A new process Very fast and very powerful. We call it The Placemat Process because Jerry and Esther very often
do it in the restaurant where they eat . But any paper will do!!
Sit with a big piece of paper before you and draw a line right down
the center of the page. Now on the left side of the page as a heading write .Action[
things that I am working on] .. On the right side of the page as a heading write . “Things I would
like the Universe to work on”.
Now on your side of the page you write anything that you are working
on that you are really ready to take action on. On the Universe’s
side you write anything you want that you are NOT ready to take
action on. Get the sense of it?
Esther wrote things on her side of the placemat things like
1 Finish the Sarah book and get it in the hands of the printer. 2.Gather the papers together for the accountant for the IRS reporting. Or she will write
3 Clean out the drawer in the bathroom that’s been bothering me. .or 4 Pick up milk.
In other words anything. She doesn’t write everything because many
things are routine and many things are in the appointment book. Just
those action things that she is wanting to remember to take action
on . On the Universe’s side she writes anything she wants that she is NOT
READY to take action on. Like . 1 Universe , please see to it that our Airline reservations for
the remainder of the year are timely and comfortable. Now if Esther wrote that on her side of the placemat can you imagine
the resistance that she would feel? In the beginning Esther put many more things on her list than the
Universe’s because she is accustomed to justifying her experience
through action. But after a few days she noticed a lot of things on
her list that she wasn’t doing!! In other words day after day there
they would be and day after day she wouldn’t do them. Day after day
they would bog her down and bother her because she wasn’t doing them. Can you feel the resistance in that??
Then one day it occurred to her . Abraham said this side of the page
is for those things I’m READY to take action on. I am obviously not
ready to take action on this or I would have already taken action on
it.!
So then she moved it to the Universe’s side . “Universe I’m not ready to take action on this. Work on it for a
while will you. “And she felt enormous release of resistance.
down everything you can think of, sit down for 30 minutes and just
make a list of everything that you want. Anything you can think off.
All those consumer items [laughter] and states of being.
In other words write down anything that you want from a new bathroom
faucet to World peace. [laughter]. ANYTHING that you want write it
down . Make one list of it [that part of it should take about
15minutes. And then go down that list again and say .”.a new faucet . Am I
ready to take action on that today?” “No. I don’t have the money. I
don’t have the time ”
“Universe. I’d like a new faucet for the bathroom . Orchestrate it
please”
Feel the release of the resistance?
Take the next item and the next item and the next. And unless you
are ready to act on it today move it to the Universe’s side .
Extract from Abraham-Hicks tape 6/17/95 B