Ask and Information technology Is Given

This is the full text from Chapter 16 of Ask and It Is Given, the volume past Esther and Jerry Hicks on the teachings of Abraham.

You ARE CO-CREATING Within A MAGNIFICENTLY DIVERSE UNIVERSE

If you have the ability to imagine it, or even to remember nigh it, this Universe has the ability and the resources to evangelize information technology fully unto y'all, for this Universe is like a well-stocked kitchen with every ingredient imaginable at your disposal. And within every particle of this Universe is that which is wanted and the lack of it. This perspective of abundance, and the lack of it, is the environs in which focus is possible-and focus activates the Law of Allure. If you practise not have the ability to know what y'all practise want, yous volition not take the ability to know what yous do not want. And without the ability to know what you do non desire, you could not know what you do want. So, information technology is through your exposure to life experience that your natural preferences are born.

Inquire and It Is Given is the bestselling book by Esther and Jerry Hicks on the teachings of Abraham.

Just as your Earthly law of gravity requires no practice only simply consistently responds to all matter in a consistent way, neither does the Police force of Attraction need practice. You exercise not have "gravity instructors" teaching how to avert falling upwards, because falling up instead of downwardly is non an choice—or a trouble. And, in similar mode, you will not demand to exercise in social club to cause the powerful Law of Attraction to respond to you in a consequent manner . . . for it will bring things to you that friction match your vibration, and it will do and so even in your ignorance of the Constabulary.

The second of these three powerful Universal Laws is the Law of Deliberate Cosmos. By deliberately directing your attention and thoughts toward the outcome that you desire, you can be or do or have anything that you choose. The application of this powerful Law has resulted in the manifestation of this magnificent planet upon which you alive, and in everything that you are able to see. And in the same way that the Non-PhysicalSource Energy applied this Law—and through powerful focus, created this environment that you telephone call life on planet Earth—you lot are continuing the process of cosmos from your concrete vantage point.

LIVING THE LAW OF Assuasive

And while these first ii Laws are of extreme importance and your awareness of them is of great value to y'all and to All-That-Is, your understanding and application of this tertiary Police force, the Law of Allowing, is really where all of your personal ability lies.

The Constabulary of Attraction says, "The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn." And what that means is: If I feel unappreciated considering of circumstances that have recently occurred in my experience, the Law of Allure cannot now environment me with people who appreciate me. That would defy the Law of Attraction.

If I feel fat and unhappy near the way my body looks and feels, I cannot notice the process or state of mind that is necessary to achieve a skillful-feeling, skillful-looking body. That would defy the Law of Attraction.

If I experience discouraged about my financial situation, information technology cannot improve. Improvement in the face up of discouragement would defy the Constabulary of Attraction.

If I am angry because people have been taking advantage of me, lying to me, dishonoring me, and even defacing my property, no activeness that I tin take tin stop those unpleasant things from happening, for that would defy the Law of Attraction.

The Law of Attraction simply and accurately reflects back to you in a myriad of ways an accurate response to your vibrational output. In brusque, whatsoever is happening to you is a perfect Vibrational Match to the current vibration of your Being—and the emotions that are nowadays inside you lot indicate that vibrational land of Existence.

Once aware of the powerful Law of Attraction, many people make a conscious decision to be more than in command of their own thoughts, for they have come to understand the power of focusing thought. People attempt to command and more effectively focus their thoughts through a diversity of methods—ranging from hypnosis or an attempt to control unconscious thoughts . . . to meditations, affirmations, and strong methods of mind control.

Merely there is a much easier way of going nigh the Deliberate Cosmos of your own experience and of fulfilling your intention for this joyous life experience, and that is an agreement and application of the Fine art of Allowing. It is the conscious, gentle guiding of your thoughts in the general direction of the things that you desire. And every bit you come to understand this powerful Stream of Life that nosotros are explaining, and equally yous get a glimpse of the larger film of who-yous-really-are, and, almost of import, as you become convinced that your true work is to just realign with who-you-really- are, the Art of Allowingwill become 2nd nature to you.

Become WITH THE FLOW OF WELL-BEING

And then we will devote this entire volume to assisting you in going with the flow of your natural Well-Being. Nosotros will discuss the essence of about every believable situation that you could observe yourself in, and we will offering guidance and suggestions that will cause you to plough and go with the natural Current. Nosotros will help you consciously rediscover the amazing sensory perception that yous were built-in with that helps you determine the direction of your true path. And it is our expectation that as you read this book and return to your witting awareness of the amazing power of your emotions, y'all will get the Allower of the Well-Existence that you are from your broader Non-Physical, Source Energy point of view.

The nigh common misunderstanding that prevents people from getting control of a situation and gaining their personal residue is the conventionalities that I demand to get to where I want to becorrect now or every bit quickly every bit possible. Nosotros certainly understand your want to observe the answers to your questions apace or to solve your problems as fast as you can, but all the same, that urge works confronting you. When you feel an urgency to be somewhere else, you lot are pushing hard confronting where you are. That is upstream. But an even more important flaw in the premise you are beginning from is this: In your conventionalities that you must hurry to an improved place, y'all are discounting the power of the Stream, its speed, its direction, and its promise. And in the forgetting of those things, yous are definitely pointed in the reverse direction of who-you- truly-are and all that you have get.

So now, plough your attention once more to the upstream/ downstream analogy, and feel for a moment the sensation of relief that you would feel if you had been paddling against the Current in an upstream management and then suddenly just stopped paddling, in an attitude of giving in to the Stream and letting information technology just turn yous and accept you downstream. Let this motion-picture show soothe you even farther as you try at present to retrieve that this Stream is chivalrous and wise, and it is actually taking you toward the things that you want. In your mind's eye, lie back in your boat, feel it turn naturally downstream, and relax into the idea that this Stream will carry you to your inevitable Well-Being and to a fulfillment of your desires.

You ARE Adding Ability TO THE STREAM

The following pages of this book have the potential to assistance you speedily align with everything yous have ever wanted. Just that alignment will not exist likely unless y'all have taken the time to accept the validity of the analogy of the Stream.

If you tin can accept that from your Not-Physical vantage betoken before your physical nativity, you had ready forth intentions, and those intentions account for role of the momentum of the Stream . . . and that equally you lot are here in this concrete body, life causes you lot to inquire for more than things, and that those things business relationship for part of the momentum of the Stream . . . and that in all that you lot have lived, you are constantly shooting vibrational rockets out ahead of you, and that those rockets business relationship for part of the momentum of the Stream . . . and, most of all, if yous tin take that your Inner Being, the Source inside yous, at present stands in vibrational alignment with all of that condign, and that the Police force of Attraction is cartoon to that furthermost summoning point . . . now you understand the ability of this Stream.

And so now, earlier you read farther, just lie back for a moment and contemplate this wonderful, powerful Stream of Well-Existence, which moves unendingly in the management of your condign, and toward the fulfillment of that which is you. . . .

And at present you are fix to apply the upstream/downstreamcomparison toward any and all aspects of your own life experience. It is our expectation that you are now set to personally acknowledge, thought by thought, if you are pointed upstream or downstream; and whether you are closing the gap between you and You or are holding yourself unnaturally apart.