<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel>
    <title>Gaia: Abraham-Hicks Downstream Playground</title>
    <id>tag:gaia.com,2008,:Gaia</id>
    <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/discussions/feeds/pod/34519</link>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <ttl>20</ttl>
    <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 04:15:03 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Gaia: Abraham-Hicks Downstream Playground</description>
    <item>
      <title>Brilliant Inspiration for Improving Your Vibration Around Money!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-290349</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 04:15:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/290349</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      From Abraham-Hicks. Read it as though it was you, saying it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ll bet there are many people who, at one time, were standing financially about where I am. Who broke through this, and found a stream of abundance. And I can feel the stream of abundance approaching me, because things that have never happened to me before are beginning to show up. So, I know my vibration around money is improving. And, there&amp;rsquo;s no end to what that improvement will be. And it&amp;rsquo;s gonna be fun for me over the next days to watch different evidences showing me I&amp;rsquo;m really sniffing out the trail of abundance. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And, I accept that 99% of every creation is complete before I see any physical evidence, so it&amp;rsquo;s alright if it doesn&amp;rsquo;t flow right into my hands this red hot minute. I can be patient here a little bit. I&amp;rsquo;ve learned to settle in here and I&amp;rsquo;m alright in waiting for this. And I&amp;rsquo;m actually beginning to feel my impatience turning to a little bit of eagerness. It&amp;rsquo;s going to be exciting to watch how the Universe displays to me, in a way that is meaningful, where I can consciously recognize that my energy is shifting. And, I can feel that even in this conversation that I&amp;rsquo;m having with myself that I&amp;rsquo;m moving systematically into that Stream of money that I&amp;rsquo;m wanting. And I&amp;rsquo;m not asking for it to come all at once. Although it can. I&amp;rsquo;m asking that it come through my crack of least resistance, which I&amp;rsquo;m working on right now. And it&amp;rsquo;s exciting to me to anticipate the adventure, and the surprises, and the ways in which it will flow.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; And, I&amp;rsquo;m appreciating already my knowledge about my own guidance system. I am appreciating my understanding of the Law of Attraction. And I am appreciating the people that are showing, in a demonstrating way, that abundance can flow into their experiences. And I am looking forward to meeting people who can tell me their stories about how they were in desperate straits not very long ago and money began to flow. And I like hearing from them, especially the part where they say, &amp;lsquo;I can&amp;rsquo;t believe that it was always there for me&amp;rsquo;, or I have the sensation of, &amp;lsquo;Where have you been all along.&amp;rsquo; In other words, it&amp;rsquo;s an interesting thing to be on one side of the manifestation one moment, and on the other side of the manifestation in the other moment. And I&amp;rsquo;m looking forward to breaking through that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But, in the mean time, I&amp;rsquo;m happy to be on this side of the manifestation because I&amp;rsquo;m feeling better, and better, and better. I&amp;rsquo;ve improved my life in so many different ways. And I&amp;rsquo;m eager to begin to see the stream of money flow into my experience. I know that I&amp;rsquo;m worthy of it. That&amp;rsquo;s not what the question is. I know, now, that I&amp;rsquo;ve just been a little bit vibrationally out of whack. And I can feel in conversations I&amp;rsquo;m having with myself, like this, are bringing me vibrationally into alignment. I&amp;rsquo;m understanding that my work is this emotional journey. It&amp;rsquo;s not about getting out there and beating the pavement. It&amp;rsquo;s not about finding the vortex &amp;ndash; the specific vortex &amp;ndash; through which the money will flow. I don&amp;rsquo;t want only one specific vortex. I want many vortexes to open. I want to be the focal point, where enormous sums of money begin to flow into my experience.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I have activated my imagination. There is no end to my ideas of what I will do with this stream of money. It&amp;rsquo;s great fun! I love the idea of playing the game where I&amp;rsquo;m spending the money. I love the sensation of the money being in my pocket! And I love the sensation of expressing it out there in the Universe. And I love the economy that I benefit as I hire one more to do one more thing, or as I buy one more thing and bring it home. But most of all, I enjoy the sensation of Freedom! And it&amp;rsquo;s interesting to note that I am having that sensation of freedom right now even though my dollars have not changed at all in this moment! I&amp;rsquo;ve broken through the emotional journey. I can feel that I&amp;rsquo;ve cleaned up my vibration. I&amp;rsquo;m much closer. Maybe 70% of that 99.99 of that percentage is in place. I&amp;rsquo;m willing to play this game! Who wouldn&amp;rsquo;t want to play this game! It&amp;rsquo;s exhilarating to play this game! It&amp;rsquo;s life-giving to play this game. I could play this game all day, every day! Wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be nice if I have that? Won&amp;rsquo;t it be nice if I have that? Won&amp;rsquo;t it be nice if I have that? Wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be nice if I have that?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I feel such appreciation of the abundance that&amp;rsquo;s flowing into my experience. There is abundance that&amp;rsquo;s coming to me in so many ways. I have the abundance of clarity. I have the abundance of stamina. I have the abundance of health. I have the abundance of friends. I have the abundance of so many things. And now the Universe is getting ready to give me the abundance of dollars. The abundance of being able to prove to myself that I am in alignment of all that I want and that it is true that there is NOTHING that I cannot BE, or DO, or HAVE!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; That&amp;rsquo;s what I want most of all, I say to the Universe! I want personal acknowledgment that there is nothing that I cannot Be, or Do, or Have. And money is part of it. Money might even be a big part of it. I can feel money on it&amp;rsquo;s way to me. And I am grateful for it even as it begins to flow and I am proud of myself for the work I am doing. And I am eager to improve where I am. And I am Happy where I am.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I am doing very well. I have come so far. I&amp;rsquo;m proud of where I am. I know the Universe sees me as I am. I can get on these rampages any time I want to. I am going to work on these rampages more and more, because they just feel so darn good. In fact, in a rampage like this, whether the money comes or not, in this red hot minute, is no big issue to me. I know it&amp;rsquo;s coming. I&amp;rsquo;m not even wondering if it&amp;rsquo;s coming. I&amp;rsquo;m not hoping that it&amp;rsquo;s coming. I&amp;rsquo;m not even believing that it&amp;rsquo;s coming. I know that it&amp;rsquo;s coming. It&amp;rsquo;s just a matter of time. NO! It&amp;rsquo;s not even a matter of time. It&amp;rsquo;s just a matter of my alignment with what I want. And it&amp;rsquo;s alright that I want it. The Time Space reality has given me the ability to discern it. I&amp;rsquo;ve launched rockets of desire and they&amp;rsquo;re over there pulsing with me. And Source and Inner Being are in alignment with them saying, &amp;ldquo;Come this way. Come this way. Come this way. Come this way. Come this way. Come this way.&amp;rdquo; And I can tell by the thoughts that I&amp;rsquo;m thinking right now I have come that way! I&amp;rsquo;m there! I&amp;rsquo;m there vibrationally and, NOW, let the money roll in! &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>WHAT DO YOU THINK GOD IS?</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-275432</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:53:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/275432</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      I know that Abe is quite clear on what &amp;quot;God&amp;quot; is... but I&amp;#39;d love to hear your personal perspective on it. Please share with us ... everything and anything!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love,&lt;br /&gt;Pieter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: there TRULY is nothing more important than that I feel good!!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-271534</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:20:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/268059#271534</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hi TC - thanks for your nice note. Wow -- you are so right: how simple it is, yet how difficult we often make it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; for being a reminder for &lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt;, just by writing your short post! For, even though I wrote that original post about &amp;quot;there TRULY is nothing more important than that I feel good&amp;quot;, it can be easy to fall back into old patterns that seem to validate &amp;quot;negative&amp;quot; thinking as though there is some sort of solution in it. (oh my gosh -- WHERE does that come from?!!)&amp;nbsp; That&amp;#39;s why I just keep at it whenever possible... keep leaning downstream, and do things that make feeling good a regular thing as much as possible. It&amp;#39;s the only way to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please keep sharing...!!&amp;nbsp; Great to have you here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: greetings beautiful people!!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-271529</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:14:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/264583#271529</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hi Tom - Thanks for your note and your interest in my journey. Well, I&amp;#39;ll try not to make this too long,... but I do have a tendency to write a lot (!)... because I find the writing process is often a way for me to more deeply figure out the things I&amp;#39;m writing about. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last 8 months or so, I&amp;#39;ve been living in California, working for my brother&amp;#39;s and father&amp;#39;s company. I had accepted this job last summer and decided to move here (from my home in Seattle) when I was in a temporary state of panic about income and about my direction in life. This job offer popped up &amp;quot;unexpectedly&amp;quot; and I saw it as an answer to the state I was in ... it was the perfect solution, and I had created it. So, after a short period of waffling on the decision about whether or not to take the job, I got into a good feeling place of alignment with it, even did some amazing &amp;quot;automatic writing&amp;quot; about it, and ultimately decided to just go for it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, after the initial excitement of being in a new place and trying something new, these last&amp;nbsp; 8 months have been quite a ride of contrasts for me: experiencing being in a job that turned out to be not what I expected, being required to work such long hours that it often feels like I have no other life, working with my brother which has often put a severe strain on our personal relationship, and feeling isolated and secluded from my friends back home and from &amp;quot;civilization&amp;quot; (the job is in the mountains at Lake Tahoe, which is an indescribably beautiful place, and there is certainly nothing &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; with it, yet while it&amp;#39;s an ideal vacation spot or place for a second home, from my perspective, it feels rather isolated from what I&amp;#39;m used to in the way of metropolitan living, diversity, people, things to do, opportunities, etc). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In retrospect, I see now, on one hand, that I created this whole experience directly out of the state of mind I was in at the time it &amp;quot;popped&amp;quot; into my experience. I was in a state where I felt out of control of my own experience, I was feeling lacking, I was feeling needy like I wanted someone to take the reigns, ..... and so that&amp;#39;s exactly the kind of experience I created for myself. And I created it powerfully and quickly. What a creator! Prior to the job being offered to me, it was not even a small possibility ... it just manifested - bam! - like that. And, I also remember thinking at the time, &amp;quot;how could I possibly say no to an opportunity that seems like it could be the answer to everything?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the very interesting points for me is recalling the state of alignment I was in when I did make the decision to take this job and make this move. It felt so right, and perhaps it was - but not in the way that I thought it was at the time. After all, &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; are always relative, right?! Perhaps it&amp;#39;s simply that I didn&amp;#39;t realize exactly what I was creating at the time; I wasn&amp;#39;t creating an immediate answer to everything I desired as far as &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; to the state I was in at the time, rather I was creating a more long-term plan that would be a very rich and powerful experience so full of contrast that it would allow me to more purposefully and directly focus my desire about what I now want to do.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;So, the ultimate way to look at this whole experience for me is to be able to appreciate it as a facilitator for creating a new direction that I didn&amp;#39;t have before. I&amp;#39;m now preparing to move back to Seattle (as I didn&amp;#39;t end up selling my home there -- thankfully!) in May, and I know I will appreciate it and my home there more than ever before. Also, I already have some exciting new things in the works&amp;nbsp; -- a new home-based business that is already taking off, a book I&amp;#39;ve been wanting to write for years is now in the works, and a creative art project that I&amp;#39;ve been thinking about for some time is also underway. I&amp;#39;m also starting to put my &amp;quot;feelers&amp;quot; out to get involved in singing and performing again, which is very exciting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only have a few weeks left before I leave Tahoe and leave this job here behind. In some ways, it hardly seems real that it&amp;#39;s coming to an end! But I know that it is going to happen, and that it is going to be wonderful. And, I know that in the very near future, I&amp;#39;ll be able to look back on this whole experience from an even broader perspective, and really appreciate the contrast for what it inspired in me. Thank goodness I made through in one piece!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for &amp;quot;listening.&amp;quot; And thanks for being here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pieter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: there TRULY is nothing more important than that I feel good!!</title>
      <author>http://OpenForAllowing.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>tc_hokie</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-269830</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:25:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/268059#269830</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      &lt;p&gt;Thank you for reminding us of this! It is so simple - just turn everything off and allow yourself to connect. Ironic how difficult we can make it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks - I really needed someone to remind me of this - particularly this week. glad you are back&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: greetings beautiful people!!</title>
      <author>http://tomath2o.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-269222</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/264583#269222</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Why not tell us more about your journey?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;T&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>there TRULY is nothing more important than that I feel good!!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-268059</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:16:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/268059</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Wow -- I&amp;#39;ve been &amp;quot;getting&amp;quot; this one more and more over the last couple years... since I started connecting with Abraham. And it keeps showing up for me in more and more powerful ways. Take this week, for example. Early in the week, I was feeling stressed, pressured, confused, etc. Yet, even knowing how important it is to do whatever I need to do in every moment to stay pointed downstream, I made my work and the issues I was dealing with MORE important than my alignment/connection with source/feeling good. I actually told myself that I didn&amp;#39;t have time to focus on being in alignment!! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!!??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, last night, at the end of another day when my stress and negativity were spiraling downwards, I finally gave in, turned off the computer (at work and home), put my &amp;quot;responsibilities and obligations to my issues, work, etc.&amp;quot; aside, and went to a Bikram Yoga class. And, WOW what a difference in just a short 90 minutes. It was the perfect distraction for me from the stressed pattern of thinking that I had been keeping alive for the last few days. It was the ideal meditation -- using the breath and the body postures as ways to focus mind and energy... and thus allow my natural connection with source. I was blissful afterwards, and still am! And one of the amazing things is that all of those issues and responsibilities I was dealing with are still there... it&amp;#39;s just that I can see them in a totally different light from this source-connected place!! And now I can step into them with joy and power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abe always says that if you are in alignment with source, if you&amp;#39;re feeling good and connected to your higher self, your time and effort and action in every moment is 100 times (maybe 1000!) more effective and productive than if you were not in that space of alignment. It&amp;#39;s so true!! In this feeling state of alignment, I feel like I can do anything, and the solutions to problems show up easily and quickly. Often, the solutions are there before the problems even arise!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The funny thing is that, even if being in alignment DIDN&amp;#39;T make your time, effort, and action 100-1000 times more productive, wouldn&amp;#39;t you rather spend your time in a place of feel-good, source-connected alignment that feeling crappy all the time? If you feel crappy all the time, what&amp;#39;s the point of being here at all?!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not intened to be a encouragement (for anyone other than me) to attend Bikram Yoga! It&amp;#39;s just that, for me, I have found that Bikram is a great way for me to get connected and in alignment again. It always works, and my focus during the class is just getting more and more powerful. I&amp;#39;m now even seeing the glow of my own aura in the mirror during the class!! And I often see it around others in the class, too. [in Bikram, the class is always conducted in a room with one wall being a mirror, and everyone faces that mirror so they can see their postures and focus on what they&amp;#39;re doing.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever it is that is a catalyst to help bring you back into alignment, I say DO IT FREQUENTLY!! Do it whenever you can.... being in alignment is so important ... it&amp;#39;s where the answers and the paths to all your dreams are waiting. As Abe says, if you say you don&amp;#39;t have the time and you can&amp;#39;t afford to make the time for getting in alignment ... think again! You can&amp;#39;t afford NOT to take the time to be in alignment. Because when you&amp;#39;re out of alignment, everything will likely be a struggle, and you&amp;#39;ll likely attract the worst parts of everything to you.&lt;br /&gt;Now, I think it&amp;#39;s also important to take care of the things we are doing in our lives-- meaning don&amp;#39;t throw away or completely avoid the things you&amp;#39;re working on, your job, etc. .... so that you can spend all your time working on staying in alignment. That would likely -- at least eventually -- be&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;upstream,&amp;quot; because we do live in this physical world, and managing the aspects of our everyday existence is part of being here. So, give yourself the time you need to be in alignment, but also give yourself time to be part of -- and play -- the game of life. When you&amp;#39;re in alignment, the game is so much fun... and everything works out for you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just wanted to share that. It feels good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love to all,&lt;br /&gt;Pieter&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: greetings beautiful people!!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-268029</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:46:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/264583#268029</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hey there, Chris! Thanks for your great and inspiring note! Very fun to read ... and I love all the V&amp;#39;s!! The pridefests you&amp;#39;re going to sound like tons of fun. Fantastic! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here it is Friday again... I hope to go skiing again this weekend. One of my latest favorite past times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a wonderful weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With love,&lt;br /&gt;Pieter&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: greetings beautiful people!!</title>
      <author>http://angelman.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>angelman66</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-264846</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/264583#264846</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Pieter - welcome back--

Glad to hear all is well with you.

Keep flowing that energy!!! We can all feel ya, dude!!

:-)

:-)

:-)

Appreciating the positive aspects just keeps lifting us higher and higher. I have found that I can find the positive aspects of every situation, and find myself happy, childlike and high as a kite more and more of the time. It's as much fun as it was when i was chasing butterflies and marveling at the magic of the world at the age of 2...I think we weren't supposed to ever lose that sense of wonder and fun and freedom.

We all have our moments of contrast but I'm getting the knack of using each contrasting moment as a springboard and jumping headlong into the essence of what I do want...my visualizations and virtual realities are more vivid than ever (hey that;'s a lot of v-action, there, very very LOA) and every time I pause to appreciate beauty or love, I find it juices me up each time i return to the thought. These thoughts become more and more powerful the more you think them, and you feel freer and clearer and more powerful. I love it!

I'm also high cause it's Friday and the weekends beckons. I am attending Pridefest in Lake Worth Florida tomorrow, and will also attend the Lauderdale Pridefest in a couple of weeks. I know I will meet some goodlooking dudes there, maybe almost as hot as you, dude!!

:-)

Keep appreciating the beauty all around you!
Peace/love/happiness
-Chris &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>greetings beautiful people!!</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-264583</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:05:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/264583</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hello!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phew! I&amp;#39;m back! So sorry it&amp;#39;s been so long since I&amp;#39;ve been here to visit with all of you and share in this community. I&amp;#39;ve been off on other adventures... transformative adventures that are truly bringing about glorious change in my life. As Abe says, contrast helps us focus our desire. And that&amp;#39;s truly what&amp;#39;s been happening with me. As Abe says, we do not have to have extremes in contrast in order to focus our desires, to create and manifest our dreams, but it is true oftentimes that the more powerful the contrast, the more powerful a desire is created, and the more specifically the&amp;nbsp; desire is focused. AND, the more powerful the manifestation expands in our &amp;quot;vibrational escrow.&amp;quot; Well, I&amp;#39;ve made it thru some big contrast, and now, looking back, I can see that it truly HAS helped me to focus my desire in a way like never before. I have a new direction, a new plan ... that has not necessarily strayed from where I was all along, but it&amp;#39;s given me a more definite knowing of the path I now desire to take. And I&amp;#39;m on that path, baby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope my absence hasn&amp;#39;t made you lose your connection to being here at least now and then, to share your thoughts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namaste to all of you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;P&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: A Great Find...</title>
      <author>http://Mascha.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Mascha</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-239417</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/237953#239417</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hi Nichole, and thanks for the tip!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I clicked around within the HayHouse link but could&amp;#39;t find Abraham-Hicks anywhere in their Archives for some reason. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here is a&lt;a href="http://www.abraham-hicks.com/askitisgiven_chapter_16.php" target="_blank"&gt; transcript of &amp;quot;Ask And It Is Given&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, lecture 16.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I&amp;#39;ve read so far makes complete sense. Great read, too. I feel like saying to myself, &amp;quot;Elementary, my dear &lt;strike&gt;Wats&lt;/strike&gt;... Mascha. Why has it still not sunk in so completely that you don&amp;#39;t need reminders anymore?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmm...&amp;nbsp; One answer: Slow horses need to feel the whip to get up to speed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love to y&amp;#39;all,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;m&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>A Great Find...</title>
      <author>http://kwiltshaq.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Kwiltshaq</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-237953</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:26:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/237953</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      I have found a tool that is wonderful and wanted to share!&amp;nbsp; If you go to www.HayHouseRadio.com and become a member (it&amp;#39;s free) you have access to nearly 20 1 hour long programs of Abraham speaking great wisdom through Esther.&amp;nbsp; I have to say that by listening to them over and over on my ipod I am definately floating merrily downstream... even through a break-up (it&amp;#39;s okay he was completely nuts, come to find out.)&amp;nbsp; In the Archves look for Ask and It Is Given.&amp;nbsp; Several of the programs are quite profound and I appreciate how funny Abraham is ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all are well!&amp;nbsp; Love, Nichole&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Abe's Definition of Love?</title>
      <author>http://Mascha.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Mascha</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-230452</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:12:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228955#230452</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      I haven&amp;#39;t had time to read much lately, so I haven&amp;#39;t even read the thread you linked to, Angelman. But the simplicity and elegance of everyone&amp;#39;s expression on this one short thread alone is like food for me. Nectarine slurpees, hmm! And I just wanted you all to know that this is so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With so much appreciation,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;m&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Abe's Definition of Love?</title>
      <author>http://angelman.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>angelman66</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-230257</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228955#230257</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Here's the law of attraction for you, Pieter - a thread on this topic from the abeforum--

http://www.theabeforum.com/forum2/2699-3.html &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Health and wellness</title>
      <author>http://angelman.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>angelman66</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-230254</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228286#230254</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      These are great, Pieter, I will look into them all. I am a big devotee of yoga but have never done bikram.. I hear it's kinda smelly....LOL...but I guess it depends on who you're in class with...I might just have to risk it, though, there is a class down the street from me...

Actually, I used to attend yoga class faithfully and have gotten away from it altogether in the past year, other than occasional sessions at home. Definitely some kind of resistance coming forth there...I wonder what that's all about?

I tried EFT recently for a couple of days and felt silly. Actually, the affirmations sounded silly to me although the tapping of the meridians seemed to release some energy. I'm so not big on affirmations.  

Above all I am being gentle with myself and doing stuff that makes me feel good. Relaxing, reading, being solitary...this feels right for me right now. I am back to 15 minutes a day of meditating and that has helped. 
 &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Abe's Definition of Love?</title>
      <author>http://angelman.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>angelman66</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-230252</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:05:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228955#230252</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      I have heard Abraham say that love is appreciation, pure positive energy, focusing on the positive aspects of a person, place or thing with pure admiration and appreciation. Love and appreciation are exactly the same thing.  &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Abe's Definition of Love?</title>
      <author>http://kwiltshaq.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Kwiltshaq</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-229648</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:47:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228955#229648</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      I think of the ooey-gooey love as infatuation mixed with lust.&amp;nbsp; It generally lasts, oh... about two weeks :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nichole &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: Health and wellness</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-228967</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:14:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/228286#228967</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      Hi C!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is a great topic for downstream discussion, because I&amp;#39;m sure everyone has inexplainable aches and pains now and then. I certainly do, and I&amp;#39;m sure that they are somehow inspired by my emotional-vibrational state. Whether they are from an emotional state that I&amp;#39;m experiencing in that moment or not is, I think, a variable.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are a few methods I can share with you that have worked for me ... &amp;#39;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1) I used to do this first one before I ever knew about intention and the power of thought and emotion, but I would meditate on seeing white light directed at the area where I was feeling discomfort. I would see strong beams of light shining in from every possible direction into that spot. And, I was focusing so much on the light during those moments of meditation, that I really don&amp;#39;t think my focus was on the pain. And, many times, the pain would &amp;quot;miraculously&amp;quot; subside. I think Abe might say, on one hand, that I was bringing more attention to the point of pain, and thus I could only increase it. But, on the other hand, I think they would also say that if I could not take my attention off the pain, if focusing the light on it made me feel downstream -- like I was doing something good for myself and bringing clarity and light -- that this focus would be a good thing. So, Abe&amp;#39;s answers are never &amp;quot;black and white,&amp;quot; there&amp;#39;s always a variable depending on where you&amp;#39;re coming from. It&amp;#39;s the same as when Abe is asked by people, &amp;quot;Should I stop taking my medication, because doing it is giving more attention to what&amp;#39;s wrong?&amp;quot; Abe would say, well, if you can feel completely in alignment with stopping the taking of your medication, if it makes you feel emotionally good to stop it, then, yes, stop taking it.... but if stopping taking it makes you feel uneasy or worried that you&amp;#39;re not doing what you need to do in your process of allowing the wellness to return to your body, then don&amp;#39;t stop taking it!! It&amp;#39;s a variable depending where you are on the emotional scale with the issue you are dealing with.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Am I making any sense here?! I hope so!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2) Another great thing for me is yoga -- hatha, ashtanga, and Bikram (&amp;quot;hot box&amp;quot;) yoga. I always feel amazing after these, especially after Bikram. Bikram incorporates breathing patterns and heat, and brings oxygen to the blood and eases areas of your body that you didn&amp;#39;t even know you had! It can also be a very meditative practice, and the postures and breathing and heat almost force you to take your mind off of everything but focusing on the here and now in that moment. Wonderful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3) Ramtha (do you know of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment?) teaches a technique called &amp;quot;Blue Body.&amp;quot; It focuses on the fourth level vibrational frequency where our &amp;quot;light body&amp;quot; exists in a state of webs of energy that are actually orchestrating and sort of holding together that which manifests as our &amp;quot;physical&amp;quot; body on the plane of vibration (physicality) where we are currently consciously residing. That &amp;quot;blue body&amp;quot; at the 4th level is perfect and everything right down to every last cell in our bodies exists at this level in its pure, perfect, source energy state. This is totally in keeping with Abe&amp;#39;s teachings, which say that our bodies are always in a totally pure, perfect state... anything wrong that we perceive from our physical perspective is only a temporary indicator of how we&amp;#39;ve been vibrating. So, since our healthy, pure body always exists -- in the &amp;quot;blue body&amp;quot; fourth level -- we can always return to it, we can return to that pure vibration if we will allow ourselves to. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway, Ramtha teaches something called the &amp;quot;blue body dance&amp;quot; which is a sort of moving meditation with powerful, feel-good inspiring music. During the dance, you do a methodical visualization of the blue webs all over your body, from head to toe. It&amp;#39;s magical. And it really works if you do it diligently. I can tell you more about it if you like. Ramtha would say you should go to his school if you really want to learn how to do it. But it all comes down to your readiness and willingness to put the process to work with total allowing. I would imagine you&amp;#39;re there, just because you are already powerfully knowing that we are all vibration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Love and light and happy joy to every cell in your body....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Day ,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pieter&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: What's your favorite method for turning downstream?</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-228962</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:46:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/219378#228962</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      HI MASCHA! I love the YODELING!! Please keep yodeling ... I can hear you all the way &amp;quot;down&amp;quot; there in LA! Downstream in LA, that is!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I&amp;#39;ll drink that wine any day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks for the love.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BRING IT ON!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Love,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pieter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Re: What's your favorite method for turning downstream?</title>
      <author>http://satorispiritualwarrior.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>EmpowerYouEmpowerMe</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-228961</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:44:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/abraham_hicks_playground/conversations/view/219378#228961</link>
      <description>


&lt;p&gt;      What you wrote is really powerful, Chris! Beautiful. Thank you for writing it. Just reading it makes me feel good!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Zaadz is a great place to hang out, and then some!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;:)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br class="webkit-block-placeholder" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;HIGH ON LIFE AND MY ZAADZ BUDDIES LIKE YOU,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pieter&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

      </description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>
