Today's Stimuli

December 12, 2013

DOING THE WORK

CLEARING NEGATIVE
SELF BELIEFS
  
This week we will identify and clear negative self-beliefs. A negative self belief is a thought form held in consciousness that gives rise to or supports negative feeling about who you are, what you do or what you are capable of being, doing or having.
EX. I believe I am fat.  I believe I am ugly. I believe I am impatient.

 

  
    
    
  
CALLING IN
THE GOOD
  
 
Using a sheet of lined paper, write 9 or more negative beliefs you hold about yourself beginning with the words:
"I believe . . ."

 

When you are complete with writing these statements, go back, cross each statement out and write the following words; "I forgive myself" over the crossed out statement.


   

The best way to find yourself is
to lose yourself in the service
of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi 

 

Service is the price we pay in exchange for the gift of life we have received from God.  It is our offering to God and to God's people.

 

We commit to living a life of service by giving of our spiritual gifts and talents without expectation of recognition or reward.  When we give of ourselves from the depths of our being, it becomes an act of love. 

 

Thus, what we give is offered from a loving, joyful and humble heart, rather than from an inflated ego.  We act from a place of exalting God only, rather than edging God out.

 

  
 
          

COMMANDED BLESSINGS! 

 

 

"The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee..."

- Deuteronomy 28:8

 

 

My Father, God in me, God in we, I AM grateful for the commanded blessing on my life!

 

I humbly acknowledge: 

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my head for wisdom, serenity and clarity!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my tongue for words of wisdom and truth spoken in love and power!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my body for healthful vitality, easy beauty, flexibility and vibrancy, energizing youthfulness and miraculous healing!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my unique calling and soul's mission for the divine vision to unfold with grace and elegance in the joy of my Father!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my home for peace and plenty, order and cleanliness, beauty and opulence, rest and rejuvenation, and love beyond comprehension!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my love life for harmony, sharing, caring, understanding, loving, laughing and unspeakable joy!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my money world for excellence in stewardship, multiplying prosperity and ever expanding abundance!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on my children and my children's children for wisdom, wealth, happiness, creativity and fulfillment!

 

There IS a commanded blessing on earth mother and all her children, her oceans and seas, her rivers, lakes and ponds, her estuaries and tributaries, her forests and mountains, her creatures of the sky, land and sea for healing, pristine beauty and sustainability!

 

I AM grateful that all these commanded blessings chase me and overtake me, molding and shaping me into the sacred pleasure temple of the living God I AM!

 

What I pray for myself I pray for every being,

 

And so it is!

 

Rev. Valerie Love

   

 

I am blessed as I dedicate my life to

being in service. I know I am connected

to others, and as I give, I too receive.

 

Every day in every way, I express 

 gratitude for my life

 through service.

 

I call forth the Wisdom of the Universe

to guide me to the perfect places and

the right people so that I serve with

compassion and love.  

 

I am joyful in my service to others.

 

I now dedicate my life

 to God and humanity in order

to fulfill my purpose on the planet.

 

I am the hands, the feet and the mouth

piece through which Gods works.

 

I am a servant of Divine Love.

I am successful as I support and

help others.

 

 

  
                              

Service is the ability to give of self (for example, time, knowledge, resources) without an attachment to the expectation of reward or recognition.  Working with a consciousness of love (unselfish giving).

 

We are rarely taught to serve in life.  We are taught to work.  Work, we are taught, is the act of doing what needs to be done in order to acquire the things that we need.

 

Service is the act of doing what you love for the sake of loving it.  This is the highest work you can do in the world.  Service is the divine multiplier.  When you perform an act of genuine service, giving of your time, energy, and resources as an act of love, the universe will multiply what you do and reward you with greater results than you expected.

 

. . . [M]ost of us hate what we do for work, hate the environment that we do it in, hate the people we do it with, or are sorely disappointed by the rewards we get.  . . .  We grow in a loving environment.  It's not the money that is missing from the workplace, it is the love.  It is the service.

 

. . . [S]ervice, doing what you love, has rewards that money cannot buy.  It has become very clear to me that when you give yourself over to acts of love, passionately spending your time giving yourself over to acts of love, you are never at a loss or lack for the things that you needBelieve it or not, we need much more in life than money.  We need a sense of purpose.  Purpose keeps you from being burnt out.  Service gives you purpose.  We need a personal mission that will help us focus our time and energy.  When you are on a mission, you have passion, there is an internal fire that keeps you alive.  Service keeps you alive and well.  . . . Service gives you a reason to take care of yourself.

 

When you serve, you are not tied to the outcome.  You are not invested in what people do as a result of what you do, or what people think about what you are doing.  You give what you have because it makes you feel good. You give what you have because you know that the unique way in which you do what you do will make someone else feel good.

 

You may never know in this lifetime how your work and contributions made in love affect people.  However, when you give a service, this is not your concern.  You do what you do because you love to do it.  Whatever you love will touch somebody.

 

Service, as s spiritual principle, does not imply or import poverty.  Most of us think that if you serve, giving of yourself without focusing on the money, you will be poor.  . . .  There is a problem with this line of thinking.

 

Do what you love! Do it with passion!  Do it with the understanding that if you are never rewarded with money or recognized by the public, you are making a valuable contribution to yourself.  Shift your focus from money to love.  When you have love, you want to give of yourself.  When you give of yourself for the sake of love, the impersonal, immutable, perfect laws of the universe demand that you must be rewarded tenfold.

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

 

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