ABE on Prayer

Questioner asks about a doctor's experiment where there were two groups of ill people, one half of which was prayed for and one half of which was not... the prayed for group all did remarkably better than the group not prayed for. They didn't know they were being prayed for, and the prayers did not know the people they were praying for.
Questioner asks about the "mechanics" of our influences over other people, positive and negative... how can we be sure our influence is positive, and also how can we be sure no one else can affect us negatively, etc. How do our thoughts and feelings influence others? And theirs influence us? Abe says first they want to say... they can understand how something like this would happen because --
"WE know that when you are holding someone as your object of attention and you are connected to Source Energy, which means you are expecting good things, you are in that high pure fast vibration as you hold them, appreciation is a very good state of being to be in while you are holding someone as your object of attention. It's like shining, it's like opening a vortex of well being and focusing it, and so it is, it can be, beneficial.We've noticed, however, as we've watched people praying for themselves and praying for others that there is variety in the way people pray. Some people pray in a way that is beneficial to the recipient of the prayer and some people only amplify the problem.And so it is interesting to us that this group of pray-ers apparently was understanding how to ask for and anticipate.. . in other words they were apparently focusing on the well being, rather than on the problem that they were praying for. Sometimes people will say "why are my prayers not answered?" and we say everything that you're asking for is asking for is always answered, whether you are verbalizing, as in a state of prayer, or whether it is just a desire that is bubbling within you. But in your mode of praying, if you are a vibrational match to what you're praying for, it always flows. If you are more aware of the problem that you are trying to solve, then you are offering resistance at the same time you are offering the rayer. Now, so, let us begin by saying it is absolutely possible, and likely, that you or anyone could hold someone known to you or not known to you as your object of attention while you ask for well being on their behalf and you could influence that.Now that comes to the other part of your question. 'If a group of people who don't even know me can hold me as their object of attention and improve the condition of my being, then could they do the opposite? Could they wish me not well being?' And we say one who's connected to the stream of well being is many times more powerful than one who is not. In other words the ratio of comparison.. .. in other words you have to be connected to source energy before that influence is very powerful. And so it is not possible for you to hold someone, someone at a distance, as your object of attention and wish them harm because in your not well wishes you are not connected to the Source Energy and so you have nothing to offer.It is, however, possible to negatively influence people. It usually takes more of you to DO it and over a long period of time but it usually in that case takes your physical interaction with them... you have to get their attention, you have to encourage them through whatever you are offering to vibrate in harmony with not well being. In other words, your television is enormously influential as it influences people toward feelings of vulnerability or feelings of not well being, because there is such a constant hammering of the deficiency of your physical apparatus. You are powerful beings in your influence as you are connected, and it is important to realize that -- you see, when you are praying on behalf of another, what you are really doing if you are in alignment with Source Energy is you are saying "Source, I would like to use my vortex to focus well-being toward the fulfillment of what this being truly desires". And so if this person has absolutely made a decision that they are no longer wanting to be in this physical experience, if their decision is they are wanting to make their transition, no amount of your focusing could alter that, because you can not step on their creative toes. So what you are doing is acting as a catalyst or adding focused energy towards the fulfillment of what they are wanting. Another thing that is really worth talking about is, sometimes... . and we talked about this here earlier with our friend ... when we say: if you are summoning more energy than you are allowing, it can actually cause more contradiction within you. In other words, let's say that a room full of people took one individual person who was sick and this person, while they are sick, and they really want to be well, they've got all kinds of belief in sickness, so their energy is very very jumbled relative to the subject, but they have strong resistance to the well being. And that's why they're sick, in fact. But in this case it's very very strong. And a group of you were to use this person as your object of attention while you all focused the energy of well-being upon them, you would actually cause more contradiction within their energy. In other words because you would be attempting to summon more energy on their behalf than they were vibrationally allowing. Does that make sense to you?And that's why these studies come up with all kinds of different things because there are really a tremendous amount of variables.Also, the one who is doing the study who has a premise that he is wanting to support or approve, by Law of Attraction attracts the subjects that will support what he is trying to prove (laughter). So Law of Attraction is in place. In other words, he automatically attracted those who were wanting the well-being, he attracted people who knew how to pray in an influential way. The whole thing is about Law of Attraction more than it is about anything else. GoodQuestioner - Very interesting. Thank you, that's very helpful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
ABRAHAM: Now let us tell you about prayer. Prayer, from the perspective that we offer is this: Identifying something wanted. That's why you're praying. And opening the valve to receive what it is you are wanting. Most pray from a valve closed. Most see a condition not wanted, so wretched they can't bear it, and with their valve closed, they pray. But they cannot receive the answer or the satisfaction of the prayer because vibrationally they are disallowing it! Forgiveness is not something that your Inner Being will ever do -- because your Inner Being has never judged to begin with. Forgiveness is only taking back a judgment. And, since your Inner Being has never offered a judgment, forgiveness is only a product of the physical environment. And forgiveness feels really good because what forgiveness is, is opening the valve, anyway! What forgiveness is, is saying, "It doesn't matter, the condition doesn't matter. What matters is that I flow who I really am, here." Forgiveness is in the order of unconditional love. That is what your Inner Being always gives you. Your dog gives it to you, too. Have you noticed? The pure, positive Energy, being, not holding a grudge? Does your dog ever forgive you? Never, because your dog has never blamed you to begin with, you see. So forgiveness from our perspective is opening the valve again.
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