From Facebook today:
Share Their Gloomy Forecasts?
Q: Hi, Abraham. So, just wanted to tell you that about a year and a half ago, I was rummaging through a box in the garage. I was looking for a piece of music, and I ran across my Abraham tapes from a two-day workshop I did with you in ’95. And I was just delighted. And I said, my Abraham tapes, I love these, and I started listening every chance I got. I would go out on my lunch hour at work and listen. And my husband started listening. And right away, our lives just transformed. It was good to begin with, and became richer and richer.
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We’re blessed that our circle of friends know you, and even the friends who don’t, know that there’s something going on. And are asking me, “How is it that you can be so positive? And, you know, your relationships are good. And what’s the secret to your good marriage?” And I said, “Well, I know not to get upset about things. I just don’t see a need to worry.” And they said, “You don’t worry about anything? That’s pretty amazing.” And I did some sifting...and here’s the point of all this.
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A: Yes, we’ve noticed you were rambling. (Fun!)
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Q: I did find a concern I had, and the intellectual part is, you’ve told us that the planet is in good order; it replenishes itself; all is well; its beasts move easily in and out, and I found a lot of reassurance from that. But I’m so tenderhearted that a little bird’s nest fell out of the light fixture near our door, and I thought I’d die, little birdlets scattered everywhere. And then, someone told me… I purposefully didn’t see Al Gore’s movie, sat down with my head in the sand over this, I know that all is well. And I’m going to keep that. And then, a well-meaning friend who talks about… you know, there’s a lot of what I call it doomsday dramas, and it is kind of beguiling. And I see that. I did that for a while. I was a vegetarian, and, you know, all my cosmetics and blah blah. But I didn’t want to see it. But she was telling me about the polar bears. And, you know, I thought I’d die when the birdlets fell on the ground, and then when she told me about the polar bears, I felt like she’d punched me in the stomach and my heart clenched and…
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A: And so if, in that moment, one of your people who is aware of how positive you are had walked into your experience and asked how do you stay so positive, what would you have said?
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Q: I have selective worrying, I guess. I don’t worry about anything but the beasts. Well, that’s not true, but that one really got me. And it throws me off kilter every time I think about it. So, I try not to think about it. And so, I guess my question is, what about the poor polar bears?
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A: Well, whether you realize it or not, you have stumbled across the key to keeping yourself in vibrational alignment with who you are by using your power of focus. So, what you just explained to us is that you’ve done pretty good at feathering your own nest. Maybe that’s too soon to give that analogy to you. (Fun!) You’ve gotten pretty good at controlling the environment around you so that you can focus more easily only upon things that feel good, and in doing so, that really is the secret of just staying in alignment with who you are.
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We started to interrupt you a time or two as you were rambling (Fun!) (it’s all right), to say to you that if you were consciously aware that you have been around as long as we are consciously aware that we have been around, you would not let the things that people are worrying about bother you because you would realize how humans have worried about things almost from the time that they’ve been around, and things continue to evolve and get better and better and better and better and better and better and better. Of course, you could focus upon any little pocket of the world, and you find within it components that are pleasing to you, or components that are not—and it really is a matter of tuning yourself to them.
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So, now we want to say to you that until you reach the place where you finally just get it, that there’s too much out there in this world that you are focused upon that you cannot control, and that if your happiness depends upon being able to control it, you will not ever be happy.
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There is an alternative other than isolating yourself away from things that bother you, and that alternative is fixating on things that feel good until you’ve practiced that so powerfully in your vibration that only things that feel good then come into your world. We want you to go beyond getting your feeling response from what you’re observing. We want you to use the power of your mind to take things that you are worried about (like the polar bears), and envision them into a place where you feel better.?
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Just like our friend warming up for his run so that he doesn’t strain a muscle, we want you to warm up for your joy through the world. We want you to warm up for the friend who might approach you with information about something that you don’t want. We want you to be ready for it. We want you to be warmed up and ready for it.?
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Rather than trying to prevent yourself from ever having an experience from which you have to move from not feeling good into a greater feeling of relief, into a greater feeling of relief, into a greater feeling of relief, as you reach for feelings of relief because you want relief and not because you’re trying to make something happen (you want relief), what begins to happen is you tune to a vibration that only allows you access to things that feel good in your world.
~ Abraham-Hicks
?Mexican Cruise January 2008
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