Today’s Daily Quote by Abraham-Hicks is great - can’t get any simpler than this:
You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it. Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of sickness, have it. Those who speak most of poverty, have it. It is Law. It can be no other way… The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous — you attract more of all of those things.
Excerpted from a workshop in “The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham” on Saturday, July 1st, 2006
If you haven’t yet seen this new video by Esther and Jerry Hicks, it’s so cute! They’re coming out with a whole CD of original music with snippets of Esther’s (Abraham’s) voice, which I think will be really neat. But here’s just a little taste. This should get your “feel good” grooving.
I just had to share this because it’s a perfect demonstration of the power of visualization!
I mentioned recently that I’m in the process of attracting some pretty big things into my life (bigger than I’ve attempted before, anyway), and one of those things is a large sum of money to be used for specific purposes.
One of the things I’ve been doing religiously for the past couple of weeks is visualizing money coming to me in fun, unexpected ways - like a lottery win, among other things.
There are a lot of opposing viewpoints on whether it’s possible to use the Law of Attraction to win the lottery. Some people say you can’t do it because that would be restricting the universe on “how” abundance will come into your life. Other people believe that you can manifest a lottery win as easily as anything else. My own viewpoint falls in between those two, but I’ll go into that in a moment.
First, back to my story. The most I’ve ever won in the lottery was $100, about 18 years ago. My grandmother bought me an instant scratch ticket for my birthday, and it was a $100 winner. Since that time, I’ve won only small amounts here and there, anywhere from $1.00 to $15.00 at a time. (In fact, I laugh about that because somewhere along the way I developed a belief that “I never win much on lottery tickets…” — it’s not too surprising that I rarely won more than a few bucks at a time then! )
WELL, ever since I set this new intention to attract a larger sum into my life a couple weeks ago, I’ve been visualizing myself winning a large sum of money in the lottery. Sometimes I visualize winning a big jackpot in the twice weekly drawings, and sometimes I see myself winning on a scratch ticket. I don’t focus on the dollar amount specifically, I just see myself whooping and hollering with excitement as I win, and get myself into that feeling place of excitement and joy. (It’s a ton of fun, try it! )
Yesterday when I stopped at the store, I felt drawn to a specific scratch ticket that was hanging on the rack behind the clerk. It cost $10, but I remembered that I had a $5.00 winner in my purse from the last time I bought tickets. So I decided “what the heck,” and I turned in my $5 ticket plus another $5 and bought the ticket that was calling my name. YES, it was a winner! I started scratching it when I got home, and was thrilled to see I had won $50.00!
But I wasn’t done scratching yet. I kept going and revealed another spot that was a $50.00 winner. Then another. Then ANOTHER!
Yes, this ticket was a $200.00 winner! That’s less than the full amount I’m in the process of attracting - but I was overjoyed because this ticket was confirmation that my visualizations are WORKING. I swear, it felt like the universe was sending me a Happy Gram to keep me focused until the full amount manifests - and I know it will!
So if you have ever doubted that it’s possible to attract a lottery win, take this as direct confirmation that it IS POSSIBLE.
However, I want to point out a couple of important things here:
1) First, I’m not ONLY visualizing money coming to me through the lottery. I’m not “stuck” on the lottery alone, and I think that’s very important.
Sometimes we get it into our heads that there is only one way to accomplish something, when the universe actually has limitless resources to draw on. So, even though I won this smaller amount, it doesn’t mean that the bigger sum will come through the lottery too. It could, but it might also come in other ways. In fact, it might come in smaller increments the whole way! Anything is possible.
So, if you want to visualize winning the lottery, it’s okay to do that - but also visualize other possibilities, and be OPEN to other possibilities, even if you can’t imagine what they might be. In addition to lottery wins, I’ve been visualizing my business income increasing, unexpected gifts and opportunities coming my way, and more. But I don’t get STUCK on any one way. Do the same thing and you’ll be open to many, many possibilities!
2) Also, I think it’s VERY IMPORTANT to enter into the visualizations with the right intent. In this recent post, I shared a little bit about what Abraham says about the power of pure thought vs. physical action.
If you watched the video, you may also remember them saying: “Sometimes our friends will say, ‘Well here I stand, while this is where I would rather stand . . . oh, and Abraham has given us a process so that we can get from here to over here. I’m going to offer this visualization to get from here to over here.’ And what happens is, as you are offering any process to get from here to here, what happens is, you’re vibrating in both places. So you can’t move from where you are; nothing changes for you. So you can make much faster progress if you say, ‘I’m offering this visualization not to get from here to over here, but I’m offering this visualization for the pleasure of the visualization…’”
If you missed that, go back and watch the video again - it’s a powerful insight! I know in the past I’ve caught myself trying to . . . how do I say it - PUSH things to happen by infusing my visualizations with a lot of energy and intention. But when you do that from a standpoint of trying to DRAW something to you, you’re also reaffirming that you don’t yet have it!
In fact, remember what Dr. Joe Vitale said in the Secret movie? When you do visualization right, it’s such a HOLOGRAPHIC experience that you feel like you don’t even need what you’re trying to attract, because you feel like you ALREADY HAVE IT.
That’s the type of focus your visualizations need to have if they don’t already! That’s what I’ve been doing - just creating really fun, uplifting “mind movies” of myself winning money in the lottery, among other things. And it’s working. I’m seeing lots of evidence that I’m shifting into an ever-higher state of abundance and wealth attraction, and it’s totally effortless.
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So YES, let this experience stand as a testimony that it IS possible to win the lottery by using the Law of Attraction. Of course, that will depend on whether YOU think it’s possible for yourself too.
P.S. I’ll let you know when I hit the big jackpot!
I recently purchased an audio CD from Abraham-Hicks that is awesome! It’s on Money & Manifestation, and there was one part in particular that I found fascinating! And that is the concept of pure thought vs. action hours.
On the recording, a seminar participant asked Abraham about something she’s trying to create in her life, but she isn’t able to take much action on it because she’s got a lot of responsibilities (kids and whatnot). So she feels like she’s not getting where she wants to be fast enough.
In part of Abraham’s response, they said, “People will say to us, ‘I can’t just quit my job and go sit on the beach and meditate. Or I can’t stop what I’m doing and just imagine. I have children to feed or dishes to wash or things to do.’ And we say, we are not encouraging you to stop the action part of your life. We are encouraging that you act just a little bit less and that you envision just a little bit more.”
Then they went on to explain how much power there is in pure thought vs. the equivalent amount of action hours you would have to take to achieve the same burst of energy. It’s mind blowing!
Basically, 17 seconds of pure thought (meaning, no contradicting thoughts interrupting) is equivalent to 2000 action hours. So the results you could achieve by taking 2000 hours of focused action, you can also achieve with 17 seconds of pure thought.
But it gets better! Because energy attracts like energy, that first 17 seconds of pure thought will attract another thought of the same vibrational equivalent. And when those two thoughts come together, there is an explosion of energy that multiplies the effect times 10.
Equivalent = 20,000 action hours. The next 17 seconds, times 10 again = 200,000 action hours. On and on it goes!
Can you see why this is so powerful?
I’ve never heard this before. I don’t think it’s mentioned in the two Abraham books I have - or if it is, I completely missed it.
But it clears up something for me regarding physical action vs. visualization.
For most of my life I only knew how to create results through taking physical action. (Like most of us, I imagine!) I’d get an idea about something, work my butt off, and make it happen through sheer determination. And yes, I achieved some decent results doing that . . . sometimes.
Unfortunately, more often than not I would feel like I was on a treadmill. Taking action after action and not really getting where I wanted to be. And it’s so clear to me why! I was taking constant action, but at the same time I was emitting a contradictory vibration that prevented my desires from being manifested.
But THIS is why visualization is so powerful, because of the energy it generates. That doesn’t mean action is never necessary; of course sometimes it is. But the action is a complement to the energy you’ve already released through pure thought (visualization).
Anyway, I browsed around the Abraham-Hicks website this morning to try to find a written transcript of this audio, but I couldn’t find anything. But then I was led to one of their videos on YouTube, and that led me to another video and another - and suddenly I found a clip of that exact recording I just quoted above! Ask and you shall receive.
So here you go. Watch, absorb, and then go visualize your heart out!
Today’s Daily Quote by Abraham-Hicks is so revealing, and so simple:
Wellness that is being allowed, or the wellness that is being denied, is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions. Excerpted from a workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Monday, May 13th, 2002We’re either allowing the natural flow of wellness through our lives, or we’re not.
That’s a good reminder for those of us who keep feeling like we have to “do” or “get” something through our manifestation attempts.
It’s not about getting or doing, it’s about BEING and ALLOWING.
Make peace with outrageous abundance. You are more likely to have a pure vibration and attract more abundance if you leave money out of the equation. But it isn’t because money is the “root of all evil.” It’s because it messes up your vibration, usually. Excerpted from a workshop in San Francisco, CA on Sunday, February 27th, 2005
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I sooooo much agree about money “messing up” your vibration! In my opinion, it’s because money carries such heavy emotional weight. When we have money, we’re happy - even exhilarated. When we don’t have it, we’re miserable, hollow, and empty. (Not always, but usually.)
Even worse though, is the way money becomes a substitution for everything else we want. If we want to live a more peaceful life, we think having a lot of money will do that for us. If we want more freedom, ditto. If we want a newer car, ditto. What’s so funny is that if we took “money” out of the equation and focused on attracting the underlying ESSENCE of what we really want, we’d probably have an easier time attracting it.
In fact, let’s try an experiment and see what happens:
- Rather than attracting the MONEY to buy a new car or house, try focusing only on the car or house.
- Rather than believing that MONEY will help you create a more comfortable lifestyle, try creating more comfort and ease in your current lifestyle.
- Rather than trying to ATTRACT more money now, put yourself into a place of already having everything you need. Immerse yourself in feelings of peace, happiness, gratitude and passion. You’ve already got everything you need, so what would you like to spend most of your time doing?
These questions have a lot of underlying concepts that are well worth exploring!
You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in — for me to figure out how to feel good, when I’m looking at something that makes me feel bad Excerpted from a workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000—————————————
In my experience, it can INDEED work that fast - and not just regarding health either!
I used to think that it “took time” for things to manifest - especially if they were very big things. But over the past year or more, I’m seeing more and more changes taking place INSTANTLY. I mean like before my very eyes. One second things are one way, and the next it’s all changed. And I don’t mean just figuratively.
I think much of that is due to my ever-increasing strength of focus, along with a buildup of positive energy that grows daily. One of these days I’ll write more about that, but for now just know that whatever you’re trying to create in your life, you can do it in a heartbeat if you want to.
I just have to share today’s Daily Quote from Abraham-Hicks:
“Be easy about this. Be playful about it. Don’t work so hard at it. Let your dominant intent to be to feel good, and if you don’t feel good, then let your dominant intent be to feel relief. Feel your way through it. [Emphasis mine] If you think your way through it, you can get off on all kinds of tangents. If you feel your way through it, you can come quickly to your Core Energy, and when you do that only good can then flow to you.”
Excerpted from a workshop in Rye, NY on Sunday, October 12th, 1997
The other day someone contacted me privately and asked a GREAT question about the Law of Attraction: How do you go from theory to practice?
In other words, this person believes in the Law of Attraction but is having a hard time putting it into actual practice in daily life. How exactly do you do that?
Here was my response:
Excellent question! Theory to practice, love the way you put that.
Okay, there are 2 things I would suggest. Actually 3. These are what popped into my mind first:
1) Getting super-clear about what you want. Maybe you’ve already done this, but I know I have a much harder time seeing results when I keep waffling back and forth not being really sure about what I want. I might have a vague idea of what I want (and a stronger I idea of what I DON’T want!) but only when I really take time to think it all out and ask myself what I would choose if I could have ANYTHING right now, what would it be? - that’s when I start to see and feel a shift. So if you haven’t done that, do that first.
2) Then, start “being” the person who already has it. When I say “being” I’m referring to your mental and emotional state. Example: You’re working at a job you hate and you desperately want a better job doing something you love. You’ve got a vision in your mind of what you want, but you continue to live from the perspective of a person who works at a job they hate. All day you radiate feelings of dissatisfaction, boredom, frustration, despair, etc. - those feelings will interfere with the attraction of what you want! However, if you begin thinking, feeling and acting like someone who truly LOVES what they do, you’ll attract work that you really do love!
Believe me, I know that’s hard to do, but every time I’ve done it, amazing things happen. It just takes a lot of willpower to first shift your focus, and then things start happening.
And by the way, you probably won’t be able to do a complete shift right away. What usually happens for me is I waver back and forth between the old reality and the new reality (mentally and emotionally), but as time goes on I find myself staying with the new perspective more and more. Eventually I don’t have to work so hard at it, it just becomes my “real” reality!
3) Finally, I would suggest taking some kind of action to help get the process moving. With most objectives, there is at least a small action or two you can do on your own. This not only helps get the energies moving in the right direction, but it also helps YOU feel more in control, more positive, more optimistic, etc.
Make a point of working WITH the universe, rather than trying to do everything on your own. Tell the universe, here is what I want, and here is what I can do on my end, here is what I’d like you to do for me, thanks! (Like the Abraham Hicks placemat process) It works!
Hope that helps, but if any of what I said doesn’t apply to your situation, just let me know. Generally those are the 3 things I do to move past the wall between energy and matter!
They’re coming out with a whole CD of original music with snippets of Esther’s (Abraham’s) voice, which I think will be really neat. But here’s just a little taste. This should get your “feel good” grooving. 
I just had to share this because it’s a perfect demonstration of the power of visualization!
We’re either allowing the natural flow of wellness through our lives, or we’re not.
