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Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires
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Part 2, Chapters 12-22Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Part 2: “Processes to Help You Achieve What You Now Remember”
Part 2, Chapter 12 Summary: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…?”
This process uses the phrase “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” as a soft way to focus on desires. This gentler wording does not immediately activate resistance because it feels purely imaginative. By framing desires in this way, people can introduce positive possibilities without bringing up the doubt or disbelief that often accompanies more forceful affirmations. For example, the book guides people to say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I got the job?” rather than “I must get the job,” because the former is a positive thought while the latter may lead to anxiety. This framing is meant to keep one’s energetic vibration lighthearted and hopeful. This process is said to be especially useful when there is a wide emotional gap between where the individual is and where they want to be.
Part 2, Chapter 13 Summary: “Which Thought Feels Better?”
This simple process encourages individuals to compare two thoughts and choose the one that feels slightly better. Ultimately, it is meant to be a step-by-step method of reaching for higher points on the Emotional Guidance Scale by moving incrementally toward more positive perspectives. Abraham asserts that by consciously observing how different thoughts feel, people can begin to guide their emotions more easily. This process is framed as suitable for people who are currently low on the emotional scale, as they do not have to leap to higher levels immediately. Abraham reinforces the idea that over time, consistently choosing better-feeling thoughts leads to emotional momentum and ultimately to improved manifestations.
Part 2, Chapter 14 Summary: “The Process of Clearing Clutter for Clarity”
Clearing Clutter for Clarity involves the literal act of cleaning up one’s living space. This approach is framed as both a physical and an energetic process. By organizing one’s environment, a person clears the space for Source Energy alignment in both a literal and a symbolic sense.
The book describes clutter as a reflection of stagnant energy and asserts that getting rid of clutter can dramatically shift how a person feels. As the unwanted items are removed, the person is sending a signal to the Universe that they are making room for better things. This process is also meant to foster a sense of control and empowerment.
Part 2, Chapter 15 Summary: “Wallet Process”
The Wallet Process invites individuals to place a real or imaginary $100 bill in their wallet and carry it with them throughout the day. As they navigate life, they mentally spend that money over and over by imagining all the ways they could use it. The ultimate goal isn’t to literally spend the money, but to experience the emotional feeling of financial freedom. According to Abraham, this imaginative spending builds vibrational alignment with prosperity and shifts one’s focus from lack to plenty. Over time, it is meant to retrain the mind to expect abundance, which opens the door for actual abundance to enter.
Part 2, Chapter 16 Summary: “Pivoting”
The Pivoting process teaches individuals how to transform negative experiences into positive desires. When someone encounters something they do not like, they are encouraged to acknowledge it briefly, then ask themselves what it is they really want. This question initiates the pivot: shifting attention from the problem to the solution. According to the Law of Attraction, this tactic will change the wavelength of their vibration so that they may start attracting what is preferred instead of the negative outcome. Pivoting is meant to build awareness of emotional contrast. Abraham encourages people to use it as a tool for clarity and creation rather than frustration and points out that it is a key tool for deliberate manifestation.
Part 2, Chapter 17 Summary: “Focus Wheel Process”
The Focus Wheel Process is designed to help shift vibration around topics that make an individual feel stuck. The person is told to draw a circle on a page and writes their desire in the center. Around the outer edge, they are to add statements that feel true and that seem to be aligned with that desire. If this practice is done correctly, each new statement should help focus thought patterns and bridge the emotional gap between where the person is and where they want to be.
This method builds positive momentum, helping the individual to generate alignment over time. It is especially effective for those who are on the lower rungs of the Emotional Guidance Scale. This often occurs when the person wants something but is feeling strong doubt or resistance. (Resistance, according to Abraham, is often due to a lack of clear focus.)
Part 2, Chapter 18 Summary: “Finding the Feeling-Place”
Finding the Feeling-Place involves tuning in emotionally to what it would feel like if a desire had already manifested. Instead of focusing on the absence of a goal, the person closes their eyes and conjures the positive emotional state that achieving this goal would bring. This emotional alignment is meant to help them become a vibrational match to their desire. Abraham says that by practicing the feeling-place consistently, the Law of Attraction will respond accordingly and with increasingly clear results.
Part 2, Chapter 19 Summary: “Releasing Resistance to Become Free of Debt”
This process specifically focusses on financial well-being. It is meant to bring focus away from the heaviness of debt and toward the feeling of financial abundance. People are urged to look for thoughts that bring even the slightest sense of relief surrounding money, such as acknowledging their desire to be out of debt. Thus, instead of resisting thoughts about debt, they gently move into thinking about the possibility of abundance. As resistance lessens, Abraham promises that it will become easier to attract solutions, opportunities, and more stable financial conditions.
Part 2, Chapter 20 Summary: “Turning It Over to the Manager”
In this process, a person imagines assigning both their desires and their fears to an all-knowing “Universal Manager.” They are instructed to write down or visualize what they want help with and mentally hand it over. This symbolic gesture will help them to build trust in the belief that the universe will coordinate any fine details that they may be struggling to figure out. According to Abraham, this process helps the individual stop trying to control everything and instead allow assistance from supportive energetic forces. This process, like many of those in this section, is good for people who are low on the Emotional Guidance Scale. It is especially helpful when they feel burdened or stuck, as it opens the door to unexpected solutions and greater cooperation with Source Energy.
Part 2, Chapter 21 Summary: “Reclaiming One’s Natural State of Health”
This process focusses specifically on physical health. It encourages individuals to reconnect with the understanding that alongside emotional satisfaction, physical well-being is the natural state of all energetic beings. Rather than focusing on their existing or feared illnesses, people are guided to shift attention to thoughts of increased vitality, improved strength, and the healing of current issues.
They are guided to remember times when they felt good. Alternatively, they can actively appreciate aspects of their body that function well or imagine themselves in perfect health. As with all of the processes, as their thoughts align with wellness, their vibration is said to align with the frequency of good health, and the body will begin to respond. In Abraham’s view, releasing the fear of poor health allows the natural intelligence of the body to improve its own physical condition.
Part 2, Chapter 22 Summary: “Moving Up The Emotional Scale”
This process is meant to gradually improve one’s mood by reaching for the next best-feeling thought. As mentioned earlier in this guide, the Emotional Guidance Scale ranges from undesirable emotions like despair and fear, to middle-of-the-road feelings like boredom and hopefulness, and up into good feelings like empowerment and joy. When a person feels low on the Emotional Guidance Scale, trying to jump to joy may feel impossible, and Abraham warns against attempting such leaps, as they often lead to failure. Instead, people are advised to move incrementally—for example, from frustration to hope. Each small shift in emotion is meant to tune them in to better vibrations and to build momentum toward ultimately reaching the higher levels of the scale.
Part 2, Chapters 12-22 Analysis
The second collection of daily processes in Ask and It Is Given continues to suggest practical ways to aid personal progression from emotional awareness to emotional mastery. Like the first set of processes, these tactics are meant to deepen one’s ability to consciously align thoughts and feelings with desires. While the first set of processes is generally meant for people who already feel good about things (and are thus higher on the Emotional Guidance Scale), these later processes increasingly emphasize subtle shifts in emotional calibration. Many of Abraham’s words in these pages highlight the idea that one’s primary goal should transcend reaching for manifestation or achieving an ideal emotional state; instead, the text recommends embracing the emotional and vibrational journey as the primary goal.
Tools such as “Which Thought Feels Better?,” “Moving Up the Emotional Scale,” and “Pivoting” highlight the value of Improving Personal Vibrations through the Emotional Guidance Scale. Rather than suppressing or denying negative emotions, these processes encourage people to view uncomfortable feelings as useful indicators that signal the presence of resistance and clarify new desires. This approach parallels modern emotion-focused therapies that see emotional discomfort not as pathology but as data. The core skill taught is redirection: a gradual, compassionate reaching for improved feeling and resonance. While the text puts this concept in esoteric terms, it can be widely applied in everyday life.
One of the clearest illustrations of Improving Personal Vibrations through the Emotional Guidance Scale can be found in the text’s description of the process called “Moving Up the Emotional Scale.” It presents a step-by-step progression from lower emotional states to higher ones, challenging the binary idea of positive versus negative emotions. Instead, this approach promotes building emotional momentum, a practice that promotes a more nuanced understanding of emotional regulation. However, Abraham warns against attempting large leaps, such as jumping from depression to euphoria. Instead, more gradual and moderate shifts, such as from powerlessness to anger, and then from anger to hope, will yield greater degrees of success. The process encourages patience and trust, and it also aligns with established psychological techniques that focus on building resilience rather than aiming for perfection.
The theme of mental decluttering, emphasized earlier in processes like the “Creation Box” and “Place Mat Process,” reappears in “Clearing Clutter for Clarity.” In this process, physical space is treated as a literal extension of the vibrational environment. Clearing objects that are no longer aligned with one’s desires is both a symbolic and concrete way to release inner resistance. This process echoes the principles behind long-standing practices such as feng shui, which posits that an orderly outer space supports clearer inner focus. Concepts like these are intended to signal readiness for new energy to enter.
Processes such as “Wallet Process” and “Releasing Resistance to Become Free of Debt” focus specifically on abundance and financial alignment, two subjects covered frequently in Ask and It Is Given. The Hickses consistently argue that lack-based thinking is more damaging than lack itself, and is often the underlying cause of the lack. Thus, the processes that they recommend are not meant to solve money problems directly; instead, they advocate for changing one’s relationship to the idea of abundance. This approach aligns with the common metaphysical view that perception precedes reality.
Throughout the text, this theory applies not only to mental well-being but to physical health as well. The theme of vibrational alignment as a prerequisite for physical wellness is emphasized in “Reclaiming One’s Natural State of Health.” Like emotional stability, health is viewed as the default condition, and symptoms of illness are seen not as random occurrences or punishments but as signals of discord between the self and Source. It is important to note that this perspective departs from a conventional biomedical view but resonates with many holistic healing practices, which commonly emphasize the connection between the mind and the body. The process encourages individuals to recall feelings of vitality and gratitude toward their bodies in order to facilitate healing. However, they are not meant to heal through force; instead, they are urged to find a way toward a good emotional relationship with their health, in the assumption that doing so will make healing more likely.
Abraham is careful to point out that these processes are not intended as complete replacements for action or strategy. Instead, they are meant to help to ensure that action comes from a place of alignment and positivity rather than one of fear. This distinction is central to the Abraham philosophy. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize that action taken from misalignment tends to yield struggle and minimal results, while inspired action flows effortlessly. The “Segment Intending” and “Scripting” processes reinforce this idea by encouraging deliberate emotional framing before engaging in real-world tasks.
Cumulatively, the second set of processes is meant to increase people’s confidence that they are building their own reality. People are encouraged to move away from the belief that their primary function as humans is to react to circumstances. Instead, they are told that they alone can generate the thoughts and feelings that shape their physical circumstances. For many who feel disoriented by living in a world that often prizes external accomplishment over internal well-being, the Abraham approach reorients the compass inward. However, skeptics critique the lack of empirical validation behind the Law of Attraction, and they also point out the psychological harm of the victim-blaming outlook that arises from taking the Law of Attraction to its logical conclusion. By contrast, supporters argue that these processes—and the words of Abraham in general—are supported by well-regarded therapeutic and spiritual traditions whose tenets mirror the Hickses’ teachings.
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