Abraham: The Three Laws of Manifestation ~ By Barber

[Guest guest]

Abraham: The Three Laws of Manifestation

by Barber

Of all of the channeled speakers on the subject of creating - other

than Seth, with whom most of us are familiar - possibly the most

influential has been Abraham. Abraham tells us, in specific ways that

a child can grasp, exactly how to create what we want, and clearly

explains why we must learn to create abundance for ourselves.

The message is simple because Abraham is telling us that we don't need

to worry about our beliefs or emotional problems. We don't need to

concern ourselves with how we got ''this way,'' what our ''issues''

are. We can skip the psychology.

All we have to do is realize that when we have negative emotion, this

is a sign that our currents thoughts are creating a reality we do not

want, creating it ''by default.'' With thoughts that feel negative, we

push what we want away from us. The proper response to negative

emotion, says Abraham, instead of wondering what's wrong with

ourselves, is simply to try different thoughts until we find one that

makes us feel good. When we do that, we will automatically be creating

what we want.

If our negative emotions are so strong that no amount of corrective

thought will erase them, Abraham simply suggests doing something ?

anything - to take our mind off of what we are dwelling on. Here is

where breathing or meditation might be of use. Then, later, we can ask

ourselves, ''What is it that I really want to create in this area?''

And begin, with positive emotion, to dwell on that.

When through personal experience we have learned that we can create

whatever we want, Abraham says, then fear disappears. Because fear is

caused by the false perception that someone else can bring negative

events into our lives.

And when fear disappears, then all the psychological theories don't

matter any more, because they are all based in fear. When we realize

that no one else can create in our lives, when we have put this into

daily practice and gained the results, then other people are no longer

threatening, and we can look at them in Perfect Love.

So Abraham offers a very pleasant doorway into Christ Consciousness.

Using this doorway, we don't need pain in order to learn. Abraham's

approach is a highly practical method of learning with joy.

Belief Is Not Required

One of the wonderful aspects of Abraham's message is that we can use

it without having to weed and sanitize all of our ''subconscious

belief systems.'' Belief, says Abraham, is nice, but it's not

necessary, and not even very powerful. Abraham likes to say that we

all know of the mother who lifts the truck up off of her child. She

does not do that by belief. The mother lifts the truck by pure

wanting.

It is not belief, says Abraham, that causes thought to burst into the

physical plane. Even if we believe that we cannot do something, pure

wanting can make it happen. Anyway, belief can be very slow. Abraham

likes to ask how long the mother would have to go to the gym before

she could lift a truck by believing it.

Our wanting has been damped down by the idea that wanting can hurt us,

Abraham points out, but the thing we need to realize is that it's not

our wanting that has hurt us. It is our focusing on not-having that

hurts.

Abraham and the Three Laws

Abraham designates a ''group of non-physical teachers'' who speak

through the collaboration of Jerry and Esther Hicks. Esther is the

channel, and Jerry asks the questions. The Abraham group claim that it

was the Hickses' combined energies, and not only Esther's, that

enabled the message to come through so clearly.

Abraham's message is so clear, so easy to put into practice ? and

their tapes and books are so entertaining and enlightening ? that

Abraham has literally taken the world by storm. Even those who have

not formerly even wanted to understand the metaphysical worldview are

drawn to the Abraham works.

Why? Because Abraham is telling us, perhaps more comprehensibly than

any other source on record, exactly how we are getting what we are

getting, and how we can use this power deliberately to get what we

want.

The ground-of-being of Abraham's work is called the Three Laws of

Manifestation. They are:

1. The Law of Attraction: ''That which is like unto itself is

drawn.''[1]

We attract, Abraham says, through thought. Emotion ''speeds up'' the

process, but thought is what launches it. It doesn't matter whether we

think of wanting something or of not-wanting it, the ''something'' we

are thinking about is drawn to us.

Abraham says that our concept of getting up on the wrong side of the

bed demonstrates the Law of Attraction in operation. Most of us can

observe and validate for ourselves that when we start the day out in a

negative space, we keep on attracting more of the same.

''When you feel fat,'' says Abraham, ''you cannot attract thin. When

you feel poor, you cannot attract prosperity.''

2. The Law of Deliberate Creation: ''You and you alone are the creator

of your experience.''

''All things,'' says Abraham, ''are invited by you.'' This does not

mean that we are doing it on purpose. We can be creating ''by

default.'' In fact, whenever we do not choose our thoughts, we are

creating by default. Because whatever we focus on is invited in, and

the more emotion we have going on about the thought ? be it positive

or negative emotion - the faster the invitation will be answered.

For example, if we are picturing being rich and feeling how joyous it

would be to have that experience, we are attracting ''rich and

joyful'' to us. But if we are picturing being rich and at the same

time feeling unhappy because we are not there yet, then our

unhappiness is pushing the prosperity experience away. Instead, we are

drawing to us experiences that mirror our state of mind: noticing rich

people, and feeling unhappy that we are not one of them!

But there is a second part to the Law of Deliberate Creation, and that

is ''expectation.'' Once we have launched a creation, we must then

look forward to it, not with hope, but with perfect confidence that it

will happen. Abraham asks us to expect our creations to happen just

the way we expect the market to be there when we are going out for

groceries. We do not drive along going, Gosh, I wonder if the building

is there. We do not even give thought to whether or not it will be

there. In the same way, Abraham suggests that once we have launched a

deliberate creation it is there in the same way that the market is

there. If we doubt that, we have launched another creation, a

no-market creation - this time, ''by default.''

Whether or not we choose our thought, the thought still attracts our

experience.

3. The Law of Allowing: ''I am that which I am and you are that which

you are, and I rejoice in our differences.''

Abraham says that most of us came into this lifetime understanding the

first two laws, and are now working on a full appreciation of this Law

of Allowing.

To illustrate this law, they repeatedly use the analogy of a cookie

store. You go in and you see that both oatmeal cookies and chocolate

chip cookies are being offered. You do not like oatmeal cookies, so

you buy chocolate chip. Someone else prefers the oatmeal cookies. All

is well.

But if we did cookies the way most of us do life, instead of just

enjoying our chocolate chip cookies and allowing other people to have

their own experiences, we might walk up and down outside the bakery

with a sign saying, ''Don't go in here, this guy makes oatmeal

cookies.'' We might get others together and start an

Anti-Oatmeal-Cookie League. We might go on radio and television

expounding at great length on the evils of oatmeal cookies and the

people who make them and the people who eat them. We might vote-in

legislation to prevent people from making oatmeal cookies. When none

of these things seemed to be working, we might even kill all the

bakers, just in case some of them might be secretly making oatmeal

cookies when no one else was looking.

Why? Because we have this idea that if we allow oatmeal cookies to

exist, they may take over the world? That we will no longer be able to

get the chocolate chip cookies we prefer?

If we thoroughly understand, says Abraham, that no one else can create

in our experience, then we can allow others to be what they are.

Also, Abraham stresses, ''allowing'' does not mean ''tolerating.''

When we are tolerating someone, we are leaving them alone to do what

they want, but we are feeling negative emotion about it. Whereas

''allowing'' means rejoicing in the diversity which alone makes it

possible for our Universe to exist.

Without total freedom and diversity, says Abraham, the entire Universe

would come to a halt. When we are directing energy at trying to get

someone or something to conform to our ideas, we are actually

directing energy at the end of everything!

Abraham gives many public workshops, where the Laws of Manifestation

are reviewed, and then participants are able to ask questions. The

tapes of these workshops, along with several series of subject-matter

tapes, are all available, for us to listen to over and over until we

''get it'' or to help us remember who we really are whenever our minds

seem out of control.[2]

Following are excerpts from one such tape, focused on creating

prosperity.

Creating Prosperity

Our Guidance System

In introducing the tape,[3] Abraham begins by describing the various

ways in which we push abundance away from us - all of which involve

negative emotion.

Negative emotion, says Abraham, is a message that we are receiving

from our Inner Being (Abraham's term for the Higher Self) that tells

us that what we are thinking is creating something we don't want .

Abraham calls emotion our ''guidance system.'' If we are feeling good,

that tells us that our thoughts are creating what we want. If we are

feeling bad, the message in that moment is that we are

''miscreating.''

Abraham gives the example of paying bills as one way in which we push

money away from us. He says we are holding two columns in our heads:

''When money comes in, you add it, and when it goes out, you subtract

it. You are taking score. And when you take score, you cause a

resistance in your vibration, and push more dollars away. But we are

here to tell you that there is no ending to the inflow of abundance.

It is like water, ever flowing into your life.''

Abraham suggests that we begin each day by telling ourselves that good

things will come to us. And although we don't really know what can

happen to us in that day, we can affirm that whatever happens, the

best path will be shown to us. That we will always have the answers we

need to make the happiest choices.

''When you do that,'' Abraham says, ''when you start each day with

that thought, life unfolds as a terrific adventure. Abundance,

dollars, relationships, health, - everything you are wanting will

flow, in incredible, wonderful, joy-filled ways, into your life

experience, and you begin to live as you intended before you came in.

''All you have to do is find thoughts that make you feel good when you

think about money, and you will be inundated with it.''

Work and Abundance

During the question-and-answer period on the tape, a participant in

the workshop asked how he could create working less and having more

money.

Abraham pointed out that this question revealed his feeling that

abundance was related to his work, and stressed that we must not

specify how our desires are fulfilled. We do not realize how our words

create what we get, how when we say that we want our work to be more

profitable, we are limiting our ability to receive abundance. We need

to ''USE DIFFERENT WORDS.''

And trust the Law of Attraction. When we think we need to do something

to make whatever we want happen, we are focusing on what we have to do

rather than on what we want. Instead of allowing the law to work for

us, we are trying to do the work ourselves.

In answering the man's question, Abraham said: ''The vibration the

Universe is hearing from you and responding to you, goes more like:

I'm a good person, I want to do my part, I want to contribute to

society in a good way and for it I want to be rewarded.''

And we can earn money through working, Abraham says elsewhere,[4]

because action is very powerful. But producing things through action

is difficult. We are doing it the hard way when we are ''banging it

out in the physical.''

And often, what we are doing with action is trying to get rid of the

mistakes we made in our thinking and feeling. People in hospitals, for

example, are taking actions to reverse prior negative thinking.

Yes, it takes effort to change our thinking. But it's all we can do if

we want to be happy. So why not make the effort? ''We see you spending

more time,'' said Abraham, ''learning to use your food processor.''

So how do we phrase our desires for more money? Abraham suggests

something like this:

Ooooh, isn't that a lovely thing. Oh, I'd love to have that in my

life. Wouldn't that be a lovely experience. Ooooh, I just can feel

what it would be like to have that in my life. Ooooh, isn't that a

lovely place to go, I can see myself there. And if I was there I would

do this and do this and see this. Mmmm!

At this point, the participant commented that he really didn't have to

make his money through work. It would be fine with him if someone

would just show up at the door and hand it to him. And Abraham

exclaimed, ''Here you are, doing it again. You are trying to

orchestrate the way that the money will come.''

It is not our work, Abraham told him, to say how things will happen,

to outline all the steps we will take, to dictate the methods by which

money will come to us. Our work is to identify what we want, not how

we will get it.

There was a silence. Gently, Abraham said, ''It's hard to hear, isn't

it. . .?''

But if creating is all done through thought and emotion, then what

purpose does action have?

Joy, Abraham says. Our physical actions are for joy, and no action

that is without joy can truly have the consequences we want.

Be Outrageous in Your Wanting

''You're afraid to be outrageous in your wanting ... because the din

of society is not outrageously abundant, and so when you are, you step

outside what they are comfortable with.''

To illustrate the point, Abraham asked a participant how she would

feel about going on vacation to a lovely villa that cost fifty

thousand dollars a week. The participant said that would be great.

Abraham replied: ''We heard 'great.' We heard possible. But, mostly,

we heard waste. In your vibration. What a waste, what a waste of fifty

thousand dollars that would be. Do you know how many peanuts I could

buy for fifty thousand dollars?''

We feel this way, Abraham said, because we think that this is the only

fifty thousand dollars we will ever see. But we do not need to ask

whether something we want costs too much. We need to ask only whether

this is what we want. If it is, then we can create it.

''It is as easy to create a castle,'' Abraham says, ''as it is to

create a button.''[5]

Three Processes for Attracting Abundance[6]

Segment Intending

Abraham's concept of segment intending simply involves taking time, as

we go through each day, to declare what we would like to have happen

during the next ''segment'' of our experience.

We may have, for example, the overall intention for clear

communication, but that intention is not very useful for the

life-segment of going somewhere in the car. For that, we might want to

take time to specify that we enjoy our trip, that it is smooth and

pleasurable, and that we arrive safely.

When we call someone on the telephone, we can spend a moment first

imagining what we want to have happen in the conversation. Here is

where clear communication might be an appropriate intention.

We should use segment intending for the different segments of our day,

all day long. This, says Abraham, will ''prepave'' our future. Once we

start mentally and emotionally ''creating'' a smooth journey everytime

we go out in our car, for example, it is more likely to happen this

time, and even more so the next time, and the next. By this prepaving,

we can divert negative events that otherwise might have made their way

to us through previous miscreating.

The Daily Workshop

To begin with, Abraham suggests that we clarify our wants by writing

each one down on a piece of paper, and then making a list of ''Why I

Want This.'' Then, on the other side, we are to make a list of ''Why I

KNOW that I Will Create This.'' Thus, we are activating the two

aspects of the Law of Deliberate Creation: adding emotion to our

thought of what we want, and building expectation of receiving it.

Also, Abraham says, we need to go through each day ''collecting data''

on what we like. No matter what we are doing, we could also, with part

of our mind, be noticing what we like ? things that we want to attract

into our lives, or things that are already in our lives and that we'd

like to keep on having.

We take these wants and this data into our daily Workshop, where we

will sit down each day and spend fifteen minutes doing absolutely

nothing but thinking about having what we want and how ''delicious''

that feels.

Before we start, however, we need to be happy. For if we think about

what we want with negative emotion, we push it away instead of drawing

it to us. So a part of this assignment is to create feeling really

happy at least once a day!

We may already be feeling happy when we go into our Workshop, and if

so we can start the process right away. If not, though, there are

things we can do to invite the appropriate feelings. Listening to

joyous music, burning incense or using an aroma diffuser, reading

something uplifting, walking in nature, thinking about what we love. .

.. any method that works is fine, just so we make sure to achieve a

happy mood before we go into our Workshop and start to create things.

In our Workshop, we are to think of everything we want, and ask

ourselves, ''What would it be like, if. . .?'' And let ourselves

totally plunge into the fun, the joy, the happiness, the

deliciousness, of that experience.

The Prosperity Box

Abraham suggests that one method of focusing our intent is to create a

Prosperity Box. This can just be a plain cardboard box with a slot in

it, or it can be something beautiful that we decorate in a way that

pleases us.

Then, when we've written down what we want, including why we want it

and why we know that we will get it, and we have ''launched the

creation'' in our Workshop, we would put the piece of paper into the

Prosperity Box and wait for it to manifest.

Listening to the Abraham Tapes

To the three processes outlined above, this writer would like to add

that an Abraham tape-a-day may help keep negativity away. There are

hundreds of tapes, at this point, on everything from healing

addictions to raising children. But whatever the subject matter, it is

almost impossible to listen to an Abraham tape without lifting one's

vibrations into the positive.

Enjoy Your Journey

We look around us, and we see all the things that are wrong, all the

things we have not yet been able to create. We think of all the things

that we want. But, Abraham says:

The fact that here I stand with a desire that is unfulfilled does not

make me a failure. It makes me an ongoing, eternal Creator. . .

So enjoy the Journey. Because the Journey never ends. You never get it

done. You're never going to be at the place where no more desire will

ever come up. So you might as well get used to being someone who

always temporarily has unfulfilled desires. It's the name of the game.

Because desire is what summons the Life Force. ''Being'' means

continuing to have new desires:

To give birth to unfulfilled desire, and then to fulfill it, which

will then give birth to more unfulfilled desire. . .

That is what eternity is about.