[Abe talking to a guest about a symbol meditation]
Abe
The symbols that you were focusing upon could have been jelly beans. !! Except that you don’t have as much belief in jelly beans as you did in the symbols.
In other words the thing that made it work. The thing that caused you to connect with that pure positive energy, is that as you focused upon symbols or objects of attention that you had no resistant attachment to.
As you focus upon something where there is no resistance present the non-physical energy naturally flows. In other words it is interesting because as you talk about this experience you are projecting it. You experienced it as something unusual and yet connection to that energy is the usual. It is the resistance that most everybody is living most of the time that is odd you see. So what your friend assisted you doing was focusing upon something so out of the ordinary. In other words some weird symbol that you had no conscious connection to And if you did have any connection to it it was a positive connection because of his projection of belief about it.
So as you focused with utterly no resistance, the natural energy that is natural to you just flooded through to you. You see.
That’s why we are serious when we say you could use jelly beans .except that jelly beans feel irreverent. [group laughter] Or that jelly beans seem inappropriate because they’re full of sugar Or they feel frivolous.
In other words the power of the symbol is that it is something that you focus upon that does not have negative attachment.
Extract from Abraham-Hicks tape 10/8/95