Quote from Abraham:

We encourage you to play with spending 17 seconds on any topic.

If you hold any thought, positive or negative, wanted or not wanted, if you hold a thought purely for 17 seconds, then at the 17 second point, another thought just like it joins it.

And as these two thoughts coalesce, there is a combustion.

And as these two thoughts combust, they are parlayed into one more evolved, faster vibrating thought. And when it happens, you feel it. It feels like heightened interest or enthusiasm.

If you hold that, now more evolved, thought for another 17 seconds, then when you cross that 34 second mark, the same thing happens.

Another thought like the more evolved thought now joins it, and there’s another combustion point. Only this time, it moves much further than it did the first time, because the two thoughts that combined were bigger to begin with.

Purely hold a thought for 17 seconds until it combusts and another thought joins it, and the energy in that combustion is equivalent to 2,000 action hours.

If you work a normal 40 hour a week job, that’s about what you work in a year.

17 seconds of pure thought, allowing the combustion, gives you that much energy. Your action is not very important by comparison.

Cross the 34 second mark, and you can multiply your action by ten. That’s 20,000 action hours.

Cross the 51 second mark, and you can multiply by ten again. That’s 200,000 action hours.

If you can hold a thought, purely, without contradicting it, until you cross the 68 second mark — that’s just four times 17 — you can multiply by ten again. That’s over 2,000,000 action hours equivalent.

We’re talking about accessing the energy that creates worlds.

And the reason that it is not fathomable to most of you is that most of you don’t make it past the eight second mark without contradicting your desire.

Abraham, 10/17/96 — Syracuse, New York, USA

Summary:

• 17 seconds is worth 2,000 hours of work (about 1 year)

• 34 seconds is worth 20,000 hours of work (about 10 years)

• 51 seconds is worth 200,000 hours of work (about 100 years)

• 68 seconds is worth 2,000,000 hours of work (about 1,000 years)

Are you really sure you don't have enough time? :)