Abraham: Words Don't Teach Me; Life Experience Does

A couple of friends from the current kitchen window sill who will be packed away while our new kitchen manifests.

If I want to know where I am currently vibrating, all I really have to do is to see what it is I am currently manifesting. It is always a match, no exceptions. And while that is very good news, sometimes it takes me a while to stop observing the current unwanted manifestation long enough to change my current pattern of thought. When I'm out of the Vortex, it seems like I can hardly remember a thing about how to get back in. Simple and beautiful things like:


-I don't have to think about this right now.


-I'm doing that thing that I do (that keeps me out of the Vortex); aren't I precious?


-I'm having a Step 1 (asking)moment; this will make Step 3 (allowing) even sweeter.


-You're welcome, Universe! (It is our asking, after all, that expands the Universe.)


-I am where I am. (Acceptance)


-17 seconds (Holding a thought that brings relief for as little as 17 seconds attracts more thoughts like it.)


-68 seconds (Holding a thought for 68 seconds resets our current vibration.)


I'm in the Vortex often enough that when I'm out lately (and this is very good news, really) I feel a little like this young woman (whom I absolutely adore for asking this question):
http://tinyurl.com/HairBlowingBack


And sometimes it takes me a while to get back in because I am human, just like Esther:
http://tinyurl.com/EstherSoldOutBook


And when I get back in, it feels so fantastically fabulous that I bless all those OOV experiences, all of those Step 1 moments, because that is how I really learn. I am also reminded how much I learn from all the young people with whom I interact in all the classrooms I visit. And sometimes I remember how much I have learned from my own son who has always had the courage to disregard so much of what I tried to teach him from outside the Vortex. The young woman in the following clip reminded me so much of my son that it moved me to tears of joy:

http://tinyurl.com/ThisS-IsAmazing

And it made me laugh in appreciation of what it is I used to believe about getting a job: Get up early; dress for the job; apply for every job you have time to apply for that day. When I tried to teach that strategy to my job-seeking son, he simply replied, "Mom, why would I apply for a job I don't want?" Touch

é!

I recently had plans to visit Portland. While I was planning to have fun, I mixed into my vibration some dutiful, responsible, adult thoughts about what I "should" accomplish (shoulding all over myself). Luckily my inner being just would not cooperate and kept calling me to thoughts of relaxation, renewal, invigoration and just pure FUN. Oh, I tried to ignore the call of Source, but it was just too powerful that morning as I arose without an alarm after sleeping as much as my body desired. I stayed in the shower for a LONG time enjoying the water pouring over my head. I chatted with my body as I welcomed me back into areas I had been ignoring. I basked and dawdled and fussed over myself, experiencing almost intoxicating doses of self-appreciation. I remembered that life is supposed to be good and that it is REALLY good when you feel your way into the Vortex. Every time I had a thought about time or commitment or duty or pleasing anyone but myself, I said things like: 

"There is no hurrying in the Vortex." 

and

"Things always work out for me." 

and 

"Feeling good is THE most important thing I have to do."

And when I called my son to tell him that I would be there in an hour, he confirmed that it was the perfect time for me to arrive.

Here are a few things that I lined up with that day:

-a brand new pressure cooker (instruction booklet included) for $10.00. What is remarkable is that the day before I had seen an ad for an upcoming sale on a pressure cooker. I had pinned the ad to a bulletin board in my kitchen. 

-a short visit with two amazing little folks (grandkids of a longtime acquaintance) whom I found adorable and entertaining 

-a very long conversation with a 91-year-old man whom I met, ironically enough, in the clock section of the store. 

-And when I finally made it to a favorite sushi restaurant it was packed. I signed in on a very long waiting list. I noticed that I was the only party of one and that there was one seat at the bar. I asked the waiter and he said it was their policy to make people wait their turn. I began to hear some negative thoughts arise, but I also heard him say, "It's really up to the hostess." A woman who overheard the conversation approached me and wanted to commiserate about how unjust she felt this policy was. I told her that I was going to chat with the hostess (I didn't tell her that I was also making the decision to step away from the negative thinking--both hers and mine). I asked the hostess if I could take the single seat at the bar and (you guessed it) she said, "Sure! Have a seat."

ASK AND IT IS GIVEN!

*I am going to spend some time in the Vortex thinking about how much I appreciate a consistent font.

 

 

Abraham: Vortextual Recipes for Split Peas and Elder Fashionistas

Wish I'd "styled" the soup bowl a little. This is the OMG version of the recipe that follows. Split pea soup is not the most beautiful of soups until you actually put it in your mouth. That's why I put it next to my gorgeous and beautiful-sounding singing bowl I recently purchased from Goodwill for $3.99. I often say to myself when I am shopping thrift stores: "I always get the best stuff."
And so it is.

This blogpost takes a departure from previous Vortex Diaries. So many things put me into the Vortex--it's not just Abraham for me as I am sure it is not for you all. I recently dabbled in some contrast and Abraham is right--it feels worse to be OOV now than it used to and you can't go back to not knowing how good it feels to be in the Vortex. So today I feel WONDERFUL!!!!


Susan Powter currently focuses on what she perceives to be threatening and scary about government and politics and reality. I try to ignore all that by seeing her through the eyes of source and because I know that so many of us have patterns of activation like that and because who she really is creates amazing recipes. I've always loved split pea soup and with our recent cool weather, have craved it. So when she meandered through her version on a podcast I decided to try it. I rarely follow a recipe exactly because I've devised ways to cut prep and cooking times.


Susan Powter's original recipe:

3-4 cloves garlic finely chopped

6 onions diced

olive oil--a few tablespoons

salt

pepper

chicken bouillon--a couple of cubes

a lot of dried split peas (3-4 cups probably)

Saute the garlic in a large pan in the olive oil for a few minutes. Add onions, salt and pepper  and saute until the onions are tender. Sprinkle split peas over the top thickly. Add water and bouillon. Cook until peas are tender or obliterated--you decide.

What I did:

5 onions diced

5 T minced garlic (or more--I get the minced garlic in water from Winco)

4 T (maybe that much--probably less) olive oil

1 tsp salt

3/4 C fake chicken broth from Life Source

The garlic, onions, salt and olive oil get cooked at 50% power in microwave in black silicone pan for about 20-25 min. I check after 15 to stir and adjust seasoning. You can use a ceramic bowl for this, of course--just make sure it's covered. I used to do my onions on high, but I think they're better cooked more slowly.

I boil 2 pots of water in electric tea kettle. I turn the crockpot on high. I put "a lot" of split peas into the boiling water (3-4 cups).

I add the cooked onions. I cover and leave it overnight and probably for a couple of hours after I get up.

Variations:

For the first OMG version, I added these ingredients (to taste) to the onion mixture before nuking:

Balsamic Vinegar

Honey

Other assorted vinegars

For the second OOOMG version I added these ingredients (to taste) to the onion mixture before nuking:

Balsamic Vinegar

Honey

Other assorted vinegars

Kirin (sweet cooking wine)

Red chili flakes

Cayenne

This soup just keeps getting better each time I tinker with the recipe. 

And another thing that absolutely rocked my world is this COOL blog by Ari Seth Cohen. It's called Advanced Style and it is AMAZING. I found out about it when Rice Freeman-Zachary tweeted about it and linked to her blog, where she features a very cool podcast interview with Cohen. It's the April 19th post:

http://voodoonotes.blogspot.com

While I listened I surfed over to Cohen's blog and was delighted:

http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com

And of course I cannot leave the Vortex without offering some Abraham links:

http://tinyurl.com/BlissThroughoutDay

This is a very long Abraham clip I promised to folks from the fabulous Abraham Meetup group put together by Kerie Logan (check out her website listed on the side bar--she is brilliant):

http://tinyurl.com/LaterGatorNorthLA

Nos vemos en La Vortex. (I don't know if it's masculine or feminine in there, but I'll default to the femme.

Abraham: When to Deconstruct Thought

I heard, for the first time back in my 12-Step days, the admonition to stop "shoulding all over myself". The 90's overflowed with revelations to the then-nascent part of me that suspected that I am a Divine and lovable being. I began to realize that the giant flaws I perceived in myself did not actually exist. It was just that I listened almost constantly to a looping soundtrack of my own voice endlessly repeating negative statements made about me by others. I kept on hand also, a film library, showing actual footage of events I perceived to be the embarrassing, humiliating "truth" about me. I repeat this distillation of my old story today to revel in its absurdity and to celebrate its demise--and to acknowledge that all of that Step One asking made way for the joy I can feel today when I catch myself doing just a little bit of "shoulding" on myself.


The process of deliberate creation almost sounds like an action journey. And while action plays a huge part in deliberate creation, only inspired action taken while in the Vortex harnesses the power that creates worlds. I offer no further detail of the events that led me to remember to "get into the Vortex and then...."  I offer instead that which I found after I followed that Divine call of Source Energy:


http://tinyurl.com/Deconstruct-Not-Rampage

Our new kitchen, currently on display in the Vortex.

Abraham: Do Only What You Want To Do

Fake Flowers Can Be Beautiful

I awakened today without an alarm at 6:21 AM. I thought I had set my alarm, which would have roused me an hour and six minutes earlier, but I did so in the dark of midnight. I inadvertantly gave my body exactly as much sleep as it wanted. I was not called by the sub office. It is, after all, just two days before spring vacation, and teacher contracts disallow taking time off just before or after a break. I have some tasks that, just a short time ago, I would have referred to as "things I need to accomplish" or as "things I've got to do". Obligations, it is generally agreed by society at large, are part and parcel of everyday life. Abraham don't play that. Lately, as evidenced by the newest workshops I'm hearing via those genius creators who upload brilliantly hand-picked selections to YouTube, Abraham is reminding us why we came here. We came here as genius creators in order to experience the joy of creation and to expand the Universe and to have fun in the doing of it.

And to think I was just about to dive into my tasks without getting solidly into the Vortex! I congratulate myself in this moment because instead of diving in while not quite in the Vortex, I instead got myself right over to my YouTube channel and began listening to Abraham. I listened to a short excerpt and felt my vibration rising. MMMMMM......DELICIOUS! I let my intuition guide me to another video from the fabulous Saraksan, even though I had listened to this particular video on my phone at work already. Its title, "Do Only What You Want To Do" enticed me. As often happens when I just listen, Abraham's words and powerful vibration called me into the Vortex, and here I am, once again, speaking to you from inside. I love myself when I'm in here. I love all of you when I'm in here. I love Abraham when I'm in here. And as I milk it and bask a bit and check into my body, here's what I find:

-a soft white glow pulsing inside the front perimeter of my trunk 
-a pleasant walnut-shaped pressure at the base of my throat
-a warm blue buzz inside my skull just beneath my forehead

It's so nice in here in the Vortex. I invite you all to find your way in. It might not be this video that does it, but you'll find a way:

http://tinyurl.com/DoOnlyWhatYouWant

And here's the best thing of all. Now I don't "need" to do anything. Now I want to.

Abraham: Letting Things Happen

HYDRANGEA AFTER SNOW.

In bliss and on my way out of town for the day. Got hit between the eyes (think shaktiput) by a passage from some Abraham I listened to yesterday. So, I have less and less to say lately and will just pass on this passage and a link with very little explanation. I trust that those who seek this information will not only find their way here, they will understand what is published here is an offering that could sweep them into the Vortex. So, here is the excerpt:


"We can allow ourselves through practice of releasing resistance to be that broader perspective (of Source energy)...and when you begin walking around in this physical body, this perception will give meaning--quantifiable, measurable feelings of expansion-- to that nonphysical energy that is tangible and understandable and even something that can be conversed with others. But the source that is you is having all of those experiences too. When you feel thrilled, when you feel love, it is because you have rendezvoused with Source. Source isn't faking love. When you have that feeling that moves through you, you've rendezvoused with the way Source is feeling right now. And the reason that Source is feeling it right now is; better stated: the reason that you are feeling Source feel it right now--did you get the distinction--the reason that you are feeling Source feel it right now is because in that moment you have created the circumstances and you have established the rendezvous point for the expansiveness of that which is Source to have that moment in time of love. That is really why we are all in this together, you see. We are all in this together. You are not here as puppets on a string; and you are not here as unworthy-trying-to-become-worthy appendages of that which is Source. You are Source in physical body focused with the deliberate intention of exploring and expanding. We cannot find, no matter how we focus upon that which you are, we cannot find separation between that which is you and that which is us. But you find it occasionally and you don't feel good when you do."


And here is the link to the YouTube video from which this is excerpted:


http://tinyurl.com/Esther-sSoul-OurSouls


And for even more deliciousness, find out what Abraham says about deadlines:


http://tinyurl.com/LesBontempsRoulez


I have started really enjoying naming my own tiny URL's so that I can keep track of the amazing material I find online. A shout out to my son for turning me on to Evernote about a year ago. I'm just beginning to appreciate the power of this amazing program that syncs notes from your phone to your computer and vice-versa. It's a wonderful tool for organizing all my Abraham links and excerpts and info I want access to at any time. I'm also in love with my Android--the Samsung Vibrant--because it is so fast and so beautiful and light and, well, I'm just appreciating.


Oh, and when you listen to the deadline video, just know that I have made a decision, like Jerry did, to just quit trying to make things happen and just let things happen. My life in the last month has been leading me to that decision and that video was just the push I needed. 


Get into the Vortex and then......

ANYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE TIME FOR!!!!

Abraham: Get Into the Vortex, Then Anything Else I Have Time For

Pretty Beads

As I wrote to you from the Vortex yesterday, I sat in my soft warm clothing typing away until around 11:30 AM. I knew I had a journey ahead of me that day and I had a rough idea of the amount of time it would take to get there. I also had a list of email addresses to add to the "Blog Readers" group I notify when I post. I also make it a practice to get over to HootSuite, a cool little service that autoposts to Twitter and Facebook for me when I tell it that I've blogged. Of course I wanted to shower, dress and groom for my destination and I wanted to accomplish all of this while staying in the Vortex. 


My fabulous partner came by the doorway and perhaps because he observed me typing away at that particular time, made mention of the actual amount of time it would take to drive to our destination. It was a longer time than I had budgeted for realistically AND I was still "IN" as I thought something along the lines of "There's no need to hurry in the Vortex."


I jumped out for just a minute to think, "Yeah, right," caught myself and reaffirmed the previous thought. I did speed through editing and revision a bit, and noticed later that I missed a few things which I took care of last night after we got home, but we left at just about the right time. I had a couple crankier thoughts about how far away it was and how much time it would take and others of the wah-wah variety but they were fleeting because my vibration won't descend far without my notice these days. To compensate, I jumped quickly back to "Did you lose a cat?"* and I was back in the Vortex.


For a WONDERFUL lesson in training your vibration, go to the Abraham videos homebuiltindoorplane posted on YouTube today (especially Pt. 2):


http://tinyurl.com/Abraham-Acc-ts-ReceivablePt-1


http://tinyurl.com/Abraham-Acc-ts-ReceivablePt-2


So here we are now, me behind the wheel and definitely in the Vortex, fabulous partner beside me, a little of all kinds of weather--crispy cold, sunny, cloudy, and, as always here in Oregon, a chance of rain, and off we go. I'm thinking of all the pleasant events of the last day or so, and am even distracted enough to forget for a minute that I'm going south on the freeway instead of my usual north. But fabulous partner is there to remind me and he doesn't seem the least bit stressed about it and as I hit the freeway something in me just clicks and I'm even happier. We've got the radio on and the reception isn't great and fabulous partner says, oh, it's just this hill and once we're over it reception will be great and this guy plays some really good music, so we turn down the radio and chat. We begin to take in the scenery and I'm happy to be in the Vortex to appreciate the bare trees against the blue, blue sky. In fact it's been this winter and being in the Vortex so much that I've decided I love winter's exposure of deciduous architecture just as much as the same trees in their leafy wardrobes. We get up over the hill and yes, there's the music. And it's the blues to contrast with the sun spreading in perfection over the broad acid green fields to our right.  Enhancing our journey as well are at least five large hawks, a number of kestrels and even a gigantic bald eagle swooping right over our roof. I insist on keeping count and laughingly high-fiving every sighting. We're enjoying it all. At one point it's spring to our left and winter on our right where the hills are foggy and snow-capped and beautiful. 


And despite our slightly tight schedule, fabulous partner reads my mind and suggests we stop for a coffee along the way. It takes but a minute and we're back on the road with our journey-enhancing beverages and an increasingly vibrant soundtrack. We're both car-dancing a little when I remember how to milk being in the vortex. I keep the music up loud and I yell out the components of what's making this a Vortextual experience.


"It's the sunlight," I say, "and the music playing and the feel of the air on my skin. It's you and me smiling and the colors around us and the taste of this Chai."


And the milking is really working, because the slinky song we're listening to with its cool vocals playing off a really nice percussion line begins to move into a beautiful scorching build that leads to one of the most beautiful guitar solos we've ever heard up to now. And it just goes on and on ascending into places only a guitar player can take you and we're right there with it. We're flying by gorgeous scenery and being amazing cooperative components in our Vortexes in a beautiful Sunday moment on the freeway in Oregon.


"And that was Buddy Guy," says the announcer, which surprises me. I don't really remember Buddy Guy being that lyrical a player. 


"And that was Carlos Santana on guitar."


Of course it was. Carlos Santana is my favorite guitar player and I've been in the Vortex with him numerous times in my life. (You can hear part of the solo here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p6C4Fg_GXU
but I think you'll have to buy the album to hear the whole thing.)


Does it get any better than this? Yeah, if you keep milking it, it does. I have enough evidence by now to know that the Universe will knock itself out to provide you with anything you desire when you're in the Vortex. You are, after all, in there with the power that creates worlds, and the leverage of the Vortex is at your disposal.


Suddenly it's raining. Hard. I slow to negotiate the road and realize that I like being warm and dry inside our comfy vehicle. The pelting quiets slightly and I yell, "These are perfect conditions for a rainbow. I bet we're gonna see one. I know we are."


I turn my head slightly to my left and there they are. Two of them. It's a double freaking rainbow, people. Double rainbow! I barely get the sentence out of my mouth and the Universe has delivered to me in real time a DOUBLE RAINBOW! And I'm yelling now, just like the guy on the viral video.** "Double rainbow. Oh, my God. Double rainbow."

I'm laughing and I'm high-fiving and I'm fuh-reaking out inside the Vortex. Not only am I a cooperative component with one of the biggest jackpots that nature has to offer, so is my fabulous partner. It's almost too much to stand, but it isn't. It isn't because I'm beginning to expect all this useless beauty. Beauty that has no purpose other than to please me as I drive south on the freeway on a Sunday afternoon. Beauty that is there in my Vortex at all times awaiting me. Beauty that serves me in such specific ways that I know it is just for me because I am loved and adored and, as Abraham says so often, I am doing very, very well. 


  

*See yesterday's blog, "Swept Into The Vortex"  

** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

Abraham: SWEPT INTO THE VORTEX

I come to you once again from inside the Vortex. I just listened to another homebuiltindoorplane Abraham video and right in the middle got swept into the Vortex powerfully. I'm doing a lot more tracking of my own physical sensations lately because I'm practicing Somatic Experiencing with so many people lately, and I want to remember to track the wonderful sensations I feel when I am in the Vortex and milking it. As I sit here on my couch with my computer warming my lap and think about the segment of the Abraham excerpt that swept me in a few minutes ago, here are some of the sensations I am experiencing in my body:


-a warm surging tug on the right side of my "heart"
-a line of pleasant pressure spreading up my left ear canal and into my jaw
-a sensation of airy shimmering in my chest region


And as I track those sensations, many more arise around different parts of my body. The pleasant sensations expand and multiply and contribute to the milking process. Now I'm feeling a lovely pressing on my right temple and my forehead is warm.


If I attempt to use words to describe what it's like in the Vortex, I'm often at a loss. Yes, I am excited, I am interested, I am playful, joyful and expansive, but I've often felt that I could convey what it's like in here more clearly. What I notice when I track sensation is that I then create an even larger capacity for pleasant sensations. That is, of course, one of the tenets of Somatic Experiencing. Peter Levine's new book is even called "In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness", which I think is a wonderful concept. Restoring goodness is so simple and so basic and we all want to feel good. One of the things I LOVE about Peter Levine is that he frames thing in such positive terms. I think that speaking of restoring goodness is a very Abraham approach, so yet another shout out to one of my modern-day heroes, Dr. Levine. In my SE training, another very Abraham-like thing we learned was to envision clients as having all that they needed to restore this goodness. We even experimented with holding other, perhaps more typical client-practitioner thoughts of a lower vibration as we worked with partners. This was done in total silence. We simply stood behind the person and thought the lower vibe thoughts and then discussed the affects and then beamed the higher vibrations at them from our heart areas. Dramatically different feeling! And wonderful training.


When I'm practicing SE, I'm really striving to see people through the eyes of Source, which is basically what we were doing in that exercise. It's more than "striving" because it simply happens and I'm sure that this is why I get into the Vortex as I work with people. I hadn't recalled until recently how good it felt to simply be beheld by my own counselor during our SE sessions. She used to just look at me and smile, which took some getting used to, but which became a wonderful part of our sessions.  


So, when you get into the Vortex, experiment a little with tracking the sensations that go with the good-feeling emotions and thoughts and I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it.


Oh, yes, and here's the YouTube link:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2f_bLKjfbo

I especially like this excerpt from the Albuquerque workshop because I've heard questions recently about how to deal with other people as you work to raise your own vibration and to stay up to speed with your new vibrational setpoint. I think there's some cool info in this segment.


I want to examine from a purely positive vantage point how contrast has served me in an extremely beautiful way in the last 18 hours or so. I want to do it in such a way that I don't tell a negative story, which is ironic, because the contrast came as a result of dipping into my old story. The fantastic news is that I felt the vibrational indicators right away and when I delayed paying attention for a very short time, they very rapidly manifested physically. I think that is fantastic news because to me it says that I spend enough time in the Vortex these days that I get these manifestations like lightning and the even better news is that I can figure out how to focus my thoughts and bring myself around to an even better-feeling place than where I was before the unwanted physical manifestation.


To backtrack just slightly I will say that for a very long time I have imagined being in a room with a whole lot of like-minded people having a good time co-creating fun and talking about Abraham and related teachers and subjects. I had a wonderful opportunity to experience that yesterday and I found it to be energizing and expansive. I have had, up to now, a tendency to illustrate my joy in where my life is today by talking about how bad my life used to be. And while I didn't go into great detail yesterday about my old story, I made reference to it numerous times. Last night, just a few hours afterward, I began experiencing a small twinge at one site on my body. This twinge quickly grew into quite a strong sensation of tugging in that area of my body. I am smiling as I enjoy the wisdom of my body in using tugging as an attention-getting mechanism. How cool is that?


I will not go into any more detail than that because to do so would be focusing on a manifestation that I did not want--I will simply not tell that story. The story I want to tell is that it got my attention; I cleaned up my vibration with, in small part, some physical methods that have served me in the past, but in much larger part, with directed thinking. So, yes, I did direct my attention to other, better-feeling parts of my body. I did use some tracking of the tugging sensation. I did some soothing and stretching of my physical body. And most importantly, I made statements like:


"I've experienced physical contrast before and it has always cleared up."


"I don't need to label this as anything more than a strong sensation I'm temporarily experiencing."


"This will probably improve very rapidly because I noticed this right away. And better yet, I'm very clear about the thoughts that preceded this physical manifestation." 


"Oh, I adore my body and its ability to get my attention with these blessed vibrational indicators."


"I can easily soothe myself  out of resistance to the powerful current of the stream of good health that flows never-endingly."

The sensation subsided beautifully and when I noticed a twinge this morning as I awoke, I decided to bask and to stir up some fun with my partner. We've been enjoying a "photo" called "Did You Lose A Cat?" a lot lately:

"Did you lose a cat?"

While we lay in bed, me with my little twinge, he half-asleep, I said, "Say something funny."


"Did you lose a cat?" he replied.


We laughed and laughed. And then we riffed in our comedic Vortex. We are not appropriate in there. I won't repeat ANY of the stupid-cool-dumb things that made us howl. We just have that special chemistry together that enables us to co-create gut-busting, tears-down-the-face laughter at 6 AM on a Sunday. 


And the twinge? Gone in the gales.