Taking meds

Woman: "Members of my family have had problems with high blood pressure. I try, but I have not gotten into this level of consciousness, "Never to allow that into my experience." But, maybe subliminally I did." And, I fought going to the doctors. I didn't want to hear what they had to say, and you know, what I was doing at the time I created that. So they say you have high blood pressure, so I said, "Ok, Arlene, if they say you have high blood pressure, then what that means, is that you need to change something, so that is no longer reality." So, I changed my diet, and stuff like that. And, ah, no, ah, meat...and whatever. Anyway ah, I went without any kind of medication, and then it shot up and I ended up in the hospital. And, now I'm
on this medication and I want off this medication SO BAD. What is the benefit...is it a benefit to me?"
Abraham: "Well, does it bring your blood pressure back into balance?
Woman: "As far as I'm concerned-no, I don't think so. Every time I go, it's still up! So, it hasn't corrected the situation So my thing is, why do I need it?"
Abraham: "As you listen to us here, which thought do you think will feel the best for right now, we're not talking about forever, we're talking about your temporary now. Your now is always very temporary. Does it feel better for me to take ti or not take it? What do you think?"
Woman: "Well, when I start my day off, I just...don't like to take it. I don't like taking any kind of drugs, OK? And, to me, it's another drug. And I just don't see any..."
Abraham: "Well, as you sort all that out, in other words, we know that there are things...we know there are lots of things you could talk about but just, if you had..if somebody said to you, "you gotta make up your mind, you going to take it or not take it and you've got to make up your mind right now", what would your decision be?"
Woman: "Not take it."
Abraham: "Well, that's the reason that we encourage you to, to ponder it and play with it for 2 or 3 days. Because, we feel the vibration within you. The vibration within you is not a vibrational match to those words. In other words, as we sniff out your vibration, we can feel that there is more fear about not taking it, than there is not benefit by taking it, in other words, you would do more disruptive damage to yourself by not taking it. Not because the medicine itself is making a great difference - we're not talking about that. We think that if you did not take the medicine, that your worry about not taking it, would be greater than your relief, if you stopped taking it."
Woman: "That's true. Because I did stop taking it and that's when it went up. So I guess now, when I think of not taking it, I fear it going up, like it did before and I was someplace by myself."
Abraham: "So we'd like to say to you, that taking it or not taking it doesn't make any big difference in the long run - it makes a difference unto you, as you believe. Are you getting this?"
Audience: "YES."
Abraham: "And so, if someone says to us,"Should I go to the doctor, or should I not go to the doctor?" we're always scoping out their vibration to see which of those actions is most soothing to them. Because the action in and of itself is neither right or wrong. And so, two different people could ask us the same questions, and we'd say to one, "Better to go." And we would say to the other, "Better not to go." You getting a sense of..."
Woman: "Ah huh."
Abraham: "And it's not the action that is always right or wrong, it's the alignment of energy that it provides for you. So we would say to you, say things like this to yourself, "I've never liked to take medicine, I'm always stubborn. I want to be in control of my own experience. I want to do it on my own. That is my ultimate goal. But for now, I must not be really ready to do that or I would not have gotten out of balance in terms of my blood pressure to begin with. And because I'm sort of hooked into the belief system of those who are around me and the family who's gone before me, I guess I've got some fear factors around that, which means I guess my vibration is out of whack around that. And so, I suppose I'm better off to just take the darn stuff for now, temporarily. " And, do you feel how when you call it temporarily, it soothes you a little bit? "And in the meantime, why I'll let this medicine bring me into balance, and I'll know that it does in part. As I allow this medicine to bring me into balance, meanwhile, I'll be working on my attitude of well being. I'll be dealing with some of the issues that have been bothering me. I'll reach for the thought that feels better and reach for the thought that feels better. So at the same time the medicine is assisting me in whatever way it does, I'll be lining up my
Energy. And at some point, down the road, I may be ready to just release it all together."
Woman: "Very good."
Abraham: "And I'll know it I'll know it, when it's time. Because when it's time and I ask the question and I release it easily, then I'll know that it's right and then when my blood pressure maintains its balance even without it. Then I'll have confirmation that I was right." You see?"
Woman: "Yes. Ok."
Abraham: "The most important thing that we want you to hear, is that there's so many people that are so accustomed to saying, "well, it's this way or it's this way." So there are the nutritionists that are fighting the holistic approach, and we say, it all works in different ways, for different people. And all of its has its place, otherwise, it would not exist. But when you decide that you're going to push against something, just for the sake of pushing against it, all you're doing is shooting yourself in the foot."
Woman: "Yeah, that is right."
Abraham: "And so, if we were standing you your physical shoes, we would make friends with the medical community. Not because they're good or bad. But because you are a lover and when you are appreciating, your energy is aligned. In other words, all this represents.. .we think that it's a bigger issue for you. and we're going to just ramble a little bit about what we're feeling. And you can feel the confirmation as it happens with you as we speak it."
Woman: "OK."
Abraham: "We feel that you are wanting very much to have your independence. And to know your own personal well being. And, while you appreciate the help others give you, you really would rather just be the controller of your own experience. And it has always irritated you when one thing or the other seems that it is not allowing you to do that. And so, this for you, this is more of an issue of power than it is anything else."
Woman: "Ah, huh!"
Abraham: "In other words, it...and, and, and the person you are most mad at is yourself for feeling powerless, you see?"
Woman: (laughing) "That's true! That's true!
Abraham: "And so, what you're wanting to do is just recognize that "Hey, I've done the best that I knew how to do, as I'm going along the way like everybody else does and so here I stand and bless this medical community because here they are, helping me get back into balancing somewhat, whole I'm really learning how to get into balance. They're sort of helping me out here, and I'm willing to play their silly game because...not only is this the game of me knowing my own ability to stay well in my own body, it's the game of me coming to love others who think they hold power over me." Now think about what we're saying here. This is really big. It's very important for all of you to hear. There are always others that would have you do things that you don't want to do. It's sort of the way of the contrasting world in
which you are all focused. Of course, they have not power in your experience. You hold all the power. And, they work really hard at trying to convince you that they have the power. And so you resent them needing to know that they have the power. And what we're saying to you is, they don't
have the power. You have the power. But don't try to hard, to convince them they don't have it, and they'll leave you alone!"
Audience: (Laughing)
Abraham: "In other words, just stand back and in your knowing, know that nobody can vibrate for you, nobody can disallow the Energy but you. In other words, they can have opinions, opinions, opinions about what you should do, none of that has any affect upon you. Unless you stand here, resenting their opinion, And when you stand here resenting their opinion, now you're using them as your excuse for not allowing the energy to flow. And that's what this is ALL about here, you see?"
Woman: "OK."
Abraham: "Be easy about it. have fun with it. Let it unfold. Love everybody. Not because they deserve to be loved, but because you are a lover. In other words, see some gruesome, terrible thing and say to the person offering it, "I love you." Whether they can hear you or not, and then when they're not listening, say, "not because you're lovable, but because I'm a lover!" It feels so much better for me, to give you the benefit of the doubt and to love you, than it does for me to use as my excuse to pinch off the energy, that I've chosen to love you."
Woman: "That's so beautiful... thank you."

Should He Submit to Diagnostic Medical Tests?

Guest: I have a homeopathically oriented doctor who's aware of Energy; he's a good doctor. Recently I went to a routine checkup, and he said, "You know, you're looking good, but we had a mutual friend who had created cancer for himself. Why don't we do some blood tests on you?" And I said, okay.
Abraham: "Let's not assume Well-being, let's look for trouble."
Guest: Right. And so, I said, "Okay, is there anything up?" He said, "No, you're getting to the age where it'd be good to have blood tests and check these things out." And I was going, "Okay." Abraham: Because, "That is the purpose of my existence, you see." (And we do not mean this unkindly, we are certain that this is a very well meaning person.) "I have spent many years putting myself in the place where this is the way I interface with you. And while it seems that everything is perfect with you, shouldn't we probe a little deeper in order to satisfy my reason for existence?" If a doctor gives you a test when you're locked off, the results will be very different than the test he gives you when you're locked on. You take the test and you call it reality. And we say it was a snapshot of a moment in time, and it doesn't have anything to do with anything except where you were in that moment. Except, once you get the test, you focus upon it more. As you focus upon it more, it holds you in that vibration longer. As it holds you in that vibration longer -- you disallow the Well-being longer. As you disallow the Well-being longer, then there is another test. In other words, we would not take the first test.
Guest: Well, that's my point. I haven't decided to do it.
Abraham: Well, here's the criteria. "Do I take this test from a locked on or locked off position?" Guest: Why do I need to take it? If I know that the way I need to show up in life is be as locked on as I can -- choose the thought that feels better -- why do I need to take it, in the first place? Abraham: Because his vibration might be more dominant in the moment. He might have more Energy revved up around necessity of tests...?
Guest: No, I'm fine with telling him no.
Abraham: So then, let's put this in a very clear place: Does the idea of the test lock me on or lock me off? There's a question about this?
Guest: The idea seems neutral. I think that most everything is going to be fine, but I was thinking, Well, if a result came back and said "Oh, your cholesterol's too high," or "Oh, we need to check this out." I'm pretty good at being aware of where I'm putting my attention. But still, suddenly my attention may go somewhere where it hasn't been. So, am I fooling myself by not wanting to go there?
Abraham: You've invested so much in this, you might as well have taken the test. And we want these to be quicker decisions. We don't want you to struggle, because the test, in and of itself, is a non-issue. The tests, or even what they might produce, in terms of results, are non-issues. Even if the tests said, you've got 14 things that people die from, it's a non-issue. Because all that is, is a registering of whether you're locked on or locked off, in the moment. If you have some negative emotion and you don't realize what it means -- so you don't reach for a thought that feels better and allow the Energy to flow -- don't worry about it, the negative emotion's going to get bigger. And if you still don't recognize it, it will get bigger. Until eventually there is something tangible, something measurable, that is still only an indication of being locked off your signal. It wouldn't matter to us; it wouldn't matter to you, either, if you'd come back and said, "I went to the most renowned doctor tester of physical bodies in the world and he's giving me these horrible, horrible, horrible results," we would say, "Well, what's that got to do with anything?" You say, "Well Abraham, don't you understand, according to these tests I'm really, really, really, sick." And we say, "No. According to these tests you're really, really, really, locked off your signal. Choose another thought, and get locked back on -- and all of that will go away." You say, "Oh, but I don't think I want to get locked on. I think I would rather study the results of these tests for a really long time, and continue to use them as my excuse..." You're getting the sense of what we are talking about? The health test, the snapshot in time, does not matter -- because in the next moment you can lock back onto your signal and allow the Well-being to flood back into your experience. Where you are is only the platform from which you desire and then allow. And that's why you can never get it wrong, because in the next moment you have a different desire, a more emphatic desire, a more specifically focused desire, which you have the ability to allow. You just have to get it that you have the ability to allow -- and that allowing always feels good. So then, all that other stuff that people are all worried about becomes inconsequential. The only question is, "Does it lock me on or does it lock me off?" Period. It's well intentioned. They have a business. They want to be of value to you. They've been taught by the society at large that the society at large does not understand their ability to be well, otherwise everybody would be. And that there are people that are wanting wellness and don't know how to get there. It's all co-creation. The doctor would not exist if it were not for the people who do not believe in their own ability to be well. The range of thought is the range of thought that you hold. And you do not have access to those bright happy fluffy thoughts over there when you are messing around in resistant thoughts that are depressing or angry in nature. So the best you can do is just reach for the least angry thought that you can find. But you're not going to find a joyful thought in your range. Law of Attraction says that it is not possible. So you reach for the best feeling thought that you can find, and it's not that much better than the worst feeling thought, in reality -- but there is a distinction between the worst thought and a better feeling thought. So as you find a better feeling thought and you deliberately focus upon it (or even put your brain on pause for a moment while your vibration catches up with the higher vibration) that better feeling thought will then be the mid-range thought, and the terrible thought, now, is slightly out of range, and a little bit better feeling thought is in range. So now you reach for the best feeling thought, and even though it's not all that great, it does feel better than that one over there -- so you hold it for as little as 17 seconds -- and now it becomes the mid-range vibration. Which means, that really uncomfortable thought is gone altogether -- and a much better feeling thought is coming into view. Can you see how the exact opposite of that happens when you're looking for trouble: You're a little unhappy; you've been locked off; you've got something that's bothering you; you're not allowing your Well-being. So, you don't feel as peppy as you usually do, or your joints are hurting, or something. And so, you begin thinking about it, you begin talking about it, and then somebody says you might go have that checked. Can you see how you're reaching for a less good thought and a less good thought, and a less good thought? And then they say, let's take some tests. So, which way is that going? How many days for the results of the test to come back, and what's the condition of your mind during that time? More locked on, or more locked off? It's really easy to see how, little by little, you teach each other, how to lock off your signal. You're looking at the statistics of the world of people whose vibrational patterns you know not, looking at the results of their vibrational patterns as manifestations, and then you're saying, "That could happen to me!" And we say, that is the symptom of being locked off. If you're not locked off, it could not happen to you. And you say, "Well, I worry about it." And we say, locked off. And you say, "And I know people that that's happened to." And we say, locked off. And you say, "Well, bad things do happen; there is a boogey man out there." And we say, locked off, locked off, locked off. You say, like Esther said, "But it's true!" as if speaking something that is true gives you a little latitude in your vibration. Finally you come to this place where you say, "True or not, other people experiencing it or not -- all of what everybody is living, and what everybody has always lived, has always been a combination of their locked on moments and their locked off moments." And every single time, if you're up close to somebody and you get to examine the content of their day in terms of their mood or attitude, you never, ever, under those conditions question what they're living. Because what they're living is so evident in what they're letting in or what they're not letting in. The more joyful you are, the more you thrive. It is just that simple. So we wouldn't spend too much time trying to scrutinize any particular sticking point. Get off of it. Go into a clear space, connect with Source Energy, and then if you want to revisit it from a better feeling place, that's fine. But we would not go looking for trouble at the doctor's office.
Guest: Well, I think what I'm going to do is probably not take the test, and then I'll loan him this tape and have him listen to it. See what he thinks.
Abraham: He won't like it. Here is the thing that we would say if you are really wanting to help someone that you care about who is in the medical profession. Ask this series of questions: Do you see different things happening to different people? "Yes." Do you see same solutions, medicines, surgeries, processes being offered to different people having different results? Answer is, of course, "yes". So can you see that there must be another underlying issue other than the face value of the behavior of the disease and the face value of the behavior of the solution? In other words, different people are getting different results from different things? "Yes, I can see that there must be some other factor." Are you among those who are coming to recognize that attitude has a lot to do with the healing process? Almost all would say, "yes". Is it logical to you that someone could find patterns of thought that hold them in such a place of resistance that no matter what you, as a physician, does for them, their illness still prevails? "Certainly, I've seen that," they would say. Can you accept that someone could have, by virtue of whatever they've been doing, a very powerful illness, and that somehow within the illness a strong desire could be born, and that somehow they could find a way of looking at it that would allow the wellness that defies all logic? "Yes, I've read of those things. I've seen those things." And then say, then I'd like you to hear this tape, because this tape is telling you why that happens.
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles

By attention to Wellness I’ll maintain Wellness

Just as your wound or sickness is evidence of misalignment, your healing or Wellness is evidence
of alignment. Your tendency toward Wellness is much stronger than your tendency for illness. And that is the reason that even with some negative thinking most of you do remain mostly well. You’ve come to expect your wounds to heal, which helps tremendously in the healing process, but when the evidence of your illness is something that you cannot see, where you must rely on the investigation of your doctor, who uses his medical tests or equipments to probe for information, you often feel powerless and fearful, which not only slows the healing process, but is also a strong reason for the creation of the illness. Many people have come to feel vulnerable about the unseen parts of their body, and that feeling of vulnerability is a very strong catalyst in the perpetuation of illness. Most people go to the doctor when they are sick, asking for information about what’s wrong. And when you look for something wrong, you usually find it. The LOA insists on it, actually. A continual searching for things wrong with your body will in time produce evidence of something wrong. Not because it was lurking there all along and you finally probed long enough to find it, but because repeated thought eventually creates its equivalent.