For years, I heard Abraham-Hicks teach that the only journey one has to ever make is on the inside — an inner journey.
The first time I heard it, I was extremely skeptical and in disbelief about this claim.
“What do you mean the only journey I have to make is on the inside? Making all these in-ner changes is certainly not going to lead to anything happening on the outside! I need to go out there and start doing something! Now show me what I have to do to get my stuff!”
I continued to be stuck on this point for many years. Until one day I finally real-ized through my life experience that it’s all true. Every bit of it is true. The only journey anyone has to make, to have anything
happen on the outside, is our inner journey on the inside. While that sounds simple enough to do, it is actually the most diffi-cult journey to make… sometimes even more so than any “outer” journey we will ever take because we are dealing with un-chartered territory here. There are no ready maps. Most of us do not even take the time and effort to look inwards and make the much-needed inner changes. That’s why the good most people seek continue to remain out of reach for many of them… they’re un-willing to really look inside and make the in-ner changes. Once you really do the work, no outer actions are necessary to “make” things happen… It is my absolute promise to you.
In the final chapter of this book, I would like to take you through the pro-foundly simple three-part process again and talk about a practical way to deal with prob-lems and issues that crop up throughout the
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day. When you first start practicing the 95-5 Code, the first thing you’ll invariably have to deal with are nagging thoughts of “what if this does not work”, or “am I doing it the right way?” Know that all these thoughts res-ult from past negative conditioning that have been built up over a long period of time.
Hence, even though you may consciously de-cide today to live the 95-5 code, these thoughts will still crop up in your conscious awareness from time to time. How you deal with them makes all the difference. With de-termination and practice, the frequency of these negative interfering thoughts will be reduced… until you hardly get them at all.
For me, I go through my day with very few negative thoughts popping into my conscious awareness. If it does, I quickly acknowledge it, recognize it for what it is, and send it back to where it came from. In other words, I do not entertain the thought nor allow myself to be consumed by it. I do not allow these
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negative thoughts to snowball. So at the be-ginning, you need to ensure that negative thoughts do not get bigger and bigger, until they consume the whole of your awareness.
It is natural to have worry thoughts, or thoughts of things not working out especially if you have been disappointed countless times in the past. The mind always reverts to what it knows and what it is familiar with.
Therefore, it keeps reminding you of the only reality which it has known. Bear in mind that you are on the brink of creating a whole new reality for yourself now that will soon be-come the new reference point. Hence, one practical way to deal with such worry thoughts (as they come up) is to remind yourself that the ‘5’ in the 95-5 code is taking care of all the details. “Everything is being taken care of, and there is nothing else I have to do!”
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Whenever worry or fear thoughts came up for me spontaneously, whenever I found myself drifting off and worrying about whether things were indeed happening on the outside… I would immediately remind myself that the 5% of active manifestation activities I’ve done is taking charge of everything. Keep doing this each time a worry thought crops up for you, and they’ll not even pop up in time to come.
The converse is also true. If you keep allowing yourself to believe in negative thoughts when they come up, results will be slow in coming for you… simply because you have not changed your inner state at all. I es-timate that I probably had to remind myself around twenty to fifty times each day when I first started this process. You have to be re-lentless at changing your inner state if you want lasting changes to happen. Each time thoughts of “what if this doesn’t work” crop
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up, assure yourself that things are being taken care of by the ‘5’ in the 95-5 code…
Then turn your mind away completely. For-get what you have asked for. You have done all the asking, and it is done!
The second practical issue one may have to deal with are actual problems and is-sues that crop up throughout the day. This is different from spontaneous negative thoughts resulting from past conditioning, in that these are related to certain existing con-ditions in your life. For example, you may perceive a problem at work, or have a partic-ular situation that needs to be urgently re-solved. Your perception and noticing of this situation stirs up negative and unpleasant situations within you. Any situation that brings up negative feelings and emotions needs to be resolved, as those negative feel-ings and emotions will interfere with
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physical manifestations in other areas of your life as well… but how do you go about doing so?
A few rules of thumb are handy here. I generally do not allow myself to stew over a problem for long. The longer I allow myself to brood over it, the worse I feel, and the more negative energy I summon around the issue. Recall that it only takes 17 seconds of focused thought to set something into mo-tion, so stewing over something for hours on end can indeed result in something un-wanted down the road, which then has to be dealt with physically! While it may be diffi-cult to do so in the beginning, you have to give up your wanting to feel bad in or-der to welcome greater good and manifesta-tions in your life. This means you must have the willingness to look at the bigger picture.
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Would you rather have your manifesta-tions and all the good you have asked for… or allow yourself to stew and stay miserable on something for a few days on end just to be right? Once again, this is easier said than done. Certain issues are so in-our-faces that we sometimes miss the forest for the trees, but that is where your determination and discipline comes in. You must make feeling good such an overriding priority for yourself above everything else. You must condition yourself to take the high road every single time, even if it means letting the other per-son be “right”. Again, this is what Abraham-Hicks mean when they say, “Nothing is more important than that I feel good.”
I used to think that was such a narciss-istic statement! I want my stuff, not just to feel good all-day everyday! But I now know how logical that statement by Abraham-Hicks is, because feeling good is at the basis
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of everything. When you feel good 95% of your time, what you asked for during the other 5% of the time HAS to come true! I just cannot put enough emphasis on this.
Conversely, if you allow yourself to feel miserable and lousy 95% of your time… no amount of concentrated visualization or af-firming will be able to take care of the negat-ivity generated during the majority of your waking hours. Feeling good has to become an overriding priority for you to the exclu-sion of everything else.
There will be situations in life (as you put all of this into practice) that get on your nerves. There will be situations that will test everything that you have learnt up to this point. There will be times you feel like giving up. My own limits were tested with the earli-er incident I recounted. But if you remind yourself of these teachings often enough, you’ll soon be able to recover from such
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unpleasant situations quickly. Avoid situ-ations that throw your inner state into turmoil.
A while back I was ordering a piece of furniture that failed to arrive on time, with each party denying their responsibility. The seller said they have already shipped it, while the courier said it had already been de-livered. Throughout the whole episode, I ad-opted the stance of a neutral observer with the deep belief that everything was already settled. I could have reverted to my old mode of operation, which was to get angry at the seller for not handling it well enough, or with the courier for being so irresponsible. I could have expressed my anger or taken it out on them, but what’s the use? They may have been prodded into action, but that would have thrown my inner state into turmoil too, which can only lead to undesirable out-comes. Give up the need to be right, even if
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you are right. Your feelings are letting you know, in each moment, how things will turn out. I decided that feeling good was so im-portant to me that I wasn’t going to let my-self be bothered by any of it. I kept remind-ing myself that the Universe was takremind-ing care of all my affairs, even when external evid-ence appeared to be on the contrary and when it seemed I was going to lose my money. I had such a sense of deep faith and belief that even when I met up with the seller to settle the incident, I thanked her genu-inely and profusely for willing to work with me. In return, she was very nice and helpful about the whole incident, and even gave me a free gift for my inconvenience. When you make that inner journey and get past your own manifestation stuck points, outer reality reciprocates in the most unimaginable ways.
Throughout the 95% of your day, allow everything that happens to be alright.
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Remember — Feeling good must be of over-riding importance to you. So before you en-gage in any outer action, or go into any inter-action with another person or thing, ask yourself how it would make you feel. Ask yourself how your inner state will change as a result of the interaction. Does it make you feel better or worse? If it makes you feel worse, then don’t do it! Don’t do it just to prove that you’re right, or to prove your point. Don’t do something you’ll regret later on, that you’ll eventually come to feel sorry or guilty about. Don’t! Just stay away from all that. Take the high road, even if it means letting the other person be right or letting the other party have their way. Nothing is more important than that you feel good, and it is all that matters. If you want to be an ef-fective manifestor, you have to go to great lengths to maintain your inner composure and state. You must allow yourself to be
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imperturbable, despite of outer circum-stances and situations.
When you get to that state of imper-turbability and stay there… when you make feeling good 95% of the time your one and only priority in your life… everything hap-pens and flows. Things you have asked for in the past and long forgotten, things you have barely asked for, and things you have not even asked for! Because when you truly live the 95-5 Code, the only thing you have to do is to take things one step at a time, and the rest will be done unto you.
As is so eloquently stated in the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, “The great Master that is the Tao does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone.” And it is so!
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