Affirmations
And
Sending Love
to your Day upon
waking……
After the long cold and harsh winter months we have just experienced, many people I spoke with shared how they felt “lethargic” unable to greet each new Day with Love, Hope and good Expectations. It took every bit of strength of will to keep positive some days. As one person so aptly described what I myself was experiencing “I don’t have that spark that makes me glow with Love and Hope for perfect outcomes. I feel stuck and it just doesn’t feel like me!” It felt good to know I was not the only one out there feeling the effects of a long unforgiving winter. As I look back, it really prepared me for the joy I felt when the first warm day descended upon the earth around me. My bones and my soul rejoiced. Even though I am a crab by my astrological sign, I am also a horse in the Chinese astrological calendar and as a horse person I love the wide open spaces and warm grass beneath my feet.
What those months taught me when I felt somewhat lethargic during that cold spell was to use that time wisely in so many ways. Instead of moaning about the weather I blessed each day I awoke by sending Love out to pave the way for the perfect outcome. I also sent love to bless all the people whose lives I would meet and interact with during each day. That became the key to my flowing smoothly and joyfully through some depressing days in April and a few in May when warm weather seemed a distant memory.
I learned a lot during those two months. Who said “we are never too old to learn,” spoke a truth that resonates with me totally. I spent a great deal of that time recovering my sense of wonder and strength and compassion and most of all my sense of deep connection to my heart’s dreams and goals. By sending love to me and my day and everyone I would meet, it opened my heart to revisiting one of my very favorite books, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I found myself experiencing a state of being I had not experienced in a very long time, namely; no push, no rush, no planning, just coasting along and enjoying each day’s gifts and surprises as they unfolded. I must admit – it felt good! For anyone who hasn’t read this wonderful book, The Artist Way is filled with the most affirming and powerful affirmations one could hope to find in any one book. In addition to the following exercise, you may want to choose an affirmation that speaks to you and repeat it several times during your day.
Here is the exercise I had practiced over the years in its various shortened forms and decided to try it in its entirety, and I am so glad that I did.
“On awakening, speak loving, self-directed blessings aloud and it will awaken the reservoir of tenderness and compassion in your soul. Pour forth loving thoughts and expectations towards yourself and the new day just dawning. Then prepare to meet the Day by seeing your self surrounded with a brilliant warm, loving protective light. Expand that light to include your loved ones and everyone you meet, including people in your workplace, and the traffic on the roads you travel; in short everyone you meet. If an ambulance goes by during the day, send warm loving, healing, light to the person in that ambulance.
Before getting out of bed to start your day set an intention for your Day, write it in your Journal along with an appropriate affirmation to support your intention and you are ready to greet your day knowing it will be a blessed, happy and fulfilling day.”
Sending love ahead to everyone you will meet and everything you will be doing will ensure that your day is held loving together with a ribbon of grace. If someone is rude or nasty to you, send them love and forgiveness. It is said that what we send out we receive back a hundred fold.
I would love to have you share any rituals you find helpful and I look forward to hearing from you.
Happy days!
Namaste,
Sharon
With summer upon us we not only get to enjoy the beautiful warm weather. Those of us who love to sit in the quiet of their garden often get to view and enjoy as well the many species of butterflies that flitter from flower to flower and land softly and gently so close to us. What a joy to sit and watch these beautiful creatures on a summer’s day. Have you ever wondered about this great totem of beauty and about its rich teachings about transformation?
Dealing with transitions and unexpected change occurs in all our lives. There are many ways this can occur and most of the time it is not pleasant or a welcome experience. Often when you are in the throes of living through the transitions that result from unexpected change you may find yourself in total despair feeling that your life may never be happy, fulfilled and joyous ever again. That is a normal and natural response. After all ‘it is always darkest before the dawn.’
This quote by Abraham as channeled by Esther Hicks for the Law of Attraction expresses fully what life is meant to be for each and every one of us in physical form at this time on earth.
Here is a definition of Change that I heard that you may relate to: “Change occurs when you start questioning the underlying realities of your life and start noticing the reality you are living is not serving you”.
In January after reading a story on gratitude and how it energetically changes one’s life in many wonderful ways when one focuses on what they are grateful for on a daily basis, I decided to set aside some time daily over the next 21 days and try that practice for myself. It advised that at the end of each day before going to sleep, review all the experiences and good things that occurred during the day and give thanks for them. I thought, what a brilliant way of working with gratitude.
When I think of change I recall something I read some years ago that said “Everything is in the process of becoming something more, something else. Life is marching forward in accord with a divine plan that is coded into the very fabric of each being.” Everything is in transition and the only constant in our lives is change, so let’s welcome and embrace the process. 
Don’t let anyone or anything steal your dream! It is yours. Nurture it. Protect it from negativity and pay close attention to how you intend to manifest it into your physical reality. A dream is like a beautiful flower. It begins its life as a seed growing in the garden of your mind, and your thoughts. When you visualize and imagine it, you are tending and watering it to maturity. “What you can conceive of, and believe in, you can achieve!” Napoleon Hill