An Emotional Journey From Fear to Hope

Abraham: It is good to come together for the purpose of co-creating, do you agree? You are knowing what you are wanting? An evolving thing? Are you enjoying the expansion and clarification of your own desire?
It's the most important question that you want to be able to sincerely answer yes to, because expansion is what we are all about… We cannot cease expansion. The variety will always inspire within you the new idea, and that new idea will always generate a vibration in you—it always will. And so, as that new idea is vibrating within you, you could call it preference, or a desire, or a thought, but as it begins its own expansion, its vibration causes within you something that belongs to you; it's something that you must align with because if you don't, there will be discord in your vibration. And so, you just can't run around in your physical world and look here, there and everywhere—taking no deliberate care to vibrate purposefully—and be assured that it will cause you perfect alignment with your Source Energy, because your Source Energy has specific characteristics: Your Source Energy is non-resistant in nature. Your Source Energy doesn't push against anything. Your Source Energy is a high frequency, non-resisted, Pure Positive Energy vibration. So, when you get crossways of your Source Energy, you feel it, and that is what negative emotion is. Negative emotion is your indicator that somehow you got crossways of your Source Energy vibration. We want you to understand the vibrational content of the thoughts that cause different feelings within you. And we want to show you how, with far less effort than it takes you to learn Quick Books on your computer, you can remember your alignment with who-you-are, and utilize it on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment, basis, and bring yourself consistently into alignment with that steady stream of Well-Being that is offering itself to you and through you in every moment of your life. We want you to let that be not only something that you are aware of, but the most important thing that you are aware of. Because when you begin to feel your way through your thoughts, when you begin to realize that you have options about the thoughts that you activate and entertain—then you will be the Deliberate Creator of your own experience.
As long as you think you don't have a choice about what you think because you don't have a choice about the circumstances that surround you, then you are like a cork bobbing on a raging sea, going wherever it bounces you. But when you understand that you have options, choices in every moment, on every subject, then you begin to make those choices because of the way those choices feel as you make them. And now, you are using the Guidance that comes forth from within you to guide you to the Well-Being; to the prosperity; to the love of self and others; to the experience that you knew you would have—the experience that is possible for all—to the experience that really is only experienced by those who come to understand the Art of Allowing.
So, it is good for you to reach for some thoughts that give you some relief from the discord or resistance that you have presently going on, for with each attempt at reaching for a thought that feels better, you release more resistance. And as you release more resistance, you fill back up with who-you-are, and your thriving resumes. And we want to really emphasize the word "resumes," because thriving is always the dominant part of your experience. But, we will acknowledge that some of you are going to have to croak before you resume thriving, (Fun!) because some of you have pinched it off pretty good. Some of you have developed some powerful habits of thought. Some of you have developed some strong enemies that you take great delight in every day pushing very hard against. And some of you thrive on some subjects and suffer on others. You have different vibrational frequencies, depending upon the subject at hand that is activated. But we want you to know that you have access to Guidance that will lead you always in the direction of your thriving on all subjects. But you've got to figure out which direction is going toward your objective, and which direction is going away from your objective. And before you can do that, you've got to figure out what your objective is. So many of you have come to the place where you think if it feels good, there might be something wrong with it. (Fun!) And if there's a lot of struggle and suffering in it, then it's virtuous. And we say, you must have been allowing yourself to be guided by someone else who would benefit by your doing whatever they ask you to do in your struggle. Because it is our promise to you that you cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey; it cannot be. It is illogical. It defies the Laws of the Universe.
Law of Attraction says, that which is like unto itself is drawn. Which means, you cannot achieve a vibrational frequency with something unwanted (which is evidenced by the negative emotion that you feel as you embrace the thought) and be on your way to something that you want—it's not possible —it defies all logic and all Law.
So, as you begin to pay attention to your emotions—as you begin to reacquaint yourself consciously with your own Guidance System—what begins to happen to you is, you not only consistently reconnect with the Source Energy that is You, but you begin to take what we call the Emotional Journey. You begin to discover the art of shifting vibration, and therefore shifting the way you feel, which is delicious because you feel good all the time. And then, the big bonus (not from ours, so much, but from your point of view) is, manifestation acquiesces around the vibration that you've discovered. So, let us clarify the difference between the Action Journey that so many of you seem to be embarking upon, and the Emotional Journey, which is guidance from within: If someone is sick, really sick, (they've got one of those big labels "incurable" attached to them, maybe more than one) and of course they want to be well. The Action Journey goes something like this… "I have to find out what's wrong with me. I have to find a specialist who has done the most leading edge research, because the research that exists says that this is not curable. So, I need a specialist who's willing to take some risks and be out there on the leading edge, and that's going to take a lot of money. So, I need to get together with large groups that can gather resources. But I need to get involved in the political format so that I can get the laws passed that will allow the research and attract the funding that I need in order to discover the cure to this thing that I've got. "And then, I have to find a doctor who has learned the skill and is capable of administrating it. And then, I need the resources so that I can apply this specific medical procedure to me, and I need the resources so that I can stop doing whatever I've been doing that makes the money I've been making, that makes my life go 'round." And we say, oh, just shoot me in the head now. (Fun!) In other words, there is so much that needs to be done, and so many obstacles and so many reasons to feel defeated, and so many reasons to realize that it's not going to happen fast enough… Oh, and then, by the way, you've only got six months to live, anyway. (Fun!) That's the Action Journey. Now, granted, we did tilt it so that you wouldn't want to take that journey because we have a much better plan for you, and that is the Emotional Journey. An Emotional Journey says: I want to travel from fear to hope. That's it!
The Emotional Journey you can achieve in ten minutes with the right application of thought. The Emotional Journey is the journey where you just try to find a thought that feels better, and when you feel a little better, you have traveled a distance toward where you want to go. The Emotional Journey quantifies your journey. The Emotional Journey lets you know whether you're headed toward or away from your objective. Many people who are on their way to wellness get half-way there, and get discouraged because there is not manifestation, and turn around and head back toward illness. Many people on their way from financial disaster get nearly to where they want to be, where the manifestation is nearly about to show up, but because they take score about the manifestation, they get disoriented and discouraged and turn around and go back to not enough money. In every moment of your experience, as you have been banging around in this contrast, you have been launching preferences, and as these preferences are radiating from you, they are prepaving your future experience; they are going out like a heavenly rocket into your future experience, and Law of Attraction is lining up around them. And your future experience is being made for you before you approach it—that's why 99% of all creation is complete before you begin to see the physical evidence of it. So, most of what you're doing is an Emotional Journey. And if you're taking the Emotional Journey that feels lovely as you're taking it, not only do you enjoy the desert, and enjoy the journey, and see the vistas, and have a wonderful conversation and a very good time; but when you get there, you recognize it as that which you have been in alignment with all along. (That was good!)
It is our desire to show you how to take your Emotional Journey. We want to show you that if you are in depression, and you find anger, that you are on the right path because there is less resistance in anger than there was in depression. If you're in fear and you find anger, that relief—that your anger gives you—means you're headed in the right direction because there is less resistance in anger than there is in fear.
And even though much of the world would tell you that your anger is misplaced, (they would tell you that you should not be angry) you want to say to them, "You should be in here where I am! And if you were, you would know that this anger is better than where I was." And then they might say to you, "Yes, but you should have love in your heart." And then we want you to say to them, "I would like to have love in my heart, but right now, this anger is serving me fine, thank you. Because there's a big vibrational difference between anger and love, and I can't make that jump right now just because you tell me I should. I made the jump from despair or fear to anger, so I am on the right path. So, if you'll just excuse me, I wouldn't get around me too much for a few days because this anger is feeling pretty good. I might milk it. (Fun!) I'm going to move as quickly as I can into frustration and overwhelment. And from there, there's a possibility I could jump into humor and hope, and maybe even love… But for now, I'm doing the best I can."
You can't tell someone else the direction of their journey, because you don't know the details of the pre-paving that is calling them forth. You can't understand the vibrational mix of anyone but you. And when you try to guide someone from your vantage point, you are disallowing them their vantage point. You do not have to control conditions, nor can you—but you can feel better. And when you do feel better, you've shifted your vibrational point of attraction. And when you've shifted your vibrational point of attraction—you've shifted your life. So, are there problems in your future? Undoubtedly. But there are solutions right on the heels of them. You could close the gap between the problem and the solution so tightly that you would never even know there was a problem; your problems can be solved before they manifest—when you clean up your vibration. When you make it an Emotional Journey, you're solving problems today that could be in your future experience, and as you feel good now, you never have to walk through the problem—you just go from solution to solution, to solution. It doesn't matter if you're looking past, present or future—you're doing it now. There are people on the other side of the planet that are sleeping maybe, but it's still now. There are Non-physical Beings like us who have no time, but it's still now. In other words, now is now, is now, is now. And all of the Energy of all of the Planets, of all of the Universes, of all of the decades, of all of the centuries, of all of the years, of all of the beingness, of all of the consciousness, it is culminated into this now. It is a huge source and stream of knowledge and Energy and Well-Being, and it is all available to you now, now, now. So, the question that we want to put to you, is, what are you doing in your now? And you can tell by the way you feel: If you're angry, if you're frustrated, if you're petty, if you're jealous; if you're pushing against, if you're blameful, if you're critical—you are not in alignment with the resources of the Universe now.
So, as you make a decision: Nothing is more important than that I feel good, what begins to happen to you is, you begin to guide your thought, your every word, and your action. You guide your memory, you don't say, "This is how I grew up and therefore I have to deal with it and dig it up every day and suffer over it." You say, There were things in my past that were unpleasant, but there were things in my past that were pleasant—I will choose those that feel pleasant. Or, There are things in my now that I have imagined into the future that are awful, or there are things that I imagine in the future that are wonderful—I will focus upon those that are wonderful. But you can't jump vibrations all at once. So, stop beating up on yourself.
We want you to be willing and happy to make the jumps incrementally; we want your journey to be about the improvement about the way you feel. There's relief everywhere you go, and there's reward for you everywhere you go. Do not equate how you feel about something with how anybody else feels, because they're not in on your equation. You're not being compared to anyone. But there is an absolute comparison between the vibration of who-you-really-are, and the vibration of your moment. And it's your job, and only your job, to bring harmony to that.
You have to take the Emotional Journey, first. And when you decide to take the Emotional Journey on every subject that's important to you, you're going to discover—by tomorrow—how much better you can feel about things that you haven't been feeling good about, and in the moment that you change the way you feel, even the slightest bit, everything related to you, related to that subject, will begin to shift—and there will be evidence on your doorstep by the weekend. We have enjoyed this interaction immensely.
Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Workshop Washington, DC

Why my life doesn't change?

You keep beating this drum of where you are which holds you in vibrational harmony with the absence of things that you want - and then the things that you want can't come in because your vibrational offering is so much about what you don't want and not as much about what you do want.you become very good observers of what is and as you look around at what is you become very good historians of what is. You become documenters of what is, and regurgitators of what was so often you hold yourself in vibrational alignment with the past that you prefer, and with the past that you do not prefer.now is only the basis by which you determine what you want next and as you turn your attention to where you are going, rather than toward where you are and where you've been, then you stop beating the drum of WHAT IS so much and then things can change.

Why Your Life Sucks by Alan Cohen

One afternoon an official-looking fellow showed up at my door and flashed an I.D. from the water department. “I just read your water meter,” he told me, “and I have to inform you that you have an unusually high usage this month.”
"High usage?”
“Yes, sir — about four times the usual amount.”
“Four times?”
“That’s right. Here are the numbers.”
I looked at the numbers. He wasn’t kidding.
“It’s our policy to let you know about this in case you have any leaks in your water system.”
Hmmm. No leaks I knew of. Maybe my tenant has been taking a lot of showers, I wondered. But 80,000 gallons of showers? Nope, he doesn’t even wash his dishes. I thanked the waterman and told him I’d try to conserve this month and hope the bill would come down next month.
A few days later I was sitting on my back porch when I noticed a puddle in the corner of the yard. That puddle had been there for a while, but I figured it was due to some heavy rain we’d had. But the rest of the lawn had dried up. The puddle was still there.
I poked my hand into the puddle. There was a pipe beneath it, and it was leaking. I can tell you exactly how much it was leaking: 80,000 gallons a month. If you are losing energy in the form of joy, health, money, or love, you have a leak in your system. There is no malevolent parasite that has invaded your world and is undermining you. Your leak is on your property, and as such you have access to repair it.
The entire game of life is about making the best use of your energy. The question is not, “Is there life after death?” The question is, “Is there life before death?” To answer this for yourself — and live it — you must quit doing things that deplete your energy and start doing things that expand it. Moses delivered Ten Commandments that point out how to accomplish this, but (a) Nobody wants to be commanded; (b) Charlton Heston’s bad makeup job undermined Moses’ credibility; and (c) Nobody has enough patience on the Internet to wait for ten commandments to download.
So here is everything you need to know to relocate from Suckville: Do what brings you life. Do not do what deadens you.
The reason you are not where you want to be is that you are doing things you do not want to do. If that sounds simple, it is. (One of the most popular tricks of power and control freaks is to hide in complexity. But the best answer to a problem is usually the simplest.) Sure, there are some things you have to do that you don’t want to do, but not as many as you are doing. Give yourself a break.If you took the energy you are wasting on things that suck and used it for things you love, what would you be doing differently?
When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day. Then your life force reduces to a dribble and you croak. Yet the Bible documents people who lived for hundreds of years, and there are people in remote regions today who live far past 100. Their lives are simpler and they do not fritter away their life force watching people hit each other over the head with chairs on Jerry Springer. They just live close to nature, eat yogurt, and develop meaningful relationships with llamas. So open your heart to a critter who won’t dump you on national television and you will live long enough to get a birthday card from the President.
While you may be very careful about what you pay for with your money, you are probably less careful about what you pay for with your attention. In the long run, how you spend your attention affects your life far more profoundly than how you spend your money.
Your attention is the strongest currency at your disposal.†If you squander it, your life will result in one big overdraft. If you invest it in things you value, you will collect interest big time æ and be interested along the way. Everything you do is an investment in more of the same. The illusion is that if you do something you don’t like long enough, it will go away. But the truth is that the more you get involved in something, the more involvement it leads to. (Ever own a boat?) If you truly enjoy something, dive in. If not, have the guts to walk away from what doesn’t serve you. There is no redeeming value in misery (unless you do timeshare presentations).
The hell you worry about going to is not nearly as bad as the fear of it that drives you to do things alien to your spirit. If you live from fear, you already are in hell. If you live from love, you create the meeting point of heaven and earth.

Why isn't the money here yet?!

So as you are moving through your day and you notice that you have more desire or need for money than you actually have money and a big bill has come so you have this conflicting feeling where you want to spend it for this but you should spend it for this and even if you do pay it where it belongs there is not enough to really go around in the way you are wanting to. And in this frustrating moment of weighing the pros and cons of your experience, you fire off a rocket of desire big time. You've asked in a very powerful way but the answer, even though its given, is not received because you are more aware of not having enough money then you are of having enough money. In your anxiety you are not in the receiving mode, in your anger or blame or guilt you are not in the receiving mode. In your awareness of not enough money you are not in the receiving mode for enough money so more money cannot come, not right now, nothing can change. Now, you've asked, Source Energy hears you clearly, adores you fully, understands your worthiness entirely, and answers swiftly. So the answer is not just on the way, it is given. In other words, everything is lined up; the money SHOULD be there NOW. Why isn't it! Because you're ornery. (laughter) You're worried, you're frustrated. You've got your receiver set to a whole different channel. And so even though the circumstances are lined up, everything is there for you, you're zigging while your stuff is zagging, and you say "nobody ever answers my request." And we say oh yes, your request is fully answered but you have just been confused about step 1(asking) and step 3 (allowing). So the key is, once you become consciously aware that you want something different than what is, you have to through the power of your mind practice until you achieve a different vibration about that subject.

Is debt a bad thing?

Debt is not a bad thing. The largest corporations in the world are operating under huge debt--much more debt than you would even ever want to contemplate. And if debt were to evaporate from your world economy, your world economy would collapse. And so it's time to stop feeling negative about debt. Debt is not a bad thing. It's a promise of the future.

Contentment

We are really not proponents of taking the action first. We are proponents of finding the desire, lining up the energy and then letting the action follow. When that happens, it is an essay road.

But you all don't let your desire dominate. Because you don't like the feeling of the difference between a desire and a belief. And so if a desire gets our there to far ahead of your beliefs, most of you sabotage it and try to grab it back down. And what we want you to start doing is no longer beat up on yourself for the desire. In other words, you knew when you came into this environment that that would be, that the desire that would be born would be the byproduct of the contrast. And yet what we see so many of you trying to do is to sooth, sooth, sooth. I never want to get into a place where I really want anything because wanting somehow is materialistic. Wanting is somehow hedonistic. I should keep myself in a calm place of contentment. And we say that is not what your intention was. Your intention was to let contrast give birth to desire and then let desire dominate your vibration.

So if we where in your physical shoes we would exacerbate, we would fan the flam of desire. In other words, we would examine where we are relative to where we want to be until we have harassed ourselves into a powerful, powerful, powerful, powerful, powerful desire. We wouldn't say: Hmmmm, I way a lot more then I really want to way but all is well. We would say I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. I DON'T LIKE WHERE I AM! I DON'T LIKE WHAT I'VE DONE! WE WOULD GET THAT DESIRE OUT THERE AND SAY: HEAR THAT UNIVERSE? DO YOU HEAR THAT DESIRE? CAN YOU FEEL WHAT I AM ASKING FOR? NOW BRING ME IDEAS TO IMPLEMENT THIS DESIRE! And then watch will happen.

We don't know where you all got the idea that your hanging out here all by your self and your desires are something you should be embarrassed about. You are afraid to admit that you want anything. When the whole basis of your universe says ASK AND IT IS GIVEN.

You said I came forth into constant to make sure that constant new desires are coming forth. Ask and it is given. Our friend began with that this morning. I am getting the idea she said that there is never enough. I am never going to be without desire. And we say if you really could be without desire you really, really would be dead and there isn't any of that.

Will it happen instantly? No. Will it happen steadily? Yes. Will you have fun along the way? Absolutely. If you are taking score of the energy rather than the manifestation, you'll start having a great time as soon as today. But if you're taking score of the manifestation, then every time you're taking score, your observation defeats your own energy flow."
Abraham - Hicks Publication
Atlanta, GA


ASK AND IT IS GIVEN....... but you don't ASK through your words or sentences that have the question mark at the end of them. You ASK through that vibration of desire. Ask and it is given. So, when you are asking, the energy is ALWAYS supplied, to satisfy the desire. But sometimes, while you are asking.....and therefore summoning through your desire...... .... you are so aware that what you are asking for has not yet occurred and you are so much more aware of the negative place that you stand that is absent of the fulfillment of your desire, that even though you are ASKING for something, you are NOT a vibrational match to it. And so, you are, in this moment, 'disallowing' the very thing that you are asking for.
So, those two things that you are wanting to be aware of relative to the 'stream';How much of this STREAM am i summoning and Second: Of that which I am summoning, how much of it am I ALLOWING. And your EMOTIONS give you the answer to both of those questions.
For example..... ..... feel with us, the vibrational meter....... we will stop in four places on this meter. In truth, there are infinite stops but for sake of clarity we will stop in four places.
Feel with us for a moment, the feeling of PASSION. Exhilaration, enthusiasm, you know that feeling. Well that means, relative to the first of the two things...... ...strong desire. And relative to the second...... ..... no resistance. IOW, passion means 'I am summoning LOTS of nonphysical energy through the power of my desire and I am not vibrating opposite of it, I am ALLOWING the energy that i am summoning'.. ..... that's what the feeling of passion is.
Now, feel with us the feeling of contentment or peacefulness. In this moment, not much desire, but no resistance. Now feel with us the feeling of frustration. Some desire, some resistance. Now feel the feeling of strong frustration or anger or guilt is a strong one or some depression. Strong desire, strong resistance. Do you get a sense of what we are talking about here?
So, as you begin to play with your emotions, or be aware of the way you feel, when you pay attention to the way that you feel, what you are going to notice is ............ .your emotions let you know, your emotions are your guidance system, that let you know how you are vibrating. And it is so important to understand that, because when you know how you are vibrating, then you understand everything that is coming to you.
Someone gave a letter to Jerry thru the mail awhile back, predicting his untimely death. And at first Esther was just mad about it, she thought, 'why don't they mind their own business, let him die in peace' (audience laughter)... .... but then she thought, 'but that is just illogical'.. ........' knowing what i know about the summoning of life force and the allowing of it to flow........ ....those words are not a vibrational match to the energy that i am feeling here' IOW, she did not need to worry about someone's negative predictions, she does not need to worry about some
circumstances that someone is forseeing... ......because she can tell by her own awareness of vibration, that this is not a vibrational match....... ...... .getting a sense of this?
Kansas City 9/26&27/1998

I Cannot Lose Weight

“I’ve been overweight for as long as I can remember. There were a few brief times in my life when I was able to force my weight under control through uncomfortable dieting and what felt like deprivation, and through arduous exercise. But none of it was easy, and I wasn’t able to maintain the regimen for long, and so the unwanted weight always came back. “I don’t feel comfortable in my clothes and dread shopping for new ones. I stand in front of my closet looking for something to wear, and even though I have some nice things, nothing appeals to me because I don’t like the way I look no matter what I’m wearing. “My body doesn’t move well, and I know that I’d feel so much better all around if I could just lose a few pounds, but I feel powerless to do anything about this excess weight, so I’m very discouraged.”

Now we want to begin this discussion by reminding you of the most important part of Deliberate Creation: Creating is not about making things happen through action. In fact, creating is not about making things happen at all. Creating is about allowing the thing that you desire to happen, and the allowing happens through Energy alignment, not through action. Sometimes this is a hard thing for you to hear because you know, from your personal experience in life, that action does get results. You know that you have been able to shed unwanted pounds by decreasing your food consumption, and there is no question in your mind that the exercise helped,
too. And we are not disagreeing with any of that, for it is obvious that action does have a place in the creating of many things. In fact, without action, your society would be without a great many of its things. But when you make action the cornerstone of your Creative Process without considering the vibrational basis of your Being as you are taking the action, you are working under a distinct handicap, for there simply is not enough power in the action itself to compensate for the competing Energies of your misaligned thought.
You may recall a successful experience where someone offered you an idea regarding losing weight, and you felt an immediate enthusiasm toward the idea. Your enthusiasm could be attributed to the power of the belief of the person who offered the idea to you, or it could be that the idea dovetailed precisely with beliefs of your own . . . but it is your enthusiasm that we want to call your attention toward.
Your enthusiasm was the evidence that the vibration of your Being was in alignment. And then, remember what happened next: You were eager to take the action—and in taking it, positive results occurred. . . . It is possible to take action because someone suggests it or encourages it or even demands it; and once involved in the action, your attitude can begin to improve. But the deliberate alignment of your vibration, first—which then inspires successful action—is a much more powerful
approach to whatever it is you want to create. During your discouraged moments as you acknowledged that your body was not as you would like it to be, you were launching rockets of desire about what you preferred, and within all of that
processing of life—and without realizing it—you have been adding to your Vibrational Escrow. You have created a vibrational version of the new-and-improved physical version of yourself. We want to help you understand that this is not a flimsy dream floating somewhere in your imagination. This is not a delusional departure from reality. This is a creation in the making, and it is being created in precisely the same way that everything you see around you has been created: The living of life gave birth to the idea or thought—which, in time, with focus, became what you call
your “reality.” So the discouragement that you have been feeling is indicating the discord between the continually evolving creation of your beautiful body and the thoughts that you continue to think regarding your body. Your body has been vibrationally evolving, but your old patterns of thoughts, your beliefs (which are only thoughts that you continue to think), are causing a vibrational discord. And under those conditions, successful action cannot be inspired or performed. Under those conditions, all action is harder, yielding little or no results, causing more discouragement still. The key to bringing your body to a new place is to see it differently from the way it is. It is necessary that you focus upon the body that is coming and distract yourself from the negative aspects of your current physical body, for as long as you are seeing your body as it is, you are contradicting the vibration of the idea of a slender body. You cannot create a new reality while
looking at your current reality. So now that you understand why it has been so difficult to find the inspiration to act and why the action, even when you did offer it, netted you very little results, let us show you some very simple things that you can do that will begin the process of aligning your Energies immediately, for by
understanding the Laws of the Universe, and by understanding the basis of your creation (which is the simple alignment of vibration), you will now be on your way to the outcome that you desire:
• Your choices, right now, do not include whether you are at your perfect body weight or not.
• You have no choice other than to be at the body weight you are at right now.
• You are going to weigh about the same thing tomorrow as you do today, and the next day, too . . .
and so on.
• Changing your body weight right now is not an option.
• Changing your vibrational alignment right now is an option—a powerful one. Also, you are not, right now, choosing between feeling fabulous or terrible.
• You are not choosing between feeling enthusiasm or discouragement.
• Your choices, right now, are more subtle and more fine-tuned than that.
• You are making the simple choice of feeling a little better or a little worse.
• You can choose an upstream thought or a betterfeeling, downstream thought.
• Those are your only choices: upstream or downstream.
• But those choices are enough.
For example, imagine you are at an outdoor shopping center.You are moving in and out of many beautiful shops, and there are hundreds of people moving in and out of them with you. These individuals vary in size and shape and wardrobe, but you are predominantly noticing nicely dressed, nicely shaped, beautiful people all around you; and as you see them, you feel self-conscious. You are now awkwardly aware of what you are wearing, and you are unhappy with the way you look today. You turn to see your reflection in the window as you are walking, and you are extremely unhappy about the way you look. You feel agitated, discouraged, and unhappy, and you are not having a good time on this shopping outing at all. You have now lost interest in the reason why you came to the mall. You do not feel like shopping anymore. In fact, the only thing that is appealing to you right now is the idea of getting something to eat. There are good-smelling things in the air, and you realize that you are hungry and that you do want a snack. There are several choices within view, and from the fragrances in the air, you know there are more choices nearby. Any one of several things sounds good to you: ice cream, candy, maybe something more substantial such as a sandwich. Actually, all of that sounds pretty good to you right now.Your urge to find a quiet place to sit while you eat something is becoming quite strong, and while you are trying to fight the urge to follow through on your impulse, it is much easier to just give in to it and get something to eat. As you are standing in line at the ice-cream counter, you notice the slender people waiting in line with you. They are annoying, and as you are annoyed, your urge for the ice cream grows stronger still. . . . Before we continue with the details of this example, and before we offer guidance to assist you in improving your situation, we want to explain something that most people do not understand and, in fact, have a hard time believing: Whether you gird up your willpower and walk out of the ice-cream parlor or whether you go ahead and select—and eat—a large tub of ice cream, there is absolutely no difference in the effect of one of those actions over the other! Even if we are talking about 1,000 days of walking out as compared to 1,000 days of eating a tub of ice cream, the action choice of one or the other makes no difference. It is not your action that matters; it is your vibration. It is not your
action that makes you fat; it is your vibration. It is not what you are doing that makes the difference; it is how you are feeling about what you are doing.
In the beginning of your vibrational alignment regarding your body weight, you may begin to feel enthusiasm for some changes in your diet, and many would say, “Well, then, I don’t see how this approach differs that much from just going on a diet as I’ve done so many times before.” But we would ask you to notice how much easier it is this time in the feeling of enthusiasm rather than the discouragement that you have been acting from before. You will also notice that in this state of improved emotion, you will find an appealing idea, and then another. You will begin to find a sort of rolling out of a continuous path of good-feeling new ideas. You will begin to feel carried along by those new ideas rather than struggling to find them, and, before long, you will begin to see physical results. Of course, upon seeing the physical results, your feeling of enthusiasm will be even greater, and then you are really off and running toward the outcome that you have been seeking. And as you achieve your desired body weight (and you will), you will say to yourself after the fact, This time it wasn’t difficult, and this time I’ll keep it off. And, in any case, I now know what to do, whenever I decide to, about achieving whatever physical bodily condition I choose.
Consider This:
If being slender matches the emotion of happiness . . .and you were to consistently eat ice cream while feeling happy . . .you would be a slender person who eats large quantities of ice cream. If your desire to be slender while you are currently not slender matches the emotion of discouragement . . . and you were to consistently eat ice cream while feeling discouraged . . . you would be a fat person who eats ice cream.
If your desire to be slender while you are currently not slender matches the emotion of discouragement . . . and you were to consistently use your willpower to keep yourself from eating ice cream . . . you would be a fat person who does not eat ice cream.
Some would ask, “Abraham, if being unhappy makes you fat, why are there no fat people in an environment where food is scarce? They are unhappy, and they are not fat. They are often starving to death.” And we would answer, if you are focused upon the current situation of food scarcity, and you feel fear for yourself and your loved ones, you are a match to what you do not want. It makes no difference if not wanting to be fat is the issue that turns your thoughts upstream or if the idea of
starving to death is the issue that turns your thoughts upstream: Your thoughts are still upstream— which is resistance to what you desire, whether your desire is slenderness or enough food for your family.
Being slender matches the emotion of happiness. (downstream)
Being fat matches the emotion of unhappiness. (upstream)
Having enough to eat matches the emotion of happiness. (downstream)
Not having enough to eat matches the emotion of un-happiness. (upstream)
The key to creating everything that you desire is to find a way to turn to the better-feeling, downstream thoughts, even when the current situation does not evoke it from you, and to use your willpower to focus your thoughts in the direction of your desire and who-you-really-are, rather than using your willpower to try to produce action against the Current.
So, in the beginning, your thoughts may be something like the following:
I am fat. (upstream)
I don’t want to be fat. (upstream)
I’m so tired of being overweight. (upstream)
I don’t like how I look. (upstream)
I don’t like my clothes. (upstream)
I don’t want to shop for clothes. (upstream)
I’ve tried so many things. (upstream)
Nothing works for me. (upstream)
Remember, you do not have to fix everything. Just try to find a thought that feels a little bit better:
I wish I could find a way. (downstream)
My feet would feel better for sure. (downstream)
Again, these are not earth-shattering statements, but they do feel better, and therefore they are downstream—so your work, for now, is done.
Whenever you find yourself beating the same old drum about your body weight, if you would make an effort to turn your thoughts downstream and stay focused upon the subject until you feel a slight turn, in a very short period of time you will improve the vibrational relationship between where you are and what you want, and you will be amazed at the leverage this improved vibration will give to your process. Everything about this will get easier and easier until, in time, your desired body weight will have been achieved.
So now, let us say that you are at work. You have not been focused on your body or your weight because you had things to accomplish and you’ve been busy at those things. But now it is lunchtime, and as you are walking past the vending machine, you feel an urge to buy a cookie. You put in your money, the cookie drops through the chute, and while you are unwrapping it, the feeling of discomfort comes over you.
“Here I go again,” you say, feeling the discomfort washing over you.But the urge is strong, and you take a big bite of the cookie. You feel worse still as a strong feeling of disappointment now rises within you. But this time things are slightly different from ever before because you have some positive momentum going from those statements you have been making about the subject of your weight.
You remember, It isn’t about what I’m doing. It’s about how I’m feeling while I’m doing it. So you pause and look at the cookie, and you make the following statements:
I shouldn’t be eating you. (upstream)
You’ll only make me fatter. (upstream)
You are delicious, though. (downstream)
And you’re not all that big. (downstream)
I could eat some of you now and save some for later. (downstream)
I like having choices. (downstream)
I like making deliberate choices. (downstream)
I like being in charge of my actions. (downstream)
If I had stopped to think, I may not have been so quick to put my money in this machine. (downstream)
I’m really making quite a big to-do over eating a little cookie. (downstream)
You’re a tasty little cookie. (downstream)
Well, I’m enjoying you, cookie. (downstream)
I’m deliberately enjoying you. (downstream)
And sometimes I’ll choose to eat you, and sometimes I’ll pass. (downstream)
Right now I’m going to eat you. (downstream)
And I’m going to enjoy you. (downstream)
You have just accomplished something that is rather unusual for you. You are eating a cookie, and you have talked yourself into alignment with yourself and therefore with your desire to be slender at the same time. You are in alignment with You, which is much more significant than anything you are doing—or not doing—with the cookie. And now, a very slender person walks up to the machine, pulls out a cookie, and begins to eat it. And as you watch, you can tell that this person is truly savoring this cookie. In the past as you watched a slender person eating a cookie, your thoughts would be:
It’s not fair. (upstream)
Her metabolism allows her to eat tasty things and still be slender. (upstream)
She’s probably unhealthy, and that’s the only thing she will eat today. (upstream)
But this time, because of the vibrational work you have been doing, you think instead:
Ah, there is evidence of someone who’s in alignment with her desire of eating a cookie. (downstream)
It is all about vibrational alignment. Do not look for immediate measurable physical results. Instead, look for improvement in your mood, your attitude, and your emotions. When you feel better, you are more in alignment—and everything else will follow. It is Law.
The astonishing power of emotion- Ester and Jerry Hicks