Affirmations vs The Work

From an Interview With Byron Katie, we have this exerpt about affirmations, why they often don't work, and how they relate to "the work."

Ray: At the talk you gave the other night, you explained how easily positive thinking can be turned around, because people still are basing their well-being on thoughts. Affirmations like, “I’m loveable, I’m loveable, I’m loveable,” have something stronger running underneath: “I’m not loveable.” You feel better with positive thinking, you said, until you can’t make your mortgage payment, receive an unexpected bill, or get a parking ticket. “Are you still loveable then?” you asked.

Katie: Yes.

Ray: So questioning your stressful thoughts—the process of inquiry—better supports joy than does trying to think joyful thoughts?

Katie: By questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see that they’re not true. And if we see that our stressful thoughts aren’t true—if we have questioned them deeply and thoroughly enough—what does that leave? It leaves love. It leaves you completely in love with yourself, and with a mind that can only project love onto everyone else as well.

You can never make yourself believe that you’re loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down, what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe. So, after years of “I am loveable, I am loveable,” when your husband lies to you or your mother is rude, the underlying thought “I’m unloveable” overrides all your positive affirmations.

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see. So, we cannot see what we don’t believe.

People talk about manifesting with positive affirmations. You can say, “I want a car, I want a car, I want a car,” but if the mind is running, “I don’t deserve it, I’ll never be able to afford it, I’ll never be a success”—if all those things are running—then that’s exactly what you’re really manifesting and what’s running your life. And as long as you believe those things, thinking positively—even though for some people it may be helpful at times—is not strong enough to override your negative beliefs.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question. And I might be wise enough in that questioning to appreciate what I already have. I think that’s the trick: wanting what you have, whether you get the car or not.

Really, I don’t know if that’s the trick or not. What I know is it’s a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

The Supreme Optimist

Use stereo headphones to experience the relaxation effect properly.

From Instant Self Hypnosis, the following audio uses affirmations, relaxing sounds and binaural beats and you will relax deeper than you ever have before. If you focus on the affirmations your mind will be in a good state to implement the changes you desire.

Do NOT operate machinery while listening to this recording as it will relax you deeply. For best results sit in a relaxing chair, use stereo headphones and close your eyes to help your body relax deeply.

Daily Affirmations

Here's what the author has to say about this video:
I put this together as my daily affirmations video. I watch it every morning and every night, and whenever else I have the chance to watch it. When you say things like the statements in this clip, your subconcious mind will begin to believe it (that's what "second nature" means) and you won't have to conciously think these things anymore! How wonderful!
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Self Hypnosis The Easy Way

According to Wikipedia, self hypnosis can be best defined as "a form of hypnosis which is self-induced, and normally makes use of self-suggestion or more commonly known as autosuggestion". Usually autosuggestion is closely related to affirmation in teaching someone how to do self hypnosis. In this article, I 'm going to focus more on explaining about the benefits of affirmation and how it can help to boost your life.

Affirmation is a combination of verbal and visual techniques of a preferred state of mind of a person. Powerful affirmations can be very effective and beneficial for you. It can be used by anybody to achieve goals and fulfill desires. It is merely an assertion made by a person, about something or about a state of being. To make things simple, you can say that affirmation is futuristic goals and ambitions that a person wants to achieve in future or how that person wants to be in life. Being healthy in mind, body, and spirit can also be made possible through affirmation as this is one of the best self hypnosis techniques for you.

Positive affirmations can help to boost one's subconscious. Once the subconscious is disciplined to believe a person's affirmation, the latter is converted into a positive action for the conscious mind to conceive. This technique will make you to believe in yourself and to put your thoughts into action. This will improve your self confidence or performance and therefore will lead to more rewards. The rewards could be in the form of physical things or satisfaction of personal needs. That's why I highly recommend you to learn how to do self hypnosis.

An affirmation will be strong and super effective when it's stated in present tense. An affirmation of "I am now a rich person" is more effective than an affirmation saying, "I am going to become a rich person." Affirmation should always be in positive terms because it is supposed to work for you and not against you. Instead of saying "I am not sad", why not make an affirmation saying "I am happy."

There you go. I have explained a simple technique on how to do self hypnosis properly and boost your life for good. There are many good self hypnosis courses around the Internet and please go and get one for you now. You'll be surprised to see the massive changes that you will have in life and lead a better life without suffering from stress, addiction to bad habits,improve relationship with people around you and guide you to achieve goals easily.

Author Resource:-> By: Ravivaarman Batumalai. For other articles see: How to Do Self Hypnosis Properly and Boost Your Life With the Power of Affirmation Article From Hypnosis Articles Directory

9 Chants For Better Living

These are chants that Expand Awareness, Clarify Thought, Enhance Creativity, and Relieve Stress. Chants of this type put you in touch with your inner self, help you to tap creative energy, permit you to function under stress and strain daily living. The following chants are at your disposal to help you achieve the peace which precedes action, fulfillment, and effectiveness.

-1-

Guru, Guru. Light my Life
Guru, Guru, lift my heart
Guru, Guru, all-knowing Guru
Show me in, show me out.

-2-

Void, void, void is pressure
Take away, take away, take away all
Void, void, void is heaviness
Take away, take away, take away all.

-3-

I am calm, calm, calm
Restful, peaceful, tranquil
Pressures come, pressures go
I am calm, calm, calm.

-4-

Pax, O Pax, God of Peace
I intone your name for rest and ease
Pax---Pax---Pax---Pax
(Repeat ten times in a hushed whisper.)

-5-

Begone, stress; begone, O strain
Relieve me now of pressing pain;
Begone, O burden: begone, O toil
Implant my peace in willing soil.

-6-

Whispering palms of peace and rest
come waving through my very being
like gentle wings
of doves
of love.

-7-
Tranquility, silence, quietude, health.
These I make my own;
these I conjure for aid and support.
Peace is mine, strength is mine, effectiveness is mine.

-8-

Energy charging
Ideas enlarging
Focus pointing
My efforts anointing.

-9-

Stillness to my mind,
rest to my body,
height to my spirit,
nimbleness to my fingers,
adroitness to my movement,
excellence to my act.
Strength to my muscle,
vitality to my blood,
life to my limb,
power to my brain.


Source: Saulat Khan

4 Power Chants For Improved Efficiency

Ability, ability,
fill my veins,
Stability, stability,
be my reins.
Give me peace,
give me power,
sharpen my wits,
heighten my capacity.
Ability, stability,
capability are mine this day.

-oOo-

I am restful,
peaceful, better and greater.
Creative thought emerges from within,
increases my powers,
lifts me up.

-oOo-

Rest, peace, efficiency,
mine to have,
mine to hold,
mine to use.

-oOo-

Competence, skill, ingenuity and talent,
give to me excellence, achievement, and success.
Fill me, lift me, imbue me, pervade me.
Competence, skill, ingenuity and talent,
be friendly and gracious to me this day.

Source: Saulat Khan

Magick Power Chants

The ancient art of using Power Chants comes to us from the mystical lands of India and Tibet. The Secret of the Power in Chants is that they enable you to bypass your doubting mind and allow you to reach the Miracle Powerhouse within: your sub-conscious mind. You possess within this Marvelous Inner Mind a tremendous mental and spiritual Power with which you can literally perform miracles in your own life. This remarkable Inner Power is what the Great Master Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, called the “Kingdom Within” He taught that you must first find this “Kingdom Within” and then All Other Things would be added onto you.

There are many ways of finding this “Kingdom Within” and one of them is by Repeating an Affirmation Chant over and over until the message of the chant is imprinted upon the Inner mind. Repeating an affirmation, though chanting, will lead the inner mind to the State of Consciousness where it Accepts as True that which you wish it to Believe. When this is accomplished the Powerful Inner Mind will cause to appear as a Reality in your life the things for which you asked in your Chant.

Your desires will appear as a Reality in your life without fail if you do not set up doubts in your Consciousness mind by Not Believing in the power of your Chant. You must be careful not to say aloud or to even think to yourself that your chant has no power or it will not work for you. Repeat your chants — Believing - morning and night, on a regular schedule and then relax in a state of anticipation. Do not worry about How your Good is to come to you. Just rest assured that your Power Inner Mind will answer your request in the Best Possible way for You.


Magick Chant For Money:

“I invoke the Powerful Cosmic Guardians of all Worldly Goods and Abundance. I now identify myself with the Infinite Source Of Supply. I am One with the Abundance of the Universe. My “Inner” voice leads and guides me in my quest for Wealth and Prosperity. I am successful in all my undertakings and I am well Rewarded for all my efforts. I Declare that what is Mine will Claim me, Know me, Rush to me. I always have an Abundance of Money. There is a continuous movement toward me of Money. My Mystical Cone of Prosperity is Full and Runneth Over. I now Magnetize my Inner Mind with the thought that Money and Supply — All that I need — are now Mine”

“So Mote It BE”

Source: MysticMan

Self Worth Affirmation

Say the following out loud, and say it like you mean it -
the louder, the better.

I am deserving.
I deserve all good. not some, not a little bit, but all good.
I now move past all negative restricting thoughts.

I release and let go of the limitations of my parents.
I love them and go beyond them.
I am not their negative opinions nor their limiting beliefs.

I am not bound by any of the fears or prejudices of the current society I live in.
I no longer identify with limitation of any kind.

In my mind, I have total freedom.
I now move into a new space of consciousness where I am willing to see myself differently.
I am willing to create new thoughts about myself and my life.
My new thinking becomes new experiences.

I now know and affirm that I am at one with the prospering power of the universe.
As such I now prosper in a number of ways.
The totality of possibilities lies before me.

I deserve life, a good life.
I deserve love, an abundance of love.
I deserve good health.
I deserve to live comfortably and to prosper.
I deserve joy and happiness.
I deserve freedom to be all I can be.
I deserve more than that.
I deserve all good.

The universe, God, is more than willing to manifest my new beliefs.
And I accept this abundant life with joy, pleasure and gratitude.
For I am deserving, I accept it;
I know it to be the truth.

Author: LOUISE HAYES Self Worth Workbook

Affirmations for Self Acceptance

If you like affirmations, and if they work well for you, pick one or more from this list (or make up one of your own) and use it whenever you notice any negative self talk. Alternatively, you could read this list aloud every morning before you leave the house, and again each night before you go to bed.

1. I am worthy of love and respect regardless of others' opinions or behavior.
2. My self worth is totally independent of how I compare to others.
3. My self worth is totally independent of any external factors such as: intelligence, wealth, my home, appearance, talents, professional success, my children's success, being attractive to the opposite sex, making friends, disciplines, "spiritual" activities.
4. I am worthy of love and respect regardless of the results of my efforts.
5. I am worthy and will be loved even when others are being given more attention. I am happy for others when they receive love and attention.
6. My self worth is within me and totally independent of whether I am loved exclusively by someone on or not.
7. I am worthy of love and respect even when I am not perfect in what I do and even when I make mistakes.
8. My self worth is totally independent of how much I accomplish.
9. I am worthy of love and respect even when I feel weak or needy.
10. My self worth is totally independent of whether others agree with me or satisfied with me.
11. I deserve love and respect even when I need to say "no" and not respond to what I am asked to do.
12. My self worth has nothing to do with how much I give or receive.
13. My self worth is totally independent as to whether some people trust me or open up to me on not.
14. My self worth is totally independent of how people behave towards me.
15. My self worth is totally independent of how much others work or how they work or what they believe about me.
16. My self worth is a reflection of my divine nature and not my gender, religion, social class etc. .
17. My self worth is totally independent of whether others recognize it or how they feel towards me.
18. I accept and love my self as I am with my faults and weaknesses as I steadily and methodically evolve out of them.
19. I am intelligent and capable enough to succeed in any endeavor which is important to me.
20. I deserve to be loved and respected exactly as I am ( at this stage of my evolutionary process).
21. I have the inner power and strength to deal with whatever life brings me.
22. I am capable of handling any possible difficulties which might occur.
23. I am beautiful exactly as I am - just as all aspects of nature.
24. I am a good person, a worthy person.
25. I am worthy of love and respect regardless of how others behave towards me.
26. I respect and love all persons (especially my parents and family) without feeling any need whatsoever to live my life according to their beliefs or values. I live my life in harmony with my inner values and beliefs.
27. I am in no way responsible for others people's reality but only for my own motives and behavior towards them.
28. No else is responsible for my reality. I am totally responsible for what I feel and experience in life.
29. My self worth is based on my inner being, my existence itself, my inner divine nature and on no other external factors.
30. My self worth is a simple function of the fact that I, as all others creatures, am an unique aspect of divine creation. My self worth cannot be increased nor decreased. I can never be more or less worthy of love and respect than another.
31. Although I am not perfect and have various faults, I deserve to be loved and respected as I am, just I as I love and respect others with their faults.
32. When I do not love my self, I am not loving an aspect of divine creation.
33. I often accept in others traits which I reject in my self. Why?
34. I am in a process of evolution and am attending to that process
35. All beings deserve my love and respect, including my self.

Via Holistic Harmony

Thinking In A Certain Way

Turn back to chapter VI (this post), and read again the story of the man who formed a mental image of his house, and you will get a fair idea of the initial step toward getting rich. You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.

It is not enough that you should have a general desire for wealth "to do good with"; every body has that desire.

It is not enough that you should have a wish to travel, see things, live more, etc. Everybody has those desires also. If you are going to send a wireless message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Go over your desires just as the man I have described went over his house; see just what you want, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish it to look when you get it.

That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.

It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set special times in prayer and affirmation, nor to "go into the silence," nor to do occult stunts of any kind. These things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your picture, but no one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.

And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong enough to hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carry out the instructions given in this book.

The methods herein set forth are for people whose desire for riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work.

The more clear and definite you make your picture, then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.

From: The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D Wattles

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Any thoughts or ideas?
Agreements?
Disagreements?

If you want a sewing machine...

And finally, because you are to cause the creation of your riches from Formless Substance which permeates all your environment, it does not follow that they are to take shape from the atmosphere and come into being before your eyes.

If you want a sewing machine, for instance, I do not meant to tell you that you are to impress the thought of a sewing machine on Thinking Substance until the machine is formed without hands, in the room where you sit, or elsewhere. But if you want a sewing machine, hold the mental image of it with the most positive certainty that it is being made, or is on its way to you. After once forming the thought, have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming; never think of it, or speak of it, in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours.

It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, acting upon the minds of men. If you live in Maine, it may be that a man will be brought from Texas or Japan to engage in some transaction which will result in your getting what you want.

If so, the whole matter will be as much to that man's advantage as it is to yours.

Do not forget for a moment that the Thinking Substance is through all, in all, communicating with all, and can influence all. The desire of Thinking Substance for fuller life and better living has caused the creation of all the sewing machines already made; and it can cause the creation of millions more, and will, whenever men set it in motion by desire and faith, and by acting in a Certain Way.

You can certainly have a sewing machine in your house; and it is just as certain that you can have any other thing or things which you want, and which you will use for the advancement of your own life and the lives of others.

You need not hesitate about asking largely; "it is your Father's pleasure to give you the kingdom," said Jesus.

From: The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D Wattles

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We all want plenty of things. Is there one thing that would really enhance your life? Now would be a good time to begin to visualize that one thing. Post it here, and at the end of the project, we'll take a look back and see how well we did.

The Hardest Work

I have said that men get rich by doing things in a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a certain way.

A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step toward getting rich.

To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearances is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.

To look upon the appearance of disease will produce the form of disease in your own mind, and ultimately in your body, unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it is only an appearance, and the reality is health.

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.

To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants.

This power can only be acquired by getting hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances; and that fact is that there is one Thinking Substance, from which and by which all things are made.

Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon It as to cause them to take form and become visible things.

When we realize this, we lose all doubt and fear, and we know that we can create what we want to create; we can get what we want to have, and can become what we want to be.

From: The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D Wattles

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If this wallpaper image represented the ruins and the remains of your life, your finances, your hopes and dreams, your castle, your home... could you really look at it and affirm TRUTH? And if you could, what would that truth be? What would you be saying to yourself about it?

The First Principle of the Science of Getting Rich

Thought is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form.

Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the visible expression of a thought in Original Substance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the way all things were created. We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.

The thought of a moving universe extended throughout Formless Substance, and the Thinking Stuff moving according to that thought, took the form of systems of planets, and maintains that form. Thinking Substance takes the form of its thought. Holding the idea of a circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, and moves them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow-growing oak tree, it moves accordingly, and produces the tree, though centuries may be required to do the work. In creating, the Formless seems to move according to the lines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines of growth.

Every thought of form, held in thinking Substance, causes the creation of the form, but always, or at least generally, along lines of growth and action already established.

The thought of a house of a certain construction, if it were impressed upon Formless Substance, might not cause the instant formation of the house; but it would cause the turning of creative energies already working in trade and commerce into such channels as to result in the speedy building of the house. And if there were no existing channels through which the creative energy could work, then the house would be formed directly from primal substance, without waiting for the slow processes of the organic and inorganic world.

No thought of form can be impressed upon Original Substance without causing the creation of the form.

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in this thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.

And so far man has confined his efforts wholly to the work of his hands; he has applied manual labor to the world of forms, seeking to change or modify those already existing. He has never thought of trying to cause the creation of new forms by impressing his thoughts upon Formless Substance.

When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of nature, and makes an image of the form which is in h is mind. He has, so far, made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to work "with the Father." He has not dreamed that he can "do what he seeth the Father doing." Man re-shapes and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has given no attention to the question whether he may not produce things from Formless Substance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove that he may do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how.

from: The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace D Wattles.

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WOW! I love the way he explains this. And it brought up a wealth of questions and food for thought:

Here on The Prosperity Project, we've tried to "impress" your thoughts on "Original Substance" using a number of different techniques.
Did you get discouraged when you had less than instant results?
Did you change your mind about what you wanted?
Did you feel undeserving?

I wonder...
how many things were set in motion and then abandoned due to discouragement, or confusion.
I wonder how much of what we "asked" for is sitting in some "storage area" right now just waiting for us to come and claim it.

Take a look around at what you have claimed...
Does your environment, your health, your financial situation reflect chaos? order? conflict? confusion? clarity? or what?
Would it be helpful to start a list of those things that you have because you set those forces in motion? Would it be even more helpful to remember how you felt when you wanted it? and how long it actually took to receive it?

Talk to me guys!

How We Turned It Around

During the course of this project we wrote some really great affirmations. Just reading them will give your day a lift. Enjoy!

• Money is fun to get.
• Money is easy.
• My money hides in my purse and then pops up whenever I need it!
• My money is very well trained, it always comes when I call for it.
• My money likes to hide in my pockets so that it can be there when I need it.
• My money is ABUNDANT!!
• I work because I want to.
• I work because I want to, and I work because I like to.
• I work because it's fun!
• When my bills come I pay them.
• When my bills come I pay them with JOY!!!
• Opportunities are endless.
• Every day is an opportunity to change the rest of my life.
• Opportunities are abundance hidden in marvelously wrapped little packages of mystery and surprises, waiting to be opened!
• Accidents are opportunities that have been waiting to happen.
• When my bills come, I pay what I can and give the rest to God.
• My checkbook is "FULL OF $$$ AND BALANCED TO THE PENNY!"
• I know that if I keep following my heart the universe will take care of me.
• My checkbook is always ready for action!
• Dream on.
• My checkbook is my friend.
• I have wealth because I love.
• I have Love, because I Am Love
• When I look at my life, I see Love and Beauty
• When I look at my life, I see "EXCITEMENT AND ADVENTURE"
• When I look at my life, I see "LOVE AND HAPPINESS"
• When I look at my life, I see hope and light. A bit of a surprise and a delight,
• I am making the right decisions now in the moment.
• When I look at my Life, I see peace and gratitude.
• I'm present in the moment most of the time, and I never forget to count my blessings!
• When I look at my Life, I see happiness and healing.
• My checkbook is full of money!
• Opportunities are Rising up ALL OVER THE PLACE!
• I Am Free of Lack and Limitations!
• I rise above all obstacles.
• I Am a Free Spirit, boundless, unlimited, Free, abundant!
• I have friends because I give love.
• I have a good life because I will it to be so.
• When I look at my life I see my life and I see myself and I like who I am.
• I am here to heal.
• I Am here to bring change to the world!
• I Am here to bring POSITIVE Change to the world!
• I AM HERE "To love others"
• "I have love because I have a cat sitting right in front of my computer screen!"
• "I have an abundance of money because I deserve it."
• "I like my job because I get a paycheck."
• "I like my job because I could be doing other things that are far more difficult or disgusting, like working in a sewer or cleaning port-a-potties."
• "I LOVE my job because I am blessed to be employed while times are so tough and my employers are very kind and have good hearts."
• I love my job because I work with friends and we have fun.
• I love my job because it feels good to work hard.
• I love my job because my employer values people over money.
• I always think I need more cash but what I really need is more FREEDOM to do things that feed my spirit.
• I always think I need more money, but what I really want is more faith.
• My money is my friend.
• I love and accept money unconditionally!
• Money is a PART of my life and there is plenty of it in my life
• There is always more than enough money for me!
• I always think I need more time, but what I really want is more energy.
• I always think I need more money, but what I really want is more time.
• I always think I need more food but what I really want is more comfort.
• I always think I need more peace but what I really want is more excitement and drama!!!
• I always think I need more time, or money, or energy, or comfort, or stuff, or guidance, or knowledge... but what I really want is to know that everything is going to be OK.
• I am happy
• There is SELDOM, enough TIME IN THE DAY to enjoy all there is for me to enjoy!
• There is ALWAYS enough LOVE for me.
• I am blessed!!
• I am part of something really big and really wonderful.
• When I am at work, I feel like it's important to do the very best I can. I may not be thrilled all the time about what I'm doing, but I can at least give it my all, no matter how small the task.
• My goal today is to listen to my inner voice and be patient with the fear, it too shall pass.
• When I am at work, I feel loved and appreciated... I feel supported and understood... I feel important and needed...
• Our Money is endless, as together we share in the common bond of Abundance which flows through the World of Love, and as we accept our rightful place in this New World, our abundance grows *expectedly* when we consider it as One, and not as something that is separate from Source!!
• My money is not mine.
• My money is NOT the enemy!
• My money is not stupid!!
• My money is not lost!!
• My money is not disappearing!
• My money is not the only money I'll ever get!
• I love my money because I use it to improve my life and I like to spend it.
• I have money because I want it and I deserve it.
• I enjoy money because I like the freedom from worry it can bring and I love to use it to make others happy.
• I love money because I get to do fun things with it and I am free to choose
• I'm grateful for the endless giving from the One.
• I love money because I know where it comes from and I'm in awe of My Love's boundlessness.
• "I always get lucky"
• "I always get what I need"
• My totally blessed and abundant life is out of this world!
• Everything is copacetic!
• Everything is fine, excellent, going just right.
• I wake up to the sound of music in my heart!
• Everything is beautiful.in its own waayyyy..
• I wake up to beauty.
• I am rich in substance and talent. In my wildest ways I am amazed by that.I truly feel gifted by the statement and will love to honor every bit of it.
• I am rich in love and friendship!
• Bankruptcy is not a failure - it's a forgiveness!
• Everything is going to be OK...
• I wake up to today!
• Tomorrow will be better. I know this because I will it to be so.
• I am rich in ideas!
• I am extremely successful when my time is my own.
• I feel so happy when I get to do and decide what I want to do in every moment.
• We are amazing beings...I am in awe.
• TODAY ENDS ONE CHAPTER OF BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND BEGNS ANOTHER.
• Today is the best day of my life.
  

An Extended Visualization

Pick a quote or a phrase and as you repeat it keep your mind open to ways in which it operates or could operate in your life. And while this can be done in a condensed meditation of five to twenty minutes, it can also be done in an extended meditation that lasts all day.

By focusing on one thought all day long, it becomes a background or framework for everything you do that day. This not only gives all the benefits of focused attention, it also helps to incorporate a chosen idea deeply into your life pattern while also giving new insights about it.

Not sure what phrase you want to use? Here are some ideas:

• Every day in every way I'm getting better and better.
• Everything I need is coming to me easily and effortlessly.
• My life is blossoming in total perfection.
• I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now.
• I am the master of my life.
• Everything I need is already within me.
• Perfect wisdom is in my heart.
• I am whole and complete in myself.
• I love and appreciate myself just as I am.
• I accept all my feelings as part of me.
• I love to love and be loved.
• The more I love myself, the more love I have to give others.
• I now give and receive love freely.
• I am now attracting loving, satisfying relationships into my life.
• My relationship with _____ is growing happier and more fulfilling every day.
• I now have a perfect, satisfying, well-paying job.
• I love doing my work, and I am richly rewarded, creatively and financially.
• I am an open channel of creative energy.
• I am dynamically self-expressive.
• I enjoy relaxing and having fun.
• I always communicate clearly and effectively.
• I now have enough time, energy, wisdom, and money to accomplish all my desires.
• I am always in the right place at the right time, successfully engage in the right activity.
• It's okay for me to have everything I want!
• This is a rich universe and there's plenty for all of us.
• Abundance is my natural state of being. I accept it now!
• Infinite riches are now freely flowing into my life.
• Every day I am growing more financially prosperous.
• The more I have, the more I have to give.
• The more I give, the more I receive, and the happier I feel.
• It's okay for me to have fun and enjoy myself, and I do!
• I am relaxed and centered. I have plenty of time for everything.
• I am now enjoying everything I do.
• I feel happy just being alive.
• I am vibrantly healthy and radiantly beautiful!
• I am open to receiving all the blessings of this abundant universe!
• _____ is coming to me, easily and effortlessly.
• I have a wonderful job with wonderful pay. I do a wonderful service in a wonderful way.
• I stay deeply relaxed and centered, and everything is accomplished easily and effortlessly.
• The light within me is creating miracles in my life here and now.
• I am now attuned to my higher purpose in life.
• I love and accept myself completely as I am.
• I don't have to try to please anyone else. I like myself and that's what counts.
• I am highly pleasing to myself in the presence of other people.
• I express myself freely, fully, and easily.
• I am a powerful, loving, and creative being.
• I am deeply satisfied with my financial situation.

sources: Serge Kahili King, Shakti Gawain, and others

Wherever I am, good things happen.

Picture yourself walking into a room, imaging a brilliant light emanating from within you and all around you. See your light touching everyone in the room and see each person's light becoming brighter as yours contacts theirs.

~from Shaping Your Life by Laurel Jan Fuller

Exploring the Power of Authority

Neither prayers nor spells nor affirmations will do much good if they are spoken with wistful hope or as if the words themselves held the magic. Confident authority is the key to conscious creation, whether used with words, visualizations, or feelings.

The exercize:

To develop a feeling of confident authority, look around you and begin to tell things and circumstances to be exactly as they are. Tell chairs and tables to place themselves where they are at, tell pictures to hang where they are hung, tell flowers and trees to grow where they are growing and clouds to move as they are moving. Tell your body to be the way it is, your bank account to be what it is, your relationships to be what they are, and world conditions to be what they are (doing your best to avoid any doubt or criticism). This exercise will help youon the road to such a state of confident authority that when you decree changes they will occur.

~Serge Kahili King

Ten Steps To Wealth

This is a basic visualisation exercise which is very neat to do for real when you come down a flight of steps. For now, imagine you’re standing at the top of a flight of steps and for each step, we’ll make a wealth affirmation.

10.
I am ready for wealth!
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

9.
Wealth is my birthright.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

8.
I achieve wealth easily.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

7.
Wealth comes to me readily.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

6.
I invite wealth to come into all I do.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

5.
Wealth is my partner and my friend.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

4.
Wealth is joyous and delightful.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

3.
Wealth enters into all and every aspect of my life.
Take a deep breath and step down to the next step.

2.
I am on my way to wealth …
Now take a deep breath and JUMP off the last step and onto the next level:

1.
I AM WEALTHY!
Clap your hands and give yourself a round of applause!

A Willful Wealth Affirmation

Affirmations don’t work if you don’t put some power behind them. So that we don’t think we’re just lying when we state something we want but don’t actually have yet, we stick a simple phrase on the end – “This is my will!”

This works with ALL affirmations and makes them user friendly and EFFECTIVE. We’ll have some more in the days to come, but today’s affirmation is:

“Every day,
In every way,
I’m getting wealthier, and wealthier!
***THIS IS MY WILL!***”

Say this out aloud, three times for extra effect – and now, don’t you feel better for that!

You’re Great!

Complete the following sentences:

(This is MUCH better if you speak your answers out aloud!!)

“I am really good at ….”
“I am also really good at …”
“My friends appreciate me because I am ….”
“What I like best about me is ….”
“I am proud of me because ….”
“I KNOW I’m going to make it because …”

All this is true. Allow yourself a moment to be glad who you are before we get to work.