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July 15: Unique vision Today I will see what I see. It is in allowing myself my own unique
perspective that I gain a sort of individualized point of view to
operate from. Just because others don't share my vision of a thing
doesn't make it wrong. In fact, sometimes it is when I am willing to
follow through on my own perception or solution that I make my greatest
contribution to myself and others. I take pleasure in my own point of
view. It's fun and it gives a congruency to my life when I live from my
inside to my outside. Today I am willing to allow that flow to take
place. I see that the things I do and surround myself with are metaphors
for what goes on inside of me. I have fun being me. I let the artist in me see out.
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
Walt Disney
Tags: Affirmations
July 14: Genuineness Today I will be genuine. Soul can only function well through a clean and
wholesome vehicle. Ultimately, it is my genuineness and my sincerity
that will be recognized and rewarded by life. When I am true and
sincere, I receive help and support from unseen regions - I open myself
up to what is good and pure. Others recognize and reward sincerity. They
appreciate it and don't feel compromised or taken advantage of when they
lend a helping hand. Living a genuine life aligns my energies with what
is good and positive in this world. It opens me to the clean energy of
soul and allows more of me to operate. When I am genuine, I am fully who
I am. By being this I have access to what makes me unique. When I am
unique, I have something to offer that only I can offer, something to
give that only I can give. I am a genuine and sincere person.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 July 13: Mature Needs
Today I realize that part of maturity is to accept that I cannot
necessarily have everything just the way I want it. The thought that I
should be able to act out everything in adulthood that I wasn't able to
as a child just doesn't work. When children's needs go unmet, they carry
into adulthood a desire to have all of their needs catered to. This is
the stuff of co-dependent, problematic relationships. To be aware of
one's needs is what is important. From this intelligence, mature
decisions can be made. Because I am aware of my needs does not
necessarily mean that someone else has to meet them or that I have a
right to expect them to. Negating another person's presence will do
nothing to enhance my own. I am ready to grow up.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
I Corinthians 13:11
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July 12: Body Memories My body carries memory and knowledge. Understanding and thought are
distributed throughout all the cells in my body. Who I am is stored in
my physical self. Today when I think positively, I will allow and invite
my entire body to carry a positive thought. I will instruct each cell
within me to be active, healthy and vibrant. Each time that I feel I am
getting low on reserves, I will open all of my body to receiving
uplifting light and energy from the universe. I am not a talking head-I
am a body, mind and spirit, alive in all of me. I ask my body to wake up and live.
Those sessions with Ed clarified what I had intuited . . . that matters
of the spirit as well as memories, emotions and ideas are embedded in
muscle, intestine and lungs. They are not separate things, but layers of
the self . . . In the precise moment of feeling his elbow in my gluteal
muscles, I could focus on a sharp physical pain, or the memory of my
father's anger, or the bliss of merging with cosmic forces. They were
all there in that single instant.
Don Hanlon Johnson
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July 11: Ritual In Life Today I respect the need for ritual in my life. Reunions with old
friends and family that mark time and help me to realize that I care
about others and am cared about by them are deeply important. To
understand that life has seasons, that they change and flow into one
another, each looking different but retaining a kind of connection helps
me to remember that I am on a journey. That life is meant to be lived
and understood and appreciated. Rituals help me to make transitions.
They show me how far I have come and where I need to go. They allow me a
structure through which to celebrate life and grieve loss. They provide
me with an opening into the world of experience through using their
structure as a gateway. I am open to organizing and being a part of important events.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in
you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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July 10: The All Soul Plotinus speaks of the individual soul as indivisible from the All Soul.
That is, each of us has encoded into our physical, emotional and
spiritual being the same stuff of soul contained within the very heart
of God. In fact, we are that heart or that soul - one and the same.
There is no moment in life when we are separate from soul, no place to
go that is without the presence of soul. Soul is anywhere and
everywhere. As I deepen my ability to sit quietly within myself, to be
present in the here and now, I deepen my connection with my
individualized soul, which is one and the same with the universal soul
or the All-Soul. I recognize the wisdom of the ancients as equally
applicable today. The soul of the ancestors is my soul also. I am
connected to history through spiritual energy. I trust that I am connected to divine energy from within.
A road that does not lead to other roads, always has to be retraced,
unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
Tehyi Hsieh
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July 9: Dealing With Shame Today I will remember that Rome was not built in a day, and I will not
be all that I wish to be overnight. When I act in ways that I later feel
shame about, I will remind myself that to feel shame and release it is
healthy - to get lost in it will get me into trouble. When I hold onto
shame, I run the risk that I will eventually resent the feeling and look
for other people to pin it on or to blame. Or in order to release the
pain of feeling ashamed myself, I may act it out by shaming someone
else. Today when I feel shame, I will remember that no one is perfect
and that I need not be either. I make prompt amends to anyone I may
hurt, including myself, and move on in my day. I am capable of moving past shame.
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it hath.
The Talmud
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July 8: Unconscious Motivations If I am doing something that doesn't work, today I will look for
possible unconscious motivations. Early wounds need to be brought up to
a conscious level where I can see and feel them. Repeating
self-destructive behaviors is a futile attempt to correct the original
imbalance. I look for deeper reasons.
What is so striking in Flaubert . . . is his probably unconscious
insight that behind what pretends to be freedom lies hidden a deep and
very early dependency. It is the dependency of someone who was not
permitted to say no because his mother could not bear it, and who
therefore refuses all his life to commit himself to his partners in the
hope of making up for what was never possible with his mother-namely, to
say, "I am your child but you have no right to my whole being and my
whole life." Since the seducer is able to assume this attitude toward
women only as an adult but not in the early relationship with his
mother, his conquests cannot undo his original defeat, and since the
pain of early childhood is merely concealed, not cured, by these
conquests, the old wounds cannot heal. The repetition compulsion is
perpetuated.
Alice Miller
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July 7: Being Myself Today I will build on my own strengths; my days of copying are over.
When I try to make myself like other people, it never works. When I give
myself away by trying to be someone who will interest others, I lose my
own center. Other people's authority can be a powerful drug. It's a
great temptation either to placate or to challenge it. Neither need be
done. Being myself is my greatest defense against falling prey either to
the desire to become other people or to take them on in a contest of
wills. Staying with who I am and risking feeling alone will ultimately
be more help to me than trying to align myself with others for my
security. I can be myself
Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty.
Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser
thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.
Jean Cocteau
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