Abraham: Expectation in the Workplace, Employment, Jobs, Careers

Just pretty much live tweeted this whole video, but if you want to hear it in context:

Abe: You Actually DO Want to Work. Really.

  

Abraham-Hicks, Phoenix, AZ - 04-26-94

Guest: I have a question that has to do with business. I have two businesses that I'm working on right now. And one of them, it's real easy for me to flow my Energy to. And I work alone. And I'm very, very good at what I do - and I like it!


The other business depends on other people, to attract the right people to be able to make a business work for them. And what's happening is I'm not attracting people that are capable and willing to do it without me. I mean, in other words...I'm trying to create a business where, once I give them the idea and teach them how to do it, that they should just do it. And what I'm wanting to know is -- and when they talk to me, they talk like they want to do it and they're going to do it. They never seem to get around to do or it, or they have all these obstacles that stop them from doing it. So...


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The promise is to be able to build an income that will continually come in, called a passive income, that if I get up, or if I don't get up, I still have an income coming in.

Abraham: And so, what we want to point out to you is that there is something inherently wrong with that. And what is inherently wrong with it is that you are, from your place of not wanting to work so hard, saying, "I don't want to work so hard. I want to find something that doesn't require so much hard work." So from this place of not wanting to work so hard, from that feeling place, you've involved yourself in a business that promises that you won't have to work so hard, but the *vibration* is lackful!

And so, here is the bridge for that: We don't think that you are not wanting to offer effort or Energy. In fact, we think that if any of you did not have to go to work tomorrow, that you'd fill your day with something else! - You'd be golfing. You'd be shopping. You'd be getting together with friends. In other words, you like the deliciousness of spending your time in purposeful ways. So it's not that you don't want to do something; it's that you want more choice about what you do.

So what you're wanting to begin saying is, not "I want a business that will provide me the luxury of income even if I don't do anything." The bridge that you're wanting to say is, "I am wanting this business because I get to choose every part of my involvement in it. And, as I choose every part of my involvement in it, the dollars will flow to me, abundantly."

Can you feel sort of the difference in that?

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So as you put a different twist on this -- in other words, what comes to you is not about earning. It's about opening the valve and allowing. What comes to you is not about justifying, or excusing, or explaining. Most of you work so hard to justify the money that comes to you. And if you'd just chill out, the money would come much more easily, you see!

But you've got yourselves vibrationally convinced that you have to pay a price, that there has to be strain and struggle for there to be any payoff. And we say to you, that is utterly backwards. That only works in a world that is pounding on action. And action won't bring you, in Esther's terms: 'diddly squat'! Action will only provide for you a miniscule, mediocre experience. It is not your action that brings it to you. It's your vibrational Energy flow!

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Guest: So, would it pay for me to spend some time with the people that I'm involved in business with, then, talking about how we're flowing our Energy? Or should I do it myself?

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Abraham: What you're wanting to teach them, and what you're wanting to remember, yourself, is -- you're wanting to keep your valve open. And if you can keep your valve open, while you worry about what somebody's doing or not doing, you're a miracle. In other words, we've never met one who could do it. If you can keep your valve open while you're talking about getting rid of this job, you're an anomaly to the Law of Attraction as we know it to be. We've never met one, you see!

So when, instead of following the techniques that others have tried -- and we tell you, millions have tried and millions have failed -- instead of trying these techniques that have been bantered about for centuries, if, instead, you will say, "I'm going to keep my valve open relative to this subject. Now what is it about this business that rings my bells?" And you just concentrate on keeping your valve open, you see...

You may have heard it said, "It's not the words you speak. It's the music you're playing." When you're tuned in, tapped in, turned on, when you're feeling great, they gravitate to you. That's why your business grew faster in the beginning, before you knew so much. When you thought they'd all get in and go, your valve was open, and more of them got in and went. But when you started noticing not all of them wanted and not all of them went, and you started noticing that good numbers of them didn't go, and you started concentrating on that, your music stopped. You see what we're getting at?

Most of all, lighten up and have fun!


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Abe: An Artist Looking for Alternative Sources of IncomePart 1

Abraham -– Albuquerque, N.M., 7/21/01

Q: I'm an artist, and I've been looking for a complementary source of income. And what I'm looking at doing is t....

Abe: (Interrupting) 'Complementary' meaning...?

Q: ...consistent -– so that I can, I'm doing my art work, and something that I can do alongside of it... that's lucrative and....

Abe: So you're sort of wanting to orchestrate the way in which your dollars flow rather than just opening and letting them roll in however they will?

Q: Yes. (Laughs. Laughter from audience.)

Abe: Here's the reason that you're doing it.

Q: Okay.

Abe: You've heard us say in lots of different ways today that when you have a desire that you believe, now you're in vibrational harmony with it, there's no resistance to your desire and so you allow it to be. And so we think that what you're saying is, "I have this desire and I can believe it coming in this way."

Q: Mm-hm.

Abe: But then again, if you really believed it, it would already be coming in this way. And so our question to you is: do you think that it is more believable that the Universe would yield to you the abundance that you're asking for without you specifying the path through which it comes or do you think that you need to specify the path through which it comes in order to believe it?

Q: I guess I'm having trouble seeing it....

Abe: Well, we know, because you keep thinking you need to justify the way it comes. We've been talking all day long and still almost none of you believe that if you ask it is given. (Laughter from Q and audience.) What you believe is "If I ask and then if I work really hard and if I offer this talent or if I go to school this long or if I get these marks on the chart or if I have this reward or if I go to work and give these hours or if I do this and do this and do this, if I suffer in this way or if I suffer in this way or if I deprive myself in this way, then it will come," and we say that's going about it the hard way. And so what would it take for you to believe that when you ask it is given? You know the only reason that you don't believe that when you ask it is given is because you've been asking and it's being given but you haven't been letting it in, so then you think that you've been asking and it isn't being given. (Q is laughing during this) But it isn't that you've asked and it isn't being given, it's that you've asked and it is being given and you haven't been letting it in.

Q: Well....

Abe: And you have to accept that. In other words, spend three days really remembering that. Spend three days really reminding yourself. Every time that you acknowledge something that you want and you acknowledge how long you've been asking for it and you acknowledge that it hasn't been happening, stop and say, "The reason that it hasn't been happening is because I've been doing that thing I do where I don't let it in." 

Q: And just go to the mailbox? (Laughs.)

Abe: Or whatever. An idea will come. Someone will suggest something, you'll follow through with it. A check will come in the mail that you did not even know was coming for some reason. In other words, all kinds of things happen, all kinds of things even beyond your ability to right now imagine, because the Universe has all kinds of eyes and information that you have forgotten about completely, you see.  (continued tomorrow)

Abraham -– Albuquerque, N.M., 7/21/01

Abraham on Wall Street 2008

Abraham, author of a N.Y. Times bestseller on $$$,  fields a question on Wall Street as the financial Crisis erupted in 2008:

Seth on the Double Entendre Economic Catch-22

Seth from The Deleted Sessions: 

When I say economy, however, I am not simply speaking of economics in financial terms--rather in the larger meaning of economy in sparing down, cuffing out non-essentials, fearing to waste not simply money, but energy or time.

All of these ideas are based upon the fear that an individual possesses only so much energy that must be hoarded, directed--not easily, but with fantastic force. The clothes dryer in the basement represents energy that you are afraid to use. You realize you have the money to run the machine or to buy the washer. It seems somehow sinful, however, wasteful and wrong.

(9:30 p.m.) Give us a moment...it, the machine, rebukes you by its presence, because it represents a dilemma. All of this is quite aside from the exterior energy crisis.

The grasping, licentious attitudes connected with world energy are the results of the same attitudes.

There is not an energy crisis.

While you believe, however, that energy is limited then you are gluttonous for using it at the expense of poorer nations--who will then, sharing the same beliefs, retaliate.

Energy must be used. It creates more of itself. It cannot be hoarded.

Seth: the Economy Is Also A Reflection

You will benefit by the economy's misfortune--but because your ideas are what people need in order to change the conditions that caused the economy's lack of comfort. The economy itself is a reflection of people's concepts, their way of life, and it is not working. Your ideas offer hope and literal promise. The people have brought this upon themselves in their beliefs, and so it is indeed a creative venture.

Those who looked entirely to money and position are forced, and will be, to question their beliefs. The troubles with the economy can be the answers to the problems of Western civilization. There are always psychic checks and balances. When people feel they have gone too far in one process, they disrupt it, stop it, look at it.

Seth 12/18/74