There’s often a dispute about how money works in with the rest of life. If you’re into philosophy and psychology, and especially if you can kinda sell it and put it into meaningful words, you’re like, Never feel miserable about anything—ever! (Even if you’re dirt poor.) And if you’re a business guy, and you’re in a famous movie, you’re like, Show me the money! The Abraham beings, as I understand them, connect the two. (Everything is connected.) How you feel matters—so feel good now, and then /that/ will make you prosperous. So you do have to master your emotions (although I think you have to go gingerly sometimes: if you always go back to the negative it’s because it’s not random; it’s your set-point…. You just have to change your set-point), but once you get good at playing the game of reality or whatever, you don’t always or even usually have to deal with “bad circumstances”, you know.

…. Say you experience fear. (You might be a Six.) Sometimes you might be like an early 20th-century psychologist, trying to discern if the situation warrants that you should feel that way. “Some anxiety is rational, and some is not.” If you’re like me you might even ask God whether there’s something to be afraid of. But what I’ve found is that God’s advice is never going to be to paralyze yourself with fear, curl up into the fetal position, and withdraw from reality. Fear is never /really/ rational; it’s guck. Abraham says, “Notice how you feel.” Then, do something to feel better. Practical, right? The rationalist according to a certain definition would almost find it unsettling. “But I KNOW there’s something wrong…. Maybe if I change this, it’ll be Wrong….”

…. They do mention that it takes time to change your set-point in most instances. You have all the time you need. Life’s not a rush.

About the specific processes, I won’t go through each one, but I guess the basic point is to take time to consciously think of good things and make you feel good. Don’t take a PhD in misery: really go back to kindergarten and learn how to feel good.

Also, some of the points seem familiar from non-prosperity manuals, like meditation, but are conceived of differently to some extent in Abraham’s system, ie as a prelude to prosperity. That is, meditation as allowing, and so you can let it be good now and later, more than a more metaphysical (or religious, I guess) motivation.

It’s also probably a book to refer to again, at the very least. I mean, I mentioned I essentially wasted a whole reading once! “Ok, another one about money; whatever….”! But we grow in stages: now, I read, Remember to consciously visualize good things again; later, when I have more experience, the subtly different ways of doing that that they discern, might start to make more sense and come into focus more.

…. Two related things: Feeling powerful is better than feeling powerless, victimized. So try to look at the shining side of even the worst things, the petty tyrants who blossom into becoming the ensemble leads of my favorite war movie of all time, “The Triumph of Fear”. Really see them just needing to feel powerful instead of rejected, and smile.

And: people “should” I guess, since it’s their life, want to heal and not go around hating themselves and their world, right. I mean, I think that’s good advice. But the Universe is a ladder, and ladders have rungs. People are allowed—I mean, people are allowed to do whatever they want; in a movie, it’s like “Stop or we’ll shoot”, right: the person still has a choice—but people can take the ladder one rung at a time, people are allowed to take their time. If it takes them another forty years, well…. Does God ever run out of time? Does he ever say, I’m getting tired of waiting, Eternity starts in five minutes, missy, my infinite patience is Over!! You know. People ask for hell but they don’t want it; don’t tell them it’s in store for them. I mean, people waste big gulps of their life, their energy, or they try to improve and they fail or improve partially, with setbacks…. What’s the rush? Is eternity going to end? What’s the rush? Who says you have to go from a blubbering accusing victim to a miracle magnet in sixty seconds or less? Are you late for the last train to New York or something? Hell, fuck New York. New Yorkers are rude. Spend time in New Jersey instead. Sure, we’re not Quite As Advanced—our watches run a little slower—but we get there. What’s the rush?

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Abraham-Createurs-davant-garde--Demandez-et-vous-...

> Un livre qui traite de fa]con concrète de l'intention positive. Il explique comment réussir ses intentions de vie et ainsi éviter les échecs répétitifs. .
—Danieljean (Babelio) ( )

(note: this was among my to-be-reviewed books that ended up in the hands of the wrong people when moving 4/1/18 - see https://btripp-books.livejournal.com/206862.html for details - I did brief reviews of these lost books on recall)
(finished 12/31/17)
A friend of mine is deeply into the whole “Law of Attraction” thing, and highly recommended this title to me. While my cynical mind has a hard time with the genre in general, I found that reading this was not the battle that it often is with this sort of book. Frankly, I found a lot of concepts/tools in this appearing quite useful, and am quite miffed not to have it and my notes on it anymore. Because of the nature of this (sort of a self-development workbook), it has a reasonably good chance of being something that I might buy a replacement copy of – which is high praise indeed, coming from me.

I know it's fabulous, but I wasn't in the right "mind space" for it when I tried to read it this year. Wondering where these ideas fit into the spiritual beliefs I have worked hard to sort out over the last 45 years. ( )

Simple concept, great reminder, but not always obvious as we trudge through life. Ask. Give thanks. Believe. Repeat. ( )