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This is the Science of Deliberate Creation, and this Abraham-Hicks dialog was recorded at Boca
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Good feels good and bad feels bad.
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Good morning. We are extremely pleased that you are here. It is good to come together
for the purpose of co-creating, do you agree? You are knowing what you are wanting? Everchanging? Evolving? Clarifying? Specifying?
You know the feeling of focusing Energy? You know the feeling of taking the creative
stuff and focusing it through your Consciousness for the purpose of taking thought beyond that
which it has been before, but even more importantly, for the purpose of satisfying your creative
desire?
Do you know that through your determining of an idea, and that as you peruse a subject
and contemplate it, evaluate it and devour it in the way you would an interesting book, that as
you are considering and determining and concluding and not liking and liking and clarifying and
yearning and hoping and deciding, and determining, that you are focusing Energyand that this
is what the creative endeavor is?
Do you realize the power of your focus? Do you know that you are living in a Vibrational
Universe, and that everything is vibrational, and that when you focus upon it, you include it,
whatever it is, in your vibration? And it is through the literal synthesizing of thoughts and
feelings that you mold Energy, you create?
Do you realize that all of your power to create is here and now? No matter whether you
are focused about the here and now, or whether you are contemplating the future, or
remembering the past, all of that is happening here and now. And that as you are doing it, you
are achieving feeling responses to whatever it is you are focused upon.
So, if you are remembering something that is delightful, if you are observing something
in your now that is delightful, if you are imagining something that is delightfulit is serving you
in your now.

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But if you are remembering something that makes you uneasy or aggravated or irritated
or angry, or fearful, it serves you not in your now. As you observe something, and it does not
please you, it serves you not in your now. And as you contemplate negatively, as you anticipate
things not wantedit does not serve you in your now.
Youre a focuser of Energy. You have come forth into this physical environment as one
who is an extension of Source Energy. And what you do with Source Energy is important to you.
What we mean by that is, since you can never disconnect yourself from Source Energy,
its always flowing to you and through you, you can put yourself in a vibrational capacity where
it serves you as it flows, or you can put yourself in a vibrational place where it does not serve
you. Thats up to you; you get to choose all of that.
We call this gathering the Art of Allowing, because when you are allowing the Energy to
flow, you are allowing Source Energy to flow. When you are not allowing Source Energy to
flow, you are not allowing Source Energy to flow. We may overuse the word allow here, if that
is possible. And the reason that we are deliberately overusing the word allow, is because this is
the emphasis that, if we were standing in your physical shoes, we would apply deliberately on a
daily, moment-to-moment basis.
What am I doing right now in terms of my Source Energy? Am I allowing it or not? Am I
lettin it in or not? And you can tell by your emotional indicator whether you are pinching it off
to some degree, because of something, some thought that you are focused upon that is not
compatible with the Energy itself.
When you focus in your past, present or future, on a subject that is vibrationally
compatible with your Source Energy, you feel wonderful. Thats what positive emotion is. When
you feel love or appreciation or exhilaration, or passion, those feelings mean, right now,
wherever youre focused and whatever it is you are focused upon, the vibration within you is in
alignment. There is not resistance but instead there is open allowing. You are being all that you
can be. Youre allowing the fullness of who-you-are to flow right here and now. Doesnt matter
the subject. Doesnt matter anybody elses opinion about it. It only matters the alignment of
Energy that is within you.
Nobody else can align Energy within you. Because the alignment or the misalignment,
the allowing or the not allowing, the allowing of what? Source Energy and who-you-really-are.
The allowing, or the not allowing of it, is only about the harmony of the beliefs and desires
within you. It is only about the harmony of the thoughts within you.
So, when something in your environment causes you to conclude a desire, ah, that is the
most natural thing in the world. In fact, it is so natural and so wonderful, it is exactly what you
said you most wanted when you made the decision to focus your Consciousness into this
magnificent body. You said, What an amazing place, this time/space reality on planet earth,
where there is so much variety that will help me to hone or conclude or determine my desires.
The whole Universe has been established to help you out, here on the leading edge of
thought, determine these desires. So give up on trying to release desires. Desires happen. It is the
natural process of where we have all come to. Desire is the natural evolution of where you stand.
So as a desire is determined within you, theres only one thing for you to be aware of. And that
is, is the rest of my Energy in alignment with this desire, or have I concluded a desire here that is
not quite in harmony with the beliefs Ive been holding?
For example, you may have a very clear intention to be productive and effective in your
life. And part of that means that you have to be places at certain times. And you have a vehicle
that is not all that reliable. Its let you down from time to time, caused you some feelings of
embarrassment. And out of this life-giving, sometimes wanted, sometimes not wanted,
experience, youve come to a clear desire that you want a reliable automobile.
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As youve been moving through your time/space reality, you see television commercials
that sharpen your desire. Your friend just got a new car that sharpened your desire. And through
your exposure to fabrics and colors and the sound of engines and the appearance of bright shiny
things, you have, little by little, really over all the days of your life, come to a rather clear
determination of what you would like relative to this vehicle.
And what you have come to, although it embarrasses you to tell anyone, is a really
beautiful perfectly running, very expensive vehicle. You want it. But you were taught, when you
were little, that wanting things you cant afford is ill-advised. Let us rephrase that. You were
taught, when you were little, that wanting things your parents could not afford was ill-advised.
You were encouraged to hold back on your desires, because when you want something, and your
parent sees him or herself as the avenue through which all of your desires flow, and you are
wanting beyond their ability to believe, they feel uncomfortable, and they pass it on to you.
Theyre not really sure whether theyre right or not, so they look for outside support.
Church was a good place to go. Because the church said, Things like that are greedy in nature,
and greed is not a good thing. Now there was a lot of good information that came to you, or that
could have come to you under those circumstances, but most of you walked away with an
imbalanced understanding of all of that.
Because instead of coming away with it saying, Well, my desire is good, and the
Universe will yield to me whatever my desire is, in perfect timing, and I have the ability to align
my desire and my beliefs, and it will unfold in a way that is wonderful for all. If you could have
come out of it feeling like that, then, today, you would be in a place where you would conclude a
desire, you would line up Energy, the Universe would yield it, you would have fun in the
process.
But when your parents believed that they were the only vortex through which good could
flow to you, and you believed that your parents were the only vortex through which good could
come to you, then all kinds of compensation took place that gave you a skewed picture of the
way Law of Attraction responds to you.
Many of you sit here before us, today, not understanding the Law of Attraction, even
though it is around you all the time, and it is utterly consistent, which makes it easy to
understand it, once you understand how it works and you begin to watch the evidence around
you. You have picked up so many of what we see as utterly illogical beliefs, and you carry them
around with you. And then you try to make those illogical beliefs fit into the framework of where
you stand, moment by moment.
We are wanting to assist you in releasing those illogical beliefs, by looking to the logic of
Law of Attraction and letting it prove out in your own life experience. When you look out into
the experiences of others, and you try to make sense of what theyre living, from your
framework, you are extraordinarily handicapped, because you do not have access to their
vibrational meter. You cant feel whether they are in alignment or not.
So, as you look at the experiences of others, and you try to figure out how its working
for them, by the handful of flimsy beliefs that have been given to you by parents or by churches
or by governmentor by anyone who seeks to control you in order to help their experience be
betteryou come out of all of that confused about how it works.
We are here to tell you, simply and purely, how it works: Law of Attraction is the order of
this day. It always has been and it always will be. What Law of Attraction says is, This is a
vibrationally-based Universe. Everything vibrates, and Law of Attraction sorts it all out. In the
same way that when you turn on your radio youre going to receive the signal that your radio is
tuned to, Law of Attraction sorts out those matching vibrational frequencies and gives everybody
exactly what theyre tuned to.
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The thing that is confusing is that you are tuned into lots of different things. And most of
you are not aware of what youre tuned into until it manifests, and then you want to give
somebody else the credit for it coming to you, when it is only about your tuning. Its only about
where youve got your dial set. And the easiest way to understand where youve got your dial set,
is by paying attention to the way you feel. Because the way you feel lets you know everything
about your vibrational frequency. We are going to give it to you in the most precise way that you
will ever need to know: Good means good. Bad means bad. If it feels good to you, youre in
alignment with something you desire. If it feels bad to you, you are not. Dont let anybody elses
determination of what is good or bad mess up your ability to know whats good and bad.
If your house is on fire and the firemen come, and take their hoses and they spray the
water into your house and extinguish the fire, everyone says, Good job firemen. Let it be known
that the firemen who came and broke out your windows and sprayed the water into your house
are forevermore known as heroes. But if they come on a day when there is no fire, and they
break out your windows and they spray water in your house, you say, It must still be good,
because it is written that that action is good.
Well, that one was easy, because its easy for you to say, Fire, firemen good. No fire,
firemen not good. And yet you dig up histories of people whove lived long ago, where major
pieces of the information is left out, and you still come to the conclusion, Firemen good under
all conditions.
We are appealing to your logic. Were wanting you to use the guidance that comes forth
from within you to determine the appropriateness or inappropriateness of any thought, word or
deedin your now. Not because there is an outside arbitrator whos getting his feelings hurt if
you go astray, but because, in this moment, you may be pinching yourself off from the Life
Force that is so much what you want, so natural unto you, and so much what you deserve.
For some time weve called this gathering the Art, or the Law, makes it even sound more
significant, of Deliberate Creation. The Law is Law of Attraction. Deliberate Creation is the
application of thought. Deliberate Creation is deliberately choosing thought, understanding that
Law of Attraction is coordinating everything, like a significant manager.
We are calling this gathering the Art of Allowing, because we are wanting you to put your
emphasis upon whether, in this moment, you are letting it in or not. If you think in terms of your
connection to Source, first, your life will align with significance beyond our ability to find words
to express. If you will let the thing that is most important to you be your alignment to who-youareyour alignment to Sourcethen every desire that is born out of this magnificent contrasting
experience will flow easily unto you.
Many of you are standing in a place different than the one you really would like.
Sometimes you have physical conditions that you would like to release. Sometimes there are
things not in your life that you would like to draw into your life. Sometimes your life is feeling
very good, but you are wanting more of that which feels very good. And the Art of Allowing is
your key to living happily ever after.
Now, when we say, Happily ever after, were only talking about happily ever after
here in this physical body, because happily really ever after is a sure thing. You cannot help but
really live really happily, really ever, really after, because you are Eternal Beings. And you are
destined to joyous experience.
Sometimes you are not living happily ever after, here and now. And the only reason that
any of you is not living happily ever after, in the here and now, is because you are holding
incompatible vibrations within you. Incompatible vibrations that have been given to you by
others, and by your own exposure to life conditions and experience, erroneous conclusions that
do not measure up to Law of Attraction as we know it to be.
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It is our expectation that we will help you not only release some of those beliefs that are
hindering in nature, but we will give you the keys to sifting through your day to day experience.
Because it is an ongoing process, you will do it all of the days of your life, to make certain that,
in any moment in time, you are in alignment with your Source Energy.
You know that youre in alignment with Source Energy when you feel good. So lets say
youre remembering something, something about your behavior from past experience. Maybe it
happened yesterday. Maybe it happened when you were 16. And as you remember it, you feel
uneasy. You feel guilty. You feel uncomfortable as you think about this.
Now many would say to you, Well, that means you are guilty. That guilty feeling is
because you did something really, really bad. And that guilty feeling is what it feels like when
youve done something really, really bad. And we say, that guilty feeling doesnt mean youve
done something really, really bad. It may mean you think youve done something that is really,
really bad. But what it really means is, right here and now you are choosing a thought, an
approach to a thought, that is not consistent with your Source Energy. Your Source Energy is
adoring you, and, in this moment, you are choosing not to. You are choosing to remember
something that someone else said. You are concluding that you are inappropriate, while your
Inner Being concludes that you are appropriate.
Now, some feel uneasy as they hear us express this, because they believe that the only
way that the society can ever be contained, to not be outrageous foolish victimizers, is by holding
them down with restraints or laws or worrisome things like promises of punishment after death.
And we say, any individual or a society who is, in this moment, allowing Source Energy to flow
is not something that you need fearbut something that you would all revere.
You put yourselves in an impossible situation, because you live in an environment where
there are lots of different approaches to life. And then you wrestle one another to the ground,
eternally, as you are warring over whose beliefs are really the right ones. As if there could ever
be one set of beliefs that is right in all cases.
Were the firemen right or wrong to put out that fire? Were the firemen right or wrong to
break out those windows? And if they were right under that condition, then are they right under
all conditions? Of course not. The condition has a lot to do with it, doesnt it? You must be
allowed to make your determination, in the moment. You must be allowed. And you are.
You are Eternal Beings, who are eternally moving forward. You cannot get it done, and
you cannot get it wrong. Because every place that you stand is a new place of conclusion.
So lets say something happened when you were 16, or something happened yesterday.
And you are uncomfortable about it having happened. Now your work, today, is to bring yourself
to a place of comfort. So we ask you, do you think that place of comfort will come to you by
further condemnation? Do you think the place of comfort would come to you by going back and
reliving it? Or is it possible to go back and relive the fact over again? You cant go back and
relive it. And it has nothing to do with your now.
The only thing that has anything to do with your now, is, are you lettin it in? Are you
letting in your Inner Being who adores you? Are you allowing God Force or Creative Life Force,
or whatever it is youre wanting to call it, flow through you here and now? Or are you using
some flimsy excuse of something that happened when you were 16, or something that happened
last week, as your excuse to not let in who-you-really-are?
We are wanting so much for you to accept yourselves as the eternally evolving blessed
Beings that you are, who have only one question to ask, and that is, Here and now, am I lettin it
in? Never mind what happened back then. I cant go back there and let it in. I can remember not
letting it in, or I can remember letting it in, but here and now, the question is, am I lettin it in or
not?
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When you let in who-you-really-are, you feel so very good. When you look at yourself
and you say, These are positive aspects of me, you feel wonderful (when you mean it). When
you look at your mother or at your sister or at your mate or at a friend, or at an enemy, and you
look for positive aspects, you feel good. Because when you choose a positive aspect, you choose
a point of view that is consistent with the God within you.
When you say, He makes me so angry, I could just kill him! you are choosing a point
of view that is not consistent with who-you-really-are. And its not ever going to serve you, no
matter how much he deserves your wrath. He might really be a rascal, and he might really have
disappointed you, and he might really have done something that, by most standards, is
considered to be wrong, really wrong. He might have broken out the windows on a day that there
was no fire, and sprayed water all over the house. He might have done that. He might be wrong
by most standards. But our question to you is, why would you use him as your reason to not let
something so important in, here and now?
Youre not ever going to get them all lined up. Thats the approach that so many physical
Beings take. They think, If I can just get everybody behaving well, or being happy, then, once
and for all, I can be. But as long as theyre not happy, or as long as somethings not going well
with them, then I cannot. And we say, you cant help them unless you stay Connected. If youre
not Connected, you dont feel good and you have nothing to give them.
So who does it serve by joining the ranks of the condemning? It serves nothing. All it does
is spread the disconnection. Disconnection and resistance are not letting it in. Allowing love,
appreciation, looking for positive aspects does.
So again, lets recap. Good feeling, means, good. Bad feeling, means, bad. So when I
think about my past, what is my mood? Do I feel embarrassed or guilty about my past? Oh
yeah, I was a rebel, I was a rascal, I gave my parents grief, I broke all the laws, all of the church
laws anyway. I was bad. How does that feel?
And from your new understanding, is that choice serving you now or not? But Abraham,
its a fact. Its the unchangeable fact. I crossed the line I shouldnt have crossed, and I can never
go back and uncross it. So I must hold my guilt forevermore. And we say, why? Why would
you use something that happened yesterday, or a long time ago, as your reason for not allowing
the Energy to flow?
Weve been talking about the power of bridging beliefs: Looking into my experience and
finding something that allows the Energy to flow, now, relative to something that, maybe, I have
not been allowing Energy to flow.
As you move through your day-to-day experience, you cannot help but absorb
philosophies and attitudes that surround you. And its a very confusing thing, because the greater
your sphere of influencethe more contradictory information comes to you.
When youre little, if your parents are in absolute agreement, you have a sort of sense of
stability. And as long as you do what they want, provided that theyre consistent in what they ask
you, then you have some measurement that you can measure your life against. But if your
parents were in disagreement, and one of them said one thing, and another one said another, and
one of them took you aside and said, Well, dont worry about that, well work it out between
us, then you began to get a little confused early on. And when you went to school and your
teachers had different philosophies than your parents, and then, when you got that boyfriend who
really had different philosophies than your parents, you began to feel like you did not know what
to believe.
Most of you have bounced around like corks on a raging sea trying to find your place.
When all along, the place has been within you: Good feels good. Bad feels bad.

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Good for who? Good for you. Bad for who? Bad for you. In other words, when you
allow Source Energy to flow through you, you thrive. When you pinch it off, you thrive to lesser
degrees. What is a desire? A desire is a natural product of living in a diverse environment.
Desires are born naturally within you. And when the desire is born, the desire is the promise of
the future. The desire is the summoning of life.
Although many of you do not understand what youre saying when you say it, you say,
Ask and it is given. Well, the asking is occurring through the desire that is born within you.
When contrast helps you to conclude a new decision or determination, or desire, that desire is a
vibrational summoning of Energy. Your cells are summoning all the time; thats what makes the
doctors pronounce you alive. And if your cells cease to summon, that would be what would
cause the doctors to pronounce you dead, although there is not dead. But they would mean there
is no more Life Force being summoned through this body. So the cells of your body are
continually summoning.
When you conclude a desire, you are summoning. And so, the desire is the asking. The
Life Force, that comes in response to the desire, is the answering to that asking. You cannot help
but desire. Life Force will always be pulled through you, as long as youre focused here in this
physical body.
What am I doing with my vibrational countenance, in the moment of desire summoning
through me? Am I allowing the Life Force to flow through me in a non-resisted way, or am I
pinching it off? And we say, you can tell by the way you feel: If you feel good, it means youre
allowing it. If you feel not so good, it means, to the degree that you do not feel good, youre not
allowing it. Severe depression means, really not letting it flow. While passion means really
letting it flow.
Whether you feel passion or strong rage, both of those emotions mean theres strong,
strong, strong summoning of desire. Theres a strongly focused desire within you. If it feels
good, youre letting it flow. But if it feels bad, you are not.
So now, we think you understand, as clearly as anyone on the planet, what the Art of
Allowing really is. And it is our promise to you, that when you make a decision, that youre
going to practice allowing the Energy to flow. Then, what youre saying is, Ive decided to
allow myself to be who-I-really-am. Ive decided to consciously be, in this physical body, the
extension of Source Energy.
We speak to you about your physical Beings. We say, here you are, physical Beings,
physical human Beings. And then we say, theres another part of you, the Nonphysical Inner
Being. And as we speak about the physical you and the Nonphysical you, it makes you feel
separated, when what we want to do is make you feel one. We want you to understand that you
are so much more than this physical body. And we want you to seek the alignment with that
other part of you. And that other part of you is an unconditional lover. That other part of you
adores you, no matter what rule you think youve broken. That other part of you, that God Force
within you, adores that which you are. And the sooner you get to that self-adoration, the sooner
that you will break all of that loose and allow the Energy that is really you to flow.
When we say you sit here, or you stand here, in these physical bodies and You are
extensions of Source Energy, oh, those words are so sublime to usbecause it means so much.
You have come forth into these physical bodies as leading edge creators. Do you understand the
power and the importance of your place? Youre not here broken, groveling, trying to earn your
way back into the grace of something that is complete and finished. You are the leading edge
extensions of that. You are GOD, embodied in physical bodies, taking thought beyond that which
it has been before.

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But if you are not letting the Source Energy, that you are, flow to you and through you,
then you cannot begin to do what youve come here to do. So you say, Oh good, now were
getting to it. Why am I here? What did I come here to do? And we say, you came here to have
exposure to more joyful experience. And you say, For what? And we say, for exposure to more
joyful experience. And you say, Yes, but for what? Im willing to pay any price I need to for
that joy.
And we say, the only price you can pay for joy is joy. You cannot suffer for joy. Well,
maybe Im not here for joy. Arent I here for growth? You cannot stop the growth. You cannot
cease the expansion of the Universe. You cannot stop doing your part in that expansion, because
you are Consciousness, focused. And as you focus upon the variety, new desires are concluded
within you, and Life Force is summoned forward, and so, if Life Force is summoned forward and
you are fulfilling your reason for being.
Then, if your objective is joy, it all comes together in the way that youve intended.
Hmm, joy. The purpose of my life is joy? Im here just to pleasure myself? No good can come
from that, surely. Isnt that about greed and selfishness and all of those things that Ive been
encouraged not to be? And we ask, who encouraged you? Other greedy, selfish people? Dont
serve your desires, serve mine, they say.
A nice thing about Laws, Universal Laws, is that they are always consistent. And if
expansion of the Universe is a good thing, then your expansion is, too. And if God is good, then
you, as an extension of that, must be, too.
Jerry and Esther stopped at a rest stop on their drive yesterday, and a bright happy group
of young men were standing around, visiting with an older man who was riding a motorcycle.
And they were happily engaged and caught both Jerry and Esthers attention. And when Esther
came back to get in the car, Jerry had already been talking to them. And he said,Esther come
and read this fellows t-shirt. And Esther could see, by the twinkle in Jerrys eyes, that she was
going to like it.
And she read, Its all good. And Esther said, It is all good, isnt it? Isnt it all good, in
the sense that the variety gives us the ability to desire, and the desire is the asking, which
summons the Life Forceand the Life Force comes in the answer. And there is no shortage of
the Life Force that flows. And when we, as physical Beings, Esther said, come to the place of
coming to our own conclusions and allowing the Energy to flowand letting everybody else
come to their conclusions and allowing the Energy to flowthen we continue to expand. And all
really is well.
Weve enjoyed this interaction immensely. Now that you know everything that we
know We are eager to talk with you about anything that is important to you. You will notice a
delicious unfolding here. Some of the early discussions will lay a basis for that which will come
next. Everything that you are about, weve received fully even before your physical bodies got
here. Your decision to come here has been inspired within you, because you have come to
contribute, vibrationally, through your asking in a very specific way to this specific gathering.
It truly is co-creating at its best. If you raise your hand and you are not called on, worry
not. The focusing of your desire is heard by us, and we will address you many, many, many
times. There is nothing within you that will be left unsatisfied. Sometimes, youll hear it clearly
here and now. Sometimes, you wont. Sometimes, the question that you are asking is hard for
you to hear when you sit in this chair. So someone else will ask your most important question,
itll be easier for you to hear it. The one sitting in the chair will have to wait til they get the tape.
Begin wherever you are wanting.

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The meaning of her severely retarded child?

Q
One of my children, my kids are adult children, but one of them is severely retarded. And
he lives in a group home, the best home hes ever been in, thats a gift. But I dont understand
what thats all about.
A
Well, its about his attempt to assist you and others to leave behind your pigeonholing,
even labeling. In other words, who gets to decide whos in the better place? Many would say,
Well, we have standards and he doesnt measure up to the standards, therefore well give him
the label of retardation. What does retardation literally mean? Not up to speed. Not developed
in the standard way.
As youve been listening to us here this morning, and you have been, you heard every
word we offered, you can hear our desire to assist physical Beings of coming to the place of
allowing variety without condemnation of difference. But humanity, physical humanity, has a
hard time. Humanitythe dogs dont do it, the cats dont do it, its the human who does it, who
wants to hold standards and condemn that which doesnt meet the standards.
But every now and again, a Nonphysical Energy comes forth from this powerful Family
of Teachers who says, I will do it differently. I will be different enough that I will not be
pigeonholed. I will have a different approach.
Q

You think my son consciously decided this experience?

A
We think that from Nonphysical Perspective he said something like, The way theyre all
doing it is not working for most of them. So I think Ill go forth with different desires, which
show up as abilities, which make it impossible for me to be standardized.
Q

So, he is the teacher.

Oh yes. Youve known that for a long time.

He seems, to me to, suffer.

A
Well, thats because of the powerful determination of so many around him to standardize
him, to give him the label, and to deem him insufficient. When you know that youre sufficient
and someone says, You are insufficient, you just know that they dont know. But over time,
sometimes, they can convince you that you are inappropriate. And thats only when the suffering
begins. And so, it would be very easy for you to guide him back into his alignment, as you know
he is not insufficient. And you express it to him through your thoughts, as much as through your
words.
So as you, in your now, focus upon your son, and you find him lacking, lacking in the joy
that you would like him to live, or lacking in physical attributes, in other words, you see him
different than you would like him to be, or different than even you think he would like to be, and
you feel pain within you as you hold that focus
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That pain is your indicator that youre choosing a thought that your Inner Being cannot,
would not, does not choose. So as you reach around, still focused upon your son, for thoughts
about your son that feel good to you as you focus, now, what happens is youre holding your son
as your object of attention while you are aligned with Source Energy. And when you do that, you
radiate his Energy field with Source Energy, and he is soothed by it.
So, in your pure appreciation of who he is... just now when you said so my son is the
teacher, you were lined right up. If you look at the facilitators of the home and you say theyre
wrong, now youre not lined up. If you say, I wish theyd do it differently, now youre not
lined up. As you say, Theyre doing the best that they know how to do, and what theyre doing
is enough, youre lined up. Its not just the saying of it; its the saying of it and the meaning of
it. Sometimes you have to say it quite a bit before you really mean it.
But what youre wanting to do is to synthesize the vibration within you by reaching for
thoughts that feel good. Well play with you here, a little bit. So well offer a stream of thoughts,
and you just feel with us how they feel and what they do to the alignment of Energy within you.
My son didnt turn out the way he wanted to, or the way I wanted him to. Oh, awful thought,
isnt it? And we know you dont allow yourself to go there very often, but it comes up from time
to time in your thoughts.
What went wrong? Horrible thought, isnt it? Did I do something wrong? Did he do
something wrong? Did we do something wrong? What should we have done differently? Yuk,
yuk, yuk, yuk. Those all feel terrible, dont they?
He is Source Energy, we all are. He knew what he was doing as he came forth into this
physical body. He came with reason. His choices must be allowed by me. Ive seen him joyful.
Hes like all of us, he has the ability to let it flow or not. Hes different than most of us in that he
has a greater capacity to let it flow. Hes closer to what Abraham is teaching than almost
anybody that I know. Hes closer to being connected to Source Energy than almost anybody that
I know. Hes here to teach allowing. Hes here to teach allowing, you see.
Now, whats the closest to teaching allowing? Here I am, Im not the same as you, and
Im okay with me. Or, here I am, Im not the same as you, Im horrified at that which I am.
You can feel which allows and which does not allow. Which feels better?
We are all different. Some of us choose greater difference because we want to make a
bigger point. Let us put it to you this way. We know your son and we know who--e is from
Source Perspective. And he would not do it differently, if he could rewind it all, and do it again.
That must tell you a lot. And theres no reason for you to feel guilty, because you would do it
differently if you could. Because it wasnt your choice. It was his choice. You dont get to
choose for him. You get to choose the way you feel about anything you give your attention to,
but you dont get to choose for him. He chooses for him. And he chose extremely well. Enough
for now? Youll hear more as we are moving forward.
Sometimes a dialog like that will leave some feeling a little unsettled, because they will
say, Well, theres not enough suffering in my life, so maybe no good will come from it. And
we say, dont miss the point. He didnt come forth to suffer. He came forth to have a different
experience. Some will saysome feel a little fearful, Well, oh, I hope I dont attract a really
strong teacher. Please, dont let me be the mother of a really strong teacher thats coming forth to
help us all be more allowing. Id just as soon not have to be allowing.
Does abortion process snuff out Life Force?
Q

Abraham, you have said in the past that the Life Force comes in at first breath.

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Usually.

Is that the Soul coming in then at first breath?

A
Well, the name is tricky, because physical Beings have assigned these names. And what
is Soul anyway? What do you mean by Soul?
Q

The Inner Being.

A
The reason that we are probing a little bit here, because Soul when we hear a physical
friend express the word Soul, they are usually assigning a clump of Nonphysical Energy to a
physical body. They say, When did the Soul get in? Like its a battery pack. When were the
batteries installed in this physical human?
And we say, its not a battery pack. Its more like this; its more connected to something
else. Its a connection where the stream flows. Stay here for just a minute, because youre onto
something. So the cells, you heard us say earlier, the cells of your body are asking. So the cells
are asking for Life Force, and even before the body is born free of the womb of its mother, its
cells are asking, and it is receiving through the Energy Stream. And so, what youre talking
about, in terms of when does the Soul enter the body, we believe, is when does this human form
of flesh, blood and bone consciously focus, and apart from its mother, then begin summoning the
Nonphysical Energy?
And we would say, that is usually at first breath. Although there are some eager energies
that are a fuller part of the fetus experience even before birth. What brings forth your question?
Q
Im asking this relative to abortion, because Im a counselor, and sometimes I have young
girls who are pregnant, and are very guilt-oriented about having the abortion, thinking that they
have destroyed the Soul. And so Im trying to
A
Well, that comes from believing that there is a clump thats been assigned. So heres this
clump thats been assigned to that clump of flesh, and that clump of flesh did not materialize into
a body, so heres this Energy sitting here with no place to go. And we say, there is a real
distortion about all of that. Thats why were wanting you to think in terms of the Stream of
Consciousness. Bring us back around to where we are.
Q
Okay, so we were still discussing the Soul coming in at first breath, for those young girls
out there that are seeking an abortion, and are living with the guilt of murdering the tiny little
baby. And perhaps, that knowledge could be given to them that the Soul yet has not come in.
They could live with their decision, making a little bit easier.
A
See the thing thats interesting about this is that there are large groups of people who
have already concluded that that is murdering this Soul. And so, they are doing everything in
their power to bring these young girls to the place of feeling guilty, so that they can, through the
power of the guilt, control the behavior, so that they can get the outcome that they believe is
more appropriate.
And thats why we wanted to chew here just a little bit, because there are so many who
believe that they have come to the correct outcome. And then they are using whatever means
they can in order to get others to come to the same outcome. And the reason that we began this
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morning by talking about the firemen, is because there is never a situation where a prescribed
outcome is always the appropriate outcome for all situations. And yet most humans are not
wanting to hear this.
What you are dealing with as a counselor, or as a mentor, or as a friend to anyone, is that
it really makes little difference what Abraham thinks about this. As you have discovered, it really
makes little difference about what you think about this. The difference is about what the girl
thinks about this. So let us put it into a very clear context. This statement is always true: The
very worst thing that you could do to yourself is to do something that you believe is wrong.
Some come to a very hard place, dont they, because theyre not ready to commit to this
experience. They are far from ready to begin their life as a parent. And yet their beliefs, that
theyve picked up along their physical trail, offer very big words, like, murder.
And so, theyre in this place where it feels that no matter what they do, if I make this
choice it feels terrible, if I make this choice it feels terrible. And what we are wanting to help
them discover is that if they can find a way of bringing themselves to a place of feeling good
before they take any action, that then the action that is most appropriate will be inspired to them.
We cannot give you words that, in one fell swoop, would assist you in helping anyone
heal the wounds of this trail of beliefs that theyve picked up along their physical trail. Nor are
we, or is any teacher, able to give you a list of rules that is always right. There are many in your
population that would say, Well, at all cost, weve got to convince all of them, that it is wrong
to have the experience of abortion.
And yet, there are many Nonphysical Energies that do not come forth into the fetus that is
growing. But you say, Well, that is different. It is different if the Nonphysical is the one that
decides not to complete the bargain of the pregnancy. But it is inappropriate for the physical
human mind to make a decision about such things. And we say, too much is being made of all
of this.
Theres a bump in her relationship road.
Q
I have two small pieces within this that Id like clarification on. The first is, trying to
understand, a little bit, about why, when I was holding something up here, as you were talking
about it, and feeling good, and this may be where Im wrong, maybe I wasnt and I was missing
that, feeling good, things were wonderful, manifested this incredible relationship that had things
I didnt even know were possible initially. What about me? What brought about the bump that
threatens that? Is it somethingwas I having disconnected thoughts about other things? Do I
have old beliefs about it that can only let it get to a certain point that I now need to move up the
stick on? The surprise is what Im still having trouble dealing with. There are lots of other things
that happen, I go oh, I see what happened.
A
Well, now step back just a little bit and ask yourself what is my overall mood about
relationships? In other words, do I see them as something easy to achieve, or do I see it as
something that is not easy? Do I look out into the world and see all kinds of happy couples that
are living their hearts content? Or, do I see a lot of people that are struggling to achieve what
they are wanting? Whats my mood or my attitude about relationships?
Is it something that I see happens easily, or is it something that I see comes hard? And we
think that answer comes pretty easily to you. But it isnt just about the subject of relationships.
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quite a bit of struggle. Most of you are not ready to just wake up and allow good things to flow to
you.
Thats why we spend so much time talking about their only being a Source of WellBeing. And we feel argument from the audience every time we say that, as you say, Well, if
Well-Being is the only thing that is offered, how come there are so many people that are living
something other than absolute Well-Being? And we say, because you keep cataloging and
pigeonholing and taking score of the reality as you perceive it, rather than holding your attention
upon reality as you would like it to be. And all of this comes back once again to our favorite
subject of the hour, which is how can I find contentment where I am, while Im eagerly
anticipating the more?
Now lets talk about this. So contrast, variety, things wanted and not wanted, help me to
conclude desire. And desire is new and different. Its a brief rocket which shoots up as a guiding
light, but its not where I mostly am. Where I mostly am, is down in this variety of stuff. But
now, I have done what I promised to do, I have honed, I have focused, I have concluded, I have
determined, I have given birth to a new desire. And that desire, now, is summoning life through
me. I havent achieved the desire because Im not yet a Vibrational Match to the desire.
So now, the key is to take such exhilaration in the idea that I have a new desire, and feel
appreciation for the variety that has given birth to it, and then make your choice to go where the
thoughts feel best. And as you do, you will become such a Vibrational Match to the desire, that
this will become a distant vibrational memory, and the desire will now become actualized around
and becomes your new realitywhich is nothing more than a brief platform which launches you
into the next desire. And then your work begins again, and your work begins again.
And thats why we say, since you, all of us, are an Eternal Being, whats the big rush?
Why are you so quick to condemn yourself in an unfulfilled place? We really mean it. And the
easiest way for most of you to hear it is, you dont rush to get your vacation done. You dont say,
Gotta go there so I can check it off the list.
Esther saw a motor home the other day that had a map of the United States on it, and
there were different stickers that they put on each state once they had achieved it. And she
commented to one of the people in the campground that they had quite a few. Jerry saw one the
other day that was all complete. And Esther said, Wow, theyve been busy. But she said to a
woman, You have a good run on all of this. And the woman looked dismayed. Yeah, were
tryin.
Its like you think that someone else assigned something that youre supposed to live, and
its like an assignment in school. If it is not completed by a certain time, then youre a failure in
some way. And were wanting to turn your attention to the fact that youre Eternal, and sort of
tease you into the awareness that when you are Eternal theres no big rush. Theres no final
destination. Theres just more and more and more.
And so, it could not possibly matter what you are using as your current object that
summons life. The only thing that matters is that you find something that summons life, and that
you find philosophy that lets the life thats being summoned flow. You understand it when you
go to a food buffet. You say, Oh, look at all of this food. And just like in the grocery store, the
majority of it you dont eat, but there are those things that you choose.
And so, as you choose from your buffet, you put together a plate that pleases you, and
you do not find yourself upset about the things that are on the buffet that you didnt choose. You
dont sit at the table and say, I didnt choose that icky food, and I didnt choose that icky food,
and do you believe that those people over there at that table are eating that icky food? You just
choose yours.

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You understand the selection process. You understand, as your Inner Being understands,
the value of yessing your way through the food buffet. And we would encourage you to yes
your way through the buffet of life. So you are yessing so many aspects of this person,
yessing so many aspects of the relationship, yessing so many aspects of what you are
wanting. And if there is a bump that you cant say yes to, dont say yes to it, but dont say
no to it either. Because saying no to it is the same thing as saying yes to it, which puts the
bump in your experience.
Theres no such thing as exclusion in this Universe. Its all about inclusion. So yes
means yes and no means yes, because your attention to it causes you to include it in your
vibration.
Q
You gave me my answer, because what the rocket of desire is, is about wanting more
Well-Being, wanting more ease. Moving up the stick. Its got nothing to do with the relationship
or the bump, thats the contrast. But it is about
A
We think youve done more clarifying about what you want in a relationship since the
blessed bump appeared, than in all other relationships put together, including this one. We think
its when you first started thinking about what you want. And so, it has been an enormous
summoner of Energy. Your asking has been increased by 1000 foldwhich means the Energy is
moving a lot faster.
And so, the Energy is moving faster, so youre feeling your beliefs more clearly. Did you
get that? When you go 1000 mph and hit a tree, the tree is more meaningful than if you were
going 5 mph. But its the same tree. So these same beliefs have been there, they just werent
bothering you so much before your Energy began moving so fast. Does that make sense to you?
Q

Yes, it makes a lot of sense.

A
In other words, you could have a relationship with someone that you think is really
temporary, someone who does not ring all of your bells, and they could have 47 bumps and you
wouldnt even be talking about them. So what did we just say? The more clear your desire is, the
faster the Energy moves. The faster the Energy is moving, the more important it is that the
beliefs that you hold either be not observed, or not activated, or be in alignment with what you
are giving your attention tobe in alignment with what you really desire.
Its about lining up Energy within me. Have you received that here today? It doesnt
matter what anybody else thinks about anything, it only matters about my own alignment of
Energy, because I have this unique relationship with Source. I ask and Source comes in response
to my asking. And Im lettin it in or Im not lettin it in. Thats all. Thats all.
So you say, Well, I could let it in easier without the bump. And we say, oh, were still
talking about the bump. You say, Well, I could let it in easier without that. And we say, well
were still talking about that. And you say, Well, this aspect is good. Now were not talking
about it.
Q

And I can do that.

A
There is a tendency, as you interact with your human friends, to try to justify where you
stand. And if you could take the attitude that not only do you not have to explain anything to
anybody, but that in the explaining or justifying, you almost always cause resistance, then you
will discover that it is a much smaller circle that you are wanting to converse with about
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anything that really matters to you. And if they dont get yet the Art of Allowing, then dont talk
to them about anything that matters to you. Because theres a lot of excitement in getting
somebody to talk about their bumps.
Q

Yes, yes. But it feels icky for me. Okay.

Good, something more?

No, Im complete.

Opportunities come before her readiness to act.

Q

Why is it that things come to me faster than Im ready for them?

A
They dont and cant. Because they are coming in response to your vibration. So what
must be happening, is that you are not quite yet consciously aware of what your vibrational
offering is, which is a problem that so many have. They dont realize what theyre offering
vibrationally. But its helpful to just begin saying, everythings coming in response to my
vibration, so I want to know what my vibration is. And then that confusion will go away.
Q
But say, for example, I think I would like to do something. And then this thing manifests
immediately. And I think, wait a minute, Im not ready to do that yet. And then I dont do it. And
then, maybe, after awhile, I think now Im ready to do it. And then it doesnt happen.
A
When you identify a desire, whether you are really aware of it or not, when you begin
offering a vibration about it, the Manager lines it up and yields it to you.
And then, as you look at it, and you say, Oh, wait a minute, Ive got a tiger by the tail
here, its coming too fast, Im not really ready for that, then you begin to introduce some
resistance into it. And when you begin to introduce some resistance, then it slows down. Or,
maybe, you make another choice. You say, I want not that, I want this instead.
Everything is always coming in response to whatever it is you are giving your attention
to. And then, what happens as you say, Well, now Im ready, why wont it come? Now your
attention is upon it not coming.
Thats what trips most people up. They will stand here and not be happy about where
theyre standing. And theyll say, I want to be over there. And if you talk to them about why
they want to be over there, theyll mostly tell you about what they dont like here. So their
vibration is more about where they are than about where they want to be. And thats whats
happening to you.
Oh, it is so wonderful when you really get it, that whats manifesting, or what is coming
to you is always a perfect Vibrational Match to your vibration. Its sort of like youve got your
hands on the steering wheel, which means you get to choose where youre going, and youve got
your foot on the accelerator, too. You get to choose how fast you go. You get to choose where
you go. So if something is unfolding too fast
We watch Jerry and Esther. They are so energetic. They are so joyful in their work. They
are so inspired. And for years, Jerry has been editing the tapes for the weekly tape program. Then
Esther bought a computer program and has been recording right into the computer, and now
Esther is joyously involved in the editing process. Well, that leaves Jerry with free time that he
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has not had before. And in that free time, his mind is going to all kinds of new projects. Which is
making their life busier than its ever been before, because they cant seem to facilitate things as
fast as Jerry can think them up.
When you allow your thoughts to flow, the Universe immediately begins to respond. In
other words, you can hardly think a thought in a pure form that the Universe does not give you
movement around it, which often makes you feel that then you need to offer a response of action.
And when you are really open and allowing things to flow, sometimes more action seems to be
required of you than you have the physical time, or desire, to offer.
And we say, no problem, what happens is you go, Arghhhhh. I want not that. You feel
the contrast. And another rocket of desire is born out of that. Im wanting things to be slower.
Im wanting things to be smoother. Im wanting more to help me facilitate all of this. And out
of that next rocket of desire, as soon as you get focused there, then the Universe yields that to
you. Its about finding the balance. And only when you are paying attention to the way you feel
can you find the balance. Let us demonstrate that just a little more clearly.
We watch Jerry and Esther working until their tongues were hanging outalmost to the
point of not having very much fun. So they took a 3-day vacation and went to their favorite
place, and laid on the sand, and laid on the rocks at the Cove, big beautiful sunning rocks, laid
there in the sun. And Esther said, I could stay here forever.
And Jerry did not reply, but he is thinking I can stay here today. But he was wrong. He
didnt even make it til 10 oclock. In other words, they laid there, they basked, they refreshed,
they rejoiced, they reconnected, they found their balance. And then, soon, Jerrys fingers are, sort
of, thumping on the rock. Esthers got her ear on the pillow and she can hear his thumping on the
rock. And she is looking over at him not wanting him to know she is awake. She knows that
somethings up.
And then, in a minute hes sitting up. And now, she hears him rifling through her purse,
hes trying to find something to write on. And now, his free-flowing mind is off on the next
project, and off they go again. And so, thats why we say to you, you have this Triad of
Intentions. The basis of your life is freedom. You are so free you can choose bondage, if you
choose. If your goal is to feel joy and youve attracted things faster than you can cope, then your
joy factor diminishes, and you can feel that youre out of balance.
And so, as you then reach for the joy factor, youre choosing different things that, sort of,
slow things down. If you choose different things that slow things down too much, now you begin
to feel like your fingers are thumping on the rock. Now you begin to feel like theres more that
you want to apply. And so, as you turn your thoughts toward those joyful thoughts, the Universe
yields to you, and things speed up.
As things get going too fast and the joy factor is what is important to you, then you begin
to feel your joy factor diminished. You getting a sense of how this works? By paying attention to
the way you feel, you can always keep yourself in perfect balance.
Q
Somehow, it seems to me, that if the Universe manifests this right away, it seems to me
that my timing is off by not taking advantage of it when it happens, when its easy. And then, the
next time around its hard.
A
Well, heres the thing. The Universe will yield it to you today, tomorrow, and forever. In
other words, the Universe will keep yielding it to you. It keeps coming. You can never show up
at the dock and miss your boat, because your boat will come again and again and again and
again. Everything that you desire, and we are going to speak this bluntly and literally, the
Manager called Law of Attraction has orchestrated hundreds, if not thousands, of circumstances
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and events to accommodate the exactness of your desire. And if youre not ready for it when it
first shows up, it will be there again and again and again.
Because Law of Attraction is not like your mother or some physical entity that is wanting
to punish you for not being ready faster. Theres not any of that, Oh yeah, she asked but wasnt
ready, now just let her wait. Its all about your readiness or your allowing. And so, we can see
how youve been trained by others who have said, When dinner is served, be sure and eat. And
if you dont eat when dinners served, then youll be hungry til the next meal. And you, sort of,
think that the Universe is treating you like that, but it isnt.
Jerry and Esther are looking for a FedEx truck, went right to the place, they found it
instantly, and they were so proud. Oh, look at this, we found the FedEx drop-off place with
hardly any trouble at all because theyd had trouble on other occasions, and it was fun to find it
so fast. And not only was it a place that they could drop off their FedEx package, but the man
that was picking it up was right there, right now. And Esther said, Boy, is that not wonderful
timing. Look at that, we rendezvoused right with the guy. Right in the exact same moment. Put it
right in his hands. How good is that?
Then they went to the hotel, another FedEx truck was at the hotel. Then they went out to
dinner, and another FedEx truck was at the restaurant. And it occurred to Esther, Oh, that
rendezvous, that I was crowing about, was not the last rendezvous. The Universe had endless
backups lined up for her. And always does, always does.
If needed again, your clutter will reappear.
Q
My next question is, I seem to have my life full of clutter. I dont seem to be able to let
go of papers and clothes and things that no longer serve me. And its not only papers and clothes,
but its sort of like my physical elimination. I breathe in, I dont exhale. And
A

We wouldnt worry about that.

And I feel that its all one kind of thing. Its, sort of, like taking in and not letting out.

A
Well, lets start with the word clutter. Lets change the terminology. I have things in my
life that I very much wanted, that came to me easily. Isnt that a nice thing? And now, as I
evaluate, there are things in my experience that arent pleasing me in the way they once did. In
fact, the overabundance of them is, sort of, in my way. So now I am seeking fewer of them and
more clear space. So now, youve launched another rocket of desire. Have you spent any time
imagining that clear space? Or are you embroiled in the clutter? Do you just move around in the
clutter? Or have you imagined the clearer space?
Q

I have, but not as much as imagining the clutter.

A
See, youre doing the same thing that almost everybody does. Youre letting the reality
that has actualized get more of your attention than what you desire. And thats normal. Its easier
to turn on the television and observe and have feeling responses to what youre seeing, than it is
to close your eyes and create your own scenario. And so, youre just letting your reality dominate
your vibration.
You can pick and choose more selectively. In other words, theres a lot of things that you
have wanted and attracted into your experience that are still serving you really, really well. In
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fact, 97.5% of what you have attracted into your experience is still serving you extremely well.
We think that you are giving yourself too much trouble over the small percentage of it that you
would now like to move on through.
We would encourage that you go to an office supply store and buy some bankers boxes.
And the only reason that we are encouraging the bankers boxes is because the lids come off
easily, and they are all uniform in size. Get 20 of them, or 40 of them, depending upon the
degree of clutter you have. And number them from 1 to 20. And then put a bunch of them in the
middle of the room that is most important to you, we would call that the room where the clutter
has been bothering you the most. And stand in the middle of the room and look at items and say
to yourself, is this important to me in the next two months? And if it is, leave it right where it is.
And if it isnt, put it in box #1 and speak into a recorder, red bikini with the very skinny spaghetti
straps, box #1.
And then, go to the next thing, and go to the next thing, and go to the next thing. The
magic of this is that because you are not trying to sort them, youre not trying to archive them,
youre not trying to necessarily remember them, youre just putting them in the box and noting
where you put it. Putting them in the box and noting where you put it. And then some evening
when you are looking for something fun to do, you can listen to your recording and write it on
index cards, and put it in alphared bikini, box #1. Binoculars that only work in the dark, box
#2. Screw driver that I never found a screw that fit, box #3. In other words, whatever it is.
And now, put those boxes outside of yourput them into your garage on one wall, or put
them into one room that you dont use very much on one wall. Giving yourself the reassurance
that if there is anything that you need, you can easily retrieve it. But it is out of your line of sight
and it is giving you the freedom of space. And if youre absolutely sure about it, put it in the
trash can. But we would say the majority of the stuff that youve accumulated, because at one
time it seemed important, and because, in most cases, it cost money, it is hard for you to just
release it from your experience, because it feels like you might need it someday, or somebody
you know might need it. And so, thats, sort of, where you get bogged down.
Then after six months, ask yourself, have I opened box #1? And if you havent, then do
something else with box #1. Put it to a further removed place. Or give it away altogether. And
then, go through your index and everything thats in box #1, put a big line through it, which
means its gone from my experience now.
And what you will discover, in very short order, is that you could go through your entire
life of clutter, and in less than 2 or 3 days, you could bring yourself to order. The thing that keeps
most of you from doing that is every time you start it, you get too bogged down in the process of
coordinating it. It feels to you like you should put all things of this nature in one specific place,
but then it turns out theres only two of those things. And so, you have a box that only has two
things in it. And then, you have this other thing that there are a hundred of them, far more
thanso you dont know how to label it. And even if you did label it, you didnt know what you
did with it afterward. Where this process will help you to know exactly where everything you
dont need is.
Q
But what do you do with the printed word? For example, I tear out sheets that have to do
with health, and healing, and gardening, and all sorts of things. And when I start to go through
folders of these, I always get caught up with them and I start reading them. And I think, Gee,
this is interesting. And its sort of like
A
Well, thats the fun of clearing your clutter in this fast way. So you say, Article, box #1,
article, box #1. So youre just putting it all in box #1. And then youre thinking to yourself, at
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some later date, If Im interested, I can go back and put this in some sort of order. In other
words, I can put it under headings of health, and gardening. But, for now, I know Ive got it all
in one place. And that way you dont get bogged down in the process of it.
The majority of it you will never go back and read again. And even if you go back and
read it, its not what you thought it was. In other words, it was there for you when you first
attracted it. The thing that is behind this is that you all keep forgetting that the Universe will keep
yielding to you. So you say, I thought I needed this once, so I have to carry it around with me
forever more in case I need it again. And we say, if you need it again, the Universe will yield it
to you again, only in a more succinct and appropriate way to where you are now.
Because as you keep asking the question, the question evolves and the answer will
evolve, too. That article wont keep evolving. It was the answer to where you were then. And so,
what we would encourage you to do about all of that is throw it away joyously. And as you
throw each piece away, say, Thank you. You were there when I attracted you the first time;
youll be there whenever I want you again.
Remember, the FedEx truck will keep coming, and coming and coming and coming. You
cant ask and it not be given. So, this is a wonderful question that youre asking, because what it
is saying about most physical friends that you know, is that youre not yet convinced that thats a
true thing. When you hoard stuff, when you save stuff, the belief behind it is, This stuffs hard
to come by, or it was hard for me to find it the first time, and so I think I will just bury myself in
all of this stuff, in case some time I need it again.
The very best thing that could happen to any of you is, if when you went home today,
your house had blown away. Dont worry, it hasnt. We dont have that kind of power. First
time you ever caught up on the paper work, is that what you said? Clear enough? Helpful?
Is she loving caring for dying mother?
Q
Caring for my mother who was supposed to die 4 or 5 months ago. She was dying, she
did die, and she came back. And I was trying to soothe her about dying. Shes afraid of dying.
And she wont accept any of this. She told me not to send you her regards.
A

Dont send her ours either.

She wouldnt wake me up

A
It would only upset her. When youve decided that you are not wanting any of something,
even when it is offered with all of the Well-Being in the world, still it can be a source of
resistance. So it is a wonderful thing to let people have their own experience. Thats what the Art
of Allowing really is.
Q
This is what Im trying, and as I allow her to be, even in her disallowing of me, I allow
myself. And theres so much self-love, and it comes back to me that the only love is self-love.
And that I am
A
We would say that in just a slightly different way. Youre really onto something that is
important. You say, The only love is self-love. Love is Nonphysical Energy flowing through.
But if one is not loving self, then theyre not allowing that which is love to flow through. What
the flowing of love is, is focusing upon something with no resistance. So it could be a puppy, it
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could be a flower, it could be your mother, it could be yourself, it could be any number of things.
Love is Nonphysical Energy flowing in a non-resisted way. Thats what love is.
Q
And thats the healing thats happening right now, I think. And Ive been the recipient of
its all there to give and receive. I feel it. I access it, flow it through me to her, and I expand my
heart is oh
A
It turns out that while many say it, and it makes them feel better, that it is far better to
give than to receive. It is not possible to give without receiving.
Q
Well, Ive been writing to friends, emailing love is a circle, love is a boomerang. If its
given purely, it has to come back to the source. And at this point, I am the source of this,
accessing my own Source. Its been complicated, but its in my head; Im in absolute ecstasy.
A

Is there something you want from us?

Q
Maybe just a vibrational check. I feel like amazing things have happened. Ive seen
probabilities open.
A
We think so, too. The one thing that we would say to you is, that we can feel that you are
trying too hard.
Q

I always try too hard.

A
We can feel that you are not quite yet letting it be. And we thought it fitting that we end
with you, because you are such a wonderful example of one who wants as much as all of us put
together, who has been grappling with the idea of letting it flow. And since we have re-named
this gathering the Art of Allowing, we thought that we would end with you by offering you some
words relative to this subject that would make it more easy for you to allow.
My mother does not owe me anything. She has been the avenue through which Ive
come into this physical experience. And while weve had our ups and downs, she fulfilled her
promise to me long ago, as I did fulfill my promise to her. So there is nothing karmically, or
nothing Nonphysical, or nothing from Broader Perspective that is now holding us together.
The thing that is keeping me here, the thing that has drawn me here is that I have
concluded with my own ability to choose, I have concluded this desire that Im wanting to spend
this time with her. And Im appreciating that she has concluded that she is wanting to spend this
time with me. So here we are, two adults who have decided that were going to spend this time
together, and I see it as the perfect opportunity for me to finally, once and for all, discover
whether I really now understand what the Art of Allowing really is.
Allowing means, letting her stay or letting her go, letting her love me in this moment or
letting her be really irritated with me in this moment. Allowing means, it not being any of my
business what shes thinking or doing. Allowing means, not trying to give her Abraham regards.
Allowing means, not trying to get her to think differently about anything. Allowing means,
letting her be the culmination of all that she has chosen, and knowing that the choices that she
has made are just right for her. And withholding my judgment or opinion about the choices that
she is making.
Allowing means, not in this last ditch dead bed effort trying to get her to understand
even one more thing than she already understands. Allowing means, accepting fully that she is
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who and what she needs to be, and appreciating fully the variety that she presents to me. Yes
indeed.
Boca Raton, FL Workshop Closing.
We have enjoyed this interaction immensely. It is wonderful to come together with
leading edge creators like you. Friends, we make far too much of all of this. Well-Being is
flowing to you. You deserve it. You set it into motion long before you came into these physical
bodies. Your Inner Being is guiding you to the thoughts and experiences that are a Vibrational
Match to that Well-Being. It is the natural flow.
You cant get it wrong and you will never get it done. As you work to relax, seeking
things that make you feel good, following your bliss, lightening up, choosing thoughts that feel
good, spending more time in good feeling places and less time in not so good feeling places,
pampering yourself in the way you would pamper anyone that you love, as you are looking for
reasons to feel good, you will find yourself, more of the time, practicing the Art of Allowing.
There is not much allowing happening in nobility. There is not much allowing happening
in trying to be all things to other people. Let them be all things to themselves, while you be all
things to you. Look for those things that feel good to you. And as you connect with Source
Energy, everyone who is spending time with you, no matter what stage of your life they are at,
would benefit by their exposure to your open valve.
If you are not selfish enough to get happy and stay there on a pretty consistent basis, then
you [tape ends]

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