Today's Stimuli

August 4, 2013
DOING THE WORK
 
GETTING CLEAR 

 

It can be difficult to get clear about what you do want until you clear out what you don't want.Unfortunately, we can become so focused on what we don't want that we obscure what we truly desire. This week our work is about getting clear. 

 



CALLING IN THE GOOD  

 

Using a sheet of lined paper complete the following statement 9 times.

"I don't want _________. Instead I choose __________________"

 

  

Surrender refers to a state of physical, mental, and emotional inaction which provides an energetic opening which facilitates Divine Presence and activity.

 

Surrender refers to the yielding or giving over of self, desires, intentions and outcomes which is not equivalent to disinterest. Rather, surrender is a state of detachment from the details and controlling the details related to how the outcome must or will unfold.

 

It is a state of neutrality which allows events to unfold without limitation, judgment or resistance. 

Surrender is the active state of remembrance that there is a divine law and order to activities and events.

As a state of consciousness and being, surrender means being flexible, willing and open to the flow, influence, energy and power of Divine Presence.

In the realm of common experience, surrender is thought of as giving up, as in defeat.  In the spiritual realm, surrender is giving overto a powerful, higher presence which takes into account the interests and well being of all involved.
 
In a state of surrender without attachment to how or when things must occur, we become receptive and obedient to the inner voice which may offer opportunities and possi-bilities which were not considered.

The greatest demonstration of surrender is in the choice not to indulge toxic emotions (e.g., anger, guilt, shame, etc.). To surrender a negative emotion requires acknow- ledgment that it exists and the choice not to allow it to control thought or behavior.  

 


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PRAYER TO REALIZE THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD    
   

Dear God:

 

Today I ask for and open myself to receive an outpouring of your loving Spirit.

 

Today I ask that you teach me how to forgive myself the way You forgive me.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for believing the things I have been taught or told about myself that are not true about me.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the distorted perceptions and false beliefs I may have created about myself.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the poor choices or bad decisions I may have made in the past.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the judgments I may have held about myself and against myself.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for comparing what I have and do not have to what others have or do not have.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for what I have done and not done that was unkind, unloving or grounded in self-doubt or unworthiness.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the unkind, unloving ways I may have treated others.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for any shame, guilt, fear, anger, regret, resentment I may be holding, denying or avoiding in the recesses of my heart.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for not trusting myself.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the times I did not trust You.

 

Teach me how to forgive myself for the way you have and do forgive me.

 

Re-mind me to re-member that in Your forgiveness is all that I could ever need or desire.

 

I open my mind and heart to receive Your love and forgive- ness now.

 

I am grateful for all I have received and all that is yet to come.

 

I let it be. And so it is!

 

Amen and Ashe.

Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant 

 

 
     

I surrender and release the control

I think I have over my life.

 

I surrender all anxieties I have about

relationships and allow love to

 come into my life.

 

I surrender my fears and allow

Divine Wisdom to guide me.

 

I surrender my need for approval

and accept myself the way I am.

 

I surrender any need I think I have

for unhealthy foods and I now

 support my body temple with

beneficial, nutritious food

that promotes good health.

 

I surrender all thoughts that

I am unlovable,  my heart is

now open and I radiate love.

 

I surrender all negative thoughts

and fill  my mind with gratitude

for my wonderful life.

 

 

  


                          

 

Surrender is the active reminder that there is a divine law in operation, and that we are always accountable to the law.  Surrender is an admission that we cannot make anything happen. However, if we are in alignment with the law, we will always get what we deserve. If we are not in alignment, it simply means we must do the work to make ourselves so.

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Surrender allows us to face the thing we fear before it becomes a reality. The fear of being wrong. The fear of losing control. The fear of being found out. Most of the time, the thing we fear has absolutely no power, yet we brace ourselves for the worst possibility. In that defensive posture we keep our minds fixed on what could or might happen. The fear of facing that imaginary negative outcome is what keeps us paralyzed. Surrender places us in the offensive position. It gives us the opportunity to plan, and to move according to the plan.

  

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Surrender helps you to become willing to live through the experience, without giving your entire life over to it. It also makes room in your heart and mind for the Divine to give you a new idea. A new thought. When you surrender, give up the fear thoughts, and give up the control of a situation, you open the way for a miracle to take place.

 

    

Excerpts from One Day My Soul Just Opened Up  
by
Iyanla Vanzant 
       
  

Iyanla Fix My Life  on  OWN
Saturdays 9/8c

 
  
A Husband Tells His Deepest Secret to Iyanla - Iyanla Fix My Life - Oprah Winfrey Network
A Husband Tells His Deepest Secret to Iyanla - Iyanla Fix My Life - Oprah Winfrey Network
   

  

Oct. 25 to 27, 2013 - Wonder Woman Weekend

  

If you are wanting, struggling, trying to find a deeper, more meaningful purpose in life. If you are waiting for life to become the wondrous adventure you always dreamed it could be...The Wonder Woman Weekend is for you!  For more information click here. 

 

 

 

    

 

 Something for the Men  

 

Be Smart About Getting Your Finances In Order  

 

These days it's easy to get organized as you start out because everything is online. Set up online folders to save the documents you get from your employer: retirement plan documents, loan payments, or any kind of document you'll need for reference if something happens.

 

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