Study Group

    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.