Here is my five cents...
On one of the Ester's CDs I heard her say (channeling Abraham) "there is so much delishousness in the wanting". Took me a while to understand it thorougly. But it proved to be one of the most important lessons for me.
Some time ago, working towards my PhD, I was dreaming of a post doctoral 'nirvana' and fulfillment. But when I finished, I felt goal-less and totally lost. My iron (life flow?) went down and so did my energy levels. I improved my diet eating foods packed with nutritional goodness (mainly fruit and veggies, a lot of greens!) and ... nothing! I didn't enjoy my work either, but that's a different story.
I was too anxious about getting to the finish line rather than enjoying research and writing my thesis. Pity, now it feels like a wasted opportunity, but also a valuable lesson!
It took me a while to really get what Abraham was on about. I feel that being too anxious to 'get there' plays a huge part in our inability to enjoy life 'now'. And when we get there, we need another goal to keep us alive. So really, we can never get there totally. So it's not really about getting there but about enjoying the process.
Knowing that helps me a lot with 'feeling down' and seem to keep me 'up' most of the time.
Here is a longer quote from Abraham. Hope it helps Jawillie,
"Celebrate the desire that is within you, and stop cursing the fact that it isn't fulfilled! It is the desire that is within you that is worth everything -- it is life itself! You keep thinking that it must be manifested before you can feel good, and that is backwards. The fact that it exists is the reason for the Life Force.
There isn't anything that you want or have ever wanted, or anybody has ever wanted or ever will want that is for any other reason than this: You want it because you think, in the having of it, you will feel better. And we are here to say to you, you want it because in the wanting of it, Life Force is summoned through you -- and you are more alive. You are in the flow.
Being In The Flow is having goals that cause Energy to flow through you. It is being in such a place of expectation and acceptance of your eternal motion forward, that you are eternally in the flow. So people say, "How are you doing?" And you say, "Great!" And they say, "Well, is there anything not going well with you?" And you say, "Everything always goes well with me!" And they say, "Oh, but I see there are all these things incomplete in your experience." And you say, "Yeah, isn't it great? That means I'm still alive. I still have wanting, I'm still summoning life. That means I still have the future ahead of me. That means Life Force is still flowing."
Have you ever found yourself eating an ice cream cone and wanting to make it last? Do you find yourself ever in a sexual interlude or in a delicious book, wanting it to last? You can tell you're getting to the end of it, and you don't want it to be over? You know that feeling of savoring? That's the way we're wanting you to be with your goals. And that may be why you're not so eager to get on with the completion of everything. You're recognizing that you have all of this life before you -- so much wonderful stuff to do -- never getting it done. "
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