Does success have to involve hard work? Or can we attract it with little effort? This queston was posed in an online forum recently, and unsuprisingly – given that it was a ‘mainstream’ type board – the majority of replies voted in favour of hard work. That view is the most common in western culture, especially in those areas where a Puritan work ethic prevails. But the fact that a majority believe something doesn’t necessarily make it correct.
Attraction is Primary
Success (defined here as the manifestation of desired results, whether in …

This is a common question in social situations. While it might just be seen as an inconsequential small talk, on par with commenting on the weather, I’ve always found the implications of this question disturbing, and I was glad to hear a recent Abraham CD address the issue. Here are some reasons why the question not as innocuous as it seems, and what you can do, if, like me, you find it annoying and intrusive.
Why should a person be defined by their job/career?
There is a tendency to use a person’s …

One theme that comes up again and again in the ‘new age’/self-help genre is that life is primarily about growth, and that life gives us ‘lessons’ or (even worse) ‘tests’, in the form of negative experiences, and that the path to success (as we define it) is littered with this kind of experience. And I’ve always thought that idea was a load of BS, even before discovering Abraham’s joy-centered perspective. It’s true that we can learn from any experience, and if we experience something not to our liking, it’s certainly …

An Old Limiting Belief
One old thought pattern I’ve found to be a bit persistent is the idea that some degree of unpleasantness in life is somehow necessary – the old ‘you must struggle/suffer in order to grow/accomplish want you want’ type scenario. Or even if it’s not necessary, it’s unavoidable – bad things happen to everyone, right?
And, like everyone, I’d prefer to avoid painful experiences, but at one point in my Abraham work I even uncovered a belief that if my life becomes really great on every level, then something …