affirmative prayer

THE ETERNAL:

I am an extension of Source. I belong to Spirit. Spirit exists within me - that’s how I am able to move, to breathe, to live, and to create. God is all around me, God exists though me, as me, for me. Spirit owns this body. Spirit directs my mind, Spirit directs my thoughts; Spirit lives in this body and in this home.

As faithful servants of Spirit -all the angels, fairies, and friends are present with me, protecting me and preparing beautiful, wonderful experiences for me everywhere I am and everywhere I go.

With ease and thankhsgiving, I release all that is no longer needed in my life. And I let the joy of living flood my mind, my body, my heart, all my activities, my relationships, my home and my entire world now. I radiate love from my own Spirit and Love fills my life to overflowing. I now attract more and more friends and loved ones into my atmosphere. I am brimming with enthusiasm for life. I am in love. I am full of faith – I am satisfied and confident with an absolute knowing that wherever I am God is and it will always be that way.

Only truth and abiding wellbeing exist in my mind and body. Love now lights up every one of the trillions of cells in my body – the message of infinite, unconditional love and absolute security and peace is transmitted within me, around me, by me, and to me. All is well. I enjoy every aspect of my life. I release the past and the future and awaken to the Present/Presence with gratitude.

I give thankhs for my home – it is the perfect space for me. It is beautiful, clean, comfortable, and secured by the loving protection of my Father-God. I give thankhs for my car. It is the perfect car for me – cute, reliable, economical and eco-friendly. It gets me where I am going safely with ease and smooth speed. I give thankhs for my abundant resources – I find that I always have plenty of money and supplies for whatever I choose to do today and because order is established within my life I enjoy life fully and help others to do the same.

My life has improved amazingly and continues to improve in every imaginable way. I am radiant, joyful, and beautiful and I find great pleasure in caring for myself- and this makes my beauty shine brightly through my thoughts, my words, my actions, my habits, my character, and my health. I give thankhs for a healthy mind, which is clear and focused on God and able to allow and accept God’s perfect Will for me and my life. I am grateful for my healthy body, which is fun and beautiful – my perfect channel through which I experience the physical world in joy. This body is the temple of Spirit. I maintain it with pleasure, reverence, gratitude, and pure intent. I maintain this body with proper breathing, mindful movement and relaxation, pure water, and pure foods. Spirit sustains this body with the breath of Life, in Love.

It gives me pleasure to breathe in this body, to sweat through it, to move in it, to make love with it- to be alive and able to move my limbs with ease and perfect comfort is a blessing and a privilege for which I am ceaselessly grateful. When I practice my asanas and cardio work and strength training I do so with deep gratitude and knowing that the mindful movement of my body permits my body to operate most efficiently. Thankh you God for the priceless blessing of optimal health.

This health gives me hope and the means to experience every other aspect of my life- especially my relationships. Spirit has brought my perfect mates and me together. It is very good. We share a sound love, a deep commitment, and all the benefits of honest connection and communication. Thankh you God for making me a great friend, and for bringing great friends to me. Thankh you God for this sacred union of me and my wonderful husband. Thankh you God for filling our home with the laughter of beautiful children.

Spirit, I trust all that you bring to me. I allow all and I trust you to show me directly how to make the greatest use of what you have gifted me with. I release this affirmative prayer to divine mind to be acted upon and manifested in divine, perfect order in and through us. Thankh you Spirit !!

Love,

.ayo.

into me see

the past: no longer matters to me.
the present: is here for my enjoyment and conscious participation and creative expression.
the future: will be amazing, I know, but back to the present...

today, my body feels comfortable and peaceful - what a blessing... to wake up comfortable, confident, and at ease in one's body. what a pleasure to walk into a room and find hot waters waiting to wash over that strong, vibrant, healthy body... a room full of flowers and books and incense?... my favorite music at my disposal, my husband and closest friends only a phone call away... my blue blouse laid out for me to wear... the library, no more than a mile's walk away... a beautiful walk to be enjoyed by me and my young, healthy body...

of course, life has come with it's share of contrasts but they have been beautiful, strengthening experiences (people, places, events, circumstances) that have helped me choose Higher... that have sent me gladly and sometimes running back to Spirit.

I have been blessed with all types of amazing relationships and now I enjoy the beauty and benefits of a sound marriage to a beautiful Muslim man.. I've come a long way (by faith and sometimes without)... and I am finally allowing myself (really allowing myself) to release with love and gratitude those things which were... and it is such an amazing process... such a burden has been released from my gut and shoulders and back... weight has been dropped, judgments and accusations and grudges have been released and now, I use everyday, and every moment to become more self-aware... to become better.

as I observe and participate at times in my husband's Deen (way of life) my values are transformed for the better and I feel my purpose being activated... a life of loving, joyful service to Spirit, to family, and to community - through teaching, sharing, encouraging, presence, participation, gardening, building, and being an example of living the Will of Spirit.. the Will of God...


finally, I accepted that perhaps much of what I was taught was not the complete or absolute truth and so, I am free (because I say so) to not only release much of it... but to forgive everything and everyone along the way... Forgiveness is a way of life.. it is the ultimate Allowing of all others to be themselves - whoever that might be in the moment... Forgiveness is the ultimate freedom... not concerning oneself with what other people are or are not doing -but going about self-educating by un-learning and re-learning...

I am committed to Life.. to God. I am committed to keep on getting back up, no matter how many times I fall down. I am committed to choosing forgiveness as a means of choosing abundant life... Please visit me at http://ahbrakedahbra.wordpress.com/ and see exactly what I've been working on and thinking about!

From my heart to yours, self-amplifying love all-ways,
-.ayo.

Honor your uniqueness

Money is . . .

Can you complete that statement?

Would you say it is . . .

the root of all evil.

dirty

a sign of greed

corrupt

not everything

not important

the ruler of everything around you

for people with no morals

scarce

or would you say it is . . .

another resource

plentiful

an energy

a blessing

a prize

helpful

a sign of the abundance of the Universe

And why does it matter what you think about money, anyway?

Well! I've been researching for months now. I was so curious to find what the difference between wealthy and poor people was. I found it in various texts. The distinguishing difference in poor and wealthy people is the way they think.

The cars they drive, the clothes they wear and the schools they send their children to are all results of this. Your thoughts about yourself, your life and your resources (namely money) will cause you to have very different experiences. . .

There are people who want to live comfortably. I mean, there are people who would like not to suffer but who would consider themselves morally inferior if they were not struggling. I have a friend - he is a phenomenal writer and poet. He was in the library studying vigilantly for a paper he was working on for graduate school (which is his custom). I felt proud. As a compliment and encouragement I asked him if he was trying to make "us" a millie one day. He said: "Man, I'm just trying to be another worker."

Many people would find this honorable. I found it ridiculous and unacceptable for me. Why? Because - even if I did not have aspirations of leading the life of a billionaire I still would not want to be "just another" anything. I mean, come on! What a waste. He has incredible talent and apparently has no high hopes for it if he aspires to be "just another worker."

You do not have to become a millionaire if you do not want to. . .but you can at least grace this world with your talent and skill. Share yourself with the world! It is safe to do so. . .Share your gifts - we are always looking for the fresh & new. . .There has never been another like you and their never will.

You do not have to apologize for your success and you do not have to hamper your success. Know that it is absolutely natural and healthy to desire compensation for your service/work. You deserve to be provided for as you add your voice to the cultural mix and supply the world with a fresh, never-before-seen PERSPECTIVE which is unique to you.

So. . .What are you waiting for?

"A $10,000 Idea." or "I want things to go my way!"

..."as of late, a lot of things have been going side-ways..."

Just yesterday - I was making progress (or so I thought) I was climbing the mountain and I could see clearly how things would work out for me. Things were clearly laid out financially and I was certain that I would make long strides toward my overall one-year financial goals - enjoying the leisurely stroll as I approach the end of my undergraduate career.

And then I received some news which more or less knocked my happy ass right on down the mountain. No scratch that! In many ways.. I was just like this guy!

The one toppling over, I mean... but that was yesterday (literally.. yesterday)! And I haven't gained any weight from emotional eating.. though, my hair is a bit shorter than it was when I got the party-pooping news.

So, what I learned as my life plans rearranged themselves dramatically and my resources were reduced by more than 83% in just a few hours. Now, mind you, this is ALSO after I asked a few friends to help me decide how to invest $10,000. Yes, I said it. $10,000. Gone. Like that. Sigh.

Now, this would have been the part where I cry, eat an entire double-chocolate cake with a pint of milk, drive to another city in an effort to run from my so-called problems or begin my old 12-hour sleep cycle. [My usual methods of escapism].

But... I couldn't. I couldn't just fall back down because I have been affirming my desires. I have been daydreaming about them and the pull of my desires is far stronger than the silliness of my past. I have read books, talked to life coaches, listened to audio lectures and told myself over and over that I DESERVE EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS... I can see my success.. I can even feel it... And compared to my vision - sleeping just isn't that attractive anymore.. and neither is the cake or milk (yuck @milk).

And that's precisely why I am not pulling my hair out (though, I was, literally pulling my hair out after I got the news initially, to be totally honest!).

BUT, more importantly, I am still EXCITED about what is to come. My faith will not allow meto accept failure as permanent. I know that EVERY set back is only temporary. I have been researching success literature for months now and have learned one thing which is of particular importance at this juncture. There are many ways to say this... Let's see...

"A set back is a set up for a come back."

"Quitters never win and winners never quit."

"If at first you don't succeed try, try again!"

"Never, never, [ever, never] never give up."

"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

And that's just it! My faith in the assurance of my eventual success will not let me quit. I refuse. This failure is temporary. And what's more, I will not accept it as a failure! I will keep moving and keep re-conditioning my subconscious mind for success (with affirmations, declarations also called autosuggestion). I will keep moving into the mental, spiritual, emotional and physical space of my goals.

In other words, I will allow this lesson to transform me into the woman I am capable of being. The woman whose income in CONSTANTLY increasing, the woman who prospers wherever she turns, the woman who is an optimistic realist... because the truth of the matter is "you cannot manifest/earn/create anything and sustain unless you are willing to become it in consciousness!"

Cheers!

J. Cole = New Love

A Different Approach to Healing Self

We have a new approach.. a new option where our Health & Well-Being is concerned. I believe that this approach will be better than all the methods I have explored and experimented with before which makes sense because my Life and all my creations therein just keep IMPROVING. Bless...

So, ordinarily I would try to dig deep into myself to see what my problems were - what was ailing me or "weighing on me" etc. Well, it is true that when you go searching for problems - you find them! As we live our Lives we need only focus entirely into this glorious & sensually explosive moment and nothing else. And within that moment we need only feel/sense the things that we Love & appreciate... We need only give our attention to that which we would like to see more of... And when oppositions arise in the moment.. That is- when we are reminded of something that we have (perhaps) tried to suppress or have ill-emotion about/toward then we can make the decision then and there to Let It Go and then we replace that feeling/thought/pattern with something that BETTER SERVES US.

Now, the Key to letting things go is to communicate directly with the Subconscious Mind. That part of you which remembers everything you show it and which holds the patterns you set forth with integrity & devotion. The Subconscious Mind is a visual communicator. So, picturing in your mind a new and improved version of your current reality creates a new pattern. Using affirmations and feeling them and visualizing them is effective in recreating the patterns and habits we still have that no longer support us. The key to effective change is replacement. The Subconscious Mind does not settle with "voids." This means.. When you decide to "no longer feel/think that way" - your Subconscious Mind, then, needs you to show it how you NOW choose to feel/think.

It is totally unnecessary to go digging for our problems... They will arise to be cleared/healed as they need to. And as they do arise.. It is then absurd to focus on these small arbitrary things as if they can rule you.. They are your creation and you gave it all the power it has and as easily as power is given it can be taken away.

I will use an example from my Life: I am currently working out of Louise L Hay's Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook and I was asked to write everything about how I feel about men. LOL I immediately began to scribble all these harsh and disgusting things that I was totally unaware that I felt toward men... And as I thought about these things I imagined (visualized) specific instances from my Life and thought of specific men (thus identifying them once more with these negative choice-feelings)...

Now, in order to heal/empower my Self I have chosen a new route. Instead of focusing upon that which causes my distortive* emoitonal discomfort I choose to evoke all the things I LOVE about MEN and visualize them.. I choose to think of all the remarkable men I have encountered in my life and associate these renewed choice-feelings with them...

I no longer go over and over the problems in my mind thus giving them more power and recreating them. Now, I choose to see what I want to see thereby actualizing it!

And I am healed. I am empowered.

Be uplifted. Go for it! CREATE! <3

Name-Calling

My Selves have been calling me names lately. Friends, On-lookers, Lovers, Pagans have been calling me a mystic, a weirdo and a witch. I take these as major compliments and while I was receiving these messages I recognized that I was attracting/creating them. In my mind, there is nothing wrong with the words but I knew that some of the messengers had no intention of uplifting me with these words LOL!

Now, Christianity defines witchcraft as manipulation... and I was called a manipulator and likened to a snake on one account. (I love the snake! She is a goddess-symbol lol) But I felt hurt at the time & the experience took me back to my Christianity days - showing me things that need to be cleared! (I'm blessed because otherwise I may not have realized that I still harbored -within my subconscious mind - some contempt for magick/natural power & universal laws. These things undoubtedly were holding me back from stepping fully and permanently into my Power). The one speaking was someone I respect deeply and care for. I haven't stopped caring and respecting(lol) even though I am withdrawn, at this time. I love him. He has been a compassionate teacher and I do not blame my teachers for the understandings our Spirits have agreed to heighten our perceptions to. In other words, I am the one who needed to learn. He was humble, wise, beautiful and noble enough to teach me. I am sincerely grateful & I feel honored.

On my part, one thing I noticed I was doing as I started to feel ill-emotions was my trying to figure out what he was thinking. I told him later what I thought he was thinking which was that I was a witch who was trying to manipulate him and ruin his life. That is very difficult to say without sharing the situation. I can only say that now the accusation is funny and clearly my friend thinks highly of himself and was speaking from a place of deep fear & intense insanity. (His Will supporting all of this for the purpose of teaching & learning - certainly). We love him still lol!

So, in thinking his thoughts I began to feel his emotions and then I began to experience good ole shame & guilt... I thought I left these behind with religion but I guess not...!

So, I learned... never to try to think someone else's thoughts especially since (as this case has shown) their thoughts may be INSANE, ignorant, fearful and blaming. No one thinks inside my mind but me. No one thinks inside your mind but you! Though, there are times when your other Selves enter your orbit for the "Soul Purpose" ;-) of helping you co-create something.

I also learned that I must have patience with people who are transitioning out of their programming.. of which the "Victim-Villain Paradigm" is a major part. Surely, I am still clearing these patterns-of-thought or I would not need these teachings/experiences. Lastly, that particular connection has shown me something that many others that are happening now are showing me!... They are showing me what I DON'T WANT TO BE/HAVE/DO... And so, these experiences are simultaneously clarifying what I do want to be/have/do.

I am deeply grateful, uplifted, inspired & awake.
Love you! Mean it,
Ciao