Study Group

  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?
  Abraham: You are born wanting to be of value. Most of that feeling of lack that you were describing was not about your not being able to provide lasting value to others, but because your thoughts were keeping you away from your own personal alignment with who-you-really-are(with your Inner Being or Source), you cannot help but uplift those with whom you come into contact, and in that alignment, you do not notice so many others who are not in alignment. The Law of Attraction does not surround you with satisfied people when you are dissatisfied. And the Law of Attraction does not surround you with satisfied people when you are dissatisfied.
  You simply cannot compensate for your own misalignment by offering more time or energy or action. You cannot find ideas that are effective enough to make up the differences. Your value yo those around you hinges upon only one thing: your personal alignment wuth Source. And the only thing you have to give to another is an example of that alignment─which they may observe, then desire, and then work to achieve. But you cannot give it to them.
  The entertainment that you provided to your audiences was actually a much bigger gift than you were able to acknowledge at the time, for you were providing distraction from troubleing things; and in the absence of your audiences members' attention to their problems, they did achieve, in many cases, temporary alignment with Source. But you cannot go with each of them, holding yourself as theur only object of atteneion in order to maintain their good feelings. Everyone is responsible foe the thoughts they think and the things that they choose as their objects of attention.
  All of you have, deep within you, an understanding that you are here as joyous creators, but you are always being called toward that fulfillment, but there is not a long list of requirements that you are expected to accomplish, Your intention was to let your physical environment inspire your never-enfing ideas of expansion or desire, and then you intended to align with the Source Energy within you for the achievement of those ideas. In other words, you knew you desires would be born from your participation here, and then, once the desire was alive within you, you could focus your thoughts until you accomplished a feeling of expection─and then your desire would come to fruition.
  The primary role that others around you play in that equation for creation is they provide variety from which your desires are born. It was not your intention to measure your value against the value of others, bit to be inspired to new ideas by the combination of things going on around you. Any comparison to others is only meant to inspire expanded desire. It was never intended as a means to diminish you or discount your value.
  Your life is not about what you will do after work, on the weekend, or after you retired. Your life is happening now and is really represented by how you are feeling now. If you work feels unpleasant or unfulfilling or hard, it is not bacause you are standing in the wrong place, but because your perspective is clouded by contradicted thought.
  You cannot have a happy ending to a journey that has not been pleasant along the way. The end absolutely does not justify the means. The means, or the path along the way, always brings about the essence of an identical ending.

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.
   As you tell the story of what you want(which is the story the Source within you is always telling), you feel happy and energized. The feeling of low energy is always a result of telling a different story than the expanded, Source Energy part of you is telling. When you tell a story that focuses upon the positive aspects of you life─you feel energized. When you teel a story that focuses upon the negative aspects─you feel enervated. When you foucus upon the absence of something that you desire in your present experience─you feel negative emotion. When you imagine an improved condition─you feel positive emotion. The way you feel is always about the relationship between the object of your attention and your true desire. Giving thoughts to what is wanted will give you the invigoration that you seek.

My Thoughts Creats My Physical Experience
  The idea of “success,” for most people, revoles around money or the acquisition of property or other possessions─but we consider a state of joy as the greatest achievement of success. And while the attainment of money and wonderful possession certainly can enhance your state of joy, the achievement of a good-feeling physical body is by far the greatest factor for maintaining a contiuning state of joy and Well-being.
  Every part of your life is experienceed through the perspective of your physical body, and when you feel good, eveything you see looks better. Certainly it is possible to maintain a good attitude even when your physical body is diminished in some way, but a good-feeling body is a powerful basis for an ongoing good attitude. And so, it is not surprising that since the way you feel affects your attitudes equals the way your life continues to play out─there are few things of greater value than the achievement of a good-feeling body.
  It is quite interesting to note that not only does a good-feeling body promote positive thoughts, but that, also, positive thoughts promote a good-feeling body. That means you do not have to be in a perfect state of health in order to find feelings of relief that eventually can lead to a wnderful mood or attitude, for if you are able to somehow find that relief even when your body is hurting or sick, you will find physical improvement, because your thoughts create your reality.

  　A  woman said to us:“I recently found out that I'm going to be attending three or four holiday parties, and as soon as I heard that, I started thinking, Oh, Mary's going to be there, and she's going to be gorgeous. I started immediately comparing myself to other people. I'd like to stop going that and feel good about me and just enjoy the parties, no matter who's there. Could you help me apply the processes of pivoting and positive Aspects regarding myself-consciousness. I really don't even want to attend these parties.”
  　We explained:While your feeling of self-consciousness is amplified as you consider your attendance of these parties, neither the party nor Mary is the reason for you discomfort. It often seems complicated to sort out your ralationships with other people, even tracing the begining of these feelings back into your childhood, but there is no value in doing that. You have the ability, from right where you stand, to find positive aspects or negative aspects─to think of the wanted or unwanted─and whether you begin the process right now or several days before you attend your first party, or whether you wait until you are at the party, the work is the same: Looking for things that feel good when you focus on them.
  　Because you have more control over what is activated in your own mind, it is usually much easier to find the positive aspects of a situation before you are standing right in the middle of it. If you do imagine the situation as you want it to be, and you do practice your positive response to the upcoming situation, then when you are at the party you will witness the control that you set into motion days before.
 　 You cannot feel good and bad at the same time. You cannot focus upon wanted and unwanted at the same time. If you have trained your thoughts to what you consider to be good, or unwanted before you arrive at a party, the Law of Attraction will deliver to you things that feel good and are wanted. It really is as simple as that.
 　 If you want to feel different at these upcoming parties than you have felt at parties in previous years, you must begin telling a different story. The story you have been telling goes something like this:“I'm only invited to these parties because of my ralationship with my mate. It really isn't important to anyone that I be there.I'm not really a part of his work emvironment, and I son't really understand most of the things that they're interested in. I'm an outsider. Mary doesn't feel like an outsider like I do. Her confidence is obvious in the way she dresses and carries herself. I am near Mary. I hate feeling like this. I wish I didn't have to go.”
  　Here is an example of an attempt at a better-feeling story:“My mate is well respected at his firm. It's nice that his company occasionally provids an opportunity for people who work there to include their spouses and to get to know one anther. No one there expects me to be up to speed with the inner workings of that environment. In fact this will be a party where they will probably enjoy thinking about other things than their work.
  　“Life is much larger than what happens at my husband's office. And since I'm never there, I may very well appesr to be a breath of fresh air to many of them because I'm not bogged down in the things they're troubled about. Mary seems light snd friendly. She's clearly not bogged down in office politics or problems. It's fun to watch her. She's interesting. I wonder where she buys her clothing─they are very pretty things she wears.”
  　You see, it is not necessary that you sort out every insecurity that you have ever felt and use this office party as a means to solve it. Just find something positive to focus upon and feel the benefit of having done so, and in time, Mary will be a nonissue, or maybe a friend. But in any case, it is your decision to make, and your vibration practice to make it so.

  The fact that the Law of Attraction remains constant and stable throughout the Universe was a big factor in your confidence 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 vibration apart.