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February 8, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I open to allow love to operate in my life."

Greetings! Our theme is Love at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting love. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation and suggestions for your process. See top tabs and navigation bar links for more information and resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
This simple affirmation opens the flood gates of love. It is far more satisfying to let love happen than to try to force love to happen. In truth, love cannot be forced. Love has its own pure energy, which can flow through you in a myriad of ways when you allow yourself to experience life. Turn on the faucet of love and allow its radiance to splash on and through you.

About Your Process
You may tend to associate love with the heart, even though, of course, love exists everywhere. As you are saying or meditating on this affirmation, you might focus your attention at your chest, perhaps place one hand there. Breathe deeply, and allow love to operate in your life. Consider…… What does it mean to allow love to operate in your life? In your mind’s eye, draw a picture of your life with the energy of love operating all aspects of it. Feel this picture, sense the energy of love, and hear its message.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the Empowering Personal Development Articles , the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

"Your Focus of Attention is Your Key to Happiness" helps you to clarify where you desire to put your attention — your energy — which is a creative force.
“Moving Through Puddles” describes the “Puddle Theory of Personal Development” which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.

About the Book of the Month Recommendaton

Dared & Done: Marriage Of Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning

I vacillated considerably about the choice of this month’s recommended book. Perhaps that is because our culture relates to so many different types of love, even though there is only one true love energy. I decided to turn to the classics. I considered several. At the top of the list came Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "Sonnets from the Portuguese" and the correspondence between Elizabeth and Robert Browning. And these led me to a more recent book by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning which is a fascinating dual biography of highly regarded literary figures.

Read my book comments. We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Love for February.

Make this a loving day!

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Positive Affirmations for the Week of February 8-14, Love

Greetings! In this message, I’ll give you an overview of the next seven days of the DailyAffirm Process with Receiving/Accepting Affirmations. The sidebars provide you with additional information. Read the messages Day by Day or, simply check in when the spirit moves you. If you prefer to receive the daily messages by email, please subscribe to one of our email alert lists (see navigation bar).

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Love
You must be open to allow love to flow into you. You may already be naturally open and fully invested in life. Or you may need to open. Love is a creative energy that must circulate in order to exist in the human plane. Love is a powerful friend that can teach you more about yourself and the world than any other energy. It is time to give up struggle and preoccupation with non-love elements. These have been teachers in the past, so acknowledge them as part of the old paradigm. Accept your teachings through love and joy and peace.

About your Process in the Second Week
This is the week of Valentine’s Day, typically a day that you are likely to profess romantic and sometimes platonic love. Consider the symbols of love that you will use this week to express love and affection: chocolates? hearts? flowers? diamonds? a love letter? or perhaps something more original and less traditional? Just remember that the symbol is only a representation, a way to re-present your true feelings. You can invest considerable power in the symbol, yet it is true love that really matters.

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for Love it would be the affirmation of February 11: "Dear God, allow me to see love and loving in ways that I can understand." Confusion about love is prevalent in our culture. While there are universal spiritual understandings of love, you must define love in your own ways in your own life.

Make this a love-erly week!

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February 7, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I let Spirit
(My Higher Self, God, My Spirit Guides, The One, The Force, Infinite Soruce)
purify any remaining thoughts or feelings of fear or hatred."

Greetings! Our theme is Love at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This first week of the month we work with releasing and cleansing non-love. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation and suggestions for your process. See top tabs and navigation bar links for more information and resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
When you have done a lot of personal growth work, you may come to the belief that there can not possibly be more to release. This is the moment to trust Spirit to know what you need. You may or may not know through your human awareness what remains to be released. Your higher self — your higher consciousness — does know. Surrender to that part of yourself that knows without doubt, that knows only in love. Allow youself to be purified by the light of wisdom and illumination. Release resistance to love.

About Your Process
Please select one of the designations for higher consciousness, or develop your own. If you want to be sure all your bases are covered, use all the names! Please do not be distracted by the naming of the divine not fight about it, instead, align with the divine. You may believe that you have released all non-loving thoughts and feelings, and you may be correct or not. Today’s affirmation is a surrender to Spirit to purify anything you may have missed. Release resistance. Trust Spirit to know what you need.

“Fire Free Bird” recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
“Moving Through Puddles” describes the “Puddle Theory of Personal Development” which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.
“Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall” is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.
"Feel Better One Thought at a Time" is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.

Preview TeleSeminar "Energy at Work"
Wednesday, February 10, 5:00 pm Pacific (8:00 pm Eastern)
This 60-minute TeleSeminar previews a 4-week TeleClass called "Energy at Work" that will be held in March. Jeanie Marshall shows you practical approaches and techniques, leads you in a powerful guided visualization, and opens to your questions. If you work with others in a role such as coach, consultant, health care practitioner, corporate manager, executive, or entrepreneur, please join us to experience the power of understanding the principles and applying techniques of subtle energies in your work. (This event will be repeated on March 2). Preview Teleseminar Description.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
On this, the last day of the first week of the month of February, please re-visit your over-arching intention for love. DailyAffirm has been focusing this week on releasing non-love, which can be fun or not fun (your choice). If you are experiencing joyous ecstasy, bravo! Tomorrow, open to love in a new way with the Receiving/Accepting affirmations.

Make this a pure day!

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February 6, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I move my attention away from thoughts that suggest this is
an unfriendly or fearful world.
I willingly shed the heaviness, like a heavy coat on a hot day."

About Today’s Affirmation
You can certainly identify examples of unfriendliness and fear in the world. The extent to which you allow these examples to shape your beliefs and thoughts determines how you perceive the world. When you let one experience become the proof of how the world is, you continue to create experiences or lead yourself to experiences that give you further evidence or proof of the beliefs and thoughts. When you identify that you are holding beliefs and thoughts you do not desire, let them be as easy to release as shedding a heavy coat on a hot day.

About Your Process
One of my delights in preparing the daily comments about these affirmations is knowing that so many of you are participating in the process. It strengthens the process for each one because others are reading through and working with the same thoughts. Of course, you have your own drama and uniqueness, yet are connected by an invisible web — and the World Wide Web. As you shed your own brand of heaviness or darkness today, know that others support you. Know that others have their own processes of purification and upliftment. As you walk your path of creating a friendly and loving world, you connect with others of like mind. Shed the resistance.

“Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
“Say Goodbye to Struggle” encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life
“Writing Affirmations for Empowerment” offers a specific writing process to enhance the effectiveness of certain affirmations.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Love for February.

Make this a friendly day!

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February 5, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I cut negative bonds of attachment to hatred and retaliation and jealousy.
The distorted, dense energy of these bonds is transmuted into energy to love."

About Today’s Affirmation
We are all One, yet you are unique in your experiences and your ways of perceiving. You may be able to see or imagine that you see a visual representation of this affirmation. For example, you might see the face of someone as you affirm the cutting of negative bonds, or you might envision how the bonds are shaped. Or perhaps hearing sounds is helpful: the clipping of the scissors or the hack saw cutting the bonds or a sweet song from the angelic realm as the bonds are transmuted. Or perhaps other sensations help to make this affirmation more real for you, for example, you might be aware of tingling where the attachment has been severed or feel lightness as the bonds are transmuted.

About Your Process
Today’s affirmation includes heavy words. If you have any resistance to these words, either (1) change the words or (2) honor the feelings and release the resistance. If you want to change the words, you might work with a less inflammatory word or phrase, such as "non-love." Keep in mind, though, that hatred and retaliation and jealousy are emotional ties you might feel even though they are not usually socially acceptable. Have you not heard, or even said, "No, you don’t really mean that you hate your brother / sister / anyone." But if you feel hatred in that moment, you either become confused or learn to withhold your feelings. Cut the non-love, by whatever name you recognize it. Let go. Release. Forgive.

“Ending Poverty Consciousness” distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
“Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
“Pluck it for the Bucket” describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.

Ask Jeanie Radio Show — Today
The Ask Jeanie Radio Show focuses on Energetic Techniques and Empowering Practices. Each weekly episode lasts 15-30 minutes, centered around one person’s question. Episode 6 is Energetic Decision Making. Visit the Show or Ask a question

Make this a clear day!

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February 4, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I release memories that allowed belief in fear and lack.
I create new memories of abundance and pleasure."

About Today’s Affirmation
Your beliefs create and/or lead you to create experiences that provide the memories that further substantiate those beliefs. I have no doubt whatsoever that you and all others are on this earth to love, to experience joy, to live in abundance, to sing and dance. I further believe that when you are not experiencing such a life, you are trapped in disempowering beliefs or giving your attention to fear and lack (and variations on these themes). So here is the challenge presented in today’s affirmation: release those thoughts and memories. Release the thoughts that oppose love by releasing resistance. Today. Period. Fini. Finished. Done. Gone. Complete. It is so. Amen. Now begin the new memories of positive ideas.

About Your Process
If you experience heavy or painful memories, I suggest that you "breathe through" them. With your out-breath you can more easily release; with your in-breath you can more easily draw in vibrant energy. During this week, allow the affirmations to support your release so that next week you can be more ready to receive. You will experience greater joy in your life when you empty out the beliefs / memories / thoughts that the world does things "to" you. This is the consciousness of a victim. You create your own experiences. Your experiences occur because of your beliefs. This concept is incredibly powerful to understand and embrace. "You create your own reality" is far more than just a popular expression. It is life — for you as well as for every other person, yielding magnificent diversity on the planet.

“Say Goodbye to Struggle” encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
“Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
“Pluck it for the Bucket” describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.
"Your Focus of Attention is Your Key to Happiness" helps you to clarify where you desire to put your attention — your energy — which is a creative force.

Make this a wonderful day!

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February 3, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I let go of conditions that have kept me from loving.
I erase any images that say that love hurts and
I replace the images with joy and playfulness."

About Today’s Affirmation
When you are not in a loving space, it is usually because you have allowed conditions or circumstances or images or beliefs to keep you from loving. You may know or not know what these conditions are. Using a general word like "conditions" can assist you in avoiding getting stuck in details, as the details can keep you further associated with not loving. A common childhood memory for many is being punished or hurt in some way and told by the same person "Remember, I love you" or "This is because I love you." This is a very confusing message for a child, usually carried into adulthood and passed on with similar behavior to another set of children. Love is love and it cannot hurt; hurt is the result of fear, which is non-love.

About Your Process
On February 1 and February 2, I presented you with two very powerful affirmations that I have given to many clients and workshop participants in one form or another over several years. Sometimes I assign these to be written (as described in "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment") over several days with encouragement that people adjust the wording as appropriate. The DailyAffirm Process, though, moves to a new affirmation each day. You may find that you want to continue writing those statements that resonate most deeply for you, while at the same time you move day by day with the new affirmations. Writing is a rite, right?

“Ending Poverty Consciousness” distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
"Decisions for Empowering Your Life" focuses on the variety of decisions you make in your life. Every decision is a choice which shapes your journey.
"Feel Better One Thought at a Time" is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.
“Writing Affirmations for Empowerment” offers a specific writing process to enhance the effectiveness of certain affirmations.

Make this a perfect day!

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February 2, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I rescind obsolete vows of limitation.
Angels of Love lift limitation from my shoulders."

About Today’s Affirmation
It might seem strange to think that vows made by earlier generations can keep you in limitation today. I recall the very first time the idea of rescinding outdated vows came through me for a client. When I said, "I can see in your energy field outdated vows of poverty and chastity," tears came to her eyes. I dissolved the vows energetically, gave her some exercises to further assist her process, and she started to manifest what she desired in her life. Most of humanity has come to believe in limitation and separation as the truth. Today, invite the angels to lift these heavy illusions from you. Believe in love. Believe in life.

About Your Process
Each affirmation I present to you has energetic components, that is, parallel representation in the energy field. A vow of limitation may present itself in the energy field as a heavy weight on the shoulders or as a choking at the throat or as another sensation. You might consider if there are any vows you have made that keep you from loving fully. "Vows" need not be made only in religious or marital ceremonies. You might have made spontaneous vows. For example, "I’ll never speak to you again" is a vow of silence which can be very powerful when made with great intensity. Note that "never" is a very long time. Also, statements that begin with "I will always" have the impact of vows, especially when said or thought repeatedly.

“Say Goodbye to Struggle” encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
“Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
“Ending Poverty Consciousness” distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
“Rescinding Obsolete Thoughts and Limiting Beliefs” explains how to erase or rescind outdated vows so that current promises and desires can flourish.

Make this a light day!

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February 1, Positive Affirmation for Love

"I give myself permission to release fear from every level of my being.
This fear, which I have no need to understand, releases effortlessly."

About Today’s Affirmation
The first sentence of today’s affirmation is one variation of the "basic releasing" affirmation to assist you in letting go, forgiving, cleansing, and releasing resistance. The second sentence has a dual purpose: (1) to ease the process because releasing affirmations can generate extremely deep releases, so it is important to include the idea of effortlessness and (2) to counteract the tendency you may have to slow down your growth process by trying to figure everything out. It is helpful to affirm that it is acceptable to not understand, because this releasing is not simply a mental process. Let go; most of all, let go of resistance.

About Your Process
Giving yourself permission to do something can be a crucial step in your journey. In today’s affirmation, feel free to change the word "fear" to any word or idea that, for you, is a barrier to living in love. Here are a few examples: "non-love" or "anything that gets in the way of my loving" or a specific memory or habit or a relationship or a pattern of behavior. You might find that you benefit more from being general than specific. And then, release. Trust the Universe to handle the details.

About Related Articles
I have published articles for personal development in different locations, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and my articles at EzineArticles.com. I recommend that you write one or more of this week’s affirmation. I have developed a process which is described in the book, "Affirmations: A Pathway To Transformation" and in an article entitled, “Writing Affirmations for Empowerment.” You may also enjoy reading other articles, especially:

“Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
“Ending Poverty Consciousness” distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.

Live Events Schedule for 2010
You can see the whole schedule of my live events, including radio shows and TeleSeminars. I also offer a 4-week TeleClass called "Energy at Work" is a highly interactive series of TeleSessions so that you can learn about and experience a wide variety of subtle energy techniques. The next TeleClass will be offered in March. Please visit the Schedule of Events Page, register, and mark your calendar!

Make this an effortless day!

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Positive Affirmations for the Week of February 1-7, Love

Greetings in the 1st week of February with the theme of Love, the most precious and powerful energy in the Universe. In this message, I will give you an overview of the next seven days of the DailyAffirm Process. The sidebars provide you with additional information. Read the messages Day by Day or, simply check in when the spirit moves you. If you prefer to receive the daily messages by email, please subscribe to one of our email alert lists (see navigation bar).

About Your Over-arching Intention
If you have not already done so, please identify your over-arching intention for love. That is, develop a statement that guides you in the exploration and embodiment of love. Your statement may include a definition of love. "Love" is a word used often in our culture to express affection "Love ya" or taste "I love pizza" or sex "Let’s make love" or scoring in tennis "love." Intention is the energy or consciousness from which actions emerge.

If you are uncertain how to write this intention, just make an attempt. Keep it simple. You have 28 days to work with the intention and the theme, so let your statement change and deepen. Here are a few suggestions for statements of intention about the theme of love:

To love myself unconditionally.
To radiate love in all that I do.
To remember that I am love.
To realize that love is everywhere.

About Releasing/Cleansing Affirmations and Love
This week, the idea is to empty out anything that gets in the way of love. You release, let go, and forgive. Cleanse your thoughts of fear, anger, jealousy, hatred, retaliation, and unfriendliness. Allow yourself to be purified, asking that the release be effortless. Dump anything that gets in the way of living in unconditional love, recognizing that from time to time you will touch negative feelings to tell you that you need to reconnect with unconditional love. Let go of the past to live fully in the present. Release resistance.

About Your Process in the First Week
I recommend that you write this week’s affirmations, if such a process appeals to you. I’ve developed a process which is described in the book, "Affirmations: A Pathway to Transformation" and in the article entitled, "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment." This article is posted at one of my Web site along with 40 others, http://www.mhmail.com and then click on Articles by Jeanie.

About the Affirmations in the First Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent releasing and cleansing for Love it would be the affirmation for February 6: "I move my attention away from thoughts that suggest this is an unfriendly or fearful world. I willingly shed the heaviness, like a heavy coat on a hot day." I love the image of this because it is so obvious what to do with a heavy coat on a hot day: drop it!

Make this a wondrous week!

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