Animals don't fear death. They know — far better than we know — that they're pure Source Energy. They know that life is a revolving door — they come in, they go out, they come in, they go out. It's an unending process, and it's meant to be fun.

        

Thanks to my dear friend Barbara for this question:

It's been a wild year - Chile - Haiti - Turkey - earthquakes. Did I miss any?  Tsunamis.
What does Abraham say about natural disasters? 

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The Earth is a living thing, Abraham says, and it is ever bringing itself into balance. The great tectonic plates beneath the earth's surface are in motion as part of this balancing act, and sometimes their motion is felt in dramatic ways by those of us who live here.

I conjecture that the Earth is not, overall, experiencing more natural disasters than throughout history. It's just that our news media alerts us to them, almost before they happen! And then, of course, there's up-to-the-minute coverage from the site of disasters. Armed with technology, broadcasters are very good at what they do, but all the vivid coverage of disasters can dramatically distort our notions about the perils of the planet, causing us to forget that most people go about their business without harm each day.

It's so important to know that storms and earthquakes are natural phenomena. The Earth is not fragile. The Earth is not in distress. There is untold well-being and expansion happening here, and we humans could not begin to make a dent in that well-being. It is THAT immense.

OK, should we forget ecology? Should we waste resources and simply eat, drink, and be merry?

I don't know about you, but I love the idea of recycling. I love the idea of taking care of wetlands — and dry lands, for that matter. I like keeping our beautiful planet clean, tidy, and welcoming for future generations. But every plastic container I recycle, I do out of love for the planet, not out of fear for her future. Her future is secure. Abraham is emphatic about that.

Here's Abraham in their book, A New Beginning I, from years ago: "The earth, and all that surrounds it, was set into motion by a great and powerful wanting, and part of that wanting said, 'We want this earth to exist for a very long time.' It is a living earth. It is living, as everything upon it is living. And as it is living, it is growing, and just as you are growing new skin, so is this earth growing new 'skin.' And as it is evolving and changing, it is continually seeking its balance."

And here's Abe from a workshop held on 10/6/1996: ""Everything you see is reborn again and again as the eternal non-physical energy continues to flow forth to sustain it."

So, it's pretty much business as usual for our planet. All is well here and, for that matter, to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Whew, that's one big chunk of well-being.

If that's true, the logical question now becomes: How do I stay safe from natural disasters that occur when the Earth is doing her balancing act?

If we don't want to rendezvous with natural disasters, the most important thing to do is to think thoughts of safety and security and FEEL safe. When our vibration is tuned to a frequency of well-being, we will not be in the place where unwanted events — large or small — occur. Law of Attraction is the great orchestrator, and it will forever match up problems with those who are a vibrational match to them, and it will always deliver safety and security to those folks who line up with those. As Abraham points out repeatedly, we just can't buck the current of what we've set in motion via our habits of thought and feeling.

Well, what about Haiti? Were all the people who were affected by the recent earthquake there thinking long term negative thoughts, feeling bad, and thus magnetizing a problem of great magnitude?

Not exactly. We could see the Haitians who were in the throes of the earthquake in at least three different categories: (1) Those, as mentioned above, who had a habit of focusing predominantly on what was wrong and bad with their lives and thus co-created something considered wrong and bad on a very big scale. But category (2) would consist of those who were just plain ready to make their transition to non-physical and chose this way to do it. As Abraham has pointed out, we humans can be very creative in our ways to leave the planet. Category (3) would be those who benefited from the earthquake. Our local news in Orlando showed planeload after planeload of refugees disembarking at Sanford airport to a warm welcome and the promise of a better life — at least for the time-being — in America. And many Haitians orphans will be adopted by Americans and others as a result of this emergency situation. Many who lived in Haiti and held happy hope for a better life are finding it.

Years ago, before I moved to Florida, I used to research where I'd like to live, focusing on what I would imagine to be the safest areas of the country. Now, after nine years in this verdant (but hurricane-prone) state and nine years into the study of the Abraham-Hicks perspective, I realize that there is no place on the face of the earth that is inherently safe and no place that is inherently dangerous. If I'm thinking unhappy thoughts and feeling consistently miserable, I will rendezvous with unwanted events in due time. If I'm thinking predominantly happy thoughts and feeling secure, I will be as safe as if I had ten protective armies surrounding me always.

We live on a benevolent and resilient planet in a benevolent and resilient Universe, but how much of that well-being we experience is up to us.

It's all about focus. It's all about mental focus. It's all about that.

        

Negative, disgruntled people—they're all over the place. But so are joyful, inspiring folks, too. Which sort do I want to rendezvous with—at work, in traffic, while shopping, on the phone, online? I choose whom I invite into my experience via my vibration (mental focus), and I always invite those who are feeling similar to how I'm feeling. As I choose better-feeling thoughts, I choose better-feeling people.

        

People vary in the extent to which they desire. Those with intense desires have a potentially more thrilling life as they focus on their desires & allow them to manifest. Those same folks have a potentially worse experience if they don't use the power of mental focus & rely on action alone. Enter workaholism, eating disorders, & extreme parenting.

        

I don't try to escape negative, downer-type people. Courtesy of Law of Attraction, anyone or anything I focus on, whether wanted or unwanted, will continue to show up in my experience — that or something similar. Better approach: I practice choosing good-feeling thoughts and put myself on a different vibrational wavelength from the whiners of the world. Then I'll be zigging when they zag.

        

I wouldn't stand at a buffet table and stuff my face on food, such as candied raccoon rump, that tastes terrible. So why would I keep thinking thoughts that feel awful when I think them?

        

How can I ever figure out who's right and who's wrong in every dispute or conflict that gains my attention? And why would I want to try, for the more I focus on conflict, the more I'm inviting it into my personal experience. I release my tendency to take sides and jump into forays. I'm just too busy being happy.

        

        

I cannot effectively influence my child from a place of feeling worried and upset about them. My interactions with my child will be so much more beneficial if I get into a better-feeling place FIRST by finding better-feeling thoughts about my child and their circumstances. Then, and only then, am I in a place of wisdom, insight, and balance.

        

My emotions are a brilliant & precise indicator to tell me if I'm viewing life in the joyful way that my divine Inner Being is seeing things and thus I'm allowing my natural well-being to flow. What thought am I holding that might clog this process? A grudge, regret, sad memory, secret envy, insult, apprehension? I kick that thought to the curb — 1000 times if need be — until it gets the message. See-ya!