Sometimes
affirmations seem like the best thing to do, and then they don’t. Nor do they
always quiet that annoying negative voice in the mind; but there’s something
that does.
I
don’t know about you, but sometimes I get really excited about one or more new
affirmations. This is usually when my energy connection to Source hasn’t been
supported by me as fully as it might have been and I’m feeling low or skittish
or truly out of balance. I’ll work with the affirmations that make me feel
better—for a while—then I notice I begin to alter the wording. This is natural
and should be expected: we all start somewhere then progress from there, so of
course the wording that worked at the beginning may need to be adjusted as we
move forward and evolve.
However,
I may also reach the point where doing the affirmations may start to feel as
though I’m trying to convince myself they’re true in my life, or that I’m
asking Source for what the affirmation affirms and that my asking is tinged
with worry and doubt. Energetic hiccups happen when I attempt to say an
affirmation I don’t absolutely resonate with or believe as 100% true in my own
regard; not in regard to Source, of course.
I
recently felt such awareness regarding the affirmations I was using each
morning from Catherine Ponder’s book, The
Secret of Unlimited Prosperity. They were all good statements that apply to
many life areas, but even at the start, I had to alter some of the words so
they worked for me. I still highly recommend the book, for lots of reasons; but
I reached a personal realization and had to do something about it.
There
is one particular thing she wrote that always gets and holds my attention:
“Realization precedes manifestation. A realization of Truth will banish every
ill, and the prayer through which realization comes is the prayer that asserts
the truth.” My dictionary defines realize
as, among other definitions: to make real; to understand fully. This made me
look at that first sentence in a certain way. A realization can be a thought
belief (to make real in the mind, even if it isn’t) or true faith (to fully
understand, know), and the two are not the same thing, to my way of thinking.
Realization
precedes manifestation. Thoughts create experiences. How often it has been my
experience to either believe something (a thought I have, which may not be in
my best interest, and may change) or to have faith (the absence of doubt, a
constant belief upheld by evidence) and experience what it was I believed or
had faith about. I know: it’s basic Law of Attraction.
When I
recently noticed that I felt doubt about some of the affirmations, even with my
own rewording, I decided the best way for me to have a beneficial experience
was to use only those statements I could get 100% on board with, ones that did
not cause that little voice in my head to say, “Un unh.” I call these Truth
statements—statements I absolutely believe are true and have absolute faith in
as Truth. I’m going to share some of them with you, and you can see if they
resonate within you as they do within me. The statements are modified versions
from Ponder’s book.
My Truth Statements
It is Truth that the One Source of
Infinite Love is the source of all supply, including my supply. Reason
this feels true: I do believe there is only one primary Source, so it makes
sense that everything and everyone comes from that Source, is an expression of
that Source, returns to that Source from which it or they came. This is also
supported by metaphysicists and quantum physics, which finally, in premise,
agree, even if they use different terminology.
It is Truth that the One Source of
Infinite Love is always and in all ways opening and providing new channels of
abundance, prosperity, and well-being to me, for me, and through me.
Reason this feels true: I experience this, when I’m in flow. And, it also makes
me feel quite good to support receiving and sharing as part of the larger
dynamic of my experience—a grand abundance, prosperity, and well-being loop.
It is Truth that there is no numbering of
the avenues through which supply may come to me; that my resource is as
far-reaching as the universe. Reason this feels true: I
believe that Source is unlimited. I more than believe this; I’ve experienced it
on many occasions. Only human thought limits what we believe our supply and
resources are. This statement also supports my connection with life.
It is Truth that I am meant to expect my
supply through all avenues of contact with life.
Reason this feels true: It has been said repeatedly that Source has already
provided everything we ever need or ever could, and that only our resistance to
receiving it, in some way, prevents it or holds it back from coming to us. Yes,
this is one that is a larger conversation I won’t get into now, but we are not meant to not expect that our needs and desires are to be supplied during our
life. (It’s not about what I can get from the flow, but that I get into the
flow.)
It is Truth that my abundance, prosperity,
and well-being are from Source; and that my abundance, prosperity, and
well-being are always and in all ways omnipresent.
Reason this feels true: I do believe the first part of that statement. And
because I believe it and experience it as Truth, the second part of that
statement must automatically be Truth, as well, because I believe Source is
omnipresent.
It is Truth that appreciation is a magnet
for all good things of the universe to hasten to you.
Reason this feels true: It’s basic Law of Attraction. When you feel genuine
appreciation for something or about everything, even at times when you stretch
to feel that way, it shifts your energy. It allows good stuff to start
happening because that’s the vibration you put out and that’s what you
magnetize to you. This is also based on personal experience. As most of us
know, feelings opposite of appreciation magnetize undesirable experiences to
us. I have personal experience with this one, as well.
It is Truth that good things come to me in
expected, unexpected, and wonderful ways, and sometimes with a promptness that
is astonishing. Reason this feels true: repeated personal
experience. I’ve been pleasantly surprised
in this way, so know it as a fact—a Truth.
It is Truth that my every need is met.
Reason this feels true: Again, personal experience. No matter how many times my
ego-aspect drives me around the bend about some things, I eventually return to
the Truth, and this statement is proven true, once again.
It is Truth that when we live, not just
know, the Law of Attraction and the Truth of the One Source of Infinite Love,
we never need to go seeking—our own always comes to us.
Reason this feels true: It has been my repeated experience that when I get into
the flow, rather than focus on what I can get from the flow (and especially not
entertain thoughts of lack), remarkable things happen. I put out a thought or
request and it shows up in an amazing way and timing, often without my having
done anything other than think the thought, and trust the Truth. This doesn’t
mean that I never or seldom take action: I’m always taking action. It’s just
that sometimes the only action that was required was trust in the Truth of this
statement.
Ponder
wrote that one Truth student said, “I have never yet seen a case of unanswered
prayer, when the one who prayed was really ready to receive the answer.” Being
ready to receive the answer—that’s the key. Do you trust Source enough to trust
the answer you receive and when you receive it? That’s one to contemplate.
Sometimes the answer we get is not one we would have chosen and the when-aspect
is like a frightening amusement park ride. We find we have to rely on our trust
in Source to have higher wisdom about this.
I offer this about these statements and
any you have for yourself based in Truth: when that voice inside your head
starts playing negative tapes about anything, pull up an appropriate Truth
statement and repeat it as needed. Don’t let the ego-aspect’s
frightened or frustrated attitude get to you or take you over. Cancel it with
Truth.
Realization
based in faith—the absence of doubt—precedes manifestation that is in your
highest good and the highest good of all involved, no matter how it initially
may appear. A realization of Truth does, indeed, banish every ill—or the
inclination to worry and fret; and the prayer or statement through which
realization comes is the prayer or statement that asserts the Truth. Statements
that affirm the Truth lead us to experiences of the Truth and, therefore,
realizations of the Truth.
What
is the Truth? Some aspects are listed above as my statements; but you learn
what the Truth is when you experience it in all its beauty, wonder, and
constancy over and over. There are, of course, other Truths not listed here.
Explore the difference between thought beliefs (temporary, possibly
non-supportive) and Truth (something that is constant, unchanging, and always
and in all ways supportive). Readapting something Ernest Holmes wrote: Those
who get involved with Truth evolve. It’s a good practice, one you’ll appreciate.
Practice makes progress.
© Joyce L. Shafer
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