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Q: I’ve heard you speak about the healing abilities of the body on many of your tapes. I’m not referring to illnesses — I’m talking about the questions you were asked regarding growing back a set of teeth, an amputated foot, reshaping a C-section belly, getting rid of wrinkles, gray hair and so on.

Abe: Well, we have to say to you that anything that you are living that has caused a focused desire within you, the resources for the achievement of that are underway. And to the degree that you can come into alignment with those desires, then you will have manifestation of them.

The reason that you don’t see it happening very much is because most people have spent so much time making documentation of the reality of what is that you [keep] yourself [moving]… slowly… into the recovery process. Now, we have to say that as we look at your medical community and the amazing things that they are managing, every bit of that is as a result of someone’s desire and someone coming into a placer of allowing enough that then they could get others to begin to believe it until it became something that was more the norm. And so all of these things that you are talking about eventually will be. The reason that you slow it down so much is because as humans you have this tenacious habit in believing more in what is than in what is coming. And we understand that. It’s logical. It’s easier to observe what is than it is to fantasize what’s coming.

But the now reality — if you could let it be the platform from which you launch rather than the platform in which you justify and regurgitate your experience, you would find yourself moving more swiftly into more of these desired places.

Q: Just by visualizing?

Abe: We like you to see the now reality in the same way that you see the runway at the airport to the jet that takes flight. It’s important to the flight, necessary to the flight. But the flight is so much more than the short trip down the runway. And so the now experience, we would like it to be the short trip down the runway while you soar into the joyous creation that you are about. You don’t see an airplane, usually, just taxing around and commenting on how wonderful the runway is, and talking about how many airplanes have been on the runway, and talking about how its mother before it and its mother before it was on that runway. In other words, it just sort of accepts that it’s the platform from which it launches, but it doesn’t try to explain itself in terms of the runway. And that’s sort of [what] we would like you to do. We would like your now reality to be the platform, so you say, “Now what? From what I’ve lived and from what I now know, now what? Now what?”

You have the ability to be the synthesizer of all that you have lived, and you have the ability in this powerful focused moment to conclude your preference on any number of subjects. And as you do, they shoot from you like rockets and Source hears them and answers them. In other words, your future experience is in such good hands. You are such magnificent creators. If you could just get off the runway.

Q: Well, that’s what I’m having a problem with, getting off the runway. Because I do visualize what I want, and then the reality of things….

Abe: We understand that, but we have to say to you that you’re like most people…

Q: I’m sure.

Abe: …you occasionally visualize what you want, you often visualize what you don’t want. You occasionally….

Q: It’s hard when it’s on the body. I mean, I feel….

Abe: You occasionally look at aspects that please you and you occasionally look at aspects that don’t please you. But we want you to leave this gathering with a new determination that you’re going to tip that scale just a little bit. That you’re going to talk more about what you do want, less about what you don’t want, more about what’s coming, less about what is — unless what is is really, really good.

Let’s say that you have a friend that you’re co-creating with who has ten dominant characteristics. Nine of them are horrible and one of them is wonderful. You could fixate on the one wonderful thing and your relationship could become so much about that, that you would have a magnificent relationship. Or it could be the opposite of that. This friend could have nine wonderful characteristics and one thing that just bothers the life out of you — literally. And you could focus upon that one thing that bothers you, and your whole relationship becomes about that.

The same thing happens with your own body. There is this feeling that humans have — and we understand why you’ve got it — that goes like, “I have to find the problem and fix it.” Well, that is in part right because the problem is what helps you identify what you do want, but the art of deliberate creating is, once you know what you do want, turning your full attention to that and no longer beating the drum of what you do not want.

So what you’re saying to us is accurate. You’re saying, “Well, it’s hard not to beat the drum once it’s manifest.” And we said, well, it was easier when it was only an emotion, but you didn’t know it so you kept beating the drum. And then it was easier when it was only a sensation, but you didn’t know it so you kept beating the drum. It doesn’t matter at what point you decide to stop beating the drum, in the moment you stop beating the drum of what you don’t want, well-being will fill right in.

Oh, we want so much for you to hear that. Can you get a picture of that? So here is this whatever it is — maybe it’s darkness, maybe it’s sickness, maybe it’s not enough money, maybe it’s confusion. It’s this little pocket of something that feels terrible and it’s in you right now. Well, the desire all around that is summoning Source to it, summoning Source to it. But the Source can’t get through because there’s this beating of the drum, this beating of the drum, this beating of the drum.

Now Source is still being summoned. Source is still being summoned by every part of that. Source is still coming. But there’s this beating of the drum, this beating of the drum, this beating of the drum:

“I don’t like it, I don’t want it, I don’t know how I got it. Look at it. How big is it? Is there anybody else that’s got it? Have you ever seen anything like this before? How long do you think it will last? Did my mother have it? How many other people do you know have had it? What’s the name of it? What do you do about it? What should I do about it?”

The beating of the drum, the beating of the drum, the beating of the drum, until there’s this incredible vibration that just keeps disallowing. Well-being’s on the way, well-being wants in, and at the moment you stop beating the drum — there’s a lot of ways you can do that. You can take a nap. You can meditate. You can watch a television program that makes you feel better. You can take a walk. You can do any number of things.

Now, we know that you might take a walk and for a moment it feels good, and then you might see something that makes you beat the drum a little. But now you’re taking a walk, and you’re less likely to beat the drum on the walk than you were — or now you’re meditating, you’re trying to quiet your mind. And for a moment you stop beating the drum, but then the thoughts start to seep in and you beat the drum a little. You beat the drum a little. But if you make an effort to cease the beating of the drum by doing other things — by beating other drums. By beating other drums: Look at the beautiful flowers. Remember my beautiful friend. Read this beautiful letter. Read this passage in the book. Listen to this beautiful music. Remember this beautiful moment. There are all kinds of drums you can beat, and you feel different depending on which ones you do, but you have the power to make the decision. And until you make the decision, you’re probably going to beat the drum that you’ve been beating because it’s the most natural. It’s there, the sticks are there, the rhythm’s there, it’s sort of vibrating within your being, they’re practiced words.

And so what we’re suggesting is that you decide with only one criteria in mind — how does this beating of the drum feel? Is this life-giving? Does this feel good to me? And if it doesn’t, put your sticks down right now. Sit on your hands for just a minute. In other words, do everything that you can to cease the beating of this drum. Which means, first of all, STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. That’s the very first thing that you can do — stop talking about it. The next thing is stop thinking about it. But you can’t stop thinking about something that you’re thinking about because Law of Attraction says, “Think about this! Think about this! Think about this! Did you look at this?”

And so as you’re sitting on your hands and determining that you’re not going to think about it, the next logical thing is, well then what can I think about? And pick something that feels just a little better than that. And before you know it those thoughts will be so far distant, you will have left the beating of that drum so far behind that you will wonder why you ever beat that drum.

Q: But will that change the state of the amputated foot? Will that make the foot grow back?

Abe: Not now. Not in this moment. But we love this question because you’ve gone right to the heart of what most people ask: “If I follow this process that you are offering, will I then jump from where I don’t want to be over to where I do want to be?” And what we want to say is no, not right now. And it shouldn’t matter — that’s not the reason that we encouraged you to do it. The reason we encourage you to do it is because you’re sucking the life out of yourself with this thought. Why not get a little life back right now? In other words, the answer is: you’ll feel better right away, whether the foot grows back or not.

So the question that we’d like to put to you is do you want to be miserable without a foot or happy without a foot?

Q: I want a foot.

Abe: And if you will say, “That’s not my criteria, Abraham. I want a foot. I want a foot. I want a foot. And if I can’t have a foot then I’m going to be miserable.” And we say, but if you’re miserable because of this, now you’re depriving yourself of this and this and this, until eventually you say, “I’m miserable without a foot, I’m miserable without any teeth, I’m miserable without any money, I’m miserable without a mate. I’ve pinched off all of my well-being off because I was fixating on this thing that I could not have.”

And we say, if you could just try to be joyful anyway. Just try to make the best of where you are anyway. It is our promise to you that it just gets better and better and better and better and better. And it doesn’t take very many like that before all kinds of means to provide all kinds of feet begin to come forth. And you say, “But it’s not the kind of foot I wanted. This isn’t the kind of foot that I wanted, it’s a cumbersome foot.” And we say just relax, keep making the best of it. The Universe has the capacity to yield to you such fantastic things that you can’t hold the Universe hostage with your distorted bargains. You have to get in sync with well-being in order to live well-being. There are no holds barred here — you have to say, “Joy is what matters, and I will find joy.”

If you were going on a vacation, you would not say, “I’m going to all of these cities and eventually I’ll come back home. Oh, wait a minute — I’m already home. Why go?” (Laughter.) “I think I’ll just check vacation right off my list.” (More laughter.) ‘Cause you went on the vacation for the fun along the way, and we want you to start fantasizing well-being for the fun along the way. We don’t want you to need the end result so much that it hurts you that you don’t have it so that you disallow the well-being.

If you could just see it from our vantage point, oh, you would feel so much relief.

Q: I’m trying. (Laughs.)

Abe: If you could just feel that what you want is there for you, and all you have to do is say, “Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks.” Instead of, “Okay, but I’m not sure if I really deserve it, and I’m not sure that I’ve suffered long enough, and I’m not sure that I’ve paid a big enough price, and I’m not sure that I’ve worked myself….” Just, “Okay, thanks. Okay, thanks.” That’s the place we want you to be. We want you to expect good things to come to you, and then they come in all manner of form and fashion.

— Abe — Tarrytown, N.Y., 5/10/03B