You’re welcome, Linda Conner!! 🙂

XOZ

i wish i knew the answer.

Hi Karen,

Thank you for your comment. I agree with the presenter about the relief one can feel when we discover this stuff. When I first stumbled onto metaphysics in my 20s, I wondered why I’d never learned about any of this in school. This is how things really work, and no one ever bothered to mention it?!?!? Every day, I’m grateful to have found Abe and the many other metaphysical teachers I have benefited from. They have all helped make my life immeasurably better.

I’m glad that you tend more to bear-hugging than flogging!! 🙂

And thank you for weighing in on Squirrel’s question. Great insights and information. As I would expect from you!! 🙂

XOZ

I believe that Law of Attraction is THE orchestrator of everything in the Universe. That. is. huge.

Mark and I were at a Law of Attraction last Sunday where the presenter told what a relief it was to discover Law of Attraction and learn why things happen as they do. But he said he did indeed beat himself up at first when he’d catch himself thinking negatively. He’d also worry about the results of his negative thoughts.

I’ve done that, too — the flogging. But I’ve learned that it’s HABITS of thought that make the difference, and some occasional negative thoughts here and there are easily outweighed by the overall positive trend in my thinking habits. So I give myself a break, the benefit of the doubt, and a big bear hug to the extent that is possible. 🙂

As for Squirrel’s question about mental illness/severe depression, I’d like to share what I’ve learned from Abraham-Hicks about those subjects.

People vary widely in their DESIRES. Some people have intense, overriding desires; many others have relatively small desires. Now, desires overall are great — they pull life force to the planet and to the person. This is very powerful, life-giving energy. HOWEVER, when people with BIG desires have consistent negative habits of thought (Abe calls it “resistance”) by focusing on what they don’t like and don’t want, then they are summoning the powerful energy through their desires but not allowing it into their experience and not allowing their desires to manifest. The energy that they are summoning then beats them up, in Abe’s parlance. They become horribly frustrated. Life stinks. They can lose their ability to even get out of bed (severe depression) or they can find some relief by going into an imaginary world (psychosis).

So we could generalize by saying there are 3 types of people: 1) Those who have small to middlin’ desires; 2) Those who have big desires but long-term negative habits of thought that don’t allow them to manifest. (These people can thus experience serious mental and physical illness and other unwanted things.) And 3) those folks who have big desires and sufficiently happy (“allowing” in Abe parlance) habits of thought to see them manifest. These folks can live life large and manifest all sorts of wonders.

Abraham teaches us how to allow our desires to manifest via consistently shifting our mental focus, no matter if our desires are huge or teensy-tiny.

And that’s why I’m an “Abester.” 🙂

Hey Squirrel,

It’s a great question, and not one that I claim to be an expert, never having been severely depressed.

However, from my experience in the mental health field, and years of working with the law of reciprocity, my observations and experience are this: consciously working with the law of reciprocity is not for everyone. If someone is in a severe depression, they may need to get themselves stabilized in other ways – medication, therapy – before they can begin to consciously work with law of attraction stuff. That said, there are people (Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle come to mind) who have experienced major breakthroughs while in a severely dark place. There’s no one right answer – it depends on the person and the circumstances.

It’s also the case that cognitive therapy – which is working with the thought process and shares much in common with the metaphysical approach – is one method that can work with people in chronic depression. So even if it’s not the full-on Law of Attraction approach, consciously changing your thoughts can work in a wide variety of circumstances.

That’s my two cents.

I’d love to hear your take on it, as well as what other readers/commenters might have to say.

XOZ