May 9, Positive Affirmation for Trust

May 9th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Trust No Comments »

I receive trust from the Universe.
My trust in the invisible increases.

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
Some folks say they only trust what they can see and/or touch. Even some folks who have deep trust in the invisible want to have certain things proven to them in the visible world. You might consider your own areas of trust in both the invisible and the visible. The process of creation is the act of moving energy from the invisible (Spirit) into the visible (matter). This is relatively easy to understand when you think of certain everyday acts of creation. I expect that sitting at a blank computer screen receptive to putting ideas into words is a familiar experience to you. As the characters click under your fingers, words appear on the screen because you have moved the invisible to the visible. All things manifested in this world are the result of changing the density of energy from Spirit into matter.

About Your Process
Consider those things in your life you trust that are visible, and those you trust that are invisible. Do you trust the recklessly driven car in front of you? — that is visible. Do you trust the love you share with close friends — that is invisible. Do you trust your own intuitions and inspirations? Do you trust yourself? Today, consider three events and/or persons in which you believe the quality of trust is particularly desired or needed.

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  • "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.
  • "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.

Make this a magnificent day!

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May 8, Positive Affirmation for Trust

May 8th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Trust No Comments »

I open to allow trust to operate in my life.
I let self-trust lead to the path of trusting others.

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
Trust, of course, is always operating, faithfully and fully. However, if you are not open to it, you can miss it or mistake it for something else. Take off the brakes and blinders. I believe the key issue of trust is self-trust: when you trust yourself, you know when to trust other persons and events and ideas. In fact, the energy of self-trust is a light that shows you the way along the path, pointing to appropriate places and people. Trust in the moment, because now is the only time that exists.

About Your Process
Now that you have cleared out a lot of non-trust stuff during the first week, you are more ready than ever to open to trust. Open to trust as you open the faucet in your sink or shower. Test the force and temperature. Let trust bathe you with its expansive energy. Take a few moments, right now, to see or imagine that you see the energy of trust. Soak in it. Feel it. Sense it. Hear it. Smell it. Love it. Receive it. Absorb it. Trust it. Be it.

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Make this a remarkable day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

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Positive Affirmations for the Week of May 8-14, Trust

May 8th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Trust, Week 2, Weekly Messages No Comments »

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 at the bottom of the navigation bar).

Remind yourself of your over-arching intention for Trust.

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Trust
Trust is closely related to safety. If you feel safe, you are more likely to trust. If you feel safe and trusting, it is easier to open. Sometimes you may be required to step into a void and pretend that you are trusting when you do not really feel trusting. When you do this, the feeling of trust can more naturally follow because you have imagined and practiced the feeling.

About Your Process in the Second Week
How can you open to trust when you do not feel safe and/or trusting? Here is a worthy question for you to ponder from time to time through the week. Notice when you naturally feel safe and trusting. Notice your thoughts and beliefs; notice your feelings and sensations. Become aware. You may find it helpful to develop a vertical number scale — a Trust Thermometer — so that you can determine more easily how you feel and/or think. For example, you might assign "-10" at the bottom to the idea of "total distrust" and "+10" at the top to the idea of "total trust," with various levels of distrust and trust as gradations between. As you become more and more aware, you will find it easier to trust yourself to trust a situation or another person. If your inner prompting says "be still," be still. If your inner prompting says "act," act. Trust yourself.

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for Trust it would be the affirmation for May 10: "I allow trust to flow through me. I accept the truth from a higher Source." The higher Source, of course, is right inside you; it flows through you; it is you.

Make this an ACCEPTional week!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

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April 14, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 14th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

I am ready right now to live in clarity.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Being ready is not a wimpy position. It is powerful to be in a state of readiness, especially for the unknown. If you must have everything proven to you before you are ready, you miss opportunities — opportunities for clarity as well as the many other events and conditions you desire in your life. Open to feelings of readiness and expectancy and buoyancy and aliveness. Recognize that being ready is a state of mind that you choose.

About Your Process
Are you ready? Really? On this last day of the Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, you may wish to spend a little time contemplating this idea of readiness. Here are a few questions to inspire you: How do you know that you are ready and/or not ready? Are your senses sharper or duller? Do you stand differently? What is the rhythm of your heart beat? How does the energy flow through you? What else do you notice? How do you know, without any doubt, that you are ready and/or not ready?

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

Make this an expectant day!

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April 13, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 13th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

I accept clarity, peace, and order in all aspects of life.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
To deepen the meaning of today’s affirmation, suppose that clarity and peace and order are physical things with consciousness. (They are not physical, of course, but play with this . . .) So, let’s say that clarity is white and stands two feet tall and has a face that smiles. Peace is pink, round and fluffy like clouds, and sings a sweet melody. Order is straight like a pole and green, offering strength. If you invite these three objects into one part of your life, what happens? Something changes, obviously! What and how? That is for you to experience.

About Your Process
So often in a consultation when a person is close to breakthrough on a subject, he or she reaches the realization that "self acceptance" is the key. As you play today with clarity and peace and order as objects (if you choose to accept this assignment), notice how much easier it is to accept yourself and your life. Everything in life is always changing. Each moment is an opportunity to experience change in the direction you truly desire.

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Make this an extraordinary day!

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April 12, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 12th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

Clarity, you are my friend.
I am willing for you to surround me with your energy.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Today, acknowledge Clarity as a friend and invite Clarity to surround you. Every month on DailyAffirm, I talk about this idea of friendship. A True Friend is loving and nonjudgmental, always available and accessible. Your Friend Clarity does not have the frailty of a human friend. You must give yourself and your human friends the space to make mistakes and forget and not be there for you. Clarity, however, does not fail you. You may misinterpret or misunderstand, but Clarity is clarity. Let clarity be your friend.

About Your Process
If Clarity is feminine for you, let her surround you as a nurturing mother, wise grandmother, loving sister, or caring aunt. If Clarity is masculine for you, let him surround you as a protective father, wise grandfather, loving brother, or caring uncle. Or just call Clarity "friend" without thought of gender or similar ideas that separate you from others.

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Make this an outstanding day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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April 11, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 11th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

Dear God,
allow me to see clarity in a way that I can receive.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
This simple request opens you further to clarity, asking that your direct experiences teach you in ways that are meaningful to you. You may say you want to receive clarity, even desire it intensely, yet be unable to accept it because your attention is on the confusion that prompts you to want clarity. As you work with this affirmation today, it is helpful to consider all the different ways in which clarity comes to you. This understanding of clarity assists you during the rest of this month’s exploration and also enriches your life generally.

About Your Process
So, consider, how do you receive clarity? Clarity can come at the supermarket check-out line, in a book that falls from a shelf into your hands, or buried in the middle of a long-winded paragraph. I sometimes go to a workshop or other event specifically asking for an answer to a question or a decision. I may even have the insight that the answer will come to me in the middle of the event or during a break. Everyone and everything is my teacher, so I listen in ways that I can listen and see in the ways that I can see. Who or what teaches you today about clarity? (P.S., For those of you who are offended by my use of the word "God," please see comments with the April 9 affirmation.)

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Make this a powerful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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April 10, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 10th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

I allow clarity to flow through me,
filling my cells and every fiber of my being.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Sometimes you may want clarity so much that you grasp at it or you grasp it. Clarity, however, is something to be rather than to possess. I consider that clarity is both a quality and an energy that must move. It is light. Clarity that flows through you is powerful — if you try to capture it, you lose it. Today’s affirmation supports you in vibrating to clarity so that as you need it, you can call upon it in unlimited supply.

About Your Process
If you breathed in yesterday’s affirmation as suggested, you will find today’s affirmation the perfect follow up. Let clarity flow through you, breathe through you. Let your cells be touched, even filled, with clarity. Let every fiber, every particle, every atom open to clarity. Accept clarity as part of you. Let clarity act as you. Today, how can you open even more to clarity?

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  • "How Big is Your World?" is a little article that focuses on how the world grows as you expand in consciousness.
  • "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.

Make this a deLIGHTful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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April 9, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 9th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

I receive clarity from the Universe.
I resonate with the creative energy of clarity.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
As you open to clarity, you receive and experience more clarity. Clarity has a resonance, a vibration, which you can discern. As you open to receive this affirmation, become more familiar with the vibration of clarity. Take a few moments right now in your busy day to breathe this affirmation into your consciousness so that you can feel or sense the resonance of clarity. Non-clarity also has a distinct vibration. Discernment is knowing the difference. Judgment is saying one is bad and the other, good. Happiness comes when you notice the difference and make an empowered choice for yourself, without disdain.

About Your Process
My intention is to use words that are inclusive and general enough for you to relate to and/or understand. When I use the word "Universe" I know there is the risk that you will object because your preferred word is "God" — a word that offends others. One of the reasons that I often encourage you to select your own words, or change the affirmation, is to make the process more personal for you. As you take responsibility for your own process, you accelerate. In addition, you enhance your tolerance for others’ viewpoints and lifestyles. As you are resonating with clarity today, be conscious of how you feel.

About Related Articles
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  • "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions" discusses decision-making in the new paradigm and the importance of consciousness when making a decision.
  • "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.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Clarity for April.

Make this a creative day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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April 8, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

April 8th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity No Comments »

I open to allow clarity to operate in my life, in all life.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Most of these DailyAffirm affirmations are written so that you can apply them to your personal life, right where you live. From time to time, I like to mention the rest of humanity, and indeed the whole universe. Today’s affirmation is an intention to invite clarity into all of life. One Life. As you make this invitation, clarity becomes more familiar. Non-clarity will also be part of your experience from time to time, but affirm clarity and that will predominate in your life.

About Your Process
I suggest that you create a picture that for you represents opening to clarity in order to enhance your process. You may draw on a past experience or remember a scene in a movie that represents this for you. Here are a few suggestions that might inspire you:

  • A large light bulb or flood light on a path
  • A child (maybe even you!) in a gentle rainstorm with arms and face open upward
  • A flashlight changing to a flood light and then to sunlight as you recognize more deeply who you are
  • A ball called "Clarity" guiding you.

Let your picture open and support you.

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About the Book of the Month Recommendation

On this DailyAffirm process, I often talk about the importance of being in the present moment. My perspective is that there is only one time in which to experience life: the present moment. The idea of living in the present and in the Presence is a concept that cuts through all the monthly themes. I have observed that greater and greater clarity comes to those who intentionally practice giving their attention to the now.

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment I am delighted to introduce you to this well-written book. And, as with other writings that are conceived with high intention, a high consciousness comes through with the words. The book is The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. Please read my book comments Of course, Eckhart Tolle has been brought to the attention of an even wider audience because of the Internet project with Oprah.

Make this a ONEderful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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Positive Affirmations for the Week of April 8-14, Clarity

April 8th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Clarity, Week 2, Weekly Messages No Comments »

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).

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Clarity
This week’s affirmations are focused on opening to clarity. You receive or accept with the same consciousness in which you give, so this week look at both giving and receiving, and the accompanying attitudes. Examples of receiving are: meditation, relaxing at the beach, having a massage, listening to a friend. Examples of giving are: writing a payment check to the electric company, giving a special item wrapped in colorful paper to Grandma, expressing a compliment. Receiving is receiving. Giving is giving. Also, giving is receiving; receiving is giving. The package is merely the vehicle for your consciousness. The consciousness of love and peace and abundance can permeate all your experiences — giving, receiving, starting, stopping, emptying out, acting, integrating, etc.

About your Process in the Second Week
When I think of the concept of "opening" I often think of a child in a gentle rainstorm with arms and face upward, with an open heart and total trust in the universe. Sometimes this picture includes movement, like a dance; sometimes it is more like a still photo. Always, it is joyful. Your picture may vary from mine, but here is the key question: What is the consciousness of your receiving and accepting? I encourage you to pay special attention to your consciousness during this week.

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for clarity it would be the affirmation for April 13: "I accept clarity, peace, and order in all aspects of my life." It is simple, yet expansive.

Make this an ACCEPTional week!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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March 14, Positive Affirmation for Balance

March 14th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Balance No Comments »

I am ready right now to live in balance and harmony.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Are you ready? Are you sure? Readiness is such a nifty idea because you get to make a choice before you commit the act. Readiness is not about the future, it is about the present. So, if you are ready right now, that is all that matters. You can fill yourself with the energy of readiness. Breathe it. Expand your energy field with its vibration. If anything opposes the readiness, let the opposition come forward so you can speak to it. You can even be ready for non-readiness! You are in charge. Experience the readiness, right now.

About Your Process
In the first week of the month, you worked with affirmations that emptied you of non-balance. This week, you have been opening to ideas and experiences of balance. Tomorrow the DailyAffirm process assists you to move into a deeper relationship with balance so that in the fourth week you can step into balance in a way that you may not even understand now. In the days following the fourth week, you will reflect on integration of balance. Of course, you do not need to wait until the end of the month to live in balance and harmony, so if you feel it is unnecessary to affirm your readiness, simply re-write the affirmation so that it reads. “I live in balance and harmony right now.”

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About the Next Type of Affirmations
This is the last of the Receiving/Accepting Affirmations this month. Before moving to the next type of affirmations (Being/Intending), you may want to re-visit your understanding of your over-arching intention for balance.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Balance for March.

Make this a ready day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Coach and Consultant, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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March 13, Positive Affirmation for Balance

March 13th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Balance No Comments »

I accept balance, harmony, and grace in all aspects of my life.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
This affirmation presents the concept of the Receiving/Accepting affirmations clearly, simply, concisely. You could make it shorter by saying “I accept balance.” However, to articulate (and feel) the specific elements you wish to accept is clarifying both to you and to the Universe. How you feel is important, for if you feel you are compromising or giving up something, you are not truly “accepting.” Acceptance is clear and clean, without conditions or regrets or doubts.

About Your Process
The article “Fire Free Bird” speaks about this kind of acceptance, although I use the word “surrender” in the article. This short article might be inspiring if you are struggling or are challenged with the idea of balance. Likely, you have developed a style of outward action for making things happen — a powerful skill in many settings. When you are progressing on your spiritual journey, though, it is important to blend this quality of outer action with the quality of receptivity or acceptance. That is balance. You may find that you have to go through an interim step to stop the outward action or aggressiveness so that you can experience acceptance as a distinct dynamic.

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About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Balance for March.

Make this a graceful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Coach and Consultant, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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March 12, Positive Affirmation for Balance

March 12th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Balance No Comments »

Balance, you are my friend.
You help me to live in integrity.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
Personifying balance can help you to accept this dynamic into your life, so you can call balance a friend. If you are constantly trying to make things balance, you are not in a friendship, but a contest. Integrity is balance — balance of the inner and outer, balance of above and below, balance of left and right. You perhaps often equate integrity with honesty, which is certainly an important element of integrity. Thinking of integrity as balance can open another facet of this theme that you are exploring this month.

About Your Process
As you work with today’s affirmation, consider the many friends in your life. People and things and ideas might come to your mind. If you have a friendship with your car and your computer, your experiences are different from those created if you see your car or your computer as your enemy or as a set of metal and plastic parts. Take a few moments today to acknowledge several friends. Thank them for being in your life — either thank them directly or with private thoughts of gratitude. Remember family and neighbors and long-ago acquaintances and former co-workers and grade school teachers. If faces of enemies pop into your mind, see them as friends. The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them your friends.

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About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Balance for March.

Make this a friendly day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Coach and Consultant, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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March 11, Positive Affirmation for Balance

March 11th, 2008 Jeanie Marshall Posted in 2-Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, Monthly Theme: Balance No Comments »

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

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

About Today’s Affirmation
This is one of my favorite affirmations. I like its simplicity. You can only see your world look through your own perspective. Your lenses and preferences and backgrounds and ways of seeing are different from others’. Some individuals may be stimulated into understanding balance by seeing children in a playground on a seesaw or by watching a river flow gently on a warm spring day or by feeling a glow. Others may understand balance by getting sick and recovering or by losing a job and finding one that is more suitable than the first. Still others may learn about balance by going on a spiritual retreat or workshop.

About Your Process
When I use the word “balance” or the phrase “energetic balance” in the context of my consulting work, I thing of all parts being in harmony or disharmony with each other — as a symphony. I look at many different layers and levels of the energy field, balancing the energy within each. I balance the energy moving from the top down and the bottom up. I also notice how parts of one layer or level balance or communicate with others (e.g. how the liver is processing anger; how a person’s solar plexus is managing a job conflict). So, I perceive balance as related to (and sometimes synonymous with) clarity, communication, harmony, peace, health, love, and light. As part of your understanding balance more deeply for yourself, consider the words and concepts and experiences that you associate with balance.

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:

  • “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.
  • “Fire Free Bird” recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.

About Practice Meditation Now Program
I have developed a Program with ebook, guided meditations, and email encouragement, all aimed at assisting you to start and maintain a meditation practice. Whether you have never meditated, are a new meditator, or have meditated for a long time, this Program will inspire and encourage you to meditate. You can read all about the Program at http://www.jmvoice.com/practice-meditation.html

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Balance for March.

Make this an understanding day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Coach and Consultant, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice.

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