Today's Stimuli

November 26, 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

 
        

I'M AVAILABLE  

Now I'm giving back to You
 
All the tools You gave to me 
My hands, my ears, my voice, my eyes 
So You can use them as You please

I have emptied out my cup 
So that You can fill me up 
Now, I'm free, I just want to be 
More available to You 
. . . 
Use me Lord to show someone the way

And enable me to say "I'm available to you"

Rev. Milton Brunson  

 

Just now, gracious Lord, I stand in awe of who You are and I praise Your holy name.  In You, Dear God, I live, move and have my being.

 

Right now, I confess that I have not always made myself available to hear Your voice.   I confess that I have not always made myself available and willing to obey Your Word. I confess that at times I have doubted my ability to carry out the plan that You have set down for me.  I confess that I have not always been willing to reach out for support when I was consumed with doubt and fear.

 

Praise You that there is such a thing as grace.  Praise You that you do not hold these missteps against me. Praise You that there is always an opportunity to make a new choice.

 

In this moment, I choose to surrender anything and every- thing I may have created in my consciousness to keep me from making myself absolutely and totally available to You.

 

In this moment, I choose to release myself from all false evidence appearing real in my mind.

 

In this moment, I choose to be obedient and to follow the path that You have already set and cleared for me and me alone.

 

In this moment, I choose to claim all the good that You have already reserved just for me.

 

In this moment, I choose to hear Your voice and listen with the intention to take action.

 

In this moment, I choose to surround myself with people who support me in manifesting the vision that You have for me.

 

I am grateful for the opportunity to self-correct.  I am grateful for the opportunity to get out of Your way and to allow Your Light and Love to shine in, through and as me.

 

I am grateful for the opportunity to allow Your Power to be revealed in and through me.

 

I am grateful for the life that remains and to be able to make myself totally available to You.

 

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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