Dear Friends,From the very first words that Abraham spoke to us, to the words they spoke at our Bethesda, MD workshop last weekend, it has been clear to us that it is their desire that we understand and follow our own guidance rather than turning our guidance over to someone else, for Abraham’s message is one of self empowerment.
We still remember the surprise we felt when Abraham told us, in the very beginning of our early conversations with them, that the purpose of our life is JOY. They went on to explain that the basis of our life is FREEDOM. “You are so free you can choose bondage” they told us. “The purpose of your life is JOY and the result of your life will be EXPANSION or GROWTH.”
In virtually every conversation we have had with Abraham, personal or public, since our first conversation back in 1985, they have been encouraging our self empowerment through our understanding of our own guidance system.
They have told us often:
* “You get the essence of what you think about, whether you want it or not.”
* “Your attention to it, invites it"
* “There is no such thing as no in this attraction based Universe.”
* “When you shout NO! at it, you are saying, come to me this thing I do not want.”
* “Find the feeling place of what you desire because the Universe is not responding to your words, but to the Vibration of your Being. And the way you feel, best represents your Vibrational point of attraction. Do your best to feel as good as you can, right now.”
In 2007, Abraham wrote a book entitled: THE ASTONISHING POWER OF EMOTIONS, LET YOUR FEELINGS BE YOUR GUIDE, where they explained in great detail how to understand our emotions and how to benefit from that understanding. In the months leading up to the release of that book, they commonly told the story of our human misunderstanding of people trying to achieve gain through pain and struggle as so many of them deliberately dig in, ignoring their own emotional guidance.
We thought that now might be an especially good time to let Abraham help us remember that our successes or enlightenment do not come to us through pain and struggle, but through ease and allowing. This clip, recorded in Albuquerque, NM in August of 2007, has been a wonderful reminder to us.
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
(My take... First, I think that pain is a part of growth...the pain of letting go. However, I'm understanding that it's the ADDED pain that we heap on ourselves that is unnecessary if we'd just let go and flow! We can have 'rip off the band-aid' pain or the 'slow, agonizing removal of the band-aid' kind of pain.
The other day I read..."Pain is unavoidable, suffering is optional."
To me, this information source is about finding that place of well-being to live from and they approach it through the use of more concrete reference points to help the learner find what well-being feels like for them. Through the process of using concrete desires as a reference point, the individual eventually finds that place of minute-by-minute living in well-being and, through this, often find that their desires change, becoming more fine-tuned...simpler and more abstract...including hope, peace, love...yeah, yeah, yeah...really hippie-fied!
And, besides, isn't this the part that Jesus came to explain, to counterbalance...the abstract part, the FEELING context of the Jewish 'guidelines'?)
