Abe: What is Nervousness?

Male Guest: I want you to explain nervousness and how that falls into our relationship to getting things that we want, and why it's there in the first place.

Abraham: Well, nervousness is a manifestation, an indicator, manifestations...because emotions are manifestations, aren't they? It's a manifestation of wanting something that you're not quite vibrationally up to speed with.

Guest: Right.

Abraham: And therefore. IOW, you demonstrated it really well because we were very specific about you, and you just kept turning around and looking behind you. IOW, you were not expectant, not really expectant of something that you want. There are a lot of people really expectant of what they want, so much so that they head this way when we're not even pointing at them. Sometimes we're pointing over there and someone comes from over there because they are so wanting and expecting, and so, we have a question or two for you. How do you think your beliefs or expectations have come to be what they are?

Guest: Trial and error.

Abraham: Good words. There never is any error, but we know what you mean...Trying.. so trial and error.

Guest: Being in the experience, going for it.

Abraham: And what kind of an experience has trained you to not expect what you want?

Guest: Not...?

Abraham: IOW, our we in agreement that nervousness is an active vibration that is to the contrary of something wanted. So what do you think has trained you into a habit of thought, which is just a belief is just a thought you keep thinking, what do you think has trained you into that?

Guest: Well, the interesting thing is I'd be there and I'd set my intention, and I'd visualize what I'd want, and I'd be ready to go for it and allow it, but once I'm in the situation, the nerves comes in for a reason I'm trying to figure out on my own.

Abraham: Well, you just demonstrated that, and that's a wonderful thing, but we want you to try to hear the question that we're asking. What kinds of things cause you to perpetuate a vibration or a belief that prevents you from getting you what you want, now now now now now.

Guest: I'm assuming focusing on the false belief, right?

Abraham: Yeah, but what do you think, this is really good, what do you think, we're just going to enjoy it ourselves, what do you think, what do you think is causing it to be active right now? IOW, you were in a situation where we looked around the room and found you. We wanted you. You wanted to be here and we wanted you. And yet even with us pointing right at you, you couldn't perceive it in that way because there is a belief system within you that is contrary to that, but there was no reason, there was no, here it is, there was no reason for that belief system here and now because something entirely different was happening. 

You wanted to be here. We wanted you to be here. There was no reason for you, in this moment, there was no reason for you to be getting anything other than that except that you've got a habit of vibration that bled into this moment; it bled into this moment and covered up the reality of this moment. 

Guest: Okay.

Abraham: Because your desire was so strong that we found you, and even though we could feel the vibrational variance within you, we knew that we could get you here, and we knew we would have a meaningful conversation; iow, we weren't worried about any of that, but are you getting how good this is?

Iow, so we want to say it again, it is so important:There are many moments in time when you are ready for what you want, you are ready for what's in your vortex, except that in the moment that it begins to flow towards you, you instead let an old vibrational pattern become dominant. Now how would you go about keeping an old vibrational pattern from being dominant now?

Guest: I would love to know that.

Abe: By deliberately practicing new vibrational patterns and then watching the outcome of it until you show yourself that you have vibrational control. By understanding it first of all. By accepting that the Law of Attraction is a powerful law and that it is responding to the way you feel. But there's something we still haven't quite formulated here in the way that it is possible, so let's stay with this because you're not alone in this. Everyone is experiencing this. Because the Big Question is, and it is such a big question:

How do I, in my powerful now, where all my power is, where the junction between me and Me meets, where I have the potential of preparing my vibrational grid to allow myself to be ready for what's in my vortex to flow like water flows downstream into  my experience right now: What is preventing that from happening? 

Old beliefs... Old beliefs that I thought yesterday, old beliefs that I thought last year? Old beliefs that I thought five years ago? No, a belief that is active now. Because you don't store these beliefs up, you gather the propensity for them; IOW, it's more likely for you to do that now because you did it yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before....it's likely that you will do it. But it's not because you did it that it's happening, it's because you're doing it that its happening. And you have the power to do something different right now. Did you get that? And you have the ability to see it differently if you'll try just a little bit.

An experience like this, you'll never forget this, an experience like this, you've attracted an experience like this where now your belief has shifted. IOW, there are many times you're nearly where you want to be, not quite,  so you nearly have the experience that you want, not quite, but that's why we so much want you to hear us when we say. There are two ways to know whether you're in alignment with what you want and Who You Are or not: One is by the way you feel, and the next it by what happens. So what has this experience demonstrated for you?

Guest: I appreciate this experience because it's helping me shift my beliefs.

Abraham: But what did this experience demonstrate for you? What is the experience? Hundreds of people in the room, you're in the hot seat, what did this experience demonstrate for you?

Guest: Um...

Abraham: I must have been in the vibrational vicinity or I wouldn't be in the hot seat right now. I must have been in the vibrational vicinity. Good for me. Must have been in the vibrational vicinity. So what are the components for being in the vibrational vicinity? How did you prepare yourself for this experience of being in the hot seat?

Guest: Uh, I did my hair. I...

[Audience: Hoots and hollers.]

Abraham: Best. Answer. Ever. You expected be here. IOW, there was more expectation to be in the hot seat than expectation not to be.

Guest: Yes, because I've acquired a lot of grateful knowledge from you, but being here, I get to personally ask you, and it's much more in detail, and it's personal.

Abraham: So I thought about it. I wanted it. I liked the idea of it. I got pretty sure of it. I felt good about it. And in the quiet of my own experience, there wasn't that much to challenge it. So imagined it, I visualized it, I visualized it enough that I wanted to present myself in the way I wanted to... that's all that it is you see. That's what prepaving is.

And the more that you prepave what you want, the less active those old hindering beliefs will be.That's what we're reaching for here. The more you prepave what you want, the more the balance tips, and the hindering beliefs just begin to peter away.

Guest: Personally, I feel the allowing factor the hardest part of the whole process.

Abraham: Well let's talk about what allowing is. Allowing is just a deliberate choosing of a vibration that allows it. We've been calling this the Art of Allowing for quite a long time. And now in the context of this vibrational grid that we are wanting you to focus upon, we'll give a new definition of what allowing is. Allowing of what, first of all?

Allowing my frequency to be in keeping with what's in the vortex in order to allow what's in the vortex to flow to me. Allowing. And so, allowing is about focus. Allowing is about thinking and feeling, thinking and feeling. So, I don't just stumble upon allowing, I practice myself into allowing, that's why we call it an Art not an accident. The accident of allowing. You have those all the time, btw, because there is something that you're observing, but the Art of Allowing, the Art of feeling myself into the frequency of that which I really am, in order to create some outcome? No, in order to feel the deliciousness of allowing my frequency to meet the level of that which I really am, to feel the fullness of Who I Am, the clarity of Who I Am, the fun of Who I Am, the beauty, the brilliance, the stability, the vitality, the On-ness, the Oneness, the Wholeness, the Fullness.

Guest: Right.

Abraham: Good Hair.

[Audience: Applause] 



Excerpted from Seattle, WA 8/26/2012 Workshop 

© Abraham-Hicks Publications 2012

Abraham on Anxiety

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Hold Yourself on the Brink of Appreciation

Abraham-Hicks, San Antonio, TX 4/19/08

You're in charge of your vibration. And when you get that, you will finally, maybe for the first time ever, but once and for all, be FREE!

When you get it that the way you feel is ONLY about your attention to some subject, then you are free.

Esther said to Jerry the other day, "I'm on the brink of discomfort over something. I have a sort of edginess. Let's go for a walk, or let's sit and meditate. I want to shake this off. I'm on the brink of discomfort."

And then she said, "I want to be on the brink of appreciation! That's the brink I want to be on. I know I can't hold myself in off the wall appreciation and enthusiasm for ever more. But I can sure hang around in the vacinity of appreciation. I'm going to reach for thoughts that hold me on the brink of appreciation, so that any moment, I could slip right over into appreciation. I don't want to be on the brink of a nervous breakdown. I'm on the brink. (pause) I'm on the brink of a nervous breakdown, and you are probably going to be the one that puts me over the edge!"

We want you to be on the brink of appreciation, and "You are probably going to be the one who puts me over the edge!"

And when you get hanging around on the brink of appreciation, all kinds of wonderful things happen.

© Abraham-Hicks Publications

Abraham: Momentary Anxiety Is NOT Destiny

Abraham - Boulder, CO- 6/15/02

Abraham: You see, some would say your world is about economics. Now we don’t agree with that, although much of your world seems to be driven by economics. And those who want to sell you something, want to activate within you a need for what they’re selling. That is a big part of the reason that so many of you feel anxiety. Because they’re getting very good at promoting things in ways to activate your anxiety.

And so what’s happened is, you like so many others have become someone who easily acquiesces to the vibration that they want you to vibrate, rather than choosing your own. And we say, actually these are Esther’s words. She’s been saying it a lot lately, “I can damn well choose my own vibration! (laughter) I can choose my own vibration! I can choose my own vibration! I can choose my own vibration! I can choose my own vibration! I can choose my own vibration! I can! I can! I can! I can! I can! I can! I can! I can! I can choose my own vibration! (laughter)

I do not have to (carry) the vibration within me that I picked up along my physical trail! I don’t have to carry the vibration of my mother or of a worrisome friend! I don’t have to carry the vibration that the television is hammering at me or that the government is hammering at me for whatever reason!”

In other words, when somebody wants you to do something, you always have to stop and ask yourself, “Why do they want to do this?” In other words, what’s in it for them? And when you begin to look at things in that way, you begin to understand that you get to choose your own vibration. You’re very good at it. 

And so the reason that you’re feeling anxiety is because every fiber of your being wants to feel joy, wants to know the well being that is your Source.  And when you fixate on things that don’t allow it, you sort of go berserk on some level of your being. And we’re glad. That means your guidance system’s working.

Your anxiety is not because the world is in trouble. Your anxiety is not because you’re in trouble. Your anxiety is because you're choosing a thought that doesn't match your desire, that’s all. 

In other words, it’s not because some big bad thing is gonna happen. You’re in no way near a vibrational proximity to anything like that. You're just someone who deserves and intends to be so in harmony with source, and when you're not, you can't stand it. That’s why you’ve got anxiety. So just practice, practice, practice, practice...

In other words, we want you to show yourself that you can feel good by conjuring your own thought. And once you’ve done that for a few days, you’ll be free. You’ll be free of all anxiety. Because we can feel that you believe us. We can feel that you believe that Well Being abounds. We can feel that you believe that you have the ability to conjure a vibration. And we can feel that you understand the Art of Allowing.

In other words, We think everything is intellectually lined up for you. We just don't think you've practiced it enough that you feel confident to go out and play a serenade for someone. Yes.

Guest: I don’t feel confident. Like you say, your emotions are your guideposts. And when I feel anxious, I don’t know if that’s just the anxiety or if that’s my intuition trying to tell me something or...

Abe: Well it, what it always is, negative emotion - whether you call it blame or guilt, or anxiety of fear - it doesn’t matter what you call it. Negative emotion always means the same thing. You are focused on something that doesn't match your desire. 

Sometimes a person will say, “I am too sensitive.” And we say, it’s like someone saying, “My hands are really sensitive and it’s painful for me to put them on the hot stove.” And we say, we don’t think sensitivity is your problem (laughter). We think, we think your problem is you’ve got your hands on the stove (laughter), you see.

And so bless that anxiety. That is sensors. In other words, that’s a very good sign. What it’s saying is, “Don't think this thought, this thought that doesn't line up.” It’s saying, “You would do well to de-activate this thought. You do not have to face reality. Some of reality is painful. Don't go to the painful parts of reality."

And as you show yourself that you can FEEL GOOD by pointing over there and that you feel bad by pointing over there. And that you CAN point over there. Then more and more, you point over there and anxiety goes away.

YOUR ANXIETY IS NOT WARNING YOU OF SOMETHING TO COME. Your anxiety is alerting you to a vibration that’s happening NOW.

You have POWER NOW. So just think about your hand on the stove and just laugh about it and say, “I can take my hand off the stove.” And as you practice this just a little bit, you’ll feel your CONFIDENCE come.

Because from what we feel from you, you are good at directing thought. You have a very clear mind. You’re good with words. You can focus easily. You concentrate easily. And that’s all that we’re talking about here. Just choosing the ones that feel good - instead of accepting anything that anybody wants to dump on you, you see. Yes.