Much material from “The Teachings of Abraham” can be found at Jerry and Esther Hicks’ website: www.abraham-hicks.com

The following is excerpted from the workshop in Kansas City, KS on Sunday, September 27th, 1998. The full recording of this transcript can be purchased  at the Hicks’ site.

QUESTION: I am a counselor and I work with a number of people who are seeking assistance or release from a variety of kinds of addictions: drugs, gambling, food, alcohol. I’m wanting to be of the greatest assistance I can be to them, and I’d like your assistance.

ABRAHAM: Well, the thing about all of those addictions is that there is another hunger that is deeper, that is beyond the cellular hunger for the substance.

Each of you, as you come forth into these bodies, are full of this Nonphysical Energy Stream that created you and that sustains you. You are spirit embodied in this flesh, blood, bone apparatus, but then, as you bang around for a while and you see disapproval in the eyes of so many, and you, every day, pick up something else that you push against, little by little you become familiar with disallowing the Energy Stream.

All feel the diminishment, but some feel it more than others. Those who come forth with the intense decision that they will stay connected to the Stream, those who have come forth with very strong determination to express what they know about this Energy Stream, they suffer greatly when they choose vibrations that disallow it fully.

But almost nobody is talking about vibration. It would be a rare alcoholics meeting or drug counseling session where anyone would say to the one across the table, “Well, you know, you’re holding thoughts that are keeping you vibrationally separated from who you really are.” And yet, that is what is at the heart of it. And so, that void that they are feeling which is the void of joy, the void of clarity, the void of Energy, the void of life, that is the void they are trying to fill by buying one more thing and bringing it home or by utilizing a substance that distracts them, in this moment, from the things that cause them to push against. When you utilize a drug or alcohol, your cork floats, in the beginning, because just like hypnosis or meditation, you are distracted from whatever thought that is holding you in the slower vibration. And so, when you’re distracted from what is holding you there, your vibration raises. That’s why they call it a high.

This is the first thing that, as a counselor, you must accept so that you can convey it, vibrationally, even if you don’t do it in words: What they are addicted to is feeling better. What they are addicted to is feeling better. What they are addicted to is the higher vibration. And, bless their hearts, they’ve been banging around until they found some way that they could facilitate that for themselves. And then you say, “No. This is ultimately bad for you. It makes you do bad things. And so, we will take this method that you have found, that is the only method that you have been able to find for getting yourself into a higher vibration, we’re going to take that away from you because it isn’t good for you. We’re going to label you and condemn you and scorn you.”

Much of the population is perfectly willing to be miserable, but some of you are less willing to be miserable.

We Encourage Connection

We’re not encouraging addiction. We are encouraging connection. But sometimes it helps if you can convey to them why they have had those impulses. And some of them are ready to hear that from you, and it makes perfect sense to them, and some of them are not. We would rather see someone with a relief. We would not take their substance from them until we had given them an alternative bridge to connection. But so many people are pushing so hard against the addiction itself, because they don’t understand it, that those words would not be well received by them. They think that the first thing we’ve got to do is get it away from them.

If the users were to withdraw the addictive substance from their system, after about three days, the cells would stop calling, and the physical craving would subside, temporarily. But the reason that they went there to begin with has not been tended to. And so, almost as soon as they turn around, something is going to remind them of something that’s going to take them back into that lower vibration, and then they are going to long for the feeling of relief that the substance gave them.

Three Days From Freedom

Any physical addiction, it doesn’t matter how long they’ve been taking it or how full of it their body is, any addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.

What you have to say to a person, and help them to understand, is, “You are perfectly all right as you are, and it’s nobody’s business what you’ve chosen.” But that’s not the way most of the programs go. Most of the programs say, “You must admit what a rat fink you are. We have a step that says you’ve got to go to all of those people that you have wronged and you’ve got to open your heart and you’ve got to admit how unworthy and rotten you are.”

It was that feeling that drove them to drink to begin with, so now, what you’re saying to them is, “We’re going to take the substance away that gives you any relief, and we’re going to poke a poker in your ribs until you want it again. We’re going to torture you back into the very reason that you drank to begin with, but we’re not going to let you drink.” And they say, “Okay. Then I’ll jump off a bridge.” Or they will replace it with something else that is equally condemned, and probably illegal, which brings all sorts of other worrisome thoughts.

We Would Soothe Them

What would we do if we were standing in your physical shoes whether we were a counselor or a friend or even a stranger? One who is connected to the Stream is more powerful than millions who are not. If we had the blessed opportunity of having someone like that in our gaze, we would say, “I wouldn’t worry about it.” We would do everything that’s in our power to soothe, to soothe the void. We would appreciate, we would praise, we would point out positive aspects, we would show them how to pivot, we would teach them about emotions, we would show them the difference between how this thought feels and how this thought feels, and we would encourage them to choose the thought that feels better.

Teach Them Selfishness

Most of all, you have to teach them selfishness. They have to be selfish enough that they don’t care what somebody else thinks, and that’s not an easy thing. You all have integrated yourself into a society where you very much care what people think. That is the hardest hurdle for most of you to overcome. You do care what others think because you have trained yourself, most of you, to get almost 100% of your connection to Energy from somebody who is physically focused and approving of you.

In your early stages, is where most of you begin vying for approval. You began standing on your head, but what you discover is, you cannot get that Energy Stream from someone who is not connected to the Energy Stream. If they are not selfish enough to be connected, they’ve got nothing to give you. Even though they want to. Your parents want to give you everything that you need, but they can’t give it to you if they’re not connected to it. You have all kinds of people depending on each other for their connection.

That’s why Teachers like us and Teachers like you have come into this physical time/space reality, to remind you all how to make your own connection. To help you find your connection with Core Energy so that you can set your Tone and never again be dependent upon what somebody else thinks about you. So that if you have a rough day, you don’t need alcohol or drugs.

You meditate and reconnect, or you quiet your mind, or you appreciate and reconnect, or you choose one of hundreds of pleasant images that you’ve been practicing that you keep in your pocket. You get one of them out and roll it around in your mind. You show yourself how to adjust your vibration. You never again depend upon the conditions to adjust your vibration.

You leave behind what you have learned about conditional love, and you become one who loves unconditionally, and in order to do that, you say, “Nothing is more important than that I feel good.” And in the beginning, sometimes that means, “I need a drug. I need some alcohol. I need a friend who is connected. I need a stepping stone to help me to connect.” And that’s why we say we wouldn’t take the drug away. We would allow the drug while we teach the greater message.

The Children Know

Why doesn’t everyone who drinks become an alcoholic? Why doesn’t everyone who uses the drugs…? Children have a hard time with this. All of these drug campaigns, “Drugs are bad.” They know that the peak performers, the heroes, the athletes are well involved. They know. They know the signals. They know the codes. They know the symbols. They know the signs. They know the lies. They know. You see? So people who don’t know, say, “Don’t do that.” While people who are doing that are excelling.

It’s the same old thing that happened when those who wanted to control said, “Keep these rules and be among the blessed, and break those rules and be condemned.”

And then, too many people saw too many people breaking the rules and being blessed, and they said, “Hey! Something’s screwy here. I’m doing everything that’s on this list, and I’m not being blessed. And they’re breaking all the rules, and they’re abundant. They’re life’s better than mine.”

And then the very wise manipulator said, “Oh, you cannot judge by your life here on earth. It is after you die that the rewards and punishments are given.” So then the assumption was, the better it feels, the worse it is. “I guess I’m supposed to suffer and struggle and deprive myself of anything that I might desire so that in heaven I will then receive my reward.”

And we say, “That is the screwiest one of all.” Because Law of Attraction is not different in the physical than it is in the Nonphysical. As you learn to find the vibration of connection, the vibration of connection is always yours.

You Are Pure Energy

When you leave this physical realm and release your attention from it, you leave behind all vibration of the lower, slower nature, and your vibration raises to the highest level. And so, there is no way that you could get so bad or so negative or so disconnected that it would affect your afterlife, because in the moment of your transition, you are Pure Positive Energy.

Law of Attraction is responding to you eternally. And whatever you are offering, vibrationally, is what you are reaping in terms of manifestation, and that consistency is the most powerful and important part of our physical and Nonphysical Universe.

You got much more than you bargained for there, but it is at the heart of everything you ask.

The more detail you give to your vision, the more you allow the Universe to go to work and line things up, and often you can work the bugs out of it in your imagination before you take your first action. And if there are no bugs to work out of it, or no big ones, then your feeling of diving in is a lot stronger.

Excerpted from the workshop in Kansas City, KS on Sunday, September 27th, 1998

We want you to become obsessed with the best parts of your life.

If you would become obsessed with the best parts of your life, which means:

you talk about it and
you think about it and
you play with it and
you observe it and
you take pictures of it and
you tell others about it and
you think about it and
you talk about it and
you observe it;

until you activate it in your vibration until more thoughts like it come.

If you would become obsessed with the best parts of your life, you would deactivate the parts of your life that you don’t want.

But when you are obsessed with the parts of your life that you don’t want, and you keep them active, then there aren’t enough helpers in the world to help you get to where you think you want to be.

Abraham
Workshop
Los Angeles
August 17, 2008

You don’t even have to find the cause.

You don’t even have to find the thought that is causing the resistance.

You just have to find the thought that isn’t causing the resistance.

- Abraham-Hicks, Law of Attraction Directly from Source CD

Just being physically focused, your personality has incorporated many things that the personality of your Source never incorporates.

In other words, your Source never feels sorry for anyone, and you often do.

Your Source never apologizes for anything, and you often do.

Your source understands that well-being abounds, and you keep finding things that are a problem on the planet.

So, when you reemerge into nonphysical, you are going to leave behind those resistant things and you are going to become this pure, positive energy Being which is the reason that you will then merge with this nonphysical energy.

But, the merging doesn’t mean that the uniqueness of you ceases to be; it just means that the uniqueness of you is in such harmony with the larger group that’s also in harmony that the whole group feels the empowered cohesiveness and synergy of the larger consciousness!

Whoo! That’s what mass consciousness is, you see!

3:07

Esther and Jerry Hicks

So; it’s a matter of getting in there and consciously reveling about being in there and then consciously deciding, that while in there, you will find a way to stay in there on that subject.

It’s about getting in the vortex and while you’re in there doing a focus wheel on the subject that usually throws you out. That’s sort of what it’s like.

In other words, working the bugs out of it from inside the vortex.

Los Angeles Workshop
March 29, 2009
Bi-Weekly Tape Series
“To fine-tune creative ability?
Track 9, 4:38

Christina Merkey posted these wonderful bits of Abe whilst cruising the Carribean with Jerry, Esther and friends. So good!

1. You Can Only Coax Someone Into the Vortex by Being in it Yourself.

2. If Out of Alignment, You Need to Warm Up 1st to Get into Your Vortex (that is what their processes are about!).

3. Make Peace w/ Where You Are, if You Were Always in Alignment You Would Be Dead!

4. It Is Alright for Me to Thrive When People I Love Aren’t.

5. We Don’t Want You to Face Reality – We Want You to Face Vibrational Reality.

6. Therapy Just Keeps You In Step 1 Indefinitely (poking around to see what You need to springboard off of).

7. We Want You to Not ‘Give a Rip’ What Anyone Else Thinks (cause you split your alliance with you when you do).

8. Obama – don’t ask him to be your reason to ‘be in the vortex’, we must all attend to our own individual alignment.

9. An affirmation isn’t enough, you need a continual barrage of statements, each making you feel a little better.

10.  You came for the excuse to flow with Source.

11. Past Life Regression – might not even be your life you’re remembering, but whoever’s it is, it’s a match to your vibration.

12. Just Start Where You Are & Point Yourself in the Direction of Where You Want to Be!

13. The Goodness of Who You Are is Eternal.

14.  It’s Easy to Walk Around & Observe, It’s Difficult to Find a Vibrational Pitch Different From What is Shown to You.

15.  This Economic Crisis is the Basis for Enormous Expansion – It’s the Time of Great Asking.

16. This is a Great Global Turning Point, Not a Time to Worry but a Time to be Jubilant!

17. I Give Up Control of the Uncontrollable – and Everything is Uncontrollable Except for Me Getting in the Vortex.

18. An Easy Going ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice If’ Attitude Will Get You Everything.

19.  Everything That Has Manifested in Your Life Is Just an Indicator of How You Have Been Running Your Energy.

20.  The Universe is Unendingly Answering You with a Precision that Defies Description.

21.  Happy is the Trophy of Success.

22. You Can Do Processes on Behalf of Global Economy – focus wheels, positive aspects, scripting, rampage of appreciation, etc.

23. Your Dreams are Wonderful Indicators of Where Your Vibration Is.

24. Stop Being the Uncooperative Component in What You Want.

25. Stop Making an Enemy of Death – Sometimes It’s the Next Logical Step for Alignment.

26. We Are All Eternal Beings, There is No Ending.

27. You Can Create Whatever You Want – How Soon Is Up to You.

28. Be in Sync with the Vortex and Let It Delight and Surprise You With What Shows Up.

29.  A Feeling of Excited Anticipation Would Be Our Passion if We Were Standing in Your Physical Shoes.

30. Every Problem Has a Solution, and the Solution is in the Vortex.

31. In Your Asking You Have Made Your Application … and the Universe Who is Your Greatest Conspirator is on the Case.

32. Relax … Let It Be Delivered to You (line up with what is already there).

Here is the link to the full post:

http://www.shift-it-coach.com/blog/?p=310

I just transcribed this from a recent Abe workshop; Jan 10, 2009. I checked and rechecked it. It is accurate.

I am getting these from the “Raw” workshop recordings. In the future, I will tell you what CD and track they are from.

But here is Abraham:

We want to give you our recommendations of what we would do if we were standing in your physical shoes about getting into the vortex.

If we were standing in your physical shoes, and we knew about this vortex, and we understood the importance and the power of it; and we understood the connection to Source Energy that it implies, and we understood that we are, in all moments, in some sort of proximity to it, as we are moving through our day, we would have this dominate intention in mind:

It does not matter where I am and it does not matter what I am doing; and it does not matter who I am doing it with. I have access to my vortex from here. Because it is a mental game; it is an emotional journey; it is not an action journey.

So, I will seek no changing of any one else’s mind and I will not try to move any conditions or circumstances.

I won’t try to inspire somebody to be different than they are. And I won’t try to get something to be different than it is. I won’t try to fix things that are broken.

I am going to step out for a while, of this action oriented mindset that I have been in. And I am going to get into the mindset of a storyteller; a teller of stories; an offerer of thought, an offerer of vibration; an explainer of things, an activator of vibration; an emotional journey.

I’m going to turn my attention primarily toward the emotional journey of moving myself into vibrational alignment with who I am. I am going to do downstream conversation. I am going to try to move into vibrational alignment with who I am.

And, in order to do that, I have to understand who I am.

I am a lover; a lover from the top of my being to the end of my being. I am a lover; a vibrational lover. I am Source Energy; I am that which Man calls God; I am one who loves.

And, when I do anything for any reason that is less than loving, I have departed from who I am.

Therefore, I am on a new quest of things to love.

I am going to start with things that are easy to love and work myself up to the hard stuff. I am going to start with things that are easy to love and there are so many things that are easy to love.

And tonight I will make a list of ten things in my life that are easy to love.

I am one who appreciates the Source that is within me. And tonight I am going to find ten things that I can easily appreciate.

Is there a difference between love and appreciation? It is subtle; but there is a difference. The two words will evoke different subjects from you.

Tonight I will write ten things that I am appreciating.

The Source that is me, that resides in the vortex, who calls me home constantly, home where I will go when I croak; home that I will go when I meditate; home that I go when I find vibrational alignment with who I am; the Source who is within me is one who knows unequivocal worthiness of me.

When I find myself finding fault with myself, I will stop in the midst of it and say, “This is not who I am; I am one who understands the worthiness of my being.”

Tonight I will write ten things about myself for which I understand my absolute, unequivocal worthiness.

The Source within me finds love and appreciation and worthiness in every one he sees. When I do otherwise, I separate myself from that which is Source.

Tonight I will sit and I will write about three different people with whom I have had differences; my love and appreciation for aspects of them. I will make a list of at least ten things about each of these three people.

It is our promise to you, that with that small exercise (it won’t take you more than thirty minutes), you will find vibrational alignment (at least for the time of that activity), with the Source that is really you.

And it will be your first conscious, since this gathering started, deliberate stepping in to the vortex.

And, while you are there, it is our promise to you, that we will meet you with the vibration that is us. And you will recognize that you have accomplished this meeting. And never again will you wonder what it takes to get in the vortex.

It’s simple; and, once there, the vibration that will wrap round you will call you there more easily the next time and more easily the next time and more easily the next time and more easily the next time.

We look forward to our continuing rendezvous in the vortex. We like being in your vortex where everything that you have asked for is.

We have enjoyed anticipating the unfolding of your magnificent lives that are before you. And, nothing ever gives us more satisfaction than to watch you living the manifestation of something that you have pre-planned in the vortex. Because with it comes your realization of the creative power and genius that is you.

And, thus, the reason for your being here in this physical body.

You are the Leading Edge of thought, friends. And, without your willingness to explore, expansion would not be. It’s time for you to feel your value in this expanding universe. Get in the vortex, and feel it with us.

There is great love hear for you. And as now, as always, we remain, eternally, blissfully incomplete.

Abraham
San Diego Workshop
Jan 10, 2009

All quotes copyright 2009 by Abraham-Hicks Publications, www.Abraham-Hicks.com