Reading Money and the Law of Attraction this morning I had a
new take on something Abraham has talked about often. Abraham,
nonphysical teachers speaking with and through Esther Hicks, talk about
how life is meant to feel good. And of course it’s easy to feel good
when things are going easy and the way that we want them to. We–those
of us in bodies–tend to try to arrange our outer circumstances to
conform with what we want in order to feel good, that is joy, relief,
pleasure, delight, humorous, etc. But Abraham teaches that we’ve got
it backwards. We need to focus on feeling good first, and then the Law
of Attraction will bring to us those outer circumstances that align
with that feeling state. Then we’ll feel really good!
Reflecting on this today, I realized that all of life on the earth
plane is an exercise in this process–and that I wanted this practice.
I’ve read and heard many perspectives on existence between lives.
While I’ve experienced snippets from other lives, I have never
remembered (yet!) times between the lives, in nonphysical. Some say
we’re still at the same level of consciousness we were at when we
died. Others, including Abraham, say we’re released from pressure of
the physical and re-experience the full perspective of the soul level.
I can just say for me, that as I was reflecting on this teaching,
that I realized that it was easy to be “in a state of grace,” ease,
flow and love when in nonphysical because that dimension readily
supports that experience. And that in agreeing to this earth life
(hundred, thousands of earth lives, who knows), I knew that it would be
much harder to experience this state here, and that I wanted that
challenge and opportunity for growth. There’s something about
interfacing with density, physical reality, as flexible as it actually
is, that’s very different
When we were without form it was easy to feel connected and joyful
because the environment, or rather the state of being, made it easy to
feel this way. We weren’t working with physical matter, but
manifesting instantly through energy. But now I’m here, with density,
and also with what Abraham calls “contrast”–those things that I don’t
want, I don’t enjoy, that I want to change or heal. So the
challenge/opportunity (we’re hearing that a lot these days), is to
focus on what I want in the presence of what I don’t want. And that
builds what they used to call “character,” or the ability to be stable
and true in oneself regardless of circumstance.
Every day this sinks in a little deeper. The conditioning is so
strong to be sucked into or overwhelmed by what’s bugging me, what
activates me, what someone does that I would rather they didn’t, and on
and on. So really getting “pivotting” or turning the lens to the
picture I want to see. It’s like riding up a hill on a bike–how hard
it is at first, then how exhilerating it becomes as the whole body
kicks in, the mind stops, complete focus takes over, and the whoooosh,
you’re on top!
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