Archive for March, 2008

Abraham suggests that this process is most effective when you are between (8) Boredom and (17) Anger.

The best times to use this process are when:

Hotseater:

So, Abraham, if you were in our physical shoes, what would you do when you woke up in the morning, and what processes would you use on a daily basis?

Abraham:

It’s a big question. Isn’t it? Because it would depend upon the circumstances.

Different circumstances would require different responses, but we’ll give you are run down here because what you are really asking for is “How could I ever begin to apply the never-ending spewing of processes that you’ve been giving us over the years?”

We’re going to start the night before. We would put ourselves in our bed and we would lie there in the bed and try to achieve the feeling of appreciation. We would appreciate our bed. We would appreciate our day. We would compliment ourselves on the day’s achievement no matter how big or few they are. We would do our best to bask in our bed.

The End of Your Perfect Day

Before drifting off to sleep, we would set forth a thought, which is what we call prepaving, of pleasant anticipation of tomorrow. We would say something like, “Tomorrow will be a wonderful day.” And then we would try to find the feeling place of one of the most wonderful days we’d ever had. We’d try to find the feeling place of waking up and being glad to be alive and feeling happy about our physical life experience. We wouldn’t spend a lot of time on it because you don’t want to stimulate yourself into a lot of thought right before you’re trying to go to sleep. We would just try to generate the feeling of subtle, good feeling, peaceful, loving appreciation.

We might say, “And if I dream and there is anything important, I want to remember it.” When we awaken in the morning, the first thing we would do is acknowledge we’re glad to be alive and awake and physical, and then we would ask, “Did I dream?” because if you wait too long you won’t remember. Often you won’t have a dream that you remember, but if you do recall something, then lie there and try to recapture the feeling of it, because the feeling is what gives you your information. In other words, the emotions that you felt in your dream are the contrast that lets you know what you don’t want and what you do want, just like your feelings that you live in your real life-experience help you to know when you’re including something not wanted or when you’re including something wanted. Next we would lie in our bed for about two or three minutes basking and appreciating. Now, again, can you feel that what we’re saying about generating a feeling?

You see, when you slumber, your thoughts withdraw from the physical. So your Energy, your physical body energies, have been aligned. So when you first awaken, you’re like a new born baby. You’re lined up. You’re tuned in, tapped in and turned on. Have you ever awakened and felt immediately heavy as you come back into consciousness? It doesn’t happen all the time, but occasionally it happens, and what that is is the feeling of coming from the high pure vibration of Nonphysical into the denser heavier Energy of the physical. And it usually only happens to you if you’ve got some problem you’re struggling with, but once you get your Energy lined up, you won’t have that heavy feeling. Esther remembers, in the early days of speaking for Abraham, often when she would awaken in the morning, it was a sensation of her body weighing a thousand pounds as she came from high fast vibration into a denser vibration of a bit of struggle or worry.

Beginning Your Perfect Day

Once you have awakened and you’re lying there sort of basking for three or four or five minutes, whatever you have time for, really five minutes is optimum, then we would begin making some statements of what we anticipate for this day.
Now, if you have already been doing your daily process, you probably already have some things lined up for this day. But if you haven’t, the sooner you do it in your day the better. So we would encourage you to get up, make yourself comfortable, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, get something to drink, maybe even eat a little bit of breakfast…

Place Mat Process

The Place Mat Process is the most effective one that we’ve seen for getting the day started, and that is where you, on the left side of a page, make your list of things you plan to do today. Be true to yourself about it, don’t put 5,000 things on today’s list.

Don’t put more on today’s list than you can do, or it defeats you. It makes you feel overwhelmed to begin with. Go through your lists of things. And then on the right side of the page make a list of things that you want, but for whatever reason you’re not ready to act on, and just let them come freely from you. Don’t carry the list from day to day to day to day. Don’t make work of it. Just, every morning, ask yourself “What are some things that I want that I’m not ready to act on? Things that I would like the Universal staff to get going on, and just list those, because making a decision about what you want with an attitude that “it’s not for me to do, but I do want it done” is a very good alignment of Energy.

Often if you say, “I want to do this” and you know you don’t have time, then your Energy is split even when you write it on the list. But if you say, “I want to do this, and while I don’t have time, I’m not putting it on my list. I’m just telling the Universe, work on it if you will, please?” Then there’s a freedom about it. There’s no resistance in the vibration. You’re actually doing what Creation is. You’re defining what you want and you’re staying vibrationally out of the way of it. That’s it. Then we would move through our day. Now, if something happens, like somebody calls us on the telephone and we have a little run-in with someone where we feel negative emotion, then the process we would offer is “Hum, I feel negative emotion. That means I’ve got my pencil in the fan, which means, I am including in my vibration something that I’d really like to exclude. But there’s no such thing as exclusion. So I’m shouting ‘No’ at it, including it anyway, lowering my own vibration, disallowing my Core Energy, and mucking up my vibration. I don’t want to do that anymore. So since I know what I don’t want, what is it that I do want?” And then we would make the statement of what we do want.

Focus Wheel Process

Now, if you really want to take the time to clear this Energy up right now, do a Focus Wheel. In other words, you have this newfound knowing of what you now want. It’s stronger and clearer than it’s recently been. In other words, it just happened. It’s hot off the press. It’s right there big and loud. You know that you want to feel such and such. So sit with your Focus Wheel, which is a piece of paper with a little circle in the middle, and just start making statements.

Writing them. Writing is your strongest point of focus. Your mind doesn’t wander as much when you write. Your Energy doesn’t get split as much when you write. You keep your vibration purer when you write. So then, begin writing your statements clockwise around the middle circle.

We’ll do a Focus Wheel relative to the offering of our friend about her sister’s phone call about the sauerkraut. She would write something like:

“I want to get along well with this wonderful sister. I like it best when we are adoring each other, and there are so many things about her that are easy to adore, and life is so good. I am glad that we live close enough that we can share intimately in each other’s lives, and we’re going to have a wonderful time at this party today, and it’s going to feel so good to be there and realize that our relationship is bigger than this stupid little incident. And so, we will rise above it and feel wonderful.”

And in the middle circle she would write, “Aren’t I glad that I have this person in my life.” With just a little bit of effort, you’ve totally brought yourself not only back into alignment but into stronger, clearer, better alignment than you would have been if the incident hadn’t happened to begin with.

For the most part, that’s the way we would live our lives. We would be aware that the way we feel is an indicator of what we are vibrating.

I Love Feeling Good

Now, somewhere in there, and you can do it or not do it, but we would offer it maybe a hundred times a day:

“I love feeling good. I love feeling good. Nothing is more important than that I feel good. I want to be true to myself. The better I feel, the more connected I am.”

In other words, we would make lots of those kinds of statements reminding ourselves that feeling good is really all that really matters. People sometimes worry about that. They say, “Abraham, you’re screwy because you’re teaching people to feel good, and what about the monster that feels good when he monsters something?” And we say, “No one ever feels good when they are not in vibrational harmony with their Core. You don’t need to worry.

If you can teach people how to connect with that feeling of Well-being or that feeling of love or that feeling of appreciation and they are working to harmonize their thoughts, words and actions with that feeling, your troubles would cease on this planet. No one would ever push against anyone ever again about anything.

Good.

(G-2/28/97, Napa, CA)

Sometimes, circumstances have you focusing on the lower end of the emotional scale. Process #22, Moving Up The Emotional Scale, may be of help to you when it appears that there is no way things will ever look better.

Abraham suggests that the lower levels of the Emotional Guidance Scale can benefit greatly from this process. Personally, I find it valuable even in the middle range of the scale.

Situations that can cause this low end vibrational focusing include a loved one dieing or leaving your experience, experiencing unexpected crisis or serious illness (in yourself or loved ones), or anything that happens that feels like you have been knocked off your feet. There are many other variations of these circumstances the feeling that you are powerless will have you vacillating between anger and powerlessness.

Once you have found your place on the emotional scale, your work is to try to find thoughts that give you a slight feeling of relief from the emotion you are feeling. A process of talking out loud or writing down your thoughts will give you the best reading of the way you are feeling. As you make statements with the deliberate intention of inducing an emotion that gives you a slight feeling of relief, you will begin to release resistance, and you will be able to move up the vibrational scale to a place of feeling much better. Remember, an improved feeling means a releasing of resistance, and a releasing of resistance means a greater state of allowing what you really want.

So, using the emotional scale, and beginning with where you are, look at the emotion that is just about where you believe you are, and try to fashion some words that lead you more into a slightly less resistant emotional state of being.

Ask and It Is Given - pg. 298

I know I have been caught in the low end holding pattern in this past year. It isn’t a pretty feeling. Doom and gloom was a cloud that followed me around until I was able to work myself up the emotional scale.

The purpose of this process isn’t for you to jump up the emotional guidance scale, but rather, to move you to a slightly better place up the scale.

Moving from powerlessness to rage is an improvement in the way you feel and DOES give you a feeling of relief. If you can ignore everyone around you who is telling you how inappropriate the rage is, you can then take another step forward, perhaps from rage to anger. The small steps are doable. If you listen to what others around you are saying about your “mood swings” then you could end up in a circular pattern which can bring you to anger and then back down to powerlessness.

In Ask and It Is Given, starting on page 299, Abraham uses the example of a woman whose father has died and is overcome with grief. Abraham gives example of the conscious statements that the woman can offer to improve the way she feels.

For example (there are 2 pages worth of examples and WELL worth the read so you can see how it flows),

I did everything I could think of doing to help my father, but it wasn’t enough. (Grief)

…

I should have stayed right there so I could have told him good-bye. (Guilt)

…

I was there day and night, day and night, and I still didn’t get to say good-bye. (Rage)

…

She has seen many people die, and she should have warned me that it was close. (Anger)

…

She gave him more medication than he needed just to make it easier for her. (Blame)

I wish I could have said good-bye. (Disappointment)

…

I’ve been neglecting so many things in my life; I need to regroup and get organized. (Overwhelment)

The health-care professionals are insensitive to the families of sick and dying people. (Frustration)

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I know that in time I’ll get to feeling better. (Positive Expectation)

…

I do appreciate all of those people who have cared for my father and mother. (Appreciation)

…

He’s in a place where sadness doesn’t exist. (Knowledge)

That is truly a wonderful place to be. (Joy)

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Ask and It Is Given, pages 299-303

Remember, you do not have access to emotions that are far from where you are currently vibrating. Although you may spend an entire day beating the drum of the emotion where you are, on the next day, try to establish a different set-point even if it is only a slight improvement.

If the negative emotion you are feeling is slight, you will quickly move up the emotional scale. If the negative emotion you are feeling has begun only recently, you will quickly move up the emotional scale. If you are experiencing something extremely serious, or it is something that you have been living with for many years, it is conceivable that you could spend 22 days moving up this emotional scale, each day deliberately choosing the improved emotion just above the one you are currently feeling. But 22 days from Powerlessness to Empowerment is not a long time at all when you compare it to people you know who have been in a state of Grief Insecurity, or Powerlessness for many years.

Ask and It Is Give - page 303

The journey up the Emotional Guidance Scale can seem daunting at first, but it really isn’t that bad. You just have to tune into how you are feeling and find just a little bit of relief in the thoughts you are thinking. Abraham is fond of saying that it always feels better to blame someone than to feel guilty. When you stop and think about it, you can FEEL the way blame feels better when you compare it to feeling guilty. Each step up the scale gives you back some of your power, even if it is just a little bit and that is relief.

In a previous post, I made the journey up the emotional scale in regards to my mother. It wasn’t something that was making me feel powerless, per say, but it was something that I had carried with me for a LONG time. When I pair my journey up the scale with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), I found an immense amount of relief. It was very nice to be able to put that issue in the past where it belonged. My Experience with EFT and Abraham’s Emotional Scale

Extra Stuff

Connee Chandler offers an exercise in how to move up the emotional scale by imagining a 12 inch ruler.

This process is best used when you are between 1. Joy / Appreciation / Empowered / Freedom / Love and 5. Optimism on the Emotional Guidance Scale.

This Rampage of Appreciation game can be played anywhere and at any time because it is a game that is easily played simply by directing pleasant thoughts in your mind. If you were to write your thoughts on paper, it would enhance this process, but it is not necessary.

Begin by looking around your immediate environment and gently noticing something that pleases you. Try to hold your attention on this pleasing object as you consider how wonderful, beautiful, or useful it is. And as you focus upon it longer, your positive feelings about it will increase.

Now, notice your improved feeling, and be appreciative of the way you feel. Then, once your good feeling is noticeably stronger than when you began, look around your environment and choose another pleasing object for your positive attention.

Ask and It Is Given - pg. 143

Every time you appreciate something, every time you praise something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe: “More of this, please.” You need never make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you are mostly in a state of appreciation, all good things will flow to you.

We are often asked, Isn‘t love a better word than appreciation? Isn‘t love more descriptive of the Non- Physical Energy? And we say that love and appreciation are really the same vibration. Some use the word gratitude, or a feeling of thankfulness, but all of these words are descriptive of Well-Being.

A desire to appreciate is a very good first step, and then as you find more things that you would like to say “Thank you” about, it quickly gains momentum. And as you want to feel appreciation, you attract something to appreciate. And as you appreciate it, then you attract something else to appreciate, until, in time, you are experiencing a Rampage of Appreciation.

Ask and It Is Given - p. 146

I love doing Rampages of Appreciation the first thing in the morning. It lines up the rest of my day for me. I find that if I do a session of appreciation, things just sort of fall into place for me and I am going with the flow more often than not.

I have several rampages on my blog that I will list below, after I do a little rampage first

What an amazing day today! It is a beautiful sunny day with a cloudless bright blue sky. The trees are in bloom and the birds are twittering away. We got a terrific wind chime for Christmas that is playing a wonderful tune as the spring breeze blows through it. I even saw a yellow swallowtail butterfly while I was working in the garden. I love watching the kids and dogs playing outside in the terrific weather. I LOVE spring!

Our kitchen is coming along terrifically. I think they may be done next week. It looks SO much bigger now. The cabinets are beautiful and the appliances, WOW! I think I may have to venture into the cooking area to give the new double oven a go. Steve is the cook of the house, but I think I will have to elbow him out of the way!

I love seeing our neighbors - A and C. They are sisters who are also babysitters to our kids. They are off a college and were home for Easter with their family. C said she will be home for the summer! Yeah! That means we don’t have to worry about summer care for the kids

What a great day!

Previous Rampages of Appreciation

Hmmm looks like I haven’t written an Appreciation post in a while. I think I am going to work on doing this one more regularly as it is easy to do and lines me right up!

“I Love…” - An Exercise in Appreciation
Morning Tea and Appreciation - 11/21/07
Morning Tea and Appreciation - 9/9/07
Appreciation & Gratitude

Connee Chandler, has a great exercise which puts to use the Rampage of Appreciation process, Three Appreciation Games.