Abe Now, 9/7/24, part 1, 5:55 – Focus Summons Energy
A: We are here and we are eager to play together. Not work, but
play. We are appreciating your co-creating with us in this way.
Many of you wrote down what you were thinking about. Many of you
just thought it. In fact most of you just thought about it. And that works too.
And some of you thought about it more. You actually put more
momentum into your questions when you contemplate it and think about it, and
then actually produce a video presentation for us.
It’s interesting for us to absorb all of you. And it's an
interesting word that Esther has chosen for the intention that we said to her.
But it is like an absorption, an inclusion. It's like a matching up.
When you have a strong question, and you focus into this format
with an intention of adding to the questions of others, and adding to the
clarification of others, and of course the primary intention of getting an
answer back from us that takes you forward in your understanding. That's what
co-creating really is. It’s always motion forward. It's never stepping back.
Quite a few of you sent to us in one way or another your
concerns about things not moving fast enough for you. Or like you're stepping
back, or like you had it but then you lost it. And we really want to emphasize
that you never step back. Things do change, though.
And if in the changing life that you are
living, you would look at it as unfolding, and more becoming, and more
clarification, more understanding, more deliberate attraction, rather than you
doing something wrong or you missing out on something. That little piece of
intention will serve you really well.
Let's begin with a video.
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Q: Good morning everybody. I have been trying to deactivate
negative belief systems and attitudes about aging, and there certainly are all
of those attitudes when you reach certain ages in our culture. And one of them
for me is that I won’t have enough energy to do the things that I want to do.
And the other day I woke up tired when I was going to work. But that afternoon,
I had a really fun afternoon with my students. And I realized that joyful focus
was my energy supply, and that I could have that at any age. And that was a
really great realization. Thanks everybody. Love everybody. Love the Abraham
Community.
A: We are appreciating everything you said here. And we want to draw your
attention, all of you, we want to draw your attention to a very powerful law of
physics that once you contemplate it, understand it, and then decide that
you're going to deliberately apply it, you'll find yourselves energized by this
understanding.
So you are an extension of Source energy. We've talked about
that before and we'll say more about it as we move forward here today too. But
if you can think of yourselves as focusers - thoughts that you're thinking
about, objects that you're focused upon - focusers.?And, as you are focusing, you are literally summoning
Source energy (you're more comfortable calling that your inner being) to focus
with you toward whatever you're focused upon.
We talk about Source energy, focused energy. And as you began
your video presentation to us just now, you were talking about being tired. And
that's a different way that humans use the expression energy. In other words I
don't have the energy to do something. But we would like you to combine that
energy that you mean that gives you the impetus to walk up a hill for example,
or to even get out of bed. That energy that you mean when you're talking about
propelling yourself, your physical body. We would like you to couple that
energy with Source energy. And we would like to help you do it by utilizing the
term focus.
So what happened to you… You explained it very well. You went to
your work where you are teaching students, and you got focused with them upon
something that was fun. And collectively you summoned energy.
You personally summoned energy and your
physical apparatus benefits by that. The more decisions you make in every day,
the more energized you are. The more objects of your attention that you
deliberately focus upon, the more energized you are. And this energy is
available to you as long as you are utilizing it and focusing it.
So many people sort of mess up this focus business by really
caring a lot about how others are focused at them, what others are doing for
them.
If you will instead think in terms of yourself
as a focuser, as an intender, as a creator, as a focuser, you will find
yourself energized often.
Some others of you have sent in some videos that dovetail with
this, and we'll pick up on this conversation as we come to those.
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Abe Now, 9/7/24, part 1, 13:45 – Pleasure or Pain
Q: Hello Abraham and everyone. I just loved something you said last time, and I
will read it now. “If you are focused on something that gives you pleasure, you
cannot at the same time be focused on something that gives you pain. If
pleasure is perceptual, so is pain.”
And I think it's very interesting this word perception. Because
of course, the pain has been going on for quite a while, and there's a lot of
momentum. But I have noticed that in my life, I can perceive my pain
differently. I can focus on something that's not the pain, something that I
love. I love to learn Spanish and I use this little game where I appreciate
learning Spanish when I'm walking so that I'm focused on that instead of the
pain.
A: So you're carrying on the conversation of focus here. And the most
significant thing that comes from what you offered here is, you can't focus
upon something that gives you pleasure at the same time that you're focusing
upon something that gives you pain.
And we would like you to feel with us how when
you're focused and feeling pleasure it’s because you're a match to your inner
being. And anytime you are a match to your inner being, you feel more pleasure.
And when you're focused upon something when you are not a match to your inner
being, that's when you're feeling not the presence of pain, but the absence of
pleasure.
There is no source of darkness. There's just
the light that you allow or don't. So let's call the light pleasure. And let's
call the dark pain.
And let's understand it in the same way.
You’re focused in a way that matches what your inner being knows about your
object of focus. And you can tell by the degree of pleasure or absence of it
how well connected you are with your source of energy and clarity and abundance
and all things that you desire.
Are you getting?it? Yeah.
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Abe Now, 9/7/24, part 1, 16:24 – Self is extension of Source
Q: Hey Abraham and everybody. I have really been enjoying the distinction
you're making between opinions and intentions. And it's perhaps really poignant
with me because I have a lot of opinions. And I've been able to loosen some of
them, but there are others that are really hard baked. And I think that being
able to make the switch to “Is this right or wrong?” to “What's my intention
here?” And I think the socio, sort of political context is the place where my
opinions tend to be more hard along the right and wrong line. So I think about
well, what's my intention? You know. And my intention is to be loving, and to
want everybody to be their best self, and everybody to be able to respond to
their inner being, and for us to all be able to be the best we can be together
because we're each being ourselves. So the switch to intentions really helped
me, and thank you. I appreciate that.
A: There are a couple of directions that we want to focus with you here. You
said a lot of important things. Let's start with your enjoyment of realizing
that often, not always, but often, not always, but most often, when you are
offering an opinion about something, you are placing your opinion against
another opinion. And so your opinion often is causing you, or in the opinion,
you are pushing against something.
And we were talking to Esther about it… If instead of
opinionating - probably not even a word - instead of offering an opinion, if
you would think instead, what is my intention? you will feel a relief.
Now, let's dovetail this in to what we're getting at here today
with these new leading edge questions that are all fitting together into
something that will serve you very well as you understand what we are getting
at here.
So, whether you are offering an opinion, and let's say an
opinion in which you are focused against something - I don't like that, I want
them to stop doing that, that is a bad thing that is happening.
Rather than doing that, realizing that you have an intention,
you have a preference.?What I prefer is,
what I intend is. Now, in that redirecting of your focus you are matching
marbles with your inner being or not. In your opinion of pushing against your
inner being is not joining in on this conversation. In your intention of what
you intend or prefer your inner being is.
And so again, let's go back. All three of these beginning
questions are helping us to clarify something that can really serve you. If you
think of yourself as an extension of this Source energy, interested Source
energy, Source energy who intended to be here in your physical apparatus,
having the personality that you have, living the life experience that you're
having.
In other words, you are focused into this life
experience. Non-physical energy focused into the being that is you. And the
more you are choosing to be an extension, a focused extension, a good feeling,
uplifting, pure positive energy, looking forward to person in the moment, the
more clarity you'll have, the more energy you'll have, the more joy you'll
have. The more of all things that you've been asking for, you will allow
yourself to receive. Can you see how this is fitting together?
Let's slow it down here a bit. We really want you to get this.
What you focus upon activates a point of attraction. And how you feel is how
matched you are to the point of attraction that your inner being is holding on
your behalf, or not. Focus is the way you summon.
In the early days, we talked about this connection between you
and your inner being, being like a valve. And we would say, open the valve and
let it flow. Well the way you open that valve and let it flow is by choosing
those objects of attention from the - and you offered the word just now - the
way you are perceiving. The way you are perceiving.
Are you perceiving this moment in time, are you looking at
whatever you're looking at through the perception of Source? Or have you
calibrated to humans in some way where you've pinched yourself off from these
resources?
This is such an important conversation. We've said, and you've
said all of these meaningful things before. But never with the clarity that
your continuing questions here are bringing us to.
You get to choose what you give your attention
to. When you choose that you want to feel good while you are giving your
attention to something, that helps you discern whether you're in sync, in
alignment, a match to your resources, or whether you are a match to something else
that is not your resources.
Pretty good, pretty good conversation.
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