Thursday Thirteen - Healing Affirmations

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1. I allow my thoughts to be free. The past is over and I am at peace.

2. It is safe to let go. Only that which I no longer need leaves me.

3. I am safe. It is safe to feel. My feelings are normal and acceptable. Life is safe & joyous.

4. I see with love and understanding. I hold all experiences up to the light of love.

5. I trust the process of life and know life always supports me. I am on an endless journey through eternity and there is plenty of time. I communicate with my heart and all is well.

6. I am free to be me and I allow others the freedom to be who they are. It is safe for all of us to grow up.

7. I lovingly forgive and release all of the past. I choose to fill my world with joy. I love and approve of myself.

8. I forgive everyone. I forgive myself. I forgive all past experiences. I am free.

9. I am willing to grow and change. I see with eyes of love. There are always harmonious solutions to whatever challenges arise, and I accept this now as I create a safe new future.

10. The movies of my mind are beautiful because I choose to make them so. I love me and I express who I am.

11. I am enthusiastic about life and filled with energy. I am a decisive person. I follow through and support myself with love.

12. I now choose to make my life light & easy. As I nurture myself those around me are nurtured. I am gentle and caring with myself. All is well.

13. Miracles happen every day. I go within to dissolve the patterns that create problems and I now accept a Divine Healing ... and so it is!

Source for today's list of affirmations:
Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life

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Thought for Today
"Proactive people take the initiative and responsibility to make things happen. They cause action rather than being victims of circumstance." Chris MacAllister

T-13 #36 - Thoughts on grief ... and letting go

Make Time for Small Reflections

This video was shared recently by Jen Lemen. It's a reminder I needed right now and for which I'm grateful.

Perhaps it's one for you ... or someone you know?

In response ... I offer
13 Thoughts on 'Grief' for Today

1. "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." (from a headstone in Ireland)

2. "Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." (from TV show 'The Wonder Years')

3. "In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Robert Ingersoll

4. "It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer ... and everything collapses." Colette

5. "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." Jan Glidewell

6. "We acquire the strength we have overcome." Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." Kahlil Gibran

8. "Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." William Shakespeare

9. "Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down." Bede Jarrett

10. "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

11. "Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love." Jareb Teague

12. "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa

13. "Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." Mary C. Crowley

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... and 2 more Thoughts for Today for good measure:

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts." George Eliot

"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us." Sascha (as posted on motivateus.com)

Thursday Thirteen #12 - Healing Beliefs

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Thirteen Basic Beliefs of Louise Hay

Since I shared a sampling of healing affirmations from Louise Hay's book YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE in last week's T-13, I decided to share some points of her philosophy today for your consideration. When confronted with such ideas initially, my mind resisted argumentatively ... but over time I've come to accept the possibility that I might be wrong in some basic assumptions I hold about life so that these days I have "a little willingness" to "suspend my disbelief" long enough to test them out. I'm frequently surprised by the little miracles that follow such actions on my part, and am healthier today that I've ever been. A few of them still give me pause, but I've come to embrace fully numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12 ... while allowing the others remain possibilities for now.

Here they are for your consideration:

1. We are each 100% responsible for our experiences.
2. Every thought we think is creating our future.
3. The point of power is always in the present moment.
4. Everyone suffers from self-hatred and guilt.
5. The bottom line for everyone is, "I'm not good enough."
6. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
7. Resentment, criticism and guilt are the most damaging patterns.
8. Releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer.
9. When we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
10. We must release the past and forgive everyone.
11. We must be willing to begin to learn to love ourselves.
12. Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the key to positive changes.
13. We create every so called "illness" in our body.

Thought for Today
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor ... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eye, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." Mother Theresa

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Thursday Thirteen #11 Healing Affirmations

Thirteen Healing Affirmations

In 1987 I discovered a copy of YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE by Louise Hay. This amazing little book was written and 1st published in 1984 (when she was in her mid-50s) with the following dedication:

"May this offering help you find the place within where you know your own self-worth, the part of you that is pure love and self-acceptance."

She went on to establish a publishing house of her own, and at 84 she looks as young as ever!

I've returned to this book so often in the past 21 years repeatedly ... so often that it's falling apart. Occasionally I think of buying a new copy, but the notes in the margins of this one keep me from giving it up. Every page contains wisdom for living healthily, but time and again I return to "The List" in Chapter 15, arranged in 3 columns labeled ... Problem, Probable Cause, & New Thought Pattern ... whenever I become symptomatic. Here are just thirteen examples to whet your appetite and perhaps try for yourself if you experience any of these symptoms.

1. Allergies - Who are you allergic to? Denying your own power. "The world is safe and friendly. I am safe. I am at peace with life."

2. Bruises - The little bumps in life. Self-punishment. "I love and cherish myself. I am kind and gentle with me. All is well."

3. Cellulite - Getting stuck in early childhood pain. Holding onto the lumps and bumps of the past. Difficulty in moving forward. Fear of choosing your own direction. "I forgive everyone. I forgive myself, I forgive all past experiences. I am free."

4. Dizziness - Flight, scattered thinking. A refusal to look. "I am deeply centered and peaceful in life. It is safe for me to be alive and joyous."

5. Eyes - Represent the capacity to see clearly -- past, present, and future. "I see with love and joy."

6. Fingers - Represent the details of life. "I am peaceful with the details of life."

7. Glands - Represent holding stations. Self-starting activity. "I am the creative power in my world."

8. Hypoglycemia - Overwhelmed by the burdens in life. What's the use? "I now choose to make my life light and easy and joyful."

9. Insomnia - Fear. Not trusting the process of life. Guilt. "I lovingly release the day and slip into peaceful sleep, knowing tomorrow will take care of itself."

10. Knee problems - Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won't give in. "Forgiveness. Understanding. Compassion. I bend and flow with ease, and all is well."

11. Laryngitis - So mad you can't speak. Fear of speaking up. Resentment of authority. "I am free to ask for what I want. It is safe to express myself. I am at peace."

12. Mouth problems - Set opinions. Closed mind. Incapacity to take in new ideas. "I welcome new ideas and new concepts and prepare them for digestion and assimilation."

13. Neck Problems - Refusing to see other sides of a question. Stubbornness, inflexibility. "It is with flexibility and ease that I see all sides of an issue. There are endless ways of doing things and seeing things. I am safe."

Bonus - When the book is not handy for reference, my favorite affirmation is a generalized one that goes something like this.

"I release the need for this symptom in my body. It is safe for me to be alive. It is safe to be me. I am good enough just as I am and I trust myself."

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