Esther Hicks

People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. [Fun] I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look where I am.” Or do you just fill up.

You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.

People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. [Fun] I’m finished. I’ve lived all of this life, and look where I am.” Or do you just fill up.

You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.

So the Pivoting Process is simply: Whenever you recognize that you are feeling a negative emotion (it is really that you are feeling the lack of harmony with something that you want), the obvious thing for you to do is to stop and say, I’m feeling negative emotion, which means I am not in harmony with something that I want. What do I want?

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

While your parents and teachers are, for the most part, well-meaning people, they are nevertheless more interested in your finding ways to please them than in your finding ways to please yourself. And so, in the process of socialization, almost all people in almost all societies lose their way because they are coaxed or coerced away from their own Guidance System.

You actually only have two choices in emotion: a better-feeling one or a worse-feeling one. SO you could accurately say that there are really only two emotions, and you effectively utilize your Guidance System when you deliberately choose the better-feeling of those two options.

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows, but only your attitude toward money.

Most of you are much closer to a financial fortune than you are even allowing yourself to purely desire, because, in the thought that it might come, you right away begin thinking of how disappointed you will be if it does not come. And so, in your lackful thought, you do not allow yourself to desire or to expect anything magnificent in terms of money; and that is the reason why, for the most part, you are living rather mediocre financial experiences.

If we were talking to you on your first day of physical experience, we could be of great advantage to you because we would say, “Welcome to planet Earth. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have. And your work here—your lifetime career—is to seek joy.

The most valuable skill that you could ever develop is the skill of directing your thoughts toward what you want--to be adept at quickly evaluating all situations and then quickly coming to the conclusion of what you most want--and then giving your undivided attention to that.

Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.

Your emotions, in every moment, give you an indication of the vibrational relationship between the Non-Physical You and the physical you. Nothing is more important to you than this relationship, and nothing can enhance your physical experience more than an understanding of your emotions.

You understand that if you want to hear what is being broadcast from 98.7 FM, you must match your tuner/receiver to 98.7 FM. The frequencies must match in order for you to have clear reception.

The better you feel, the more in alignment you are with your desire. The worse you feel, the more out of alignment you are with  desire.

As you pay attention to your emotions, you literally *feel* your way to your vibrational alignment with Source.

You may often say that you want more money, but if you consistently feel disappointment, or even fear, about not having enough money, then your vibrational offering regarding money does not match your statement of desire.

The key to joyful deliberate creating is to choose the subjects of your thoughts *intentionally* while paying close attention to how each thought feels, for unless you are aware of how the thought feels, you have no understanding of where you are on the sliding scale of vibrational possibilities.

When you decide to make your awareness of the vibrational relativity between you and your Source of extreme importance, you will have made the most important decision that you could ever make, for you have now consciously activated your own personal Guidance System, and you will never be lost again.

Why would you want to accept or ‘face a reality’ that is not pleasing when you can create a reality that is pleasing?

For any desire to be realized by you, or before anything can manifest in your experience, there must be vibrational compatibility between your desires and your beliefs.

Remember, if the life you are living has the resources to produce within you any specific desire, then the resources also exist for your full receiving, or manifestation, of that desire.

As soon as you are able to deliberately guide your thoughts, not only is it certain that your financial success must improve, but the evidence of *that* success will then prepare you for deliberate improvement in *every* aspect of your life experience.

I know what I do not want; what is it that I do want?

When you focus long enough that you feel passion, you harness more power and you achieve greater results.

There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have once you accomplish the necessary alignment, and when you do, your own life experience will give you the evidence of your alignment.

When you feel negative emotion about anything, it always means that you have a desire that has been born from your personal life experience that you are, right now, opposing with other thoughts.

Resistance is caused by thinking about what you do not want, and that is what makes you tired.

There is nothing more detrimental to your ability to positively attract than a negative attitude toward yourself.

Make statements such as: I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to the be best, or the good way, of life.

Nothing is more important than that you feel good, for when you feel good, you are in harmony with your greater intent.

The sculptor of a work of art does not derive his greatest satisfaction from the finished piece. It is the process of creation (the sculpting of the piece) that gives him pleasure. That is the way we would like you to view your physical experience of creating: continual, joyful becoming.

If you will bring yourself to a more deliberate control of your own thought, you will bring yourself to a more deliberate control of your own life experience.

Financial success, or any other kind of success, does not require hard work or action, but it does require alignment of thought. You simply cannot offer negative thought about things that you desire and then make up for it with action or hard work.

In the same way that you understand that you do not have to attempt the impossible task of drawing enough air into your lungs to last all day or all week or all year—but instead you easily breathe in and out, always receiving what you want or need whenever you want or need it—money can flow in and out of your experience with the same ease once you achieve that expectation of Eternal Abundance.