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

Abraham and the Next 12 Steps

Guest: I work in health care.
Abraham: Good. Do you have anything in your pocket?(Laughter – Esther has a cold and is coughing and has laryngitis)
Guest: One of the things I do is I work with a group – a small group of displaced individuals who – teenagers, mostly – who have been taken away from their homes because of addictions like alcoholism and drugs and one of the things they have to do in the facility is to follow your classic 12 step program and they are being taught that they're alcoholics and that's a disease and they'll forever and ever have that disease, and I find this contradiction in myself in that I want to teach them to do whatever makes them feel best, but for them, very often, that means drinking a bottle of vodka or, you know what I'm saying? They're just – I can't seem to get that straight in my head and as to how to - I don't want to -I don't think they should be labeled with a life-long disease. That seems to limit their choices and ability to move forward. But on the other hand, by telling them "do whatever feels best for you" half of them will be running out in the street or even if they just say, "Oh, I'm just going to have one drink 'cause makes me feel better." Inevitably they have 12 or whatever and then it just continues the cycle which just makes them worse and worse even though their original intention was, "I doing this `cause it makes me feel better."
Abraham: Do you know the steps?
Guest: Um hum
Abraham: Speak them.
Guest: Well, the first one is that they have to admit that they are powerless over alcohol and that their lives have become unmanageable.
Abraham: Can't be helpful.
Guest: No, and that's the most important one. I mean they have to admit that they have no, ah, power over their own lives.
Abraham: We cannot see how that can be helpful. Can you?
Guest: Um um . But on the other hand, it does, very often, if they stick with the program, they will stop drinking, at least for periods of time and some of the people who come in a volunteer have been sober for 30 years. But they are terrified of ever even, you know, smelling alcohol `cause they're sure that they would be right back there. So it's ah, I'm having trouble with how to approach that.
Abraham: Well, what's the second step?
Guest: You would ask that. Anybody? (laughs) Came to believe that there is a power greater than ourselves.
Abraham: (Esther sneezes) That's loud. Must be something wrong with the microphones. (Cough Cough Cough)
Jerry: I didn't get to hear that one. (off mic)
Guest: Came to believe that there is a power greater than myself (while Abraham is coughing)(Laughter)
Abraham: Oh, we're waiting for you.
Guest: I came to believe (Abraham coughing again). All right. I'm not going there. (Laughter)Abraham: The reason we are playing with you about this is because the most important thing to remember, first, we are, not at all, pushing against, in any way, the 12 step program because for someone whose life is in a very unpleasant place, all of those steps are downstream. In other words, when you feel totally out of control, maybe it does feel downstream for you to admit that you're out of control. And to say, "I hope there is something, some power that's greater than me that will help me", because when your life is in a mess, that's the last moment in time that you really want to crow about how in control you are. So acknowledging that you are powerless is a downstream step. You see what we are getting at? What we've noticed about the program, and we've interacted with so many people who've been part of it, is that in the beginning it is all downstream for them. But after a little while, when they begin gaining their balance, to say those same things are upstream for them. So it never really gives them the autonomy and self control that they are all reaching for. Every single one of them felt not free when they began this process that evolved into the alcoholism. In other words, you're right, they turned to the alcohol or whatever it was because it seemed like a path of least resistance. It felt better to them than where they were. And there is something that we would like somebody to say to them about the rightness of that decision. But the whole program, and in fact, almost everybody ever involved in it stands and says something else to them. They stand and say, "You were wrong to do what you did. You were not wise in what you were doing. And you should never, ever do something again ---" It's sort of like what we were saying earlier, when a person feels not free and they innately and naturally turn toward anger. That the anger that they turn toward is the most natural thing in the world, but almost everybody would stop and say, "Your anger is wrong. Your anger is misplaced." So when you are interacting with people that are experiencing the hugeness of disconnection, it's not an easy thing for you to teach them the principles from their place of strong disconnection. Something more overt and in their face is necessary. And it is easier to teach someone about action than it is to teach them about vibration. In an action oriented world it's easier to say to them, "This alcohol is your problem" than "Your vibrational countenance is your problem." So we think, if we were standing in your physical shoes, we would introduce the 12 Step Program as the first 12 steps. And we would tell them there are 12 more. And the first 12 steps are about the action part of distancing yourself from something that hasn't been working. And then once you've sort of got that under your belt, then we would begin the next 12 steps which would be about understanding that you are the creator of your own reality and that while you have been saying in the first twelve steps that there is a power that is greater than you, there has never been a power that is greater than you – you just somehow separated yourself from that greater power. But it never left you. It never was forsaking you. It was always aware of you, reaching for you, calling you toward it. You just could not hear, but it was always there. The second of the next twelve steps would be: you are the creator of your own experience, and you are doing the best that you can do every step along the way. You did the best from where you were that you could have done, and you can't go back and undo all of that. So now you have admitted all of that wrong-doing and now you have made your peace with all of those people who you have wronged. This new second step says: I did the best that I could do then, and now I'm in a better place, and it will be easier this go-around. The third thing in this new set of steps is: I am where I am. I am where I am, and where I am is all right because it has to be because it's the only choice I have. If where I am is not all right, then it's over for me. If where I am is not all right, then there's nothing else for me to do because I can't get to where I want to be when I am condemning where I am. Not possible. You can't possibly turn downstream in condemnation of where you are. So - I am where I am, and where I am not only is enough, it must be enough because it's all I've got. The fourth step in this second set is: I am a worthy being who is an extension of Source Energy, and I came forth with powerful intention and got crossways of it. And when I got crossways of it, I went nuts. Because who I AM is such a lover and such a knower of my own value. And when, somehow along my physical trail I lost sight of that, I could not abide in my own vibration. The split in me was too severe, and that's the reason I turned to something that was numbing. And while I will not turn to something that is numbing again, it is satisfying to know that when someone like me, who is Pure Positive Energy, gets crossways of who I AM, that it's going to be pain beyond pain that will require numbing. And I've never known anyone who would deny anyone some sort of a solution or solving of some kind of pain. Step five says: I will make peace with those who did not understand how I felt. For how could they? Everyone has their own emotional scale. Nobody could know what was downstream for me. Nobody could know what was a solution for me. And they all stood in such certainty that they were right when they couldn't possibly know. And so, this fifth step, in my second set of steps, is my true acknowledgment of my powerful desire to forgive them. The first set demanded that I ask for their forgiveness. In this second set, I'm prepared to give them my forgiveness. I forgive them for not understanding me. I forgive them for trying to be my guidance when they could not. I forgive them for not paying attention to how they felt so there was no way they could teach me to pay attention to how I felt. I forgive them for not upholding the knowledge of the personal guidance system. I forgive them for everything they did not understand about me. It feels good in letting all of that go. The sixth step is: I forgive all of them from this new point of view. I forgive them for not only not seeing me as I am, but for not seeing themselves as they are either. I allow them, which is more than forgiving, I allow them to be whoever they are even if who they are being is critical of me for I accept that they cannot see me accurately from their point of view. And I no longer need alcohol or drugs to numb the discord that I felt when I saw that I could not achieve their approval. I'm giving up my need for your approval in this step, and in giving up my need for your approval, I have set you free, but more important, I have set myself free. The seventh step in this second set of 12 steps is: now that I am more sure of who I am and now I'm beginning to return to the eagerness of life that is innate within me, it is my promise to myself that even if I were to do something that formerly I thought was a mistake that I am determined that I will offer no self-condemnation ever again. This may be the most important step of all. I acknowledge that the Source within me never gives up on me, and the only reason I ever feel bad is because I do. So in this step I am pronouncing to the world I am absolving myself of all guilt relative to action. And if I should, and it could happen, ever take a drink again, it is my promise to myself I'm not going back through those first 12 steps. (laughter) Because I am where I am, and because Source continues to adore me, and because there is always downstream from wherever I am, and I don't have to start over every time again. I know too much. I've come too far. The next step in the second set of 12 steps is: sincere appreciation for the first 12 steps. Because they were there for me when I most needed them. I could not even begin to see this second set from where I was and there they were – tangible and real – and they helped me. They don't now, but they did then. They were bridges that were valuable, and I will feel eternal appreciation for their existence. Number 10: I am appreciating everything that ever gave me grief because from it was born clarity of desire. I'm not sorry for one thing that I ever lived through. I'm not even sorry for what I put you through. Because in my dealing with the contrast of the life that I created, I've launched rockets of desire, and I can feel a brighter future that would not be there if it had not been for that. The eleventh step is: I encourage no one to go through what I went through in order to get where I am. I acknowledge it could have been easier for me if I had been willing to pay attention to the way I feel, if I had listened to my own guidance, if I had been able to turn downstream earlier on without being pinned into that corner of feeling not free, I could have turned into my alignment and my allowing without the help or the aid of the drugs. The last and final step is: I adore knowing that I am the creator of my own reality. And I take full credit, not responsibility, I take full credit for the amazing life that I am in the process of creating. I aspire to see myself through the eyes of Source. And I think all 24 steps are part of me now being able to do that. And now I would like to announce to the world I am healed. I am whole. I am free. I am love. And it might be only temporary, but if I ever slip from it, I know exactly what to do.(Applause)

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.

Abraham on Alignment

And are you refreshed? Now what?

Hey Abraham, I'm really glad to be hear and I umm, I really appreciate where I am right now. As you and I know, I've come a long way to my perfect health right now (said with much emotion) and umm, I have a wonderful relationship right now that I've always dreamed of and I've found work that I really enjoy that is uplifting to me and empowering and inspiring.

So, what's all this, mmmmmmm?

All this emotion? Okay. I just, I'm really appreciative of where I am.

But when you uhh, are, what is this appreciation laced with? In other words, when you are really tuned in tapped in turned on, there is not that other edgy stuff. What's that about? Remembering how far you've come?

Maybe.

You can't remember how far you've come and be in the new place at the same time. So, it might be some of that, yes?

Yeah, I mean, on this day in particular, I'm very very appreciative of being here now. And all the wonderful things that I get to experience. And its, and to me its because I changed my chronic thoughts, and I deliberatly chose new ones that served me.

Yes.

And you've helped to bring me further along on that path and so now I have all these fabulous things in my life that I'm enjoying.

You know, what we want to chew on here with you a little bit, and this is because you are in a good place that could be slightly better and let us tell you the difference. You are experiencing perhaps the best example of gratitude we've ever seen. But you are not in a state of
appreciation. And the subtle difference between gratitude and appreciation, is gratitude is looking back at what you have overcome, appreciation is looking forward to the becoming of that which you have set into motion. Nitpicking, perhaps.

I understand.

But really worth talking about,isn't it? Can you feel the difference?

Ya.

So, what brings you here to play with us today?

So I have these fabulous new businesses, and I want to attract fun people to play with me in these businesses. (voice is clear and much stronger)

Now, do you hear the difference in her? Suddenly she looked forward. Suddenly she looked forward into what's coming, instead of looking back to what was painful. Just thought we'd bring that up.

I appreciate that.

Because, because, because, life is about how you feel now, so you might as well feel as good as you can possibly feel, you see.

Right. So, I'm here wanting guidance on how I can look at that to bring about what I'm wanting.

Well the thing is, and we haven't really addressed this very much today, but do you feel that your life has caused you to complete step one? In other words, do you think in the contrast that you've lived that you have done a good job of asking for what you want?

Yeah, I mean I'm always asking for new things.

But, relative to this specific subject, do you think the asking for the business for the people that will work with you, do you think you've asked, do you think you have sufficiently asked? We do, in other words, we think that the life you've lived has caused you to ask. We think that you've completed step one, and step two is not your job at all, and step three is, source is amassing around that vibrational escrow, so step three is what your work is. And the reason that we are putting it you and to so many others for so long in this way, is because, the, what, the sort of projection of your question is what do I need to now do in order to get what I want. And what we are wanting you to understand is, what you want has already taken place.

So the question is not what do I do to create it, the question is what do I now do to achieve vibrational alignment with that which has already been created so that I can allow myself to rendesvous with all the other components at the point of creation. Did you hear the careful choice of words? In other words, do you accept that when you ask it is already done? Do you accept that when you ask it is given, not only is it given, but source is there tending to it, and that law of attraction is now pulling all components to that point of attraction. So, can you feel the difference in the way you want to frame the question?

Right.

What can I do to cause me to let go of the resistance that's the only thing that's keeping me from freefalling right into that vortex where everything that I've been asking for is. Because the answer to that question is so much easier than the answer to the other question, because the answer to the other question has no answer. How can I get to where I want to be? The answer is, you have to become a vibrational equivalent to where you want to be. So, describe to us what you are looking for. And then we will help you to build some emotional bridges to get there.

Mkay, I'm looking for growth in my businesses, I'm looking to work with fun people.

Alright, use slightly different words, I've already asked for expansion and fun people, rather than I'm looking for it, I've already asked for it, and it is there. Can you feel the difference - I've already asked for it and it is there, how do I, what's the next word? How do I get there, no. How do I make it come to me, no. How do I chill out so that I go there. What can I do to relax and trust, what can I do to believe in my own dream, what can I do to get to where I want to be, what can I do?
What can you do?

Right, so what can I do? Appreciate, allow?

You say that like,

Bask?

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ooohh, that old crap. (audience laughter.) Doesn't feel meaty enough, does it? Feels, like, shouldn't I be doing more? Shouldn't I be struggling more?

Shouldn't I be making twenty calls a day? I mean, come on.

Shouldn't I be making more plans, shouldn't I be bloodying my head against the wall? Shouldn't I be, isn't there more that I should do? You mean all I have to do, well, finding the feeling place of where you want to be, so let's talk about this, because, this is a perfect, you'll feel this in a very strong way. So you get it, we've been redundant we know, you're source energy you bang around in your physical form, you give birth to rockets of desire, the source part of you tends it, the vibrational escrow is swirling, law of attraction is summoning everthing to that point of creation including you. So the question at hand is, how can I prepare myself to rendevous inside that vibrational escrow to the point that I can receive full blown manifestation, how can I get inside that vibrational escrow, how can I get inside the feeling place of that? So, the question sort of dictates the answer, you can feel it. How can I begin to feel, like I'm going to feel, once I'm there.

So, now you want to start playing with that. What does it feel like to interact with fun people? What does it feel like to have expansion where everyone is thriving and benefitting by the expansion? What does that feel like? So, what ideas do you have that, how could you get inside a
thought like that? Have you ever been in a situation that felt like that?

Yes.

When, where, who, who?

Uh, uh.

Details.

There have been times in my business where I've felt in that flow.

For example.

Working with people and talking with people,

More detail.

Uh.

I remember that time when. We were sitting where, and who,

I remember that time when a person who has an 85,000 name database said yes she wanted to joint venture with me. I remember how good that felt.

And...

And?

Well, we want you to milk that a little bit, we want you to get into that moment and remember it until you activate the vibrational equivalent of you now. In other words, your work now is to get yourself inside what that vibrational escrow feels like. You see, you've done most of the work, but you're over here and what you want's over here, so you've gotta find a way to get inside this and feel this.

Esther would say, even though it's not about business, I remember last weekend sitting around the small dining room table with son in law and daughter in law and two grandkids playing Uno and feeling the camaraderie as they knew how to play the game, taught it to us, and how fun it was catching on. And feeling the fun watching their little faces around watching them waiting to yell Uno because they knew that the likelihood of me remembering that I was putting down the card before the last one was not that good. And they knew that they were gonna get me over and over again. And the delight they felt when they got me over and over again. It is something that I will keep with me always the cooperative fun environment is what I seek in all things. I want my business to feel like that, I want my business to feel like the brilliance of that game, I want my business to feel like the fun of that game. I want the love that we were experiencing around that table to be present in everything that I'm doing, whether it's with family or with
friends, or with employees or with employers. I want that feeling of togetherness and appreciation of one another. I loved the feeling of that. That's what we mean by milking it.

Right.

Find something that felt good, and identify to yourself why it felt good, and then focus there, and feel good all over again because it feels good, and then just hold yourself there as long as you can in that feeling while you apply it to what you know is going on in your vibrational escrow. That's how you find the feeeeling place.

The example you gave was a good one. Someone showed up with a database and said, I will co-create with you. And the feeling of ease with which that came, the beautiful look on that person's face as we realized together that we had something to give each other and something from
which we could mutually benefit. And the sensation that ran through me was, ohh, things feel like, things like this that come so easily I have a sense that that's the way it is supposed to be. Holding yourself in the vibration of that by thinking about when it happened, and who was
there and what was the conversation. Just holding the feeling place of that.

The work is not hard. It's just a matter of finding something that feels the way you think you want to feel and focusing on it until you feel it, that's what the art of allowing is. That's how you close the gap, that's how you get inside your vibrational escrow. And so, subject after subject you just go there and mess around in it, and go there, and mess around in it. Use descriptive terms to get inside of it and before you know it, inside that escrow is where you vibrationally reside, and when that happens, now you can be the full blown recipient of everything that you have incrementally been putting in there, you see. It's all there, you've gotta find a way to match up with it and you do it by talking yourself into feeling as it feels there.

Mmmhhm.

Earlier we were talking about people will say, I want to get over there, and we say why, and they say because I don't like it over here. That's the opposite of what we are describing. You gotta get over there, you gotta make an effort to get over there, you gotta sorta kinda feel like it sorta kinda might feel when you do get over there. And you gotta talk about it until you do sorta feel over there. And the longer, the more you make, the more effort you make about feeling what it feels like over there, then the more you are over there vibrationally, and then, you see, the universe does not know if the vibration that you are emitting because of a reality that you are living or because of something you are focused upon. The universe at large and law of attraction does not distinguish between a vibration in response to reality and a vibration in response to a thought. So, if you can ignore the reality, and activate a vibration because of a thought that you are thinking, now all things are possible. And really fun as they come.

That's that I want.

So, now you know what to do. You want to do it?

So, it's focusing on the feelings that I want to feel with my successful and profitable business.

Yes

How that's going to feel.

Yes, but words like successful and profitable, the way you say that here, sounds like blublahblublabhblah . blaw blaw, blaw.

I thought it sounded really good when I heard it on your cd.

It sounds good, it sounds good, but you've gotta get inside of it. What does successful feel like, what does that mean? That means I've taken money out of the equation, that means money is irrelevant, that means all the money that I could possibly have any sensible use for is already
flowing. That means that I'm making my decisions whether I WANT to play there, not whether I CAN play there. That means I'm making the decsions based on whether I want to do it not whether I can do it or whether it's possible to do it. So, you just keep talking yourself into that
security, you see.

So, what does successful and profitable feel like? We know what the words sound like. And we know what it could mean in terms of it means this many dollars or it means this many employees or it means this much in gross or net sales. We get that. We wanna know what successful and profitable feels like. So we're gonna ask you some multiple choice questions.

Does it feel like stress or ease?

I would choose ease.

You would easily choose ease, wouldn't you? In other words, there's not even any debate there. Successful and profitable feels like ease, doesn't it. Does it feel like worry or certainty?

Certainty.

Does it feel like I wonderif it's coming or I know it's coming?

I know it's coming.

Does it feel like wouldn't it be nice if or won't it be nice when?

Won't it be nice when.

Does it feel like I never had any reason to worry or I'm grateful that I'm no longer worrying?

I never had any reason to worry.

Does it feel like it was always there for me I just didn't know where to look or it was always there for me.

It was always there for me.

Does it feel more like my success is certain, provided I do the right thing or my succes is certain?
My success is certain.

So, you get what we're getting at with you. You're trying just a little too hard. When you sat down, even as you began, that feeling of the struggle that you've overcome, as if there is some price to be paid, we want that to be a far and distant long memory. Because there is no price for you to pay. In other words, when you want it, source provides it, you've just got to convince yourself that it's time.

Our friend earlier talked about worthiness, and when we hear the word worthiness we want to soften it, in fact we would like you not to even talk about worthiness because every time you talk about it it activates a feeling of unworthiness in most of you. But, just feel the difference between, you - you - we can feel you feeling, especially as we asked those questions, you can feel of course, which is the option that we are rooting for.

But the question that we want you to ask yourself is, not the obv-, we don't want you to give the answer you think that we think is the right answer. We want you to feel your way to the best feeling answer. The words don't matter at all, you see. It's a sure thing. You can't miss. You know too much. You've lived enough life, you've put enough in your vibrational escrow that it must come to you and it's coming whether you allow it to come quickly or whether you allow it to take it a little while, in any case you're gonna have a fun time as it comes. So, the best way to speed it up is to savor what is. Savor what is and be eager for more. We think you've got it.

Appreciate it very much.

Yes indeed.

Phoenix 3/01/08

Rampage for health and wellbeing

*I Feel the power and intelligence of my body *
*I know my body will ask and receive exactly what it needs *
*I trust in the natural health and well-being of this wonderful,*
*Self -regulating, perfect organism that is my body*
*My body has been there with me for so many years *
*Lovingly renewing and gathering well-being always *
*Just as I need it to be *
*I appreciate all the wonderful well-ness that my body has given me*
*my body is beautiful and is a loyal well-functioning friend to me*
*I love it that I can go to sleep and my body takes this time to re-align *
*I know that every cell in my body is able to re-tune +renew itself while i
rest*
*I trust well-being and I know Well-being is an ever flowing constant *
*Always there for me to allow *
*I love this constancy*
*I love the naturalness of well-being*
*And I love it especially when i allow it and feel it filling me*
*I will take time tonight to soothe myself with gentle easy thoughts +things
*and allow *
*my body to draw all that well-being to me*
*OMG i just revel in this feeling of lightness that comes with my thoughts
of health*
*I love well-being *
*I can easily remember the many times Ive allowed the touch and freedom
streams of well-being*
*I can easily remember running freely *
*and delighting in my body as a child *
*Im letting go of all concerns now *
*I know I can trust the universe *
*i can trust all the wonderful health ive created in the past*
*and all that Ive learned in these last years*
*I am a Divine Expression of Source ..,*
*Thats big *
*I have al the resources of Source flowing within me*
*Im going to put down these oars now*
*I see the Down stream flow of a gentle stream *
*Ill slip into that and just drift for tonight*
*Iknow when I re-emerge inthe morning that I will already feel good *

Creating health and a new story

From Hawaiian Cruise
Guest [Tells a lovely story of how Abraham's guidance helped her through the transition of her father—"the love of her life, which relates to this next question]….I went to the library to register my two little grandchildren for the Mother Goose reading class, and I took one step back, and I fell. I fell on hard marble. I couldn't move. They called the paramedics; I went to the hospital, and I couldn't move a finger; I couldn't move any part of my body. And, instead of being upset, which I usually am, I said, "Oh, well, my husband is a stroke patient, and he can't move that much, and I said, Oh, well, I guess we're gonna be a couple!" [laughter from guest and audience]
Abraham: "We'll just roll along in our wheelchairs together. [more laughter from audience]Guest: And I said, "Whatever's going to be…" and I totally let go! And as I did, my father started circling around my bed, and as he did, all of a sudden, my fingers started moving, my hands started moving, and I got up and I walked out! [audience applause]And somebody pointed out to me the reason why he was able to come is because I let go. And I didn't even get that point. [at the time]
Abraham. Well, it's a nice thing---we appreciate the story so much, and it's not an uncommon story. That when you have no choice, you usually let go. In other words, we just love it when people get themselves backed into a corner, where the things they've always relied on—that aren't the things that work, anyway, --they run out of those. And then finally have to do the only thing that ever works, anyway.And so, from that, as you have an experience like that, you say, "Well, isn't it nice that I had that advance Knowing, and isn't it nice that I was able to let go,"--- and now, those of you who are listening in, please understand, you don't have to topple over onto marble, and you don't have to have a deceased father circling your bed. All you have to do is let go ANY TIME. Any time. And the Fairies of the Universe will do their thing.
Guest: Now, a deep-seated belief which I am struggling with—I still am going Upstream--- is un-health. And consequently, you know, I'm a caretaker for my husband, and my mother's 99 years old, and I'm just finding more and more my focus is on illness—where I had an operation, and after the operation I developed two blood clots and I almost got "lost," and I- I'm like in a spiral –
Abraham: We can hear from your focus—and it's certainly logical---- In other words, when you are taking care of people, when you are aware of what's going on--Esther's father and mother spent a very short period of time in an assisted living situation before they were able to make arrangements for them to be cared for at home. And Esther's father said something so brilliant: "I couldn't wait to get out of there, because they make me wonder where I'm going." And that's what so many of you do, as you observe people who are in a declined state, there's a tendency—that' s that sort of Core Belief—People for the most part, believe that you come in—"frisky"—and you stay frisky for a while, and you argue over at what point your long decline into the "morass of death" begins, but almost all of you see that there is some "peaking out" point, and then it's just "downhill." And we didn't say "Downstream. " We said "downhill [laughter] the rest of the way.And so, we want you to realize your work must be, whenever you are witnessing something that is different from what you want to live, you say to yourself, "This isn't about age and it isn't about what's "inevitable, " this is about Vibrational Perspective that is unique to individuals. And it—you're right—it's a common thing for people to expect decline the longer they live, and to exhibit it, or demonstrate it, and those of you who are observing it, then as you activate it in your vibration, that it becomes more and more of your experience. But something else is happening with you. At the same time that some of that "expectation" is beginning to seep into your vibrational "average," so is a stronger desire for it to be different for you. And so, your Stream is going faster. You can in no way equate what anybody else is living to what you're living. Don't try to figure out what's happening to you by virtue of what's happening to anyone else, because you have your own vibrational relationship to your own vibrational escrow.So, it is possible—Esther' s mantra is---- you've heard it, we speak it often: "happy/healthy, happy/healthy happy/healthy, dead." In other words, there's no point in going, "happy/healthy, happy…healthy..less healthy…less healthy… less healthy, less healthy..not happy….less healthy…not happy…..less healthy…….not…..happy……less heal……bleahhhhhhhhhh![much laughter and applause]That isn't the way it goes, you see. You can tend to your gap, and as you tend to your gap, in your vital state, and you turn Downstream, and turn Downstream, not just about the subject of health…It isn't the subject of your body or your health that is responsible for the majority of your upstream thoughts! It's worrying about this, worrying about that, and pushing against this, and pushing against that, and pushing against this, --it's a myriad of topics that people use, as their excuse for the Upstream, which pinches off their energy and causes a withering of their physical apparatus, and then they say, "See! That's just the way it goes!"And we say, "It isn't the way that it needs to go. It's the way it's going with you, to whoever is Upstream, most of the time. But when you realize you have control over the way you= feel, because you have control over the direction of your thoughts, and because you have control of your thoughts and your feelings, you have control of your vibrational relationship, then you have control of how your body does! You have control.
Guest: This may be redundant, but I was very ill as a youngster, for ten years, and my mother never realized I got better. And so, she never let me ride a bicycle, ("You'll break your bones") and now I have osteoporosis, and I mean, it was ingrained in me as a youngster, that I was weak, and that I was sickly, and so forth, and I have been living this…Abraham: As you tell the story, NOW, you continue what was ingrained.You see, it does not matter what was ingrained way back then. It only matters what is Vibrationally happening now. And what is Vibrationally happening now is directly related to the stories you tell. SO TELL DIFFERENT STORIES. Guest: How do I start a different story?
Abraham: Make up a different childhood. Guest: [laughter!!! !] Any one I want?Abraham: Anything you want! [Abraham supplies a sample narrative] "My mother was a very attentive mother, and she was very much of a fussbutton. She fussed all the time, but I paid her no mind, I just went on my merry way and did what I wanted. And my mother eventually gave up her concern about me, and I eventually became a very happy thriving person, as you can see as I stand here today.""And my mother is a good example, by the way. She's 99 years old, and still going strong, and so her attitude and her vibrational relationship has served her quite well, and mine is serving me quite well.""Oh, and by the way, I mean to tell you, it isn't important what happened in my childhood because my childhood vibration and point of attraction has long passed. What's important is my NOW VIBRATION.""And my NOW VIBRATION is about whatever it is that I am talking about. So as I stand in my NOW, I am aware of my vibrational gap, and in my powerful NOW, I may tell you stories of my past, I may tell you stories of my present, I may even tell you stories of my future. But every story I tell you"—you say to whoever is listening—"is with an interest in how that story meshes with my Vibrational Escrow.""So, since what I WANT is Wellness, I never, ever tell a story of past, or present, illness, because it doesn't match my Escrow. My escrow is full of the Wellness I so desire, and when I "realistically" go back and explain something that happened, all I do is activate that, mess up the vibration in my Now; hold myself apart longer from the well-being that is stronger…"You see how it works?
Guest: Well, you know, when you really look at it, I AM a powerful person. I am, like the matriarch of the family, which I didn't see before! [applause] I hold everybody together, I'm there; I'm the strongest one, if you really… [laughing]….when I think about it!
Abraham: You are all of that. And getting stronger.
Guest: I didn't realize that. Yeah. Thank you![applause and cheers from audience]

Why do we get sick?

We want to make 3 powerful statements to you, and if these are the only 3 things you ever hear, they will be enough.
Number One The ONLY problem, the ONLY thing that causes you any trouble, the only thing that slows you down, the only thing that keeps you from what you want, the only thing that makes you sick is RESISTANCE.
Number Two Resistance is always accompanied by negative emotion. Negative emotion and/or pain. In other words pain is an extension of the same thing - physical discomfort.
Number Three Resistance is always pushing against something.