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Keep in mind that the fulfillment DOES NOT come from the activity itself, but on the vibration associated with the various activities and whether or not you are in alignment with Source energy, who and what you truly are.

External circumstances may serve as triggers, but not sources.

Regarding the dualistic good/bad game, that’s what happens when you engage the mind which typically has negative beliefs associated around things it loves. For example, and I’m not saying this is reflective of you, but it is one common example, “Sex feels so great! but I feel so dirty and sinful. It’s my guilty pleasure.” Guilty pleasure, you see the negative energy associated with pleasure? It’s similar to how people think of being a “God-fearing Christian,” mistakenly associating fear with love, as if the two somehow had to come as a package deal.

Really, at least in terms of the Abraham context, it’s a matter of how unified you are, how whole you are, which is measured by the gap of energetic vibration between your physical and non-physical selves. The closer the match, the better you feel. The greater the distance, the worse you feel. The non-physical self doesn’t come down to the physical’s level to close the gap. It is always up to the physical to go and meet the non-physical. That is, it is up to the mind to let go of all false beliefs standing in the way of realizing who and what we truly are.

for myself I’ve never experienced just feeling good (in the sense gatification sense) without also feeling bad as the inter related opposite of that. To give an example, with sex for instant. I was feeling good when having it. Then after that I wanted to feel good again in that sense. So I go out to feel that good again. And then it didn’t happen that I found someone to have sex with, so when I got home I was not feeling good (actually bad), Because of the good feeling I was looking for not being fullfilled then. Then the same happened a couple times more, ending in the same bad feeling. And then after some time I found someone to have sex with and of course I was then feeling good (but also a bit bad as well since I was like, “did I put so much effort into this that actually isn’t that good comparred to the suffering attached to it as well”). And I could give simular examples with other stuff that made mee feel good, but as interelated opposite bad as well also.
So I’ve now labbeled in my mind pleasure/feeling good (in sense gratification sense) as something where feeling bad is an interelated opposite of, that is almost ineffitable. If you sees this different, I would love to hear what I missed or did/went wrong (or anything you like to add about this)?

So personally I have never experienced feeling good (in the sense garatification sense) without also feeling bad/nagative about that thing, over a period of time.
The only way my mind now thinks one possibly could (theoretically since I can’t speak from experiencing that) feeling good (in the sense garatification sense) without also feeling bad, is if one is 100% detached from that experience, and doesn’t persue it to happen again?

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True happiness is not tied to external conditions. As Eckhart Tolle puts it, it is the “joy of being.” A great way of experiencing this is surrendering and quieting the mind. A sense of joy arises that is completely unrelated to thought.

And this is one of my quibbles with Abraham’s teachings. The joy that they suggest is more along the lines of ego pleasure, a pleasure that needs the external trigger of good feeling thoughts.

Lester Levinson, the creator of the Sedona Method, suggests that we should first learn to master the mind (law of attraction) before we choose to rise above the mind (enlightenment). With this understanding, we could say that we are using pleasure to help us master the mind. It is using the mind to help master the mind.

So it’s not necessarily that becoming enlightened is in conflict with using the law of attraction, but perhaps the two operate on different levels.

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