On Struggle, Abraham Hicks

You can't get there from there - you just have to cool your jets, stop trying so hard, stop offering so much effort, do more meditating, and get more satisfied until those thoughts occur to you. That's just the way it has to be because when you feel that frustration of "I know that I want something, but I just don't know what it is, and I don't know where I'm going to find it, and I don't know how to get there,” you can just tell that story forever and feel like that forever.

Or you can say "Hey, I'm starting to get this - I filled my Vortex full of things, and those things are present.

For some reason (because I'm beating the drum of where I am) I'm not letting myself catch on, I'm not receiving the impulse. But I could." Can you feel the difference in that?

What struggle is (and you're depicting some struggle) is trying to fix it through action, trying to think it through. You're not going to think this through, you're not going to figure it out with thought. You're not going to think your way into a solution. So now we want to talk about the difference between a thought you think and a thought you receive. They are different.

You could be right in the middle of physical manifestations that you don't want and oh, boy, you're having thoughts. "I don't like you, and I don't like you, and I don't like you, and that was wrong, and that was bad, and this is unfair, and this shouldn't have happened." You're thinking thoughts. You're not receiving them from Source Energy, but you're thinking them.

So what you want to do is get to a place where you can receive thoughts. And the first manifestations are these emotions that you maybe can't even put into words - the feeling of relief, the feeling of freedom, the feeling that it's going to be OK. You can't figure out how - it's too soon to put all of that into place - but you just feel like it's going to be OK. And then you meditate another day, and you still feel like it's going to be OK.

And then you meditate another day and then you have a thought, a clear thought about something that just feels good to you when you think it. And that's when you start saying "I'm coming back to life. My life is coming back to me. I'm rejuvenated." And if you can just stay on that trend just for a little while - we're talking about days or a couple of weeks - then it begins opening to you and off you go.

But the struggle can last forever when you try to think your way through stuff, because oh, you have so many things to think about, and there are so many people who want to tell you what to think, and that are thinking about what you're thinking about. And then there's all that conflict about who's right about what you're thinking about.

~Abraham speaking in Boca Raton, FL on April 1, 2017