Today's Stimuli

November 19, 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: _________________________"

    

Opportunities, relationships, even
money flowed my way when I
learned to be grateful no matter
what happened in my life.

Oprah Winfrey

 

Gratitude means giving thanks from your heart.  When you do this, energy flows from your heart and activates certain responses from other people as well as the Universe. If you pay lip-service to gratitude or feel you ought to be thankful, you words and thoughts do not draw the same response.

 

. . . When you send out heartfelt thanks to the Universe for the blessings you have received, the divine energy lovingly responds by giving you even more blessings.

 

Heartfelt gratitude is a key to abun- dance. It unlocks the great resources of the Universe.

 

Diana Cooper

A Little Light on the Spiritual Laws

 

Thank you is the bridge from where you are now, to the life of your dreams.  . . . When you understand that the Universe is within you, and by its very nature it is for you wanting you to have more life, more health, more love, more beauty, and more of everything you want . . . then you will feel genuine Gratitude to the Universe for everything you receive in your life and you will have established a personal relationship between you and the Universe!

 

. . . The more genuine Gratitude you feel toward the Universe for everything you receive the closer your relationship becomes with the Universe.  In that moment you can reach the level of unlimited abundance from the Magic of Gratitude.

 

Rhonda Byrne, 

The Magic

 
        

FIT FOR THE JOURNEY 

  

Beloved Source of All Good,

 

How wonderful it is to be here to acknowledge Your Divine Presence and Awesome Power.

 

This day I am grateful to know You and to love You.  This day I am even more grateful to know that You love me unconditionally.  This day I am so very grateful to be here to still do Your Will.

 

Some would say that I am not supposed to be here given family history, generational patterns of dis-ease and dis-harmony.

 

I am grateful today to know that I don't have to be the victim of those patterns.

 

I am grateful today to know that I am free from those limitations and restrictions.

 

I am grateful today that I have been given second, third, ten thousandth chances to make different choices.

 

I am grateful that I have been offered opportunities to ensure that I am fit for the journey.  I am grateful that I can commit to being fit for Your journey.

 

Today, I commit to continuing to open myself to be supported on this journey.

 

I re-cognize that You have work for me to do.  I re-cognize that You have more for me to be.  I re-cognize that You have called me for a purpose, as You have called each of us.

 

Thank You that Your instructions and guidance continues to be delivered to me in a loving way and in words that I can understand.

 

Thank You that You are gentle with me whenever I may fall short or falter on the path.

 

Thank You that I may always pick myself up and dust myself off and get back to moving in the direction that You would have me go.

 

Today, I recommit to taking the next most appropriate steps to get fit and stay fit.  I commit to being fit for Your journey on all levels of my being - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

 

I give thanks for this journey that You have gifted me.

 

In eternal gratitude, I say "And So It Is; And So It Shall Be".

 

Amen and amen.

 

Rev. Beverly Saunders Biddle

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Affirmations


     

I gratefully accept all the health, wealth and happiness  that the universe expresses through me every day.

 

 

I am deeply thankful for the beauty

of life that flourishes around me.

 

 

I give thanks for all that I have and all that

I shall be. I am open to all possibilities.

 

 

I am grateful I am abundant in

 all areas of my life.

 

 

With great gratitude I release that which

has served its purpose in my life, knowing that a greater good automatically replaces that which is no more.

 

 

As I continually explore that which is my

true calling in life. I give thanks for the knowledge that allows me to nurture

my heart's desire with love,

compassion and confidence.

 

 

With deep gratitude I give thanks for

all the experiences that have made me

who I am. I am thankful for the wisdom

and knowledge that pulls me

forward towards my divine purpose.

 

I am in deep gratitude for

God's endless gifts.

 

 

  
 
  
                

 . . . gratitude is more than a word or a gesture.  Being truly grateful for the gift of life must be an experience.

 

We must learn to experience gratitude as an experience of being alive.  When we become grateful to this degree we will begin to notice the small things.

 

Gratitude is a state of consciousness.  It is an experience of living in a state of joy.

 

Gratitude is like a magnet that attracts more of it to itself; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

 

Electricity does not care if you believe in it or not.  When you want to experience light in a dark room, the only requirement is that you flip the switch.  The electric current moving through the wires does not care if you like it, if you know how it works, if you believe in its power.   . . . Life works the same way.  It does not care if you like it.  Life is not concerned about convincing you that it is good or abundant. Life will not stop because you do not believe in it.  And whether you believe in life or not, you will not rust or fall apart if you stand still for five years.   The only requirement for you to live a full and valuable life is for you to flip the switch, to make the connection.  Gratitude is the connection between who and what you are and the full magnificence of life.

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