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For months I’ve been listening to my Abraham-Hicks mp3s everywhere I go. This entry is all Abraham-Hicks’ inspired and paraphrased genius. I like it. I love it. I want some more of it; so, I shall put my mind on it, thus activating that vibration and attracting more of the same. Here we go….

You are vibration. Everything is vibration. This is the basis for the law of attraction: You get how you feel about what you’re thinking about.

In order to get something in the physical, you must first have an image of it in the nonphysical. That is, you have to think about what you want before you can get it. And, hey — you might be getting it right now, but if you don’t know what you want, how do you know when you’re getting what you want?

It’s easiest to know what you really want, deep down, by noticing what you’re thinking when you’re experiencing positive emotion. The emotions are guidance from your inner being, telling you that your thoughts are in harmony with your inner being and with what you want, or not.

Align with your own vibration of well-being. That’s when you are being you.

You are the creator, and you create by what you give your attention to, and then allowing it to happen by remaining tuned into that vibration (by thinking about it, expecting it, believing it and desiring it in an “I’ve got it because I am it” way.).

You get more good things by appreciating the good things you have now, and by filling yourself with an expectant appreciation for what is coming.

Remember the important premise:

To get something, you must first be something: It is necessary for the vibration of your desire and the vibration of your belief to match. In other words, act as if. Your job is to balance your desire with your beliefs about your desire (think thoughts that agree with your being, doing, and having what you want) by focusing on what you want. Simple to say, harder to do. Clarity of thought clears away confusion. Get clear about what you want — Experience the contrast between what you want and what you don’t want, and be glad for those experiences that help you to know what you prefer. Then surround yourself with all the things that remind you of being your best. Simply by feeling good, you are allowing source to flow through you, and all that you desire is coming to you.

How you’re feeling is what you’re lining yourself up for getting.

Your belief must match the stated desire. This is law. The law of attraction. Bring yourself into vibrational resonance with what you want, by reaching one by one for a better feeling thought. By reaching for a thought that feels better, you change your vibration and thus close the balance of vibrational relativity between your desires and your beliefs. The closer you are to vibrating in resonance with what you want, the better you feel. The better you feel, the greater is your state of allowing yourself to act and think as you desire. You are aligned with what you’re wanting when you’re thinking about and acting on what you really want. You’re more YOU.

Your emotions will, in this moment, tell you of your alignment between your stated desire with your belief.

Activate vibrations within yourself that align with your intentions. Bring the vibration of your being into alignment with the vibration of what you want. When you’re thinking about what you want and taking action, you feel good because you are in resonance with what you’re wanting and in a state of allowing the law of attraction to bring it to you and you to it. “What you want, wants you.” And how does the universe know what you want? By what you give thought and emotion to each moment, consistently, day after day. What are you asking for right now? Are you purposely asking for what you know will feel good, or are you creating by default, choosing to react to what you see and focusing on what comes without much thought to what you are wanting?

You are Creator. Choose images, thoughts, focus that balance the vibrational relativity between your internal point of focus and your internal being. Your point of focus is how you’re feeling about what you’re thinking, and your internal being is what you really want — to be yourself and express the energy that flows through you. What you see is reality but it is only a temporary reality and the effect of the past; but what you imagine, will become your reality.

Overlook the temporary nature of your current reality. Focus upon the sensation of creating the reality you want to experience, instead of focusing upon the reality that you’re currently experiencing. To get something you want that isn’t yet here, focus upon the sensations you imagine experiencing as the person you desire to be, doing what you want to do, and what most uplifts you. This is your greatest gift to the world — the offering of your self-expression.

Summary: Use Your Imagination

Observing and responding to conditions and consequences of current reality gets more of the same. Use your imagination! Follow your feelings; when you feel good, you are in vibrational resonance with who you are and what you want, and you’re letting it happen. Focus on that.

The most important gift you can give yourself, is to feel good. Feeling good, gets you what you want. And if it doesn’t, at least you feel good about it. Joke.

Practical Process. The Wouldn’t it Be Nice if…. Process

This process helps you to identify the vibrational direction of your chosen thoughts about whatever you’re currently bothered by, and to choose the next thought that feels a little better… and then choose the next thought that feels a little better.. and again… and again… and to keep doing that all the time. This is the fastest way I’ve found to raise my vibrational resonance and it feels good as I do it. Plus, the process of selecting better-feeling thoughts appeals to the rational process of my brain as I can perceive a rational foundation of incremental thoughts that build up to a state of feeling seriously good about the subject at hand.

1. Write a series of thoughts that help you feel better about whatever your subject is at this time.

2. After each sentence, see if the thought feels better, worse, or about the same.

3. Focus on the thoughts that feel a little better or that give you a sense of relief. The relief means that your resistance to what you want is lessening and that you’re allowing your vibrational relativity to come into resonance with what you want.

Feeling good isn’t the goal; but feeling good is the guidance that helps you live your goal.

Here’s a similar focus wheel process.
And here’s the page for the excellent book in which I found out about this process, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, by Abraham-Hicks. Excellent.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Maria Sklodowska

“Just put the man together and the world comes out all right.”

In 1957, Dr. Ethel Alpenfels, the well-known anthropologist, spoke to a group of high school students on their role in society. After discussing the goals and the problems of her adolescent audience, Dr. Alpenfels related an anecdote which illustrates the necessity of having one’s own life in order internally before one will experience order in the external world. To change the world, change yourself.

The story goes like this:

On an especially humid and uncomfortable day, a young child was annoying his weary father. “What can I do? the youngster begged. “Give me something to play with, Daddy.”

The parent, wishing to be rid of the child, reached for a map of the world and cut it into varied shapes.

“Here,” the boy’s father said, “take this puzzle and see if you can put it back together.”

Jumping at the unusual plaything, the child soon became engrossed in it, while his father relaxed and eagerly anticipated a few hours of peace.

In a few moments, however, the boy returned with the map, which was perfectly pieced together. His father was amazed. “How did you do that?” he demanded.

“Oh,” his son replied, “there was a picture of a man on the other side of the map. So I just put the man together and the world came out all right!”

Seek for nothing outside of yourself to give you what you need. The only thing you need pay attention to, is you.

Some Passages from A Course in Miracles

What we believe we see outside (the body: “the outside picture”) is nothing more than what we first perceived to be real inside (the mind: “an inward condition”):

“Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that.…It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition (T-21.in.1:1-2,5).” - A Course in Miracles

Where projection takes us from the mind to the body, the dreamer to the dream figure, the miracle returns the dream to its source in the mind, which it never really left. We can therefore see that the purpose of A Course in Miracles is to provide a reversed perspective of the world. Instead of seeing the world as determining our feelings, reactions, and behav­iors, being our cause, we recognize that our minds are the cause of everything we experience. This does not make us responsible for what other egos do, but it does make us responsible for our response to what they do. The direct implication is that nothing — absolutely nothing — has the power to make us happy or sad, joyful or depressed:

“The seeming cost of accepting today’s idea [“My salvation comes from me.”] is this: It means that noth­ing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way (W-pI.70.2:1-2).

This explains why we are never upset (or unkind) for the reasons we think (W-pI.5). It is never the world or people that cause our distress or happiness, but only the wrong mind’s secret wish to perpetuate its separated self and assume no responsibility for what it does, feels, or thinks. Therefore, all events, situations, or relationships are the same because none of them can affect us. This is why the Holy Spirit “makes no distinction among dreams,” as we read in another passage from the text:

“To judge them [our senseless substitutions for love] individu­ally is pointless. Their tiny differences in form are no real dif­ferences at all. None of them matters. That they have in common and nothing else. Yet what else is necessary to make them all the same? (T-18.I.7:8-12)”

“Thus, our focus shifts from the external form to the internal content: the world to the mind, effect to its cause. As we saw above, since projection makes perception, it is our mind’s decision for the ego that is the problem, not the form the projection takes. That is why Jesus reminds us in the manual for teachers that we only get angry at an inter­pretation of a fact, not the fact itself (M-17.4).”