Money, and the Law of Attraction - Esther and Jerry Hicks

PART I. Pivoting and the Book of Positive Aspects

Your Story, and the Law of Attraction

Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction’s response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and fnancial assets; your body’s state of wellness, clarity, fexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell. If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. For by the powerful Law of Attraction, it must be!

4. Does Life Sometimes Seem to Be Unfair?

Yo u have wanted more success and you have applied yourself well, do ing everything that everyone said you should do, but the success you have been seeking has been slow to come. You tried very hard, especially at frst, to learn all the right things, to be in the right places, to do the right things, to say the right things but often things did not appear to be improving much at all.
Earlier in your life, when you were frst dipp ing your toe into the idea o f achieving success, you found satisfaction in satisf ying the expectations of the others who were laying out the rules for success. The teacher s, parents, and mentors who surrounded you seemed confdent and convincing as they laid out their rules for success:

“Always be on time; always do yo ur best; remember to wo rk hard; always be honest; strive for greatness; go the extra mile; there’s no gain without pain; and, most important, never give up” But, over time, your fnding satisfaction from gaining the approval of those who laid out those rules waned as their principles of success—no matter how hard you tried—did not yield you the promised results. And it was more disheartening still when you stood back to gain some perspective on the whole picture and realized that their principles were not, for the most part, bringing them real success either. And then, to make matters even wo rse, yo u began meeting others (who clearly were not  following those rules) who  were  achieving success apart from the formula that you had been so diligent to lear n and apply.

And so you found yourself asking: “What’s going on here? How can those who are working so hard be receiving so little, while those who seem to be working so little are achieving so much? My expensive education hasn’t paid off at all—and yet that multimillionaire dropped out of high school. My father worked hard ever y day of his life—and yet our family had to borrow the money to pay for his funeral. Why doesn’t my hard work pay off for me the way it was supposed to? Why do so few really get rich, while most of us struggle to barely get by? What am I missing? What do those fnancially successful people know that I don’t know?”

5. Is “Doing Your Best” Still Not Enough?

When you are doing everything you can think of, truly trying your best to do what you have been told is supposed to bring you success, and success does not come, it is easy to feel defensive, and eventually even angry at those who are displaying evidence of the success you desire. You even fnd yourself sometimes condemning their success simply because it is too painful to watch them living the success that continues to elude you. And it is for this reason—in response to this chronic condition in the fnancial affairs of your culture—that we offer this book.

When you come to the place of openly condemning the fnancial success that you crave, not only can that fnancial success never come to you, but you are also forgeiting your God-given rights to your health and happiness as well.

Many actually come to the incorrect conclusion that others in their physical environment have banded together in some sort of conspiracy to keep them from succeeding. For they believe, with all of their heart, that they have done everything possible to achieve success, and the fact that it has not come must surely mean that there are some unfriend ly forces at work that are depriving them of what they desire. But we want to assure you that nothing like that is at the heart of the absence of what you desire or of the presence of things you would like to remo ve from your experience. No one ever has or ever could have prevented your success—or provided it. Your success is all up to you. It is all in your control. And we are writing this book so that now, fnally, once and for all time, your success can be in your deliberate and conscious control.

6. Whatever I Can Desire, I Can Achieve

It is time for you to return to the true nature of your Being and to consciously live the success that the experiencing of your own life has helped you determine that you desire. And so, as you deliberately relax right now, breathing deeply and reading steadily, you will begin to gradually but surely remember how all success comes, for you already inherently understand it, and so you will certainly feel resonance with these abso lute truths as you read about them here.

The Eternal Laws of the Universe are consistent and reliable and steadily hold, always, the promise of expansion and joy. They are being presented to you here in a power ful rhythm of understanding that will start small within you and then expand with each page you read, until you reawaken into the knowledge of your purpose and your own perso nal power as yo u remember how to access the power of the Universe that creates worlds.

If this time-space reality has within it the ability to inspire a desire within you, it is absolute that this time-space reality has the ability to yield you a full and satisfying manifestation of that same desire. It is Law.

7. To Achieve Success Is My Natural Birthright

Most people naturally assu me that if their life is not going the way they want it to go, so mething outside of themselves must be preventing the improvement, for no one would deliberately hold their own success away. But while pointing the blame at others may feel better than assu ming responsibility for unwanted conditions, there is a very big negative repercussion to believing that something o utside of you is the reason for your own lack of success: When you give the credit or the blame to another for your success or lack of it—you are powerless to make any change.

When you desire success, but—from your perspective—you are not currently experiencing it, at many deep levels of your Being you recognize that something is wrong. And as this strong feeling of personal discord magnifes your awareness that you are not getting what you want, it often sets into motion other counterproductive assumptions that evoke jealousy toward those who  are  having more success; resentment at a myriad of people you would like to blame for your lack of success; or even self-denigration, which is the most painful and counter productive assumption of all. And we submit that this uncomfortable upheaval is not only normal, but it is the perfect response to your feeling a lack of success.

Your emotional discomfort is a powerful indicator that something is very wrong. You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you. You are meant to be well, and sickness should not  be accepted. You are suppo sed to expand, and stagnation is intolerable. Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not, there is something wrong.

But what is wrong is not that an injustice has occurred, or that the gods of good fortune are not focusing on you, or that someone else has received the success that should have been yours. What is wrong is that you are out of har mony with your own Being, with  who-you-really-are, with what life has caused you to ask for, with what you have expanded to, and with the ever-consistent Laws of the Universe. What is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control. What is wrong is within you—and you do have control. And taking control is not diffcult to do once you understand the basis of who-you-are and the basics of the Law of Attraction and the value of your personal Emotional Guidance System that you were born with, which is always active, ever present, and easy to understand.

8. Money Is Not the Root of Evil or of Happiness

This important subject of money and fnancial success is not the “root of all evil” as  many have quoted—nor is it the path to happiness. However, because the subject of money touches most of you in one way or another hundreds or even thousands of times in every day, it is a large factor in your vibrational makeup and in your personal point of attraction. So when you are able to  successfully control so mething that affects most of you all day, every day, you will have acco mp lished something rather signifcant. In other words, because such a high percentage of your thoughts in any given day reside around the topic of money or fnancial success, as soon as you are able to deliberately  guide your thoughts, not only is it certain that your fnancial success must improve, but the evidence of  that  success will then prepare you for deliberate improvement in every aspect of your life experience.

If you are a student of  Deliberate Creation, if you want to consciously create your own reality, if you desire control of your own life experience, if you want to fulfll your reason for being, then your understanding o f these prevalent to pics— money and the Law of Attraction —will serve you enormously well.

9. I Am the Attractor of My Every Experience

You are meant to live an expansive, exhilarating, good-feeling experience. It was your plan when you made the decision to become focused in your physical body in this time- space reality. You expected this physical life to be exciting and rewarding. In other words, you knew that the variety and contrast would stimulate you to expanded desires, and you also knew that any and all of those desires could be fully and easily realized by you. You knew, also, that there would be no end to the expansion of new desires.

Yo u came into your bod y full of excitement about the possibilities that this life experience would inspire, and that desire that you held in the beginning was not muted at all by trep idation or doubt, for you knew your power and you knew that this life experience and all of its contrast would be the fertile ground for wonderful expansion.  Most of all, you knew that you were coming into this life experience with a Guidance System to help you remain true to your original intent as well as to your never-ending amended intentions that would be born out of this very life experience. In short, you felt an eagerness for this time-space reality that nearly defes physical description.

You were not a beginner—even though you were newly beginning in your wee, small physical body— but instead yo u were a powerful creative geniu s, newly focusing in a new, Leading Edge environment. You knew that there would be a time of adjustment while redefning a new platform from which you would begin your process of deliberate creating, and you were not the least bit worried about that time of adjustment. In fact, you rather enjoyed the nest into which you were born and those who were there to greet you into your new physical environment. And while you could not yet speak the language of their words—and although yo u were per ceived by tho se who greeted you as new and unknowing and in need of their guidance—you possessed a stability and a knowing that most of them had long left behind.

You were born knowing that you are a powerful Being, that you are good, that you are the creator of your experience, and that the Law of Attraction is the basis of all creation here in your new environment. You remembered then that the Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn) is the basis of the Universe, and you knew it would serve you well. And so it has.

You were still remembering then that you are the creator of your own experience. But even more important, you remembered that you do it through your thought, not your action. You were not uncomfortable being a small infant who offered no action or words, for you remembered the Well-Being of the Universe; you remembered your intentions in coming forth into your physical body, and you knew that there wo uld be plenty of time for acclimating to the language and ways o f your new environment; and, most of all,  you knew that  even though you would not be able to translate your vast knowledge from your Non-Physical environment directly into physical words and descriptions, it would not matter, for the most important things to set you on a path of joyful creation were already emphatically in place: You knew that the Law of Attraction  was consistently present and that your Guidance System  was immediately active. And, most of all, you knew that by trial, and what some may call “error,” you would eventually become co mp letely and conscio usly reoriented in your new environment.

10. I Knew of the Consistency of the  Law of Attraction

The fact that the  Law of Attraction  remains constant  and stable thro ughout the Universe was a big factor in your confdence as you came into your new physical environment, for you knew that the feedback of life would help you to remember and gain your footing. You remembered that the basis of everything is vibration and that the Law of Attraction responds to those vibrations and, in essence, organizes them, bringing things of like vibrations together while holding those not of like vibrations apart.

And so, you were not concerned about not being able to articulate that knowledge right away or to explain it to those around you who had seemingly forgotten everything they knew about it, because you knew that the consistency of this powerful Law would, soon enough, show itself to you through the examples of your own life. You knew then that it would not be diffcult to fgure out what kinds of vibrations you were offering because the Law of Attraction would be bringing to you constant evidence of whatever your vibration was.

In other words, when you feel overwhelmed, circumstances and people who could help you get out from under your feeling of overwhelment cannot fnd you, nor can you fnd them. Even when you try hard to fnd them, you cannot. And those people who do come do not help you, but, instead, they add to your feeling of overwhelment.

When you feel  mistreated —fairness cannot fnd you. Your perception of your mistreatment, and the subsequent vibration that yo u offer because of your perception, prevents anything that you would consider to be fair from coming to you.

When you are buried in the disappointment or fear of not having the fnancial resources that you believe you need, the dollars—or the opportunities that would bring the dollars—continue to elude you not because you are bad or unworthy, but because the Law of Attraction  matches things that are like, not things that are un like.

When you feel poor —only things that feel like poverty can come to you. When you feel prosperous —only things that feel like  prosperity  can come to you. This Law is consistent; and if you will pay attention, it will teach you, through life experience, how it works. When you remember that you get the essence of what you think about—and then you notice what you are getting—you have the keys for Deliberate Creation.

11. What Do We Mean by Vibration?

When we speak of vibration, we are actually calling your attention to the basis of your exper ience, for everything is actually vibrationally  based. We could use the word Energy inter changeably, and there are many other synonyms in your vocabulary that accurately apply.

Most understand the vibr ational characteristics o f sound. Sometimes when the deep, rich bass notes of your musical instrumentation are played loudly, you can even  feel  the vibrational nature of sound.

We want you to understand that whenever you “hear” something, you are interpreting vibration into the sound yo u are hearing. What you hear is your interpretation of vibration; what you hear is your unique interpretation of vibration. Each of your physical senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching exist because everything in the Universe is vibrating and your physical senses are reading the vibrations and giving you sensory perception of the vibrations.

So as you come to understand that you live in a pulsating, vibrating Universe of advanced harmonics, and that at the very core of your Being you are vibrating at what could only be described as perfection in vibrational balance and harmony, then you begin to understand vibration in the way we are pro jecting it.

Everything that exists, in your air, in your dirt, in your water, and in your bodies, is vibration in motion—and all of it is managed by the powerful Law of Attraction.

You could not sort it out if you wanted to. And there is no need for you to sort it out, because the Law of Attraction is doing the sorting, continually br inging things of like vibrations together while things of different vibratio nal natures are being repelled.

Your emotions, which really are the most powerful and important of your six physical vibrational interpreters, give you constant feedback about the harmonics of your current thoughts (vibrations) as they co mpare with the har monics o f your core vibratio nal state.

The Non-Physica l world is vibration.
The physical world that you know is vibration.
There is nothing that exists outside of this vibrational nature.
There is no thing that is not managed by the Law of Attraction.

Your understanding of vibration will help you to consciously br idge both worlds.
You do not have to understand your complex optic nerve or your primary visual cortex in order to see. You do not have to understand electricity to be able to turn on the light, and you do not have to understand vibrations in o rder to feel the difference between har mony or discord.

As you learn to accept your vibrational nature, and begin to consciously utilize your emotional vibrational indicators, you will gain conscious control of your personal creations and of the outcomes of your life experience.

12. Whenever I Feel Abundant, Abundance Finds Me

When you make the conscious correlation between what yo u have been feeling and what is actualizing in yo ur life exper ience, now you are empo wered to make changes. If you are not making that correlation, and so continue to offer thoughts of lack about things you want, the things you want will continue to elude you.

People, often, in this misunderstanding begin to assign power to things outside of themselves in order to explain why they are not thriving in the way they would like: “I’m not thriving because I was bo rn into the wrong environment. I’m not thriving because my parents did n’t thr ive, so they couldn’t teach me how to do it. I’m not  thriving because tho se peo ple over there are thriving, and they’re taking the resources that sho uld have been mine. I’m not thriving becau se I was cheated, because I’m not wo rthy, because I didn’t  live the right way in a past  life, because my government ignores my rights, because my husband doesn’t do his part because, because, because.”

And we want to r emind you, your “not thriving” is only because you are offering a vibration that is different from the vibration of thriving. You cannot feel poor (and vibrate poor) and thrive. Abundance cannot fnd you unless you offer a vibration of abundance.

Many ask, “But if I’m not thriving, then how in the world can I offer a vibration of thriving? Don’t I have to thrive befo re I can offer the vibration of thr iving?” We agr ee that it is certainly easy to maintain a condition of thriving when it is already in your experience, because then all you have to do is notice the good that is co ming and your observation of it will keep it co ming. But if yo u are standing in the absence of something you want, you must fnd a way to feel the essence of it—even before it co mes—or it cannot co me.

You cannot let your vibrational offering come only in response to  what-is  and then ever change what-is.  You must fnd a way of feeling  the excitement or satisfaction of your currently unrealized dreams befo re those dreams can become your reality. Find a way to deliberately imag ine a scenario for the purpose of offering a vibration and for the purpose of the  Law of Attraction  matching your vibration with a real-life manifestation. When you ask for the manifestation prior to the vibration, you ask the impossible. When you are willing to offer the vibration before the manifestation—all things are possible. It is Law.

13. Rather Than by Default, Live Life Deliberately

We are giving this book to you to remind you of things you already know at some level, so as to reactivate that vibrational k no wledge within you. It is not possible for you to read these words, which represent the knowledge that you hold fro m your Broader Perspective, without a recognition of this knowledge beginning to surface from within.

This really is the time of awakening—the time of remember ing your personal power and your reason for being. So take a deep breath, make an effort to get comfortable, and slowly read the contents of this book to restore yourself to your original vibrational essence.

So here yo u are, in a wo nderful state of being: no longer an infant under the contro l of others, somewhat acclimated into your physical environment, and now—by reading this book—returning to the recognition of the full power of your Being no longer buffeted around by the Law of Attraction like a small cork on a raging sea, but fnally remembering and gaining control of your own destiny, fnally and  deliberately  guiding your life within the powerful Law of Attraction  rather than respond ing in an attitude of default and just taking life as it co mes. In order to do that, you have to tell a different story. You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.

14. Tell the Story You Want to Experience

To live deliberately, you have to think deliberately; and in order to do that, you must have a reference po int in order to determine the co rr ect direction of your thought. Right no w, just as at the time of your birth, the two necessar y factors are in p lace. The Law of Attraction (the most powerful and consistent Law in the Universe) abounds. And yo ur Guidance System is within you, all queued up and read y to give you directional feed back. You have only one seemingly small but potentially life-changing thing to do: You have to begin telling your story in a new way. You have to tell it as you want it to be.

As you tell the story of your life (and you do it nearly all day, ever y day with your words, your thoughts, and your actions), you have to feel good while you tell it. In every moment, about every subject, you can focus positively or negatively, for in every particle of the Universe—in every moment in time and beyond—there is that which is wanted and the lack of what is wanted pulsing there for you to choose between.  And as these co nstant choices reveal themselves to you, you have the optio n of focusing upon what you want o r the lack of it regarding ever y subject, because every subject is really two subjects: what you want or the absence of what you want. You can tell, by the way yo u feel, which choice you are currently focused upon—and you can change your choice constantly.

15. Every Subject Is Really Two Subjects

The following are some examples to help you see how every subject is really two subjects:

Abundance/Poverty (absence of abundance) Health/Illness (absence of health)
Happiness/Sadness (absence of happiness) Clarity/Confusion (absence of clarity)
Energetic/Tired (absence of Energy) Knowledge/Doubt (absence of knowledge)
Interested/Bored (absence of interest)

I can do that/I can’t do that
I want to buy that/I can’t affo rd that
I want to feel good/I don’t feel good
I want more money/I do n’t have eno ugh money
I want more money/I don’t know how to get more money
I want more money/That person is getting more money than his/her share I want to be slender/I am
fat I want a new car/My car is old I want a lo ver/I don’t have a lover

As you read this list, it is undoubtedly obvious to you which we consider to be the better choice in each example, but there is a simp le and important  thing that you may be forgetting. There is a tendency as you read a list such as this to feel a need to state the factual truth abo ut the subject (“tell it like it is”) rather than make the statement of what you desire. That tendency alone is responsible for more miscreating and more personal disallowing of wanted things than all other things put together, and so, the examples and exercises offered in this book are given to help you orient yourself to ward what is wanted, not to explain what already is. You have to begin telling a different story if you want the Law of Attraction to bring you different things.

16. What Is the Story I’m Now Telling?

A very effective way to begin to tell that new story is to listen to the things that you are now saying throughout your day, and when you catch yourself in the middle of a statement that is contrary to what you want, stop and say, “Well, I clear ly know what it is that I don’t  want. What is it that I do want?” Then deliberately and emp hatically make your statement of desire.

I hate this ugly, old, unreliable car.
I want a pretty, new, reliable car.

I’m fat.
I want to be slender.

My employer doesn’t appreciate me.
I want to be appreciated by my employer.

Many would protest, claiming that a simple rewording of a sentence will not make a shiny new car appear in your driveway, or change your fat body to one that is slender, or cause your employer to suddenly change her personality and beg in to treat you differently— but they would be wrong. When you deliberately fo cus upon any desired subject, often pro claiming it to be as you want it to be, in time you experience an actual shift in the way you feel about the subject, which indicates a vibrational shift.

When your vibration shifts, your point of attraction shifts, and, by the powerful Law of Attraction, your manifestational evidence or indicator must shift, also. You cannot talk consistently of the things you do want to experience in your life without the Universe delivering the essence of them to you.

17. The  Pivoting Process  Can Reorient My Life

The  Process of Pivoting  is a conscious recognition that every subject is really two subjects, and then a deliberate speaking or thinking about the desired  aspect of the subject. Pivoting  will help you activate within yourself the aspects that you desire regar ding all subjects; and once you accomplish that, the essence of the things that you desire, on all subjects, must come into your experience.

There is an important clar ifcation that we must make here: If you are using words that speak of something that you desire while at the same time you are feeling doubt  about your own words, your words  are not bringing you what you want, because the way you are  feeling  is the true indication of the creative direction of your thought-vibration. The Law of Attraction is not responding to your words but to the vibration that is emanating from you.

Ho wever, since you cannot speak of what you do want and what you do not want at the same time, the more you speak of what you  do  want, the less frequently you will be speaking of what you do not want. And if you are serious about telling it like you want it to be rather than like it is, you will, in time (and usually a rather short time), change the balance of your vibration. If you speak it often enough, you will come to feel what you speak.

But there is something even more signifcantly powerful about this  Process of Pivoting: When life seems to have you negatively oriented toward the lack of something you want, and when you make the statement “I know what I do not want; what is it that I do want?” the answer to that question is summoned from within you, and in that very moment the beginning of a vibrational shift occurs. Pivoting is a powerful tool that will instantly improve your life.

18. I Am the Creator of My Life Experience

Yo u are the creator of yo ur o wn life experience, and as the creator o f your exper ience, it is important to understand that it is not by virtue of your action, not by virtue of your doing—it is not even by virtue of what you are saying—that you are creating. You are creating by virtue of the thought that you are offering.

You cannot speak or offer action without thought-vibration occurring at the same time; however, you are often offering a thought-vibration without offering words or action. Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Every thought that you think has its own vibrational frequency. Each thought that you offer, whether it has come to you out of your memory, whether it is an infu ence from another, or whether it is a thought that has beco me the combination of so mething you have been thinking and something that  another  has been thinking— every thought that you are pondering in your now —is vibrating at a very perso nal frequency and by the powerful Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like u nto itself, is drawn), that thought is no w attracting another thought that is its Vibrational Match. And now, those combined thoughts are vibrating at a frequency that is higher than the thought that came before; and they will now, by the Law of Attraction, attract another and another and another, until eventually the thoughts will be powerful enough to attract a “real life” situation or manifestation.

All people, circumstances, events, and situations are attracted to you by the power of the thoughts that you are thinking. Once you understand that  you are literally thinking or vibrating things into being, you may discover a new resolve within you to more deliberately direct your own thoughts.


19. Aligned Thoughts Are Thoughts That Feel Good

Many peop le believe that there is more to their Beingness than what is represented in their physical reality as the fesh, blood, and bone person they know themselves to be. As people grapple with ways to label this larger part of themselves, they use words such as Soul, Source, or God. We refer to that larger, older, wiser part of you as your Inner Being, but the label that you cho ose to describe this Eternal part of you is not important. What is extremely signifcant is that you understand that the larger You does, and will eternally, exist and plays a very large part in the experience that you are living here on planet Earth.

Every thought, word, or deed that you offer is played against the backdrop of that Broader Perspective. I ndeed, the reason that in any mo ment of clearly kno wing what you do not want, you emphatically then realize what it is that you do want is because that larger part of you is giving its und ivided attention to what you do want.

As you make a conscious effort to guide your thoughts, day by day, more in the direction of what you  do  want, yo u will beg in to feel better and better because the vibration that is activated by your improved-feeling thought will be a closer match to the vibration of the larger Non-Physical part of you. Your desire to think thoughts that feel good will guide you into alignment with the Broader Perspective of your  Inner Being.  In fact, it is not possible for you to really feel good in any moment unless the thoughts you are thinking right now are a Vibrational Match to the thoughts of your Inner Being.

For example, your  Inner Being  focuses upon your value—when you identify some faw in yourself, the negative emo tion that you feel is about that vibratio nal discord or resistance. Your Inner Being chooses to focus only upon things about which it can feel love—when you are focusing upon some aspect of someone or something that you abhor, you have focused yourself out of vibra-tional alignment with your Inner Being. Your Inner Being focuses only upon your success—when you choose to see something you are doing as failure, you are out of alignment with the perspective of your Inner Being.

20. Seeing My World Through the Eyes of Source

By choosing better-feeling thoughts and by speaking more of what you do want and less of what you do not want, you will gently tune yourself to the vibrational frequency of your broader, wiser Inner Being. To be in vibrational alignment with that Broader Perspective while living your own physical life experience is truly the best of all worlds because as you achieve vibrational alignment with that Broader Perspective, you then see your world fro m that Broader Per spective. To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with—and therefore in the process of attracting— only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.

Esther, the wo man who translates the vibration of Abraham into the sp oken or written wo rd, do es so by relaxing and deliber ately allowing the vibration of her o wn Being to raise until it harmo nizes with the Non-Physical vibration of Abraham. She has been do ing this for many years now, and it has become a very natural thing for her to do. She has long understood the advantage of aligning her vibration so that she could effectively translate o ur knowledge for other physical friends, but she had not really understood another wonderful beneft of that alignment until one beautiful spring morning when she walked down the dr iveway by herself to open the gate for her mate, who would eventually fo llow in the auto mobile.

As she stood there waiting, she gazed up into the sky and found it to be more beautiful than it had ever appeared before: It was rich in color, and the contrast of the brilliant blue sky and the strikingly white clouds was amazing to her. She could hear the sweet songs of bird s that were so far away she could not see them, but their beautifu l so und made her shiver with excitement as she heard them. They sounded as if they were right above her head o r sitting on her shoulder. And then she became aware of many different delicious fragrances fowing from plants and fowers and earth, moving in the wind and enveloping her. She felt alive and happy and in love with her beautiful world. And she said right out loud, “There can never have been, in all of the Universe, a more beautiful moment in time than this, right here, right now!”
And then she said, “Abraham, it is you, isn’t it?” And we smiled a very broad smile through her lips, for she had caught us peeping through her eyes, hear ing through her ears, smelling through her no se, feelin g through her skin.
“Indeed,” we said, “we are enjoying the deliciousness of your physical world through your physical body.”

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are mo ments of complete alignment with the Source within you. Those moments when you feel powerful attraction to an idea, or keen interest, are also moments of complete alignment. In fact, the better you feel, the more in alignment you are with your Source— with  who-you-really-are.

This alignment with yo ur Broader Perspective will not only allow you faster achievement of the big things that you want in life—like wonderful relationships, satisfying careers, and the resources to do the things you really want to do—but this conscious alignment will enhance every moment of your day. As you tune yourself to the perspective of your Inner Being, your days will be flled with wonderful moments of clarity, satisfaction, and love. And that is truly the way you intended to live while here in this wonderful place, this wonderful time, and this wonderful body.

21. I Can Deliberately Choose to Feel Better

The reason that Esther was able to allow that fuller perspective of Abraham to fow through her, providing her with such a delicious experience, was because she had begun that day by looking for reasons to feel good. She looked for the frst thing to feel good about while she was still lying in her bed, and that good-feeling thought  attracted another and another and another and another and another, until by the time she reached the gate (which was approximately two hours later), by virtue of her deliberate choice of thoughts, she had brought  her vibrational frequency to a level that was close enough to matching that of her Inner Being that her Inner Being was able to easily interact with her.

Not only does the thought you are choosing right now attract the next thought and the next and so on—it also provides the basis of your alignment with your Inner Being. As you consistently and deliberately think and speak mo re of what you do want and less of what you do not want, you will fnd yourself more often in alignment with the pure, positive essence of your own Source; and under those conditions, your life will be extremely pleasing to you.

22. Could Illness Be Caused by Negative Emotion?

Esther’s experience at the gate was dramatically enhanced by her vibrational alig nment with her Source and therefore with absolute Well-Being. But it is also possible for you to experience the opposite of that enhanced exper ience if you are out of alignment with Source and Well-Being. In other words, sickness or illness, or lack of Well-Being, occurs when you vibrationally disallow your alignment with Well-Being.


Whenever you experienced  negative emotion (fear, doubt, frustration, loneliness, and so on), that feeling of negative emotion was the result of your thinking a thought that did not vibrate at a frequency that was in harmony with your  Inner Being. Through all of your life experiences— physical and Non-Physical—your Inner Being, or the Total You, has evolved to a place of  knowing. And so, whenever you are conscio usly focused upo n a tho ught that does not harmonize with that which your Inner Being  has come to know—the resultant feeling within you will be one of negative emotion.

If you were to sit on your foot and cut off the circulation of the fow of blood, or if you were to put a tourniquet around your neck and restrict the fow of o xygen, you would feel immediate evid ence of the restriction. And, in like manner, when you think thoughts that are not in harmony with the thoughts of your Inner Being, the fow of Life Force, or Energy, that comes into your physical body is stifed or restricted—and the result of that restriction is that you feel negative emotion. When you allow that negative emotion to continue over a long period of time, you often experience deterioration of your physical body.

Remember, ever y subject is really two subjects: what is wanted or lack of what is wanted. It is like picking up a stick with two ends: One end represents what you do want; the other end represents what you do not  want. So the stick called “Physical Well-Being” has “wellness” on one end and “illness” on the other. Ho wever, people do not experience “illness” only because they are looking at the negative end of the “Physical Well- Being” stick, but because they have been looking at the “I kno w what I don’t want” end of many, many sticks.

When your chronic attention is upon things that you do not want—while the chronic attention of your Inner Being is upon the things that you  do want—over time, you cause a vibrational separation between you and your Inner Being, and that is what all illness is: separation (caused by your choice of thoughts) between you and your Inner Being.

23. Pivot from Feeling Bad to Feeling Good

Everyone wants to feel good, but most people believe that ever ything around them needs to be pleasing to them  before they can feel good. In fact, most people feel the way they do in any moment in time because of something they are observing. If what they are observing pleases them, they feel good, but if what they are observing does not please them, they feel bad. Most peo ple feel quite powerless about consistently feeling good because they believe that in order to feel good, the conditions around them must change, but they also believe that they do not have the power to change many of the condit ions.

Ho wever, once you understand that every subject really is two subjects—what is wanted and lack of it—you can learn to  see more of the positive aspects of whatever you are giving your attention to. That really is all that the Process of Pivoting is: deliberately looking for a more positive way—a better-feeling way—to approach whatever you are giving your attention to.

When you are  facing an unwanted condition and are therefore feeling bad, if you will deliberately say, “I know what I do not want what is it that I do want?” the vibration of your Being, which is affected by your point of focus, will shift slightly, causing your point of attraction to shift, also. This is the way that you begin telling a different story about your life. Rather than saying, “I never have enough money,” you say instead, “I’m looking forward to having more money.” That is a very different story—a very different vibration and a very different feeling, which will, in time, bring you a very different result.

As you continue to ask yourself, from your ever-changing vantage point, “What is it that I do want?” eventually you will be standing in a very pleasing place—for you cannot continually ask yourself what it is that you do want without your point of attraction beginning to shift in that direction. The process will be gradual, but your continued application of the process will yield wond erful results in only a few days.

24. Am I in Harmony with My Desire?

So the Pivoting Process is simply: Whenever you recognize that you are feeling a negative emotion (it is really that you are feeling the lack of harmony with something that you want), the obvious thing for you to do is to stop and say, I’m feeling negative emotion, which means I am not in harmony with something that I want. What do I want?

Anytime that you are feeling negative emotion, you are in a very good positio n to identify what it is that you are, in that mo ment, wanting— becau se never are you clearer about what you do want than when you are experiencing what you  do not want. And so, stop, in that moment, and say: Something is important here; otherwise, I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want? And then simply turn your attention to what you do want. In the moment you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop; and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And—in that moment—your feeling will change from not feeling good to feeling good. That is the Process of Pivoting.

25. What  Do I Want, and  Why?

Perhaps the strongest r esistance that people have to beginning to tell a different story about their own life  is  their belief that they should always speak “the truth” about where they are o r that they should “tell it like it  is.” But when you understand that the Law of Attraction is responding to you while you are telling your story of “ho w it is”—and therefo re is perpetuating more o f whatever story yo u are telling— you may decide that it really is in your best interest to tell a different story, a story that more closely matches what you would now like to live. When you acknowledge what you do not want, and then ask yourself, “What is it that I do want?” you begin a gradual shift into the telling of your new story and into a much-improved point of attraction.

It is always helpful to remember that you get the essence of what you think about—whether you want it or not—because the Law of Attraction is unerringly consistent. Therefore, you are never only telling the story of “how it is now.” You are also telling the story of the future experience that you are creating right now.

So metimes peo ple misu nderstand what the Process of Pivoting is, as they incorrectly assume that to pivot means to look at something  unwanted  and try to convince themselves that it is wanted. They think that we are asking them to look at something that they clearly believe is wrong and to pronounce it right, or that it is a way of kidding themselves into accepting some unwanted thing. But yo u are never in a position where you can kid yourself into feeling better about something, because the way you feel is the way yo u feel, and the way you feel is always a result of the thought that you have chosen.

It is really a wonderful thing that, through the process of living life and noticing the things around you that you  do not want, you are then able to come to clear conclu sio ns about what you do want. And when you care about how you feel, you can easily apply the Process of Pivoting  to direct your attention toward more of the wanted aspects, and less of the unwanted aspects, of life. And then, as the Law of Attraction responds to your increasingly improved, better-feeling thoughts, you will no tice your o wn life experience transforming to match mo re of those wanted  aspects, while the unwanted aspects gradually fade out of your experience.

When you deliberately apply the Process of Pivoting, which means you are deliberately choosing your own thoughts, which means you are deliberately choosing your vibrational point of attraction, you are also deliberately choosing how your life unfolds. Pivoting is the process of deliberately focusing your attention with the intent of directing your own life experience.

26. I Can Feel Better Right Now

People often complain that it would be much easier for them to focus on something positive if it were alread y happening in their life experience. They accurately acknowledge that it is much easier to feel good about something when something good is already happening. We certainly do not disagree that it is easier to feel good while noticing things you believe are good. But if you believe that you only have the ability to focus upon what is happening, and if what is happening is not pleasing, then yo u could wait an entire lifetime because your attentio n to unwanted  things is preventing wanted things from coming to you.You do not have to wait for a good thing to happen in order to feel good, for you have the ability to direct your thoughts toward improved things no matter what is currently present in your experience. And when you care about how you feel and you are willing to pivot and turn your attention toward better-feeling thoughts, you will quickly begin the positive, deliberate transformation of your life.

Things that are coming into your experience are coming in response to your vibration. Your vibration is offered because of the thoughts you are thinking, and you can tell by the way you feel what kinds of thoughts you are thinking. Find good-feeling thoughts and good-feeling manifestations must follow.

Many people say, “It would be so much easier for me to be happy if I were in a different place: if my relationship were better, if my mate were easier to live with, if my physical body didn’t hurt or if my body looked different, if my work was more fulflling, if I only had more money. If the conditions of my life were better, I would feel better, and then it would be easier for me to be thinking more positive thoughts.”

Seeing pleasing things does feel good, and it is easier to feel good when a pleasing thing is there, obvious for you to see—but you cannot ask others around you to orchestrate only pleasing things for you to see. Expecting others to provide the perfect environment for you is not a good idea, for many reasons: (1) It is not their responsibility to feather your nest; (2) it is not possible for them to control conditions you have created around you; and (3) most important of all, you would be giving up your power to create your own exper ience.

Make a decision to look for the best-feeling aspects of whatever you must give your attention to, and otherwise look only for good-feeling things to give your attention to—and your life will become one of increasingly good-feeling aspects.

This is part of the book: Money, and the Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks

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