Abraham on action: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We were watching our friend Esther. She came home from a trip and she was feeling very much overwhelmed. Too much to do she thought. Mailbox was overflowing, voice mail box was overflowing, and suitcases and bags were all around. Then as she sat in the muddle, she said Abraham what should I do? And we said” there you are acting like a physical being always trying to figure out what to do!!” “How do you want to feel?” She said “I want to feel free and happy, and I don’t feel free and happy when I have too much to do” And we said “There you are acting like a physical being telling us what you don’t want when we ask you what you DO want!!” She laughed and said “I want to feel free and happy” We said ponder that for a moment. So she closed her eyes and envisioned sitting on the front porch, sipping some tea, talking to her mate, watching the squirrels and right away she felt free and happy.
She said “Now what?” We said “Now what do you want to have?” She said, I want to have a clean and efficient organized home and office.” And we said - ponder that friend, do not jump right into action, wait until you are inspired. From your place of feeling good you will reach out to the inspiration that will lead you to that which you seek. And so within a couple of days, the thoughts began to come. “I can move this over here, I can delegate this, I can eliminate this “. Her mate noticed that she was not acting out of drudgery as she sometimes had done. But she was bounding from place to place inspired by these ideas that were coming you see… rather than trying to fix it from negative perspective which never works because Law of Attraction just attracts more negatives. She was now being inspired because she had achieved her place of balance before. You are getting it?
And so the way you get away from a negative feeling is by acknowledging that it is a good thing that you have it. Don’t beat up on yourself… “Oh I shouldn’t be feeling this way”. Instead acknowledge how valuable it is that you have been alerted to the fact that there is something that is out of harmony. Then you CONSCIOUSLY give thought to what it is you think you would like to feel, which will inspire your ideas of what you are wanting to have which will then lead you to action. And we encourage you never to take action without that inspiration, because that action will be futile. It is action that is usually contradictory to what you are really wanting. Some say “Abraham you teach laziness!! You teach us to lay around and wait to be inspired, what if I am never inspired?” And we say.. you can not avoid being inspired when you are in that place of positive emotion . When you get in that place of positive all good things come to you. Just as you remain in that place of negative, all bad things come to you. G 7/8/90 **** Trying too hard IS resisting… for this reason — think about this — if you decide that you want to go to the grocery store and buy a quart of milk, do you ever find yourself trying too hard? Or do you just go get it?
And the reason you just go get it is because you have absolute knowledge - you KNOW. You know you have the ability to go, you know you have the money in your purse, you know the milk will be there when you get there. In other words, there is no doubt and so there is no trying against anything. And so whenever you’re trying too hard, what is happening is there is a part of you that is not believing that it can be and so in your wanting to compensate with action, you offer more action. And what we are wanting you to understand is that you cannot act enough. There is not enough action in the world to compensate for your taking part of the energy and sending it in the other direction in the form of negative emotion. If you’ve got negative emotion about something, you’re stuck there and no action is going to change it.
The only thing that’s going to change it is by releasing the thought which is bringing forth the negative emotion, replacing it with a thought that brings positive emotion and then the action will come JOYFULLY you see. G-8/22/90 *** That’s what the “Masters” do. Everyone who has a great idea about anything — they have focused upon what they wanted long enough, and by the Law of Attraction their thought got big enough and broad enough and bold enough that they made connection with their Inner Being. And then their Inner Being transmitted their desire to the boundaries of the Universe — and you have no limitation under those conditions. 7/4/91 ** Jerry: How do we get the things we want to be perfect. Do we have to just keep at everything all the time?
Abe: You do not. Once you reach the place that you are accepting it, as it is. In other words it is your attention to lack that causes the negative creation. And so in the moment that you are no longer giving your attention to lack, you have it made! That is all. In other words, once you acknowledge wellness as the natural state, and you release your guardedness of illness. Wellness will be your experience. Once you accept abundance as you natural state of being, and you stop resisting not having enough money Abundance is your natural state of being. Once you have accepted harmony within a relationship as the natural state of being and you stop focussing on the lack, harmony will be your natural state of being. And so the answer is No, you do not have to continually keep hammering away at what you do want. But it is important for you to no longer think about what you are not wanting. G-9/22/91 **** Your Inner Being is aware of where you stand and what you want and where you stand relative to what you want. Your Inner Being knows how close or how far you are, vibrationally and time wise from all things. Your Inner Being is also knowing what is in your heart and what is in your mind and what is in your vibration. At any point in time, your Inner Being knows exactly the action or thought or word that would be appropriate for you. G 4/11/92 B