Appreciation and self-love are the most important tools that you could ever nurture. Appreciation of others, and the appreciation of yourself is the closest vibrational match to your Source Energy of anything that we've ever witnessed anywhere in the Universe.
Abraham-Hicks Spokane, WA -- 5/30/00

what you're saying is.............

But the Universe is not responding to your language, anyway. The Universe is responding to your vibration -- and your vibration is about the way you feel.
Abraham-Hicks G-6/20/98 -- Seattle, WA

we're not here to teach you to raise your vibration, because your vibration is naturally raised.
 From Abraham-Hicks Workshop Ashland, OR -- 5/16/00

Everything is about Law of Attraction. Not law of going out and getting it. It's not law of deserving. It is not law of earning, It is just law of achieving vibrational harmony with that which you want, and then it cannot not come. It must come to you. When you vibrate as it is, it must come. In fact, when you vibrate as anything is, it comes to you.
http://www.abraham-hicks.com/Knowledge/Abraham/Newsletters/V07/contrast.html

 

You are living the exaggerated, finely tuned physical manifestation result of vibration. And in your physical format you have learned to interpret vibrations rather well. What you see with your eyes is your physical apparatus' interpretation of vibration. Your differentiation between the colors in your color spectrum is your literal deciphering of the different vibrational frequencies in the color spectrum. That's why red looks different to you than blue. They are vibrationally different and you're visually interpreting the difference. You interpret vibration through your ears, every sound you hear is your physical interpretation of vibration. What you feel with your skin, what you smell with your nose, what you taste with your tongue, these are interpretations of vibrations. Do you know that the reason sugar tastes sweet and lemon tastes sour is because they have different vibrations, and your body interprets the vibrations differently? We are wanting to assist you in utilizing a sensor or interpretator of a most subtle vibration, the vibration by which all things are created: The emotions that you feel are still another interpreter of vibration. When you feel elation or joy or appreciation or love or passion or enthusiasm, those feelings are interpretations of vibration. When you feel anger or fear or blame or guilt or disgust or any of those negative emotions, those feelings are interpretations of vibration.

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/Knowledge/Abraham/Newsletters/QJ04/settone.html

The Universe does not know or care whether the vibration that you're offering is in response to something you are living right now, and observing, or in response to something you are imagining. In either case, the Universe accepts it as your point of attraction and matches it.
Abraham-Hicks G-4/19/97,Silver Spring, MD

Deactivate Unwanted Vibrations

So the word, dominant, is a word we want you to hook up with. "What is
my dominant vibration?" Another word is activated. So, there is this
thing I do not want and I say, "I don't want you in my experience." But
as I give my attention to this thing that I do not want, I have
activated it – because attention to it activates the vibration of it
in me.
VIBRATION
So I say, "I'm going to deactivate you." You can't do it. You can't
deactivate something because the whole time your attention is focused on
this thing you want to deactivate, you are activating it. The only way
you can deactivate something is by withdrawing your attention from it
because as long as it's got your attention, it's activated.

That's the point of a virtual reality in which you activate things that
feel good. You activate vibrations that feel good, until those are the
activated, dominant vibrations within you, which makes it less likely
that you will activate one of those others. What becomes dominant within
you becomes dominant within you. That's not to say that you don't have
some old issues that you've been dragging around that are not activated
all the time, but when they come up, you know they've come up.

Often, you say, "Well, I've got this issue. I'm going to wrestle it to
the ground and kill it." And we say, no you're not; you're going to make
it more alive in your vibration. You're going to give it your attention;
you're going to activate it within you and then, what is Law of
Attraction going to do? It's going to help you remember more things just
like it. It's going to bring to you other people that have that same
issue activated. It's going to rendezvous you with magazine articles,
television programs; it's going to hook you up with all kinds of things
like that that are already activated and you're going to have the
experience that you do not want because you cannot deactivate something
that you are trying to deactivate. Trying to deactivate it – activates
it. Nice to know, isn't it? So, how do you deactivate this thing you do
not want? By activating something else.

So if I have sickness that I want to deactivate, should I focus upon the
subject of a well body? We wouldn't, because when you focus upon the
subject of a well body, you're going to activate your dominant
vibration. When you pick up on the subject of my body or my health and
the dominant vibration is one of worry and concern, then whenever you
try to work on feeling better, you just activate the vibration right
where it is.
VIBRATION
So that's why we don't want you to go to Hawaii and work on your body.
Because if, in the Virtual Reality, you go there, you're on the beach,
the sun is shining, you're taking a walk, you feel wonderful. But then,
as soon as you think, "I'm going to get my body back in shape," your
visualization goes south because what you've just done is reactivated
the already troublesome vibration.

So that's why we say, get in, feel good and get out. Get in, feel good,
get out. Get in, feel good, get out. So you string enough of that "get
in, feel good," together and you feel so good that you have, for a
period of time, deactivated whatever it is that's been troubling you and
then you begin to get improvement.

But then when people say, "What are you doing? How did you achieve this
improvement?" And then you think about the issue and the improvement
begins to wane, right away, because your old friends have helped you
activate the very thing that you do not want.
So you just keep practicing and practicing and practicing, until you're
sure-footed. You can get so you can smell it coming from a mile away.
You get so you can feel it coming in a conversation. You get so you head
things off. And just as you get in, feel good and get out in your
visualizations, you begin to do that with phone calls, too. Your
meetings with one another become briefer.
You get in, you feel good; if the conversation starts taking you
someplace you don't want to go – you get out. You become addicted to
your source. You become so enlivened with feeling the way that is
natural to you, that then, all that other stuff becomes a non-issue. You
don't have to protect yourself from it. You couldn't if you tried.
You've just deactivated it and it is a non-issue for you.
So things that are troubling others and they try to trouble you, they
send you pictures in the mail, troubling things about the environment or
about animals or about children or about anthrax, in other words, they
send you worrisome things and you don't take them and tear them up in
little pieces and set them on fire and activate them. They're a
non-issue. They don't have anything to do with you. They don't fire you
up, They don't worry you. They are a non-issue, because the issues that
matter to you are so activated. You don't push against anything because
pushing against it activates it within you.
Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Workshops G-5/25/02 - Chicago, IL

You don't have to take the bad with the good. Why include the bad in the vibration? Only include the good in the vibration, and then only the good can come to you.
Abraham-Hicks G-2/27/97, Napa, CA

The only problem with leaving and going someplace else is that you take yourself with you. You take your vibrational habits and patterns with you.
Abraham-Hicks G-5/18/98, Albany, NY

If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place.
Abraham-Hicks G-4/11/98, Virginia Beach, VA

  People tend to think that illnesses are progressive: Something goes wrong, and then the sickness just becomes more and more and more. That is not what is happening. What is happening is: the sickness calls attention to something that causes more contradiction or more resistance in the frequency. It is just in the moment. You could be diagnosed with every deadly disease known to man -- but you could be lying in your bed in a state of utter allowance, and allow the Energy of Source to flow through to the cells of your body -- and you would have an instant healing! It is not about the body needing to rebuild. It's about opening the vibrational circuits. That is all that it is. Abraham-Hicks Workshop Atlanta, GA -- 9/19/99

In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.
Abraham-Hicks G-6/10/97, Portland, OR