The Vortex (Stress of Over-extending Oneself)

From AbeQuotes@yahoogroups.com - Digest # 2001 for Aug 10, 2009

Ifyou take a period of time, and you ask more of yourself than is really physically possible, you put stress on yourself. It's just not possible to do it. So you get smarter and sharper and more efficient, but still, if you are not in the vortex, if you are outside the vortex trying to make things happen, then you have this imbalance taking place.

The more you are in the vortex, the more the resources are there for you to expend.  But if being in the vortex is not your highest priority, and you are still active and involved, then you just deplete yourself a little bit.  And it's the same as not being able to take as much air in as you are breathing out. It's exactly the same thing.  So we're really talking about in the vortex-out of the vortex kind of stuff.

So stay with us just a little bit and you'll feel some things click into place.

So what if, knowing all you know about being in the vortex, what if you, and others that you know, including Esther, too, what if you're trying to make too much happen outside the vortex? So that you are spending more than is coming in, in essence. So that you're breathing more out than you are breathing in. It's that imbalance that is at the heart of this. It's not about an allergy. It's about over-extension.

Asheville, NC 5/29/09

Re: The Stress of Over-extending Oneself

Now some of you have been noticing some disconcerting perhaps, uh status lines from me, if you care and perhaps you don't - but well, it has been disconcerting to me, and that is enough, really.  

Ok, so there is something that has really, really drained my energy.  I haven't a clue really, though I've blamed the Castor River a bit (read my blog if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about).  For awhile, it was really, really awful.  There was this mental fogginess that I could not shake.  Now, I could still think adequately for daily life, and even for life here at Gaia (gulp, at least I hope so).  It was a bit like being under water, very wierd.

So, I have worked and worked at getting more sleep, it was an intention for weeks, but this feeling really bad did not drive it, as much as I think I really do not get enough sleep, generally.

The intention began trying to manifest (I would think, “wow, tonight I'll actually make it to bed early” and then, it wouldn't actually happen).  Then, it has been starting to manifest a bit, lately, and I have actually been managing to get to bed earlier.  All of us in this night-owl family have been getting to bed earlier (we all sleep in the big room - that is entertainment center, children's playroom and office space as well as the family bedroom, so to sleep, we have to all be a bit willing to chose that, at about the same time).  Sometimes I do sleep well, and others times I awaken, and I don't really stress about it too much.  At least, everyday I was feeling better and better, but the seriously low energy did last for about a week and it seemed like it went on forever, unending, each day there it would be.

Finally, I started feeling really good in the morning when I would wake, but pretty wiped out by afternoon, and really wanting bed by evening.  My friend Karin Maree said to me, on my grapevine ”I see some strange energy around you, it feels choked up, not flowing (best I can do to describe it). So I'm focusing on grounding and bringing up earth energy, rather than sending light.”  So, yesterday (Sunday), when I was doing my weekly Life Visioning and it got to the end of the session and I knew (from doing this for the last few months) that Michael Bernard Beckwith would be doing that final affirmative prayer, at the end on the CD, l lay down on the forest floor and let the energy fill me.  So, perhaps with Karin and the forest helping me out, I'm better today.


So today, really feeling pretty good as I've flowed into this afternoon.  I not been anxious or too worried about it, but did take what action I could, to improve things for myself.  Yet, the AbeQuote today about the Vortex really did catch my attention for obvious reasons, and because I don't follow A-H closely, it caught my attention as a “new” term, that I want to find out more about.

So, I've gone googling in search of more info, and will share with you a bit here, about what I find out about -

Re: The Stress of Over-extending Oneself

I'm glad to hear you are feeling better, getting more rest. There are few things as draining as sleep deprivation.

Love,

Nicole

Re: The Vortex

Excerpted from The Abe Forum.com on The Vortex (from attending the Mexico Abraham cruise 2009) posted by a moderator there, Jody -

That's where everything you, I, we, have created is swirling in vibrational reality, just waiting for us to get up to speed with it.  Waiting for us to get into the vortex and experience it.

Another way of saying it is nothing is more important than feeling good, so nothing is worth getting out of the vortex.  Whatever you are now looking at and “using as your excuse” to get out of the vortex is NOT worth it!  

Abraham stressed that we have ALREADY put lifetimes worth of wonderful mainfestations into the vortex (vibrational reality, or vibrational escrow - all referring to the same thing).  Contrast causes us to ask for something different (step one).  Even if we never did “step one” again, we could have a wonderful life just hanging out in the vortex reaping the rewards of our already done creations.

Contrast is what we came here to experience.  We need it and bless it and want it so that we can figure out what we don't want, which clarifies what we do want.  (No idea of what step two is but she goes on to say) Step three is the work and it's the life and the experiencing of expansion.

Here is a link to a blog by Summer McStravick who has developed a technique she calls Flowdreaming (manifesting and working with the subtle energies of life).  Her blog is based on co-hosting a 2 hour online seminar w/the Hicks about The Vortex in Feb.

Attached is a little YouTube called Getting in the Vortex.

Re: The Vortex (publication release Sept 1, 2009)

Amazon has The Vortex available for pre-order.  Amazon's review says -

This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present
The Teachings of Abraham, will help you understand every
relationship you are currently involved in as well as every relationship you
have ever experienced.
     
This book uncovers a myriad of false premises that are at the heart of every
uncomfortable relationship issue, and guides you to a clear understanding of the
powerful creative Vortex that has already assembled the relationships that you
have desired. Abraham will show you how to enter that Vortex, where you will
rendezvous with everything and everyone you have been looking for.
     
Abraham says: “It is our desire to help you to solve the mystery of those
seemingly impossible relationships; to sort out the details of joyously sharing
your planet with billions of others; to rediscover the beauty of your
differences; and, most of all, to reestablish the most important relationship of
all: your relationship with the Eternal, Non-Physical Source that is really
you.
           
“It is our desire that you experience an enhanced appreciation of your planet;
your body; your family; your friends; your enemies; your government; your
systems; your food; your finances; your animals; your work and your play; your
purpose; your Source; your Soul; your past, your future, and your present…
.”

Re: The Vortex - Abraham Quotes - Esther Hicks

Esther Hick's voice, Abraham's Quotes at the beginning, and again at the end, of this YouTube, with meditative music and images including written quotes in the middle.

Re: The Vortex - Abraham Quotes - Esther Hicks

Thanks Deb. This is absolutely beautiful. 
I know I have been initiated spiritually into many spaces, yet to live it out here in this earth world is yet another step to take. Being human I have found myself hanging out in the contrast area sometimes too long to the point of desperation, eventhough part of me knew better, it seemed hard to step out of the old cycles and focus on what's real beyond all that stuff.
What came to me recently is that I found out that when I express my feelings, inspirations in either poems or paintings and share them when the time is right, it is like the steps I can take because it automatically seems to draw me onto that vortex. I mean it could be basically anything but this is a way for me that seems to work.
In November I started a small drawing/painting of where I stepped into a crystal gate, but I never finished it yet and it comes to me that when I finish it I'll be IN there, I have embodied it so to speak.
I recently joined a small class with Carla and Nut on orgasmic living and it's been really awesome. Eventhough it was only 4 nights I feel I have a whole lot of stuff I can work with for a while. One of the amazing things that came out was how I discovered stuff that I had been doing years ago finally fell into place. There was a collage I started years ago, and couldn't finish, I knew exactly what was lacking but I couldn't fix it because it didn't feel right.  What came out that it was synchronic with where I was energetically and where I was blocking myself.  Knowing this as a mental picture as contrary to actually become aware of and feel it energetically is quite a different story.  To consciously see that,  is a great thing to move on and now I know when I finish it, I do more than playing around with pics, glue and a bit of paint:  I am actually embodying that which lives in me.
So to get back to the vortex, everyone will have their own ways of finding their entrance, but I am going to get my paintbrushes and enter that crystal gate. Being very good at procastinating this somehow seems very important for me to do.  

Re: The Vortex - Abraham Quotes - Esther Hicks

Lucienne,

I definitely believe there IS a relationship as you suspect and describe here.

I know Carla (she of melting hug fame), and I was invited once to look at a workshop that Nut was doing, but for whatever reason, that I can't remember now, it wasn't the right time for me.  I think I'm still on some email list.

I remember using art when I was working along with The Power of Light group to locate a 3 yr old boy lost here in the county where I live.  Actually, before I went to them with it, I was hiking and was moved to draw a picture (I carry a journal and colored pencils and pen brushes) of the little boy walking.  When I mentioned this, someone suggested I draw him reunited with his parents.  That day it happened that he was found and the reunion occurred.

Yep, I believe art is as intertwined with our “real” life as anything else.

Something I've been mulling over is, this Vortex, makes me think of the Tao.  What Tao is and what Tao does or represents.  Probably with some amount of valid reason.

Thanks Alluvja, dear friend, for bringing your real life into this discussion.  Somehow, this one - obviously - has really captured my imagination.

Deb 

Re: Abraham Hicks Quotes images & Oracles

I was quite amazed to see an image in this YouTube that matched something that came to me when I was doing Julie Zippers Chap II in Leo inner child meditation yesterday.  We were to give our inner child a gift.  I gave mine a Pearl Bracelet with a big red, shiny ceramic Heart charm.  There are visuals in this YouTube that look so very like what I pictured in my mind's eye.  Today I was searching to see if my bracelet exists, this was as close as I could come. 

I just had to share that synchronicity for it really connects something unrelated to all this A-H stuff that is personal to me.  I love those moments of magic, when they happen.

Which does bring me to a whole other topic.  I got some books I had ordered from One Spirit yesterday - one was the new Rumi by Coleman Barks and the others included a book on Ceremonies of the Seasons and 2 that go along with some Shadow work that I feel I'm going to be jumping mightily into, in the next year or so - Julia Cameron's (of The Artist's Way series) book Faith and Will - Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives and Thomas Moore's (Care of the Soul author) book Dark Nights of the Soul - A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals.

Don't worry, I'm not any kind of big mess, in this moment of now - its more aligned with making sense of my past, to understand better who I am now.  Not a why did this happen ? but how did it contribute to my realization of Self, in this moment now.  I got something in my box I don't remember ordering, though I may have ordered it, probably did order it.  

I have long played around a bit with various decks of Oracle cards, such as Tarot Cards.  These are like “serious” toys to me.  I got a very fun, new toy yesterday called Karma Cards, created by a guy named Monte Farber.  These are a set of 36 divided into Planets, Signs and Houses.  One attunes to their Higher Self, or the Collective Unconscious, while shuffling the cards and asking some question.  

One can read the answer as either an “Outcome” or as an “Action” to be taken or as both.  The phrases on the cards work together, in such a way, that adding the Planet phrase to the Sign phrase to the House phrase yields a sentence.  There are 3 sentences to the Outcome and 3 sentences to the Action in each draw of 3 cards.  The sentences are divided into one that is Spiritual, one that is Mental and one that is Physical.

In reading any kind of Oracle card, one must always realize that interpretation is the “make or break” aspect of how useful and/or valid, what is “read” is able to be.  But I am having fun with it regardless, and never would be ruled by such, but it adds new areas of insight or some thoughts to be further contemplated, within the context of one's personal life.

Monte calls himself The Celestial Mechanic.  He describes Celestial Mechanics as a branch of physics, such as that formulated by Sir Isaac Newton, which predicts the forces influencing both the actions and gravitational attractions of planets, stars and other objects of space.    Mr Farber is also fond of Edgar Cayce and Carl Jung and studied Astrology for 14 years.

At the end of his Quick Guide page (much like the quick start in some software installation instructions), he adds - “Have Fun”.  We are obviously on the same wavelength regarding Oracle cards.

Deb

A-H Rampaging in a Nutshell

After posting all of this last night, I went to one last site that only touches upon The Vortex but it does so in a “whole picture” way.  I thought her The Teachings of Abraham-Hicks in a Nutshell blog was really concise and easy to understand.

There is a link at the bottom, which may have been posted here before, but it is so good, it deserves it's own link here.  As they say, on the Abraham-Hicks site where this is located, “unless you have 11 minutes right now, save this delicious treat for dessert”.  I would say keep this link handy, for anytime you need to remember the “why” of contrast and to re-center yourself in an intention to always seek that little bit better feeling to pull yourself in a more comfortable direction..

Re: The Vortex (Stress of Over-extending Oneself)

The Daily Law of Attraction Quotation on the A-H website has an excerpt from The Vortex -