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Depending on a country's customs, tea can refer to any of several different meals or mealtimes. As a meal typically eaten in the afternoon or early evening, it is ubiquitous.

    Abraham: When you have been on a particular train of thought for a while, it is not easy to abruptly（突然地） change the direction of your thought, because the Law of Attraction is supplying you with thoughts that match your current train of thought. Sometimes while you are in that negative-feeling mode, another who is not in that negative place will not agree with your negative view of your current subject, which only serves to make you want to defend your position all the more. Trying to defend or justify your opinion only causes you to stay in your resistant(抵抗的) state longer. And the reason so many people hold themselves in resistance(抵抗) unnecessarily is because it is more important to them to be "right" rather than to feel good.

    When you meet those who are determined to convince you that are right, and they try to hold you in a negative conversation in an attempt to convince you, sometimes you are considered "uncaring(不注意的)" or "coldhearted(冷淡的)" if you do not hear them and eventually agree with their point of view. But when you forfeit(喪失) your good feeling (that comes when you choose thoughts that harmonize with your Broader Perspective(透視的) ) to try to please a negative friend who wants to use you as a sounding board, you are paying a very big price for something that will not help him or her either. That uncomfortable knot in your stomach is your Inner Being saying, This behavior, this conversation, isn't in harmony with what you want. You must be willing to please yourself first or you will often be swept  up by the negativity that surrounds you.

    Jerry: Norman Cousins was an author who contracted a disease that was considered to be incurable(無法治癒的). (I don't think anyone had ever recovered from it.) But he survived it, and he said he was able to do so by watching a series of humorous television programs. I understand that he just watched these programs--and laughed-- and the disease went away. What would you say was behind his recovery?

   Abraham: His recovery was accomplished because he achieved vibrational alignment(對準;一直線) with Well-Being. There are two primary factors involved in his finding vibrational alignment: First, his desire for wellness was dramatically enhanced by his illness; and second, the programs he watched distracted him from the illness--the pleasure that he felt as he laughed at the humor of the programs was his indication that his allowance of Well-Being had ceased. Those are the two factors required in the creation of anything: Want it and allow it.

What Can I Do to Help Them?

    Jerry: What’s the best thing that I, as an individual, can do for other people who are having physical problem?

  Is Spending Money Comfortable?

 A very prevalent way of looking at money was expressed to us by a woman who explained that she always feels uncomfortable when she spends her money. She had, over time, managed to save quite a bit of money, but whenever she would think about spending some of it, she would “freeze up” and “feel afraid to go another step further.”

   Jerry: Many people are hoping for some major financial windfall(意外的收穫) to come to them to free them from debt or to release them from working at something they don't want to work at in order to receive money. The thing I hear them say most often is that they want to win the lottery, where they'll get their abundance in exchange for someone else losing theirs.

   Abraham: If their expectation were in a place that would allow it, then that could be a way for money to come to them. But most know the odds against that, and so their expectation for winning the lottery is not in a powerful place either.

035 038An Example of a Positive Aspects Bedtime Process

  Jerry:So during my 20 years in a wide variety of positions in the entertainment industry, I really had a lot of fun; it required only a few hours of my time, and I had a lot of adventurous challenges because I had so many new experiences...and yet I often told people that I felt like I was walking across the sands of life, but when I looked back, there were no tracks. In other words, I felt that I was bringing my audiences some temporary pleasure, but I wasn't  leaving them with anything of permanent value.
  Do we all inherently have those drives to uplift others? Do they come from anothers around us once we're born into this physical environment?

Jerry:If a person seems to be in good health but feels tired or listless most of the time, what would you suggest as a solution?

Abraham:People often refer to that state of being tired or listless as a state of low energy, and that is really a good way of saying it. While you cannot cut yourself off from your Energy source, when you offer thoughts that contradict that source, your resulting feeling is one of resistance or low energy, The way you feel is always about the degree to which you are in alignment or out of alignment with your Source. No exceptions.