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Content & Assignments: Three Appreciation Games

Begin by making a list of 10 things you love. As you do it, notice how you feel. It may serve as a graphicdemonstration of the joys of "The Appreciation Games," our first topic. I think it is wonderful to spend time incontemplation of all that you appreciate in your life, and to share in the results of our thoughts of what weappreciate.

Abraham says that appreciation is the highest vibration we know. What we call "being in love" includes also thevibration of yearning, and is not pure. But when you appreciate, you automatically allow your vibration to return tothe high, fast vibration of your core. If you tried writing the list of 10 things you love, I bet you clearly demonstratedthe upswelling of joy caused by writing a letter of appreciation.

So that is the first of the three promised appreciation games.

The second is "What do I like about this?" Abraham tells the story of the man in his car who invented the gamewhen he was stuck in traffic. He said it was very easy to notice what he didn`t like about that. So he determinedlydecided to notice what he did like about it. That his car was reliable and comfortable and his air conditioning wasgreat even though it was warm outside. That his car phone gave him access to the outside world. That he had an offbutton on his car phone that allowed him to shut out the outside world! That there was a very pretty girl in thenext car, and he`d been beside her for a long time. He really liked that!

My experience with "What do I like about this?" is to incorporate it in any part of my day, whether I was activelyliking the day, or not. Just the activity of basking in my appreciation of what is going on, enhances my awareness andmakes me more mindful of how good my life is and how much I love so much of what is in my experience. In thegrocery store, I can like the abundance of healthful, inexpensive, beautifully prepared and presented food. I can likethe cheerful staff, and compliment them on how much I like to shop there. I can appreciate the cleanliness of thestore, and how they carry my favorite brands. I can like that I have the money to put one of these and one of thoseand several of these in my basket. I can notice my basket is moving gracefully about the store before me, making itsimple for me to carry all the wonderful food I am wanting to buy. I can like that I have a reliable car to get me toand from the store, and that the store provides nice men to bag my groceries and put them in my trunk.

In every moment there is at least that much, and probably much more, to like, if we look for what we like aboutthis. And of course, Law of Attraction gives us more of what we like to notice, just as soon as we put our focusthere!

The third appreciation game is "Book of Positive Aspects." It is "What do I like about this" focused and made moreemphatic by writing it down, preserving, and accumulating it. We have used it a lot on the Abraham Internet mailinglist as a way of dealing with people with whom we are experiencing conflict, but Abraham`s definition of it is evenbroader.

Here's what the Abraham-Hicks calendar, page 381, says about "BOPA."

"Your Book of Positive Aspects

You are upon the brink of magnificent, deliberate creating. You have been the creators of your experience from theday that you emerged into this body. Now you will be the deliberate creators of your experience. Trust that whichcomes forth from within you.

If you will buy a new notebook, and call it your Book of Positive Aspects, and spend 10 minutes each day writingpositive aspects about your home, your body, your work, your relationships...If you will wake up every morningacknowledging that you have re-emerged into the physical and that today you will look for reasons to feelgood...And if you will pay attention to the way you are feeling, and utilize the process of pivoting [we will coverpivoting in detail next week]...it is our absolute promise to you, that -- within 30 days -- you will see such adramatic turn of events in your life experience, that you will not believe you are the same person."

So, Abraham says that BOPA can be used for all aspects of your life, expanding on the many things you alreadyknow you love, everyone you know, your body, your work, your prosperity and so on.

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When you are appreciating someone, and they are unable to uplift themselves to the level of your vibration, theyvibrate right out of your experience. Most people you love will be uplifted by your appreciation to a new level ofappreciation and connectedness for themselves.

That is the "content" of class 1. We covered 3 appreciation processes. "The Appreciation Game" was done as "10things I love", "What do I like about this" was explained, and "Book of Positive Aspects" was also explored.

Assignment on Appreciation Games

The assignment is to actually practice using the Book of Positive Aspects. Start out by making a list of people, livingand dead, as you can think of in your life who have influenced you significantly. I came up with 75 in the first 10minutes! Think of immediate family, extended family, teachers, friends, lovers, co-workers, students, employees,employers, acquaintances in the community, writers whose works you have studied, people you have tried toemulate.

I noticed in doing this exercise that there were several people I went to school with over 20 years ago on my listthat I could immediately think of NOTHING good about! I have not thought of these people in years, but myvibration of resistance/resentment was right where I left it, 20 years ago! BOPA was a great opportunity for me toeasily clear out some underlying resistance that has been there, negatively affecting my life until now.

Then pick 2 people from your list who are easy to adore, and 2 who are more of a challenge. Find a notebook, andwrite the names of each on the top of a fresh page. Then, on that page, write as many positive aspects as you canthink of for that person. Do the people you adore first, so it is easier to get the ball rolling. Sometimes it is easierto see a good quality in the "challenging" people after you have appreciated it a friend or family member. Abrahamsays, if you can't think of anything good at all, make something up!

Note that when you are doing the BOPA, you might discover yourself trying to do positive aspects of one person you are having trouble with, and noticing that instead you are thinking of someone else behaving in a similar wayfrom your past. Should this happen, go ahead and write a BOPA page on the person from the past as well.

After you have done this exercise, please consider sharing your results with the Abraham List at Yahoogroups.com,either by sharing a couple of your lists, and/or by sharing you reactions/feelings/comments about the BOPAprocess. Feel free to make comments about your experience with the two other appreciation games, as well.I hopeall this is clear and fun for you to do.

Content & Assignment: Segment Intending & Pivoting

"When your thought is in sync with that which comes forth from within, doors will open -- and everything that isaction-oriented will be smooth-flowing and easy for you." Abraham-Hicks calendar, page 381

Segment Intending and Pivoting go in one class because they are the backbone processes to help you take charge ofwhat you are thinking. Here's how the Abraham-Hicks calendar, page 381, defines pivoting:

"Pivot -- To consciously change the direction of one's thought. To deliberately choose a thought that is in vibrationalharmony with one's desire."

In order to understand the importance of pivoting when we have a negative thought (other than that it just FEELS

BETTER,) it helps to explore what Abraham has taught about our guidance system.

Guidance System and Pivoting

Abe teaches that negative thoughts generate negative emotions. Any negative emotion is a message from your InnerBeing that you are thinking a negative thought. When you are thinking a negative thought, it is starting the ballrolling toward a negative outcome in your life. Your Inner Being uses the negative emotion to signal you that it istime to change the thought you are thinking.

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It is much easier to monitor your emotions than it is to monitor your thoughts. We have way too many thoughts,and many of them are so habitual, it is hard for us to even catch them on the way through. It just feels normal tothink negatively, we have been doing it for so long. And I am motivated to change the thoughts by knowing it willmake me feel better rather than worse.

In order to lessen negative emotion in our lives, we first learn to find the thoughts that are causing the fear, angeror frustration and get better at changing the thoughts, so the thoughts come up less and less often and you feel

good more and more often. This is the crux of pivoting.

John McCurdy (a wonderful metaphysical teacher on the Abraham List) came up with a saying that really jelled theconcept for me - "If I am feeling negative emotion, I am thinking something that isn't true. Period."

If you have followed negative thoughts into a really bad place, so you are deep into pain, it is hard to pivot. At thatpoint, Abe says it is best to just go to sleep, see a movie, read a book, swim, walk, fantasize about sex or distractyourself in some way so that you get back to your feel good state.

Then from that feel good state, when you have the first twinge of negative emotion, now, THAT is the time to jumpon it, and really notice the thought that is playing at the moment. It is a thought that your IB is checking right out ofyour experience on. That particular thought isn't TRUE in the cosmic sense of the word, though it may be fact inyour current context. If you think, "I am not enough," or "I can't trust myself," then your IB is out of there!

The moment your Inner Being stops flowing through you, you feel negative emotion. You stop, notice you are feelingbad, and look for the thought that caused the emotion. You notice it is a habitual thought of "I am not enough." Yousay to yourself, "Well, John McCurdy says this negative emotion means this thought isn't true. What is the truthabout me? What do I want to believe about myself? I want to believe that I am enough. I want to know that I amwonderful, in fact."

If you feel better with what you said to yourself, your pivot is successful. Feeling a sense of relief is a clear sign of aneatly executed pivot! Abraham says that we never go back to the original vibration on that subject, after we pivoton it even once. It may reoccur often for awhile, but it will be easier to recognize and shift each time.

It is not your past that is causing your pain, it is your thoughts about the past that cause you pain. And the pain isnot just the consequence of the thought, it is the absence of your Inner Being. That is what is intolerable.

It is good that it is intolerable. Otherwise, we would continue to dwell in the negative space that causes us tomiscreate in our lives. The pain of our IB withdrawing from us is the guidance system that tells us when we aredoing a good job with our thoughts, and when we are wildly off track.

Abraham often makes the comparison of pulling your hand away quickly when you touch a hot stove. Would youwant to make your hand numb, so you can rest it there while your flesh is burned and destroyed? NO! You wantyour hand to become even more sensitive, so that you feel the heat from right above the stove, so you never evenhave to put your hand directly on it to know it isn't good for you.

That's what we are striving to do. To use the negative emotion as a signal that what we are thinking is too hot tohandle! That there is a cooler, more comfortable truth lying at a higher, faster frequency than the "truth" we havedecided to focus on in the moment. I just got an image of being in a scorching desert at midday, vs. high up on amountain side where the view is sublime and the air is cool and clear. Pivoting is moving in the second it takes tochange a thought from being scorched to feeling refreshed.

Segment Intending

Segment intending is dividing your day into recognizable intervals and consciously setting different intentions foreach segment. For example, when you first wake up in the morning, you are in the "awake but still in bed segment."Then you might move into the "preparing for the day segment which includes showering, dressing, makingbreakfast." Then it might be the "commute to work" segment. And then the "day at work" segment. Even withinyour work day, you have different segments - "meeting with a committee," "talking to customers on the phone,""having lunch with your friends."

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Each segment has a purpose, and you can state your intentions briefly at the beginning of each segment. Forexample, for sleeping at night, you might set your intention to re-emerge into nonphysical energy of your core, haveyour body be relaxed, refreshed and restored, have wonderful dreams, and be more and more aware of your InnerBeing's messages to you through your dreams. These are different intentions than your commute to work, whichyou might prefer to be safe, fun, quick, efficient, easy and uplifting.

As you start segment intending, you discover that the segments start conforming to your new intentions.

Sometimes it takes a few conscious intentions to overcome the inertia of years of complaining about commuting,but your experience begins to shift in the direction you are wanting. As you do it, look for evidence that a shift isoccurring, and celebrate even the smallest, more on target event.

When you start getting good at segment intending, pivoting becomes less necessary. But even when you segmentintend, sometimes you notice something in the environment that is not part of your intention, and by focusing onit, you can create negative emotion, whether it be fear or anger or frustration. That's when you want to rememberto pivot and reaffirm your positive intention.

Here's what the Abraham-Hicks calendar, page 379, says about segment intending:

"All is well with you. There is not something that you should be doing that you are not doing. You don`t have anyground to make up for. You have not been lying around not doing your work. You are in the perfect place. And we

see this as a sort of turning point where the majority of that which you will attract from this point forward will bemore in harmony with your wanting.

Make more decisions in every day. More decisions about what you want. And let your first and foremost -- andmost often -- decision be, "I want to feel good." Because unless you are in the place of feeling good, unless you arein that place of full connectedness, you don`t have much of value to give to anyone else.

"I want to feel good! I really, really want to feel good! Therefore, I will look for reasons to feel good.

When you get into your automobile, make your statement of intent: "I am wanting to travel safely this distance. Iam wanting to be very efficient. I am wanting to have a pleasant drive. I am wanting to be very clear. I am wanting tohave a happy heart as I drive..."

As you make those sorts of statements, you set your own vibrational tone so that anything that is around you that

is not in harmony with that, simply cannot be where you are.

When you emerge into the day, let your vibration be the dominant one. Your vibration of joy, your vibration ofgrowth, your vibration of freedom, your vibration of love, your vibration of all is well. And anybody that is out therevibrating in discord with that -- will vibrate someplace else.

You will begin to see a dramatic difference in the way others are responding to you. Some of them will find reasonsto go someplace else. Others, that you do not know, that will satisfy intentions that are deep and powerful withinyou, will begin gravitating into your experience.

Assignment: Segment Intending & Pivoting

Identify recurring segments in your particular day, and then pick one. Write a clear segment intention for that part

of your day, and share it with the Abraham List if you would like an audience for your work.

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Content & Assignment: Positive What Ifs

"What else could reality be, if it wasn't what it is?" - Dr. Lee Gibson, 9/2/97

Positive What Ifs

Abraham has said that our ability to create is conditioned by two factors, our level of desire (wanting) and ourlevel of resistance. Our resistance includes our negative habits of thought (beliefs.) The "positive what if" techniqueis one of the most powerful they have shared with us and is designed to reduce our resistance to the good that isnatural to us. Abraham has sometimes summarized the creation process as "want it, and don`t resist it, and it is."

It is important, in learning to use positive what ifs, to be very aware of our guidance system. To notice and know if astatement we make to ourselves makes us feel better or worse. The what ifs are, by definition, positive, only if theymake us feel GOOD! Or at least, better.

Think about how often people come up with negative what ifs - the Murphy's Law type thinking - if something badcan happen, it will! Well, we can train ourselves to think of the most positive outcomes that can happen instead, touse our imagination to create wonderful day dreams instead of fearful ones. Since Abraham says, and researchconfirms, that our mind cannot tell the difference between a vividly imagined experience and a real one, our

vibration reflects the result of our positive or negative flights of fancy. And we create our lives, based on thevibration we are resonating with in the moment.

Essentially, the positive what if process is designed to replace worry thoughts with delightful fantasy. In fact, thewhat ifs release us to fantasize wildly! They give us permission to think ANYTHING, no matter how untrue, thatwill make us feel better and lighten our vibration. What ifs let us roam entirely free of reality, and get truly creative,seeking that which makes us relax, and preferably, laugh about what has made us stressed. What a relief that is!

Hypothetical sample of positive what ifs:

What if you are feeling a bit jealous of someone who has a life you judge to be the kind of life you want? Here's allthe steps to take to use positive what ifs to make it more possible for you to attract the prosperity you desire.

First, you must get yourself to the place where you believe and put out there that the only thing that matters is that

you feel good. Until then, you are sending conflicting messages to the Universe, and your guidance will not be clear.So you start making "what if" statements to yourself, with the only intention that you leave yourself in a bettervibratory place on the subject than where you started.

So you say, "what if I believe that he doesn't deserve that kind of life, I am the one who deserves it." Chances arethat makes you feel bad, because your Inner Being knows that you both deserve it. So you say, "what if we bothcould have that kind of life, there is abundance for all, and no competition." That might make you feel a little better.Or not. Only you can find the feeling place of slightly purer vibration than before. Then you try "I know Abe says allis truly well, and I really am closer to a life like that than I sometimes think I am." That might feel better. What ifsomething happens next Wednesday to shift my life in that direction in a big way? What if someone gives me alottery ticket worth a million dollars? What if I get a check in the mail next week for $2500? What if I were wearingthat gorgeous outfit that I saw at the mall last week when I go out on Friday night? What if I won an all expensepaid trip to the Cannes Film Festival and my favorite movie star falls in love with me?

You see, positive what ifs don't have to be true, they only need to make you feel better. And what will make you feelbetter will be different than what would make anyone else feel better. So only you can really make up your what ifs.But every day for a month, when the resistance on the subject comes up, you can shift the vibration just a little withsilly, fun, true or outrageous what ifs. At the end of the month, Abe says we can have reduced 90% of the resistanceon the subject we have been carrying around for life. Then next month you can work on another subject. There isno end to the fun you can have.

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Don't try to make the what ifs solve the problem. Just remember that the intent is to make you feel just a littlebetter in the moment. And every day the vibration gets easier to shift, and the game gets to be a little more fun,until at the end of the month you are playing the game in every conversation you have! (If you are like me, that is...)

This is a real life example, I (Connee) had of using positive what ifs when I noticed some negative emotion:

"I had a wonderful experience in my favorite local park with a gimpy goose. He was a gosling from this year, youngand unable to fly, and limping badly. All of the flock had crossed the big mowed field from the pond, and werefeeding happily in the deep edge vegetation by the shady woods. This last gosling was having trouble walking acrossthe mowed field, and it was taking him much longer than the others to get to the good food. He was alone.

I felt myself loving the lone goose, even though the healthy geese had blocked my entry (hissing and flapping) fromthe trail I first wanted to go on. I kept wondering as I walked, why it was so much easier to love the gimpy goose. Ifinally realized that that endearing sensation was my Inner Being's presence. So I started thinking about the gimpygoose. At first, it felt bad. I was thinking he was hurting and lonely. Then I started doing positive what ifs about thegimpy goose. What if he managed to live until his wings grew in and discovered that instead of hobbling, he couldsoar? What if all the extra work of compensating for the gimpy leg made him strong, and he found he was thestrongest flyer of the geese, and often took his turn leading the flock in the air, and making it easier for the weakergeese to rest in his current? What if the limp was just an injury rather than a permanent problem, and he quicklyhealed and became a strong and healthy goose? What if the determination required to keep going under trying

circumstances made him a wise goose in consciousness, and he turned into the goose flock shaman? What if he isthe first goose to re-emerge into nonphysical from this flock, and all the other young geese, being tuned into purepositive energy, can feel the exhilaration and joy and wisdom conveyed from this goose's re-emergence? What ifthis goose is a cranky, gimpy goose in this lifetime, lonely and upset, but reemerges early and returns in a stronghealthy goose body again? What if other geese, observing this cranky goose, make a more conscious decision fromthe contrast to be happy ducky geese? <grin>

Wow, I was soaring! My Inner Being was showing me how to use the loving attraction and resulting painful feelingsof looking at the gimpy goose to expand my consciousness of the value of every life! And once I was soaring, I couldsee that the experience of this goose could be just fine for him, whether it was a triumphant or a disappointingexperience in my opinion!"

Using the positive what ifs, in this case, took me from a position of feeling bad to a place of feeling good in just acouple of minutes. And permanently increased my vibration when I look at the lives of people around me who are

"gimpy" in some way at this moment. I know now, from my goose what ifs, that I have no idea of the value of thisexperience for this person, and it is not up to me to judge them as broken, or needing my sympathy.

In fact, from this experience, I was able to deduce my favorite statement now, "I trust that my Inner Being alwaystakes me from where I am now, by the shortest route, to where I most want to be. And the shortest route doesn'talways go through the nicest neighborhood."

So when I see someone, like the gimpy goose, going through a bad neighborhood, I am more likely to rememberthat their Inner Being is right there guiding them through the experience. And I quickly remember back to times inmy life of pain or injury or suffering, that I wouldn't trade for anything now because of all I learned from theexperience. And I feel good, regardless of the current condition of the other person. This is what Abraham callsunconditional love. Seeing the truth, and staying connected, regardless of the conditions.

So, the road to unconditional love is paved with positive what ifs!

Assignment:

This week, notice a subject that is bothering you, even a little bit. Test your guidance system with a couple ofnegative what ifs, just to make sure you are in tune with noticing negative emotion. For example, suppose you thinkthat what is bothering is that you are feeling lonely tonight. A negative what if might be, "What if I never again havegood company in the evening!" Chances are, that will make you feel pretty bad! Then try a more positive what if,"What if, now that I am getting good at deliberate creation, I can create companionship for myself that is betterthan it has ever been before?" Test that out with your guidance system - does it feel a bit better, or not. If not, keeplooking for statements that feel good. Some may feel really good, some just marginally better. Try to get sensitive to

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the degrees of feeling - some will be much worse, some a little worse, some pretty neutral, some just a bit better,some good, and others great! Allow yourself to experiment with expanding your thinking into the humorous andeven bizarre. You get extra credit points if you can come up with what ifs that make you laugh. You get even morepoints if you share with your facilitator and make me laugh! Have fun with all of this!

Content & Assignment:

Scripting

"Most of you are not writing a very deliberate script. Most of you are responding to conditions; you are talking

about what happened. You are talking about what is or what has been. Most of you are not being deliberate aboutwhat you want. And sometimes, in the beginning, even though you state clearly what you want, you offer equal orgreater resistance...You must want it and allow it and it is. Or want it and believe it and it is. Now we are saying toyou in even more deliberate terms, want it and don`t resist it, and it is. Every single time without exception.

Notes from the Abe Session from Dallas 1995. (Thanks to Bobbi, on the Abraham list, for the transcript!)

"SCRIPTING is where you take some bugaboo that has been really bothering you and literally change yourvibrational habit about it.

Just play with it, most of all be easy about it and have fun with it. We can make so much work of these processesthat in time you get overwhelmed just with the process. And we want to bring simplicity to your life.

We want you to realize that you've got a guidance system with you in every moment. So at any moment that youare vibrationally out of synch with your source energy you feel it. So if you feel negative emotion, if it's fear oranger or frustration or resentment or disappointment or loneliness or anger or guilt or any of those emotions juststop & say hmmmm what am I pushing against, (what's bothering me), because there is always something, and assoon as you've identified what you are trying to say no to, then say, "what's the obvious yes", and just by doing thatusually the resistance will lift, or soften substantially."

"On a recent tape, Abraham explains about scripting and then adds: 'You do not script to get the thing you are

scripting. You script because you want to feel good. And in order to feel good you write about something youdesire.'

That is interesting. I think it implies that if you script about that one thing you WANT, you cannot do otherwise butcome from a place of lack. But if you script for the fun of scripting, that will (re)connect you to your stream. The funof this is: you can script about one thing and manifest another. If (example) I feel the lack of a mate and that is anissue for me, I can script about beautiful sunsets and reconnect in doing so. And that good feeling might resolve myresistance to the mate... That is also the common denominator of all their techniques: reconnecting yourself."

Malik de Kok <[email protected]>

In teaching scripting, Abraham often talks about the movie "Delirium," with John Candy. In it, he plays a soap operascript writer, who has an accident and wakes up in the hospital. Only the hospital is the one he has written about inthe soap, and he knows it is not real. All the doctors are the actors, but they are acting like doctors. The normal set

is just a few rooms, but when he looks out the window the whole town is there. He goes crazy and tries toescape, telling everyone he has written them and they aren`t real. Soon someone says to him, "well, if you wrote it,and you don`t like it, change the script." And he discovers he can do that! He just writes it the way he wants it. Forexample, he calls about his car, and they tell him that it will take a week to fix it. He frowns at first, and then goesback to his typewriter and writes "His car was repaired immediately." And the phone rings and it is the garage,telling him his car has already been repaired.

Abraham says that Esther, in watching this movie couldn`t stop laughing. She said to Jerry - "they think it is a movie,but it is real!" Abraham has often described how Esther will notice she is in a bad place vibrationally on a subject,

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and sit down with her laptop to write out a new script, outlining all the parts, which helps her get to the feelingplace of relaxation and acceptance and gratitude for the new situation about to unfold in her life.

One good way to start a script is the phrase, "If I had it my way . . . " Abraham says we can have it our way, if we canvibrate it and allow it. So sitting down to write a new script is fun and rewarding, because it is a quick way tomanifest changes in your vibration, which soon manifests changes in your life.

There are a number of different methods for writing scripts, and they all work. One is to just write about yourvision, as in the following script.

Sample script: posted by Janet Davis <[email protected]> to abraham_hicks.

I see all of us filled with and surrounded by love in all our lives, feeling warm and at ease with ourselves. Feelingloved, all the time. We are the adored children of a doting universe. Everyone we come in contact with uplifts, lovesand warms us to the depths of our souls. Everywhere we look we see love and light. All the love that we arereflects back to us from the thousand tiny reflective surfaces of our lives, and we receive small flashes of love fromevery direction, even the most unexpected places! We feel secure and loved in all we do, everywhere we are, nomatter whether we are with others or alone. We are loved! This love fills us and then overflows us, flowing out towarm everyone who comes in contact with us. We are welling pools of love, and that love attracts loving individualsinto our lives, who reflect back to us more of the same! There is much love for us EVERYWHERE! How wonderful

to be so surrounded by and filled with love! And so it is!

Another way is to focus on what you love, as in the following script:

Posted by Marta: [email protected] to abraham_hicks.

I love people who genuinely like themselves. I love people who can laugh and can laugh at themselves. I love peoplewho make me laugh. I love people who love to play, are curious, intelligent and yet have an endless sense this is notthe be all and end all. I love people who make me think. I love people who love to learn. I love people who let mebe. I love people who listen and speak with an open heart and an open mind. I appreciate deeply the courage ofpeople who will tell me their truth even when I know I might not want to hear it. I love creative, imaginative peoplewho see connections I don't see. I love people who take risks and think for themselves. I love people who can hugwith ease and have a twinkle in their eye. I love people who are up to some mischief...they don't always follow "theRules!" I love people who are trying to grow ...intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. I love people who allow

themselves to admit a mistake and I love people who allow me to make mine. I love generous, passionate,compassionate pure positive energy people ...I love you guys...

A friend shared a script with me recently about her perfect mate, and it occurred to me as she was reading it, thatit was a script about him, rather than about her. It felt kind of clinical to me, and I didn't notice the excitement thatbuilds in a script where 17 seconds is actually being achieved over and over. Almost every sentence started with "heis." Our point of power is with "I am."

I suggested she might try rewriting it beginning, "I am a wonderful wife. I have a wonderful husband. Let me fill youin on all we have been doing since we got married." And then, as she got to each of the details, to begin writing alittle story that she remembered about their time together illustrating that detail from the list of matecharacteristics she had already compiled. "He gives me flowers, especially roses" becomes: "I remember how, oneSaturday during our whirlwind courtship, on the first week anniversary of our first kiss, he sent me roses. And whatroses! Oceania roses - the longest stems I have ever seen! They are the most delicate peach color, and thefragrance was exquisite. Each one was more perfect than the next. The mass of a dozen of them was so awesome,and I was able slip two out, and put one in a bud vase in the bathroom, and another in my bedroom, so thateverywhere I went that day in my home, I was reminded of the glory of him. In one short week, it felt like hechanged everything in my whole life. I felt settled, sure and secure, in the midst of the greatest excitement I hadever experienced. I just glowed that day when I thought about him, and now, here, 10 years later, I still do. He is stillthat romantic. What a guy!"

Can you feel the difference? I can, I have goose bumps. The script that I wrote about my perfect mate before I metDavid was so detailed that Ca Ley believed it was true. She missed the first line that said it was a script. When shewas reading it, her husband (at the time) came over and she was exclaiming, "look what Connee has created", and

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he was saying, "Ca Ley, it is just a script." And she said, "no it can't be, look at all these details." And then she saidthat it was amazing, when she got done, she felt like he was as real to her as I was (since we were virtual friendsonly at that point.)

When she can vibrate him real enough, the "he is" that he is already, will be in *her* life. But we can really onlyvibrate "I am," so always start with yourself, and get specific on details that you can really believe and revel in.

Whatever method you choose, write something that makes you feel good! I write scripts often, and what I notice isthat, although the details sometimes change dramatically, the manifestation usually has the same feeling as theoriginal script!

Assignment:

Take a desire you have for your life, and write a new script about actually having it happen for you. Allow yourself atleast 15 minutes when you can dream and write, dream again and write. Writing focuses your attention, and allowsyou to be more consistently positive than just thinking about your desires. Have fun with it! Make it as elaborate asyou like. As long as the details feel good, you are doing very well!

Content & Assignment:

The Focus Wheel

"The purpose of the Focus Wheel is to feel relief."

"The following is an excerpt of how Abraham answered someone who was asking about poor eyesight. It is fromthe tape done in Los Angeles in December 1995. They called it a "focus wheel"

Draw a circle on a paper. Make it about the size of a doubled up fist. Now write, in little letters like you're writingaround the dial on a clock.

About where 12:00 is write:

• I love my physical body.

• Then in another place around the dial a bit further write:

• My body has treated me so very well.


• This physical mechanism is magnificent!


• Ingenious invention this physical body


• Nonphysical really outdid itself with this physical body.


• Amazing muscles, vessels, organs, nerves.


• This body thrives

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Then in another place around the dial a bit further write:

I feel good in my body.

Then go back to the first thing that you have written, read it & draw an arrow from the words inward to the centerof the circle. And then the next, read it & draw it inward, inward inward, & right in the center of the circle writeALL IS WELL WITH MY BODY.

We call this a focus wheel because in the time you were writing your thoughts about your physical body were purethoughts. No contradictory vibration anywhere there. So law of attraction is now responding to pure vibration & inthose 2 minutes you would accomplish about 5 years worth of eye push ups. Just remember that what you arewanting to do. Now somewhere on your paper draw a little circle & that circle is your creation box, it is yourcreative arena. & inside it write the word purify. For that is what this creation box will do for you, it will help you topurify your own thought in relation to any desire you may have. Then watch what happens.

Bobbi Wexler, [email protected]

The focus wheel process is about purifying your vibration on a particular subject. Remeber, Abraham has said,"Want it, and vibrate it, and it is." Our job is to make our vibration higher, faster and purer, all the time. And all theAbraham processes are designed to do that in one way or another. However, Abraham has stated on several tapes

that the focus wheel is particularly good for taking a conflicting vibration and making it more aligned.

Abraham also often says that it is easier to get to a place of pure vibration by using general statements than specificones. Each statement in the focus wheel needs to be checked out inside us to see if we truly feel good when wewrite it. Otherwise, change it to another statement you can feel good about. By adding one general statement ontop of the others around the wheel, we gradually get to a more and more specific statement that still allows us tofeel good. It doesn't really matter how many statements you have, Abraham has given examples with as few as sixstatements. I have done them with as many as 20 or 25. Put in as many as you can playfully, easily, joyously think up,and declare it complete because it feels that way to you!

I believe, and my IB has confirmed that, at least for me, there is special power in the focus wheel BECAUSE ofturning the page. Thinking in a circle format is an intensifying activity, that seems to align the energy quicker andmore fully, stimulating creativity and the flow of ideas. Perhaps it has to do with thinking it out in a circle creating astronger electromagnetic field, which aligns the energy more easily, bringing greater order and flow. Maybe the

circle motion connects the two sides of the brain more easily?

There is an old folk song called "It's a Gift to be Simple" and one of the lines is, "till by turning and turning we comeround right." That is what the focus wheel does for me, it helps me to come round right in my thinking about thetopic and allow my cork to float.

Abraham has explained that the purpose of the focus wheel process is to adopt a belief that you want to have thatyou do not already. They said that when you begin you already know the end result. I interpreted that to mean thatthe belief you are shooting for is the statement that eventually ends up in the middle.

On the outside of the circle, the statements that you write around it are supposed to be things that you alreadybelieve / have little resistance to that would support the belief you want. The example at this workshop was thatthe guy wanted to be drumming on tour with a band. So they suggested statements like, "People love to hear meplay." (the guy agreed), and "I enjoy playing with others.", and "I enjoy playing for others." (agreed with both). Theydid toss out a few satatements with which he didn't agree, and also said there was one to which he nodded "yes",but vibrated "no" (didn't tell us which one). They suggested he play with it.

Andy Harrington, [email protected]

Another sample focus wheel:

Focus wheel for aligning energy in direction of, allowing more abundance in the form of money...direct from themouth of Esther/Abe.

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1. Things are getting better and better for me.

2. I know that the universe is abundant in all things.

3. As I learn to align with the things that I want, they will flow to me.

4. I am abundant in many ways! I am feeling more alive, vital and full of energy.

5. There are all kinds of ways for dollars to flow to me. I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of thepossibilities/probabilities.

6. I know that abundance abounds. and I am getting closer to more avenues through which it will flow tome. I can feel it now.

7. It is exhilarating to find things that I want, and it is so satisfying to know that the universe will find a way todeliver it.

8. All things that I want are flowing to me.

9. At the very center write: ABUNDANCE ABOUNDS!

10. I know that dollars are on their way to me, because I am experiencing it as so.

Assignment:

Take a desire you have for your life, perhaps one that hasn't come to fruition quickly. Allow yourself at least 15minutes when you can play with a focus wheel on this subject. Writing focuses your attention, and allows you to bemore consistently positive than just thinking about your desires. Have fun with it! Make it as elaborate as you like.As long as the details feel good, you are doing very well!

Content & Assignment: The Why Game

"When you start adding the "whys" to what you want, then you really begin to vibrate in concert with that which

you are, and when you begin to vibrate in concert with that which you are, oceans part and mountains move, andpeople come out the woodwork to accommodate you.

Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar, p. 35.

"When you talk about what you want and why you want it, it always brings you to your center. It always brings youto the vibration of your Core, and when you vibrate in harmony with that which is the Core of you, then you havethe perspective of your Inner Being.

As you start talking about why you want to be over there, you'll vibrate as if you are over there. Then yourvibration in your Now is that point of attraction, and over there comes here where you are and becomes yourphysical awareness.

Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar, p. 409.

I have never heard Abraham talk specifically about this powerful process by calling it "the Why Game." I learned itwith that name from Andy Harrington, the former list owner of the Abraham-Hicks mailing list, who said he learnedit years ago from Abraham. Yet, if you look at the Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar, the back side of the pagesfor the first 512 pages, which we generally refer to as Place Mat process, actually are "The Why Game." PlaceMatting is not described until page 514.

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On your side write things such as:

Look for more things to appreciate.

Be fully present in the moment.

Clean out my closet.

Write three thank you letters.

Achieve enlightenment (smile!).

On the right side (Universe's side), write anything you want to have, do, or be in your life that you are not ready totake action on (or that you don't know how to do or think you don't have the resources to do. Then allow theUniverse, with its large and competent staff, to handle those things for you.

Your list can be very short and the Universe's list can be as long as you want it to be. The best part of writingsomething on the Universe's side of the Place Mat is that there is no follow up for you to do.

You don't have to keep telling the Universe what you want. You really only need to tell the Universe once. The

advantage of continuing to think or talk or write about what you want is that you get clearer about it. The moreyou focus your attention on it, the more you fine tune it.

As you say "I want it," the Universe begins it, and then you say "I would like it to be this way," and the Universemodifies that, and then you say "A little bit of this would be nice," and the Universe adds that . . . .

Once you are clear about what you want, once you have zeroed in on it, it is on the way to you. It is done! Themanifestation of it will probably follow later, because there is most often enough resistance so that you don't have itinstantly.

Remember that there is this constant steady Stream of Well-being (Pure Positive Energy) flowing to each of us, andin the moment you say "I prefer" or "I like" or "I appreciate"--in that moment, the heavens literally part for you andthe Nonphysical Energies (you can call them "Fairies of theUniverse")--in that instant--begin orchestrating themanifestation of your desire--in that very instant!

Faster than you can speak it, the Energy begins to flow, and circumstances and events, in an orchestration youcannot begin to imagine, begin to take place in order to give you exactly what you want--and if it were not for yourresistance, it would come really fast.

The Universe will never fail you. The Universe will always give you what you have asked for.

The question is: How soon will you allow it? How many things will you use as your excuse to have resistance thatdoes not allow it? How long are you going to hang on to those habits of thought that don't let it in?

The good news is, if ever you are not letting it in, you've got a signal that's telling you. That's what negative emotionis. Negative emotion means that in the moment you are vibrating in a place where you can't let it in--you areresisting.

When you are looking at the problem, you're resistant to a solution because when you're looking at the problem,you're vibrating there. So the Energy of solution cannot come to you.

Sometimes people ask Abraham, "Shouldn't I face reality?" Abraham says, "No! Never face reality!! Never face realityunless it is perfect in every way!"

All really is very well with you. Your job is just to relax and acknowledge that. Have fun with all of this. Don't maketoo much of all of it. Don't act like it's life or death, because there isn't any death.

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It's about Well-being that you're eking out or Well-being that you're allowing to flow rambunctiously! Well-beingabounds!

Sometimes you have to step back from the circumstances or conditions of your moment in order to recognizethat.

Lighten up--have fun with it!

* * * * * *

PLACE MAT ACTIVITY

Start using the Place Mat process--either on your activities for the day, or on a project, or a specific goal you wantto achieve. You only get the benefit if you choose to use it, and practice it just as you would any new

thing you are learning. I recommend using it every day. It is the most powerful technique I have found for me so far,and I use it daily.

The list would love to hear some of your experiences with using it. I clearly KNOW that you are going to realizesome AMAZING results! And as Abraham says, "Have fun with all of this!"

Content & Assignment: 17 Seconds

"Line up your energy as often as you can. If two to three times per day, you can stop and find 68 seconds of purethought about something, YOU'VE PUT IN A VERY PRODUCTIVE DAY!!"

Abraham, quoted by Ca Ley Wong

Why 17 Seconds?

Abraham says that a thought reaches a combustion point at 17 seconds of pure undiluted focus. It draws another

thought to it and it is exponentially more powerful. At the end of another 17 seconds, 34 seconds total, the nextthought combusts, and by Law of Attraction, evolves to a higher level of energy. Again another 17 seconds to 51seconds continues the process, and finally, if you can continue a pure thought for 68 seconds on any given subject, itwill be on its way to manifestation. The key word is pure, meaning positive focus, strong energy, no resistance; tonot slip into lackful thinking.

Abraham says the average person rarely finishes a single sentence without contradicting their energy, as in "I want anew car, but it is too expensive." So they say most of us haven't had much experience with ever feeling thecombustion of thought that comes from 17+ seconds of pure thought.

In talking about the leverage of 17+17+17+17=68 seconds of pure thought, Abraham offers the followinginformation:

17 seconds is worth 2,000 manhours (about a year at 40 hours per week of action taken)

34 seconds is worth 20,000 manhours (or about 10 years...)

51 seconds is worth 200,000 manhours (or about 100 years...)

68 seconds is worth 2,000,000 manhours (or about 1000 years...)

That's two MILLION manhours (or womanhours!) If we can learn to offer pure thought energy for 68 seconds at atime, action becomes INCONSEQUENTIAL!

Here's a simple story of 68 seconds of pure thought from my experience:

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I had a fun demonstration of deliberate creation while I was on vacation in New Mexico one year. I was comingdown the road from the Sandia Tram and realized that the one thing I really wanted in Albuquerque that I hadn'tdone yet, was to see a road runner. I had never seen one before, and although I'd had a wonderful time birding allweek, seeing a Black headed grosbeak, western tanagers, scaled quail, Seller's jays, some kind of wonderful owl andhawk, but I still hadn't seen a road runner.

So driving down the road, my friend Kate and I talked for 68 seconds about the wonder of road runners, how fun

they are, how excited we would be to see one, how great the birding had been since we got to New Mexico, etc.And sure enough, we came round a corner at about 69 seconds, and there - on a fence post, no less, was our roadrunner. Kate did a quick U turn and we spent ten minutes having the road runner experience. He (or she) preenedon the fence post for awhile, allowing me to take pictures profile and head on, then hopped down and ran into thegully to catch and eat a lizard, then back on the fence and then down the other side to do some wing unfurlingbehavior that looked like it could be mating behavior. All and all, a very satisfying 68 seconds of fun directedthought! Obviously, my mother must never have told me that there wouldn't be enough road runners!

How to Get to 17 Seconds of Pure Thought:

Getting to 17 seconds of pure thought purely mentally is harder for me than doing it either out loud or in writing. Ifind the discipline of speaking or writing helps keep other thoughts from being too distracting.

If I am going to do it in writing, I often put in the form of a letter to a friend from the vantage point of alreadyhaving accomplished what it is that I am wanting. Then I can describe the feelings and details of my new place ofbeing, and really get into the sense of actually being there. You may recognize this as the scripting process wecovered last week!

I also play the "68 second game" out loud, with some friends that I meet with in a group every week. The personwho facilitates gets to pick a subject, then everyone contributes to her 68 seconds. For example, I want to have abeautiful wedding, so my week we did 68 seconds on how wonderful my ceremony was, and how much I lovedhaving a fun reception for all of my friends. They all chimed in on how much they enjoyed the party, how great theband was, the deliciousness of the cake, the beauty of the decorations, etc. Our 68 seconds in the group often lasts5 or 10 minutes!

And I know that if I am in a place I don't want to be emotionally, I can call any member of that group and ask themto do 68 seconds with me on what I am wanting in that moment. I called a friend and asked her to do 68 seconds

with me on my wonderful relationship with my mother recently! It really helps to have some partners to do theprocess with me.

If you have a friend who is also into Abraham processes, you might ask them to be a 68 second partner for you!

Start with Less Important Issues

Ca Ley Wong, [email protected], posted the following transcript to the Abraham mailing list on November 18,1996:

Abraham: "Focus on nothing is more important than you feel good. Period. <cut> it is not necessary to focus onfeeling good about oneself, focus on feeling good; period. It is not necessary to feel good about your body, or aboutyour financial situation; find thoughts that make you feel good. Period.

We would recommend that you spend the first week writing 68 seconds about things that you don't care muchabout, such as blue glass, butterflies, feathers. Because you will attract those things. This exercise will teach you twothings: one that you can focus for 68 seconds; two, that the universe does respond to a pure vibration. When youhave a level of confidence in the universe, then you can tackle your main issues.

We would every day, twice a day, write your 68 seconds about all areas in your life, relationship, abundance, house, job, etc. You will find it very easy to do. For instance, on your house, appreciate how convenient it is. Appreciate thethermostat that keeps the house at the perfect temperature. Appreciate the sewage system and the plumbing in

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your bathroom. Appreciate the comfort of it. Know that this house will be temporary, that you will have may otherscloser to the dream house you want, but meanwhile appreciate it. You see, there was 68 seconds.

So, all of you have major work to do in the next 30 days. Write as many 68 seconds as you can. And do itdeliberately."

Ease of Achieving 68 Seconds

Also from Ca Ley Wong, on November 18, 1996:

Abraham: "Realize that 68 seconds isn't hard to find. Throughout your day, you have thousands of opportunities todo your 68 seconds. Even if your work schedule doubled, you could still find plenty of 68 seconds? Now, Estherdidn't believe us at first that 68 seconds were the equivalent of 2 million man-hours. She couldn't conceive it. Butsince there isn't anything that we have said over the years that wasn't true, Esther now believes it and uses it.

So, we want to ask you, do YOU REALLY BELIEVE when we say that 68 seconds is the equivalent of 2 million man-hours? Because if you did, YOU WOULD FIND THE TIME TO DO THEM!!!

Who would want to bang things into place, when they know that they can spend 68 seconds and have the universedo it for them? Nobody, yet it is what the majority of you do. You would rather jump into action than do your 68

seconds. You would rather jump into action than align up your energy."

Also from Ca Ley, From, Abraham, Rye, NY, 10/96:

"The Recipe for deliberate creation has 10 parts:

5 parts of appreciating what is

2 parts of imagining a little better than what is

2 parts of looking for things that would make you feel better

1 part of quieting your mind, relaxing and not trying so hard, being at ease at it"

Assignment:

Do one of the following Techniques as your assignment:

Write a detailed, delicious description of one small aspect of something you want. For example, perhaps you want aromantic relationship. Write the details of an evening you spent with your [imagined] loved one that you wouldconsider romantic, for example:

"Last night my new partner took me out for a romantic dinner. We went to an exquisite restaurant. The waiter wasremarkably attentive, when I got up to go to the salad bar, he folded my napkin for me and hung it neatly on thearm of my chair. The view of the sunset out the window was exquisite! There were even deer grazing at the veryedge of the woods as it was getting to be dusk. Of course, it was hard to tear my eyes away from the beautiful blueeyes of my partner to even see the sunset! I am so enraptured by this extraordinary being I have attracted into mylife. Our conversation was so delightful, bouncing between delicious sensual innuendo, and fun metaphysical debate.In fact, I feel he is expanding my mind daily, with new ideas, practices, processes and ways of thinking. I have never

felt so stimulated, at all levels, with a partner before!"

Remember to place yourself squarely in the middle of the drama you are writing! Instead of saying "I see twopeople on the beach, " say "My partner and I are walking hand in hand down a deserted beach on a warm, sultrynight, under a sky full of stars!"

An Alternative Technique for Those Who Prefer to Draw Than Write

Read the following description from Malik of a doodling technique for getting your 68 seconds of pure thought, andtry this one. Then submit a description of your doodle, or a discussion of how you felt about doodling to the group.

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Malik de Kok <[email protected]> from the Abraham mailing list offered the following wonderful technique for theartistically inclined:

"I found that when I am scripting, on paper or via the keyboard, I manage to think of completely different thingswhile writing. So I don't get to 17 or more seconds of pure vibration and I can sense that it just doesn't take off. Mydoodling works better.

I bought a very colorful set of 16 felt-tip markers with which the child in me is very happy. So when I get them out Ialready start feeling semi-excited and appreciative before I have done anything else.

I take a blank sheet of paper for every subject. And then I doodle/draw the story or the perfect situation, whiletelling it out loud to myself. (When I was a child I have seen entertainers do that sort of thing.) I have my favoritecolor of blue reserved for myself, so I know that the blue figure is me. And then like a comic book, I just fill thepage with the ingredients until in some cases it is completely full; but at least until I feel that I have covered all themain positive ingredients. And with everything I draw, I tell what it is and does and how I feel about it.

When I am finished I put the sheet in my Creation Box.

I see that this really keeps me focused and happy while doing it, sometimes way beyond 68 seconds. With othertechniques, I often have to set myself to doing them - this one I look forward to. I like it more than clipping pictures

from catalogues. In my experience, the speaking is essential. When I catch myself drawing while not speaking,invariably my thoughts have wandered off to some other place... usually not in line with my desire."

Class Content & Assignment: Creation Box

"Our strongest wanting for you is that you lighten up. In other words, spend more time looking for things to laugh

about and play with. Play your way through this. When you follow your bliss -- it is always an easy journey." (Abraham Calendar, p. 427.)

To do the creation box process, Abraham suggests literally taking a large box: they recommend a banker's box witha cover. Then, write on the cover, "this is my creation box, it is my point of attraction." Look for things you want toput in the box, cutting out pictures, doodling on index cards, writing out what you want, finding photographs ofhow you want your body to look, etc. All of this you put into the box, and then leave it, knowing that as you vibrate

with it and allow it, it will come to you without effort. Or at least your Inner Being will let you know when actionneeds to be taken.

Abraham also suggests that we go to our box periodically to play with our images, for the pleasure of the process,as a catalyst to daydream and imagine more clearly!

The creation box process has led to the often offered exclamation around my house - "now that's a funny thing toput in my/your box" when someone offers a negative thought. Then everyone laughs, and it's much more fun than"cancel, cancel," the previously offered exclamation around here!

Abraham tells many stories of the effectiveness of Esther's creation box, including the ever famous story of theSpurs tickets. She threw a brochure from the Spurs (the San Antonio basketball team) in her creation box, afterspeculating it would be nice to buy some tickets for her daughter. Within an hour, a woman in the grocery store

line with her offered her some tickets!

Here`s a quote from a friend of mine about using her creation box:

"Last night I went through *all* my 'Town and Country' magazines and had a great time tearing out pictures. Ithadn't occurred to me to put things into my creation box just because I l ike them. I thought the process was morepowerful if each item was placed in with specific intent; but 'I like this!' seems to be specific enough."

Remember Abraham says that the Universe already knows what we want - everything we have ever praised,appreciated, thrilled at, is waiting to be delivered to you as soon as you will allow them in. They say that if you could

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want. When you say No to something you're including something you don't want. So in all of this objectivity thatyou`ve worked so hard to achieve, all you're really doing is messing up your own vibration."

"You live in a land of contrast because contrast is essential to decision. But if you will become includers of what youdo want rather than excluders of what you don't want, you'll purify your Energy. And when you begin to line upyour Energy, you will be amazed at how fast the Universe responds to you."

What is exclusion? It's simply focusing on what you don't want, which of course brings it right to you. There isno exclusion. Most of us have been trained to be very objective - to explain what we don't want whenever we statewhat we do want. But in our justifying of what we want, we don't allow it to come to us because we are offeringcontradictory vibrations.

"You have been trained to exclude. You've been trained to say, "Watch out for that. I don't want that." And all alongyou are including that thing you don't want. So when you say, "I want more money... I don't want debt," you'reactually including two contradictory vibrations within your vibration."

"Most people cannot make it through a whole sentence without contradicting the vibration of their desire. Theywill say, "Abraham, I want to be well...I'm so tired of being sick.", "Abraham, I want more money...I'm very tired ofthe struggle." They're outputting two contradictory vibrations, and the Universe is responding to both of them, sonothing is changing for them."

Sometimes the exclusion is obvious. "I don`t want these darn mosquitoes biting me anymore!" Or, "I don`t want towork hard." Or, "I'm tired of people ignoring me." When you catch yourself offering something you don`t want,then quickly change your focus to what you do want. If you can't come up with something specific (what's theopposite of annoying insects?), then generalize your desire. "I want peace and quiet while I enjoy being outside."

However, sometimes the excluding vibration is not so obvious. If your life is not perfect in every way, then it's becauseyou have resistance to what you want, or you are including what you don`t want (usually through the process ofexcluding it.) As Abraham says, all you have to do is identify the desire and then achieve a vibrational match with it.

In recent tapes, Abraham seems to be more obvious in deliberately pointing out hidden resistance in thequestioner's vibration. Abraham will ask, "Tell us what you want." And then they will point out, "Can you see howwhat you are saying is not a match to the vibration you are offering? Did you notice how much quicker and moreemphatically you responded to what you do NOT want, than to what you do not want?".

If you`ve been playing with the Abraham processes, you should be pretty good at noticing when you are includingwhat you don`t want. Negative emotion will always tell you when you are including contradictory energy. However,what if you`ve defined your desires, done the processes, lined up the energy - and, you still don`t have what youwant. You may have hidden resistance. In stating your desires, you may also be subconsciously offering acontradictory vibration. These pockets of hidden resistance may stem from old beliefs, habits of thought, or just notpaying enough attention to your emotions. This week's assignment is an exercise in finding your hidden resistance,so you can get to a place of offering a purer vibration.

I (Margie) developed this process from listening to Abraham help people see where their vibration actually was inrelation to their desires. I've found that hidden resistance can be a very subtle offering, but once you figure it out,you can't believe you didn't notice it sooner.

For this assignment, choose something major that you`ve been 'working` on for awhile. It should be something thatstill hasn't shown up in your life yet, although you feel that you`ve released as much resistance as possible. Choosesomething that you`ve written a script about, or done a focus wheel.

You can do this alone, or with a partner. I suggest a partner because usually someone else can hear your resistancebetter than you can. Take some paper, choose your desire, and write 5 to 10 statements on why you want this.Begin each statement with "I want ___(your desire)___ because............" Skip 3 or 4 lines between each statement.The statements about why you want it should come very quickly. If they don`t, then pick another desire. Or goback and do your homework on this one - scripting, focus wheels, etc.

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Now go back to your first statement. Repeat it out loud, and then add this statement "and because I do NOTwant.......". For example, if you wrote: "I want a new red car because I love driving sexy cars," you would finish thesentence with something like: "and because I don`t want to drive my ugly, unsexy car." After you write the NOTsentence, take a moment to see how it feels. Does it feel neutral? Do you feel a little resistance? Or do you feel amajor pushing against what you do not want? By spending a few moments defining what you do not want, you arefinding areas of hidden resistance. These are the areas that you are trying to exclude when you make yourstatements about what you want.

For this assignment, write up your statements and your feelings about any resistance you find. You may also want totell us which processes you are going to do to release the resistance.

Here's the example I went through creating this process for the first time. It had been three months since thebreak up of my last relationship. I had attracted some men into my life, but it would only get to a certain point, andthen they would fade out. I had been doing all my work, and I had done some major resistance-releasing processeson my last boyfriend. I should have had the perfect relationship, so what was the problem?

THE EXAMPLE:

What I want: A perfect, intimate, fun, loving relationship with a man who loves and accepts me as I am.

1. I want this relationship because I want grow and learn more about myself in a loving relationship with a man.

• And because I don`t want to do this on my own all the time. (How do I feel about this last statement: OK,the on-my-own part doesn't feel totally neutral. I may have some resistance here, but it feels minor.)

2. I want this relationship because I want to laugh and have fun with a man.

• And because I don`t want to do this with just my friends. (Neutral, I like hanging out with my friends.)3. I want this relationship because I want a man who loves and accepts me.

• Because I don`t want another Wayne. (Oh wow - major, major resistance. Major buttons pushed on beingaccepted. I don`t want to be treated the way he treated me. I don`t want Wayne. Yuck, yuck, yuck - get thatWayne thing out of here. OK, I thought I released Wayne with a major forgiveness exercise last month.Obviously, there's more here.)

4. I want this relationship because I want to see where I'm vibrating right now and how good I am at deliberatecreating.

• And because I don`t want to be creating by observing. (Neutral. I know I am a deliberate creator.)5. I want this relationship because I want sex and intimacy with a man who is a match to my sexual desires.

• And because I don t̀ want.... hmmm, because I don`t want... Well, just because I like it and I want it. Noresistance here. (No surprise.)

Follow up:

I had more statements, but I found exactly what I needed with the above. I had some hidden resistance pushingagainst being alone. I also had much more resistance to my last boyfriend that I realized, especially in the area of

acceptance of who I am. So I got to work with my Abraham processes: I played the appreciation game with beingalone, and actually came to a place of realizing my life would be ok if I never settled down with a mate. I asked theuniverse to show me clear examples of how people loved and accepted me for who I am.

It took me a month or two of not thinking about Wayne to get to a place where I could think about him withoutthe negative emotion. It took me almost a week after I decided that I would write about him in my Book of PositiveAspects before I could actually sit down and do it. I waited until the energy was lined up, and then I did it. A fewdays after that I received an email from the man who is now my current boyfriend. I am very, very happy withwhere I'm vibrating right now in terms of 'perfect relationship with a man'. It's much better than I ever imagined. Ilove this stuff!

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[Note from Connee: Margie married that "current boyfriend" last year!]

Have fun with all of this. And remember,

"When it comes to cookie counters, most of our physical friends correctly apply the process of inclusion, ratherthan exclusion. See all things as a cookie counter where you simply make your choice--and it is done."

Content & Assignment : Pie Charting

This lesson is based on Abraham's comment regarding learning to evaluate your current vibration. Abraham said,

"at any time, the tone you are sending out to the Universe, can be pictured as a pie chart (a graphic showingpercentages) composed of a combination of three emotions: guilt, blame or appreciation." They suggest stopping inany moment, and asking yourself what percentage of your thought on this subject is blame, guilt or appreciation.Then, once you are aware of where you are currently vibrating, your only job is to make appreciation an ever largerpiece of the pie!

Create your pie chart by making a series of statements about your life in general, or about a particular area of yourlife. Classify each statement as blame, guilt or appreciation. For example, if you were talking about your relationship

with your family, you could classify the statement, "I was abused as a child," as blame. You could call, "I know I shouldsee my mother more often," guilt. "I came from the world's greatest family" is obviously appreciation, but so is "Ican see that my parents did an amazing job of treating me better than they were treated as children." The lattermight be the statement of a person who has already worked through a lot of issues on being abused as a child.

I have discovered, in working with my clients and friends, that it is possible to simply look at two categories,statements that feel good vs. statements that feel bad, instead of three. This allows you to avoid trying to separateBlame vs. Guilt, which requires that you spend time examining in detail your negative thoughts. I see this asdesirable, because, by Law of Attraction, time spent focused on the negative creates more negative. The twocategories, Feels Good and Feels Bad, show you clearly what part of your thinking is taking you in the direction youare wanting to go, and what part needs more attention.

Remember, first you identify those statements which make you feel bad, whether the emotion raised is anger, guilt,fear, sadness, blame. Then, your ONLY job is to find a statement on the subject that makes you feel a little better. If

this is a really tough core issue for you, you may not be able to find a statement that immediately feels great. But ifyou work at it, you can always find a statement that feels a little better. And the cumulative effect of manystatements that feel better is a definite rise in your vibration.

The focus wheel is an exercise that Abraham developed that cumulates more general statements on a subject thatmake you feel better into a powerful tool for raising your vibration. Statements that are too specific don't feelgood. So, if you are working on prosperity, and you say something like, "I want an additional $500 by tomorrow," itmight feel bad, because that makes you feel like you need to know how to get it. But if you say, "I can see in my lifethat I have always been supported in every circumstance, no matter how dire," that might make you feel better.(Refer back to the lesson on focus wheels if you arenot clear on how to do one! That was lesson 5.)

Ultimately, working through the pie chart/focus wheel exercise not only teaches you how to uplift your vibration,but it also helps to teach you to listen to your internal guidance system. Learning to notice which thoughts andstatements you make feel good vs. feel bad, is to learn to use the messages from your Inner Being as to which wayto move forward in your life to create all the love, peace, joy, prosperity and health you have ever wanted!

Assignment:

You can pie chart any situation in your life. Here's an assessment tool to help you focus in on where you mightwant to do some work:

HOW'S YOUR LIFE GOING RIGHT NOW?

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Please make at least one statement about each of the following areas of your life today. Feel free to use anadditional sheet of paper to expand on your comments in areas that are important to you.

1. General Mood: (e.g. I feel great most of the time. I've been feeling out of sorts lately. I always feel down in thewinter, etc.)

2. My Health and Fitness: (e.g. I'm in great shape and I love my body. I feel OK most of the time. I have a chronichealth problem, etc.)

3. My Friends: (e.g. I have the most amazing group of friends and I love them all. I feel lonely much of the time. I wishI had a good friend to talk to in my life.)

4. My Job or Career or Life Work (e.g. I adore my job where I feel well rewarded. I'm unemployed. I wish I couldfind something that suits me better.)

5. Money: (e.g. I am independently wealthy. I know God is my Source. There has always been enough for me. I'm in alot of debt.)

6. My Self Esteem: (e.g. My life is divine expression. I'm OK, I guess. I feel like I am never quite enough.)

7. My Family: (e.g. I have the world's most wonderful, loving family. I find it hard to get along with my sister. I haven'tseen any members of my family in 20 years. I have no family.)

8. My Significant Other: (e.g. I am happily married to a wonderful person. I am experiencing some difficulty in myrelationship. I am happily single. I hope I never have another relationship again!)

9. My Creativity: (e.g. I am an artist and I love the playfulness of my art. I find creative outlet in my hobbies. I haven'tfelt creative in a long time.)

10. Other area not covered that is important to you: (e.g. I live to travel. My cat is my closest companion.Sometimes it seems like nothing really matters to me.)

Whether you have chosen something that just came to you, or something from the assessment listing, now just sitdown and free associate. It works well to do it with a friend, so you can say lots of statements that relate to thatsubject, and your friend can write them down and classify them for you as feels good/feels bad. You will need tohelp,. because your friend is not the same vibration as you are, and what feels good and bad to you will be differentthan his/her feelings about your statements. But it may interrupt your flow less than writing and classifying yourself.

Once you have the pie chart done, and can see the statements on each side, feels good/feels bad, then ask yourselfthis important question. "Do I want to live out the results of this percentage pie chart?" I find that a verymotivating question, because if I 've taken the trouble to pie chart something, I usually DON'T want to live with thatnegative vibration.

Then do a focus wheel on that subject, looking for things that feel good. See the lesson on focus wheels (number 5)if you don't know how to do that process.

Content and Assignment: Prosperity Game

Every day when you wake up you fid an envelope under your pillow, or next to your bed, or in some other spotthat you can see and reach easily. When you open the envelope, you find that it contains a deposit slip and a note.The note says -

"Dear {beloved child},

Since we love you so much, we have decided to give you an allowance for the rest of your life. Enclosed is your

today's installment. We have already deposited it in the bank on your behalf. We ask that as you go through your day

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you will look for ideas of ways to use this money that would make your heart sing. When you think of an idea, goahead and write a check for it. We ask that you aim to empty your account by the end of each day - our goal is forthe money to be put to use as a means to facilitate your desires - there is no point in giving it to you if you are justgoing to let it rot in the bank! We do not mind if you miss a few days every once in a while and catch up later (wewill continue to deposit every day anyway), but we prefer that you stay up to date with your spending as much aspossible. As you know, you can count on the amount to increase by $1000 every day. We are looking forward toseeing you having plenty of fun with this.

Your secret admirers."

The reason that you will find this envelope under your pillow every morning is that you will put it there before yougo to sleep... Copy this note or print it out to put in the envelope. Make up a deposit slip and start with $1000, andthan increase the amount every day. You can make up your own checks and use them to spend the money. Themore realistic you make it feel, the better. Whenever you write a check write a short note on the back to remindyou what you were paying for, and what about it made your heart sing.

By the end of a year you will spend $67,000,000. By the end of 5 years you will be able to purchase Bill Gates'house, paying cash for it...

Let the magic flow :)"

Thanks, Ilana, for describing your version of the game so perfectly!

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Abraham has offered us the prosperity game to get us to imagine bigger and become accustomed to flowing lots ofenergy.

Many people on the list have described other tools than the one Ilana used above. Some make up spreadsheets anduse programs to track and write the checks. I have a journal that I put in the day's deposit in the left column, anddescribe how I spend it in the right column. I do not actually write the checks when I play the game, but manypeople do. Abraham says that Esther does!

Abraham has suggested that you do not just give the money away, but rather spend it on yourself and your dreams.

They have noted that if we are here only to give it away, we might as well croak (their deliberately disrespectfulword for death, since there is not death in nonphysical perspective) because we have ceased to flow the energythat allows life.

Several people on the list have described setting up foundations to offer Abraham classes or buy art for the public,acts they feel good about designed to uplift others. This seems to me to be within Abraham's guidelines. But familyof teacher siblings like to break the rules, anyway!!!

Abraham also advises against giving the money away to individuals, except in limited amounts. They have pointedout that, In some cases, giving money away to an individual implies that, although we believe we are connected tothis endless stream of pure positive energy represented by the endlessly increasing deposits, we believe this otherone is not capable, or he does not have access himself. This belief can be disempowering to the other.

Therefore, when I think of buying a sports car for my husband, I can trust that he is taking care of purchasing thatwith his ever increasing daily allotment, and think again about what I want for myself. Except on his birthday, ouranniversary, and other spontaneous occasions where it just brings me great joy to give something special away withlove, and I ignore Abraham's rules myself!

Assignment

Begin spending your $1,000 more per day. If $1,000 the first day, $2,000 the next day, and $3,000 the third day don'tseem enough to get you excited, you may spend the first 15 days' allotment on the first day, to allow the total toget up in bigger numbers quicker.

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Begin asking the Universe to give you information on what would thrill, surprise and delight you that day. Andcollect the delicious data that comes to you! Bask in the game. Play it because it is fun. If it feels hard, put it away fora few days, and come back to it when you have more ideas that make it fun again.

Ultimately, if it is work, it isn't doing you any good. Play it for fun, or set it aside! All is well, either way!

Content & Assignment: Who Am I?

"Imagine your highest dream of who you want to become, and know that your greatest vision falls short of thatwhich the Divine has in store for you."

--from Ariel (quoted by Paula Sirois)

"What I write, say, think and feel today is setting my tone to the Universe to create what my whole li fe is going tolook like tomorrow."

Connee Chandler

Abraham has spoken on several tapes about "telling the Universe who you are." In fact, with each word we say,thought we think, feeling we feel, we are telling the Universe who we are. And the Universe is endlessly responding.

The world you currently live in is the sum total of all the feelings, moods, words and thoughts that you have offeredin your life. Much of it has entered your experience by default. We absorb the mental climate of the culture aroundus, which highlights fear, danger and sensationalism because it sells well in the media. We absorb the feelings of ourfamilies, friends, teachers and mates.

Abraham teaches about deliberate creation. You become a deliberate creator at the point in your life where youare willing to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to you as being a vibrational match to what youare offering to the Universe through your moods.

100% responsibility sounds really scary, because it means giving up the blame that we normally project on other

people when things go wrong. Many people substitute the blame with guilt, continuing to blame, but now blamingthemselves for what they don't like about their lives. It is still the vibration of blame, and things do not improvemuch.

We make the leap to true deliberate creation when we make a choice, even once, to find a thought that feelsbetter. With that thought, and the corresponding feeling, we change our mood. Once the tone we send to theUniverse changes, our experience changes. By Law of Attraction, it has to change.

While we continue to blame, complain, criticize and focus on our pain or anger, we create more like it in our lives.As we make the choice to sometimes turn away from the stuff we don't like, and ponder things we like better, wecreate more of what we like better. The easiest way for most people to ponder things they like better is to findthings to appreciate.

For some people, it is a simple choice. For others, it is very difficult to turn away from familiar patterns, howeverpainful, and make a new decision and a fresh start. For most people, it takes some effort to focus on more pleasantthoughts for at least 17 seconds at a time, but the effort pays off a thousand fold.

Abraham lately has been quickly interrupting people in the workshops who want to offer a litany of problems. Theypoint out, often over and over again, that they are not helping the person by allowing them to vent their negativeemotion, because that is just creating a more extensive negative reality for them to pivot from. Some people simplyare unable to turn away from their negative recitation, and Abraham does not allow them to speak any more, butturns to the next questioner who can speak on what they want rather than what they don't want.

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Catalog Game

David talking about making a list of qualities he wanted in his job, and he compared it to Abe's cookie counteranalogy - I want to choose this one and I want to choose that one. But he realized that the analogy didn't reallywork for him, because someone else picked the ingredients and baked the cookies, and he wants to deliberatelycreate his perfect job.

So he created a new, improved analogy. It is like having a catalog of component parts of the job "system," and likepicking the parts of the computer system you want, you can flip through the pages and pick the parts of the jobsystem you want. Here's the page on job relationships, and here's the part about the feedback you get from yourfellow workers and supervisors and clients, and here's the part about the kind of clients you have, and here's thepart about the kinds of work that you do and how self-directed it all is, and here's the part on what hours youwork, how much vacation you get and how much freedom you have in deciding those hours and vacations, andhere's the section on how much you get paid, and how, and what the additional benefits are.

And like a computer system, you never get it done! If next week somebody has an idea that you like about howyour job system could work better, you can always trade up for a new, improved part or add an additionalperipheral that didn't even exist in your catalog at the time you designed the original system.

And like computers, if you get tired of expanding the current job system, you can always completely give away the

current system, and replace it with a new model that has entirely different basic components that better serve yourcurrent needs.

And at some point, you can switch platforms entirely, and get the flexibility of self-motivated job system where youare the boss, and the energy vortex begins in your location rather than being part of an already establishednetwork!

I love this new idea. You are just building systems from component parts in a catalog, ever interchangeable andupgradable! And you never get it done. There are always new capabilities and dynamic improvements to try out andplay with and master!

And this game would work for new relationships, better health or whatever else you are wanting to create, too!Thanks, David, for a great, flexible, creative game for us to play!

Dear Manager Letters

" Start delegating your requests to the manager in the sky called Law of Attraction. Be the visionary, and then getout of your own way. That's all you need to do."

Abraham -- St. Louis, MO, 7/18/00

The “Dear Manager Letter” stems from Abraham’s discussion of delegating all things to the Manager known as Lawof Attraction. For me, connection to Source feels best personalized, with a feeling of flowing love. Inspired by theexample of several friends, I extended what Abe said above to taking some time many mornings to begin expressingmy appreciation for my Manager on a corner of my morning placemat. (See Class 7, written by Judee Pouncey, formore information on The Placemat Process.) Then it grew beyond the space on my placemat and became a process

of its own.

The expression of appreciation in any way is a great way to get Source energy flowing.

So I alwaysbegin my dear Manager letters with an expression of how wonderful my life is already, and invite the flowing ofmore good things which I know my Manager is already busy arranging for my life.

Over time, using these principles, my life has gotten rather thrilling! So for me, facing a good part of my reality isalready an easy way to get connected. Years ago, this would not have been true for me, and the gratitude part ofmy letters would have been much shorter. It doesn’t matter, any gratitude is a great start! If nothing else, beinggrateful for being alive and starting to know that there is a Manager who brings great things to us in vibrationalharmony to our feeling good is a very good start. That is the beginning of all other grand possibilities!

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with joy. Who glows with the brilliance of the light within her and expresses her great love easily and gently toanyone who is a match who wants to listen and love in return.

Please accept my thanks for all I have already been given, and in advance for all the good that is on its way to menow. Please allow all of this good, or something even better, to flow to my dear mate, to my family members, to myfriends and various community members, to the people of the world and to all the life forms in the galaxy, to theessence

of the Universe expressed powerfully every where. May the energy of my heart ground Heaven on Earth, for meand for others who are a vibrational match to it, today and every day!

Assignment:

Write a dear Manager letter, giving thanks and expressing your appreciation for anything in your life you can find toappreciate. Feel free to make your Manager letter reflect the tone of your own relationship with your Manager,businesslike, familiar, personal, logical, caring, distant, free. Whatever feels best to you is the perfect way to do it!

As you finish appreciating, invite your Manager to bring you whatever it is you want in your life . Be as specific or asgeneral as you like. Abraham says that it is easiest to be pure in more general statements, like the ones I made inmy letter, but if you can be pure and specific at the same time, more energy flows to fulfill the request. Be as

specific as you can and still feel good.

It is the feeling that counts!

If you are part of the [email protected] mailing list, feel free to post your Manager letter to the list. The collective energy of hundreds of others reading your letter will give you a boost of energy. Otherwise, knowthat even if no one else ever reads your letter, The Universe does!

The Emotional Meter & The Set Point Process

Emotional Set Point

You are here because you are wanting to really be Deliberate Creators. And we want you to know that aDeliberate Creator is really a deliberate feeler. A Deliberate Creator is one who says, "I want so much to feel

good, because when I feel good, I'm in alignment with that which is my Source." A Deliberate Creator does notdemand that circumstances change so that you can have a better-feeling response to the circumstances. ADeliberate Creator says, "I will choose--from what seems to be available--the very best-feeling thought, past,present or future, that I can find, and I will fixate on it until it becomes the reason for my vibrational offering. And Iknow that Law of Attraction will then accumulate around that vibrational offering. And then, I will reach for thebetter thought and the better thought, and the better thought." And what you will discover is that there is always abetter thought.

There is always an even-happier thought than the happy thought you're thinking now. There is always even a betterfeeling--your capacity to achieve a better feeling is unlimited.

For years, Abraham taught us to “Follow Our Bliss.” They recognized that many folks who come to Abraham areteachers, who may encounter folks experiencing intense negative emotion, who do not have vibrational access tobliss. The reason for this is that Law of Attraction has great momentum in the face of significant negative emotion,

and the possibilities of thoughts available are only in the “less terrible” range rather than the really delicious range.

So, what steps are best to take if you are feeling like you are in the black hole of despair? Abraham says that thebest first step is anger! Not to stay there, but to give you a lift up and an energy boost that can help you thenreach for the next step which is frustration and then the next which might be irritation, and then overwhelmand then neutrality and then hopefulness and then optimism...

So, here's an example.

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Anger - I'm furious at my father for being such a damning influence when I was a child, laughing at me and criticisingme. All little kids make mistakes, it is part of learning. Good parents encourage their children to keep trying,confident that they will succeed in the end. My Father was a bad father!

Frustration - Well, he may have been a terrible father, but I guess he did the best he knew how. His father probablytreated him the same way, maybe worse. So, maybe it isn't his fault that I feel that way if he couldn't have done anybetter. But I am SO FRUSTRATED! I hate feeling this way about myself. I know intuitively I am a good person, and

these old tapes in my head keep taking me down and down and down!

Irritation - Well, I know from Abraham that I can find thoughts that feel better. But it is so darned irritating to haveto work hard to feel good. I bet other people feel good without working so hard at it. I wish it were easier for meto feel good.

Overwhelm - I guess I could do the work to find thoughts that feel better, that Abraham says is my real work. But Ihave so many negative thoughts and it just feels totally too much to try to pick them apart one by one to rethinkthis and that and the other things...

Neutrality - Well, I guess if Abraham says it is my real work, I could trust enough to try it. After all, I am notenjoying what is happening now, so maybe if I tried something different I'd get a different result. I could do it as ascientific experiment...

Hopefulness - What if I experimented with more positive thoughts and experienced more positive feelings and Istarted feeling better more of the time? Abraham says that if I did that, more good things would flow into my life,which would give me more reasons to feel good. And then, by Law of Attraction I'd actually have access to evenmore posistive thoughts, and I might actually start enjoying my life and having fun.

Optimism - Well that thought actually felt good. I like the idea that my life is going to include more fun. I am evenstarting to get the feeling of having fun in doing this process. I guess this Abraham stuff isn't so bad after all. Infact, it feels like it is starting to work in my life. If I continue to do it, my life will get better. I am starting to beaware that good things are flowing to me, right in this moment. I feel better. I can see that there are things aroundme already to appreciate - look at that beautiful flowering tree - that lovely sunset - that exquisite bridgeconstruction. Life is good!

Your statements for these states of feeling will be different than what I have written here. But if you reach for the

feeling of relief, and trust that at each stage there will be a better feeling thought just a few minutes of trying away,you will be able to move in just a little while to a slightly better feeling to a bit better feeling to a smidge betterfeeling to a little easier feeling to an almost good feeling to a rather pleasant feeling to a slightly joyful feeling to avery yummy feeling, indeed!

When I wrote the above message to the Abraham list, Amy responded:

Thank you Connee for writing this...helps me get clear on my setpoint. So Neutrality would be the next step?Kinda taking the "wind" out of it like a "scientific experiment"...I like it. Very soothing...this am I was in thatoverwhelmed feeling place that I have "so much to work on".....and the thought that, well, maybe it's not as muchas I think, and maybe I could just as a "scientific experiment," stop "working" on myself for a minute...sheesh. hmm,that didn't feel as good as I thought it would. I think I'll just put all this stuff I want to change in a little basket for alittle while, and when the time is right , I can trust that it will be time to do the work. For today, I am pretty surethe best thing I can do is enjoy the beautiful spring weather and acknowledge that there is farfarfar more well-beingthan not, which is so easy to do on a day like today in appreciation.

And then I wrote back to her…

For you, the most practiced next gentle step is appreciation! Every person will find a different thought that feelsbetter. For some folks, the scientific approach is practiced and easy. For others, finding something to praise or begrateful for will be easier. Each of us is delightfully different! You really made the point so powerfully here. Thankyou!!!

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Assignment: The Set Point Exercise (Directly from Abraham!)

All anybody has to do is say, "Where am I and where do I want to be?" on any subject.

As you are moving through your day, try this exercise. When you find yourself feeling negative emotion or physicalsensation, which is just an exaggeration of resistance in your body, go to a piece of paper, or you can write it inyour computer, but write it. And write: Subject: and then write what you think this subject is, just a very brief

description.

And then write:

Current Set Point:

And then think around the subject and it won't be hard becauseyou're already thinking around it, that's why you are having the emotion. Think around the subject and just eventalk out loud or write it is even better.

Write what's rolling through your mind on the subject that has produced the emotion. And as you write eachstatement, ask yourself as the statements come, "What's the emotion that describes this?" And you'll find yourselfwhere you are on the vibrational meter, finding words that are all similar, that mean sort of the same thing. Andthen say, My Current Emotional Set Point is:. And then write whatever it is.

Then write: My Emotional Goal. Not My Physical Body Improvement Goal, write My Emotional Goal:.

Now, of course, the optimum emotional goal would be ecstasy or passion or enthusiasm. But don't ask for anemotional goal that's very far from where you are. Ask for an emotional goal that is not so far from where youare. And then keep writing, trying to find sentences and statements and memories that give you that improvedfeeling.

And when the feeling is improved, now write:

Current emotional set point: and put the new statementthere. And then, if you have time, continue the process and you will be amazed how, in this writing process, in thisfocus on how I feel, and focus upon what thoughts are producing the feelings setting, you are sitting in, you canmove up this emotional scale fast. And every day you do it, you will feel less stiff. It is our promise to you.

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