Affirmation for What I am

I accept and respect myself for who I am.
I am who I want to be, and only I have the power to change who I am.

You already possess all of the power and resources required to create anything you choose.
To unlock that power, all it takes is a willingness to change.

Affirmations are statements of truth that help us to feel differently to act differently. It is these new actions that create miracles. What could you accomplish if you believed that?

• You are powerful.
• You are talented.
• You are enough.
• You have or can get the resources you need.
• Your past does not have to determine your future.
• You only have to take the first step.

Most of the time, it is our own thoughts that get in the way of success. Positive thinking re-programs our minds to believe what is true about life. Fear and worry are only barriers if you allow them to prevent you from taking steps toward a life you fall in love with.

• Affirmations help to affirm positives and counteract negatives
• Affirmations program the conscious and unconscious mind to focus on what you want
• Affirmations can help turn negative self-talk into positive self-talk
• Affirmations can change negative habits into positive ones.

Every thought you think, every word you say, is an affirmation. All of our self-talk or inner dialogue is a stream of affirmations. We are continually affirming subconsciously with our words and thoughts and this flow of affirmations is creating our life experience in every moment. Our beliefs are just learned thought-patterns that we have developed since childhood, many of these work well for us, but others may now be working against us.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Don’t force yourself to believe it, just say it. All you have to do is repeat it over and over again and the affirmation will quite naturally have an effect. After all, you don’t force yourself to believe that the medication your doctor has given you will work. You just take the prescribed dosage and assume it will. So too with affirmations; just repeating the statement many times will cause it to work for you.
The more often you use it, the purer your aura will become.
Stand in front of the mirror and repeat it to yourself daily. You might feel silly in the beginning, but who cares and who’s listening?! Do it in your own quiet time when nobody is around.


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Abundance

Do you know that everyday you are unconsciously reliving successes or failures? By playing these positive or negative tapes over and over in the mind, you are literally planning and practicing your future.
Thoughts form habits.

When you learn to discipline your thoughts and concentrate on the positive, you’ll be creating the habit of success.

Success, happiness and self-satisfaction come from within.

Believe without exception that, “I can do it!” and you will.

Success and happiness also depend on your willingness to persist when the going gets tough.
Often, giving up too soon is the reason most people fail to find their most satisfying successes.
Your belief in yourself determines what you’ll accomplish.

Your mind is always programming itself to keep you happy and content in the world you’ve created. Beating yourself up about negative habits only tightens their hold over you. And feeling guilty only makes them stronger.

"You can replace old habits by creating new, more positive ones. Research has shown that it takes about twenty-one days to change a habit."
- Sharon A. Michaels

Pop Quiz
Q: How do you find love, health, abundance, or enlightenment?
A: Stop searching. And start seeing what’s been there all along.

Note from the Universe :
Today, you are a magnet…
for infinite abundance, divine intelligence, and unlimited love.
Actually, this has always been true.
You are the reason the sun came up today.
BELIEVE IT!


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The habit of religion

Processionary caterpillars travel in long, undulating lines, one creature behind the other. Jean Hanri Fabre, the French entomologist, once lead a group of these caterpillars onto the rim of a large flowerpot so that the leader of the procession found himself nose to tail with the last caterpillar in the procession, forming a circle without end or beginning.

Through sheer force of habit and, of course, instinct, the ring of caterpillars circled the flowerpot for seven days and seven nights, until they died from exhaustion and starvation. An ample supply of food was close at hand and plainly visible, but it was outside the range of the circle, so the caterpillars continued along the beaten path.

People often behave in a similar way. Habit patterns and ways of thinking become deeply established, and it seems easier and more comforting to follow them than to cope with change, even when that change may represent freedom, achievement, and peace of mind.

If someone shouts, "Fire!" it is automatic to blindly follow the crowd, and many thousands have needlessly died because of it. How many stop to ask themselves: Is this really the best way out of here?

So many people "miss the boat" because it's easier and more comforting to follow - to follow without questioning the qualifications of the people just ahead - than to do some independent thinking and checking.

A hard thing for most people to fully understand is that people in such numbers can be so wrong, like the caterpillars going around and around the edge of the flowerpot, with life and food just a short distance away. If most people are living that way, it must be right, they think.

But a little checking will reveal that, throughout all recorded history, the majority of mankind has an unbroken record of being wrong about most things, especially important things. For a time we thought the Earth was flat and later we thought the Sun, Stars, and planets traveled around the Earth. Both ideas are now considered ridiculous, but at the time they were believed and defended by the vast majority of followers. In the hindsight of history we must have looked like those caterpillars blindly following the follower out of habit rather than stepping out of line to look for the truth.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and in harmony with themselves. Peace and harmony in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood.

But for some reason, most people wait passively for change to come to them - like the caterpillars going around in circles, waiting for sustenance, following nose to tail - living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people must know what is right.

It's a good idea to step out of the line every once in a while and look around to see if the line is going where we want it to go. If it is not, it might be time for a new direction, looking at relieving ourselves of old habits that don't serve us anymore.

The breaking of a long-time habit of religion can be traumatic and does seem like the end of the road at the time - the complete cessation of life as we know it. Suddenly dropping the habit so fills our minds with the desire for the old habitual way that, for a while, it seems there will no longer be any peace, any sort of law and order in our lives again. But that's not true. New habits form in a surprisingly short time, and a whole new world opens up to us when we realise that we are free from all restrictions, free from following the follower and that only joy and happiness can come from following our hearts instead.

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