So, the two factors that your emotions are always letting you know are: how focused the Energy is by virtue of your desire and how your normal thoughts around the subject resonate or don’t resonate with that desire. Easier way to say it is, “What’s my attitude or what’s my mood about such-and-such?

“When I think about my body, do I love it? Am I grateful? Does it annoy me? Does it embarrass me? Do I praise it? Do I condemn it? Do I adore it? Do I compliment it? Do I criticize it?” In other words, what kinds of things do you say about your body?

When you think about dollars, do you feel joyful? Does the subject of dollars make you feel free? Do you feel eager and enthusiastic about dollars? Do you feel afraid when you think about dollars? Are you angry about dollars? Are you embarrassed about dollars? Are you fitful about them; worried about them; eager about them, happy about them?

When you think about the greater economy, are you grateful for economy? Do you love it when someone thrives? Are you jealous when someone thrives? Do you feel happy for a friend succeeding? Do you feel unhappy about your not-so-much success when you see friends succeeding? Do you blame the government? Do you blame your employer for not paying you more? How do you feel?

It turns up in all of these different ways. All day, every day, you have opinions and attitudes. Most of them you didn’t even figure out on your own. You hung around with somebody else who hung around with somebody else who hung around with somebody else... And often, you’ve developed an attitude, an attitude about money.

There’s a pervasive attitude about money, that says, rich people somehow are inappropriate. “They’ve done something wrong. How dare they succeed and point out to me my lesser success? Or even worse, how dare they succeed and take such a big piece of the pie so that the test of us are left with crumbs or maybe nothing?”

If you are not sure what your vibrational essence is we understand because most physical friends have not been noticing the emotional correlation between thoughts that just feel normal. In other words, you trusted your mother, she gave you food, she gave you shelter; she seemed like the vortex through which a large amount of your Well-Being flowed. And so, she seemed like someone to listen to and she was bigger than you and she always thought she was right, especially in the beginning. (Fun) And so, you began to pattern your thoughts around the same kinds of thoughts that she was thinking – because things went better for you when you did that. (Fun) When you disagreed with her, it didn’t go as well. Then, when you went to school, there were others who wanted your agreement... And as you get out into the world or into new relationships, there are others who want your agreement... And so, you find yourselves (bless your hearts) upside down and all around as you are trying to conform to the primary stream of thought, relative to subjects: You want to do what’s socially acceptable, for you do not want to be an outcast. And you want to do what’s politically correct, because you do not want to be an outcast. And you want to do what your family expects of you, because you don’t want to be disinherited and you want to do what your religion says, because you don’t want to be disavowed or go to hell – which is far worse than any of the other things. (Fun)

Most of you have been using standards or measurements that are outside of you and that have nothing to do with you – in order to try to formulate your thoughts or opinions or attitudes or actions. And in the process, what has happened is, you have picked up an incredible hodgepodge of beliefs some of which serve you – some of which do not. But, most of our human friends feel powerless in what comes to them because they’ve been practicing this vibration and practicing that vibration and practicing that vibration and picking up thoughts and beliefs based upon the evidence that the society produces around them. And so now, you find yourselves often with a whole bagful of beliefs that are not serving you.

This is the greatest message. This will free you from vibrational resistance, as you hear it and internalize it and then practice it: The thing that is most hindering: You look at what people are living and you gather your evidence or statistics and then you claim it as true.

You say, “It must be true. They warned me about that and sure enough, it happened.” And what we are wanting so much for you to hear, is: What anyone is living – your culture, your environment, your society, your city, your family, your person – what anybody is living, the truth or the evidence that you are producing is only the truth that manifests in response to the habit of vibration that you offer.

So, when you look out into your society and you see something, wanted or unwanted, and you proclaim it as true – which is the reason that you give that others should think about it, write about it, talk about it, understand and accept it as truth – do you feel how screwy that is? That’s like saying, “There’s something out there that I do not want, but because somebody else created it in their experience and it became their truth, now I must beat the drum of it and make it my truth, too.” And we say, fortunately there are a variety of truths for you to pick from. Fortunately, you are the creator of your own truth. No one can write a book; no one can start a movement; no one can organize a religion; no one can say, “These are the things that are important for you to do and these are the things that you must not do,” because no one knows the mix of intentions and the mix of beliefs that you hold. You get to choose all of it.

Abraham – “a group of non-physical beings” – speak and teach through the physical apparatus of Esther Hicks. Esther and her mate, Jerry, present Abraham’s teachings worldwide, through seminars, books and video and audio recordings. They may be reached at (830) 755-2299, at P.O. Box 690070, San Antonio, TX 78269 or at www.abraham-hicks.com.