The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham

by Esther Hicks

you get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Your

Rather Than Monitor Thoughts, I’ll Feel Feelings

There are two emotions: One feels good and one feels bad.

the feeling that feels good would be offered when you are thinking, speaking, or doing that which is in harmony with what you want; while it was agreed that a feeling that feels bad would be offered when you are speaking, thinking, or acting in a direction that is not in harmony with your intentions.

One who tolerates is feeling negative emotion. One who is an Allower does not feel negative emotion.

When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion—but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

When you are focusing upon what you want, your Inner Being offers you positive emotion. When you are focusing upon what you need, your Inner Being offers you negative emotion because you are not focused upon what you want. You are focused upon the lack of what you want—and your Inner Being knows that that which you give thought to is that which you attract. Your Inner Being knows that you do not want the lack; your Inner Being knows you want what you want, and your Inner Being is offering you guidance so that you will know the difference.

when you are feeling positive emotion, you are attracting into your experience that which you want. When you are feeling negative emotion, you are attracting into your experience that which you do not want.

They are that which they are, creators of their own life experience, attracting unto themselves, while I am creator of my experience, attracting unto me. That is the Art of Allowing.. . . And as you state that to yourself again and again, soon you will come to recognize that they are not really messing up your world in the way that you might think that they are. They are creating their own world. And to them, it may not be a world that is messed up.

Giving your attention to what is important to you is the process by which you will allow others to be that which they want to be. To give your attention to yourself, while you allow them to give their own attention to themselves, is a very important process in the art of becoming an Allower.

Your thoughts today are now prepaving your future, and there will be a point in time when you will move to that future place, and you will then live the results of the thoughts that you are thinking now, just as today you are living the results of the thoughts that you have thought before.

My Attention to Unwanted Creates More of Unwanted You attract through your thought. You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. And so, as you give attention to the drivers who are not courteous, you will attract more of them into your experience. As you give your attention to those who are not giving you good service as you are going from business to business, you will begin attracting more of those sorts of experiences unto you. That which you give your attention to—particularly your emotional attention to—is that which you draw into your experience.

an accepting, an approving, an appreciating, and an allowing of oneself is the first step in the appreciating, approving, or allowing of others. And

Do not give thought to those things that you do not want, and you will not have them in your experience. Do not speak of that which you do not want, and you will not attract it into your experience. And so, when you understand that, then, as one who is observing others having experiences that they do not want, you are not so filled with negative emotion, because you understand that they are now in the process of receiving an understanding of how all things come to them.

To be an Allower is to be one who feels positive emotion, which means that you must control what you are giving your attention to. It does not mean that you get everything in your world whipped into shape so that everything and everyone is just the way you want it to be. It means that you are able to see, and therefore solicit forth, from the Universe, from your world, and from your friends, that which is in harmony with you, while you let the other parts go unnoticed by you—therefore unattracted by you, and therefore not invited by you. That is Allowing, you see.

nothing comes to you unless you invite it through your thought. And

Your ability to focus upon a narrower subject brings forth more clarity, while your ability to focus upon many things at once more often brings confusion.

Segment Intending is the process of deliberate identification of what is specifically wanted for this moment in time.

Confusion comes forth when you are considering too many things at one time, while clarity comes forth while you are more singular in thought—and it all hinges upon the Law of Attraction

You are considering so many things that you are moving forward in no one specific direction—and the result, of course, is a feeling of frustration or confusion.

When you consider many subjects at the same time, you generally do not move forward strongly toward any of them, for your focus and your power is diffused, whereas if you are focusing upon that which is most important in any point in time, you move forward more powerfully toward that.

In your present, you give thought to your future so that when you get to that future time, your future has been prepaved, or prepared, for you by you. And so, much that you are experiencing today is as a result of your thoughts about today that you thought yesterday and the day before and the year before and the year before. . . .

If you have not prepaved and you are not deliberately intending in this segment, then you are living life by default, and so, the possibility of being swept up in the confusion or intentions of someone else is likely. Two Beings who are in two

This is what I want from this segment of my life experience. I want it and I expect it. And

An Example of a Day of Segment Intending Here is an example of a day in which you are not only

It is my intention for my body to completely relax. It is my intention to awaken rested, refreshed, and eager to begin my day.

intend to acknowledge my wonderful body and to feel appreciation for the magnificent way it functions. I intend to be efficient in my grooming and to bring myself to looking my best.

All physical Beings have communication from their Inner Being in the form of emotion, and so, whenever your emotion is positive, you can know that you are in harmony with your inner intentions.

This will be brief, and I will not lose my train of thought. I will not lose the momentum that I have set forth. I will deal with this quickly and efficiently, and I will get on with what I was doing.

By being clear about what you want and no longer contradicting it with opposing thoughts, you will enable the Laws of the Universe to do their work, and you will not feel a need to offer so much action to compensate for inappropriate thought. By offering deliberate thought, you will harness the power of the Universe, and it will require far less time for you to accomplish much, much more.

The best scenario is to desire something and to bring yourself into the belief or expectation of achieving it.

the majority of your creative effort is spent in defining what you want and then aligning your thoughts to that desire,

When you put yourself in the position of competition, the one who wins is always the one who is clearest about his wanting, and most expectant of it. It is Law. If there is any value in competition, it is this: It stimulates desire.

Simply give thought to what is preferred, consistently throughout the day, and the Law of Attraction will take care of everything else.

Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I want to see. Nothing is more important than that I feel good.

As long as you are seeing only what-is, you cannot grow beyond it. You must be allowed to see what you want to see if you will ever attract what you want to see. Attention to what-is only creates more of what-is.

Abraham: First, you must recognize that everything that you are now living is a result of the thoughts that have been offered by you in the past. Those thoughts have literally invited, or set up, the circumstances that you are now living. And so, today, as you begin setting forth your thought of your future and seeing yourself as you want to be, you begin the alignment of those future events and circumstances that will please you. As you give thought to your future—your future that may be 10 years; your future that may be 5 years; or your future that may be 60 days away—you literally begin prepaving. And then, as you move into those prepaved moments, and as that future becomes your present, you fine-tune it by saying, This is what I now want. And all of those thoughts that you have put forth about your future, right down to this moment when you are now intending what action you want to take, will all fit together to bring you precisely that which you now want to live. And so, it is a simple process of recognizing day by day that there are many segments. And as you are entering into a new segment, you need to stop and identify what is most important to you so that by the Law of Attraction, you may attract that unto you for your consideration. The more thought you give to something, the clearer you become; the clearer you become, the more positive emotion you feel and the more power you attract. And so, this business of Segment Intending is the key to swift and Deliberate Cr...