Attract Abundance, Health and Love by Mastering Your Feelings

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Read your own feelings as a real-time compass. They tell you whether your current thinking is drawing in what you want, or drawing you away from it. Learning to trust that signal, moment to moment, is the practice at the centre of this collection. It applies with equal weight to financial ease, physical vitality, and the quality of the people around you.

Read Your Feelings as a Working Compass

  • Read your own feelings as a real-time guide to whether your thinking is drawing you toward what you want.
  • Catch a negative pattern early, while it is still just a feeling, before it becomes a habit or a symptom.
  • Attract financial ease through a felt sense of expectancy rather than through effort alone.
  • Support your body's own restorative capacity through consistently redirected, better-feeling thought.
  • Shift what a relationship consistently shows you by adjusting your own dominant expectation of it.
  • Redirect attention toward a wanted outcome instead of dwelling on an unwanted one.
  • Build a repeatable daily habit from a handful of simple, five-minute practices.

Reading Feeling Instead of Words

Every subject you can think about has two versions. Its wanted presence and its unwanted absence. Health and illness are the same subject approached from opposite directions. Abundance and lack are the same subject too. Connection and loneliness follow the identical pattern. The words you use do not reveal which version currently has your attention. Someone might say "I want more money" while feeling anxious about not having enough. That person is dwelling on the lack side of the subject, not the abundance side. The feeling present in the moment is the clearest sign of which one is active. This makes feeling a useful diagnostic. It does not rely on being honest about your words, only about how a thought actually feels as you think it.

An inner Emotional Guidance System (your feelings read as real-time signals of whether a thought matches your own deeper wisdom) makes this distinction easy to use. That wiser part of you is sometimes called the Inner Being (the broader, calmer part of you that holds a clear view of what you actually want). Good feeling means your thought is aligned with it. Uncomfortable feeling means your thought has drifted toward the unwanted version of a subject. The intensity of the discomfort tells you roughly how far the drift has gone. Trusting this signal removes the need to monitor every thought. Thoughts arrive faster than any mind could track one by one. Instead, notice how you feel in a given moment. Redirect toward a slightly better-feeling thought when the feeling calls for it. That alone is enough to shift the overall pattern over time.

Redirecting Attention Instead of Resisting

Redirecting attention toward a wanted outcome works far better than opposing an unwanted one. Worrying about a debt, dreading an illness, or campaigning against a habit all do the same thing. They keep sustained attention fixed on the very thing being resisted. This framework treats that as the reason resistance so often backfires rather than resolving anything. The practical move is not to deny that a real debt, illness, or strained relationship exists. It is to spend more time and feeling on the wanted alternative than on the current situation. Over time the wanted alternative becomes the more familiar one, and the old situation loses its grip on attention. There is a natural buffer of time between a thought and the circumstance it eventually shapes. That gap is the opportunity. It gives you room to notice how a thought feels and redirect it well before it hardens into something you can see.

Financial abundance responds to felt expectancy well before it responds to extra effort. Two people can put in identical work and get very different results. The effort itself is not what money answers to most. Chronic worry about money, or resentment toward people who have more of it, keeps a person tuned to lack no matter how hard they work. A genuine, relaxed expectation that things are flowing tends to draw more flow. One simple daily habit builds this felt sense. Carry a modest amount of cash and mentally spend it many times over through the day, noticing everything it could buy. That trains a real feeling of financial capability rather than a merely hoped-for one. A related exercise, called Positive Aspects (a written list of everything genuinely appreciable about a difficult subject), applies the same principle to a person or situation rather than to money.

Extending the Same Principle to Body and Relationships

Better-feeling thought supports the body's own restorative capacity. This holds whether the issue is weight, a chronic condition, or a fresh injury. Sustained fear, self-criticism, or crisis-focused attention creates a kind of bodily resistance. Consistently redirected thought is described as working with the body rather than against it. A recommended daily practice starts by closing your eyes during whichever part of the day you naturally feel best. Then imagine your body thriving, purely for the pleasure of it rather than to fix a deficiency. That shift in intent changes how effective the practice becomes. Visualising health to escape or correct a problem carries the trace of the problem along with it. Imagining vitality purely for its own enjoyment carries no such trace. That is why the same practice can feel effective for one person and flat for another, depending on the motive driving it.

A relationship's quality shifts in step with your own dominant expectation of it. The qualities a partner, parent, child, or colleague consistently shows you are substantially shaped by the expectation you hold about them. They are not fixed traits entirely independent of your attention. Review everything genuinely appreciable about a person you find difficult, in small and specific detail. That shifts the dominant feeling you bring into every interaction with them. The shifted feeling is what changes what they consistently show you. This is why someone can keep attracting the same kind of difficult relationship even after leaving one behind. The underlying feeling travels with the person until it is deliberately replaced with a different one.

Turning Self-Appreciation into a Daily Habit

Appreciating yourself is one of the most reliable ways into this whole way of feeling. It does not depend on anyone else's approval. It does not wait on your finances improving first, or on a relationship changing before you can feel it. A handful of simple daily tools carry this into practice. Spend ten to fifteen minutes deliberately imagining a wanted outcome until it produces real positive emotion. Pause at the start of a new activity, whether a meal, a commute, or a meeting, and state what is most wanted from that stretch of the day. Name what is not wanted, then immediately ask what is wanted instead. Write down everything genuinely appreciable about a difficult person or situation.

A related bedtime and morning routine ties these together. Review the day's best moments before sleep, then reinforce that same feeling upon waking. This sets the tone for an entire day before its demands even begin. It is described as one of the most powerful and least complicated tools in the whole collection.

Several widely held beliefs are named and corrected along the way. One is the idea that controlling another person's behaviour produces your own wellbeing. Another is that wellbeing must be earned through suffering or achievement. A third is that resources are fundamentally finite and must be competed for. Progress on any of these fronts tends to arrive incrementally rather than all at once. Moving from despair straight to genuine enthusiasm rarely works. Moving from despair to relief, then to contentment, then to hope, is a reliable and achievable sequence. Each small step compounds into a steadier, more consistently positive way of experiencing money, the body, and the people closest to you.

Go deeper with what matters to you

Sustained financial ease, physical wellbeing, and satisfying relationships are rarely a single insight away, and this collection holds specific detail worth knowing at depth. It gives the exact fifteen to twenty minute daily rhythm for the Creative Workshop (a deliberate imagination practice done when you feel best). It maps the incremental emotional scale for reaching a better-feeling thought one step at a time. And it draws the fine line between visualising an outcome for pleasure and doing it to escape a problem. Each of these details changes how well the underlying practice works.

Bring your own questions to chat. Ask about a specific money worry, a health concern, or a relationship that feels stuck, and get answers grounded in this material. You can ask how to apply the Pivoting Process (naming what is not wanted, then asking what is wanted instead) to a situation you face right now. Chat draws on this source alongside every other refined source in the library, so a question spanning more than one of these areas gets a genuinely complete answer.

Where these ideas come from

These ideas come from The Essential Law of Attraction Collection, published by Hay House in 2013. It is credited to Esther Hicks, together with her husband Jerry Hicks. They present the material as originating from a group they call Abraham. Esther Hicks has spent decades sharing this material through recordings, workshops, and books that have reached a wide international readership. Jerry Hicks's own lifelong search for a coherent philosophy of life shaped the question-and-answer format underlying the collection. He co-developed its practical processes until his death in 2011. The original collection is worth reading in full for anyone who wants every dialogue and personal account in its original sequence.

What you read here is our own source, an independent work built from those ideas. Every concept has been studied and then rewritten from scratch and reshaped so it can answer your questions alongside other refined sources. Nothing from the reference work has been copied. The knowledge has been transformed, not reproduced, and the reference is named clearly because the ideas deserve proper credit and because it stands on its own merits.

Added: May 29, 2026


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