you will have received the vibrational
feeling advantage of having spent
two or three thousand
dollars.
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Seemingly magical things
will begin to occur as soon as you
achieve that wonderful feeling of
financial abundance: The money you are
currently earning will seem to go further.
Unexpected amounts of money in
various increments will begin to
show up in your experience.
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You have to feel good about great
abundance before you will allow the
pleasure of great abundance to flow
into your experience.
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At first, an awareness
of what you do not
want helps you identify what you
do want; in other words, as you speak
the words of your desire, your vibration
may not match your words, but if you will
use the Process of Pivoting—that is, if,
whenever you feel negative emotion, which
helps you know that you are focused upon
something unwanted, you will stop and say,
I know what Idon’t want, so what is it that I
do want?—then, in time, you will change
your vibration on the subject, and
eventually the improved vibration
will become your dominant
thought.
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It is possible to
be focused in vibrational
opposition to what you really
desire without knowing you are. It is
like the opposite ends of a stick. When
you pick up a stick, you pick up both ends.
The Pivoting Process will help you be more
aware of which end of your stick you are
currently activating: the end that is
about what you want, or the end
that is about the absence of
what you want.
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See the Process of
Pivoting as a gradual shifting
of your point of attraction, and
enjoy the positive results that must
follow. It is not possible for you to consistently
give your attention to what you do
want and not receive it—for the Law of
Attraction guarantees that whatever you
are predominantly focused upon
will flow into your
experience.
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The
most important
thing to remember is that
you are the attractor of your experience,
and that you are attracting it
by virtue of the thoughts that you are offering.
Thoughts are magnetic, and as you
think a thought, it will attract another and
another and another, until eventually
you will have a physical manifestation
of the vibrational essence of whatever
has been the subject of
your thoughts.
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When you think
thoughts that are not
in harmony with your greater
knowing, the flow of Life Force—the
Energy that comes from your Inner Being
into your physical apparatus—is stifled or
restricted. The result is that you experience
negative emotion, and if you would allow
it to continue over a longer period of time,
you would receive negative deterioration
of your physical apparatus. That
is why we say that all illness is a
result of the allowance of
negative emotion.
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As you are
understanding that a
feeling of negative energy is an
indicator that you are not in harmony
with your greater knowing, many of you
have reached the point of saying, “I want to
feel good more of the time.” And we say that
is a magnificent acknowledgment, because
when you are saying, “I want to feel good,”
what you are really saying is: “I want to be in
the place of positive attraction,” or “I want
to be in a place where the thoughts that
I’m thinking as I’m feeling good are
in harmony with my greater
awareness.”
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Never are you
more clear about what you
do want than when experiencing
what you do not want. And so, if you
will stop and say, “Something is important
here, otherwise I would not be feeling this
negative emotion; I need to focus on what I
want,” and then turn your attention to what
you do want … in that moment of turning
your attention, the negative emotion and
the negative attraction will stop—and the
positive attraction will begin—and your
feelings will change from not feeling
good to feeling good. That is
the Process of Pivoting.
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When you feel
bad, you are in the process
of attracting something that
will not please you, and it is always
because you are focused upon the lack
of something you want. The Process of
Pivoting is the conscious decision to identify
what you do want. We do not want to imply
that the feeling of negative emotion is a bad
thing, because, very often, in the feeling of
negative emotion, you are alerted to the
fact that you are in the process of negatively
attracting. And so, it is like a
“warning bell.” It is part of your
Emotional Guidance
System.
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We encourage
you, very strongly, not to
beat up on yourself when you
recognize that you are feeling negative
emotion. But as soon as you can,
stop and say, “I’m feeling some negative
emotion, which means that I’m in the
process of attracting what I don’t
want. What is it that I
do want?”
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An example
of the Process of Pivoting
would be to say, “I want to feel
good.” Anytime you are feeling bad,
stop and say, “What I want is to feel
good.” And if you will offer that, then
thoughts will begin to come to you on the
positive side of the equation. And as one
thought attracts another, attracts another,
and attracts another, you will very soon be
vibrating at the frequency that is in harmony
with your greater knowing.
And then, in terms of positive
creation, you will really
be rolling.
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As we are talking
about the way thoughts
connect to thoughts connect
to thoughts connect to thoughts,
we want to point out something that
you may be missing: It is much easier to
go from a little thought of something that
makes you feel good to more that makes
you feel good, to more that makes you feel
good—than it is to be in a place where
you are feeling bad, and then go
right to a place where you
feel
good.
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Do not try to save the
world; save yourself. That
means that you need to focus on
what makes you feel good. The Process
of Pivoting is the tool that will bring
you to what you want. It is the process
whereby you consciously decide: Yes,
I want to look for what I want, and I
will no longer look in the direction
of the lack of what I want.
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Pivoting is the continual hour-after-hour,
segment-by-segment process
whereby you choose the positive. It is the
way you get to feeling good—and it
is a way that you can get
whatever you want.
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Sometimes someone
will say to us, “But
Abraham, I cannot ignore this,
for it’s true!” And we say, It is only true
because someone has made it true by giving
their attention to it. You see, what you are
actually saying here is, “Because someone
else has given attention to this and, therefore,
by the Law of Attraction, invited it into
their own experience, I think I’ll do the
same. In other words, even though I
don’t want it, I’m obliged to create
it in my own reality because
someone else did.”
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The Law of Attraction is
so very powerful that when you
hold a thought for as little as 17
seconds, another thought like it will
join it; and as those two thoughts come
together, there is a combustion that
occurs that makes your thoughts
even more powerful.
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Your point of power is in the
present because even though you
may be thinking about the past, or
you may be thinking about the now,
or you may be thinking about the future,
you are doing it all right now. You are vibrating
now. The pulse is now. The vibrational
offering is now. Any creative tension
between the summoning of the
Life Force and allowing it to flow
through (the summoning and the
allowing)—is all happening
right here in the now.
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Whether it is a castle or a
button, if you are using it as your
object of attention, it is summoning
the Life Force—and it is the feel of the
Life Force that life is about; the reason that
you are summoning it is inconsequential.
In other words, it is every bit as possible
to feel as much joy in the preparation
of your taxes as in the planning of
an ocean cruise.
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There is no value
in using happy-sounding
words if you do not feel happy.
The Law of Attraction is not responding
to your words, but instead,
is responding to the vibrations that are
radiating from you. It is quite possible for
you to use all the right-sounding words at
the same time that you are in a state of
powerful resistance to your own Well-
Being, for the words you use are
not important—how you feel
is what matters.
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As you focus upon what it
feels like to be living your desire,
you cannot, at the same time, be feeling
the absence of your desire, so with practice,
you can tip the scale, so to speak, so
that even though your desire has not yet
actually manifested, you are offering a
vibration as if it has—and then
it must.
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The Universe does not know
if you are offering your vibration
because you are living what you are living,
or because you are imagining that you
are living it. In either case, it answers
the vibration—and the manifestation
must follow.
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Your intent, in
the Finding the Feeling-
Place Process, is to conjure images
that cause you to offer a vibration
that allows money. Your goal is
to create images that feel good to you.
Your goal is to find the feeling-place of
what it would be like to have enough
money rather than finding the
feeling-place of what it is like to
not have enough money.
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The more often
you play the Finding the
Feeling-Place Process, the better
you will be at playing it, and the
more fun it will become. When you
pretend, or selectively remember, you
activate new vibrations—and your point
of attraction shifts. And when your
point of attraction shifts, your life will
improve regarding every subject
for which you have found a
new feeling-place.
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with debt, but if your debt feels
like a heavy burden, then your vibration
around money is one of resistance.
When the burden has lifted, when you feel
lighter and freer, your resistance has lifted,
and you are now in the position to
allow the Well-Being to flow abundantly
into your experience.
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It is as easy to
create a castle as a button.
It is just a matter of whether you
are focused on a castle or a button,
but it can also be as satisfying to create
a button as a castle. And whether it is a
castle or a button, if you are using it as your
object of attention, it is summoning the
Life Force, and the feeling of the Life
Force is what life is about; the reason
why you are summoning it is
inconsequential.
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So, what about
creating a very positive
current of financial abundance?
What about getting so good at visualizing
that the money flows through you
easily? What about spending money, and
giving more people opportunity? What better
way could anyone spend money than by
putting it back into the economy that gives
more people work? The more money you
spend, the more people benefit, and
the more people get in on the
game and dovetail
with you.
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Your role is
to utilize Energy. That
is why you exist. You are an
Energy-flowing Being—a focuser, a
perceiver. You are a creator, and there
is nothing worse in all of the Universe
than to come forth into the environment
of great contrast, where desire is
easily born, and not allow Energy
to flow to your desire—that is a
true squandering of life.
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There is no “high
work” or “low work.” There
are just opportunities to focus. You
can feel as fulfilled and satisfied in any
one task as in
any other, for you are on
the Leading Edge of thought, and Source
is flowing through you no matter what
your endeavor is. You can be joyful in
any endeavor where you decide to
allow the Energy to flow.
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Spiritual versus material is not the
choice. Everything about this manifestational
experience is Spiritual. It is all the
end product of Spirit. You have nothing
to prove. Be the Spiritual You and create
like a physical fiend.
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Your financial
decline will not elevate the
impoverished…. You cannot get
poor enough to help the impoverished
people thrive. It is only in your thriving
that you have anything to offer anyone.
If you want to be of help to others, be as
tapped in, tuned in, and turned on
as you can possibly be.
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Feel
appreciation for
those who provide examples
of financial Well-Being. How
would you know prosperity was possible
if there was not evidence of it around
you? It is all part of the contrast. Money is
not the root of happiness, but it is not the
“root of evil” either. Money is the result of how
somebody lines up Energy. If you do not want
money, do not attract it, but your criticism
of others who have money holds you in a
place where things you do want, such
as wellness, clarity, and Well-Being,
cannot come to you
either.
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We love seeing
you applauding someone
else’s success, because when you
are genuinely thrilled by another’s
success, that means you are right on the