100 Words of Wisdom for Women: Journaling Toward Healing, Wisdom & Empowerment by LB Lacey, MA. www.SOULutionsForDynamicLiving.com Where is Wisdom? Did anyone ever tell you that everything you need to be wise, powerful and gorgeous is already within you? Well, it is. No one here gave it to you. No one here may take it. The truth of your unique wisdom and power lies inside you. The Creator placed authentic wisdom within you before the very foundation of this world was set in place. Some of us are intuitively aware of our inherent source of wisdom. Others of us need revelation. Despite our varying levels of awareness, limitless power and wisdom are ours. Wisdom and power are inexhaustible. Life itself has called each woman to acclimate herself to wisdom, access it and use it. As you seek wisdom you will surely find it within yourself where it has always been. Wake up. Escape memories of the past. Stop wasting today daydreaming about tomorrow. True wisdom is active in the moment. To fully integrate power and wisdom, we as women must become fully aware of who we are--right here and right now. We must emerge from the past. Yesterday is not real. Tomorrow never comes. Now is all there is. As women we have individual and collective rights and responsibilities to be all that we might be. We may need to heal some old wounds. Our bodies may need some attention. Our minds may need soothing and our spirits may require some ministering to. 100 Words of Wisdom for Women, was born out of the desire to enhance our awareness of sisterhood, healing, power and wisdom. How Does Journaling Help? The use of visualization, body-centered awareness, journaling, expressive arts and sensory imaging has helped many people to access traumatic experiences, release painful emotions and reverse the ill effects of stress, disease and other damaging maladies. I want to reveal enough of what I know to you about therapeutic journaling and how the Body, Mind & Spirit connection works, to empower you to change your life. The purpose of this section of 100 Words of Wisdom is to help you understand how journaling can spark the power of healing, wisdom and transformation in your life. I recently heard Oprah Winfrey remark on her show that many women say, "Diets just don't work for me." She smiled as she reminded us all that the reason a particular diet does not work is because we stop dieting. It's the same with therapeutic journaling. If you stay with the process, it will work for you. Therapeutic journaling upsets your inner status quo and begins to shift your internal paradigms. It changes old patterns of thought. The old and false way of thinking states
that you arrive in this world and the world imposes itself upon you. Old modes of thought claim that you are powerless. It says that you cannot change the external world. They state that you are no more than a slave to external forces, individuals, situations and happenstance. Your powerlessness is an illusion. Learned helplessness is responsible for the loss of a vast amount of human potential. Vow now to put off any self-limiting beliefs. You create your reality as a co-creator with and through God. "They" do not want you to know this. A woman who is ignorant of her own power and freedom to change her life is not blissful. She is pitiful. In this benighted state a woman cannot even begin to conceive of the fact that she has the power not only to change herself, but the world. Journaling in a mindful way empowers you. The world would rather you not know who you really are because an ignorant, unaware and complacent woman is easier to control. There may be many people, forces and influences that have tried or are currently trying to undermine you. People may bombard you with attempts to "fix" you ostensibly for your own good. You may feel powerless to defend your sense of self. God, however, made YOU. No one here can “fix” you because no one here created you. The power, by God, is yours. You have been divinely equipped with the ability to be everything that you were intended to become. It is within you. The impression or notion that you do not have control of your life may be a major source of feelings of helplessness, confusion and conflict in your life. You may not be able to put your finger on it, but this feeling of being powerless and out of control may be at the core of your medical, mental and emotional struggles. Powerlessness, however, is but a feeling. It's a perception. Perceptions are subject to change. Remember; as you think so shall you be. Healing is in your hands--literally. You possess intuitive wisdom and power, but you may feel cut off from the source of your wisdom and power. This may be due to past or current physical, mental or spiritual trauma. Psychologist, James W. Pennebaker, a leading authority on the effectiveness of expressive therapies, proved that when people used therapeutic journaling to express their feelings regarding trauma, painful memories and illness, their heart rates slowed, their immune systems were strengthened and remarkably many people reported that they felt better. Individuals who journal experience marked improvements physically and emotionally. This is good news for countless women interested in using journaling as a means of healing and self-empowerment. Again, power is in your hands. Use it. You will feel better. (Pennybaker 249) Journaling in Action When I began seeing clients at an agency that helped women in crisis, many of my clients were suffering from a fractured sense of self. This fractured sense of self, lies at the core of many symptoms that rear their ugly heads in a woman's life. Often women enter therapy with gross feelings of inadequacy, self-loathing, disempowerment and confusion. The feelings that cause a woman to decide to finally do something to help herself often range from the very subtle to the extremely intense. Whatever the case, it is
always a good thing when a woman decides to take ownership of her own state of being. Is this a choice that you have made? Perhaps you find yourself at an impasse. You are not alone. Just the fact that you are reading this book reveals how powerful you really are. Some women are not yet in a place where they can even take that first step toward wisdom. It all starts with a decision. You have made your choice. You are stepping into your greatness. When you begin journaling the power of transformation will dynamically be unleashed in your life. And that's a fact! Years ago I worked in a resource center for domestic violence survivors. Many of the women would sit and go on and on about how an ex-husband or boyfriend had abused them or cheated on them with a best friend or relative. They would cry and curse from grimaced faces. Some would meticulously go through each and every detail of who said this, who said that and who did the other. This kind of repetitious negative expression was seldom very cathartic for them. They could not really hear or see their own process while trapped behind a wall made of their own words. They did not yet realize that saying things like, "I hate myself for...I want to kill him...She's a whore...I want to just die, etc." was just making everything worse. They did not understand that simply repeating the details of their life's drama was merely the superficial layer of a much deeper process. It was my job to show them how to use the power of words and expression for healing. Journaling is a secret weapon for healing that I was very eager to share with them. It has worked in my own life and I have seen it work in the lives of others. It will work for you too. Without mindfulness many of the women I saw were often actually speaking life and energy into all that they stated they wanted to escape. What you express and speak to you give life to. You see, while it is helpful to express yourself when you experience loss or trauma, how you do it is just as important as doing it at all. When I was able to persuade them to use therapeutic methods to connect with how they felt about situations in their lives, their personal breakthroughs began. As these women started to express their negative feelings in a positive way, positive changes began to take place. The despair faded from their eyes. They appeared to come to life. As soon as a woman begins to write about her experiences and validate her emotions by mindfully giving them expression, a light from deep within her begins to glow more brightly. One of my most vivid memories is of one my very first clients. She was in her mid thirties. She was an attractive young woman with a very painful look in her eyes. She tried to cover it at first with forced smiles. You could still see her pain quite clearly though. Her husband had cheated on her and gotten her best friend pregnant. She had three children with him, a high school education and a very low paying job. He and his new girlfriend had begun threatening her and she had to get a restraining order on him. When she came to me she was so rattled and frazzled that she could barely express a complete thought. I began with expressive art exercises for her in order to help her get in touch with her innermost feelings. After a couple of weeks we moved into therapeutic journaling. One day I asked her if she was willing to share some of her experiences with the
journaling process. She smiled and said that she would. As she went through her writing she had a sudden epiphany. She began reading a line over and over. It had nothing to do with her husband or her friend. "I feel like I don't even love myself," she read, "I don't love myself...I don't love myself...I don't love myself...” Suddenly this woman began to cry like a baby. It was a bittersweet mixture of pain and the relief of sudden revelation. She got it. She had touched upon the core of her own truth as a woman. Everything else in her life was merely a symptom of her lack of self-love. After she cleansed her emotional palette with a good cry, we continued with our work. Over the course of the following few weeks this woman blossomed like a flower before my very eyes. She went back to school. She organized hers and her children's lives. Counseling for her children was arranged. She got legal help for the situation with her husband and decided to divorce him. This woman had tapped into her own internal wisdom. She no longer looked for me or anyone else to tell her what to do. She got it. Her process was a blessing to behold. How Journaling Will Help You What is key here is that you re-frame and express personal past experiences in order to process any internal pain, loss, confusion, anger etc. If unfortunate things happened to you in the past, they do not have to be allowed to hurt you now and into the future. After all, many things were likely not within your power to change in the past. They are, however, subject to your power today. You create your life. You have the power to choose to sit idly by and be an inactive participant in the unfolding of your reality. Even if you decide to do nothing, you are still creating your life. Remember, sadly, many of life's most important choices are made by people simply failing to choose at all. Take hold of your personal power! Wise women choose to choose because wisdom tells them that those who fail to choose choose to fail. By allowing you space and time to contemplate your own experiences and express them, a dynamic process of transformation will be activated. You will be reconciled to the internal feminine power, essential beauty, boundless joy and sagacious wisdom that are every woman's birthright. To do this we, as women, must go within. We must go into the inner workings of our bodies, minds and souls. During this process you are encouraged to go deep within and dig out all your "stuff." Address it, inspect it, respect it, express it and learn from it. Then you must resolve to leave all that "stuff" in the past. You cannot move forward while fixating on what is behind you. Failure to let go of the past is one of the main causes of pain for most women who are suffering today. Again, learn from and leave your past in the past. This is the way to reconnect with your own inner storehouse of healing, power and wisdom. Journaling is used in holistic based therapies to encourage body, mind, spirit integration or re-connection. Therapeutic journaling enables you to go inside and take feelings, thoughts and perspectives from mindlessness to mindfulness. To be mindful means that you have been awakened to a heightened state of awareness and attentiveness. This awareness brings you from the foolishness of girlhood illusions into the wisdom of a selfactualized woman. As you go through the exercises in this book, you will begin to
discover who you really are from a deeper and more meaningful perspective. Holistic (simply meaning "whole") perspective reveals to us that we are a complete. We are composed of unified parts that form the whole, which is greater than the sum of all the parts. That may sound a little bit confusing at first if this is your first time considering your identity from a complete perspective. I t will become clearer and clearer to you as we move forward. Please just be mindful of this: You are Body, but you are more than that. You are Mind and more than that. You are Spirit and yet more than that as well. What is the “more” aspect of who you are? It is who you are as Body, Mind and Spirit; three separate, whole parts combined in one dynamic consciousness.
The Body/Mind /Spirit Connection You are Body You are Body. You likely have a basic awareness of your body as head, belly, arms, legs, etc. Let's however, move into a deeper awareness wherein true growth may be facilitated. We tend to think of “body” as the corporal self, the physical form. Our physical body is a living, cellular map of everything that has happened to us since birth. Good and bad experiences are stored in and affect the body constantly. The hypothalamus, for instance, is a major "body control center" as it regulates bodily functions. When a woman has unresolved emotions and fears trapped inside the body, this triggers the hypothalamus to respond in ways that it "thinks" will regulate the body. Surprise, love, heartbreak and fear are only a small list of emotions that have impacted who we are and how we are today. If one leads a stressful life, physical manifestations may be seen as headaches, insomnia, ulcers, general fatigue, cancer, etc. It is of paramount importance to balance all the different aspects of life so that dis-ease or ultimately disease is not created in the body. By journaling your emotions, thoughts and experiences, you bring them out of your internal landscape where left un-expressed they can become stuck, fixed and begin show up as actual illnesses in the body. Think of your body as a canvas and yourself as the artist. You are creating a lovely work of art. This work of art is not created by what happens to you but by how you choose to perceive, process and respond to what happens to you. By choosing to use holistic and expressive techniques such as journaling, you grab the brush, so to speak. You take control as the artist and author of your own life. You create your own body from moment to moment. You are Mind You are Mind. The brain is usually the focal point when we mention the mind. The mind, however, is more magnificent than we imagine. It is not limited solely to the brain. The mind permeates every cell of the body. The body is symbiotically connected to every thought. Each thought builds the body. The mind has an uncanny ability to determine the actions and reactions of the body. Psychoneuroimmunology is a complex word used to explain the simple idea of mind over matter. The mind directly influences the body. Thoughts of love, prayerfulness, hope, and positivism all effect who we are mentally and
physically. Conversely, thoughts of hate, fear, anger and negativity affect our resultant selves. Amazing findings by Japanese researcher, Dr. Masaru Emoto, (Emoto, Masaru. The Hidden Messages in Water) have provided dramatic proof that thoughts, words and emotional vibrations directly affect physical reality. Dr. Emoto's study of the molecular structure of water has shown that water exposed to various written words, spoken words, and types music respond directly to the nature of the words, music or intention it is exposed to. Every word you speak has an effect on you and others. Be mindful. (Emoto 160) You are Spirit You are Spirit. The spirit is the nucleus of our essential self. Spirit is the part of the "trilogy of self" that manifests the eternal uniqueness of an individual. Your spirit is the aspect of yourself that transforms knowledge into wisdom. Your spirit animates the body. Your spirit activates the mind on its path of thought. The mind asks, "What is the meaning of my life?" The spirit answers. Your spirit is the part of yourself that no one can touch without your consent. In one of the most poignant and life changing books I have ever read, Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, he offers poignant insight into the indelible nature of the spirit. In essence, he said that during his imprisonment in the Nazi death camps, he realized an ultimate truth. He came to know with certainty that while the Nazis could starve and torture his body, while they could humiliate him and cause him severe mental agony, they could not touch his essential self unless he allowed them to. This is powerful. Years ago I journaled my experience around reading that book and a deep awareness of my own identity began to emerge. I began to become more aware of who I was created and sent here to be. Through Frankl's book, I came to see my own incorruptible, indestructible human nature. I experienced a level of revelation that has stayed with me ever since. Remember, the body may be victimized. The mind too may be vulnerable. Your spirit, however, belongs to you. Not even God will act upon your spirit without your consent. You define your own essential state of being. You create your life. (Frankl et al, 1959) You Are Whole Body. Mind. Spirit. Put them all together and you have YOU. If you find yourself in a state of imbalance or disempowerment it simply means that it is time to do what our Sister-Teacher, Iyanla VanZant calls "housecleaning". In her book, In the Meantime, Iyanla wisely instructs women to "clean out their heads." Through this cleaning-out process, a woman prepares herself for true growth and for love. (VanZant et al, 1999) At the core of any therapeutic journaling process is the intention to reconnect with self. Pain, grief and trauma cause many women to disconnect or even disassociate from themselves. Journaling can start a reversal of this disconnection. Through journaling a woman can begin to form authentic connections with the world around her, other people and ultimately with her own spirituality. This gives meaning to a woman's life. The process of this book is about finding yourself and giving her/yourself the power of expression.
As a holistic counselor, I endeavor to share and teach women effective modes of expression and communication that will allow us to live more fully in the world. Before I began my training in holistic counseling, I really had not seen or understood how truly powerful hands on, experiential modalities of healing worked. I have seen personally and with clients how expressive arts and journaling can liberate a woman once trapped in the confines of her own diminishment. When a woman really gets that she is the co-creator of her own life...watch out. She cannot be stopped. No man can beat her body down. No system of thought or external authority can oppress or subjugate her. No malevolent influence can possess her soul. When a woman connects with her own essence she becomes aware of her connection to the Creator, to others, to nature and to the universe. Yes, that's when a woman starts to live full-force! How to Journal Therapeutic journaling is a proven method of expression that fosters healing and catharsis for individuals who use it properly. I stress "properly" because all journaling is not necessarily therapeutic in nature. For instance, journaling, which basically serves as 'diary keeping' consists of merely recording the events of one's life. For instance, "Dear Diary: Today I got a letter from my boyfriend. In it he said that he wanted to take a break from our relationship. I tore the letter up, called him crying and cussed him out. He hung up on me. When I tried to call back my calls went straight to voice mail." That is an example of just writing out the events and recounting the details. This does not necessarily help a woman to process her experience or express her emotions in a way that validates or alleviates her pain. The following is an example of the same experience journaled in a therapeutic way: "I feel sad, lonely and rejected today because my boyfriend just sent me a letter saying he wanted to take a break from our relationship. Saying something like that in a letter felt impersonal and disrespectful to me. I felt anger build up in my belly and grow larger and larger until I decided to just call him. Before I knew what hit me, words of anger and contempt for him just starting flowing from my mouth. It felt like a dam of pent up hurt and pain had broken inside of me. I did not like or love myself or him. Then he just hung up on me. It felt like a slap in the face. Every time I called back and just got his voice mail it was like another slap after another. I feel so lost, alone, scared and very angry! This does not feel right. This is not my idea of what love should feel like. I do not want this feel this way anymore." The second example of journaling is an example of connecting with one's emotions and thoughts in a therapeutic way. It shows a woman connecting to her sense of self. This is how emotions are processed instead of repressed. This sparks growth. When a woman expresses her thoughts and feelings on paper where she can see them, the process of awareness and healing begins. It jars her senses. It jolts her into getting real when the thoughts and emotions flow from her head, down her arm and out through her fingertips onto a once blank page. She sees herself. The evidence of her pain and suffering may be a bit difficult for a woman to view at first but it empowers her to recognize that she is
empowered to change what she sees. All she must do is decide. This brings about clarity, revelation and understanding. Journaling therapeutically brings you into a loving and meaningful relationship with yourself. My initial intrigue with the power of journaling began when my professor, Barbara Ganim, explained to us that in one study individuals with arthritis experienced a decrease in pain, stiffness and reduction in joint swelling after using therapeutic journaling. This was amazing. The concept of joints actually shrinking in direct response to therapeutic journaling had a very profound effect on me. I wanted to know all I could learn about therapies that offered measurable results. I have come to respect journaling as one of the most effective and easily accessible therapies that offers notable improvement in physical and emotional states of being. Journaling allows a woman to take an active role in her own process. She no longer sits as an inactive victim of her own circumstances. She no longer sits waiting for a hero. She is her own "shero". The activity of self-expression marks the beginning of self-actualization for many women. It wakes us up. It heals, empowers and enriches us on all levels of being. As you go through this journaling journey, powerful women whom we call "Power Sources", will lovingly speak wisdom into your body--however broken, your mind-however troubled and your soul--however weary. Each day you are invited to journal your thoughts and insights as you contemplate the wisdom shared. You will also be assigned a "Power Affirmation" everyday to repeat throughout the day. This affirmation is provided to help propel you along your path of empowerment and revelation. You are asked to merely repeat the affirmation throughout each day in order to activate positive energy in your life. Remember, you create your life. Affirmations extremely powerful tools for the creative process of life. As you journal and journey through this book, you will experience the joyous and the challenging. Some things may make you laugh. Others may bring you to tears. You may experience many emotions as all of the aspects of your life come together to increase you in wisdom, stature and power as a woman. The most painful experiences of your life oft times bring with them the gift of great wisdom. So do not be afraid. The development of yourself as a woman is your highest call. This call moves you out of your comfort zone. It stretches and challenges you. Fear not. We are sisters in the process. We go through it simultaneously. We follow the paths of those who have gone before us and we pave the way for those who follow in our footsteps. The path may get a bit rocky and winding as times, but stay with it. You are loved. You are supported. Again, just stay with the process...especially when it seems most difficult. The difficulty holds your greatest lesson and your greatest opportunity for growth and transcendence. Read. Journal. Affirm. We have presented you with some of the most powerful, creative, dynamic and wise women of the world. They shall speak pure greatness into your body, mind and spirit. The larger portion of the expression, however, must come from you. Each word you write, think and affirm within the context of this exercise is an injection of physical, emotional
and spiritual "medicine" into the core of your being. Well being. Life. Power. Freedom. Jubilation. The loving and meaningful power of all these words and more are yours. You are encouraged to journal your thoughts on a regular basis. Affirmations will also be provided to enhance your journaling process. When you journal express how each entry makes you feel. What memories arise and how do they affect you? Express your thoughts and feelings as you move through the process. The important thing is that you read, journal your thoughts/feelings and repeat the affirmations everyday. Read. Journal. Affirm. Your life will change!
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." Oprah Winfrey
Using the Power of Affirmations to Enhance Your Journaling Process
Basically affirmations are stating what you desire to be as if it already is...and it is very powerful. What do you want? What would the perfect life look like for you? Can you imagine it? If you can imagine it, you can create it. Affirmations help you to manifest the life you desire if you know how to use them. Using affirmations is simple. Everything in your life today was brought into being through your personal power, magnetism, thoughts, words and imaginings. You may or may not have been consciously aware of the process, but you have already created your own reality. You can re-create it too. Years ago, Affirmations, unbeknownst to me, were destined to play a rather significant role in my life. Over a decade ago the devastation of a painful divorce, had left me feeling alone, depressed and utterly disempowered. I had three young children, however, who needed me to be stronger than I actually was. I was unaware of it at the time, but the Creator's hand was on my life. Through my pain, I still felt the need to become a whole, happy, successful human being and live up to my full potential. Many powerful, talented and wise women find themselves caught between what others tell them they should be and what they really want to be. The challenge is for each woman is for her to grow into the awareness of what she already is. Affirmations are immeasurably beneficial in enhancing a woman's God given power to become all that she might be. Many years ago, I allowed negative statements, thoughts and fears to damage my resolve. I allowed other people to tell me who I was and what I "should" do to be what they believed I ought to be. What an awful way to live when God, the Creator has created us perfectly. We have been given access to Divine Wisdom and the power to transform our lives free from popular culture's projections and the opinions of other people. When
we allow ourselves to feed off of negative self-talk or aspersions cast by others, it always harms us. It negates our worth. Affirmations validate our worth. They affirm our GREATNESS. Fortunately, I did not allow the screaming voice of negativity to wholly cancel out the true Voice. The true Voice is that of the Creator whispering and straining to be heard. When you utter positive affirmations, you echo the very Voice of the Creator. This Voice creates. Your voice creates. Affirmations inspire, motivate & excite you because as you speak them something within your body, your mind and your spirit tells you that they are as TRUE as you will allow them to be. As you state your affirmations, negative voices fade in the distance. The power of therapeutic journaling, positive affirmations, and creative visualizations will sincerely help you to fulfill your greatest desires. Start today. You must want what you want enough to put your energy and intention where your mouth is, so to speak. Creative visualization is like a prayer where you not only ask the Creator for this or that, but you offer your energy to help manifest it. Your thoughts are the raw material required to manifest your dreams. To successfully begin practicing positive affirmation and creative visualization, you are encouraged to use the following simple yet very important questions and guidelines in planning your practice: 1.) What do I want? You may want to pray, meditate and think seriously about this before moving forward. Be careful with what you speak or affirm in your life because you will get it. Clearly and firmly create the vision of what you want within your heart, mind and soul. Select affirmations to support your vision. Visualize. Affirm. Let go of what you want. Yes, if you really want it...let it go. This may seem somewhat contradicting but you must realize that obsessing or clinging to anything repels it. When you use affirmations you are changing your energetic patterns to attract what your want. Attraction, is passive and remarkably powerful. 2.) When do I want it? Now. You must state everything you want as if you already have it right now. Set your intention. Choose an affirmation that positively states what you desire as if you already possess it. Remember, it is very important to state what you DO want and NEVER to state what you DO NOT want. For instance, say "I am beautiful." Do not say, "I want to be beautiful." "I will be beautiful" or "I am not ugly!" The key to using affirmations successfully is to state everything positively. 3.) Why do I want what I want? Write out the purpose of your affirmation practice. Know why you want whatever you desire. Why is it so important to you? Why should God, the Creator and the Universe support your having it? It is important for the energy of your practice for you to be clear on your "why". Purpose fuels your process.
4.) How do I AFFIRM what I want? Engage all of your senses in your creative visualization practice. See, feel, hear, taste and even smell the reality of having what you want in your life. The more you engage your senses in the process the more real your affirmations become...literally. 5.) Where will I practice? Your affirmation practice will ultimately become a part of everything you do everywhere. At first you will need to find deliberately set times and places when and where you know you will state your affirmation(s). Soon after you begin to mindfully begin to state your affirmations throughout the day, they will become a natural part of your daily experience. Your words will change. The thoughts in your mind will change....and your life will change. Honestly, the world will change!
6.) When will I practice? It is good to repeat your affirmations and for 5-10 minutes at night before you go to bed, and for 5-10 minutes in the morning just after you wake up. It is optimal if you can find a space and time in the middle of your day for your practice as well. It is very good if you can mindfully say your affirmations at least to yourself all throughout your day. Saying them while driving, showering, putting on your make-up, walking your dog, exercising, etc. is good. . 7.) Who will be effected by it? In order to be successful your affirmation practice, you must seek to harm no one. This is of vital importance for the Divine Law of Reciprocity is always in place. So, affirm goodness, Love and Light in order to receive the same. For instance, when you visualize yourself with the man of your dreams, this must not entail stealing another woman's husband or establishing any relationship based on betrayal or deceit. Deceitful, harmful intentions and selfishness negate the powerful positive energy of affirmations. Also when you visualize yourself getting a promotion or new job, it must not include someone else being fired. Compose your affirmations and create your visualization to support the optimal result and blessings for everyone. Rest assured that there is such Abundance in the Universe that you and everyone else on the planet can be blessed many time over without anyone being alone, deprived or in lack of anything. Lack is an illusion. Affirm Abundance.
R e a d . J o u r n a l . V i s u a l i z e. A f f i r m. Powerful affirmations have been provided for you below. Read each one and see which words resonate with you. Feel free to change, adjust or add to any affirmation to suit you. Remember to journal daily, visualize and affirm. And get ready. Your life is about to change!
1 Affirmation I draw strength from generations of grace, greatness, and courage to live my life with wisdom, power, and boundless joy. 2 Affirmation The positive transformation of my entire life begins with the decision I choose to make today. 3 Affirmation I expect my special gifts to manifest God. The Creator’s glory and greatness in all areas of my life.
4 Affirmation The divine seed of my blessed destiny has already been planted within me and it grows larger and brighter with every sunrise and rainfall. 5 Affirmation I now embrace all gifts of Creativity and Power from God, the Creator to me in order to share these gifts with the planet. 6 Affirmation I have the faith, the power, and the courage to face and conquer the challenges of my life. 7 Affirmation I recognize, realize, and actualize the fact that I define and behold my own essential beauty regardless of my complexion, weight, hair texture or bra size. 8 Affirmation As I embrace thoughts of power, abundance, love, and wisdom, they are profoundly manifested in my life.
10 Affirmation Today I will listen for the Lessons of my life, I will learn them as they come, and I will grow beyond myself with each new day. 11 Affirmation I embrace each obstacle in my life as an opportunity for increased growth and enhanced empowerment.
12 Affirmation I am doing all things through the Love and Light of God, the Creator with an inner peace that passes all understanding. 13 Affirmation Today, I celebrate my power to choose to change for the better physically, in my emotionally and my spiritually. 14 Affirmation I am a woman of unlimited power, unequivocal talent, and undeniable wisdom enabling me to accomplish great works in the world. 15 Affirmation I dynamically shine my Light so that others will know that they are empowered to shine their Light as well. 16 Affirmation I am leaving the pain behind to claim the joyous, triumphant, peaceful life that God, the Creator wants me to enjoy. 17 Affirmation I make wise decisions that optimize my health--physically, mentally and spiritually.
18 Affirmation All is full of Love and Light as I release all fears of loneliness, abandonment, and rejection with the awareness that I am truly never alone. 19 Affirmation My attitude, mood, and gratitude attract positive people, productive projects and loving relationships into my life.
20 Affirmation I reach out of my past, from my present and into the future of my boundless potentiality. 21 Affirmation I fully accept my true eternal significance in a world that tries daily to convince me of my false unimportance. 22 Affirmation I bless and edify my Body, my Mind, and my Spirit with everything I think, speak, and do. 23 Affirmation I arrive in this day wrapped in the finery of faith, beauty, wisdom, and power. 24 Affirmation Through self-love, self-esteem and, true sisterhood, we are propelled to higher and higher states of greatness. 25 Affirmation I diligently guard my thoughts and what I allow to enter my life on a day-to-day basis.
26 Affirmation I now accept the powerful, creative, joyful, wise and gorgeous ME as God, the Creator created me to be.
27 Affirmation I fully embrace the power to be who, how, what, and where I want to be. 28 Affirmation I am the embodiment of beauty, strength, confidence, intuition, humility, grace and wisdom today and everyday. 29 Affirmation My Voice resonates with the transformative power of authenticity, truth authority, and wisdom. 30 Affirmation I am now free from all hurtful, harmful or unhealthy people, habits and situations. 31 Affirmation I choose to radiate peace, Light and confidence from within while in the presence of others.
© LB Lacey 2006
