53. First I‘ll find vibrational balance
The things that you have and the things that you do are all meant to enhance your state of being. In
other words, it‘s all about how you feel, and how you feel is all about coming into alignment with
who-you-really-are. When you tend to your alignment first, then the things you gather and the
actions you perform only enhance your good feeling state of being. But if you do not find that
vibrational balance first, and attempt to make yourself feel better by bringing more things into your
experience, or participating in more activities, in order to try to make yourself feel better, you just
get further out of balance.
We’re not guiding you away from accumulating things or from taking action, because all of that is
an essential part of your physical experience. In other words, you intended the wonderful
experience of exploring the details of your physical world in order to help you personally determine
your own joyous growth and expansion. But when you try to move forward form an imbalanced
footing, it’s always uncomfortable.
If you’ll begin by identifying how you want to feel, or be, and then let your inspiration to
accumulate or do come from that centered place, then not only will you maintain your balance, but
you will now enjoy the things that you gather and the things that you do.
Most people do most of their wanting from a place of lack. They want things in many cases simply
because they do not have them. So the having of them does not really satisfy anything deep within
them because there’s always something else that they do not have. And so it becomes a neverending
struggle to try to bring one more thing, one more thing that still will not be satisfying, into
their experience. “Because I don’t have this, I want it.” And then they really think that getting it will
fill the void. But that defies Law.
Any action that’s taken from a place of lack is always counterproductive, and it always leads to
more of a feeling of lack.
The void that these people are feeling cannot be filled with things or satisfied with action, because
the feeling of void is about the vibrational discord between their desires and their chronic habits of
thought. Offering better feeling thoughts, telling a different story, looking for positive aspects,
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pivoting to the subject of what you really do want, looking for positive what-ifs – that’s how you
fill that void. And when you do, a most interesting thing will occur in your experience – the things
you’ve wanted will begin to flood into your experience. But these things that you’ve been wanting
will flood into your experience not to fill your void, because that void no longer exists, they flow in
because your void no longer exists. Certainly, you will gather many magnificent things into your
experience. Our message is not for you to stop wanting, having or doing. Our message is for you to
want and accumulate and do from your place of feeling good.
54. Neither money nor poverty makes joy
Jerry: Abraham, there‘s a saying that money doesn‘t make for a happiness. But on the other hand, I
have noticed that poverty doesn’t make for a happiness either. But still it’s obvious that money isn’t
the path to a happiness. So, if the idea of achieving something does bring us happiness, does that
mean that the achievement is an appropriate goal for us to set? And how does a person maintain his
or her feeling of happiness when reaching one’s goal is taking a lot of their time and energy? In
other words, it often seems that it’s a sort of uphill climb to reach the goal, and then there is a short
plateau of rest, but then an almost immediate tedious climb to achieve the next goal. In other words,
how does a person keep all of the climbing toward their goals joyous, so there is not that struggle,
struggle, struggle, and then, “Wow, I’ve made it!”, and then struggle, struggle, struggle, and, “Oh,
here, I’ve made it again!”?
Abraham: You‘re right, money is not the path to happiness, and, as you‘ve observed, poverty
certainly is not the path to happiness either. It‘s so important to remember, that when you offer any
action for the purpose of achieving happiness, you’re truly going about it in a backward way.
Instead, use your ability to focus your thoughts and words toward things that cause you to feel
better and better, and once you’ve deliberately achieved a state of happiness, not only will
wonderful actions be inspired, but wonderful results must follow.
Most people give the majority of their attention to whatever is happening in their experience right
now, which means, if the results please them, they feel good, but if the results do not please them,
they feel bad. But that’s really going about life the hard way. If you only have the ability to see
what-is, then things cannot improve. You must find a way to look optimistically forward in order to
achieve any improvement in your experience.
When you learn how to deliberately focus your thoughts toward good-feeling things, it’s not
difficult to find happiness and maintain it even before your goal has been accomplished. The feeling
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of struggle you were describing happens because of the continual comparison of where you are
right now in relationship to the goal you’re reaching for. When you’re constantly taking score,
noticing the distance that still needs to be traveled, you amplify the distance, the task, the effort, and
that’s why it feels like such an uphill struggle.
When you care about how you feel, and so you choose thoughts on the basis of how they feel, you
then develop patterns of thought that are more forward looking. And as the LOA then responds to
those better-feeling thoughts, you get more pleasing results. Struggle, struggle, struggle never leads
to a happy ending. It defies Law. “When I get there then I’ll be happy” is not a productive mindset,
because unless you’re happy, you can’t get there. When you decide to first be happy, then you’ll get
there.
55. I am here as a joyful creator
You’re not here as accumulators or regurgitators. You’re here as creators. When you’re looking
toward an ending place, you exaggerate the feeling of lack between where you are now and that
ending place. And that habit of thought can not only slow the progress of your creation, but can
hold it apart from you indefinitely. You are the attractor of your experience. As you look for
positive aspects and make an effort to find good-feeling thoughts, you will hold yourself in a place
of positive attraction, and what you want will come faster. The sculptor of a work of art does not
derive his greatest satisfaction from the finished piece. It is the process of creation, the sculpting of
the piece that gives him pleasure. That’s the way we would like you to view your physical
experience of creating – continual joyful becoming.
As you focus your attention upon things that feel good, and achieve a consistently joyful state of
being, you’ll then be in the position of attracting more of whatever you want. Sometimes people
complain that it seems unfair that they have to become happy before things that bring them more
happiness can then come to them. They believe that when they are unhappy, they need the happy
events to come, but when they are already happy, then the happy events are unnecessary. But that
would defy the LOA. You have to find a way of feeling the essence of what you desire before the
details of that desire can come to you. In other words, you have to begin to feel more prosperous
before more prosperity can come.
Often people tell us that they want more money, and when we ask them what their balance of
thought is about money, they tell us that they have very positive attitude about money. But as we
probe a bit deeper, asking them how they feel when they sit to pay their bills, they often then realize
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that while they may have been attempting to sound positive about the subject, they’ve actually been
feeling a great deal of worry or even fear around the subject of money. In other words, often
without realizing it the majority of their thoughts about money have been on the “not enough” side
of the subject rather than on the “abundance” side of the subject.
56. The power of vibrationally spending vibrational money
Here’s a process that can quickly help you shift the balance of your thoughts regarding money to a
place where you can begin to let more money flow easily into your experience:
Put 100 dollars in your pocket and keep it with you at all times. As you move through your day,
deliberately notice how many things you could exchange this money for: “I could purchase that”, “I
could do that”. Someone said to us that a 100 dollars doesn’t really buy that much in today’s
economy. But we explain that if you mentally spend that 100 dollars 1000 times today, you’ve
vibrationally spent 100.000 dollars. That sort of positive focus will dramatically change your
vibrational balance about money.
This vibrational spending process will cause you to feel differently about money, and when that
happens, your point of attraction will shift, and more money must flow into your experience. It is
Law.
Someone said to us, “I didn’t have a 100 dollars, but I put an IOU in my pocket”. And we said,
that’s defeating the process, because you’re walking around with the feeling of debt in your pocket,
which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do. You want to feel your prosperity. And so,
even if it’s only 20 or 50 or if it’s a 1000 or 10.000 that you have in your pocket, utilize it
effectively to help you notice how good things are now. Because in your acknowledgement of your
prosperous now your prosperity must become more.