Why have some been born with illnesses?

Jerry: So, when you’re speaking of the balance of thought, are you saying the balance of thought

even from before we’re born? In other words, would that be why someone could be born with a

physical problem?

Abraham: It is. But just as the balance of your thought now is equaling what you’re living, the

balance of thought that you held prior to your birth is also what equaled what you’re living. But you

must understand that there are those who’ve come forth deliberately wanting physical disability,

because they wanted the benefit that they knew would come from it. They were wanting to add

some balance to their perspective.

Before you came into this physical body, you understood that from wherever you stand, you can

make a new decision about what you want. And so, there was no concern about your starting place

in your physical body, because you knew that if that condition inspired a desire for something

different, the new desire was attainable. There are many people who have achieved tremendous

success in many areas of life who are born into conditions that would be considered to be the

extreme opposite of success. And those raw and ragged beginnings served them extremely well,

because born out of that poverty, or dysfunction, was strong desire which was the beginning of the

asking that was necessary before success could begin to flow to them.

All beings who come forth into a physical body have full understanding of the body they are

coming in to. And you may trust that if they came forth, and remain, it was their intention from

nonphysical to do so. And without exception, when where you’re currently standing causes you to

make another decision about what you now desire, you have the ability, if you focus your thought,

to accomplish the essence of that creation. Most who are attracting less than Wellness, are doing so

by default. They may very well desire Wellness, while the majority of their thoughts are upon

subjects that do not support Wellness.

It’s not a good idea to stand in your perspective and try to evaluate the appropriateness of what

anyone else is living, because you will never be able to figure it out. But you always know where

you stand relative to what you are wanting. And if you will pay attention to what you’re thinking,

and let your thoughts be guided by the feeling that comes forth from within you, you will find

yourself guiding your thoughts more of the time in the direction of that which will ultimately please

you.

Let’s discuss the concept of “incurable” diseases

There is not a physical apparatus, no matter what the state of deterioration, that cannot achieve

perfect health. But that which you believe has everything to do with what you allow in your

experience. If you’ve been convinced that something is not curable, that it’s fatal, and then you’re

told that you have it, usually your belief will be that you will not survive. And so, you will not. But

your survival has nothing to do with the disease and everything to do with your thoughts. And so, if

you say to yourself, “That may be true for others, but it’s not true for me, because I am the creator

of my experience, and I choose recovery, not death at this time”, you can recover. We know, that

these words are easily said by us and not so easily heard by those who do not believe in their power

to create. But your experience always reflects the balance of your thoughts.

Your experience is a clear indication of the thoughts that you think. When you change the thoughts

you are thinking, your experience, or indicator, must change also. It is Law.

Focus on fun to regain one’s health

Jerry: Abraham, there was an author who’d contracted a disease that was considered to be

incurable. But he survived it. And he said he was able to do so by watching a serious of humorous

television programs. I understand, he just watched those programs and laughed, and the disease

went away. What would you say was behind his recovery?

Abraham: His recovery was accomplished because he achieved vibrational alignment with Well-

Being. There are two primary factors involved in his finding vibrational alignment. First, his desire

for Wellness was dramatically enhanced by his illness. And second, the programs he watched

distracted him from the illness. The pleasure that he felt as he laughed at the humor of the program

was his indication that his disallowance of Well-Being had ceased. Those are the two factors

required in the creation of anything – want it and allow it.

Usually once people have focused upon problems and such, enough that they’ve disallowed their

Well-Being, and they’re seriously ill, then they turn their undivided attention to the illness, thus

perpetuating it more. Sometimes a doctor can enhance your belief in Wellness, if he has a process

or a remedy that he believes will help you. And in that case the desire is amplified because of the

illness, and the belief is enhanced because of the proposed remedy. But in the case of the

supposedly incurable disease or in the case of the supposedly curable disease, the two factors that

brought about the healing were the same – desire and belief. Anyone who can come to expect Well-

Being can achieve it under any conditions. The trick is to expect Well-Being, or, as the man in your

example did, simply distract yourself from the lack of Well-Being.