Archive for April, 2007

When trying to make the law of attraction work for you, one of the hardest things to do is to focus your attention on what you are wanting. When you are in a place of strong contrast, the things that you REALLY don’t want in your life, your thoughts seem to gravitate about what “is” instead of what you are wanting.

It appears to me, that Abraham is focusing alot on “Focus” in the recent CDs (or it could be that I am just noticing this more now because it is what *I* need to hear )

It’s a simplistic statement. Focus upon what you want. It’s so simple and yet, it’s something so many people have a hard time doing because the circumstances that made you want it are still available for you to give your attention to and to use for your justification for wanting it. We want to put a question to you and we really think it is worth pondering for a while. “What makes it so difficult for me to just talk about what I want?” And we want to answer it by saying law of attraction is giving you access to what you are looking at more easily than to what you want. So you say, how can I get law of attraction to help me out? How can I get this powerful law to help me out? And we say by morphing what you talk about more in the direction of what you want. So what I want is over here and where I am is over here and over here is way more instersting to me because “there it is” in full vivid color and I’m talking about it all the time. What I want is over here but what is, is over here. And we say, so if you could talk about “what is” on the outer edges, “what is” on the outer edges, “what is” on the outer edges, “what is” on the outer edges, then you could more easily morph yourself into talking more about what you want.

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You just have to…

Only talk about what you want,
ONLY talk about what you want,
only talk about what you want.

We know, this is repetitive, slightly, only talk about what you want. It’s hard to hear, isn’t it, because you say “Alright, I will only talk about what I want and this other one thing… oh and that thing, and that one over there. Just those two things and that one over there.

Esther will say to Jerry, “This is the last thing I am going to say, but just let me say this one last thing, just this one last thing. This is the last thing you are going to hear from me about this, but just let me say this one last thing.” And Jerry lays on the floor and puts pillows over his head and trys to keep from hearing this one last thing.

In other words, ONLY talk about what you want, only talk about what you want. Because the universe knows what you want. Is queued up to give you what you want but when you talk about other than what you want you don’t allow yourself to go there which makes you feel SOOO like you need to talk about it as it is. Only talk about what you want. You want proof that what you know and what you’re doing works. And nothing will tear you up more than to be standing in the moment where you’re not seeing the proof. But you’ve been hearing us telling you for years and years and years and years and years. It may be the thing we’ve spoken more often than all other things except that Law of Attraction is the Manager of the Universe, and that is, 99.99% of every creation is completed vibrationally before you see any physical evidence of it. And so it’s completed. You’ve gotta trust that it’s completed and start talking about it as if it IS instead of looking for the evidence of it which makes you shout to the boundaries of the universe that it isn’t completed when it is. And it’s that one flaw that keeps you from:

Getting what you want NOW.
Getting what you want NOW.
Getting what you want NOW.

Nothing can hold apart from what you want, other than your vibrational stance. That’s why there are no injustices anywhere in the universe. So, we want to say to you, in a way that you can really hear it, those rascals that look like they’ve got you pinned to the ground, who seem to be keeping you from things that you want, are actually angels in disguise who are causing you to have greater clarity about what you want. They have been responsible for you putting more stuff in vibrational escrow and your future experience will be benefited tremendously by them but you’ve got to stop holding them as the culprits in your judgement because holding them as the culprits in you judgement keeps you away from the stuff you deserve, you see.

Abraham-Hicks Weekly CD - 3/10/07-B - San Diego, CA
Track 6 “Speak only of what you want.”

Sounds logical right? Is it as easy as it sounds? For most people, no. It can be pretty difficult to break free of the thought patterns that have worn a “comfortable and familiar” path through our mind. Comfortable and familiar may have worked for you in the past, but now, you have realized that there is more to life and you want it! Now, those thoughts aren’t so comfortable anymore. They become more and more frustrating as they keep you in that old, familiar rut of thinking about what “is” instead of what you want and what it will be like.

Hot Seater: The challenge that I am faced with right now are the constant thoughts and I find myself, on a regular basis, and I sometimes call it mental chatter, is “Get out, get out, get out.. it’s like this…”

Abraham: Oh you can’t cast them out because there is no such thing as exclusion in this universe that’s based on attraction. It’s not possible to cast out what you do not want. You just include it all the more. You must give your attention to what you do want.

Hot Seater: Okay, and just quiet the thoughts…

Abraham: And just a little bit at a time. In other words, don’t ask yourself to all of the sudden deactivate a vibration that’s been activated for a long time, you’re defying the law of physics. That’s like saying “I’ve practiced this until it’s my vibrational proclivity and now all the sudden I’m going to stop it. That really is why we teach meditation however, because it’s easier to teach you to have no thought than to have a thought that is on the other end of the stick from where you are. So just be easy about it. A man said to us one day, “Abraham, it feels like my thoughts are thinking me” and we say, “all that means is, law of attraction justs giving back what you have been offering.” In other words, you offer it, it comes back as feedback. You offer it, it comes back as feedback. It is sort of this give and take. So what you want to do, is just lean in the direction of better feeling thoughts. And as you lean in the direction of better feeling thoughts, you will get the feedback of the better feeling thoughts. Until before you know it, you’ll be in a much better feeling place.”

Abraham-Hicks Weekly CD - 3/10/07-B - San Diego, CA
Track 11 “Energy of an adopted child?” (Last 3 minutes or so).

It is pretty easy to figure out what it is that you want when you are in the middle of what you don’t want. If you are in a situation where your boss is being mean to you, you can, and most likely do, focus on what an ass this person is being. In the instant where you felt mistreated, you had a strong desire to be treated well. So how can you use this situation to your advantage and improve your future situation?

You could play the “Wouldn’t it be nice…” game.

Wouldn’t it be nice if I was greated with a friendly smile tomorrow morning.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the boss told me what a good job I am doing.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all the telephone calls I had to make were nice and smooth and friendly.

You can go on an on with the “wouldn’t it be nice”’s. Personally, I like using the phrase “Won’t it be nice when…” It makes it more non-negotiable for me. I have gotten to the stage where I KNOW that I can positively impact the outcome of situations and that if I pre-pave interactions with a little positive mental movie of how I want it to be BEFORE I get in the middle of a situation, things go MUCH smoother.

It’s all about the focus. Focus, focus, focus! When I was transcribing the quotes above, I happened upon, what I consider, to be a wonder website, MindMovies.com. If you are proficient with movie making for the web, then this site will be old hat to you. But if you are a total newbie to the YouTube scene, like I am, you might actually learn something there. If you want to get to the step by step tutorials, there is a $20 membership fee. I’m telling you, that was the best $20 spent in the longest time. I don’t think I have focused on what I wanted in my life this much in a very long time. It was a real learning experience for me. In addition to learning how to make a cool, at least to me , law of attraction video, I also very fine tuned what was important to me and helped me focus with more clarity.

The process is all lined out in the tutorial. They help you do some focusing and identifying what is is that you are wanting. They tell you how to find pictures to use and provide the software you will need. Well, almost all the software. They do use Powerpoint, which I found out that my very basic Office packet didn’t include. BUT you can get a program that is almost identical Powerpoint (and all the other Office programs, for that matter) from OpenOffice.org. This is a safe site. It isn’t warez, spyware or malware. (All really bad stuff in case you didn’t know )

I just can’t sing the praises of the tutorial loud enough. I would not have been able to figure it out as quickly as I did without their help.

My Mind Movie is below. Many of the things in there won’t mean much to you, but when I watch it, it helps me focus on what it is I am wanting. I can feel my vibration raising. It helps me to focus on the positive stuff around me. And that HAS to be good, as what you focus on, you get more of. I do enjoy viewing the world through my “positive” lenses. Those of you, who are Abraham followers, will see many references things they say.

As an avid follower of Abraham, I thought it was time to make an entry about this wonderful DVD set from Abraham-Hicks.

When The Secret originally came out, Abraham-Hicks was a vital part of it all. Through contractual issues, subsequent runs of the DVD had Esther and Abraham replaced. I originally wrote about this in this post, ‘The Secret’ and Abraham Hicks. After a lot of questions about what happened, Esther and Jerry, sent a statement about what was going on to another Abraham Follower basically saying “All is Well”.

I know all really is well and that the Secret has helped open the door for people who otherwise would be “victims” to circumstances in their lives. “Maybe there is more to this thing called life?” “Maybe I do have some control over what is going on and what will happen.” In my opinion, there are way to many people out there who feel totally helpless. What an awful feeling that is. I have been there, done that, and now that I have an understanding, I don’t ever have to go back to that place. For some people, The Secret has given hope, but for others, The Secret is still really a secret and causes more frustration, and in some cases, anger because the real “How To” was not included in The Secret. I hear that there is a “The Secret - Part 2″ is in the works. Maybe that version will be more helpful in getting people to where they need to be in order to have the manifestations in their lives that they want.

Esther, Jerry and Abraham, along with Peter Beamish (and Annette Repstock) of Aura Productions have worked together to present a more comprehensive look at how the Law of Attraction works.

I got a postcard in the mail today from Abraham-Hicks which promotes this DVD set:

In their own words, Abraham sets the record straight:
“To call the Law of Attraction a secret is comparable to calling gravity a secret, as if you could keep its obvious results from being noticed. The secret they continue to hide, because of their fear of the response from the general public, is that nonphysical voices have once again, in your time, revealed, with precise detail, your reason for being, your relationship with all that is - and the power of your own connection with Source.

By editing out the heart and basis of this message, they have omitted any means of your understanding the affect of the Law of Attraction in your life. Without an understanding of the relationship between you and the Source within you, you are without guidance. And so, they world that surrounds you often seems secretive and ridden with problems beyond your control.”

Discover for yourself the message of Abraham - and let the power of your own being awaken within you!

“We smile in our awareness that the movie called ‘The Secret’ is still not revealing the secret.”

The DVD set has two DVDs in it. I have watched the first DVD and am working on getting the second watched.

The first DVD is broken up into three parts.

Part One
This first section is Jerry and Esther talking with Peter Beamish about how Abraham came to be through Esther. It is a down to earth look at how Esther felt about all of this in the very beginning. Believe it or not, she was NOT a freaky new ager ( ) She was an average Jane. Hard to believe huh? While I knew the story behind it all, it was neat seeing her talk about the history of it all again.

Part Two
Abraham talks with Peter about the basic questions that many people would have about all of this. It is weird to think that “voices from beyond” can give such wonderful how to information.

Part Three
It seemed to me that some of the harder questions are addressed in this part of the DVD. Issues like why “bad” things happen to people and children and intelligent life in the universe outside of planet earth. There were other issues too, but at the moment, I can’t remember them.

I highly recommend people watching these DVDs if you have an open mind to channeled information. If you are a little confused by the “how to” that the Secret was missing, this information may point you in the right direction and alleviate some of the confusion.

Introducing Abraham - The Secret Behind “The Secret”

This morning, I wandered over to the MeetUp group that I run about the Law of Attraction. Since starting the group, I have seen an exponential increase in people marketing “the Secret” related affiliate programs. As I was looking over the message board today, there was a new message by a member (who really lives too far away to attend our meetups and upon futher investigation seems to have hit every LOA type message board on Meetup). He prefaced the post with “Warning: This message may be considered SPAM. On the other hand, you may believe what is written here will help you on your spiritual journey.” Um, yeah, in my book, that is spam. And if I had any doubt about it at all, that would have definitely helped me clarify things.

Since “The Secret” came out, I have seen some amazingly quick internet marketers put together packages that will help people apply the law of attraction effectively in their lives.

Do the products work?

Maybe. The success of anything has to be looked at on a person by person basis. The Law of Attraction does work if you really want to work at it and make the changes that are necessary.

Do you need all these Limited Time / Limited Quantity info products to do it?

Absolutely not! Though, if you believe the sales pitches, you may be convinced that the contrary is true.

I don’t object to the fact that people are supplying the missing pieces that The Secret didn’t supply. (Though I think Abraham-Hicks does an exceptionally fantastic job of it.) I certainly have no issue with the money that stands to be made through it all, in most cases, though $1,995 for a popular LOA marketing course seems a bit excessive especially for those who are just getting into the LOA swing of things.

My issue is with the opportunistic “get it now before it is gone and you lose out” marketing tactic of it all. What some these programs seem to use are shortage and time crunch as promotional tools. The universe is SO not that way. There is more than enough of EVERYTHING for EVERYONE.

If you don’t pay them for their product and you are one of the unlucky masses of people who didn’t get to their gems of advice, so what?! Does that mean that you will fail at learning how to make the Law of Attraction work for you. No Way! I guarantee you, if you put the law of attraction to work for you and focus on the belief that a teacher who is just right for you will appear, that is just what you will end up with.

On a more objective note, you will find many many products out there now, and many more in the near future, that will help you understand and implement the Law of Attraction. What I have found, in my journey to understand the law of attraction, is that I have made bigger leaps and bounds when I have been around people who are just as eager to make the Law of Attraction work for them as I am. For some, the study of the info products and books may work, but some people might just need contact with someone else who can give them one on one feedback about what is working and not working.

There are many free resources on the web where you can get this type of interaction:

Powerful Intentions - http://www.powerfulintentions.com
A community of people who have watched and are trying to implement the secret in their lives. There are blogs and message boards to help you on your way.

CafeMom (you must join to post) has two smallish groups devoted to The Secret and Law of Attraction
http://www.cafemom.com/group/921/
http://www.cafemom.com/group/1639

The Abe-List - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheAbeList/
A moderated mail group devoted to the teaching of Abraham and The Law of Attraction

Law of Attraction - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LawofAttraction/
This email group focuses on manifesting and attracting your desires through the Law of Attraction and The Secret Movie. We discuss any and all theories related to the Law of Attraction

Do you have a favorite interactive Law of Attraction hangout online?

Feel free to share it with us!

As of late, my life has had a bit of extra contrast in it. This co-creation thing can be VERY hard at times. It is relatively easy for me to keep my thoughts going downstream when I am off by myself, but when I am interacting with important people in my life, it seems that I find myself going upstream as much as downstream. Knowing what I do about the Law of Attraction, it really frazzles me because I KNOW that how I am thinking and acting is not getting me to where I want to be, but it is almost like automatic programming.

When someone acts in a certain way, I have an automatic, negatively charged, emotional reaction to it. That reaction, when I have time to remove myself from the situation and logically look at what is going on, is usually tied in with vibrations that are dredged up from an earlier time in my life, usually from childhood. It seems that when we are children, we look towards our parents to define who we are and what our worth is. When you have a childhood filled with interactions which are variable and filled with turmoil, those interactions seem to leave a vibrational legacy that you carry with you through life.

This quote from a recent Abraham CD really summed it up for me:

Every time you feel negative emotion, that negative emotion is your indicator that you have got some thought, active within you, that is keeping you from going with the flow. We like that “some thought active within you”. Anything you give your attention to is vibrating and as you give your attention to it, you activate a vibration within you and when you activate that vibration within you, that’s one of those two points of vibrational relativity. So if you’ve got something activated within you that says:

I’m not enough or
I’m not smart or
I did something wrong or
It’s not going to happen for me or
I’m not loved or
I’m not worthy.

Any of those ridiculous things that you think of on a pretty regular basis. As you get one of those things activated within you, it is so cross current of your stream and the most interesting thing of all is that YOU are the one who is responsible for your stream moving as fast as it is. Do you get that?

Abraham-Hicks CD 3/3/07 - San Rafael CA Track 3 “Had Enough of “not enoughness”".

Check. Check. Check. Yep, I can identify with several of those “ridiculous things”. These beliefs seem to creep up on me over and over again and color my understanding of the interactions I am having. I am trying to work my way through them all. Sometimes I am successful, and sometimes not. It all seems so hard to break that childhood programming and reprogram myself to what I truly am. I KNOW I am worthy. I KNOW I am loved. That little child in me, doesn’t though, and gets my attention every time with those fears and ingrained beliefs.

“Oh Worthy Beings that you are, if we could zap you with anything it would be, there is no assertion so don’t worry (humorously), if we could zap you with anything, we’ve been working on it for centuries (humorously), if we could ZAP you with anything it would be with an understanding of your value and worthiness because if you just knew that when you ask it is given and you could stand in that expectant place there would not be that contradiction between you and you.”

Abraham-Hicks CD 3/10/07 A - San Diego CA Track 2 “Up to Speed With The Now You?”

I am open to that zapping

I have been contemplating what types of things I can do in order to remove the emotional charge from those beliefs or totally reprogramming myself.

A couple of possibilities that can help clear that emotional baggage that can disconnect you are:

EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques

I have seen EFT work for me and my family, but I need more practice with it. I have all the DVD’s and am in process of viewing them. I am also working with an EFT practitioner (who is also a social worker) but we haven’t really done much in regards to this all yet. I am seeing her to help me through the relationship contrast that is currently at work.

I would love to see some tapping scripts that are affirmation based which deal with the core issues that Abraham has pointed out many many times. And if while tapping, someone remembers a specific situation in their past that brings up those feelings, then tapping on that specifically can be done, thus neutralizing it.

Quoting Gary Craig:

“That notwithstanding, affirmations are usually front and center in the vast array of “you are what you think” books and carry with them some hard to argue with logic. Simply stated, the persistent repetition of an affirmation conditions the mind to see things differently. The affirmation eventually becomes installed as a consistent thought which then shows up in our reality. Our consistent thoughts become our reality. Very simple. To the point. Easy to use. Affirmations are the real sleepers in our Personal Performance Toolkit and we are about to wake them up.”

http://www.emofree.com/palace/palaceof1.htm#4

Seems like a good way to go

Hypnosis

I think I will send an email to Wendi.com about this one as I don’t think she has anything available at the moment that deals with the negative programming that so many appear to have. I have used several of her CDs and they worked for me.

Sedona Method

I don’t know anything about this method, except for what it says on their website.

The Sedona Method is a unique, simple, powerful, easy-to-learn and duplicate technique that shows you how to uncover your natural ability to let go of any painful or unwanted feeling in the moment. The Sedona Method consists of a series of questions you ask yourself that lead your awareness to what you are feeling in the moment and gently guide you into the experience of letting go.

It sounds good. Anyone have any experience with it?

Feel free to share what has helped you I’m all ears!

 

 Parents often think that they are here to guide the little ones. When - in reality - the little ones come forth with clarity to guide you.

Excerpted from a workshop in Orlando, FL on Saturday, February 15th, 1997

All Is Well

Abraham-Hicks.com

What a wonderful quote.  As I grow and learn, I am coming to see that this is so true.  My goal is to recapture the joy and clarity of being that my children have.  I am consciously trying to allow them all the freedom that is their right and not impose my “I NEED you to behave in a certain way”  limitations on them, though at this stage of their being, they seem to be singularly minded and don’t give a hoot what their Dad or I NEED them to do :)  Frustraing to me at times, but also admirable.   They are truly reminding me that I can “feel better anyway” despite what is going on around me.

Dean from Law of Attraction for Beginners, has a nice post Today, I am thankful for… where he says:

Being thankful is just that, a state of BEING. It’s not a “thanks for this and thanks for that” just to get it out, as a courtesy. Genuine gratitude wells up from within, “from the bottom of my heart”.

I feel that genuine gratitude for my family and the life I live :)  Day to day stuff can take me away from that feeling, but even in the most harried times of the day, I can change my vibration by stopping and reflecting about the things that really mean the world to me.