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June 5, Positive Affirmation for Joy

June 5th, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

"I cut negative bonds of attachment to despair, depression, and desperation.
I untie the knots and the nots."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This first week of the month we work with releasing and cleansing non-joy. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation and suggestions for your process. See top tabs and navigation bar links for more information and resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
Attachments come in all shapes and sizes. Some talk to you; others are silent. Some are joyful (like happy marriages); some are painful (like unhappy divorces). "Cannots" and restraints and doubts often look like knots in the energy field. These knots can be untied. Negative bonds can be cut. Working with imagery in the energy field is powerful, and usually more effective than pondering the thing to which you are attached and the circumstances of the attachments. You can also untie the bonds to depressing history or disempowering current events.

About Your Process
This affirmation is particularly appropriate for using the power of imagery or visualization. Ask yourself, "What attachment limits my experience of joy?" Close your eyes (to minimize distraction of physical input) and ask for an image from your inner guidance. This image can come to you in any number of ways: through your vision or hearing or sensations in your physical body or intuition. If you receive information about knots and ties, work with them — untie the knots, cut the ties. This will be much more empowering than trying to tackle the thing to which you have appeared to be negatively attached (you probably already know this is true, because you have been working on this for years!) Finish it! It is time to step into joy.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the Empowering Personal Development Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Pluck it for the Bucket" describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.
"Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.

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 Transformation for July.

Make this a winning day!

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June 4, Positive Affirmation for Joy

June 4th, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

"I release memories that allowed belief in pain and struggle.
The energy of these memories is now used in more empowering ways."

About Today’s Affirmation
"Memories" can be the obvious memories you remember in your conscious awareness. In addition, you hold "memories" at other levels of consciousness. Every experience leaves a mark in the energy field. Your parents and lovers and friends and associates also hold memories that you sometimes step into — sometimes as easily as you might step into cow flop on a stroll in a pasture. It is as easy to slip out of a belief in pain and struggle as to slip into a belief in pain and struggle. The way in is the way out. If you find it easy to believe in pain and struggle, guess what? It is just as easy (and a lot more fun) to believe in non-pain and non-struggle: joy and trust and peace and harmony.

About Your Process
It is not necessary to sift through and recall all the memories of pain and struggle that you are releasing this week. Figuring out "why" and "who did what" can be quite debilitating and can slow your process at the very time that you want to accelerate it. Let it go. Take it to the trash. Or drop it in the pasture. As that stuff in the pasture turns from foul excrement to nurturing fertilizer, so, too, the sticky stuff of pain is transformed into an energy that is revitalizing. Let it go from your energy field. Take one step at a time. One thought at a time. One day at a time.

"Say Goodbye to Struggle" encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
"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.
"Pluck it for the Bucket" describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.

Make this an empowering day!

June 3, Positive Affirmation for Joy

June 3rd, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

"I let go of everything that appears to prevent or block joy.
I cancel the picture created by the expression, ‘no pain, no gain.’"

About Today’s Affirmation
In 1991 I wrote an article that was published in the Los Angeles Whole Life Times called, "Let’s Wipe out this Expression, ‘No Pain, No Gain.’" A variation of this article appeared in the July 1991 Issue of the Marshall House Journal. My intention was to stir up some interest in eradicating this debilitating expression. My thinking of today is that replacement is a much more effective approach than eradication, which is not really possible anyway. Working together, we can find one or more replacements.

About Your Process
I encourage you to search your own repertoire of expressions that may keep you stuck in pain or struggle or other experiences of non-joy. You can cancel the negative effects of disempowering thoughts, but identifying them first is helpful. When words are combined with strong feelings and images, the impact is greatly enhanced. Use today’s affirmation, or a variation, to cancel negativity of expressions that tend to create non-joyful experiences. It is even more important to identify empowering statements, so do not spend too long on this assignment.

"Watch Your Language" lists common negative expressions, encouraging you to avoid their use.
"Let’s Replace this Expression: ‘No Pain, No Gain’" encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.

Make this a rewarding day!

June 2, Positive Affirmation for Joy

June 2nd, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

"I rescind obsolete vows of struggle, sacrifice, and unworthiness.
Angels lift this heaviness."

About Today’s Affirmation
This is one of the variations of the "vows of limitation" affirmation. As you recognize what gets in the way of joy for you, you may find that you have created a rule or vow or limiting belief about that very thing. You can not harm angels by giving them the heaviness of outdated beliefs and vows and struggle and pain, but you can lighten your own load. Angels are here for all humanity. Someone in the human body must ask for their help because they do not interfere in human lives. They watch, fascinated and amused by acts of limitation, but they do not act without invitation. Our beckoning invites them to act in accordance with the divine.

About Your Process
I suggest you scan your life for the limiting vows or ideas that you believe, that you hold to be true. For example, do you believe there is not enough money? This is a false belief. The appearance of "not enough money" presents itself as an experience because it is a manifestation of the belief itself. The experience or "proof" shows up because of the power of the beliefs. Experiences of "not enough money" are created to demonstrate thoughts of lack. I pick the belief in "not enough money" because it is so prevalent. Perhaps you are rescinding a different vow or false belief today or this week. P.S. If you start to argue that there truly is "not enough money" you are arguing for limitations. You have a right to do this, I simply wish to mention this just in case you are inclined to step into that trap. (Incidentally, DailyAffirm explores the theme of Abundance in September.)

About Rescinding Limiting Beliefs
I have posted an article at my Web Site explaining the process of rescinding limiting beliefs. This extensive article is available in several sections. Click on the link below to read the article.

"Money, Prosperity, Abundance" presents the dynamics of these three energies, and encourages you to release the fears related to lack and limitation.
"Rescinding Obsolete Thoughts and Limiting Beliefs" explains how to erase or rescind outdated vows so that current promises and desires can flourish.
"Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
"Ending Poverty Consciousness" distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.

Make this an enLIGHTening day!

June 1, Positive Affirmation for Joy

June 1st, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

"I give myself permission to release rage and pain
easily and joyously from every level of the energy field."

About Today’s Affirmation
Giving yourself permission (or hearing permission from others) is often the all-important catalyst for change. This affirmation and many variations of it have evolved over several years. It gives me great joy to present this version today. May it guide you in effortless and joyous releasing. You can let go of non-joy joyously.

About Your Process
Please re-state this affirmation to make it meaningful to you. The main question before changing it is: What gets in the way of your experiencing joy? If it is anger, replace rage and/or pain with the word "anger." If it is a person, put the person’s name right in the affirmation. If it is your job, name your job so that you release the resistance (and maybe even the job itself!) from your energy field. If you tinker with the phrase "easily and joyously," replace it with something else that reminds you that this is to be an effortless and enjoyable process. This affirmation really works.

About Related Articles and Book
I recommend that you write one or more of this week’s affirmation. I have developed a process which is described in the book, "Affirmations : A Pathway to Transformation" and in an article entitled, "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment." You may also enjoy reading other articles located in our Articles Section, including:

"Watch Your Language" lists common negative expressions, encouraging you to avoid their use.
"Let’s Replace this Expression: ‘No Pain, No Gain’" encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.
"Writing Affirmations for Empowerment" offers a specific writing process to enhance the effectiveness of certain affirmations.

Make this a freeing day!

Positive Affirmations for the Week of June 1-7, Joy

June 1st, 2009 Jeanie Posted in Affirmations, Joy, Personal Development, Theme: Joy, positive affirmation No Comments »

Greetings in the 1st week of June with the theme of Joy at DailyAffirm, which you may want to think of as deep happiness from within. In this message, I will 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 (each service is slightly different).

About Your Over-arching Intention
If you have not already done so, please identify your over-arching intention for Joy. That is, develop a statement that guides you in the exploration and embodiment of Joy. Intention is the energy or consciousness from which actions just make an attempt. Keep it simple. You have 30 days to work with the intention and the theme, so let your statement change and deepen. Here are a few suggestions for statements of intention about the theme of Joy: *To know joy. *To resonate with the energy of joy. *To feel joy in each moment. *To stay in the consciousness of joy, regardless of the circumstances. *To be a place for joy to live.

About Releasing/Cleansing Affirmations and Joy
The key idea this week is: what gets in the way of joy? Pain, for example, tends to block joy or distract you from joy. Fears and old, stuck emotions are the opposite of joy. Resistance makes joy inaccessible. As you clear non-joy from your energy field, you become more focused on the idea and the manifestation of joy. If you desire to have a beautiful garden, you remove the weeds and clutter. It is that simple. This week, prune non-joy. Fertilize the soil and the soul with the clippings. Life is a process. And in the next cycle, the process repeats.

About Your Process in the First Week
I recommend that you write this week’s affirmations, if such a process appeals to you. I’ve developed a process which is described in the book, "Affirmations: A Pathway to Transformation" and in the article entitled, "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment." This article is posted at one of my Web site along with 40 others, http://www.mhmail.com and then click on Articles by Jeanie.

About the Affirmations in the First Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent releasing and cleansing for Joy it would be the affirmation: "I rescind obsolete vows of struggle, sacrifice, and unworthiness. Angels lift this heaviness." I find that the baggage of ancient vows and beliefs tends to hold many individuals in a consciousness of bondage. The June 2 affirmation helps to dissolve the limitations.

Give Thanks for EVERYTHING In Your Life

November 26th, 2008 Edward Mills Posted in Joy, Personal Growth, appreciation, emotional scale, emotions, gratitude, grief, sadness, thanksgiving No Comments »

As we prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US I find myself in an interesting space with lots of opportunity for personal growth. This is the first Thanksgiving since my wife and I separated. So my daughter, Ella, and I will be hosting a small gathering at our house. We’ll be with some wonderful friends celebrating and offering our gratitude for the blessing in our lives.

But, even knowing this, as Ella and I spent time yesterday preparing for the holiday - shopping, cleaning, etc., - I felt a deep sadness threatening to overwhelm me: For the first time in 8 years I will not be celebrating the holiday with Melissa. And for the first time in at least 3 years, we will not be traveling east to join in the celebration with my parents, siblings and other family members.

While the holidays are “marketed” as a time of joy and love, they can also catalyze emotions at the other end of the emotional spectrum including sadness, grief, depression, anger and more. When these “darker” emotions show up, especially around the holidays, there can be a tendency to push them away. After all this is a time of giving thanks, a time for celebrating and appreciating family and friends. This is not the time to be grappling with sadness.

At least that’s what the prevailing “wisdom” says.

Yesterday, I found myself listening to that wisdom and attempting to deny the sadness. It was easy to justify the pushing away: I’ve already done plenty of grieving over the dissolution of our family. There’s no need for more. Especially not at this time of giving thanks.

I should be focusing on all of the blessings in my life, right?

Yes. Absolutely.

Of course the trap that most of us fall into is to give thanks for the things that we like while avoiding, denying or suppressing that which we don’t enjoy quite so much.

Perhaps we are thankful for the new car you have, but don’t feel quite so grateful each time we write the check to pay the car loan each month.

Maybe we give thanks for the way our partner holds us while we’re falling asleep, but don’t feel quite so grateful when he or she leaves dirty dishes in the sink.

Or perhaps, like me, you are grateful for the joy the holiday season brings, but not so willing to embrace the feelings of sadness that may also arrive.

Yesterday I got to watch myself turning my back on the sadness, attempting to push it back down into the shadows. I observed myself eating when I wasn’t hungry. I watched myself go shopping for Thanksgiving dinner and buy way more food than we needed. I saw myself calling friends, seeking the solace of connection.

And in all of these activities I was aware of my desire to fill the deep sadness and emptiness I felt inside.

It was not until late last night, after Ella was asleep, that I was able to let go of the resistance and allow myself to fully embrace that sadness.

The key for me was to stop running from the sadness, and to acknowledge it, appreciate it and allow it to flow, unrestricted, through me. And the interesting, though not surprising, thing is that as soon as I released my resistance, the intensity of the experience immediately decreased.

Once my resistance was gone, and the sadness could flow through me, unencumbered, there was no more pressure building up inside of me. Just like a river that encounters a fallen log on its journey to the ocean, my sadness encountered resistance in its path and had no choice but to push against it.

If you’ve ever seen a river smashing up against an obstacle you’ve seen how powerful that force can be. And if you have ever attempted to cross a river with a decent current you have actually felt that power.

Emotion is an equally powerful force.

It can be helpful to think of emotion as E - Motion or Energy in Motion. When you attempt to block or resist the emotional flow of energy it is like building a damn of logs and rocks in a very strong river: It might last for awhile, but eventually the force of the current is going to go over, around or through that resistance.

And when that happens, there’s going to be a big mess downstream as all of those rocks and logs start bashing into things as they get pushed along by that initial blast. And the longer you have been building that dam, the bigger the explosion will be.

Been there, done that!

In the past, I have been very good at resisting emotions. I became an expert at building dams and shoring them up as the pressure builds: Piling on more and more logs and boulders to hold that Energy in Motion back. And I have experienced the explosive destruction that happens when that dam finally breaks. When that happens there is nothing to do except hold on and hope you can ride out the wave without getting pounded by the tumbling rocks and logs!

Yesterday, when I realized what I was doing, I consciously chose to move the resistance out of the way and let the sadness continue on its journey. The beautiful thing is that when you take conscious control of the process, you can choose, to a certain extent, how much of that E-motion you want to flow.

There is, without a doubt, some unpredictability to emotion, but when you stop resisting it, and start acknowledging and appreciating it, you can choose to open up the flow bit by bit rather than all at once.

One of the keys, along with acknowledgment, is appreciation. When you appreciate your emotions, yes, all of them, you immediately dissolve the resistance. Resistance and appreciation cannot coexist.

Now you might wonder why you would want to appreciate sadness. After all, sadness doesn’t feel good. Right?

Wrong.

It’s not the sadness that feels bad, it’s the resistance to the sadness that feels bad.

Release the resistance and the E-Motion can move again. And any time emotions are flowing - the energy is in motion - it feels good. Yes, even sadness!

The strange thing I’ve discovered is that when I release my resistance and allow myself to really dive into the sadness, it actually feels good. Often, I find that the tears of sadness lead seamlessly into tears of joy. At some point, as the tears flow, I realize they have shifted from sadness to joy.

Not always. Sometimes it is just sadness that needs to flow. And that is all right as well. Because when the resistance is gone and the energy of sadness can be in motion, it does not get stuck anywhere. No pressure builds up and that movement of energy is awakening.

So my encouragement for you on this Thanksgiving is to appreciate everything in your life. Along with all of your obvious blessings, look to appreciate the blessings that come to you in “disguise.”

Appreciate the mess you have to clean up to get your house ready for the family. Appreciate the mess they leave after Thanksgiving dinner. Appreciate all the ways your family manages to get under your skin. Appreciate the arguments and the hugs, the bickering and the banter. Appreciate it all.

Yes, even appreciate any sadness or anger that comes up. Appreciation is the process that dissolves resistance. Appreciation removes those logs and boulders and allows your energy to flow - ALL of your energy.

And the amazing thing is that when you appreciate everything in your life, you begin to find more and more people, experiences, emotions, thoughts and things coming into your life to appreciate.

Are You Ready to Step Out of The Fear and Into the Fun?

October 28th, 2008 Edward Mills Posted in Art of Allowing, Inspiration, Joy, Personal Growth No Comments »

Personal Growth Roller Coaster Ride You know those butterflies you get in your stomach when you go over a hill while you’re driving, or swinging really high at the playground, or zooming down the big hill on a roller coaster? My daughter and I call them “Whoop-dee-doops.” As we’re driving, she’ll say, “Dada, I got a whoop-dee-doop.” And I’ll say “Me too. That was a good one!” “Uh huh!” She replies. Well, I don’t know about you, but this economic roller coaster ride we’re on is giving me lots of whoop-dee-doops! And, while I’ll admit that they don’t all feel great, I’m mostly enjoying the ride and having a really fun time with so many opportunities for growth and expansion. You see, it really is like a roller coaster ride. When you wait in line, give the attendant your ticket and climb into that car, you know you’re not going to climb out right when it gets to the top of that first big uphill. Nope, you’re going to get that thrill and that whoop-dee-doop on the way down. We’re in a similar situation right now in our lives. We’ve waited in line, gotten into the car, made it to the top of that first big hill and now we’re on the way down. Too late to jump out! So we might as well enjoy the ride. I mean, we’re on it anyway! And that’s just what I’m doing! And this Thursday, I’d love to share a few of the Energetic tools that I’m using to stay out of the fear that is swirling all around us and open up to the thrill and excitement of the ride. From 5:30pm – 6:30pm (Pacific Time) this Thursday, I’m offering a free teleclass where you will learn some simple energetic techniques to help you thrive in this environment of fear and chaos. I’ll show you how to enjoy the whoop-dee-doops. In addition to learning why this time in our history is such an amazing opportunity for Deliberate Creators to thrive, you’ll learn 3 very specific energetic techniques to help you take advantage of this opportunity:

A very simple breathing technique to help you release fear and connect with joy.
An easy 5-minute energy cleansing tool you can use morning and evening to keep your personal energy space clear.
A grounding technique you can use anywhere, anytime to calm and soothe any frenetic, fear-based, energy in your space.

If you are looking for some support and guidance on how to effectively navigate these turbulent times, you’ll want to be on this call. Space is limited on this call, so to guarantee your spot, use the link below to register. I look forward to speaking with you on Thursday and enjoying a whoop-dee-doop or two! To your greatness. Ed

7 Ways To Get A Positive Start On The Day

February 6th, 2008 Edward Mills Posted in Deliberate Creation, Intentions, Joy, Law of Attraction, Personal Growth, Well-Being, gratitude, life hacks, love, mornings, positive vibes, smile, waking up No Comments »

How do you start your day? Is your first act intentional? Is it a reaction to something? Or is your first act of each completely random?

As a Deliberate Creator, every conscious act matters. And one way to get every day off to a great start is to make your first act of the day intentional. So here are a few suggestions that you might want to consider for your first conscious action of the day.

Smile: You’ll be amazed at how powerful that one act can be at setting the tone for your day. Do it no matter how tired you are, no matter how little sleep you got, no matter how much you’re dreading some aspect of your day. Smile. I love this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh: “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” When you think of something that brings you joy, a smile is likely to come naturally. Remember that a smile can brighten a person’s day. And if you wake up with a smile, it just might be your day that gets brighter.

Think of something joyful: Maybe you feel strange putting a smile on your face for no reason. (If you do, stop it!) But one alternative is to think of something that brings you joy and let that thought bring a smile to your face.

Think of your primary intention: What is the single most important intention that you have right now? How would your day change if your first thought upon arising was a positive thought about that intention?

Look at your primary intention: Remember Jack Canfield’s story in The Secret? He taped a “$100,000 bill” to the ceiling above his bed so the first thing he would see every morning would remind him of his primary intention. You can do something similar. Come up with an image, object or phrase that reminds you of your intention and tape it to the ceiling or place it beside your bed. And each morning, make sure your first act is looking at it and feeling it.

Send a positive thought to someone else: Sending a prayer or other positive thought to someone is a wonderful way to start your day. In order to send positive vibes to someone else, your vibration must be positive. So starting your day this way ensures that your vibration will start out positive.

Give thanks for what you have: One of the best ways to empower your day is to begin with gratitude. Instead of allowing your mind to jump to all the stuff you have to get done that day, intentionally guide your mind to focus on and express gratitude for all the wonderful things that you already have.

Say I love you: If you share a bed with a partner (and even if you don’t) one great way to set a positive tone for your day is to say “I love you” to them (or someone else) before you even get out of bed.

These are just a few suggestions. Any one of them will help you set a positive tone for the entire day… If you do it!