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A War Against War Is War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Can We Succeed Without Talent? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Can We Get Something Without Giving? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 They Want to Win the Lottery Fortune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Living Abundantly Is Not “Magic” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Trading Freedom for Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Feeling Negative with Respect to Money or Cancer? . . . . . . . . . . . 85 He Didn’t Struggle for Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Is Spending Money Comfortable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 How to Change My Point of Attraction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 My Standards Are Mine to Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Does “Saving for Security” Work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Telling a New Story about Abundance,Money, and Financial Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 An Example of My “Old” Story about Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 An Example of My “New” Story about Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96PART III: Maintaining My Physical Well-Being My Thoughts Create My Physical Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Complaining about Complaining Is Also Complaining . . . . . . . . 102 I Can Feel Good in My Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Words Do Not Teach, but Life Experience Does . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Law of Attraction Expands My Every Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 15 Minutes to My Intentional Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 I Am Not Bound by Others’ Beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 There Is Time Enough to Accomplish It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Why Do I Want Perfect Bodily Conditions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 I Can Trust My Eternal Inner Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 What Is the Role of Thought in Traumatic Injuries? . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Could a Congenital Illness Be Vibrationally Resolved? . . . . . . . . 113 Major Diseases Come and Go, but Why? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 I’ve Witnessed My Body Heal Itself Naturally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 By Attention to Wellness, I’ll Maintain Wellness? . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 When Inspired to Visit a Medical Doctor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Euphoria in the Jaws of a Lion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 How Could Someone Feeling Pain Focus Elsewhere? . . . . . . . . . . 119 My Natural State Is One of Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 But Could a Baby’s Thoughts Attract Disease? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Why Have Some Been Born with Illnesses? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Let’s Discuss the Concept of “Incurable” Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Focus on Fun to Regain One’s Health? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Did Ignoring the Illness Resolve the Illness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 What’s the Effect of Vaccines on Diseases? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 What about Medical Doctors,Faith Healers, and Witch Doctors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Your Physician as a Means to Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 What Can I Do to Help Them? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 But What If They’re in a Coma? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Could I Inherit My Grandmother’s Illness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 What Is the Media’s Role in Epidemics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Catch Uncomfortable Sensations While They’re Small? . . . . . . . . 134 Are Arthritis and Alzheimer’s Disease Somehow Resolvable? . . . . 135 Are Exercise and Nutrition a Health Factor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 What If a Healthy Person Feels Mostly Tired? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 What Is the Chief Cause of Illness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 An Example of My “Old” Story about My Physical Well-Being . . 140 An Example of My “New” Story about My Physical Well-Being . . . 140PART IV: Perspectives of Health, Weight, and Mind I Want to Enjoy a Healthy Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 I Want to Balance My Desires and Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 I Needn’t Compare My Body to Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 What If I Saw Myself as Perfect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Pushing Against Unwanted Attracts More Unwanted . . . . . . . . . 148 My Attention to Lack Attracts More Lack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Planting Fear Seeds Does Grow More Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Must Attention to Illness Attract Illness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Is My Attention Predominantly Focused on Well-Being? . . . . . . . 151

Others’ Physical Evidence Needn’t Be My Experience . . . . . . . . . 153 How Can I Influence All Toward Maintaining Health? . . . . . . . . . 153 I’ll Relax and Sleep Myself into Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Do Negative Emotions Indicate Unhealthy Thoughts? . . . . . . . . 154 To What Degree Can I Control My Body? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Can We Consciously Grow New Muscle and Bone? . . . . . . . . . . . 157 What about When One’s Desire Overrules One’s Belief? . . . . . . . 159 But What If I Believe in Dangerous Germs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 I Am Guided Toward What I Do Like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 First, I Must Be Willing to Please Myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Is There an Appropriate Time to Die? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Are All Deaths a Form of Suicide? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 A Process to Manage One’s Body Weight? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Regarding Food, Can I Follow My Bliss? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 What Are My Beliefs about Food? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Opinions of Others about My Body Are Insignificant . . . . . . . . . 170 An Example of My “Old” Story about My Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 An Example of My “New” Story about My Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171PART V: Careers, as Profitable Sources of Pleasure My First Steps in Career Choice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 “What Do You Do for a Living?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 The Law of Attraction, and Career? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Filling My Void Through Service? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Will My Success Uplift Others? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 I Want Freedom, Growth, and Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 I Want My Life to Feel Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 I Create My Own Joyous Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Is It Immoral to Get Without Giving? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Welcome to Planet Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Most Important Is Feeling Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 What Is Holding Back My Career? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 I’ll Seek Reasons to Feel Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Do I Want to, or Do I Have to? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192What If My Pleasure Attracts Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 I Want My Work to Feel Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 What Are Its Positive Aspects? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 My Time at Work Is Perceptual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Should I Try to Work Harder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 An Example of My “Old” Story about My Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 An Example of My “New” Story about My Career . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Time to Tell a New Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Transcript of Abraham Live: A Law of Attraction Workshop Is This a Vibrational Match? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209You’re Vibrating Source Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 All Was Vibrational Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Living a Vibrational Match? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 What Does Your Story Indicate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 The Vibrational Essence of Money? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 My Story of Financial Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Boston Workshop Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

P re f a c eby Jerry HicksWhat do you believe attracted you to this book? Why do you suppose you’re reading these words? Which part of the title got yourattention? Was it Money? Health? Happiness? Learning to Attract? Orwas it the Law of Attraction perhaps?Whatever the obvious reason may have been for your attentionto this book, the information contained here has come to you inanswer to something for which you have been somehow asking.What is this book about? It teaches that life is supposed to feelgood and that our overall Well-Being is what is natural. It teachesthat no matter how good your life is now, it can always get better,and that the choice and the power to improve your life experienceis within your personal control. And it offers practical philosophicaltools that—when put into consistent use—will enable you to allowyourself to experience more of the wealth, health, and happinessthat is your natural birthright. (And I know, because it keeps happening to me. As I move forward from each desire-clarifying experience of contrast to a new desire and then to a new manifestation—my life overall gets better and better.)Life is good! It is New Year’s Day of 2008, and I’m beginningthis Preface while seated at the dining-room table of our new Delxiii

Money, and the Law of AttractionMar, California, “haven.”From the time Esther and I were married (1980), we’ve beenmaking it a point to visit this “Garden of Eden” area as often ashas been practical. And now, after all those years as appreciativeSan Diego visitors, we will be actually living here as appreciativepart-time residents.And what’s not to appreciate? There was our friend who ledus to find the property. (We told him we were looking for a pieceof property near Del Mar where we could park our 45-foot tourbus.) There were the landscape architects, engineers, designers,carpenters, electricians, plumbers, tile roofers, and copper gutterers. There were those talented, skilled tradespeople: tile layers;stuccoers; painters; and fence, gate, and ironworks creators. Therewere floor installers and custom-lift, slide-doors, arched-woodenwindows-and-doors, and stained-glass-window folks. There werethe “high end” high-tech people who installed the Lutron mastercontrolled lighting system, the audio/video/computer networkingsystem, the new Trane multiple-zone master-controlled (silent)air-conditioning system, and the Snaidero/Miele/Bosch/Vikingkitchen and laundry equipment. There were those who placed ournew furniture, and placed it again, and again—as we discoveredwhat felt best. There were those teams of hardworking diggers, trenchers, haulers, cement pourers, stoneworkers, and transplanters offull-grown trees. . . . And then there were the thousands of peoplewho had a hand in—and also earned money from—the invention,creation, and distribution of the thousands of products involved. . . Well, that’s a lot to appreciate.And that was just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to appreciate.There was the discovery of a new “favorite” restaurant—and ownersand staff—only a couple of minutes away, and then there were thoseincredibly delightful eclectic, positive neighbors who welcomed ushere in a style that we have never previously experienced.There’s more, too. There’s the breathtaking view to the southinto the primitive Torrey Pines State Reserve, across the Carmel Valley Creek and waterbird sanctuary and the lagoon, and down intoxiv

Prefacethe crashing, foaming waves of the Pacific Ocean as it untiringlywashes up onto Torrey Pines Beach. Yes. Life is good!(Esther and I just finished a brief walk on the beach, and we’renow settling down for the evening to put some finishing toucheson Abraham’s newest book—Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness.)It was over 40 years ago, while performing a series of concertsin colleges across the nation, that I “accidentally” noticed a booklying on a coffee table in a motel in a small town in Montana. Thatbook, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, changed my beliefsabout money so dramatically that my use of its principles attractedfinancial success to me in a way I hadn’t previously imagined.Thinking or growing rich hadn’t been something I had muchinterest in. But shortly before discovering that book, I had decidedthat I wanted to modify the way I earned money—and increase theamount I received. And so, it turned out that my attraction to Hill’sbook was a direct answer to what I had been “asking” for.Soon after encountering Think and Grow Rich in that Montanamotel, I met a man in a motel in Minnesota who offered me abusiness opportunity that was so compatible with Hill’s teachings that for nine joyous years I focused my attention on buildingthat business. During those nine years, the business grew into amultimillion-dollar international enterprise. And in that relativelyshort time, my finances grew from just getting by (which was allI’d previously really wanted) to reaching all of my newly inspiredfinancial goals.What I learned from Hill’s book worked so grandly for me thatI began using that work as a “textbook” to share his success principles with my business associates. But, looking back, even thoughthe teachings had worked extremely well for me, I became awarethat only a couple of my associates had received the huge financialsuccess that I had wanted all of them to have. And so, I began tosearch for another level of answers that might be more effective fora broader range of people.As a result of my personal Think and Grow Rich experience, Ixv

Money, and the Law of Attractionbecame convinced that the achievement of success was somethingthat could be learned. We didn’t have to be born into a family whohad already discovered how to make money. We didn’t have to getgood grades in school or know the right people or live in the rightcountry or be the right size, color, gender, religion, and so on. . . .We simply had to learn a few simple principles and then consistently put them into practice.However, not everyone gets the same message from the samewords—or the same results from the same books. And so, as soonas I began “asking” for more understanding, Richard Bach’s enlightening book Illusions happened to come into my awareness. Andalthough Illusions brought me to one of the most thrilling “Aha!”days of my life and brought some concepts that began to openmy mind for the phenomenon that I was about to experience, itcontained no additional principles that I could consciously utilizein my business.The next “accidental” discovery of an ultimately valuable bookfor me came while I was just killing some time in a Phoenix library. Iwasn’t “looking for” anything, but I happened to notice a book, highon a shelf, entitled Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts.Seth, “a Non-Physical Entity,” had “dictated” through Jane a series ofbooks, and I read them all. And as strange as that form of communication may have seemed to most (Esther was extremely uncomfortablewith it at first), I had always tended to judge the trees by their fruits.And so, I looked beyond the “strange” aspects and focused on whatto me were the positive, practical parts of the Seth material that I feltI could utilize to help others improve their life experience.Seth had a different perspective on life than what I had heardpreviously expressed, and I was particularly interested in two ofSeth’s terms: “You Create Your Own Reality” and “Your Point ofPower Is in the Present.” Although as much as I read, I never feltthat I truly understood those principles, I somehow knew that therewere, within them, answers to my questions. However, Jane was nolonger in physical form, so “Seth” was unavailable for any furtherclarification.xvi

PrefaceThrough a series of fortuitous events—in a manner similar tothe Seth-and-Jane experiences—Esther, my wife, began receivingthe material that is now known as the Teachings of Abraham .(Should you like to hear one of the original recordings detailingour introduction to Abraham, you can find our free Introduction toAbraham recording as a 70-minute download at our Website: www.abraham-hicks.com, or from our office as a free CD.)In 1985 when this phenomenon began with Esther, I couldsense that this would bring the answers to my desire to betterunderstand the Laws of the Universe and how we might be able tonaturally, deliberately work in harmony with them in order to fulfill our purpose for being in physical form. And so, about 20 yearsago, I sat with Esther and a small cassette tape recorder and pliedAbraham with hundreds of questions on primarily 20 differentsubjects, mostly regarding practical spirituality. And then, as otherpeople began hearing about Abraham and wanting to interact withus, we produced those 20 recordings and published them as twospecial-subjects albums.Over the course of two decades, millions of people have becomeaware of the Teachings of Abraham as a result of our many books,tapes, CDs, videos, DVDs, group workshops, and radio and television appearances. Also, other best-selling authors soon began touse Abraham’s teachings in their books and radio, television, andworkshop appearances . . . and then, about two years ago, an Australian television producer approached us requesting permissionto build a TV series around our work with Abraham. She joined uswith her film crew on one of our Alaskan cruises, filmed the show,and then went in search of other students of our teachings whomshe could incorporate into the (pilot) film—and the rest is (as theysay) history.The producer called her movie The Secret, and it featured thebasic tenet of the Teachings of Abraham: the Law of Attraction. Andalthough it wasn’t picked up by the Australian network (Nine) asa series, the documentary went straight to the DVD format andwas transcribed into a book . . . and now because of The Secret, thexvii

Money, and the Law of Attractionconcept of the Law of Attraction has reached many more millionsof people who have been asking for a better-feeling life.This book has evolved from the transcription of five of ouroriginal recordings from over 20 years ago. This is the first timethese transcriptions have been available in print. H

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