Abraham: Reducing Your Level of Resistance

Your Work is to Reduce Your Level of Resistance

(Excerpted from a Dialogues With Abraham, Sacramento, 11/20/94)

You are an extension of a broader Nonphysical perspective. And as physical beings, very often, you are so immersed in the awareness of what is physical around you that, by virtue of your observation of physical, and often lackful, points of attention, you disallow your connection to that broader perspective. And so, you feel isolated and apart, sometimes fearful or angry, not because it is not there for you but because you have learned along your physical path patterns of resistance that do not allow that broader perspective to flow through you.

As you, little by little, consciously, deliberately, daily, change some of your patterns of resistance, then, every day, you vibrate less densely and more in vibrational harmony with that broader perspective and life becomes very much fun under those conditions. When you are allowing the Energy to flow through you, as you had intended prior to your emergence into this body, you experience clarity that is delicious. When you disallow that Energy, you experience confusion. When you allow this Energy to flow to you and through you, you experience the wonderful feeling of the power of creation, for you are creators. You have come forth to be creators. And when you do not allow it to flow through you, you often feel stifled and overwhelmed, and not able or not worthy. When you allow this passageway to be open and wide, so that the Energy that is natural to you can flow through you, your body feels vital and alive and when you disallow it, your body feels tired and lethargic and sometimes even sick. If it were not for the resistance, that you have learned along your physical path, everything that you are wanting would be flowing quickly and easily unto you. Most physical beings make too much of all of this. You work much, much, much too hard at getting the things that are natural because you have this resistance that you have learned, that you are always trying to overcome. But you go about it in the wrong way, because as you try to overcome the resistance, most of you do it by looking right at what is wrong and condemning it and observing it and cataloging it and pigeonholing it and pushing against it and every moment you spend even observing an object of attention that is of a resistant nature, you hold yourself in that resistant pattern that doesn't allow the Energy, that brings all things, to flow. So, it is a sort of vicious circle that you can't get out of. The harder you try, the worse it gets.

So, we want to assist you in understanding that it's not a matter of trying harder, of wanting harder, or even so much a matter of identifying what you want. Most of you have already done a very good job of that. You could keep yourselves busy for twenty or thirty lifetimes with the wanting that you already have stacked up. Your work, really, is to reduce your level of resistance. So, how do you know when you are resisting? How do you know when you are, in any moment, vibrationally resisting, or not allowing, the Energy, that is natural to you, to flow through you for your creative endeavor? Without exception, you feel negative emotion. Whether you call it fear or anger or guilt or loneliness or blame or frustration, it does not matter which label you give this negative emotion, it is always the indicator that something that you are looking at is not in vibrational harmony with your greater knowing. But as you have chosen this object of attention, just by choosing it, just by observing it, just by thinking about it, just by talking about it...you achieve vibrational harmony with it. And when you achieve vibrational harmony with it, and it is lackful, the Energy that is natural to you, then cannot flow to you. The Energy that created your planet, to begin with, flows forth constantly. Some call it God force. We call it Creative Life Force. It is the stuff that all things come from. It flows forth to you in one constant, steady Stream. There are not two streams, one of wellness and one of illness. Or one of abundance and one of poverty. There is one Stream. In the same way that there is not a stream of light and a stream of dark the darkness is just the absence of the light the illness is the absence of the wellness, The poverty is the absence of the abundance. This Stream of Well-being comes to you. Now you can let it in or not. But there's one Stream and it's coming to you. So if you are living something less than a vital, exuberant, abundant life it is not because you have chosen a different path, it is because you are resisting the path you have chosen. Whenever you say "NO, NO, I want not illness," your attention to the illness causes resistance that disallows wellness. Now, isn't that tricky?

Whenever you say, "NO, NO, I don't want to not have enough money," by looking at not enough money, you achieve vibrational harmony with not enough money which sets up resistance to allowing money. Every time you use the contrast to get into the place of pushing against something your pushing against is the key word you disallow, or resist, the well-being that would be there otherwise. And so, it is our wanting to assist you in sort of uncovering some of those areas of resistance. The best analogy that we have discovered, so far, in helping you to release resistance, is this: See a fire hose that has a nozzle on the end of it that is not allowing water to spray out, but the pressure is still coming from the source, and so, as a result, this hose is getting all fat and tense and swollen. Now, see someone open the nozzle, on the end, and the water gushes out, but as soon as the water is allowed to flow, naturally, from it's source through the natural opening, that hose relaxes. You can just see it relax as the pressure is released and the Energy, or water, is allowed to spray.

So, the key word is relax, or release, or relief. That is what you are wanting to focus upon relative to releasing resistance. It is a matter of relaxing. As you find yourself in the state of feeling negative emotion, the sooner that you dissipate your resistance, the better off you will be. Now, don't worry about not noticing if you have resistance, because if you've got it and you don't notice it, and therefore you don't do anything to deliberately release it, it will get bigger. And as it gets bigger, if you still don't notice it and do something to release it, don't worry about it, it will get bigger. And sooner or later it will get big enough that then you will know what to do with it. The advantage to releasing it earlier is that it is easier to release it earlier. The bigger it gets the more vibrationally involved in it you become and the more difficult it is to release it. When you increase your desire for anything, any resistance that you have within your Vibrational Energy Field is more obvious. See a car going down the road at 100 miles an hour. And it hits a tree right in the middle of the road. Big problem. Two factors involved in the negative outcome. One is the velocity of the car, the other is the resistance of the tree standing there in the middle of the road. If you changed either of those factors, your experience would be quite different. In other words, if this car were going five miles an hour down the road and it hit the tree it wouldn't be such a big problem, or at five miles an hour it could miss the tree. Or if the tree wasn't there, the car could go 200 hundred miles and hour, or more, with no problem. Someone said, "Abraham, is it customary for all hell to break loose in someone's life when they start doing the Abraham work?" And we said, Yes. Because the first thing we do is encourage you to increase your clarity about what you want. So you get your car moving faster. And when you get your car moving faster, the obstacles that are in the way are more obvious to you. And so, your work really is two-fold. To make more decisions about what you want, in order to get that momentum up, because in doing that, your resistance will be more obvious to you and then your real work is to lower your level of resistance. And when you get your desire really ripping, and your resistance almost non existent, that is when you begin to live life the way you have intended to live it: As deliberate creators who are the trustees of incredible Energy that creates worlds. That's who you are. You are creators who have within you the ability to access the Energy that creates worlds, to utilize it for your creative endeavors right here in this physical environment for the purpose of taking thought and experience beyond that which it has been before. You have come forth in incredible and amazing diversity. Diversity of talents, diversity of desires, diversity of beliefs, and in all of this diversity that you struggle so hard, and push, against, in all of this diversity, there is this amazing and wonderful platform of balance from which you can select your intentions for the creative whole.