But do you Appreciate what is?

Guest: I’d love to be able to physically move something without touching it. Is the process the same?

Abraham: It is. It is. But can you do that now?

Guest: No, not yet.

Abraham: So, how does it feel to not be able to do something you
want to do?

Guest: Not terrible its just that I haven’t been able to figure it out yet.

Abraham: But, do you appreciate what is?

Guest: I think so. I don’t think I’m hung up on it.

Abraham: Think about what we’re saying though. Do you appreciate the fact that you can create through thought and things do take shape? Do you appreciate the fact that you can pick it up and move it from place to place? Do you appreciate the fact that it exists?

Do you appreciate the fact that you can move it from here to over here? Do you appreciate the fact that you live in a time-space reality where there is that relationship, that spatial relationship? Do you appreciate the spatial relationship that currently exists? Do you appreciate your ability to perceive as you currently do?

Guest: Maybe not quite to that extreme. (audience laughter)

Abraham: When you appreciate your current spatial relationship then you can evolve to an improved spatial relationship to your liking. But as long as you are saying: I want to perform that and it is magic. And the reason I call it magic (those are the words that we are applying), the reason I am calling it something abnormal is because it’s a different perspective of a spatial relationship. And we say: You can’t have an improved spatial relationship without feeling INTENSE appreciation for the current spatial relationship that you have.

(Abraham picks up a book and handles it.) So as you handle things, as you perceive them, as you adore them, as you let the feeling of your body interpret them. As you close your eyes and feel what they are you can identify something by its feel without even seeing it can’t you? And when you see it – oh! What an improvement in that spatial relationship! When you hear it (Abe flips the pages of the book for sound). Taste it (Abe licks the book and audience laughs). Smell it. In other words, this is a tactile thing that you are interpreting through your physical senses. So how expansive can your physical senses be?

And what we are saying to you is: Your physical senses cannot evolve to something beyond what is – without an intense appreciation of what they now are. And there is enough lack in that desire to do something you can’t do, to keep you from ever doing it.

So you’ve got to give up that feeling of lack. You can’t feel lackful about the lover and you can’t feel lackful about the house and you can’t feel lackful about not being able to physically move something from place to place. And when you get over that you can do anything.

Guest: I feel like I have just internalized that so much thank you.

From the workshop in San Francisco, CA on 7/28/07