by Esther Hicks
to one of allowing what you
have asked for into your experience. You
have been asking, in every day of your
experience, and Source has answered,
without exception. And now, in your
mode of appreciation, you are in the
practice of receiving. You are now
engaging in the last step in the
process of Creation (you are
letting it in).
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Once you
become oriented toward
looking for things to appreciate,
you will find that your day will be
filled with such things. Your thoughts
and feelings of appreciation will flow from
you naturally. And, often, while in the
midst of a genuine feeling of appreciation
for someone or something, you will feel
ripples of thrill bumps—those sensations
are confirming your alignment
with your Source.
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Every time you appreciate
something, every time you praise
something, every time you feel good
about something, you are telling the
Universe: “More of this, please.” You need
never make another verbal statement of
an intent—and if you are mostly in a
state of appreciation, all good things
will flow to you.
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We are often asked, Isn’t
love a better word than appreciation?
Isn’t love more descriptive of the
Non-Physical Energy? And we say that
love and appreciation are really the same
vibration. Some use the word gratitude,
or a feeling of thankfulness, for all of
these words are descriptive of
Well-Being.
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A desire to
appreciate is a very good first
step; and then as you find more
things that you would like to feel appreciation
for, it quickly gains momentum.
And as you want to feel appreciation, you
attract something to appreciate. And as you
appreciate it, then you attract something
else to appreciate, until, in time, you
are experiencing a Rampage of
Appreciation.
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You may blame yourself
for not being strong enough to
appreciate some unhappy people in
spite of their negative emotional offerings
toward you. Well, we would never suggest
that you be able to look at something you
do not want and feel good about it. Instead,
look for things that cause you to feel appreciation
when you find them—and then
the Law of Attraction will bring you
more things like those.
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Whenever you are
looking for things to
appreciate, you have control of
your own vibrational offering and your
own point of attraction; but when you are
responding to the way others seem to feel
about you, you have no control…. You do
not know what happened to them today, and
you do not how they are living, so you cannot
understand why they react to you in the
way they do—and you cannot control it.
However, when you are more interested
in how you feel than how they feel
about you, you do have control
of your experience.
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Once you have
made a decision that nothing
is more important than that
you feel good, and you have
decided that you are going to consciously
look for some things to appreciate
today, the object of your attention has
now become the feeling of appreciation.
You have now established a circuit between
you and that object of appreciation that
the Law of Attraction will begin working
on immediately—so, you will start
seeing more things to appreciate
right away.
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We want you to feel the
value of connecting with Non-
Physical Energy—and appreciation is
the easiest and fastest way. When your
desire to connect with the Non-
Physical Energy is sufficient, you
will find dozens of ways, in every
hour, to make your
appreciation flow.
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You have to come to
remember that it makes no difference
whatsoever how anybody is
flowing back at you, otherwise you are
going to be defensive—and you cannot be
defensive and appreciative at the same time.
When you concentrate on appreciating, then
appreciation comes right back—but you are
really not looking for appreciation to
come to you; you want the feeling
of appreciation flowing
through you.
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As you move
through your day and as
you become aware of something
that you do not want, your desire about
what you do want comes into clearer focus.
And now, when you have been practicing a
Rampage of Appreciation, you can easily refocus
your awareness of what you do not
want into your awareness of what you
do want. Now you are the hands-on
creator that you have come
forth to be.
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Life is not about tomorrow;
it is about right now. Life is
about how you are currently
molding the Energy!
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Begin the
Creation Box Process by finding
a nice-looking box, and on the
lid, in a conspicuous place write the
words: Whatever is contained in this box—IS!
If something feels appealing to you in any
way, clip it and drop it into your Creation Box.
And say, as you drop it in, “Whatever is contained
in this box—IS!” The more ideas you
drop into your box, the more your desire will
be focused; and the more your desire is
focused, the more alive you will feel—
for this Energy flowing through
you is what Life is.
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For someone who has not been
practicing thoughts of resistance, the
Creation Box Process will be all that you
will ever need to create a wonderful life:
You ask; Source answers; you let it in.
You ask and it is given.
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Most people offer most
of their vibrational offerings in
response to what they are observing,
but there is no creative control in that.
Your creative control comes only in
deliberately offering thought—and
when you are visualizing, you
have complete control.
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Once you begin the Creation
Box Process, you will just be knocked
over by the effectiveness and efficiency
of the enormous Non-Physical staff who
responds to your vibrational requests.
When you ask, it is given; and as you
play with the Creation Box Process,
; you will learn to let it in.
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When you identify
any of the four basic subjects
of your life—Body, Home,
Relationships, or Work—a focusing of
Energy occurs. When you make more specific
statements of desire, you activate the
Energy around those subjects even more. And
when you think about why you want those
things, you can usually be softening your resistance
around the subject while adding even
more clarity and power to the thoughts.
Why you want something defines the
essence of the what you want….
The Universe always delivers to you
the vibrational essence of
your desire.
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Why you want something
defines the essence of the what you
want, and the Universe always delivers
to you the vibrational essence of your
desire…. So, when you think about why you
want something, you usually soften resistance;
but when you think about when it will come
to you or how it will come or who will help it
to come, you often add resistance, especially
if you do not already know the
answers to those questions.
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Like a magnet,
you are attracting thoughts,
people, events, lifestyles—everything
that you are living. And so, as
you see things as they are, you attract
more of the same; but as you see things
as you would like them to be, you attract
them as you would like them to be. This
is why the better it gets, the better it
gets; or the worse it gets, the worse
it gets—people tend to look
mostly at what-is.
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We are offering
processes whereby you may
spend a little bit of time, every
day, intentionally attracting into your
experience good health, vitality, prosperity,
and positive interactions with
others—all the things that make up
your vision of what the perfect life
experience for you would be.
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Remember,
you live in a Vibrational
Universe, and all things are
managed by the Law of Attraction.
And you get what you think about,
whether you want it or not, because
whenever you achieve vibrational harmony
with something because you are
giving it your attention, the vibrational
essence of it will, in some
way, begin to show up in
your life experience.
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The Universe
responds to your vibrational
offering, to your point of
attraction, to the thoughts you think,
and to the way you feel. The Universe
is not responding to what has been manifested
in your experience, but, instead, to
the vibration that you are now offering. The
Universe makes no distinction between
your actually having a million dollars and
your giving thought to having a
million dollars—your point of attraction
is about your thoughts, not
about your manifestations.
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The Virtual Reality
Process is not one where
you try to fix something that is
broken. It is one where you deliberately
activate a scene in your own
mind that causes you to offer a vibration
matching the scene you have activated in
your visualization—and as you practice
visualizing pleasant scenes in your
mind, these good-feeling vibrations
can then become your
new set-point.
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Remember, the Creative
Process comprises three steps:
(1) Ask (that’s easy—you do it all the
time). (2)Answer the asking (that is not
your work—Source Energy does that).
(3) Allow (be in the receiving mode
of what you are asking for).
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It is important
that you realize that Steps
1 and 3 of the Creative Process
are different. When you are focused
upon, or praying for, something you
really want or need, often you are not
a vibrational match to the thing you
want. Instead, you are a match to
the absence of the thing
you want.
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You are continually
asking. You cannot stop
asking; contrast is evoking the
desire from you. Your real work is to
find a way to be in the receiving mode. It
is similar to wanting to receive a satellite or
radio signal. To do so, you have to set your
receiver on the same wavelength as the transmitter
or you are going to get static; you are
not going to get a clear signal. In like manner,
you recognize the alignment of your
(transmitted and received) signals by
feeling the alignment of
your emotions.
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Virtual Reality is a process where
you get to choose everything about
this moment in time, just like a
director in a movie would do. To begin
this process, you would first decide:
Where does this scene take place?
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Do not use the Virtual
Reality Process to try to improve
a specific existing situation, because
in your attempt to fix something, you
will bring the existing vibration into
your Virtual Reality, and in doing so,
you will lose the power of the
Virtual Reality Process.
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There is no reason why Well-Being
is not pouring into your experience
—inprecise detail in response to
all of the things that you have identified
that you want—other than the fact that
you are in a bad mood, or are angry or
worried about something.
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As you create scenarios
that make you feel good, you
activate a vibration that does feel
good, and then the Law of Attraction
matches that vibration. There is nothing
more important than that you feel good—
andthere is nothing better than creating
images that cause you to
feel good.
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No matter whether you worry or
rejoice in your Virtual Reality, you
set up a vibration that the Law of
Attraction matches.
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Can you remember
events that have happened?
If you can remember, then
you can do Virtual Reality, because
none of that is right here, right now;
and as you are remembering, you are recreating
it from something…. So visualizing,
or Virtual Reality, is no different.
It is conjuring, but with the singular
intention of pleasing yourself as
you do so.
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As you practice
visualizin
g, and stimulate
your imagination more,
you will not only find the process
to be a delightful, good-feeling way
to spend some time, you will discover
that your dominant vibration, on a
myriad of subjects, is changing—and
your life experience will now begin
to reflect these wonderful
improvements.
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Any thought
that you continue to think
is called a belief. And many of
your beliefs serve you extremely
well: thoughts that harmonize with the
knowledge of your Source, and thoughts
that match the desires that you hold….
But some of your beliefs do not serve you
well: Thoughts about your own inadequacy
or your unworthiness are
examples of those kinds
of thoughts.
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With an
understanding of the Laws
of the Universe and some willingness
to deliberately choose thoughts,
you can, in time, replace all hindering
beliefs with life-giving beliefs; but there is
a process that can give you the immediate
benefit of changing your beliefs, in
a much shorter time—we call this
the Process of Meditation.
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The Process of Meditation is not
one where you work on your desires,
but, instead, this is one of quieting
your mind. As you do so, any resistance
will subside; and your state of vibration
will rise to its natural,
pure state.
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There are other
ways of raising your vibrations
than meditation, such as