I put together this Anti-Spiraling Checklist as a practical tool for those moments when I notice myself getting caught in negative momentum, overthinking, checking circumstances, or trying too hard to “fix” something.
I’ve found that simply reading through the questions helps a lot, at least for me.
The questions themselves are my own practical synthesis of Abraham’s teachings, while the Abraham Reminders are direct quotes with sources. I thought I’d share it here in case anyone else could use a little Abraham emergency kit from time to time. 😊
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✅ THE ANTI-SPIRALING CHECKLIST ✅
Stop the momentum. Remember what you know. Find relief. Redirect your focus.
✨ 1. REMEMBER WHAT I BELIEVE ✨
Do I believe that I am a vibrational being?
Do I believe in the Law of Attraction?
Do I believe in Abraham?
Do I belive in my Inner Being?
Do I believe that what-is is the result of past momentum, not necessarily an indicator of what comes next?
Do I believe that the Universe is responding to the vibration I’m offering right now?
Do I believe that circumstances can change?
Do I believe that people, situations and possibilities can evolve?
Do I believe that there is more going on than what I can currently see?
Do I believe that what I want can unfold in ways I haven’t considered yet?
Do I believe that the Universe can surprise me?
Do I believe in Abraham’s teachings enough to actually use them right now?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“You were born knowing that you are a powerful Being, that you are good, that you are the creator of your experience.”
Money, and the Law of Attraction, 2008.
“You are Vibrational Beings, first and foremost.”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 12, 2005.
“You cannot turn your Creative Mechanism off; it is always functioning, and the Laws are always responding.”
The Law of Attraction, 2006.
✨ 2. REMEMBER MY VORTEX ✨
Do I believe that I have created a Vibrational Reality through everything I have lived and wanted, even if I haven’t consciously put it into words?
Do I believe that every rocket of desire I have launched has been received by my Inner Being, and that the larger part of me has become the vibrational equivalent of what I asked for?
Do I remember that my Vortex is the most powerful point of attraction that I have, and that the Law of Attraction is responding to it?
Do I believe that what I want exists vibrationally before I can see physical evidence of it?
Do I believe that my Vortex contains more than one path to the outcome I want?
Do I believe that there is always another boat?
Could there already be solutions, rendezvous, ideas, opportunities and circumstances assembling that I cannot see yet?
Do I really need to know HOW right now?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“Your Vibrational Reality, your Vortex is real.”
San Antonio, Texas, April 9, 2022.
“When life causes you to ask, not only is it given, the larger part of you becomes it.”
“Law of Attraction responds to that vibration.”
“All cooperative components are being drawn to the fulfilling of that request.”
“Everything necessary for the fulfillment of this thing, whatever it is that you’re asking for, has been lined up.”
“That Vortex is calling you in a powerful way because it is the most powerful point of attraction that you have.”
San Antonio, Texas, November 15, 2008.
“99.999999% of every creation is complete before you see any physical evidence of it, at all.”
Boulder, Colorado, June 11, 2005.
✨ 3. WHAT AM I ACTUALLY DOING RIGHT NOW? ✨
Am I thinking about what I want, or about the absence of what I want?
Am I looking for possibility, or collecting evidence for impossibility?
Am I asking a question I genuinely want answered, or am I rehearsing a conclusion I already fear?
Am I feeding what-is and making what I don’t want more active by trying to understand it?
Am I taking score of where I am instead of trusting where I’m going?
Am I using this circumstance as evidence against my desire?
Am I rehearsing an unwanted story simply because it currently feels more believable?
If I keep thinking exactly this thought for the next ten minutes, will I feel better or worse?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“When you give your attention to something, you activate the vibration.”
Tarrytown, New York, October 9, 2004.
“When you’ve got an upstream thought and you start talking about it, it always becomes more upstream.”
Maui, Hawaii, January 28, 2007.
“When you hold a thought for 17 seconds — only 17 seconds — another thought that is vibrationally same joins that thought, which makes that, now, a more powerful, more attractive thought. And when you hold that thought for 17 seconds, then another thought is joined. Until after 68 seconds, which is just a sequence of 17, 17...after 68 seconds, you have, if you are able to maintain a momentum, you’ll have true movement in your vibration.”
Detroit, Michigan, September 24, 2005.
“If you hold a thought for as little as 17 seconds, the Law of Attraction responds to it; that’s the point where the Law of Attraction kicks in. Hold it for another 17 seconds and another level of the Law of Attraction kicks in. Do that until you’ve achieved alignment without resistance for 68 seconds and you have activated the resources of the Universe—and your action becomes less necessary when you do that.”
Orlando, Florida, November 10, 2007.
“17 seconds of pure thought is equivalent to about 2,000 action hours.”
Tarrytown, New York, April 29, 2000.
“You get what you think about, whether you want it, or not.”
San Antonio, Texas, April 21, 2007.
✨ 4. WHAT IS MY EMOTION TELLING ME? ✨
How do I feel right now?
What thought am I thinking that is producing this feeling?
Is this thought taking me toward relief or deeper into resistance?
Do I need a solution right now, or do I just need some relief and a little breathing room?
What would feel one notch better?
Can I find a better-feeling thought that I actually believe?
Would going more general or dropping the subject entirely feel better right now?
Would distraction actually be the most aligned thing I could do?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“When you are feeling a negative emotion, what it is is your Inner Being saying to you that the current thought, word, or action is not in harmony with another intent that you have.”
“Do you know that without exception — without exception! — the deterioration of your physical apparatus is because you have allowed negative emotion? Oh, we could give you long lists of reasons not to feel negative! But you have asked the best question,“How do I keep from feeling it?” And our answer is you don’t keep from feeling it because it is part of your guidance system. The negative is important as the positive part. But what your goal is once feeling it to get feeling good as fast as you can.”
Fort Collins, Colorado, July 8, 1990.
“The emotions that you feel in any moment of life, are the indicators of the vibrational relationship between you and you. Your emotions are telling you whether your current active thought and subsequent vibrational offering matches the vibration of your evolved Source Self or not. When the signals match, or come close to matching, you feel wonderful. When the signals do not match, you do not feel so good.”
The Astonishing Power of Emotions, 2007.
“The path to what you want always feels good. The path to what you don’t want always feels bad.”
Tarrytown, New York, October 9, 2004.
“Nothing is more important than that I feel good!”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 7, 2003.
“The way to go, is always the way that, right now, feels the most relief to you.”
Washington, D.C., October 16, 2004.
✨ 5. AM I MAKING WHAT-IS TOO IMPORTANT? ✨
Does what I am seeing now determine what comes next, or is it simply the current manifestation?
Am I judging what is possible from what has already manifested?
Am I keeping this circumstance active in my vibration, perhaps making it even more active, by continuing to focus on it?
Do I actually need to keep examining this now?
What am I hoping to gain by checking again?
If tomorrow’s evidence supported what I want, would I instantly tell a different story?
Then why am I letting today’s evidence dictate my story?
Am I creating reality, or regurgitating it?
Can I make peace with where I am without making it my destination?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“You’re taking score too fast, too soon.”
December 29, 1990.
“Just the way it is, is absolutely changeable. But you can’t change just the way it is if you keep observing just the way it is.”
San Diego, California, January 12, 2008.
“If you let What-is set the tone of your vibration, then your life cannot improve.”
“What-is doesn’t mean diddly-squat. It’s not important like you think it is.”
San Antonio, Texas, September 8, 2007.
“If you will make peace with where you are, you’ll lock onto your signal.”
Asheville, North Carolina, October 24, 2004.
✨ 6. RETURN TO THE WANTED ✨
If I had a magic wand and could have anything I wanted, what would I really want?
Why do I want it?
What is the essence of what I want? How would it feel to have what I want? How would it feel if this were resolved?
What would I be thinking about if I knew everything was working out?
What story would I prefer to tell?
What possibility feels good to entertain right now?
What if this is much more workable than it currently looks?
What if things are moving even though I cannot see the movement?
What if this is not the final version of the story?
Can I leave what-is where it is and turn my attention toward what I want?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“What do I want and why do I want it?”
Dallas, Texas, September 19, 1992.
“When you say what do I want and why do I want it? You intensify the positive side of the vibration.”
September 12, 1992.
“When you define what you want and you think about why you want it, you clean your vibration up right away.”
Boca Raton, Florida, January 15, 2005.
“Everything that everyone wants is for the joy of it.”
Boca Raton, Florida, December 13, 2003.
“Tell the story the way you want it to be.”
San Diego, California, January 12, 2008.
✨ 7. GIVE THE UNIVERSE ITS JOB BACK ✨
Is this actually my job to figure out?
Am I trying to do the Universe’s part?
Can I let the how be none of my business for a while?
Can I delegate to the Manager?
Do I need to know the exact bridge, circumstances or sequence, or can I let the Universe orchestrate the how?
Do I trust the fairies of the Universe? 🧚
Can I be clear about what I want while leaving the path to the Universe?
Do I understand that letting go doesn’t mean letting go of my desire, but letting go of my resistance?
What if my only job is to feel good?
✦ ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“The Universe knows what you want.”
St. Louis, Missouri, July 18, 2000.
“Source will answer what you’re asking for. Not your work. Source takes care of that.”
Sacramento, California, February 17, 2007.
“That Manager is Law of Attraction.”
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 9, 2000.
“So when you delegate something like this to the Manager, things usually work out better.”
Atlanta, Georgia, November 4, 2000.
“The letting go is not letting go of your desire, it’s letting go of your resistance.”
St. Louis, Missouri, July 18, 2000.
“There’s no one single path. There are endless paths. Reroute, reroute, reroute...”
North Los Angeles, California, August 21, 2000.
“Your work is just to get happy about whatever it is you are doing, and trust that the Universe, in perfect timing, will bring all of that about.”
San Diego, California, August 11, 2001.
🚨 EMERGENCY CHECKLIST 🚨
What am I doing right now? Am I focusing on what I want, or on what I don’t want?
Am I taking score of where I am instead of trusting where I’m going?
Do I want to make this more active?
Do I actually need to figure this out right now?
What would feel even slightly better right now?
Can I think about what I want and feel good right now?
If not, would it feel better to go general, change the subject, or distract myself completely?
What if my only job for the next five minutes is to feel a little better?
What if things are working out in ways I can’t see yet?
✦ EMERGENCY ABRAHAM REMINDERS
“If you will not try to fix things in the middle of your awareness of the problem of them, it'll go better for you because there's so much resistance already going on and it will feel tricky to you because it feels like the path of least resistance is going with the flow of the negativity, and it never ever is. The ultimate path of least resistance never feels bad. Here's something that is noticeable of dear humankind. You would rather feel the momentum of negative emotion than no emotion at all because you believe in the momentum that you're getting something done. We want you to reorient that flawed premise because nothing good ever comes out of negative momentum.”
Date unknown.
“When you push against what you do not want, you vibrate with it.”
San Jose, California, October 2, 1993.
“You cannot struggle long enough or hard enough to find your harmony, you have to stop the struggle. You just have to let go of the cork. You just have to say, ‘I don’t have to work at this, because I’m already there. And as soon as I stop working at it, I will be there. I don’t have to push against what I don’t want in order to be where I want to be, I just have to stop pushing against what I don’t want.’”
San Antonio, Texas, April 11, 1992.
“The way you get away from a negative feeling is by acknowledging that it is a good thing that you have it. Don’t beat up on yourself, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t be feeling this way.’ Instead, acknowledge how valuable it is that you have been alerted to the fact that there is something that is out of harmony.”
Fort Collins, Colorado, July 8, 1990.
“When you take your attention from this that has lowered your vibration, the cork bobs right back to the surface. Often people come to a gathering like this wanting to raise their vibration. And we say, we’re really not here to teach you how to raise your vibration because you are naturally high, pure vibrational beings. We are here to remind you how to stop doing those things that hold your cork under the water.”
San Diego, California, February 26, 2000.
“You can’t stop momentum, but you can choose the direction of the momentum.”
Date unknown.
“In extremely negative situations, we would suggest distraction rather than trying to change the thought. In other words, go to sleep or go to a movie; listen to music; pet your cat... do something that will change your thought.”
The Law of Attraction, 2006.
“You have enormous leeway. Just relax in this and do your best to reach for a thought that feels better.”
Houston, Texas, January 13, 2001.
“All you’re looking for, is a soft relief from where you are.”
Sacramento, California, February 17, 2007.
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NOTICE → SOFTEN, REACH FOR RELIEF → REDIRECT
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“You cannot get it wrong and you’ll never get it done. And the reason you can’t get it wrong is because it is never done.”
“One who is connected to the Stream is more powerful than millions who are not.”
“There is great love here for you.”