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June 30, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:01:38 +0000

"Today is an opportunity for joy."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Truly, every day is an opportunity for joy. DailyAffirm names this last day of June as a special opportunity for joy. When you declare an opportunity, you open a space for joy to show up. Here is a quotation to end this theme: "Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy." — Upanishads [c. B.C. 800]

About Your Process
I encourage you to take some time today to review your month’s exploration of joy, which has, of course, included some non-joy. Make notes (mentally or in your computer or on paper) about your progress. Identify what you need to do to bring closure to the theme of joy for you. Remind yourself what it feels like to live in the consciousness of joy.

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.

About the Next Type of Affirmations and New Theme
Tomorrow is a new day. A new month. A new theme. The theme is "Transformation." This is a big word for big change. What does it mean to you? Identify your over-arching intention. That is, what intention do you wish to hold with respect to transformation? Here are a few examples intended to inspire, not limit you: "To be in the flow of life." "To drop the old for the new gracefully." "To change/transform from the inside out." "To transform my human consciousness to my higher self consciousness."

Make this a joyful day!

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

June 29, Positive Affirmation for Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:01:20 +0000

"I integrate joy into my life with every breath I breathe."

About Today’s Affirmation
Your breath is always with you. And you take many breaths each day. One in, paired with one out. Followed by another breath in and out. Some breaths may be shallow; others, deep. Some breaths may be relaxed; others, strained. When you embrace the idea of this wonderful affirmation, you use your breath to integrate and embody joy. In my guided meditations I often say, "breathe in light and breathe out anything unlike the light." And I say many other variations, for example, "breathe in joy, breathe out non-joy." Breathe in what you desire to feel, breathe out what you do not need or desire. Every breath gives you an opportunity to embody joy.

About Your Process
Do you have two minutes? Just two. Good. Take a long, deep breath that clears you with the out-breath and opens you with the in-breath. Very good. Now relax. Slow down. Identify one situation or project or relationship — something that you have been focusing on this month. Close your eyes for a few seconds if that helps you to identify a relevant subject. Continue to breathe deeply. Breathe light into this subject; breathe out heaviness. Breathe in joy; breathe out non-joy. Continue to relax and integrate joy and embody light. When your two minutes have passed, congratulate yourself for receiving this gift of joyful relaxation.

About Related Articles
Here is asuggested article that relate to today’s principles:

"Centering: Purpose and Phrases for a Group" suggests ways to talk about how to focus group participants for more meaningful meetings and other group experiences.

Make this an integrative day!

Positive Affirmations for the Week of June 22-30, Joy

Jeanie Marshall — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:01:53 +0000

Greetings in the last week-plus of June with the theme of Joy at DailyAffirm. This message serves as an overview for the acting and claiming affirmations of this fourth week and the integrating and embodying affirmations of the last three days of the month. 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 an email alert each time a message is published, please subscribe to the Feedblitz announcement (see the lower part of the navigation bar).

About Acting/Claiming Affirmations and Joy
This week’s affirmations help you to step out in joy and with joy. You have been clearing yourself and readying yourself for these outward expressions and manifestations. If you are not quite ready to ACT from the consciousness of joy, then the better choice is to retreat or stand still. Acting from non-joy is detrimental. Focusing on these affirmations keeps your attention on joy and can make you more ready to claim joy later if you are not quite ready now.

About your Process in the Fourth Week
Here is a suggestion for working with this week’s affirmations. Each time you act, ask yourself, "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" Of course, you "act" hundreds of times a day. It may seem unreasonable to you to consider asking yourself "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" hundreds of times a day. Yet, think about it…. you are asking yourself something, so you might as well enhance your awareness with questions such as, "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" Or, "How can I act in the consciousness of joy?" Some of the questions you ordinarily ask yourself may be disempowering, for example, "What have I done wrong this time?" Or neutral, for example, "I wonder who that is (on the phone or at the door)?" Or empowering, "Is this worthy of my attention?" Let the questions you ask yourself this week be about manifesting with joy.

About the Affirmations in the Fourth Week
Usually I find it easy to select the definitive affirmation for the week — or I make up a new one! This week challenges me because I love how most seem to embody so many of the aspects of the ideas of acting and claiming joy. So I select the one which represents an idea that I have experienced many folks are working on right now: "I draw a circle of joy to establish who I am." — the affirmation for June 26.

About Integrating/Embodying Affirmations and Joy
I love the idea of integrating learnings and experiences. I jokingly say that I developed this fifth category of affirmations because I had to do something with those remaining days of the month, but the truth is that this concept of integration is essential and not an afterthought. It is often missed. It is important to honor the in-breath as much as the out-breath. One aspect of the process of integration is to let go of anything you do not need during or after an experience while you keep, use, and experience what you desire.

About your Process in the Remaining Days
As you say "yes to joy" and open to let every situation be an opportunity for joy to express, give yourself permission to release any ideas that do not resonate for you. Be as specific as you can. At the same time you sort through the thoughts and feelings to release, allow your consciousness to embody all those thoughts and feelings you wish to keep. If you have been journaling about the affirmations or if you have completed other exercises, review those. Clean up your email files, etc.

Make this a powerful week-plus!

May 31, Positive Affirmation for Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:01:25 +0000

Today is an opportunity for trust.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation

Ode to Today

Today, today.
Today is everyday.
Today is all I know.
Today is when I grow.
Today I created from yesterdays’ todays.
Today I create tomorrows’ today.
Today is an opportunity.
Today I trust.
Today is.
I Am.

About Your Process
So, whad’ja gonna do today? Are you going to let today be an opportunity for trust? Are you going to make today be an opportunity for trust? Either approach works, if it is appropriate for you. If you are in a Receiving/Accepting mode, let the opportunities for trust come to you. If you are in an Acting/Claiming mode, create the opportunities for trust to occur.

About Our Next Theme (When Tomorrow is Today)
It is a new month: June. The theme is Joy. When I originally meditated on this theme in preparation for the daily writing, I heard the song "Joy to the World" ringing in my ears. This is not the version sung in Christian churches at Christmas time, but the delightful 3-Dog Night version, the one about "joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea, joy to you and me. Jooooy to the World." During the first week, we work with Releasing/Cleansing Affirmations.

Make this an opportune day!

May 30, Positive Affirmation for Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:01:35 +0000

I integrate trust into every aspect of my life.

About Today’s Affirmation
Every means every. Every aspect of your life includes the places and things and people you think about as well as the obvious aspects, such as career, relationship, health, family, home. As you give your thoughts — your attention — to other people, places, things, and ideas, you include them in your life. So it is important that your thoughts be worthy of your attention.

About Your Process
Is there any little — or big — part of your life in which trust needs to be integrated? You may find that simply inviting trust to exist in this place is all that is needed. Perhaps you feel it is more complicated or that something else has to happen first. Can you trust yourself to let go of all the conditions and qualifiers and excuses and complaints and habits to just trust? I believe in you. I believe you can just trust, starting right now. Today. This minute. Instantly. At once. Immediately. Instantaneously. Unhesitantly. Tout de suite. Now.

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

"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.
"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.

Make this a whole day!

May 29, Positive Affirmation for Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:01:12 +0000

Yes to Trust!

About Today’s Affirmation
Yes, this is a time of integrating trust. Yes, this is a time of embodying trust. In an article that is online at my Web site ("Strategies for the Highest Good"), I include the following as one of the strategies: "Know that the Universe has only one response: it is yes. When you say, "I hate that," the Universe says "yes" by providing experiences of hatred because hatred has your attention. When you say "I love that," the Universe responds with experiences of love because love has your attention. The beliefs and thoughts you hold have an energy that travels; that same energy travels back to you, magnified."

About Your Process
To what do you desire to say "yes"? Is it trust? Is it deep trust? Is it trust in a particular thing or idea? Is it trust in yourself? Is it trust in the Universe? As you focus firmly on your vision of trust, be certain that you use this powerful concept expressed in this affirmation to produce the experiences you truly desire. Yes is a powerful fuel that activates conditions and experiences.

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

"Strategies for the Highest Good" presents simple techniques for living in the consciousness of the highest good.
"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.

Make this an affirmative day!

Positive Affirmations for the Week of May 22-31, Trust

Jeanie Marshall — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:27:17 +0000

Greetings! This message serves as an overview for the acting and claiming affirmations of this fourth week and the integrating and embodying of the last three days of the month at DailyAffirm. 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).

About Acting/Claiming Affirmations and Trust
First of all, remember that "stop" and "silence" are also aspects of acting and claiming. I say this so that you do not interpret the affirmations this week as needing to be aggressive or noisy. Trust, itself, has a rather quiet energy — smooth, and calming. When you envision yourself or others acting with trust, you usually see confidence, assurance, peace. Trust is, first and foremost, an act of self-trust. When you trust yourself, you know when others are trustworthy.

About your Process in the Fourth Week
Since your "process" is about "how" you do things, you might want to focus on how you act when you trust. Observe yourself, for example, when you trust yourself or a situation or another person. . . How does this feel? How do you think about the objects of trust? How do you speak? How do you give your attention to something or someone? How do you show that you trust? Observe yourself, also, when you do not trust yourself or a situation or another person. . . How does this feel? How do your feelings connect with your thoughts? How do you speak? How do your actions, words, and thoughts align with your attention?

About the Affirmations in the Fourth Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent being and intending for trust it would be "I let every act be an act of trust," the affirmation for May 27. When you know the truth of this affirmation, you learn about trust through everything you do.

About Integrating/Embodying Affirmations and Trust
Bless these remaining days of the month, days that allow you to integrate and embody the theme of trust. It is not so important that you learn something new, but that you know what you have learned in the deepest possible way. Breathe trust into your lungs and cells and muscles. Relax; reflect.

About your Process in the Remaining Days
If you have been writing about your experiences this month, you might want to review your notes. Anything that does not fit can be released. Relax and allow the integration to happen effortlessly. Rejoice in the consciousness of trust.

Make this a splendid week-plus!

April 30, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

Jeanie Marshall — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:01:10 +0000

Today is an opportunity for clarity.

Greetings! Our theme is Clarity. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying clarity at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
"Today is an opportunity" is printed on the inside flap of the book on which these affirmations are based. When you consider that every day is an opportunity, you are right! You find what you seek. Feel Clarity in every cell of your being as this month comes to a close.

About Your Process
This is the last day of April; this is the last day for exploring clarity as a theme on DailyAffirm until next year. But, as with all the monthly themes, you will find that clarity is an important energy to tap into on a regular basis. As you reflect on your experiences this month, consider how you have changed. Many of you send email messages to tell me how these affirmations are supporting you in changing your consciousness. When you notice your own evolution, you evolve even more.

About the Next Type of Affirmations and New Theme
This is the last of the Integrating/Embodying Affirmations, and the final affirmations for Clarity. Tomorrow, DailyAffirm begins a new month and a new theme. The theme is Trust. I encourage you to develop an over-arching intention for Trust so that you can benefit more deeply from the affirmations. During the first week, we work with Releasing/Cleansing Affirmations.

Make this a yummy day!

April 29, Positive Affirmation for Clarity

Jeanie Marshall — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:01:20 +0000

Yes to Clarity!

About Today’s Affirmation
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About Your Process
As you talk with someone, notice where the clarity is in the conversation. As you eat your meals, notice how clarity shows up in the food or on the plate or at the table. If "nonclarity" comes into your awareness, no problem, just use the nonclarity to remind you that you want clarity.

"Say Goodbye to Struggle" encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
"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 Book of the Month Recommendation
This month’s recommended book speaks eloquently to the importance of living in the present moment. Greater and greater clarity comes into our lives when we practice awareness of the now. The constant now is a clear consciousness from which we can create magnificence. I recommend The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. Please read my book comments.

Make this an affirming day!

Positive Affirmations for the Week of April 22-30, Clarity

Jeanie Marshall — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:01:49 +0000

Greetings! This message serves as an overview for the acting and claiming affirmations of this fourth week and the integrating and embodying of the last three days of the month. Read the information on the sidebars for additional information. The messages will be here for you Day by Day. Check in as often as you want; participate in the ways that are appropriate for 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 Acting/Claiming Affirmations and Clarity
To act with clarity is powerful when you acknowledge divine clarity. If you believe you know who is right and wrong and who is bad and good, this is not divine clarity, but self righteousness. A clear and high intention sets the foundation for actions that are clear and rewarding. Every action you take is an opportunity for personal development and empowerment. More important, every action is an opportunity for joy and further clarity.

About your Process in the Fourth Week
Each day this week, you may want to become more conscious of each action in these ways: (1) Set an intention for the action; (2) Write down the intention; (3) Be fully present in the action; (4) Reflect on the action afterward to determine if what you manifested was in alignment with the original intention; (5) Be good to yourself while you are learning as well as after mastering this process.

About the Affirmations in the Fourth Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent being and intending for clarity it would be “I let every act be an act of clarity” which is the affirmation for April 27. It associates the idea of clarity with everything that you do.

About Integrating/Embodying Affirmations and Clarity
These two days, following the four weeks of April, present an opportunity to integrate the ideas about clarity that you wish to take with you on the rest of your journey. Anything that does not fit, leave alone. If you try to take on something that you cannot assimilate, you will make the releasing work of the beginning of May more difficult. Trust yourself to know what works for you.

About your Process in the Remaining Days
You may find it helpful to identify some of the affirmations that stood out as particularly meaningful to you this month. If you have kept a journal, you will reinforce and therefore further integrate the ideas by reviewing your journal entries. Rereading selected messages for this month will assist you in embodying the concepts.

Make this a powerful week-plus!

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