The person that needs to do something is not that person.  The person that needs to do something is you!  Some of those people in your life do not deserve your good thoughts.  In other words, “They are bad.  They are evil.  They are wrong!  They are inappropriate.  They do not deserve your good thoughts,” and you stubbornly are not going to give them any.  They may not deserve your good thoughts.  But you do.  You deserve your good thoughts about them.  This is what the Art of Allowing is.  It’s allowing my own Well-being.

— Abraham

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I think it’s a natural tendency of human beings (animals don’t seem to hold grudges for very long) to want to wallow in our anger or misery, especially when we think someone else is to blame for it.  There’s something satisfying about being pissed off at somebody, isn’t there?  It gives you the opportunity to get your emotions all worked up, and it feels physically good to be in that state, even if we don’t recognize it in the moment.  It’s a bit like how you feel after a workout.

The problem is that the mental state you are in at that moment doesn’t feel all that good, and if you can’t recognize it & detach yourself from the negative emotion involved, it can easily become a spiral of negativity.  And THAT isn’t going to do you any good.

What you (we all) need to do at that point is to find a way to change your thoughts as quickly as possible.  You may not have the ability to think good things about that person right then and there, but you DO have the ability to take your thoughts away from them and think about something else.   ANYTHING else, so long as it’s a more positive thought.  Then, at some point down the road, you can find a way to think less negative, and yes, even more positive thoughts about the person in question.

THEY may not deserve your good thoughts, but YOU deserve to think them.

——— Tim

The key to getting inside your Vibrational Vortex of Creation; of experiencing the absolute absence of resistance; of achieving complete alignment with all that you have become and all that you desire, and of bringing to your physical experience everything that you desire — is being in the state of appreciation — and there is no more important object of attention to which you must flow your appreciation than that of self.

— Abraham

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Why do we hate ourselves so much?  Generically speaking.  Why do we discount our own abilities, our own self-worth?  We’re often eager to support or promote others, but rarely feel comfortable banging our OWN drum.

In many cultures, if not all, appreciation of self is confused with braggadocio or self-centeredness (in its negative connotation).  Consequently, it is not encouraged, and often DIScouraged and even punished.  So, it’s not surprising that so many of us don’t like to go there.  The problem is that the associations I just mentioned are invalid.

Feeling good about who you are as a person does not necessarily translate to feeling that you are better than others.  It doesn’t mean that you will be using others as stepping stones to your own success.  It doesn’t mean you’re going to be trumpeting your fabulousness to the world.  In fact, it’s more likely to mean that you will be a kinder, more understanding person in regard to others, because you won’t feel the need to receive other people’s recognition.  You will be perfectly happy, from within.

Happiness…  Hmmm…  Isn’t that a good-feeling emotion?  And aren’t good-feeling emotions what Abraham says we are supposed to be reaching for?  Aren’t they the signposts of our navigational system that tell us we’re going in the right direction?  Guess we know what we need to work on, eh?

… You know, I’m not such a bad guy…

—— Tim

Are we for marriage? Yes. Are we for divorce? Yes. Are we for monogamy? Yes. All of you have different ways of satisfying your desires, and all of it is appropriate or not. And only you, individually, know if it is appropriate or inappropriate unto you in this moment.

— Abraham

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Are we for anarchy?  Yes, apparently.

OK.  That comment was made (only slightly) tongue-in-cheek.  I say that, because I think Abraham actually IS for anarchy, in the sense that everyone should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it.

Much of what they teach would be unworkable in our world if it was implemented overnight.  For instance, Abraham does not think people should be locked up for committing crimes.  They do not address exactly how to deal with those people; only that if our individual vibrations are right, they won’t come into our realities.  Some day, a few centuries from now, after this whole “Age of Enlightenment” has had time to mature, we may not be jailing people any more.  But, it won’t be because we don’t feel a need to do so.  It will be because nobody has done anything worthy of incarceration.  The only workable path to that end is the gradual opening of the world’s minds to the principals of Law of Attraction.

— Tim