Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Abraham-Hicks

No matter where my thirst for spiritual information takes me, I always find my way back to Abraham-Hicks. Their message is always refreshing, simply stated and deeply resonates with me. I receive their "Daily Quotes" in my email inbox everyday, which are Abraham text quotes from various speaking engagements. It's all uplifting, positive, insightful information on how to create the life you desire using the powerful "Law of Attraction".
Their website http://www.abraham-hicks.com has lots of free audio's and video's. YouTube has many video's available as well.

Oh, my food for thought quote of the day comes from Eckhart Tolle's book "The Power of Now" and comes from page 27.

"An emotion usually represents an amplified and energized thought pattern, and because of its often overpowering energetic charge, it is not easy initially to stay present enough to be able to watch it. It wants to take you over, and it usually succeeds - unless there is enough presence in you. If you are pulled into unconscious identification with the emotion through lack of presence, which is normal, the emotion temporarily becomes "you". Often a vicious circle builds up between your thinking and the emotion: they feed each other. The thought pattern creates a magnified reflection of itself in the form of an emotion and the vibrational frequency of the emotion keeps feeding the original thought pattern. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern and so on.

Basically, all emotions are modifications of one primordial, undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of awareness of who you are beyond name and form. Because if its undifferentiated nature, it is hard to find a name that precisely describes this emotion. "Fear" comes close, but apart from a continuous sense of threat, it also includes a deep sense of abandonment and incompleteness. It may be best to use a term that is as undifferentiated as that basic emotion and simply call it "pain". One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove that emotion of pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity, but all it can ever achieve is to cover it up temporarily. In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find the solution, nor can it afford to allow you to find the solution, because it is itself an intrinsic part of the "problem". Imagine a chief of police trying to find an arsonist when the arsonist is the chief of police. You will not be free of that pain until you cease to derive your sense of self from identification with the mind, which is to say from ego. The mind is then toppled from its place of power and Being reveals itself as your true nature."