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A review by aprilmei
The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships by Esther Hicks
5.0
I've learned so much from my reading of this book in the time and place of my life in which I'm living and learning and experiencing. I've had a few breakthroughs through breakdowns, but have come back around again. Like I always will. Because it's a cycle. Breakdown, breakthrough, breakdown, breakthrough. So much more that couldn't fit here. But I have it saved for myself in words until I own this book.
I declare: I feel good in my body. I create. I expand. I am free.
"At the hub of these teachings of Abraham (not the biblical or presidential Abraham) is a profound concept: the basis of life is freedom; the result of life is expansion--and the purpose of life is joy." pg. xi
"It is our desire that, by understanding your own personal Guidance System, you will return to alignment with the power that flows to you and through you. For by your finding agreement with the power that flows forth from within you, the harmony that you seek on all other levels and all other subjects--and with all others--will then (and only then) be possible." pg. 7
"In other words, it always makes sense to first find fundamental stability before embarking on any journey, especially those journeys that matter most to you. And yet, as people interact with one another on important subjects, they commonly plunge headlong into conversations and decisions and behaviors before they have achieved any sense of true stability, and then the return to stability is often very long in coming. And often, once out of balance, they stumble into the next and then the next and then the next out-of-control experience. Through the examples in this book, it is our desire to help you remember the art of alignment first--then action. Alignment first--then conversation. Alignment first--then interaction. Alignment first--then anything else." pg. 7-8
"People sometimes say, 'Think before you speak.' A wise intention, but we would take it further. We would suggest, 'Think--and then evaluate the value of that thought by noticing how it feels; and do that often enough that you know, without question, that you are in alignment--then speak, then act, then interact.'" pg. 8
"Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with Source, who actively seeks alignment with their Broader Perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really-are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved that alignment." pg. 8
"There is no relationship of greater importance to achieve than the relationship between you, in your physical body, right here and now, and the Soul/Source/God from which you have come. If you tend to that relationship first and foremost, you will then, and only then, have the stable footing to proceed into other relationships. Your relationship with your own body; your relationship with money; your relationship with your parents, children, grandchildren, the people you work with, your government, your world . . . will all fall swiftly and easily into alignment once you tend to this fundamental, primary relationship first." pg. 8
"In other words, while you have fingers and toes and arms and legs, you do not see them as separate Beings. You see them as a part of you. So you usually do not try to describe your relationship with your leg, because you understand that your leg is you. And so, before your physical birth, you were Vibrationally intertwined with Source, or with what humans often call God, but the full integration of you with God was such that there was no relationship between the two--because you were all One." pg. 12 [Speaking of the Oneness again; God is the only reality, everything else is an illusion and we connect to God through our minds, and can heal our body with our mind and spirit.]
"Often the family dynamics are as follows: Your mother and father have not been consciously aware of their own Guidance Systems, and so they do not offer to themselves--or to each other--consistent patterns of alignment. They often believe that it is up to you to alter your behavior in order to positively affect their experience. So, not long after you have settled into their life experience, they attempt to train you into patterns of behavior that they have deemed favorable. But, they are attempting the impossible. Instead of achieving their alignment with who-they-really-are, they are asking you to behave in a way that makes them feel better. That is what conditional love is: 'If you will change your behavior or condition, then as I observe it, I will feel better. So I am giving you the responsibility for the way I feel.'" pg. 16-17
"Seek alignment between you and You, first, before you engage with any other. And never ask for a behavioral change from any other to use as your basis of improved emotion or perspective. There are simply too many moving parts, and you will not succeed." pg. 17
"And so, if you can now turn your attention to the idea of your expanded Inner Being, who stands as the culmination of all that you have lived, who emits a Vibration that expresses the whole of that which you have become--then you will more fully understand who your Inner Being is and how the physical aspect of you has added to that expansion.
We want you to realize that while you are focused in your physical body, thinking thoughts, speaking words, involved in action . . . at the same time there is a Non-Physical aspect of you who exists in the Non-Physical realm from which you have come--and the Non-Physical aspect of you has expanded because of your physical experiences." pg. 19
"In the same way that the Law of Attraction is responding to the thoughts, words, and actions that you are offering here in your physical reality, the Law of Attraction is always responding powerfully to your Vibrational Reality. When the Law of Attraction, the Universal manager of all Vibrations, responds to the clarity of Vibration offered by your newly expanded Inner Being, the result is a powerful swirling Vortex of attraction." pg. 20
"When you focus upon a subject or situation and you feel bad, it is not the subject or the situation that is the reason for your bad feeling. You feel bad because the thoughts have caused a Vibrational separation in you. In other words, you have chosen to give your attention to something that the Source within you is not giving attention to. And it is with good reason that the Source within you is not giving attention to the thing that makes you feel bad when you do. Source understands the power of attraction and does not want to add to the creation of unwanted things; and when you do, you feel bad. Every time.
And, conversely, when you think thoughts during which you feel passionate or happy or loving or eager, you are choosing thoughts in which the larger part of you is also completely immersed; but instead of causing a separation between you and your Source, you are now creating a partnership or relationship with power and clarity and Well-Being." pg. 23
"The people in your life will always give you exactly what you expect. No exceptions." pg. 37
"You must first find harmony between you and You, and then, and only then, is any other harmony possible. And when you consistently achieve harmony between you and You (which is what we refer to as the state of allowing), then it is possible to find harmony with others even though you have disagreements. In fact, that is the perfect environment for expansion and joy: diversity of beliefs and desires--but alignment with Source." pg. 39
"Relationships are usually better in the beginning because you are both looking for things you want to see. And so, your expectation is usually more positive in the beginning of your relationship. Also, looking for positive aspects is a powerful tool in finding your own harmony, or alignment with Self. In the beginning, you both probably think that the wonderful way you feel is because of the harmony you have discovered with the other person, when what has actually happened is that you are using one another as your positive reason to find harmony with who-you-really-are.
The Source within you only sees positive aspects in your partner, and whenever you are finding positive aspects, you are in alignment with who-you-really-are." pg. 39
"The positive moments you may have once felt within your relationship were not about the harmony you found with each other (that now seems to be gone), but instead about your own alignment with who-you-really-are. It is true that it is easier for you to be in alignment with yourself when you are not focused upon unwanted things. So a person near you who is pleasing to you can serve as a positive object of attention, causing no distraction from your alignment. But the belief that another person is 'making' you happy is incorrect. Your happiness is your natural state of being. The correct understanding is that you are using this currently pleasant person as your reason not to focus yourself away from who-you-really-are; while, in your state of unhappiness, you may be using this currently unpleasant person as your reason to focus yourself away from who-you-really-are." pg. 40
"Your true happiness happens when you discover that no one other than yourself is responsible for the way you feel. If you believe that others are responsible for the way you feel, you are in true bondage, because you cannot control how they behave or how they feel. . .
To get to where you want to be--to that place of feeling better--you have to reach for alignment between you and You." pg. 40
"In doing this Energy-alignment work, your point of attraction will not only yield to you activities and rendezvous with good-feeling people, places, and things--but your ability to experience the delicious depth of them will be dramatically enhanced. Rather than doing things and going places to try to make yourself feel good, deliberately get to feeling good--and let those things and people and places come to you. It is possible that once you come into alignment with who-you-really-are, you will gravitate to a different relationship. But it is also likely that the relationship that you are already in was attracted from your point of being in alignment to begin with, and now that you have achieved alignment again, it will renew itself for you.If you entered your current relationship from a place of mostly alignment, its potential for returning to a wonderful feeling-place is great.
If you entered this relationship because you were in the process of escaping from something unpleasant, then the basis of this relationship may be more about what you do not want than about what you do want.In any case, getting yourself feeling good before you take any action is always the best process; and when you do not feel good, you cannot be inspired to any action that will solve the problem." pg. 41
"Throughout your lifetime, and because of your interactions with others, you have been identifying the characteristics in others that are most appealing to you; and you have, incrementally, been sending out rockets of desires about those desirable traits. In other words, bit by bit, you have created (in your own Vibrational Reality) your version of the perfect mate for you. But before you can find your perfect mate, you must be a Vibrational Match to that desire, which means, you must consistently be a Vibrational Match to what you want.
If you are feeling lonely or frustrated about not yet meeting your mate, you are not a match to your Vibrational Reality, and so your rendezvous is postponed. When you are envious of others who have wonderful relationships, you are not a match to your Vibrational Reality, and so your rendezvous is postponed. If you are remembering past unpleasing relationships and using those as your justification for wanting or needing a better one, you are a match to what you do not want, and what you do want is postponed. But if you can bring yourself to a place of consistently feeling good, even in the absence of the relationship that you desire, the rendezvous is certain. In fact, it is Law" pg. 42
"The 'perfection' of that partner means that your partner matches the things that your life has caused you to ask for, but the finding of that partner hinges upon you becoming a match to those desires first. You cannot find your perfect mate from your awareness that your mate is missing from your life. You have to find a way to no longer offer the Vibration of a 'missing partner.'" pg. 42
"But we usually downplay the idea of 'Soul Mates' in the way that so many people want to address them because, really, every person with whom you share your planet is a sort of soul mate. And the feeling of Connection that people are looking for, the exhilaration of being with someone with their hearts soaring, really is not a function of the person you are with, but instead it is a function of your own Connection with You. We would prefer to think of Soul Mate as your mating, or consciously Connecting, wth your own Soul or Source or Inner Being or Self. When you, in your physical moment and time, are offering a similar Vibration to that of your Inner Being, you have indeed found your Soul Mate. And if you consistently do that, the people who will gravitate to you will be enormously satisfying in nature." pg. 43
"Think about what you want in a relationship and why you want it. Look for those around you who are experiencing good relationships, and feel appreciation for them. Make lists of the positive aspects of those you have spent time with. . . In fact, one of the fastest ways to make you way to a wonderful relationship is to find any subject that consistently feels good, and focus on that even if it has nothing to do with relationships." pg. 43
Book: borrowed from Richmond Branch Library.
I declare: I feel good in my body. I create. I expand. I am free.
"At the hub of these teachings of Abraham (not the biblical or presidential Abraham) is a profound concept: the basis of life is freedom; the result of life is expansion--and the purpose of life is joy." pg. xi
"It is our desire that, by understanding your own personal Guidance System, you will return to alignment with the power that flows to you and through you. For by your finding agreement with the power that flows forth from within you, the harmony that you seek on all other levels and all other subjects--and with all others--will then (and only then) be possible." pg. 7
"In other words, it always makes sense to first find fundamental stability before embarking on any journey, especially those journeys that matter most to you. And yet, as people interact with one another on important subjects, they commonly plunge headlong into conversations and decisions and behaviors before they have achieved any sense of true stability, and then the return to stability is often very long in coming. And often, once out of balance, they stumble into the next and then the next and then the next out-of-control experience. Through the examples in this book, it is our desire to help you remember the art of alignment first--then action. Alignment first--then conversation. Alignment first--then interaction. Alignment first--then anything else." pg. 7-8
"People sometimes say, 'Think before you speak.' A wise intention, but we would take it further. We would suggest, 'Think--and then evaluate the value of that thought by noticing how it feels; and do that often enough that you know, without question, that you are in alignment--then speak, then act, then interact.'" pg. 8
"Someone who takes the time to understand their relationship with Source, who actively seeks alignment with their Broader Perspective, who deliberately seeks and finds alignment with who-they-really-are, is more charismatic, more attractive, more effective, and more powerful than a group of millions who have not achieved that alignment." pg. 8
"There is no relationship of greater importance to achieve than the relationship between you, in your physical body, right here and now, and the Soul/Source/God from which you have come. If you tend to that relationship first and foremost, you will then, and only then, have the stable footing to proceed into other relationships. Your relationship with your own body; your relationship with money; your relationship with your parents, children, grandchildren, the people you work with, your government, your world . . . will all fall swiftly and easily into alignment once you tend to this fundamental, primary relationship first." pg. 8
"In other words, while you have fingers and toes and arms and legs, you do not see them as separate Beings. You see them as a part of you. So you usually do not try to describe your relationship with your leg, because you understand that your leg is you. And so, before your physical birth, you were Vibrationally intertwined with Source, or with what humans often call God, but the full integration of you with God was such that there was no relationship between the two--because you were all One." pg. 12 [Speaking of the Oneness again; God is the only reality, everything else is an illusion and we connect to God through our minds, and can heal our body with our mind and spirit.]
"Often the family dynamics are as follows: Your mother and father have not been consciously aware of their own Guidance Systems, and so they do not offer to themselves--or to each other--consistent patterns of alignment. They often believe that it is up to you to alter your behavior in order to positively affect their experience. So, not long after you have settled into their life experience, they attempt to train you into patterns of behavior that they have deemed favorable. But, they are attempting the impossible. Instead of achieving their alignment with who-they-really-are, they are asking you to behave in a way that makes them feel better. That is what conditional love is: 'If you will change your behavior or condition, then as I observe it, I will feel better. So I am giving you the responsibility for the way I feel.'" pg. 16-17
"Seek alignment between you and You, first, before you engage with any other. And never ask for a behavioral change from any other to use as your basis of improved emotion or perspective. There are simply too many moving parts, and you will not succeed." pg. 17
"And so, if you can now turn your attention to the idea of your expanded Inner Being, who stands as the culmination of all that you have lived, who emits a Vibration that expresses the whole of that which you have become--then you will more fully understand who your Inner Being is and how the physical aspect of you has added to that expansion.
We want you to realize that while you are focused in your physical body, thinking thoughts, speaking words, involved in action . . . at the same time there is a Non-Physical aspect of you who exists in the Non-Physical realm from which you have come--and the Non-Physical aspect of you has expanded because of your physical experiences." pg. 19
"In the same way that the Law of Attraction is responding to the thoughts, words, and actions that you are offering here in your physical reality, the Law of Attraction is always responding powerfully to your Vibrational Reality. When the Law of Attraction, the Universal manager of all Vibrations, responds to the clarity of Vibration offered by your newly expanded Inner Being, the result is a powerful swirling Vortex of attraction." pg. 20
"When you focus upon a subject or situation and you feel bad, it is not the subject or the situation that is the reason for your bad feeling. You feel bad because the thoughts have caused a Vibrational separation in you. In other words, you have chosen to give your attention to something that the Source within you is not giving attention to. And it is with good reason that the Source within you is not giving attention to the thing that makes you feel bad when you do. Source understands the power of attraction and does not want to add to the creation of unwanted things; and when you do, you feel bad. Every time.
And, conversely, when you think thoughts during which you feel passionate or happy or loving or eager, you are choosing thoughts in which the larger part of you is also completely immersed; but instead of causing a separation between you and your Source, you are now creating a partnership or relationship with power and clarity and Well-Being." pg. 23
"The people in your life will always give you exactly what you expect. No exceptions." pg. 37
"You must first find harmony between you and You, and then, and only then, is any other harmony possible. And when you consistently achieve harmony between you and You (which is what we refer to as the state of allowing), then it is possible to find harmony with others even though you have disagreements. In fact, that is the perfect environment for expansion and joy: diversity of beliefs and desires--but alignment with Source." pg. 39
"Relationships are usually better in the beginning because you are both looking for things you want to see. And so, your expectation is usually more positive in the beginning of your relationship. Also, looking for positive aspects is a powerful tool in finding your own harmony, or alignment with Self. In the beginning, you both probably think that the wonderful way you feel is because of the harmony you have discovered with the other person, when what has actually happened is that you are using one another as your positive reason to find harmony with who-you-really-are.
The Source within you only sees positive aspects in your partner, and whenever you are finding positive aspects, you are in alignment with who-you-really-are." pg. 39
"The positive moments you may have once felt within your relationship were not about the harmony you found with each other (that now seems to be gone), but instead about your own alignment with who-you-really-are. It is true that it is easier for you to be in alignment with yourself when you are not focused upon unwanted things. So a person near you who is pleasing to you can serve as a positive object of attention, causing no distraction from your alignment. But the belief that another person is 'making' you happy is incorrect. Your happiness is your natural state of being. The correct understanding is that you are using this currently pleasant person as your reason not to focus yourself away from who-you-really-are; while, in your state of unhappiness, you may be using this currently unpleasant person as your reason to focus yourself away from who-you-really-are." pg. 40
"Your true happiness happens when you discover that no one other than yourself is responsible for the way you feel. If you believe that others are responsible for the way you feel, you are in true bondage, because you cannot control how they behave or how they feel. . .
To get to where you want to be--to that place of feeling better--you have to reach for alignment between you and You." pg. 40
"In doing this Energy-alignment work, your point of attraction will not only yield to you activities and rendezvous with good-feeling people, places, and things--but your ability to experience the delicious depth of them will be dramatically enhanced. Rather than doing things and going places to try to make yourself feel good, deliberately get to feeling good--and let those things and people and places come to you. It is possible that once you come into alignment with who-you-really-are, you will gravitate to a different relationship. But it is also likely that the relationship that you are already in was attracted from your point of being in alignment to begin with, and now that you have achieved alignment again, it will renew itself for you.If you entered your current relationship from a place of mostly alignment, its potential for returning to a wonderful feeling-place is great.
If you entered this relationship because you were in the process of escaping from something unpleasant, then the basis of this relationship may be more about what you do not want than about what you do want.In any case, getting yourself feeling good before you take any action is always the best process; and when you do not feel good, you cannot be inspired to any action that will solve the problem." pg. 41
"Throughout your lifetime, and because of your interactions with others, you have been identifying the characteristics in others that are most appealing to you; and you have, incrementally, been sending out rockets of desires about those desirable traits. In other words, bit by bit, you have created (in your own Vibrational Reality) your version of the perfect mate for you. But before you can find your perfect mate, you must be a Vibrational Match to that desire, which means, you must consistently be a Vibrational Match to what you want.
If you are feeling lonely or frustrated about not yet meeting your mate, you are not a match to your Vibrational Reality, and so your rendezvous is postponed. When you are envious of others who have wonderful relationships, you are not a match to your Vibrational Reality, and so your rendezvous is postponed. If you are remembering past unpleasing relationships and using those as your justification for wanting or needing a better one, you are a match to what you do not want, and what you do want is postponed. But if you can bring yourself to a place of consistently feeling good, even in the absence of the relationship that you desire, the rendezvous is certain. In fact, it is Law" pg. 42
"The 'perfection' of that partner means that your partner matches the things that your life has caused you to ask for, but the finding of that partner hinges upon you becoming a match to those desires first. You cannot find your perfect mate from your awareness that your mate is missing from your life. You have to find a way to no longer offer the Vibration of a 'missing partner.'" pg. 42
"But we usually downplay the idea of 'Soul Mates' in the way that so many people want to address them because, really, every person with whom you share your planet is a sort of soul mate. And the feeling of Connection that people are looking for, the exhilaration of being with someone with their hearts soaring, really is not a function of the person you are with, but instead it is a function of your own Connection with You. We would prefer to think of Soul Mate as your mating, or consciously Connecting, wth your own Soul or Source or Inner Being or Self. When you, in your physical moment and time, are offering a similar Vibration to that of your Inner Being, you have indeed found your Soul Mate. And if you consistently do that, the people who will gravitate to you will be enormously satisfying in nature." pg. 43
"Think about what you want in a relationship and why you want it. Look for those around you who are experiencing good relationships, and feel appreciation for them. Make lists of the positive aspects of those you have spent time with. . . In fact, one of the fastest ways to make you way to a wonderful relationship is to find any subject that consistently feels good, and focus on that even if it has nothing to do with relationships." pg. 43
Book: borrowed from Richmond Branch Library.