Study Group

    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.

    Usually, once people have focused upon problems and such enough that they have disallowed their Well-Being and they are seriously ill, they then turn their undivided attention to the illness--thus perpetuating it more. Sometimes a doctor can enhance(提高.增加) your belief in wellness if he has a process or a remedy that he believes will help you. In that case, the desire is amplified because of the illness, and the belief is enhanced because of the proposed remedy--but in the case of the supposedly curable disease, the two factors that brought about the healing were the same: desire and belief.

    Anyone who can come to expect Well-Being can achieve it under any conditions. The trick is to expect Well-Being or, as the man in your example did, simply distract yourself from the lack of Well-Being.