Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...?

When you say, “I want this thing to happen that hasn’t happened yet,” you are not only activating the vibration of your desire, but you are also activating a vibration of the absence of your desire—so nothing changes for you. And often, even when you do not speak the second part of the sentence and you say only, “I want this to happen,” there is an unspoken vibration within you that continues to hold you in a state of not allowing your desire.
But when you say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if this desire would come to me?” you achieve a different sort of expectation that is much less resistant in nature.
Your question to yourself naturally elicits from you a more positive, expectant response. And so, this simple but powerful game will cause a raising of your vibration and an improvement in your point of attraction because it naturally orients you toward the things that you want. The Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...? Process will help you let in the things that you have been asking for, on all subjects.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had the best time we have ever had with these friends?
Wouldn’t it be nice if the traffic is light and we have a wonderful trip?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I had a really productive day at work?
Or, the subject may be to find a wonderful new relationship. For instance:
Wouldn’t it be nice if I find the most spectacular partner who adores me in the same way that I adore him?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I find someone, and we waltz off into the sunset together?
Wouldn’t it be nice if there’s somebody out there who’s looking for somebody just like me?
The reason the Wouldn’t It Be Nice If... ? game is so important and so powerful is because when you say “Wouldn’t it be nice if... ?” you are choosing something that you want, and you’re being soft and easy about it. In other words, it is not the end of the world. It is a much softer vibration.
For example, let us say you want to reduce your body weight. Here is a Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...? example for you:
Wouldn’t it be nice if I stumbled onto something that really worked for me?
Wouldn’t it be nice if my metabolism began to cooperate with me a little more?
Wouldn’t it be nice if the desires that I’ve been holding for a long time sort of came to a peak, like a guiding light?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I could meet someone who’s just run across something that really worked for them, which would light a fire in me?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I could reclaim the body weight I had when I was such and such an age?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I looked like I did in this picture?
Your logic would tell you, “Hey, I’ve been at this for a long time. If I knew how to do it, or if I was good at it, I’d have already gotten it done.” So you are contradicting your own desire. And so, you would hold yourself in that vibration. However, when you are playing Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...?, much of that vibration is diffused.
Wouldn’t it be nice if my physical body came into alignment with my dream?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I discovered this to be much easier than it’s ever been before?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I came into Energy alignment, and everything around me came into vibrational harmony with that?
Wouldn’t it be nice if the cells of my body cooperate with the mental picture that I’m holding?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I could feel ease about my body?
Wouldn’t it be nice if my physical body began responding differently to food?
Wouldn’t it be nice if I began feeling a greater inspiration to exercise?
Wouldn’t it be nice if the food-burning characteristics of my body kicked into high gear, and this process turned into an easy, almost effortless scenario?
Wouldn’t it be nice if my ideas about food came into alignment so that I find myself taking such pleasure from foods that are really in vibrational harmony with what my body wants and needs?
By softly playing this game, what happens is that you hold yourself in this place of alignment. The other thing you could do is get off that subject altogether and never think about it again. But that is a difficult thing to do, because your body sort of goes everywhere you go. In other words, it is hard to get that off your mind. So, since it is hard to get it off your mind, you almost have to force yourself to choose pleasant Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...? thoughts.
One more thing: Do not expect instant results. Know that it is coming into being in its perfect time. In other words, you have been encouraging, through your thought and behavior, a cellular community, a large part of which you are about to extinguish. And so, there is some cellular cooperation that is going to take place, and all cells are willing to cooperate. They are not sacrificing; they are not holding little cellular funerals in advance. There is no mourning going on, as in, “Ah, she’s going to kill 25 percent of us.”
What is happening is that there is a sort of collective alignment. Your cells are getting ready, you see. And in that preparation and in that readiness, all kinds of things are beginning to come into alignment; things that you could not orchestrate even if you tried. Your body knows what to do. Your body has come into active agreement and alignment with all of this.
So, as you play the gentle Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...? game, leave the rest of your physical apparatus to the cellular knowing, which means that it is not your job to be the food police, it is not your job to be the exercise police, any more than it is your job to decide what cell has to go.
Whatever the subject of your desire, there is an orchestration that is being taken care of in response to the Wouldn’t It Be Nice If...? game that you are playing. So whenever you play this game and you trust that everything else will come into alignment—it will.

17 Seconds

Abraham says that a thought reaches a combustion point at 17 seconds of pure undiluted focus. It draws another thought to it and it is exponentially more powerful. At the end of another 17 seconds, 34 seconds total, the next thought combusts, and by Law of Attraction, evolves to a higher level of energy. Again another 17 seconds to 51 seconds continues the process, and finally, if you can continue a pure thought for 68 seconds on any given subject, it will be on its way to manifestation. The key word is pure, meaning positive focus, strong energy, no resistance; to not slip into lackful thinking.
Abraham says the average person rarely finishes a single sentence without contradicting their energy, as in "I want a new car, but it is too expensive." So they say most of us haven't had much experience with ever feeling the combustion of thought that comes from 17+ seconds of pure thought.
In talking about the leverage of 17+17+17+17=68 seconds of pure thought, Abraham offers the following information:

17 seconds is worth 2,000 manhours (about a year at 40 hours per week of action taken)

34 seconds is worth 20,000 manhours (or about 10 years...)

51 seconds is worth 200,000 manhours (or about 100 years...)

68 seconds is worth 2,000,000 manhours (or about 1000 years...)
That's two MILLION manhours (or womanhours!) If we can learn to offer pure thought energy for 68 seconds at a time, action becomes INCONSEQUENTIAL!

How to Get to 17 Seconds of Pure Thought:Getting to 17 seconds of pure thought purely mentally is harder for me than doing it either out loud or in writing. I find the discipline of speaking or writing helps keep other thoughts from being too distracting.

Abraham: "Focus on nothing is more important than you feel good. Period. it is not necessary to focus on feeling good about oneself, focus on feeling good; period. It is not necessary to feel good about your body, or about your financial situation; find thoughts that make you feel good. Period.
We would recommend that you spend the first week writing 68 seconds about things that you don't care much about, such as blue glass, butterflies, feathers. Because you will attract those things. This exercise will teach you two things: one that you can focus for 68 seconds; two, that the universe does respond to a pure vibration. When you have a level of confidence in the universe, then you can tackle your main issues.
We would every day, twice a day, write your 68 seconds about all areas in your life, relationship, abundance, house, job, etc. You will find it very easy to do. For instance, on your house, appreciate how convenient it is. Appreciate the thermostat that keeps the house at the perfect temperature. Appreciate the sewage system and the plumbing in your bathroom. Appreciate the comfort of it. Know that this house will be temporary, that you will have may others closer to the dream house you want, but meanwhile appreciate it. You see, there was 68 seconds.
So, all of you have major work to do in the next 30 days. Write as many 68 seconds as you can. And do it deliberately."
Abraham: "Realize that 68 seconds isn't hard to find. Throughout your day, you have thousands of opportunities to do your 68 seconds. Even if your work schedule doubled, you could still find plenty of 68 seconds? Now, Esther didn't believe us at first that 68 seconds were the equivalent of 2 million man-hours. She couldn't conceive it. But since there isn't anything that we have said over the years that wasn't true, Esther now believes it and uses it.
So, we want to ask you, do YOU REALLY BELIEVE when we say that 68 seconds is the equivalent of 2 million man-hours? Because if you did, YOU WOULD FIND THE TIME TO DO THEM!!!
Who would want to bang things into place, when they know that they can spend 68 seconds and have the universe do it for them? Nobody, yet it is what the majority of you do. You would rather jump into action than do your 68 seconds. You would rather jump into action than align up your energy."

"The Recipe for deliberate creation has 10 parts:

5 parts of appreciating what is

2 parts of imagining a little better than what is

2 parts of looking for things that would make you feel better

1 part of quieting your mind, relaxing and not trying so hard, being at ease at it"