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The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide
This Leading Edge book by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical entity Abraham, will help you understand the emotions that you’ve been experiencing all of your life. Instead of the out-of-control, knee-jerk reactions that most people have to their ever-changing life experience, this work will put those responses into a broader context. You’ll come to understand what emotions are, what each of them means, and how to effectively utilize your new awareness of them.
As you read, you’ll come to appreciate, and make peace with, where you are right now, even though there is so much more that you may desire. Every thought you absorb will bring you to a greater understanding of your own personal value and will show you how to open your own doors to whatever you may wish to be, do, or have. And as you turn the last page of this book, you will very likely find yourself thinking, I have always known this, but now, I know this!
Includes a FREE CD excerpt from a live Art of Allowing Workshop with Abraham!
As you read, you’ll come to appreciate, and make peace with, where you are right now, even though there is so much more that you may desire. Every thought you absorb will bring you to a greater understanding of your own personal value and will show you how to open your own doors to whatever you may wish to be, do, or have. And as you turn the last page of this book, you will very likely find yourself thinking, I have always known this, but now, I know this!
Includes a FREE CD excerpt from a live Art of Allowing Workshop with Abraham!
262 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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Esther Hicks
212 books1,416 followersEsther Hicks is an American inspirational speaker and best-selling author. She has co-authored nine books with her husband Jerry Hicks, presents workshops on the Law of Attraction and appeared in the first release of the film The Secret. The Hickses' books, including the best-selling series The Law of Attraction, are — according to Esther Hicks — Channelled from a group of non-physical entities called Abraham (Hicks describes what she is doing as tapping into "infinite intelligence").
Esther Hicks was born in Coalville, Utah. She married her current husband, Jerry Hicks, in 1980 and has one daughter by her former marriage.
Esther Hicks's material was the inspiration behind "The Secret"
Esther Hicks was born in Coalville, Utah. She married her current husband, Jerry Hicks, in 1980 and has one daughter by her former marriage.
Esther Hicks's material was the inspiration behind "The Secret"
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February 12, 2019
"Beyond the five physical senses that you are actively aware of, there is another less-realized sense — the sense of emotion." pg 20
Esther Hicks channeled this book from her "higher self," an entity she calls Abraham. It is about how one can deliberately create their experience by being aware of their emotions. It also gives advice on how to focus on those things that make you feel good, because by doing so, Hicks believes it will "bring you into alignment" with your higher being. And, therefore, you'll allow the goodness of creation to flow through you.
"Allowing yourself to become what life has caused you to desire is not about action. It is about the aligning of thought Energies. It is about focusing your attention in the direction of your desire rather than looking back at the current conditions that have given birth to your desire." pg 25
My favorite part of this book was contained within the first 45 pages in which Abraham talks in a general way about emotions and their latent power. The rest of the book contained examples of how to apply this teaching to specific questions Hicks received at her various workshops.
I didn't find the second portion as helpful because, first of all, it felt like we were focusing on current conditions. Secondly, the answer to every question was to soften the emotions by looking for things that made you feel good about in whatever subject was being discussed. Then, roll with that until the emotions shift. Honestly, it felt repetitive after the first two or three examples.
I suppose if one of the questions had applied directly to my life experience right now, then maybe I would have had a different view of this book. As it is, I prefer Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires to this.
Ask and It is Given deals with the topic in a more general way and I got more out of it.
I can understand the criticisms of Hicks as a life philosophy: that she teaches people to ignore their problems, to be selfish, to be utterly self absorbed. But wasn't it a teaching of the Buddha that the first love you should attend to, before you can offer unconditional love to others, is self love. You build a base of love and everything else flows from that. I see Hick's teachings as the same kind of thing — self love first.
I think another point to bring up before closing the discussion of this book is the idea that the Law of Attraction, so beloved of New Age teachers and authors, functions rather like gravity. You don't have to teach someone how to utilize gravity because it just works. The Law of Attraction is the same kind of deal and isn't that nice to know.
So, no matter what you're doing, thinking or feeling, you're not going to float off into outer space because gravity has got both of your feet safely planted on the ground. I like to approach any teachings about the Law of Attraction the same way. I can play with ideas and techniques, but at the end of the day, it's going to do its thing whether I'm paying attention to it or not.
Recommended for readers who like New Age materials or love the teachings of Abraham Hicks.
Esther Hicks channeled this book from her "higher self," an entity she calls Abraham. It is about how one can deliberately create their experience by being aware of their emotions. It also gives advice on how to focus on those things that make you feel good, because by doing so, Hicks believes it will "bring you into alignment" with your higher being. And, therefore, you'll allow the goodness of creation to flow through you.
"Allowing yourself to become what life has caused you to desire is not about action. It is about the aligning of thought Energies. It is about focusing your attention in the direction of your desire rather than looking back at the current conditions that have given birth to your desire." pg 25
My favorite part of this book was contained within the first 45 pages in which Abraham talks in a general way about emotions and their latent power. The rest of the book contained examples of how to apply this teaching to specific questions Hicks received at her various workshops.
I didn't find the second portion as helpful because, first of all, it felt like we were focusing on current conditions. Secondly, the answer to every question was to soften the emotions by looking for things that made you feel good about in whatever subject was being discussed. Then, roll with that until the emotions shift. Honestly, it felt repetitive after the first two or three examples.
I suppose if one of the questions had applied directly to my life experience right now, then maybe I would have had a different view of this book. As it is, I prefer Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires to this.
Ask and It is Given deals with the topic in a more general way and I got more out of it.
I can understand the criticisms of Hicks as a life philosophy: that she teaches people to ignore their problems, to be selfish, to be utterly self absorbed. But wasn't it a teaching of the Buddha that the first love you should attend to, before you can offer unconditional love to others, is self love. You build a base of love and everything else flows from that. I see Hick's teachings as the same kind of thing — self love first.
I think another point to bring up before closing the discussion of this book is the idea that the Law of Attraction, so beloved of New Age teachers and authors, functions rather like gravity. You don't have to teach someone how to utilize gravity because it just works. The Law of Attraction is the same kind of deal and isn't that nice to know.
So, no matter what you're doing, thinking or feeling, you're not going to float off into outer space because gravity has got both of your feet safely planted on the ground. I like to approach any teachings about the Law of Attraction the same way. I can play with ideas and techniques, but at the end of the day, it's going to do its thing whether I'm paying attention to it or not.
Recommended for readers who like New Age materials or love the teachings of Abraham Hicks.
October 29, 2010
Curl up one night and pick up this book to hear soothing words about how you can be, do, or have anything and how perfect and wonderful you are... Enter a magical land where entities of the nonphysical dimension enchant you and tell you all the things you could want to hear... Surrender your critical thinking skills and open your mind to the possibility of solely listening to your emotions for guidance... You are getting sleepy...very sleepy... Let The Astonishing Power of Emotions take you on a magical journey as they convince you that you should use emotional reasoning rather than critical thinking skills. This book will help you delude yourself about any situation in your life. Anything that is bothering you, there is an example of a way to talk yourself into feeling better, even without things changing. Will things change? After you delude yourself, it really won't matter...or will it? If you are wanting to change a situation in your life, this is not the book. If you want to convince yourself that everything is already fine and that you can make the best of this, this is the book for you. This book will not discriminate against whatever belief system you are coming from, but will steadily try to get you to look at the world from the perspective of the supposed Abraham, the entities that speak through Esther Hicks. Beware: The effects of this book can lead to delusion, magical thinking, wishful thinking, irrational thinking, and overwhelming self-guilt regarding anything that is going wrong in your life. Other than that, venture on...
April 23, 2010
There is not one book written by Esther and Jerrmy Hicks that I could rate under 10 stars. But then again, it will not be for many people I know. If it is for you, you will feel the same way, and you will be comprehending your Vortex.
I recommend this book for anyone who has genuinely struggled with religion in their lives, and is called to that which is the much bigger picture. THis book can speak worlds if you are ready to receive it!
I cannot be greatful enough to have picked up this series of books which channel the wisdom of Abraham.
I recommend this book for anyone who has genuinely struggled with religion in their lives, and is called to that which is the much bigger picture. THis book can speak worlds if you are ready to receive it!
I cannot be greatful enough to have picked up this series of books which channel the wisdom of Abraham.
December 1, 2022
When you understand that the way you feel has only to do with the alignment of your own thought Energy, and you work to bring yourself into alignment - independent of anyone else's behavior - now you are empowered. Now you really are free.
- Abraham Hicks
The Astonishing Power of Emotions enlightens readers about managing feelings for the greatest outcome. After the introduction and main instruction, there are 33 examples of real-life situations and how to de-escalate a potentially negative situation. There is a re-occurring theme of riding a river and instead of going upstream against the current, we are encouraged to go downstream with the flow. At the end of the book is a fantastic transcript from a 2006 Tampa, Florida Art of Allowing Workshop. I followed along with an audiobook and the live workshop recording was my favorite. The majority of the audiobook is narrated by Jerry Hicks, but to hear the live recording of Abraham speaking through Esther is really fun.
I found this book to be quite empowering and intend to re-read it at least once a year. Read twice in 2020.
Selections from Preface by Jerry Hicks
Some of you, as you now read those words, felt them reach back into a place within you where you, at one time, remembered all of this. And if that was the case for you, you may be one who is ready to immediately begin to use this book to refresh your mind regarding not only who-you-really-are, but also regarding the value and purpose of your life experience in this current time and place.
_______
. . . our diverse and flexible consciences have been molded by the fears, praise, admonitions, and promised rewards or threatened punishments to be administered (either now or later) by those generations who have come before us.
_______
Because millions of previous cultures, societies, religions, rulers, leaders, and teachers (and parents, too) have been attempting to pass most of their belief systems on to each new generation, we find ourselves sharing a world in which there is a wide range of conflicting opinions - as well as violent warfare - relative to whose conscience we should allow ourselves to be guided by. In other words, which thoughts, beliefs, or conscience should be your guide as to that which is right or wrong for you?
_______
So, who is Abraham? I would describe them as an ineffable Non-Physical phenomenon. I experience them as a "group" of extremely wise and unconditionally loving teachers of practical uses of the natural Laws of the Universe . . . . I have described them as the purest form of love I have ever encountered.
_______
It is my intention that the lives of all people I interact with will either be elevated as a result of our interaction, or they will be left where they are, but that no one will be diminished as a result of their association with me.
_______
Abraham has informed us that there is never a crowd on the Leading Edge of thought. However, in this new age of instant Internet connection, we have learned that there are always, among the crowd, Leading Edge thinkers.
Favorite Passages:
. . . together we will build enough bridges as you move through the pages of this book so that as you turn the last page of the book, you will be able to understand and hold our viewpoint - not because our words will have been so powerful that they will have transformed you, but because the combination of the logic of our words and the unfolding of your own life will transform your fait or hope into knowing.
And what a wonderful state of Being . . . to know, with absolute certainty, the existence of your Being and the reason for your existence, and to have a full realization of all-that-you-are. And then, you can get on with what you came to do: live your eternally expanding life in joy!
_______
In the creation of everything that exists, thought always comes first. Everything that you see around you was once a thought or an idea - a vibrational concept that matured into what you call physical reality.
_______
When you feel love or joy - or any positive emotion - you are literally being the expanded version that life has caused you to become. When you feel fear, anger, or despair - or any negative emotion - you are not, in this moment, by virtue of whatever it is that you are giving your attention to, allowing yourself to be that new expanded version . . . you are not letting yourself keep up with who you have become.
_______
The answer to your feeling good is only in the alignment of the Energy within you. As we have said before, it is about you allowing yourself to keep up with what the larger part of you has become.
______
All day, every day, your physical life experience causes you to expand. With each encounter with other people, with the things you read with the things you see, with the experiences you have, you give birth to continual rockets of desire . . . a new-and-improved you (by your standards and perceptions) is in a constant state of becoming, for the Non-Physical part of you is constantly becoming whatever it is that you are asking for.
_______
. . . you must allow yourself to keep up with that which you are becoming if you are to live the joyful life that you have come forth to live. This important premise is not only the basis of this valuable book, but is the foundation of your joyful life experience.
_______
Allowing yourself to become what life has caused you to desire is not about action. It is about the aligning of thought Energies. It is about focusing your attention in the direction of your desire rather than looking back at the current conditions that have given birth to your desire. And while you may very well eventually become inspired to some action, it is the alignment of thought Energy (a vibrational alignment) that you are seeking.
When you achieve vibrational alignment, any inspired action will feel wonderful.
_______
When you are allowing yourself to float freely in the Stream, without resistance, thus closing the gap between where you are right now and who the broader part of you has become, you feel your alignment in the form of positive emotion. But if you are still paddling upstream, holding yourself against the natural Current of your own evolution, your resistance to the Stream and to that which the larger part of you has become is evidenced in the form of negative emotion.
_______
In the same way that a round object will roll downhill of its own accord without needing an engine or added impetus from outside influences, your desires are, in a sense, easily and naturally rolling toward their own conclusions as well. Once your life has caused the creation of a desire, your work is done, and natural forces and laws will take over.
_______
When you are no longer paddling against the Current - when you release your oars and relax into your own natural Well-Being - the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you have become and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires.
_______
You do not need "gravity instructors" teaching how to avoid falling up, because falling up instead of down is not an option - or a problem. And, in like manner, you will not need to practice in order to cause the powerful Law of Attraction to respond to you, in a consistent way . . . for it will bring things to you that match your vibration, and it will do so even in your ignorance of the Law.
_______
When you try to pin down the specifics of when or how the physical improvements will come, you forestall your physical improvement because you do not know those answers, and so you cause resistance in your vibration. In short, although you cannot achieve an immediate physical recovery, you can achieve an improved emotions. And that is enough!
_______
It is all about vibrational alignment. Do not look for immediate measurable physical results. Instead, look for improvement in your mood, you attitude, and your emotions. When you feel better, you are more in alignment - and everything else will follow. It is Law.
_______
Some people feel criticism for people who look for their own positive aspects, calling them arrogant or self-serving. We reply that to be self-serving is a good thing - for when you care enough to bring yourself into alignment with the greater part of who-you-are, while you have certainly served yourself (and you know that because you feel so much better) - you now are in a position to be of value to others.
_______
Whatever is most active in your vibration is what will continue to occur in your experience.
_______
Observing what-is only perpetuates it. Trying to figure out how it got started only perpetuates it. Taking action while feeling negative emotion only perpetuates it. An improved situation will only come once you have improved the way you feel.
So begin where you are and reach for better-feeling, downstream thoughts.
Everything that I experience causes me to vibrationally ask with greater specificity for improved situations.
So, actually, everything in this job that bothers me just sets me up for an improved future experience.
_______
Instead of asking others to change their behavior, your power is in your changing your reaction to their behavior. You have no control over their behavior, but you do have complete control over your reaction to it.
_______
Often the subject of money has many deep-rooted ties that you must find relief from or you will not allow yourself to turn and flow in the direction of the desires that your life has helped you to identify.
_______
You must find a way to feel good now - even in the apparent absence of something you want - in order to get what you want. And even though you may have endless valid excuses for not feeling good right now, we would find a way of minimizing those excuses and of feeling good right now, for until you are able to consistently feel good, you cannot get to where you long to be.
_______
It is our desire that you make amends with yourself and that you find a way to choose the kinds of thoughts that let you come into complete alignment with who-you-are. Then, from that place of alignment, you may be inspired to action. It is always certain that from your place of alignment, your inspired action is always to your advantage, and that from your place of misalignment, your action is never to your advantage.
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The only thing that is relevant is that you come into Vibrational alignment with your own Vibrational Escrow; and when you do, the Universe must deliver to you the perfect match. In other words, the relationship between you and You is the one you must work on, and when that one is in alignment, all others will fall into alignment as well.
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Every so-called failed relationship you have experienced has helped your Vibrational Escrow to evolve. It is ready for you. The question is only: Are you ready for it?
_______
Wars that are waged with words, and all manner of weapons, continue century after century as humans struggle to sift through the details of human experience in the search for the "right" human behavior and ideology. But you are really no closer today, with the waging of your most recent war, than your predecessors were with the waging of the first war - for there is no one right way of behaving, thinking, or living.
Often humans believe that the objective of life is to discover the right way of living and then to convince (or coerce) all others to conform with it, but that is exactly backward from what you know from your Broader Perspective as well as from the intentions that you held when you came forth into this physical time-space reality.
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You can apply it whether anyone else does or not; and when you do, your world will become exactly as you want it to be. And that is the "control" you have been seeking. That is the secret to life that humans have been looking for.
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It's not necessary for every thought I think to be a perfectly positive thought.
It isn't even possible to think only positive thoughts.
My work is merely to lean in a positive direction.
I think I'm doing that.
_______
Thank you for breaking my heart and, in the process, helping me to clarify what I really want. Thank you for the painful experience of giving birth to such powerful rockets of desire that when I turned in the direction of that desire, I was swiftly transported into this blissful relationship.
_______
Your children are not you and did not come forth to be you. Your children came forth into this physical time-space reality with their own desires and plans.
_______
We are all happy people on a momentary sidetrack but we are on our way back to Well-Being.
This will be all right.
_______
You were wisely and deliberately born into an environment of enormous contrast. And from your Broader Non-Physical Perspective, you wanted that so much because you knew the value of it.
_______
Anytime you feel negative emotion - no matter what you call it or how extreme or soft it is - every time you feel negative emotion, it means one simple thing: You, in your human form, have deviated from the opinion of our Source.
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Sometimes your life causes you to be this expanded version of you, but instead of letting yourself go to where you want to be, you beat the drum of what-is, and so you hold yourself apart from your expansion - and you feel terrible while you do it. But then when you die, the gap closes. So, what we're wanting you to remember is that, oh, there is no such thing as death, but when you have that experience that you call death, you release your habits of thought, which are the only things that are hindering you from being what life has caused you to become.
So, we call this gathering the Art of Allowing, and it really is the art of closing the gap. "It's the art of allowing myself, in my physical human form, to be what life has caused me to become. It's the art of releasing resistance and allowing the Energy that creates worlds to flow through me. It's the art of coming into vibrational alignment, not only with who I was before I was born, but with who I've become since. It is the art of coming into vibrational alignment with the Pure, Positive Energy Being that I am constantly in the state of becoming."
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Future generations will benefit by that which you are living.
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Life is supposed to be good for you. It is supposed to feel good. It is supposed to feel fun. Life is supposed to feel good to you.
You never came forth for the struggle, but you did come forth for the contrast, because the contrast gives birth to the power of the Stream. The contrast puts what you want in Vibrational Escrow. The contrast causes the expansion of your Being.
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We want you to know that the question that you hold has been answered - you've just got to let yourself flow toward the answer. We want you to know that the dilemma that you feel faced with has been solved - you just have to let yourself flow toward the solution. You just have to not struggle in the interim. You just have to trust that the power of the Stream and the worthiness of your Being is enough - because it is.
________
It will feel to you, when you're not in alignment, as if not only is the world not cooperating with you, but he world is deliberately against you. But when you come into alignment with who-you-are, you will come to feel that nothing can keep you from anything that you want.
________
There is great love here for you.
And, for now, as always,
we remain eternally and happily incomplete.
- Abraham Hicks
The Astonishing Power of Emotions enlightens readers about managing feelings for the greatest outcome. After the introduction and main instruction, there are 33 examples of real-life situations and how to de-escalate a potentially negative situation. There is a re-occurring theme of riding a river and instead of going upstream against the current, we are encouraged to go downstream with the flow. At the end of the book is a fantastic transcript from a 2006 Tampa, Florida Art of Allowing Workshop. I followed along with an audiobook and the live workshop recording was my favorite. The majority of the audiobook is narrated by Jerry Hicks, but to hear the live recording of Abraham speaking through Esther is really fun.
I found this book to be quite empowering and intend to re-read it at least once a year. Read twice in 2020.
Selections from Preface by Jerry Hicks
Some of you, as you now read those words, felt them reach back into a place within you where you, at one time, remembered all of this. And if that was the case for you, you may be one who is ready to immediately begin to use this book to refresh your mind regarding not only who-you-really-are, but also regarding the value and purpose of your life experience in this current time and place.
_______
. . . our diverse and flexible consciences have been molded by the fears, praise, admonitions, and promised rewards or threatened punishments to be administered (either now or later) by those generations who have come before us.
_______
Because millions of previous cultures, societies, religions, rulers, leaders, and teachers (and parents, too) have been attempting to pass most of their belief systems on to each new generation, we find ourselves sharing a world in which there is a wide range of conflicting opinions - as well as violent warfare - relative to whose conscience we should allow ourselves to be guided by. In other words, which thoughts, beliefs, or conscience should be your guide as to that which is right or wrong for you?
_______
So, who is Abraham? I would describe them as an ineffable Non-Physical phenomenon. I experience them as a "group" of extremely wise and unconditionally loving teachers of practical uses of the natural Laws of the Universe . . . . I have described them as the purest form of love I have ever encountered.
_______
It is my intention that the lives of all people I interact with will either be elevated as a result of our interaction, or they will be left where they are, but that no one will be diminished as a result of their association with me.
_______
Abraham has informed us that there is never a crowd on the Leading Edge of thought. However, in this new age of instant Internet connection, we have learned that there are always, among the crowd, Leading Edge thinkers.
Favorite Passages:
. . . together we will build enough bridges as you move through the pages of this book so that as you turn the last page of the book, you will be able to understand and hold our viewpoint - not because our words will have been so powerful that they will have transformed you, but because the combination of the logic of our words and the unfolding of your own life will transform your fait or hope into knowing.
And what a wonderful state of Being . . . to know, with absolute certainty, the existence of your Being and the reason for your existence, and to have a full realization of all-that-you-are. And then, you can get on with what you came to do: live your eternally expanding life in joy!
_______
In the creation of everything that exists, thought always comes first. Everything that you see around you was once a thought or an idea - a vibrational concept that matured into what you call physical reality.
_______
When you feel love or joy - or any positive emotion - you are literally being the expanded version that life has caused you to become. When you feel fear, anger, or despair - or any negative emotion - you are not, in this moment, by virtue of whatever it is that you are giving your attention to, allowing yourself to be that new expanded version . . . you are not letting yourself keep up with who you have become.
_______
The answer to your feeling good is only in the alignment of the Energy within you. As we have said before, it is about you allowing yourself to keep up with what the larger part of you has become.
______
All day, every day, your physical life experience causes you to expand. With each encounter with other people, with the things you read with the things you see, with the experiences you have, you give birth to continual rockets of desire . . . a new-and-improved you (by your standards and perceptions) is in a constant state of becoming, for the Non-Physical part of you is constantly becoming whatever it is that you are asking for.
_______
. . . you must allow yourself to keep up with that which you are becoming if you are to live the joyful life that you have come forth to live. This important premise is not only the basis of this valuable book, but is the foundation of your joyful life experience.
_______
Allowing yourself to become what life has caused you to desire is not about action. It is about the aligning of thought Energies. It is about focusing your attention in the direction of your desire rather than looking back at the current conditions that have given birth to your desire. And while you may very well eventually become inspired to some action, it is the alignment of thought Energy (a vibrational alignment) that you are seeking.
When you achieve vibrational alignment, any inspired action will feel wonderful.
_______
When you are allowing yourself to float freely in the Stream, without resistance, thus closing the gap between where you are right now and who the broader part of you has become, you feel your alignment in the form of positive emotion. But if you are still paddling upstream, holding yourself against the natural Current of your own evolution, your resistance to the Stream and to that which the larger part of you has become is evidenced in the form of negative emotion.
_______
In the same way that a round object will roll downhill of its own accord without needing an engine or added impetus from outside influences, your desires are, in a sense, easily and naturally rolling toward their own conclusions as well. Once your life has caused the creation of a desire, your work is done, and natural forces and laws will take over.
_______
When you are no longer paddling against the Current - when you release your oars and relax into your own natural Well-Being - the Current, which is ever moving in the direction of that which you have become and all that you want, will carry you toward your desires.
_______
You do not need "gravity instructors" teaching how to avoid falling up, because falling up instead of down is not an option - or a problem. And, in like manner, you will not need to practice in order to cause the powerful Law of Attraction to respond to you, in a consistent way . . . for it will bring things to you that match your vibration, and it will do so even in your ignorance of the Law.
_______
When you try to pin down the specifics of when or how the physical improvements will come, you forestall your physical improvement because you do not know those answers, and so you cause resistance in your vibration. In short, although you cannot achieve an immediate physical recovery, you can achieve an improved emotions. And that is enough!
_______
It is all about vibrational alignment. Do not look for immediate measurable physical results. Instead, look for improvement in your mood, you attitude, and your emotions. When you feel better, you are more in alignment - and everything else will follow. It is Law.
_______
Some people feel criticism for people who look for their own positive aspects, calling them arrogant or self-serving. We reply that to be self-serving is a good thing - for when you care enough to bring yourself into alignment with the greater part of who-you-are, while you have certainly served yourself (and you know that because you feel so much better) - you now are in a position to be of value to others.
_______
Whatever is most active in your vibration is what will continue to occur in your experience.
_______
Observing what-is only perpetuates it. Trying to figure out how it got started only perpetuates it. Taking action while feeling negative emotion only perpetuates it. An improved situation will only come once you have improved the way you feel.
So begin where you are and reach for better-feeling, downstream thoughts.
Everything that I experience causes me to vibrationally ask with greater specificity for improved situations.
So, actually, everything in this job that bothers me just sets me up for an improved future experience.
_______
Instead of asking others to change their behavior, your power is in your changing your reaction to their behavior. You have no control over their behavior, but you do have complete control over your reaction to it.
_______
Often the subject of money has many deep-rooted ties that you must find relief from or you will not allow yourself to turn and flow in the direction of the desires that your life has helped you to identify.
_______
You must find a way to feel good now - even in the apparent absence of something you want - in order to get what you want. And even though you may have endless valid excuses for not feeling good right now, we would find a way of minimizing those excuses and of feeling good right now, for until you are able to consistently feel good, you cannot get to where you long to be.
_______
It is our desire that you make amends with yourself and that you find a way to choose the kinds of thoughts that let you come into complete alignment with who-you-are. Then, from that place of alignment, you may be inspired to action. It is always certain that from your place of alignment, your inspired action is always to your advantage, and that from your place of misalignment, your action is never to your advantage.
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The only thing that is relevant is that you come into Vibrational alignment with your own Vibrational Escrow; and when you do, the Universe must deliver to you the perfect match. In other words, the relationship between you and You is the one you must work on, and when that one is in alignment, all others will fall into alignment as well.
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Every so-called failed relationship you have experienced has helped your Vibrational Escrow to evolve. It is ready for you. The question is only: Are you ready for it?
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Wars that are waged with words, and all manner of weapons, continue century after century as humans struggle to sift through the details of human experience in the search for the "right" human behavior and ideology. But you are really no closer today, with the waging of your most recent war, than your predecessors were with the waging of the first war - for there is no one right way of behaving, thinking, or living.
Often humans believe that the objective of life is to discover the right way of living and then to convince (or coerce) all others to conform with it, but that is exactly backward from what you know from your Broader Perspective as well as from the intentions that you held when you came forth into this physical time-space reality.
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You can apply it whether anyone else does or not; and when you do, your world will become exactly as you want it to be. And that is the "control" you have been seeking. That is the secret to life that humans have been looking for.
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It's not necessary for every thought I think to be a perfectly positive thought.
It isn't even possible to think only positive thoughts.
My work is merely to lean in a positive direction.
I think I'm doing that.
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Thank you for breaking my heart and, in the process, helping me to clarify what I really want. Thank you for the painful experience of giving birth to such powerful rockets of desire that when I turned in the direction of that desire, I was swiftly transported into this blissful relationship.
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Your children are not you and did not come forth to be you. Your children came forth into this physical time-space reality with their own desires and plans.
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We are all happy people on a momentary sidetrack but we are on our way back to Well-Being.
This will be all right.
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You were wisely and deliberately born into an environment of enormous contrast. And from your Broader Non-Physical Perspective, you wanted that so much because you knew the value of it.
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Anytime you feel negative emotion - no matter what you call it or how extreme or soft it is - every time you feel negative emotion, it means one simple thing: You, in your human form, have deviated from the opinion of our Source.
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Sometimes your life causes you to be this expanded version of you, but instead of letting yourself go to where you want to be, you beat the drum of what-is, and so you hold yourself apart from your expansion - and you feel terrible while you do it. But then when you die, the gap closes. So, what we're wanting you to remember is that, oh, there is no such thing as death, but when you have that experience that you call death, you release your habits of thought, which are the only things that are hindering you from being what life has caused you to become.
So, we call this gathering the Art of Allowing, and it really is the art of closing the gap. "It's the art of allowing myself, in my physical human form, to be what life has caused me to become. It's the art of releasing resistance and allowing the Energy that creates worlds to flow through me. It's the art of coming into vibrational alignment, not only with who I was before I was born, but with who I've become since. It is the art of coming into vibrational alignment with the Pure, Positive Energy Being that I am constantly in the state of becoming."
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Future generations will benefit by that which you are living.
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Life is supposed to be good for you. It is supposed to feel good. It is supposed to feel fun. Life is supposed to feel good to you.
You never came forth for the struggle, but you did come forth for the contrast, because the contrast gives birth to the power of the Stream. The contrast puts what you want in Vibrational Escrow. The contrast causes the expansion of your Being.
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We want you to know that the question that you hold has been answered - you've just got to let yourself flow toward the answer. We want you to know that the dilemma that you feel faced with has been solved - you just have to let yourself flow toward the solution. You just have to not struggle in the interim. You just have to trust that the power of the Stream and the worthiness of your Being is enough - because it is.
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It will feel to you, when you're not in alignment, as if not only is the world not cooperating with you, but he world is deliberately against you. But when you come into alignment with who-you-are, you will come to feel that nothing can keep you from anything that you want.
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There is great love here for you.
And, for now, as always,
we remain eternally and happily incomplete.
September 20, 2011
I'm a huge fan of Esther and Jerry Hicks and the teachings of Abraham. I've read Ask and is Given, subscribe to Abraham-Hicks monthly CD's and have watched The Secret. I truly believe we can be, do, or have anything we want. The challenge is learning how to keep yourself feeling good, going with the flow, totally allowing all that you desire to manifest. This book really helps put into practice The Art of Allowing.
January 3, 2024
If I could give more than 5 stars I would, every time I read a book by Abraham I feel how easy the life is! Just by reading their books I give up my rows and feel better and better.
July 1, 2018
حقًّا هذا الكتاب العظيم يجب أن يكون دليلاً حاضرًا في كل فترة من فترات حياتي منذ هذا الحين.
سوف تملك ما تريد، و تصبح ما تريد بالسماح لما أنت عليه أن يكون كما هو.
إذا سمحت لنفسك أن تكون على ما هي عليه دون مقاومة. ستفتح المجال للتغيير.
في حين أنّ المعارضة تغلق عليك أبواب تحقيق رغباتك.
إن الله تعالى قد شاء أن تكون قوانين الكون أبدية ما دامت السماوات والأرض، لذلك حين نقول "إن شاء الله" فإن هذا عين ما يتحدث عنه هذا الكتاب، فالله قد شاء أن تكون هذه القوانين فعّالة في كل زمان ومكان.
كتاب عظيم حقّا رغم عدم وضوح طبيعة المؤلف الذي يبدو أنه أحد الكائنات اللامادية.
شكرًا لكم.
سوف تملك ما تريد، و تصبح ما تريد بالسماح لما أنت عليه أن يكون كما هو.
إذا سمحت لنفسك أن تكون على ما هي عليه دون مقاومة. ستفتح المجال للتغيير.
في حين أنّ المعارضة تغلق عليك أبواب تحقيق رغباتك.
إن الله تعالى قد شاء أن تكون قوانين الكون أبدية ما دامت السماوات والأرض، لذلك حين نقول "إن شاء الله" فإن هذا عين ما يتحدث عنه هذا الكتاب، فالله قد شاء أن تكون هذه القوانين فعّالة في كل زمان ومكان.
كتاب عظيم حقّا رغم عدم وضوح طبيعة المؤلف الذي يبدو أنه أحد الكائنات اللامادية.
شكرًا لكم.
March 13, 2018
While this is the 8th Abraham-Hicks book I’ve reviewed, it is also one of my favorites. Ask and It is Given is an excellent introduction to the Abraham material, and The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent features many exercises or games to improve your life, but the strength of The Astonishing Power of Emotions is its simplicity. At any point in life, on any subject, we are either sailing along smoothly or putting up resistance, and this book employs the simple analogy of heading downstream or upstream. When we’re “downstream” on a topic, results come easily. If we’re “upstream,” as much as we want good results, they continually elude us.
Emotions let us know whether we’re headed downstream or upstream, or to what degree we are embracing or resisting what we want in our lives. In simple terms, good-feeling emotions indicate downstream movement, and bad-feeling emotions upstream. To achieve our desires, we need to change bad feelings to good, but this can only be done incrementally. There is no faking it—we are where we are emotionally and results will show that. And yet, we can slowly change how we feel about any topic, thus improving our results.
Let me take a step backwards to say that “Abraham” is reportedly a group of non-physical entities that speak through Esther Hicks for the upliftment of humanity. But you don’t need to believe that to benefit from the material. If the advice and processes offered work, what does the source matter?
After setting up some basic ideas in the first few chapters (for example that we are spiritual beings in the physical world), Abraham addresses specific life challenges, such as disliking a job, not having enough money, being married to a terminally ill person, losing a pet, being divorced against your wishes, being back-stabbed at work or socially, etc. In each case Abraham steps through the negative thoughts typical of each experience. Next he changes the internal dialog incrementally, to improve the emotions a little at a time. This might just be from revenge to anger to frustration at first. The point is that the individual must actually believe the slightly-better-emotionally statements in order to really feel better, which is the key to turning the situation around. This process might take some time to get to happy results, but will eventually work to improve both the situation and how we feel about it.
The final chapter is one of my favorite excerpts from the live Q & A Abraham sessions that Esther Hicks does all over the world. This material is also recorded on an included CD. As they say, you needn’t figure out the source of your problems or where you went wrong. All you have to do is reach for a feeling of relief, a slightly better emotion. And repeat as needed. True that it sounds simpler than it is in practice, but practicing does make it easier, and there are plenty of examples throughout the book. And the part on why the older a person gets the grumpier they usually get was enlightening. I’ve gotta cut that out!
I recommend this book to anyone who has read Ask and It is Given and wants more details. It’s also a boost for Abraham fans who have experimented a bit with improving their self-talk and emotions—this book simplifies the process. It’s also a joyful and uplifting experience just reading it.
Emotions let us know whether we’re headed downstream or upstream, or to what degree we are embracing or resisting what we want in our lives. In simple terms, good-feeling emotions indicate downstream movement, and bad-feeling emotions upstream. To achieve our desires, we need to change bad feelings to good, but this can only be done incrementally. There is no faking it—we are where we are emotionally and results will show that. And yet, we can slowly change how we feel about any topic, thus improving our results.
Let me take a step backwards to say that “Abraham” is reportedly a group of non-physical entities that speak through Esther Hicks for the upliftment of humanity. But you don’t need to believe that to benefit from the material. If the advice and processes offered work, what does the source matter?
After setting up some basic ideas in the first few chapters (for example that we are spiritual beings in the physical world), Abraham addresses specific life challenges, such as disliking a job, not having enough money, being married to a terminally ill person, losing a pet, being divorced against your wishes, being back-stabbed at work or socially, etc. In each case Abraham steps through the negative thoughts typical of each experience. Next he changes the internal dialog incrementally, to improve the emotions a little at a time. This might just be from revenge to anger to frustration at first. The point is that the individual must actually believe the slightly-better-emotionally statements in order to really feel better, which is the key to turning the situation around. This process might take some time to get to happy results, but will eventually work to improve both the situation and how we feel about it.
The final chapter is one of my favorite excerpts from the live Q & A Abraham sessions that Esther Hicks does all over the world. This material is also recorded on an included CD. As they say, you needn’t figure out the source of your problems or where you went wrong. All you have to do is reach for a feeling of relief, a slightly better emotion. And repeat as needed. True that it sounds simpler than it is in practice, but practicing does make it easier, and there are plenty of examples throughout the book. And the part on why the older a person gets the grumpier they usually get was enlightening. I’ve gotta cut that out!
I recommend this book to anyone who has read Ask and It is Given and wants more details. It’s also a boost for Abraham fans who have experimented a bit with improving their self-talk and emotions—this book simplifies the process. It’s also a joyful and uplifting experience just reading it.
July 26, 2010
This book teaches that, wherever we are, we can choose thoughts that feel a little better or a little worse. Abraham/Hicks says if you choose the slightly better feeling thought it makes all the difference.
The book is full of scenarios where we see the progression from awful feeling thoughts to less awful to better feeling. At each juncture there was a sense of relief. I found it helpful and doable.
The book is full of scenarios where we see the progression from awful feeling thoughts to less awful to better feeling. At each juncture there was a sense of relief. I found it helpful and doable.
December 14, 2009
I've read a lot of books in this subject (power of thought) and this is one of the best. Looked at things from a different, yet familiar perspective. Also give about 30 common issues you may be facing in your life, from death of a parent, to breakup of a relationship, and shows a strategy for dealing with these things.
This book is along the lines of "The Secret" but much deeper. If you're looking for the real nuts and bolts of how the Law of Attraction works, I recommend this book.
This book is along the lines of "The Secret" but much deeper. If you're looking for the real nuts and bolts of how the Law of Attraction works, I recommend this book.
March 30, 2019
به این کتاب بیشتر از چهار می دهم، کتابیست که تو را متوجه جریان زندگی و در جهت جریان بودن می کند، به تو یاداوری می کند که بیش از تصورت قدرتمندی، قانون پذیرش و عدم مقاومت را یاداوری می کند، در کل لذت بردم، در هر حال باید بدنبال آرامش و آسایش خود باشیم آنگاه همه چیز درست می شود 😌
June 8, 2019
Amazing.beyond thankful.
June 9, 2022
Therapist recommended, and really changing if you find yourself experiencing negative thought loops and stuckness.
November 10, 2018
Follow up reads
This book has been written with its point of attraction kept in mind. For me it was more of revising my audios of Abraham and something I can store for revisions everytime I want to refer back...
This book has been written with its point of attraction kept in mind. For me it was more of revising my audios of Abraham and something I can store for revisions everytime I want to refer back...
March 26, 2014
I think this is the real deal. I also think many readers misunderstand what it is that is being said. As i understand it: The point is--you are where you are and you must acknowledge that accurately (there are ways to do this) and once understood you then, and only then, have a choice. You can choose to feel better or worse ... but only incrementally. It is a process. If you choose to feel better, say feeling hatred and rage over despair and hopelessness--you are headed in the right direction. I think that the human population, in general, is mired in anger and revenge, which does feel better than insecurity, grief, depression and despair. Trouble is, they are mired, and revenge usually begets revenge so there is this awful cycle of hostility and violence, be it interpersonal, religious, cultural, political and so on. Like attracts like - that is the Law of Attraction and that governs the Universe. Take it or leave it.
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July 18, 2011As always, the Abraham-Hicks collaboration has co-created a wonderful reference for those who are looking for a better understanding of how to allow the manifestation of those things we desire. This edition offers an introduction to the Law of Attraction, with some supporting information on the Art of Allowing and the Science of Deliberate Intent in the early part.
The majority of the book is a Q and A with Abraham--each question and answer filling a chapter. Abraham-Hicks give suggestions for dealing with each situation by finding a way to get into alignment with what it is you want. Some may want to read this cover-to-cover. I, personally, am using it more as a reference for helping me get downstream on those areas of my life where I am most resistant to happiness as I encounter them.
The majority of the book is a Q and A with Abraham--each question and answer filling a chapter. Abraham-Hicks give suggestions for dealing with each situation by finding a way to get into alignment with what it is you want. Some may want to read this cover-to-cover. I, personally, am using it more as a reference for helping me get downstream on those areas of my life where I am most resistant to happiness as I encounter them.
June 8, 2020
انتهيت من قراءة الكتاب الثاني لإستر وجيري هيكس.. الطاقة المدهشة للمشاعر
الكتاب يستحق القراءة والتمعن في محتواها وفكره والربط بينه وبين تعاليمنا الربانية..
لمن تأتيه الفرصة لقراءة هذا الكتاب فليضع نصب عينه هذا الحديث... روى أبو منصور الديلمي في مسند الفردوس من حديث أم سلمة -رضي الله عنها-: "إذا أحبَّ الله عبدًا جعل له واعظًا من نفسِه، وزاجرًا من قلبِه، يأمره وينهاه"
كما أريد الذكر هنا أن البداية كانت مع كتاب اسأل تعط بتوصية من الكوتش الأستاذ تركي خان والي شعرت اليوم وفي هذه اللحظه أنه يستحق الشكر والامتنان..
الشكر لله عز وجل أولاً... ولأقتبس هذه العباراه من الكاتب مهدي الموسوي و أقول "طلبت من الله كل شيء لاستمتع بالحياة ... فأعطاني الحياة لاستمتع بكل شيء"
ثم لأستاذي القدير تركي...
شكرا لعائلة هيكس
قانون الجذب يليه فن التوجيه ليأتي أخيرًا قانون السماح والوصول للهدف
الكتاب يستحق القراءة والتمعن في محتواها وفكره والربط بينه وبين تعاليمنا الربانية..
لمن تأتيه الفرصة لقراءة هذا الكتاب فليضع نصب عينه هذا الحديث... روى أبو منصور الديلمي في مسند الفردوس من حديث أم سلمة -رضي الله عنها-: "إذا أحبَّ الله عبدًا جعل له واعظًا من نفسِه، وزاجرًا من قلبِه، يأمره وينهاه"
كما أريد الذكر هنا أن البداية كانت مع كتاب اسأل تعط بتوصية من الكوتش الأستاذ تركي خان والي شعرت اليوم وفي هذه اللحظه أنه يستحق الشكر والامتنان..
الشكر لله عز وجل أولاً... ولأقتبس هذه العباراه من الكاتب مهدي الموسوي و أقول "طلبت من الله كل شيء لاستمتع بالحياة ... فأعطاني الحياة لاستمتع بكل شيء"
ثم لأستاذي القدير تركي...
شكرا لعائلة هيكس
قانون الجذب يليه فن التوجيه ليأتي أخيرًا قانون السماح والوصول للهدف
October 1, 2014
2 stars in the sense that it was ok.. I really really like much of what they have to say! particularly the upstream/downstream .. but it gets absurd at some points plus I'm not thrilled with the channeling bit of the whole thing..
September 3, 2018
انصح بقراءة جميع كتبهم لانهم يعطونكم ماده وتطبيق عملي لها 👌🏼❤️
January 14, 2020
The best of Abraham Hicks!!! This is must read for everyone that enjoy's Abraham's teachings. Every case discussed in this book has an important and valid message from the master of Law of Attraction.
March 7, 2023
I thought this hit a lot of key points that people are looking for. That said, the examples are everything and not necessarily expanding. it's a short list that isn't bad, and I will go back to it, it's just a little lacking in the push process I think
January 26, 2021
Good book about going with the flow.
November 24, 2023
I love this book. The only thing that matters is control over my thoughts - selecting, liking and focusing on the thoughts that bring relief. Just relax and let yourself float down the river flow. Find the thoughts that let you feel The Relief. Orient yourself towards positive thinking and acceptance, and not towards problem-solving. I am not interested in fighting. Not trying to influence the behaviour of the others. Instead of dreaming/wishing and doubt, I dream and hope.
Peace and joy, non-judgemental thinking, finding harmony within yourself.
The book is great also because there are many situations analyzed, useless thoughts mentioned, and proposed a set of thoughts that bring relief and move you forward to where you want to be.
Highly recommending!
Peace and joy, non-judgemental thinking, finding harmony within yourself.
The book is great also because there are many situations analyzed, useless thoughts mentioned, and proposed a set of thoughts that bring relief and move you forward to where you want to be.
Highly recommending!
August 17, 2022
Otra Biblia
August 24, 2016
Zacząłem już dawno, po kilku stronach jakoś się nie mogłem zabrać dalej, potem postanowiłem dokończyć i większość przeczytałem na przerwach w pracy, dziś w domu dokończyłem... Jest to świetna książka jako taka pomóc w pozbyciu się przygnębiających myśli, tzn. w tym sensie że omawia poszczególne przypadki (brak pieniędzy, choroba, nieporozumienia w rodzinie) i po kolei analizuje myśli jakie się wtedy ma, a także jak można je przekształcić żeby poczuć się lepiej. I uważam, że to jest świetne, nawet całkiem abstrahując od ezoterycznej otoczki - samo to, samo wyrobienie w sobie innych myśli, choćby i mechanicznie, to może bardzo pomóc. Dlatego zostawię sobie tą książkę i jeśli przygnębi mnie jakaś sytuacja, poszukam odpowiedniego odniesienia i myślę, że to będzie świetna pomoc :)
A teraz cytaty jak zwykle.
- podoba mi się takie widzenie sprawy. Tzn. żeby nie uzależniać swojego szczęścia od działań innych czyli od czegoś na co nie mamy wpływu. Czyli jak w cytacie poniżej:
A teraz cytaty jak zwykle.
"Nic, czego pragniecie, nie płynie pod prąd!"
(s.50)
"Kiedy uważasz, że to inni powinni zrobić coś inaczej niż robią to obecnie, aby uczynić twoje życie lepszym, w rzeczy samej, utrzymujesz siebie samego w miejscu niemocy, ponieważ nie jesteś w stanie kontrolować działań innych."
(s.108)
- podoba mi się takie widzenie sprawy. Tzn. żeby nie uzależniać swojego szczęścia od działań innych czyli od czegoś na co nie mamy wpływu. Czyli jak w cytacie poniżej:
"(...) jeżeli twoje poczucie szczęścia zależeć ma od zmian dokonywanych przez inne osoby, wtedy nigdy nie będziesz szczęśliwa, ponieważ zawsze będzie istniała potrzeba, aby więcej ludzi dokonało większej liczby zmian w sobie."
(s.134)
"Po prostu nie możesz żyć swoim życiem starając się spełnić warunki wstępne stawiane przez innych ludzi."
(s.116)
"(...) intencją twoją było pomóc innym osiągnąć zrozumienie wartości kryjącej się w urozmaiceniu i różnorodności, oraz zrozumienie owych niemożliwych do spełnienia usilnych zabiegów domagania się zmian od osób z ich otoczenia. Kiedy przejawiasz chęć zmiany siebie samego w ten, czy w inny sposób, tylko po to, aby pomóc innym z twojego otoczenia poczuć się lepiej w momencie, gdy ciebie obserwują, wyświadczasz im niedźwiedzią przysługę - gdyż nigdy nie poznają wolności płynącej tylko ze zrozumienia siły ich własnych myśli."
(s.254-255)
October 16, 2008
Like the other books in this series, this book is about monitoring what you think and feel to reflect less resistance to current circumstances, in order to attract what you truly desire. They use the analogy of rowing a canoe downstream, instead of upstream to illustrate the feeling of allowing one's thoughts and emotions to "flow" without resistance to what is happening at any given moment.
September 21, 2020
يمكن هذه أول مرة احتار فعلًا برأيي عن كتاب الى هذه الدرجة. ما أعرف هل فعلًا أعجبني واستفدت أو إنه بالغ جدًا في محاولة اقناعي وجذبي لافكاره.
لكن ما أنكر إنه فعلًا ذكر أفكار أنا أؤمن فيها وبيّن إلى أي مدى تكون مؤثرة، ولكن على مايبدو هو أفرط في تمجيدها.
مفيد لمن يحب أن يقرأ لأفكار جديدة وغير متطابقة لأفكاره ، غير جيد لمن يبحث عن كتب تردد مايتكرر في دماغه من أفكار كل يوم .
لكن ما أنكر إنه فعلًا ذكر أفكار أنا أؤمن فيها وبيّن إلى أي مدى تكون مؤثرة، ولكن على مايبدو هو أفرط في تمجيدها.
مفيد لمن يحب أن يقرأ لأفكار جديدة وغير متطابقة لأفكاره ، غير جيد لمن يبحث عن كتب تردد مايتكرر في دماغه من أفكار كل يوم .
March 15, 2008
Another fantastic read from the teachings of Abraham. It just makes sense. When you read this, it confirms that you are part of a larger self and that larger self is always there ready to help guide you.
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