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.
Rye, NY

Money or event?

Abraham:

"The attention that you give to your idea is not what creates the idea. Contrast created it.
The attention that you give to it is your effort and success at lining up with it. So when you get completely, vibrationally lined up with your idea now the impulse to act is so powerful you can't talk yourself out of it. There's no prodding or motivation that's necessary. In fact, the Universe is just yielding things to you and you're looking at them and you're FEELING powerful enthusiasm for it. If you don't feel enthusiasm for it, the energy isn't lined up and we would not take the action.
Asker
So an example would be, how would I win the lottery if I don't feel the urge to go and buy the ticket? You know what I mean?
Audience laughter….
Abraham:
Well, like that commercial says, if you don't play you can't win and so--
Asker:
That's what I mean--
Abraham:We understand that motivation and if you were looking at that one vortex as the avenue through which your abundance will come then we understand how there could be a sort of feeling of urgency about itWe're going to give this to you in a way that you can really hear it….If life has caused you to put a big request for a lot of money in your vibrational escrow and you're in the place where you're not even thinking about buying a lottery ticket because the means in which it comes is irrelevant to you, you're so sure it's coming…Now you're in that place. So then, when you buy the (lottery) ticket, it just feels like the next logical step. You don't get that big buzz or that disappointment from it. You're lined up with it you see. The words that we're wanting to find for you are these, when your desire, and your perspective about your desire are in alignment, it feels far less than the desire you all think desire feels like.It's interesting, what most people call desire is really a mixed bag of wanting something that I don't know how I'm gonna get it. You've become comfortable with that mixture, that feeling. So it feels like excitement, adventure, trepidation, uneasiness. When you want purely, there's no downside to it. It just feels done. It feels done. And there is an interest in the way it will unfold but not a strong interest because it's done. It's done. We so want you to capture the spirit of that which we know. When you ask it goes into your vibraitonal escrow and it is answered vibrationally and it is done. It's done. It's really, it's done. It's DONE. It's done, it's done, it's done, it's DONE, it's done, it's done we're getting carried away we want you, it's done, did we tell you, it's done, it's done, it's done it's done. Now if there's a part of you that says "no it's not" (audience laughter) I don't see it I didn't buy the ticket I don't have the money it's not done, that part of you that's saying it's not done is the vibrational contradiction that makes you do all kinds of things to justify the doneness of it and everything you do to justify the doneness of something that is done pulls you in the opposite direction. So if you were to say to us "I have been asking for a lot of money and I know it's lined up in my vibrational escrow and occasionally I buy a lottery ticket but the lottery tickets are not important to me because I know it's done. I know it's a done deal. I know that it's coming and I know the way that it will come will unfold and I am more excited about the unfolding and the fun of the unfolding than I am about the doneness of it because the doneness is so inevitable. It's done it's done it's done it's done it's done. When you say that to us, when you GET IT that it's done and now you just get the FUN it's sort of like do you go to the movies to get to the end of it (laughter)Do you say to your girlfriend "let's go to the movie" and she'll say "why" And you'll say because "I want to get to the end of it" (more laughter)Do you go on vacation to get it done? "We're going to 27 cities", you say, "I've got them all plotted out, when we've been to all of them, we'll come back home" and then you look at it and you say, "wait a minute, we're already home. We're done. No point in going, we're done." (More laughter)There isn't anything you're doing to get it done. You want to win the lottery; you want the pile of money. It's a goal that you want. We want you to understand that it's done and we want you to get your KICKS from the thrill of the unfolding of it, you see, because there is a big thing that goes screwy with everyone who says " I want to be over there but I'm not". And when they say, "I'll be happier when I get over there" that tells the whole story; they can never get over there. When being happy is contingent on getting over there they'll never get there.But if they say, "I'm looking forward to being over there" and someone says "why will you be happier?" and you say, "not really, I'm really happy over here." "Well why are you so happy over here when you want to be over there?" and you say, "Well, partly because I've seen what's over there and I'm positively anticipating it but there's so much wonderful stuff that I'm seeing that's over here and frankly", you say, "I'm looking forward to the journey between here and there, I think that was what I was born for, I think I was born for this eternal, expanding journey, you see."We know it's tricky because so many say, if I could just find the lover than everything would be alright, if I could just lose 40 pounds then everything would be just right, if I could just get my finances ion order if I could just move into that beautiful new house…if I could just, if I could just, if I could just…if it were not for this I would be happy, if it were not for THIS that I have my attention upon…We say, that's right, this LACK of what you want is so active in your vibration that it will not let you close the vibrational gap, you see.So, you got a bit more than you bargained for here with your wonderful question. People say "well how does action fit in" and we say it's the joyful way you express life but it's not the way you make anything happenAnd people argue with that because they say I see people picking up bales of hay and moving them over there and if they weren't picking them up…. we say, there'd be another way to figure it out. I see those truck loads of oranges, somebody is growing them and picking them and putting them and processing, there's a lot of action involved and we say yes there is action involved but THE ACTION OF YOUR WORLD IS NOT WHAT'S CAUSING THE EXPANSION OF IT. The creation of your world is about perspective and ideas it always has been, you see.So, when we say we want you to take action out of the equation, we don't mean stop acting, we mean stop making action important to the creation of something, MAKE IT IMPORTANT TO THE ENJOYING OF WHAT'S BEEN CREATED, you see. So, now take it further, we've sort of given you a basis.

Asker:I understand it's about the enjoyment of from where I am to where I want to be, okay.
Abraham:If you feel disappointed about where you are in relationship to where you want to be you'll never be able to be there. If you feel hopeful about where you are in relationship to where you want to be you've already begun closing the gap. If you feel eager about where you're going if you feel enthusiastic if you feel passion now you're on the way. If you feel discouraged you're not closing the gap. If you feel anger you're widening the gap. If you feel frustration you're sort of stuck right where you are YOUR EMOTIONS ARE YOUR INDICATION OF YOUR MOVEMENT. So what you're reaching for is satisfaction with where you are and eager for more.It's so strange, do you know the FASTEST WAY TO GET SOMEWHERE ELSE IS TO FOCUS POSITIVELY ON WHERE YOU ARE because step one which is your work life causes you to do that and step three which is your work are two entirely different steps.Follow this picture for a moment; you're really going to like this:So you were Source energy, you came forth into this physical body, you experienced contrast and in the contrast, you gave birth, you gave birth, you gave birth, you gave birth. Rockets of desires, one after the other, rockets of desires until you've created this vibrational escrow. Now FEEEL the power of that. Feel, feel, feel what it must be. Feel what it was even before you got busy in the contrast and feel what it must be now that you have been busy in the contrast and feel the exponential expansion of it. Now that LOA and the Source within you have focused upon it, feel the power of that, you see. Feel how big that is. We can see why you'd want to be part of that. Feel the bigness of it. Now, focus in a doubtful way about it and feel the discord. Feel how annoying this swirling magestry is since you're nowhere near it. Feel how unpleasant that is. In other words, such a difference between you and you. Really a strong pulling apart so-to-speak.But now, start speaking more optimistically even though you're sort of making it up and feel the little bit of relief that you feel as you begin allowing yourself to move in the direction of it. Now you still got this other swirling vibration going on so you're not going willingly but you are going because this is huge…when you croak it will take you right there. It's huge.
So now you're making an effort to be even more optimistic, even more positive about it. You're feeling better and better as you're coming closer and closer to it and eventually you'll come so close to this fast moving energy your breath will be taken away. You'll begin to feel exhilaration and excitement and passion and clarity as you get closer and closer to it. And once it catches you and sweeps you it will put you right into the eye of this vortex WHERE EVERTHING STANDS STILL. WHERE THERE'S NO FAST MOVING ENERGY WHERE IT WILL FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS ALL ALONG…Haven't you seen those kind of people with that kind of confidence…their tongues aren't hanging out, they're not worrying about anything. It seems that they say it and it happens and they say it and it happens and you're over there really annoyed at what you're witnessing with them (audience laughter). You want to let the Laws of Universe work for you, you see and the way you do it is by letting yourself get—granted it takes some work—in the vibrational proximity of who you really are and when you get close enough off you go and THAT"S the day you buy the winning lottery ticket, you see. THAT"S the day.Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it, Haven't thinking about it, Haven't been thinking about it.What'cha been thinking about?I'm happy, I like you, I like that, did this, having fun, liked this, liked this, liked this, this is good, I really like this, isn't that beautiful. Oh, look at this long list of positive aspects, look how good this is, look how good this is, allowing, allowing, allowing, allowing, allowing, Here's this thing over here, pulsing, pulsing, you're allowing, allowing, allowing, allowing, allowing, allowing, coming closer, all of a sudden, UUUUMMM, idea within you so powerful that wild horses could not keep you from it. You know it in the way that you knew you would be called on here today. You knew that. You lined up your energy, you knew it and we had no choice, you were far back there, we had no choice but to find you and bring you forward because you had lined up with what was swirling over there and the laws of the Universe said it MUST be so no resistance in your vibration so there it is, what feels like instant manifestation, it's not. You were getting closer and closer, you said for how many months? Three months you've been thinking about this. Three months you've been thinking about it, talking about it to yourself, thinking about it, getting into alignment with it, getting inside the vibrational escrow, being there, feeling it, knowing it. So it had to be it had to be all things work that way there is NOTHING that you can not be or do or have you just have to practice the thought of it until it is so familiar that it would be odd to think otherwise. Doesn't matter if it's through the lottery ticket or whatever, it's inevitable it must come and the Universe has 20 or 30 or 40 immediate opportunities line dup in any moment in time. Good."
--Abraham-HicksFt Laudedale 4/02/08