Abraham Hicks - Selfish JOY

Abe: I Want More Joy, Happiness, and Harmony


Jerry: What if someone would say to you, "Abraham, I want to be more
joyful. How can I use what you're teaching to attract more joy,
happiness, and harmony into my life?

Abraham: First, we would compliment the person on discovering the most
important desire of all - the seeking of joy. For in seeking and
finding joy, you not only find perfect alignment with your Inner Being
and with who-you-really-are, but you also find vibrational alignment
with all things that you desire. When joy is really important to you,
you do not allow yourself to focus upon things that do not feel good
- and the result of thinking only thoughts that feel good would
cause you to create a wonderful life filled with all things that you
desire.

When you hold the desire to be joyful and you are sensitive to the way
you feel, and therefore guide your thoughts in the direction of things
that feel better and better, you improve your vibration, and your point
of attraction becomes one that will only attract - through the Law
of Attraction - things that you desire. Deliberately guiding your
thoughts is the key to a joyful life, but a desire to feel joy is the
best plan of all because in the reaching for joy, you find the thoughts
that attract the wonderful life you desire.

Jerry: Some would say that for a person to want to be joyous all the
time would be a very selfish way to want to be, as though desiring joy
is a negative.

Abraham: We are often accused of teaching selfishness, and we always
agree that we certainly do teach selfishness, for you cannot perceive
life from any perspective other than from that of yourself. Selfishness
is the sense of self. It is the picture that you hold of yourself.
Whether you are focusing upon yourself or another, you are doing it all
from your selfish vibrational viewpoint, and whatever you are feeling is
your point of attraction. So, from your perspective of self you are
focused in a way that you are feeling good, then your point of
attraction is such that the things that you are attracting - through
the Law of Attraction - will please you when they get there. If
however, you are not selfish enough to insist upon focusing in a way
that feels good, and you are focused upon something that feels bad, then
your point of attraction is such that you are negatively attracting
- and you will not like what is coming when it gets there. Unless
you are selfish enough to care about how you feel, and therefore direct
your thoughts in such a way that you are allowing a true connection to
your Inner Being, you have nothing to give another anyway. Everyone is
selfish. It is not possible to be otherwise.

Because of the powerful Law of Attraction, whatever you are giving - by
way of vibrational offering - you are receiving. The Law of
Attraction always accurately sorts things out and brings to everyone the
matching product of their thoughts. So when you give a thought of
Well-Being [ie - gratitude], you always receive the matching
equivalent. When you offer thoughts of hatred, the Law of Attraction
cannot bring you loving results. That defies the Law. (Abraham through
Esther Hicks, from the book, The Law of Attraction, page 63-64) -
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