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Today's question from a reader concerns work:

"Why did I pick a job in which I am a cog in the wheel? (The obvious answer is the economy, but there were other jobs out there). I am having 12 hour days with driving and I can barely get up in the morning. The main supervisor is disliked by all in the office and only cares about numbers and maintaining the bureaucracy, even though this is supposedly a people-helping business.

"I needed the health Insurance, but what is the value if I am working so much my health goes down? Everyone works past 40 hours without pay. This doesn't leave me with true free time to work toward other goals. I have no answer for why I am here other than the obvious: I need the income and insurance. But my soul and spirit are outside the door every day, waiting for me to leave the office, because there is no creative or beneficial parts to the employment. Any thoughts please?"

She included in her e-mail question this relevant quote from Abraham-Hicks:

"How do you feel about those things that you are giving most of your attention to? If there is something in your life that gives you negative emotion almost every time you think about it, we would do anything that we could do to get that negative thing out of our awareness."

Excerpted from the workshop in Phoenix, AZ, on Sunday, April 5th, 1998

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Please notice that Abraham is saying to get that negative thing out of one's awareness. They did not say to get it out of one's life. First things first. When one removes the negative awareness, the negative situation will transform. It must transform, for that is universal law.

Of course, the seemingly logical response to this unpleasant scenario would be to leave. Find something else to do. Find something that is pleasing, enjoyable, and feeds your spirit, even if the pay and benefits are less. It's just not worth it to spend one more day in a situation that has become so unpleasant. Right?

Wrong.

I believe Abraham would recommend cleaning up your vibration about the work situation first and not taking action from a place of unhappiness. Some relief would be gained from exiting this workplace, but until you clean up your vibrational set-point, you will not be in a position to attract what you want in another setting. That's why people often repeat the same scenarios in new contexts: different places, different faces, same old problems.

So the real work to be done here is to soften the dislike by finding better-feeling thoughts about

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