Abe on Drones in Israel -
4/21/24, 17:10
Q: Abraham I love the discussion
about the openness. And I really love the woman who asked the question. I love
to see her on your screen. And it reminded me about curiosity about being open
to experience the new, and about attachment theory actually because when a child
experiences the world new when it's open, it needs an attachment figure behind
him. And it looks behind him, you know, like on the playground. Am I safe? Is
this safe? And it's an attachment figure. If you have security you can go on
and be open in this world. And it really took me a little time to realize that
this attachment figure is my inner being and that I can be open because I can
trust on this guidance and on this sifting process. I can feel if it's good for
me or not and there's no need to be guarded. So, thank you for this new word.
A: Both the conversation that you are referring to, where someone introduced
into that conversation the words open-minded. And we liked it, too. We've been
talking about thinking outside the box. Being more open-minded is an easier way
to address that. But both that conversation and what you are talking about here
today is touching on a very important thing. So let's just take a little bit of
time here and focus together.
Always as you are standing in your now, with your existing point of attraction
- there's that word from the previous question - you are challenged as humans,
often, with wanting the security of what is, or the adventure of the unknown.
That's really the essence of what this conversation is really about.
Really, you're wanting the eagerness of moving forward, and the newness of it,
and the excitement of it, of the expansion and the more. But again it's like
Jerry's conversation about not putting your basket out so far that it confuses
you or frightens you or makes you feel discouraged, but not so close up that
it's boring. You want it to be far enough that it feels enticing and exciting
but not so far that it feels threatening or unimaginable or impossible or not
doable.
So, each of you are under different
situations, considering different subjects, in different places of feeling that
out. And it really is a process of just feeling it out, isn't it?
We are not really excited about
the word attachment. It's used in so many ways that cause confusion. Humans
similarly use the word grounded, meaning not getting too far away from what is
stable and secure. But we would not be emphasizing things to our children or to
ourselves that is guarded or fearful. The person on the playground watching out
for you, that sort of thing. It is so overrated and so misunderstood, and it
does increase the feeling of vulnerability.
Where what you are wanting to
do, as someone who lives in your body and in this world, and as someone who
mentors others who are, whether they are children or adults, whether they are
your children or others’ children.
What you're really wanting to do
is to evoke from them - because you've got such a good job going on of you
evoking it for yourself, activating in your bag of marbles, so to speak - your
sense of well-being.
And of course
you hit upon it. The most magnificent sense of well-being that you can have is
when you, once and for all, acknowledge the existence of your inner being, the
existence of source energy. The existence of source energy’s love and attention
on you.
Someone wrote a
very magnificent email, someone living in Israel. That night that it was known
that all of those drones and bombs and missiles were headed for Israel. And she
was really considering what that meant to her. And she described her ability to
diffuse and focus - she used the word focus - on her knowing that her inner
being is aware of her, and that there is a powerful well-being that comes with
that. And then she slept well, even under those conditions. Quite admirable.
So,
what that makes us want to say to all of you who are looking for some
attachment of well-being, you've got it! You just have to acknowledge it and
know it.
And these conversations also make us
want to say to all of you that it feels far-fetched. This woman was asking, who
had written the question in, did I really cause or was I a part of the reason
for the more positive outcome of that night? And of course the answer to that
is yes. But it's hard to hear. And most people think that those are too grandiose
thoughts, and we're not wanting to get heavy on them.
What
we are wanting to be very clear with you about is that you do get to influence
your good night's sleep. You do get to influence how you feel in any given
situation. You do get to influence what your point of attraction is. And that
really is all that this message is ever about, is about your relationship with
that larger part of you, who is living in constant well-being and holding you
in that focus as well.
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