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June 14, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:01:54 +0000

"I am ready right now to live in joy."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Many beautiful affirmations are popular these days. The reason that some of these beautiful affirmations "don’t work" is that the people saying them are not ready to believe them because of opposing beliefs that are stronger. If you do not believe the phrase "I am joyful," saying it repeatedly will not make you joyful. This is especially true if you limit yourself to repeatedly saying "I am joyful" for twenty minutes in the morning and then forget to be joyful and proceed to give your attention to non-joy. DailyAffirm is a process with different parts and cycles to open you to live in joy, rather than a steady stream of power statements for you to repeat. Honor that you have a full range of human experiences, some of which need to be released, completed, and forgotten.

About Your Process
The flavor and rhythm of the DailyAffirm Process shifts tomorrow to Being/Intending Affirmations. As you approach the half-way point of the month, this is a perfect time to re-visit the over-arching intention you set for Joy. "The highest good for all" is my favorite, all purpose, generic high intention. Examples of statements for over-arching intention for Joy are:

To live in joy, to enjoy life. I intend to know joy.
By the end of the month, to feel joy in a deeper way.
To live in the consciousness of joy, not changed by outer circumstances.
To shift my attention from non-joy to joy as soon as I can.
To trust that the highest good is always operating.
To live my life joyfully, from the inside out.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Fire Free Bird" recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Tomorrow the Being/Intending affirmations begin. Today is a good day to reflect on all that you have received so that you can explore more deeply who you are. Please also re-visit your over-arching intention for Joy because you will use that as a foundation for exploration.

Make this a ready day!

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June 13, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:01:19 +0000

"I accept peace, joy, health, and love in all aspects of my life."

About Today’s Affirmation
Today’s affirmation captures the essence of this whole week of affirmations about receiving and accepting joy. Its simplicity is profound. Peace and harmony and health and freedom and love and kindness can be considered companions of joy. Sometimes tension or discomfort makes you more ready to accept joy and its companions. Sometimes newness or enthusiasm accelerates your readiness. Whether it is by surprise or planning, bless the events or conditions that help you to accept joy and its companions.

About Your Process
Today, you may want to look at those parts of your life that are open to accept peace and joy and health and love. And then breathe these energies into those parts. If you believe you still have non-joy to release, you may want to affirm with your breathing: "I breathe in joy, I breathe out non-joy." When you believe you have cleared enough non-joy so that it does not block you, use your breath to breathe joy and peace and health and love into those parts of your life that are ready to accept these energies.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Say Goodbye to Struggle" encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

About this Free Service
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Make this an ACCEPTional day!

June 12, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:01:43 +0000

"Joy, you are my friend. Let’s play together!"

About Today’s Affirmation
This is such a playful affirmation. I chuckled when I received a request to cancel a DailyAffirm List subscription years ago which said: "Please cancel my subscription to your Daily Affirmations. At this time I am still working on ‘You are my friend,’ believe it or not!" I do believe it (and I emailed him a message saying that). I consider "you are my friend" to be a life-changing concept. I expect that in much of your upbringing, your associations with siblings and playmates often led to beliefs of "not enough" or that one person was better or less than another. When you compete in school, these ideas are reinforced in another way. And, in the business world competition is intensified in yet another way. How transformational to accept that everyone is your friend!

About Your Process
Here is a suggestion for working with this affirmation today: consider every one and every thing to be your friend. As you take your car keys in your hand, say (out loud if no one is around or silently to yourself), "you are my friend." As you pick up a ringing phone to say hello, think to yourself, "you are my friend." As you look at yourself in a mirror or shiny surface, think, "you are my friend." If you desire, you can add words or ideas about "joy" and "play." Just accepting everyone and everything as your friend will put you in the consciousness of joy and fun. How can you look at a piece of lettuce balanced on a fork while saying "you are my friend" without laughing or giggling or smiling?

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
"New Meeting Paradigm" describes the old and new meeting paradigms and strategies for moving from the old to the new.

Make this a friendly day!

June 11, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:01:26 +0000

"Dear God,
allow me to see joy in a way that I can understand."

About Today’s Affirmation
You may look for joy in certain things. You may look for another person to bring joy into your life. You may expect your career successes to bring you joy. But true joy comes from the inside. It is your job to bring joy into situations rather than to expect get joy from situations. It is disempowering to believe that your joy is dependent on something outside yourself or that your joy is dependent on a "thing" at all. Joy is an energy, a life-giving force. Today’s affirmation asks for assistance in perceiving joy as you can accept it now, wherever you are in consciousness. Perhaps three years ago you saw and understood it one way; perhaps tomorrow you will see and understand it yet another way. Today, see it as you can accept it now.

About Your Process
It has been a while since I have verbalized an encouragement to you to edit or otherwise rearrange the words in the daily affirmations. My intention is to write these affirmations so that a broad number of folks with different philosophies can relate to them. You know when the process is working for you. And when it is not, you can change the process or the affirmation or both. So, today you might think of all the different ways to express the essence of this affirmation.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.
"Energetics of Integrity" describes the energetics of the principle of integrity, especially in organizations.

Make this a life-giving day!

June 10, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:01:01 +0000

"I bless all I have learned through painful experiences in the past.
I now accept my learning in joy."

About Today’s Affirmation
This affirmation opens you to accept experiences and learning with joy rather than struggle, without remorse about the past. It is time to make associating pain with learning is an outdated orientation. Last week on this DailyAffirm Process, you released what you do not need or desire in order to make room for establishing joy as the norm for life’s activities. Continue to let go of the popular, disempowering phrase "No pain, no gain" and open to more empowering phrases to replace this one.

About Your Process
Today, you may choose to look at how you accept learning in joy. How do you use laughter to advance yourself? How do you play in the midst of transition or turmoil? How do you invite joy and pleasure into your life? If you see joy as just an accident or luck, then you have not accepted that you are the creator of your own experiences. Accept the Creator in you.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Let’s Replace this Expression: ‘No Pain, No Gain’" encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.
"JoyPhrase Entries" lists the entries and awards of the June 1996 and continuing campaign to replace the expression "no pain, no gain."
"Ask Questions that are Empowering" provides you with many different questions that you can ask yourself or others that encourage empowering answers. These questions move you forward on your personal development journey rather than backward.

Make this a wonderful day!

June 9, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:01:03 +0000

"I receive joy from the Universe.
I resonate with the energy of joy. I allow joy to flow through me."

About Today’s Affirmation
And so today’s affirmation continues with and expands the idea of receiving from the Universe. "Receiving" can simply amount to accepting a wrapped present and leaving it on the kitchen table, unopened. However, I encourage you to open the presents/presence of joy and touch the energy of joy. Acceptance and receptivity are not passive and indifferent concepts. Make a choice to receive the gifts, to open them, to use them. Indeed, let the presents/presence use you! These gifts (the presents) are from spirit (the presence) right now (the present)!

About Your Process
Consider today what it really means to you to "resonate" with the energy of joy. Joy has a specific resonance, a discernible frequency. Perhaps you sometimes describe joy as "bubbly" when you try to put your perceptions into words. This effervescence is on the surface; it gets your attention. However, joy itself is unseen by the physical eye. You can see manifestations of joy, but joy, in itself, is not a physical phenomenon. Joy is from Spirit. Joy is of Spirit. Joy is Spirit.

About Guided Meditations
Experience Jeanie Marshall’s voice in empowering guided meditations. Her soothing voice prompts you to listen to your own inner wisdom. She guides with words, yet it is her voice that makes these guided meditations such a powerful relaxation technique. Guided meditation is one empowerment practice that you can use on its own or to enhance other strategies. You’ll feel a sense of empowerment, a greater awareness of well-being, and a deep relaxation.

About Related Articles
Here is are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.
"Smile: I Wake up Smiling" describes how Jeanie uses her morning smile to begin her day, nourishing her throughout the day.

Make this a present day!

June 8, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:10:10 +0000

"I open to allow joy to operate in all life.
Angel of Joy, I am ready to be taught through you."

About Today’s Affirmation
Acknowledge and receive Joy and the Angel of Joy into your life. If you do not relate to angels, no problem; just ask Joy to be your teacher. Open yourself to be a vehicle of joy. Become joy. Let your energy field open, stretching outward, upward, downward, inward. This expansion allows more room for joy to be expressed through you and as you.

About Your Process
Consider today an idea or a thought you most desire to tell an angel or another being of light who has no human judgment. Perhaps this thought is a deep secret, one which you have not told a human being or have rarely told anyone. Perhaps it is a dream you have dared not reveal. Perhaps it is rage. Or shame. Tell the Angel of Joy. This powerful angel can assist you in realizing your truth, freed from any part of your past that has appeared as a limitation.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
"Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
"Pluck it for the Bucket" describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.
"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

Make this an expansive day!

Positive Affirmations for the Week of June 8-14, Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:01:31 +0000

Greetings! In this message, I’ll give you an overview of the next seven days of the DailyAffirm Process. The sidebars provide you with additional information. Read the messages Day by Day, or simply check in when the spirit moves you. If you prefer to receive the daily messages by email, please subscribe to one of our email alert lists (check the options on the navigation bar).

Remind yourself of your over-arching intention for Joy.

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Joy
I am aware of the relief to finish releasing non-joy. It is also a JOY to release non-joy. There is a readiness for so many of the persons with whom I work to LIVE in joy. How about you? Are you ready to enjoy life? Acknowledge that joy is all around you and in you. Open to joy. Open and receive.

About Your Process in the Second Week
Do you remember when you were a little child? (We all are still children, of course, but that is another story.) Here is a scenario: It’s a rainy day in the country, a park, or the street. The rain is either warm and gentle or it is cool during a hot spell. You are five or six years old. With your mouth in a broad grin, you turn your face upward, eyes closed, tongue out. It tastes sooo good. It feels sooo good. You trust the rain. You are open.

I encourage you this week to identify an image that represents receiving goodness from the Universe. The image I have described in the above paragraph may resonate with you or not. Remember or create one that does. The more childlike, the better. Throughout the week if you notice that you are turning away from joy or that you have closed laughter or fun from your life, remember your image. Be a joyous child.

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for Joy, it would be "I accept (or receive) joy in all aspects of my life." Another affirmation also leaps out at me this week. It is the one for June 12: "Joy, you are my friend. Let’s play together!" Perhaps that is just because I am in a playful mood.

Make this a receptive week!

May 14, Positive Affirmation for Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:01:01 +0000

I am ready right now to live in trust.
The Angel of Trust is with me.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
The Angel of Trust is a being of Light who came strongly into a meditation group I facilitated for many years called "Going Deeper." This being came at a time when many in the group were particularly distressed and despairing. It was a pivotal experience because it was a spiritual initiation that accelerated them into their next phase of development. They were ready.

About Your Process
Do you trust yourself? Are you ready to trust yourself? These are two distinctly different questions. If you are resonating with victim consciousness, you are not living in self-trust, although you may trust in being a victim. Here is an assignment to help you to accept the power of today’s affirmation. Listen to yourself and/or others. "This happened to me…" is a clue that the speaker is feeling or thinking as a victim. Listen more closely to what follows. If the story is more about the speaker being done to rather than doing, these are more clues. Even a very powerful person can feel or think as a victim from time to time, falling into a trap of agreed-upon (consensus) reality. Victim consciousness is prevalent — a weakened and distorted view of the world. This observation exercise that I suggest is important for the remaining weeks in this month of Trust. Remember to be gentle with yourself and others, regardless of what you observe. This exercise is not intended as an invitation to judge, but as an invitation to observe and evolve, so that you can live more fully what you desire to live.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Fire Free Bird" recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
"Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall" is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Tomorrow the Being/Intending affirmations begin. Today is a good day to reflect on all that you have received in the name of trust so that you can explore more deeply who you are. Please also re-visit your over-arching intention for trust because we use that as a foundation for exploration.

Make this a splendid day!

May 13, Positive Affirmation for Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:09 +0000

I accept trust, joy, and love in all aspects of my life.

About Today’s Affirmation
To experience something, you accept it into your life. You may tend to argue against this point when you are in the middle of uncomfortable circumstances or when you feel like a victim. When you are in pain, it is hard to understand that you have invited the painful conditions you are experiencing. And, of course, you have not done this intentionally. As you become more intentional about your thought patterns and responses, you might become impatient when your circumstances do not change as quickly as you grasp ideas for change, tending to blame the circumstances or conditions outside yourself. Self-kindness is required as you develop new habits that encourage receiving what you truly desire. A simple "yes" to trust and joy and love is a starting place; consistent "yeses" yield the manifested desires.

About Your Process
Today, remember to be kind to yourself and to life. As you work with today’s and other empowering affirmations and methods, you are moving away from old thoughts and patterns. The conditions you find yourself in today are manifestations of previous thoughts. It is true that your birthright is to experience joy, however, if you have not yet lifted your consciousness to focus on joy, just take that on as your work. Life is a process. You are not here to manipulate the Universe, but to experience life to the fullest. Today, appreciate all that surrounds you, for you have accepted these things into your life. If you are not pleased with what you have already manifested, start today to accept what you desire into your life by giving your thoughts to trust, joy, and love.

"Moving Through Puddles" describes the "Puddle Theory of Personal Development" which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.
"Your Focus of Attention is Your Key to Happiness" helps you to clarify where you desire to put your attention — your energy — which is a creative force.
"One Thought at a Time" is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.

Make this a joyful day!