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.

Abraham G-8/22/90