consciousness, because I knew that place, I know that place.

But when a statement emanates from that place, there is recognition. And when it does not, no matter how clever or intelligent it may sound it lacks that essence and it does not have that power. In other words, it does not emanate from the stillness.

So that was an incredible realization, just reading and understanding "beyond mind" the deeper meaning of those words.

Then came the Bhagavad Gita, I also had an immediate, deep understanding of and an incredible love for such a divine work. The Tao Te Ching; also an immediate understanding. And often knowing, "Oh, that's not a correct translation.” I knew the translator had misunderstood, and knew what the real meaning was although I do not know any Chinese. So I immediately had access to the essence of those texts.

Then I also started reading on Buddhism and immediately understood the essence of Buddhism. I saw the simplicity of the original teaching of the Buddha compared to the complexity of subsequent additions, philosophy, all the baggage that over the centuries accumulated around Buddhism, and saw the essence of the original teaching.

I have a great love for the teaching of the Buddha, a teaching of such power and sublime simplicity. I even spent time in Buddhist monasteries. During my time in England there were already several Buddhist monasteries.

I met and listened to some teachers that helped me understand my own state.

In the beginning there was a Buddhist monk, Achan Sumedo, abbot of two or three monasteries in England.
He's a Western-born Buddhist.

And in London I spent some time with Barry Long.

I also understood things more deeply, simply through listening and having some conversations with him. And there were other teachers who were just as meaningful whom I never met in person that I feel a very strong connection to.

One is [J.] Krishnamurti, and another is Ramana Maharshi. I feel a deep link. And I feel actually that the work I do is a coming together of the teaching "stream," if you want to call it that, of Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi. They seem very, very dissimilar, but I feel that in my teaching the two merge into one.

It is the heart of Ramana Maharshi, and Krishnamurti's ability to see the false, as such and point out how it works. So Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi, I love them deeply. I feel completely at One with them.

And it is a continuation of the teaching.

The Essence Makes Its Way to You

2009-08-08T11:58:00.004-10:00

The Universe got all of its information about what you like
from you,
and it has remembered every piece of it
and has put it together in perfect formation.

And so, the things that are on their way to you
are so much better than you even know that you want.

And as you allow them,
...
the essence of all of these things
that the Universe knows that you are wanting
makes its way to you
and appear
in perfect timing
for you.

Abraham-Hicks

13 Principles of Spiritual Activism

2009-08-08T11:56:00.001-10:00

1. Transformation of motivation from anger/fear/despair to compassion/love/purpose. This is a vital challenge for today's social change movement. This is not to deny the noble emotion of appropriate anger or outrage in the face of social injustice.

Rather, this entails a crucial shift from fighting against evil to working for love, and the long-term results are very different, even if the outer activities appear virtually identical. Action follows Being, as the Sufi saying goes. Thus "a positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger and despair." (Dalai Lama)

2. Non-attachment to outcome. This is difficult to put into practice, yet to the extent that we are attached to the results of our work, we rise and fall with our successes and failures—a sure path to burnout. Hold a clear intention, and let go of the outcome—recognizing that a larger wisdom is always operating. As Gandhi said, "the victory is in the doing," not the results. Also, remain flexible in the face of changing circumstances: "Planning is invaluable, but plans are useless." (Churchill)

3. Integrity is your protection. If your work has integrity, this will tend to protect you from negative energy and circumstances. You can often sidestep negative energy from others by becoming "transparent" to it, allowing it to pass through you with no adverse effect upon you. This is a consciousness practice that might be called "psychic aikido."

4. Integrity in means and ends. Integrity in means cultivates integrity in the fruit of one's work. A noble goal cannot be achieved utilizing ignoble means.

5. Don't demonize your adversaries. It makes them more defensive and less receptive to your views. People respond to arrogance with their own arrogance, creating rigid polarization. Be a perpetual learner, and constantly challenge your own views.

6. You are unique. Find and fulfill your true calling. "It is better to tread your own path, however humbly, than that of another, however successfully." (Bhagavad Gita)

7. Love thy enemy. Or at least, have compassion for them. This is a vital challenge for our times. This does not mean indulging falsehood or corruption. It means moving from "us/them" thinking to "we" consciousness, from separation to cooperation, recognizing that we human beings are ultimately far more alike than we are different. This is challenging in situations with people whose views are radically opposed to yours. Be hard on the issues, soft on the people.

8. Your work is for the world, not for you. In doing service work, you are working for others. The full harvest of your work may not take place in your lifetime, yet your efforts now are making possible a better life for future generations. Let your fulfillment come in gratitude for being called to do this work, and from doing it with as much compassion, authenticity, fortitude, and forgiveness as you can muster.

9. Selfless service is a myth. In serving others, we serve our true selves. "It is in giving that we receive." We are sustained by those we serve, just as we are blessed when we forgive others. As Gandhi says, the practice of satyagraha ("clinging to truth") confers a "matchless and universal power" upon those who practice it. Service work is enlightened self-interest, because it cultivates an expanded sense of self that includes all others.

10. Do not insulate yourself from the pain of the world. Shielding yourself from heartbreak prevents transformation. Let your heart break open, and learn to move in the world with a broken heart. As Gibran says, "Your pain is the medicine by which the physician within heals thyself." When we open ourselves to the pain of the world, we become the medicine that heals the world. This is what Gandhi understood so deeply in his principles of ahimsa and satyagraha. A broken heart becomes an open heart, and genuine transformation begins.

11. What you attend to, you become. Your essence is pliable, and ultimately you become that which you most deeply focus your attention upon. You reap what you sow, so choose your actions carefully. If you constantly engage in battles, you become embattled yourself. If you constantly give love, you become love itself.

12. Rely on faith, and let go of having to figure it all out. There are larger 'divine' forces at work that we can trust completely without knowing their precise workings or agendas. Faith means trusting the unknown, and offering yourself as a vehicle for the intrinsic benevolence of the cosmos. "The first step to wisdom is silence. The second is listening." If you genuinely ask inwardly and listen for guidance, and then follow it carefully—you are working in accord with these larger forces, and you become the instrument for their music.

13. Love creates the form. Not the other way around. The heart crosses the abyss that the mind creates, and operates at depths unknown to the mind. Don't get trapped by "pessimism concerning human nature that is not balanced by an optimism concerning divine nature, or you will overlook the cure of grace." (Martin Luther King) Let your heart's love infuse your work and you cannot fail, though your dreams may manifest in ways different from what you imagine.

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(...from the Satyana Institute)

Forking Off Towards Things You Want

2009-08-08T11:55:00.000-10:00

You are the creator of your own reality because you are the chooser of the thought right now.

Don’t be hard on yourself.

If you’re standing in a place
where you’ve been chopped off at the knees,
where you’ve been hit in the gut,
where you’re feeling awful, don’t feel bad.

Don’t beat up on yourself for not being able to choose
the best thought you’ve ever thought.

Just choose the best thought you can find from where you are.

In other words, just fork off gently
in the direction of what is important to you.

And before you know it, your path will get brighter and sweeter,
and brighter and sweeter.

And the people who watch you will say, “You know, you amaze me.
Things go well everywhere you go. Why is that so?”

And you say, “I’ve come to expect it.”

And many of them will say, “Agh.”

They don’t want to hear how you expect things to go well.

They’ll say, “Oh, that’s because you’re rich.
Oh, that’s because you have an entourage that travels with you.”

We promise you, no entourage can buck your current.

There is no one in the world who can prepare your path for you, you see.

You are all as rich as everyone else
because you all have the resources of the Universe
at your fingertips.

And when you take the time,
when you care enough to take the time to find the better-feeling thought, now, you’re moving toward something that will please you.

Every step you take, you are marching toward a manifestation.

And if you feel good while you’re stepping
—you are marching, marching, marching
toward things that are going to delight you
when they get there.

And if you are ornery, if you’re unhappy,
if you are frustrated, if you are blameful,
if you are angry, if you are hateful,
if you are revengeful, if you are fearful,
if you are depressed
—you are marching, marching, marching
toward things that are going to augment
that feeling of depression, of anger,
of frustration.

In other words,
the way you feel must net you more stuff
that feels like the way you feel.

The better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets,
the better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets,
...
the worse it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets,
the worse it gets, the worse it gets.

You cannot defy the Laws of the Universe—please give it up!

Stop trying to use your words and your action
for the stuff that attitude and mood, and vibration are to do.

In other words, mold yourself into place.

Do the vibrational work before you do the action work,
and the action work will be a fraction of what it has been before.

If you take the time to do the vibrational work first,
you won’t have to offer nearly as much action.

You’ll begin to discover that the things
that are important for you just unfold for you
because the Universe is at your fingertips.

The fairies of the Universe are there for you.

You are the center of an enormous entourage that means to please you.

And when you, through your magnificent deciphering of contrast,
give birth to a rocket of desire,
that rocket of desire is duly noted, understood,
and absolutely agreed with by all of the resources
of the Universe.

And now all you’ve got to do,
is to get in the vibrational compliance
with what you are asking for.

(Isn’t that nice to know?)

There are 3 steps to the Creative Process:

Step One, you don’t have to worry about;
contrast makes you take that step.

Contrast causes you to desire or focus, or prefer.

Step Two, not your work, anyway.

Source and all of the resources of Source answer your request.
That’s that vibrational alignment.
That’s that one point of vibrational relativity that happens instantaneously.

So, your only work is Step Three.

And Step Three is: Can I find a thought right now that feels a little better than the thought I’ve been thinking?

That’s all Step Three is.

Finding a thought that causes me to feel a vibration (or a feeling) of relief.

So, there is allowing of what I want, or disallowing of what I want.

There is allowing of what I want, or resisting what I want.

You are either practicing the art of allowing, or the art of resisting.

When you’re forking off toward things you want,
you’re practicing the art of allowing.

When you’re forking off to things you don’t want,
you’re practicing the art of resistance.

And every day, and every moment of your life experience
is a perfect reflection of how you’ve been forking. (Good.)

Abraham-Hicks

Spend Fearlessly, With Wisdom

2009-08-08T11:51:00.000-10:00

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Many people are in ignorance of the fact
that gifts and things are investments,
and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.

"There is that scattereth and yet increaseth;
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet,
but it tendeth to poverty."

For example: I knew a man who wanted
to buy a fur-lined overcoat.

He and his wife went to various shops,
but there was none he wanted.

He said they were all too cheap-looking.

At last, he was shown one, the salesman said
was valued at a thousand dollars,
but which the manager would sell him for five-hundred dollars,
as it was late in the season.

His financial possessions amounted to
about seven hundred dollars.

The reasoning mind would have said,
"You can't afford to spend nearly all you have on a coat,"
but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.

He turned to his wife and said,
"If I get this coat, I'll make a ton of money!"
So his wife consented, weakly.

About a month later, he received
a ten-thousand-dollar commission.

The coat made him feel so rich,
it linked him with success and prosperity;
without the coat he would not have received the commission.

It was an investment paying large dividends!

If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give,
the same amount of money will go
in an uninteresting or unhappy way.

For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day,
she informed her family
that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner.

She had the money, but decided to save it.

A few days later, someone entered her room
and took from the bureau drawer
the exact amount the dinner would have cost.

The law always stands back of the man
who spends fearlessly, with wisdom.

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...from the book, "The Game of Life and How to Play It,"
by Florence Scovell Shinn

All You'd Need

2009-08-08T11:49:00.000-10:00

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate
you would live a joyous,
spectacular life.

If there was nothing else that you ever came to understand
other than just look for things to appreciate,
...
it’s the only tool you would ever need
to predominantly hook you up
with who you really are.

That’s all you’d need.

Abraham-Hicks

It's Time to Stop Being Unhappy

2009-08-08T11:43:00.000-10:00

When the desire is born,
right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied.

Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved -- we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive...

Abraham-Hicks

Your Vision

2009-07-18T10:08:00.007-10:00

You have sole ownership of your vision.

And the Universe will give you
what you want
within your vision.

What happens with most people is that
they muddy their vision with "reality".

Their vision becomes full of not only what they want
but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too.

Your work
is to clarify
and purify your vision
so that the vibration
that you are offering
can then be answered.

Abraham-Hicks

Very Interesting

2009-07-10T12:10:00.006-10:00

When you are ready,
the perfect thing
for you to hear
will come.

Abraham-Hicks

Mastermind Group Magic Blend

2009-07-07T20:55:00.012-10:00

Co-creating with another person can be fabulous.

Two or more people thinking a little differently
... can add balance and breadth, and depth,
to one another’s desires.

Two people, masterminding, can add power to a desire.

Although you assist in adding variety and further perspectives,
you often hinder by worrying about control issues
or things of that nature.

So the optimum creative experience is to be able
to open to the breadth of more input
without closing to the breadth of more input.

It’s like a two-edged sword; it can stimulate you;
it can shut you down.

So, whether it’s one or a hundred that you are co-creating with,
use the stimulation factor,
but don’t allow yourself to get worried
about their choice or their control.

Just know that Well-being always flows to you.

What they think about anything does not matter.

Only what you think.

But, when you start thinking about what somebody else thinks,
and forming a judgment about what they’re thinking,
... now you’re thinking,

and now you’ve introduced resistance.

And then you say,
---
“Well, I didn’t feel resistance before I was thinking about what you were thinking,
so if you’d stop thinking about it,
then I wouldn’t have resistance.”

And we say,
---
you could stop thinking about what they’re thinking,
and there wouldn’t be
any resistance, either.

And you say,
---
“True enough,
... but it would be a lot easier for me
to not think about what they’re thinking
if they’re not thinking it,
especially if they’re not speaking it.”

There is where allowing really serves you.

The Ability of the Universe to please you all
is
unlimited.

Let’s say that I have a specific style of furniture.

I’m a vibrational match to it and I don’t have discord around it.

Then, I hook up with someone who has
a very different style in furniture,
and they want to bring
their really bad looking stuff
into my life.

But, I’m not getting upset about the current state of what-is.

I’m looking for things to appreciate.

I’m more focused upon the other positive aspects
of our relationship.

I’m focused upon my furniture.

So, could she, in her purity of vibration,
throw all of my furniture out, vibrationally?”

And we say,
---
as she finds vibrational harmony
with her furniture and with her life, and with her relationship,
the Universe has the ability to find furniture
that pleases you both.

And in the process, there’s this magical blending.

Oh, the Universe’s ability
to please
you all,
on all fronts,
is unlimited.

But, most physical Beings get in the way of it, right away,
...because they’re “sure” it cannot happen.

Abraham-Hicks

Au Naturel

2009-07-07T20:15:00.005-10:00

It is Natural To Be Joyful

Clarity is your natural state
of being.

Healthy is your natural state
of being.

Eager is your natural state
of being.

Loving is your natural state of being.

It is natural for you to have desire,
and it is natural for you to
anticipate happy outcomes.

And, it is natural for you to love.

It is natural for you to sing.

It is natural for you to play.

It is natural for you to skip.

And, it is natural for you to be joyful.

It is natural for you to know Well-being.

It is natural for you to expand.

It is natural for you to question.

It is natural for you to find interest.

It is natural for you to want more,
and it is natural for you to feel good.

And, anything else is resisting
the natural state of who you are.

Abraham-Hicks

Keith Richards, Please Don't Snort Me

2009-07-07T19:46:00.004-10:00

'Twas cuz my unsoaked brain turned to powder.

A less than stiff breeze done blew it down the street.

With that said, there's still 'spose 2 B some kinda upside, I'm told.

I'd guess a saving grace reminiscent of a frontal lobotomy.

What the hell do I know?

Disorganized procrastination.

Something to Try

2009-07-01T18:15:00.006-10:00

Without knowing anything about
Law of Attraction,
...
without knowing anything
about Vibration,
...
without ever knowing anything
about anything, ...

"Become a person who appreciates,

... and you will thrive."

That is the secret to life.

Abraham-Hicks

Any Amazing Thing

2009-06-23T20:56:00.005-10:00

We Can Choose It!

Whatever you choose to give your attention to is your choice, and whatever you give your attention to, will activate a vibration within you. Whatever activates a vibration within you, will eventually manifest into your experience. And whatever manifests into your experience is always a perfect vibrational match to your vibration. The way you’ve been feeling matches your vibration; your vibration matches the way you’ve been feeling—and everything is in perfect order when you understand the management of Law of Attraction.

As we talk about Creation, we say to you that there are three parts in the equation:

The first is asking: When you ask, Source Energy always answers.

Step two: Source Energy answers.

Step three: You allow it.

The Universe is big enough for all to create
whatever it is they choose.

We Can Prefer It!

You are not asking with your tongue or words, you are asking with a vibration that emanates from you. You’re asking from that which you feel, know, and desire. You are asking from your preferences. And every preference is read, and instantaneously responded to, by the Energy that creates worlds—by the Energy that has the ability to line up circumstances and events for the fulfillment of any amazing thing that you have conjured or determined in your physical environment. And the next thing that you must do is be a vibrational match to that which you are asking for.

So the big question is, what are you going to allow?

We Can Allow It!

It is a vibrational Universe. The Universe is magnetic, in the same way that your radio signals are, and when you come to accept that what you think and feel is always a vibrational match to what you get—then everything else falls easily into place.

When you understand that nothing comes to you that you are not vibrationally inviting or allowing, then you are less needing to change conditions around you—that you really have no control about—in order to be in your happy place.

--Abraham-Hicks--

2009-06-23T15:58:00.002-10:00