Healing Energy Share for Sunday
April 30, 2006

Your Ally Within: Affirmative Weapons

Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. - Jerry Frankhauser

Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are - unhappy. Much fear of our own creative abilities is the fear of the unknown.

"If I am fully creative, what will it mean? What will happen to me and to others?" We have some pretty awful notions about what could happen. So, rather than find out, we decide to stay blocked. This is seldom a conscious decision. It is more often an unconscious response to internalized negative beliefs. Some commonly held beliefs are:

I will do bad work and not know it and look like a fool.

I will never have any real money.

I will feel bad because I don't deserve to be successful.

My abilities and ideas are inadequate compared to other people.

None of these core negatives need be true. They come to us from our parents, our religion, our culture, and our fearful friends. They reflect notions we have about what it means to be an artist, a healer, a creative. What you are is scared and core negatives will keep you scared.

You could do better if only you would let yourself do it! Affirmations will help you to allow yourself to do it. And affirmation is a positive statement of (positive) belief, and if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are at negative self-talk, we will notice an enormous change.

Affirmations help achieve a sense of safety and hope.

When we first start working with affirmations, they may feel dumb, hokey, embarrassing. Isn't this interesting? We can easily, and without embarrassment, bludgeon ourselves with negative affirmations... "I'm not gifted enough/not clever enough/not original enough/not young enough..." But saying nice things about ourselves is notoriously hard to do and feels awkward to do at first. Try these and see if they don't sound hopelessly syrupy: "I deserve love." "I deserve fair pay." "I deserve a rewarding creative life." "I am competent and confident in what I do." "I am brilliant and successful at what I do."

Listen to the internal objections and what is suddenly blurted out from your subconscious. You will be amazed at the rotten things you hear. These blurts flag your personal negative core beliefs. Write them down and allow yourself to scan your past for the possible sources of these blurts. They have held you in bondage and must be dissolved. Convert each of these blurts into their positive, present tense affirmation. Here are a few you can use:

My creative healing ability always leads me to truth and love.

My creativity heals myself and others.

I am a channel for God/Universe/Spirit's healing and creativity and my work comes to good.

My dreams come from God/Universe/Spirit and God has the power to accomplish them.

There is a divine plan of goodness for me.

There is a divine plan of goodness for my work.

As I listen to the creator within, I am led.

Thank you all for your generosity and continued support for this energy share and blog. Let's welcome Amy who joins us from Melbourne. Aloha, dear friend!

I gratefully acknowledge the boost of energy from you and welcome it with open arms. I also send you a boost with LOTS of love, light, and hugs. Help yourself to the boost I send to you and enjoy it fully. Enjoy every moment and live the passionate life you intend it to be. Take a look at the previous posts which I've selected from a few newsletters I subscribe to.

Namaste, (I honor the place in you which is of Love, Truth, Light and of Peace)

Lydia

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