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Tag: Affirmations
Affirmations
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Thought For Today
As you read these words, visualize yourself, jumping for joy, laughing hilariously, loving with abandon, and embracing someone with tenderness. Visualizing will strengthen your immune system.
Affirmations …
When I accept what is, I surrender to the flow of life.
Tip Of The Day
The SHORTEST Path to Getting Everything You Want In Life is by finding information that explains how the universe works.
Mind Power creates and controls reality. Think of Desire-Force as the warm, ardent, fiery, forceful energy, underlying the manifestations of Mind-Power; and of the Will-Power as the cold, keen, strong, directing, controlling projector of the energy. By fixing these mental images in your mind, you will be better able to manifest the two phases as occasion arises. To create a thing you must want it with a burning desire that allows no denial, backed up by a will that knows no such word as “can’t” or “no.”
Feeling is living thought. Everything that is worthwhile was produced by this feeling thought. Feeling—Desire— Emotion—Passion—Wanting— Willing—Demanding—these are the things that have creative power. So do not deceive yourself with this ”holding the thought,” or any such nonsense of which you have heard so much until you get sick at the mention of the words. It is not simply “holding the thought,” it is “holding the desire,” and backing it up with the will that does the work. Desire-Will is intent.
Each one of these centers of energy seems to have two poles of activity, one of which acts in the direction of impelling, driving, pushing, forcing, urging, directing, etc., the action being always “outward”; and the other acting in the direction of drawing, pulling, attracting, coaxing, alluring, charming, leading, etc., the action always being “inward.” One seems to be a masculine force, the other a feminine force. One seems to act as Will-Power; the other as Desire-Force. The Desire aligns, and the will acts.
Thus, your Mind Power controls Everything in Reality … so, take care to discern who resonates with you and who is determined to thwart you.
Affirmations …
Truthful Moments …
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Tip of the Day
Don’t let negative or toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!
Meanwhile, on Kaua’i Island …
Affirmations
I walk with ever increasing mindfulness. I eat with ever increasing mindfulness. I meditate with ever increasing mindfulness. Whatever I am doing, I am fully present in this moment.
Affirmations …
Affirmations …
I choose to be successful.
Doing well in life takes important decision-making. My success is completely dependent on my commitment to achieve meaningful goals.
When I choose to be successful at something, each decision I make is directly tied to achieving that success. I recognize that having the resolve to hit a target means very few things are allowed to get in the way.
My desired results drive me to push harder and work smarter.
When others try to get me to slow down, I ignore them. It is more important to me to remain focused on my desired results. Keeping the end in mind is all I need to maintain consistent effort.
I choose to be successful with my relationships. Even in negative situations, I am committed to working towards a positive resolution that can strengthen our relationship.
I do my best to nurture my friendships. Feeding positivity into relationships is a conscious step towards ensuring they remain successful. The longevity of those unions is directly related to daily maintenance of them.
Today, I expect success because I make a conscious choice to achieve it. I commit to an ongoing effort to realize my victories. My path remains clear because I avoid letting obstacles distract me.
Self-Reflection Questions:
1. How does positive thinking help me to courageously go after difficult goals?
2. Are there external factors that influence how I measure my success?
3. How can I make daily choices that lead me toward my goal?
Affirmations
As I let go of the limiting beliefs that contract my body and mind, I attract to me the gifts that the Universe has to offer.
Affirmation … “My efforts are rewarded.”
I appreciate the value of making an effort. Exerting myself helps me to learn and grow. Buckling down to a task builds my confidence. As my victories multiply, I can see my talents and abilities more clearly. I understand my strengths and how to leverage them.
Making a sincere effort strengthens my relationships. I earn trust and respect from others. I contribute to making my world a better place.
I cultivate my friendships. I express my concern and compassion for others. I let them know that they are important to me. My actions show them that they are worth my time.
I volunteer for challenging assignments and collaborate with my colleagues.
I devote my leisure time to meaningful activities. I develop my talents.
I take care of my health. I stay fit by exercising each day, eating nutritious foods, and managing stress.
I practice my faith. Prayer and meditation give me the motivation to persevere.
Today, I work smart and hard. My achievements mean more to me when I put effort into accomplishing them.
Self-Reflection Questions:
1. Why is it beneficial to value the process of working as well as the outcome?
2. What is one example of a dream that I worked hard to fulfill?
3. What is the difference between false pride and a healthy sense of accomplishment?
Affirmation ~ I Accept The Timing Of Experiences In My Life
I approach each new day with gusto and open arms. Even when I am faced with the unexpected, I manage it without complaining.
I embrace the unknown path ahead of me. Instead of feeling down about how long things are taking to happen, I make the most of the here and now. Each moment I get to live is a chance to live well.
I have goals that are important to me, yet I am patient in going after them. I look at hiccups in my journey as opportunities to better prepare myself for success.
I am able to make room for other experiences. And those experiences shape a future that is just right for me.
Instead of resisting what is in front of me, I take hold of it. I use it to my advantage and come out successfully at the end. This approach allows me to accept my situation.
Today, my focus is on making the most of whatever life lays before me. I accept that the experiences of today are the ones I am meant to have. I am content with where I am today because I know it prepares me for better things tomorrow.
Self-Reflection Questions:
1. How creative am I in making the most out of an unfavorable situation?
2. How do I encourage myself to stay positive in the face of unattained goals?
3. How does peace of mind impact my ability to accept what life throws my way?
Thought For Today
Do you feel like you are tuned in to your spirituality?
People are connecting more and more with the Universe and this is a great thing for unity. If you’re not where you want to be in this area, it can always be changed.
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Affirmations
Even failure contains positive elements. I look for the positive in everything I do. When I make missteps and still accomplish what I set my mind to, the path to achieving my goals is enhanced.
Success is sweeter when I taste failure along the way.
I know that completing a simple task is less rewarding than overcoming a difficult challenge. Testing the limits of my abilities is essential to self-improvement.
I often wonder if I would truly know the joy success brings if I always succeeded.
Making a mistake often results in learning something new. I embrace my mistakes. Sometimes I learn more about the process of my task or my approach, and other times I discover something about myself.
Failing reinforces the positive character traits that I continuously seek to improve. Through failure, I identify my ability to be resilient. It enables me to practice being accountable.
I develop stronger bonds with others because I am perceived as both humble and trustworthy.
Today, I perceive my mistakes as part of my growth and development. I enjoy trial and error because it enables me to understand how and why some practices succeed while others have limited success. I use my mistakes as teaching tools for myself and those around me.
Self-Reflection Questions:
1. What is the biggest mistake I have made, and what did I learn from it?
2. Does success exist without failure?
3. How can my mistakes help others?
Affirmations …
Being made of stardust, you are much like a star. You shine with light, give warmth and burn with inner fire. You don’t need outside energy. YOU ARE ENERGY.
Weekly Haiku
Truth rides in the wind
Love rides currents like a wave
Be one with the wind
Affirmations …
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Affirmations
I open myself to the wisdom of the Universe.
Daily Affirmation
Today affirm, “I do enough. I have enough. I am enough.”
Two Little Pieces of Chocolate | KarmaTube
Francine Christophe was born in 1933, the same year that Adolph Hitler took power in Germany. When she was eight years old, she and her mother were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In this interview for “Human,” a film project directed by photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, she recounts an extraordinary tale of generosity at a time of great privation.
Mahalo ~ Gratitude
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
Higher Ground
And every hour of every day I’m learning more
The more I learn, the less I know about before
The less I know, the more I want to look around
Digging deep for clues on higher ground…
Moon and stars sit way up high
Earth and trees beneath them lie
The wind blows fragrant lullaby
To cool the night for you and I
On the wing the birds fly free
Leviathan tames angry sea
The flower waits for honeybee
The sunrise wakes new life in me
And every hour of every day Im learning more
The more I learn, the less I know about before
The less I know, the more I want to look around
Digging deep for clues on higher ground…
The fishes swim while rivers run
Thru fields to feast my eyes upon
Intoxicated drinking from
The loving cup of burning sun
In dreams Ill crave familiar taste
Of whispered rain on weary face
Of kisses sweet and warm embrace
Another time another place
And every hour of everyday Im learning more
The more I learn, the less I know about before
The less I know, the more I want to look around
Digging deep for clues on higher ground…
Daily Inspiration ~ Undulating With Life
“I breathe in. I breathe out. I am present in my body. I am here and not anywhere else, knowing there is nowhere else to be.
This is meditation. It doesn’t matter how I sit or don’t sit, or how I hold my hands. It is not how still I stay or silencing my mind.
Meditation is noticing my body’s posture, whatever form it takes, and noticing how my hands rest if they are resting, their movements if they are in motion.
It is following the quiet of each breath.
It is stepping back and listening to the music of thoughts, one note at a time, and watching the beauty of cognition.
It is opening space with curiosity for observation and observing, across the hush of that space, the dawn and dusk of joy and sorrow, seeing the winter and spring of laughter and tears, seeing and not changing anything.
It is gently watching the poetry of life breathing without waking it.”
Being Present In Nature
When I study nature closely and long enough I really start to see it’s inner personality. From the oldest tree to the newest flower just bursting forth for it’s first chance to soak in the sun. I am always amazed at the personality and beauty in the world when I slow myself down, take my time and really look at the world around me. Have a wonderful day today!
Hawaiian word of the day: kūkulu manaʻoʻana
Hawaiian word of the day: kūkulu manaʻoʻana (koo-koo-loo mah-nah-oh-ah-nah) = logic
Affirmations
“When I stop blaming others for the way my life is, I let go protecting my victim hood. I begin taking responsibility for myself, and the way I live my life. I become more authentic and integral. I also notice myself becoming happier, and filled with gratitude. The people I once blamed have been my best teachers.”
A Well-Traveled Path To Inner Peace, by Nick Polizzi
The word below has been hailed in just about every major spiritual text, it is the centerpiece of hundreds of songs (rock, folk, and even opera), and if used properly, it can create almost immediate transformation in your life.
The word is forgiveness.
Over the past month I’ve had the honor of meeting with a few people who miraculously healed themselves of serious illness. In these conversations, one word has come up repeatedly as being the secret to their recovery. You guessed it.
We learn about forgiving others when we’re young, but somehow when we get older and more set in our ways, this simple act can become elusive. Life is funny that way, right? Often when we find ourselves in a life “predicament”, we just need to revisit the basic travel tips that were laid out for us early on.
“To err is human, to forgive divine.” – Alexander Pope
What is actually happening during this godly act? One thing is for sure, we are doing the unthinkable. We are defying every impulse that has led us to associate an individual with pain and suffering. Rather than continuing a tempting pattern, we are hitting the reverse switch and flooding unconditional love and compassion back into the equation.
Unconditional love and compassion. These three power words feel so right, but sometimes it’s hard to find a cut and dried, no B.S. way to work them into our reality. When we’ve made a decision about someone after they’ve broken our trust, it can be very difficult to overturn our initial ruling and do the opposite.
A backdoor approach that helps us get around the ego and be less rigid is a regular forgiveness practice. This is absolutely critical if you are trying to recover from an illness naturally.
Wisdom of the ages
Whether you’re talking to an Amazonian shaman, a bush medicine woman from the Caribbean or a granny healer from North Carolina, they’ll most likely tell you that herbs, prayers, and energy techniques are only part of the healing picture.
My friend Christine, a granny healer from North Carolina, pretty much summed it up last week when we were talking about a few cancer patients she was helping. She is too humble to tell most people this, but Christine has helped a number of folks heal their cancer naturally over the past few decades. Many of them would tell you they owe her their lives.
According to her, “The herbs and other interventions won’t do a lick of good if the patient doesn’t have their life right. All the natural medicine in the world can’t undo a toxic relationship with another or one with yourself.”
Her first prescription for her patients is a daily forgiveness practice.
“Sometimes we must do the unthinkable if we are to experience the impossible.” ~ Unknown
It is a common shamanic understanding that spiritual and energetic blocks are what lie at the center of disease. If this is the case, then consider your grudges and resentments to be the bricks and mortar of these walls of inner stagnation. The fastest way to dissolve them and begin recirculating life force is through forgiveness.
The biggest misconception around the term forgive is that this act is mainly benefitting the “offender”. “He insulted me and I was angry, but you know it’s been a long time and he’s learned his lesson, so I guess I’ll forgive him.” In this context, forgiveness is considered a sacrifice we make to take the moral high road.
But what about the benefit to us, the “offended”, who have been wasting countless hours stewing, fearing, belaboring, plotting, regretting – all sour mental activities that do not lead to a harmonious existence?
Like a rising tide, forgiveness floats all ships, including our own. And we all know someone, whether friend or foe, who is ripe for a pardon.
Forgiving ain’t easy. Sometimes it can feel darn near impossible. Our rational mind has a set of black and white rules accompanied by some absolute no-fly-zones. When these boundaries are violated, it can be hard for us to lower the drawbridge again.
This is the real work. No smoke and mirrors or fancy candlelit ceremonies – just you and your truth.
If you are to truly thrive in this life, grudges and resentment have no place in your spiritual or physical organism. There is a reason this is spoken about in every major religion on earth – our health, happiness, and the well being of our cherished loved ones depend on it.
So where to start?
Below is a very simple forgiveness practice that you can try right now. If it moves you, keep it in your back pocket for regular use. But most importantly, find some way to integrate forgiveness for yourself and others into your spirit path. For those of you that already do this actively, a gentle reminder never hurt anyone, now did it? 
A simple forgiveness practice:
1. Write out on a piece of paper any relationship that immediately comes to mind when you think of forgiveness. If that doesn’t work, think of the one or two people in your life that you have an unresolved conflict with. I would advise you use a pen and paper for this – it helps to get yourself off the computer screen and really take some space for this.
2. For each person, write out exactly what it is that created the sense of uneasiness, offense, or negativity. Be as specific as possible as these thoughts and beliefs are what hold the charge in us.
3. Feel into the memory: put yourself in that situation once again and remember the pain or discomfort that you experienced from what your “forgivee” did or said. Sometimes looking at a picture of the person for this part is very powerful (Facebook can be a sacred helper here!).
4. Cultivate empathy: it is much easier to forgive someone when we can imagine what it’s like to be them. Flip the script and try to imagine what they were feeling, what challenges they were facing, how they were suffering when they committed the act.
(I’ve gotten into this weird habit of over-sympathizing with the other driver when I get cut off in traffic. I tell myself that I have no idea what kind of day they are having or where they are speeding off to. Could be the hospital, could be a terrible job they hate… Might be none of those, but this practice immediately brings in compassion – I’ll take it.)
5. Repeat this as many times as it takes until you feel the emotional intensity around the scenario begin to ease. If you begin to feel compassion for the other person, it might be time to pick up the phone, or pull out the stationary and bring conscious closure to this issue. Whether that means rekindling a friendship, or a peaceful pardon before moving on.
6. Be patient: real and lasting forgiveness doesn’t happen instantaneously. It can take time. This is why an ongoing forgiveness practice like this can be so beneficial.
Stay curious!
Lakota Prayer
Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.
Monday Inspiration
Here’s a little reminder that it’s OK to feel fear … just don’t let that fear stop you. Your dreams are too important!
Being “courageous” isn’t about never being afraid. It’s about being bold enough to face what scares you and keep going.
While it’s easy to stick with what feels familiar and comfortable, we only grow when we stretch.
The more we cultivate the habit of pushing through our fears, the stronger and more fearless we become.
Remember, it’s not about “never being afraid.” It’s about not letting your fears hold you back.
And this is key to achieving your dreams!
Have A Magnificent Monday!
Affirmations …
As I deepen in the mystery of life, my inner child delights in magic and miracles. The adult me, loves the childlike innocence, but is also centred in a rational and discerning mind.
Daily Affirmation
I am open to what may unfold with grace. Everything happens according to divine plan and in divine timing. I bow down to the One Being in each and every one of us.
Hālau 'Aha Hui Lānākila 