Ask and It Is Given - Dealing with dis-ease

I am also currently reading "Ask and It Is Given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks. It's been so enlightening and gives me great hope for manifesting the things in my life that I truly desire.

I found something early in the book that explained something I already believed had happened to me. Two years ago, my 4 1/2 year old son was diagnosed with a dis-ease. We put him on a special diet and some meds and he began to feel great and he also tested 100% clear of this dis-ease a couple months later. We maintained that diet and meds and life was good and we felt very happy that he was doing so well.

And then, for some reason, I decided to seek out others also managing this situation and found a couple support groups and websites and heard some very terrible and extreme stories, things that made me cry myself to sleep at night NOT wanting this to happen to my son. Several times a day I was getting emails about the other parents dealing with their children's dis-ease and kept it in the forefront of my mind. It was heartbreaking and saddening.

Jump to August 2008. My son was still feeling totally great, symptom free, happy and healthy as could be. He had a test just to follow-up and the doctor came out of the operating room with photos that showed things were not doing very well on the inside, despite his lack of symptoms or issues on the outside. My heart sank.

But here's what I truly believe happened. Instead of continuing to focus on my son doing so well and being healthy and normal, I started focusing on what could potentially happen with this dis-ease and just how terrible it could become and I was reminded of it several times a day. I truly believe that putting the vibration out there of "I don't want this illness to turn this bad for my son" did exactly that... make my son's condition worse, not better. Had we continued to put out the vibrations of happiness, health and managing this without any big issue, it would have continued on that way instead.

So when I read in "Ask and It Is Given" on Page 59: about controling conditions I realized that indeed, that is what happened. It says: "Through personal force or strength, or gathering together in groups to gain the feeling of more power or control, they seek to preserve their own Well-Being by attempting to take control of any circumstances that they believe could threaten it. But, in this attraction-based Universe where there is no such thing as exclusion, the harder they push against unwanted things, the more they achieve vibrational alignment with unwanted things - and in doing so, the more they invite unwanted things into their own experience."

This is exactly what happened to me with the support groups and information I found. They were not supportive in a positive way. I have since turned off all such support group emails and no longer have my day interrupted with the latest worst case scenario causing me to focus on what I DON'T want. It feels SO MUCH BETTER, just that step alone. And I talk with my son about getting more and more healthy every day and about how great he feels and how healthy he already is.

To continue on in the book they next discuss "But Whose 'Truth' is the True TRUTH?" Which is a good question because I was wondering if I'm being irresponsible by "denying" the "truth" about this dis-ease. But here is what they say:

"With enough attention to anything, the essence of what you have been giving thought to will eventually become a physical manifestation. And then as others observe your physical manifestation, through their attention to it, they help it to expand. And then, in time, this manifestation, whether it is one that is wanted or not, is called 'Truth'."

"We want you to remember that you have absolute choices about the 'Truths' that you create in your own experience. Once you understand that the only reason anyone ever experiences anything is because of their attention to the subject, then it is easy to see that 'Truth' only exists because someone gave their attention to it. So when you say, 'I should give my attention to such and such, because it is true,' that is the same thing as saying, 'Another gave their attention to something that THEY did not want, and by their attention to it they have invited it into THEIR experience. And since THEY have attracted something unwanted into THEIR experience, I should do it, also."

So, just because someone else gave this dis-ease attention and made it their "Truth" does NOT mean that I need to automatically take it as MY truth, but if I'm not careful and focus on it (through emails and groups) it could very well become my truth even if I don't want it to be.

I hope this has helped enlighten you as much as it has me. This has given me great hope for my son and everyone to be healthy of all dis-ease! It has also made me think twice about the type of support I seek in the future for anything.

I am thoroughly enjoying this book. I'm now reading Part II which talks about many ways to help you feel good and get into a better vibrational thought pattern. I definitely recommend picking this up for anyone who wants to read a clear cut explanation of Law of Attraction and get actual tips and exercised to do which help improve your attraction.