How can We Affect People and Situations We Don't Know

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Permalink Reply by Delicia on September 10, 2009 at 12:53pm

This is a very interesting post and something I would like to know too. If it's all about our thoughts and what we attract, then how do we explain seemingly confusing, random, negative situations we find ourselves? Did Alison attract these things and if so how? How could she have avoided this strange man yelling at her for no reason or her canceled contract? Is it karma balancing things out? I have often found myself thinking how I attracted good or bad situations that I know for a fact I did not focus on or put out into the universe purposely.
Can anyone offer an explanation of some kind?
Thank you!
Blessed be!

Permalink Reply by Grace on July 28, 2010 at 9:08am

Abraham says explicitly that it's not the thoughts, but the feelings that go with the thought. A thought without feelings has no power.

Abraham also was asked re: karma and said there's no such thing.

Perhaps A felt a tad bad because there was no bin and leaving the plastic bag in the gutter - legal or not, I don't know, but I don't care - somehow completely defeats the purpose.

At any rate, we may not attract specific bad situations (though we can do that, too, if we keep on thinking about them and feeling really bad about them) and we may not attract them instantly, either. Only A can give clues.

Permalink Reply by Theresa Laura Morgan on September 10, 2009 at 1:02pm

I do understand what your saying. I believe that we can have some situations that we wouldn't want to be in but I think it's how we respond when something happens. It depends on our feelings and if we dwell on the negative feelings. It's important once we find ourselves thinking something that's not going to benefit us in the long run, we should change it to something positive at once. Think of something that will make you happy (anything). I've been doing good with this. Once you find yourself changing your attitude more, you'll find yourself experiencing more positive things in your life. Let me know if this helps you.

Permalink Reply by Susan on September 10, 2009 at 1:53pm

Hi, I was trying to figure that one out my self this morning. I had an 2 irrate people one after the other yesterday and I was in great form before I was confronted with them. I was signing away to the radio and feeling generally great, when I was calling to my local school to hand in some leaftlets. The main gate was locked or so it seemed so I proceeded to do a 3 point turn to head away and come back another day, when all of a sudden this man started coming at me by foot saying that turning on this road was highly illegal (cul de sac), and when I asked him if he knew another way of getting out he said I could have to the gate and state my business and if it was ok then he could leave me in. I stated my business and he said ok so, (this is an odrinary primary school) and said in a cross tone please do not delay in there. Then the secretary didnt react very nicely either so it left me wondering what had I done to attract this kind of behaviour. Then a saying came to mind "How other people treat me is their path. How I react is mine". Kind of good eh. Hope this helps. Susan

Permalink Reply by Taylor Kingrea on September 10, 2009 at 2:34pm

i think a good way of thinking about this might be to say that you were a catalyst to that other persons opportunity to learn about him or herself...oooor...the universe is presenting you with an opportunity to learn more about waht you've been thinking or how you can change what you've ben thinking, has there been a pattern of negative experiences leading up to this or was this a seemingly isolated event? you seem to not be aware of any negative thinking that wouldattract such an unpleasant expereince, which is fine, becasue you can change your thinking NOW and are in the NOW like abraham says....i mean...it doesnt matter anymore about what you WERE thinking becasue from here on out you'll probably be more aware of both negative and postiive thoughts in the future that could've attracted the man. i think the goal is not to worry about hte negative experiences,but to re-create ourselves from them!

Permalink Reply by Robinlynn on September 11, 2009 at 9:07pm

My experience tells me that some people will be offended no matter what... you know the type they complain like it's an addiction personally I don't give them any more energy than necessary..which is .brief ...then let it go Maybe in that situation you were the blessing for that person to witness

Permalink Reply by alison on September 13, 2009 at 7:48pm

Thanks everyone, all interesting replies. Yes I think probably the most important thing is how we handle these situations and not to dwell on it and as my friend say's, when she experiences negativity from others "thank God we're not all like that".
So I'm gathering the best thing to do is just get back to feeling good in the now, as quickly as possible.

Thanks again, love and light x

Permalink Reply by Meeee on November 29, 2009 at 2:59pm

I was having these issues as well, and then started Pre-Paving situations before I set out.
Example: Every time I get into my car I take a minute to sit in a focused state of intending what I want to happen (in a good emotional space) – I say, how much I appreciate my auto and its smooth running and reliable, how I will have loving like minded drivers on the road, I will see only good fun happenings and positive people as I do my errands and I want to be fully aware of myself and my surroundings…. Only takes a couple of minutes while the car is warming up and it started making a giant difference in my outings. I only meet fun, nice people. I don’t run into idiot drivers, I hit all green lights – cool happenings, etc…. So I know it works. If I do run into issues, I re-check my thoughts, or attitude, and come to find that I was putting out hostel, grouchy, hurried vibes. Yeap! We do create it all – I have tested time and time again, and it is 100% meeee. But you have to start by wanting to pay close attention to your own self first otherwise you will not see it or that you did come off crossways.

Permalink Reply by Amy on December 12, 2009 at 10:27pm

I don't feel as if it is 100% weee or meee in how people act and react. That's putting the whole worlds issues on YOUR shoulders and I think that is upstream thinking. I tend to agree that these things will happen as lessons on how we react and help us fine tune our emotional skills. Do we allow them to throw us off of our center. How quickly can we align back on the emotional scale and get back into the vortex etc...

Permalink Reply by Yassai Mockinbird on December 21, 2009 at 2:32pm

what wonderful answers! thanx

Permalink Reply by Ingebirds on June 23, 2010 at 9:32pm

I have to agree with Amy :)

Permalink Reply by brandy ryan on February 4, 2010 at 11:48pm

hi Alison :)
you attract more of what you give your attention to. in cases like this, pay little or no attention to these ppl. if you continually focus all the nice, helpful, positive ppl you encounter, you'll attract more of that. take 10 seconds to be irritated by this guy and then let it go - completely!!

I really believe that we create everything 100% 100%, and that things don't happen to us because of karma or because of negative lessons. this in fact makes me feel very powerful!
don't be worried about or take into your energy what anyone else is doing. just be focus on your own energy/response and the way you feel. soon you won't even run into this type of person. yayyy!

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