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March 14, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I am ready right now to live in balance and harmony."

Greetings! Our theme is Balance at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting balance. 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
Are you ready? Are you sure? Readiness is such a nifty idea because you get to make a choice before you commit the act. Readiness is not about the future, it is about the present. So, if you are ready right now, that is all that matters. You can fill yourself with the energy of readiness. Breathe it. Expand your energy field with its vibration. If anything opposes the readiness, let the opposition come forward so you can speak to it. You can even be ready for non-readiness! You are in charge. Experience the readiness, right now.

About Your Process
In the first week of the month, you worked with affirmations that emptied you of non-balance. This week, you have been opening to ideas and experiences of balance. Tomorrow the DailyAffirm process assists you to move into a deeper relationship with balance so that in the fourth week you can step into balance in a way that you may not even understand now. In the days following the fourth week, you will reflect on integration of balance. Of course, you do not need to wait until the end of the month to live in balance and harmony, so if you feel it is unnecessary to affirm your readiness, simply re-write the affirmation so that it reads. "I live in balance and harmony right now."

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:

"Guided Meditation for Empowered Consciousness " presents an overview to approaching meditation as a practice for greater empowerment.
"Notice the Dynamics of Your Breath" describes the importance of noticing the various dynamics in your breath.
"Energy Balance for Enhanced Effectiveness" discusses ideas about energy balance as an approach to personal effectiveness.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
This is the last of the Receiving/Accepting Affirmations this month. Before moving to the next type of affirmations (Being/Intending), you may want to re-visit your understanding of your over-arching intention for balance.

Make this a ready day!

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March 13, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I accept balance, harmony, and grace in all aspects of my life."

About Today’s Affirmation
This affirmation presents the concept of the Receiving/Accepting affirmations clearly, simply, concisely. You could make it shorter by saying "I accept balance." However, to articulate (and feel) the specific elements you wish to accept is clarifying both to you and to the Universe. How you feel is important, for if you feel you are compromising or giving up something, you are not truly "accepting." Acceptance is clear and clean, without conditions or regrets or doubts.

About Your Process
The article "Fire Free Bird" speaks about this kind of acceptance, although I use the word "surrender" in the article. This short article might be inspiring if you are struggling or are challenged with the idea of balance. Likely, you have developed a style of outward action for making things happen — a powerful skill in many settings. When you are progressing on your spiritual journey, though, it is important to blend this quality of outer action with the quality of receptivity or acceptance. That is balance. You may find that you have to go through an interim step to stop the outward action or aggressiveness so that you can experience acceptance as a distinct dynamic.

“Fire Free Bird” recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
“Masculine and Feminine Energies” discusses the importance of balancing these energies, with special reference to organizational life.
“Say Goodbye to Struggle” encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.

Make this a graceful day!

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March 12, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"Balance, you are my friend.
You help me to live in integrity."

About Today’s Affirmation
Personifying balance can help you to accept this dynamic into your life, so you can call balance a friend. If you are constantly trying to make things balance, you are not in a friendship, but a contest. Integrity is balance — balance of the inner and outer, balance of above and below, balance of left and right. You perhaps often equate integrity with honesty, which is certainly an important element of integrity. Thinking of integrity as balance can open another facet of this theme that you are exploring this month.

About Your Process
As you work with today’s affirmation, consider the many friends in your life. People and things and ideas might come to your mind. If you have a friendship with your car and your computer, your experiences are different from those created if you see your car or your computer as your enemy or as a set of metal and plastic parts. Take a few moments today to acknowledge several friends. Thank them for being in your life — either thank them directly or with private thoughts of gratitude. Remember family and neighbors and long-ago acquaintances and former co-workers and grade school teachers. If faces of enemies pop into your mind, see them as friends. The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them your friends.

“Energetics of Integrity” describes the energetics of the principle of integrity, especially in organizations.
“Masculine and Feminine Energies” discusses the importance of balancing these energies, with special reference to organizational life.
"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.

Make this a friendly day!

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March 11, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"Dear God,
allow me to see balance in a way that I can understand."

About Today’s Affirmation
This is one of my favorite affirmations. I like its simplicity. You can only see your world look through your own perspective. Your lenses and preferences and backgrounds and ways of seeing are different from others’. Some individuals may be stimulated into understanding balance by seeing children in a playground on a seesaw or by watching a river flow gently on a warm spring day or by feeling a glow. Others may understand balance by getting sick and recovering or by losing a job and finding one that is more suitable than the first. Still others may learn about balance by going on a spiritual retreat or workshop.

About Your Process
When I use the word "balance" or the phrase "energetic balance" in the context of my consulting work, I thing of all parts being in harmony or disharmony with each other — as a symphony. I look at many different layers and levels of the energy field, balancing the energy within each. I balance the energy moving from the top down and the bottom up. I also notice how parts of one layer or level balance or communicate with others (e.g. how the liver is processing anger; how a person’s solar plexus is managing a job conflict). So, I perceive balance as related to (and sometimes synonymous with) clarity, communication, harmony, peace, health, love, and light. As part of your understanding balance more deeply for yourself, consider the words and concepts and experiences that you associate with balance.

“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.
“Fire Free Bird” recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.

Make this an understanding day!

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March 10, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I allow balance to flow through me and to act as me."

About Today’s Affirmation
Today’s affirmation challenges you to become balance, to be balance. As balance flows through you, you become familiar with its vibration. In order for something to "act as" you, you must become it. You must be what you desire. Balance is not something outside yourself, but inside. Other people’s perceptions of your sense of balance may be interesting information (worthy of an appropriate amount of your attention as a piece of data), yet your own perceptions about balance are the ones that are essential for your health and satisfaction.

About Your Process
To enhance your process as you say or work with today’s affirmation, consider these questions. As you feel balance flow through you, what does it feel like? As you see balance flow through you, what does it look like? As you sense balance flow through you, what do you sense? As you listen to the sounds of balance, what do you hear? As you resonate with balance, what do you become? These questions expand your consciousness about balance so that you can more easily become at one with it.

"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.
"Energy Balance for Enhanced Effectiveness" discusses ideas about energy balance as an approach to personal effectiveness.
“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.

Make this a balanced day!

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March 9, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I receive messages of balance from the Universe.
I flow like a smooth river in this balance."

About Today’s Affirmation
The balance of the Universe is infallible. In the narrowness of the human focus, you often cannot see the perfection of it all. When it is hardest to see, that is the time when you most need to trust, to put yourself in the hands of the divine or your inner guidance. It is easy to trust when you can see the evidence of balance in the outer world. Now, however, you need to trust at a deeper level, to trust in the invisible rather than the visible. Let the Universal river carry you.

About Your Process
Consider several areas of life that you try hard to balance, try to make balance — perhaps work and play, your checkbook, fairness or honesty in a particular relationship, food choices, or reactions to others. Notice how you use your weekend to try to achieve a balance for the week’s activities. Remind yourself of the over-arching intention you set for balance. Look deeply at your own image or interpretation of "flow like a smooth river" or maybe it is a bubbling brook or raging ocean or deep pool or shallow puddle. What do you need to accept into your life so that you experience balance as you desire and define it?

“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.

About the Book of the Month Recommendation

Since so much of my work is related to working with energy and energy fields, I have frequently been asked over a period of many years to recommend books about energy. Usually I suggested one or two books that I think a particular individual will like that might address some relevant topics, but then I found a book I felt good about recommending to anyone who is interested in energy, energy healing, and energy fields.

The book I regularly recommend is called
Energy Medicine by Donna Eden. This is my pick for Balance in the month of March on DailyAffirm. She has prepared a companion DVD which is also excellent.

You may read my book
comment at the Marshall House Web Site or read more about the book at Amazon.com.

Make this a smooth day!

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March 8, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I open to allow balance and magical synchronicity
to operate in my life."

About Today’s Affirmation
The world is so filled with images and messages about making things happen that it can sometimes be a shock to even consider letting them happen. When you are in the midst of synchronicity, you know that your higher wisdom is in charge, transcending the human manipulation that you might construct. It is such a joy to get out of the way and let the natural balance of life answer your desires in its way. The flow and processes of the Universe are truly magical if you only let go of the reins of control and allow.

About Your Process
I often work with incredibly powerful persons. I recall doing a consultation with such a person, with a wide span of influence and visibility. He was in a shift of merging the being and the doing, the making and the letting. Intellectually, he made the shift many years ago — that was easy for him. Then, he had to make the shift emotionally and physically, which were more challenging for him. Spiritually, no shift was really required for him. One of the questions he asked me was "Does everyone go through this or is my process unique?" To which I answered, "yes." The fuller meaning was that we all do go through various transitions, yet each proceeds in his or her own unique ways. Comparing with others is not usually very helpful. Just be where you are, and open.

“Masculine and Feminine Energies” discusses the importance of balancing these energies, with special reference to organizational life.
“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.
"Energy Balance for Enhanced Effectiveness" discusses ideas about energy balance as an approach to personal effectiveness.

Make this a magical day!

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Positive Affirmations for the Week of March 8-14, Balance

Greetings! In this message, I’ll 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 (check the options at the bottom of the navigation bar).

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Balance
The ability to be receptive (generally considered a feminine quality) in a masculine and male-oriented society is, in itself, a demonstration of balance. Truly, you must balance the masculine and feminine energies as well as other energies so that one part neither dominates nor distorts the whole (nor believes that one part is the whole). Open. Open to allow. Open to allow so that you can accept and receive.

About your Process in the Second Week
Consider this week what you are most in need of accepting into your life so that you experience balance. Perhaps such qualities as love or peace or calmness or clarity. Perhaps new ideas. Or a new way of thinking. Notice whether you believe that you must accept something from outside yourself or from inside yourself. Notice also any uneasiness about receptivity or acceptance. How do you define and achieve balance in your portion of the world?

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for Balance, I would choose the March 11 affirmation:: "Dear God, allow me to see balance in a way that I can understand." This simple prayer supports you in making balance real and present in your life, not as a theory or a dream or a fantasy.

Make this an ACCEPTional week!

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March 7, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I let Spirit
(My Higher Self, God, My Spirit Guides, The One, The Force, Infinite Source)
purify any remaining thoughts and feelings of struggle and injustice."

Greetings! Our theme is Balance at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This first week of the month we work with releasing and cleansing non-balance. 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 affirmation is the last of the releasing ones with this theme, so give the remains of non-balance to Spirit for purification. Select any (or all!) designations of higher power. You cannot have too much higher power. Give up (up, up, up) struggle and belief in struggle. Give up (up, up, up) injustice and belief in injustice. Give up (up, up, up) disharmony and belief in disharmony. Let Spirit purify you.

About Your Process
While you are reading or saying today’s affirmation, you may want to let your breathing follow the rhythm of the words: the in-breath brings in an awareness of Spirit and the out-breath releases those remaining thoughts and feelings of struggle and injustice, or anything else you associate with the opposite of balance as you have defined it. Let this affirmation empty you out so that you can fill yourself with those things that you desire. Of course, if you want to hang on to struggle and injustice…… Know that it is your choice.

“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.
"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.
“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.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Beginning tomorrow DailyAffirm focuses on the theme of balance with Receiving/Accepting affirmations. The releasing of this week has made more room available to receive the blessings of life. You may want to re-visit your over-arching intention for balance as you shift from one type of affirmation to another.

Make this a wonder-full day!

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March 6, Positive Affirmation for Balance

"I let go of thoughts that suggest there is no balance.
I stop creating images that life is unfair and
start creating images of joy."

About Today’s Affirmation
Today’s affirmation invites you to dissolve and erase ideas and beliefs that block your acceptance of balance. You may find yourself working successfully with this affirmation without even knowing precisely what those ideas and beliefs are OR you may find information jumps out at you everywhere you turn today. When your journey is the latter, it is time for you to turn your attention from these images that you do not want to images that you do want. Give this releasing process the proper attention — just enough to recognize what you do not want — so that you can give your attention intentionally to what you do want. As the thoughts of imbalance and unfairness and injustice and indecision come into your conscious awareness, let them flow from you, and give your focus to balance and fairness and justice and decision.

About Your Process
Are you noticing that you and others are releasing old stuff as you work with these Releasing/Cleansing affirmations? The power of this process (as well as other self-development processes) is more greatly enhanced when you sharpen your awareness of your own process and the processes of others. What do you notice today about balance or imbalance? about fairness or unfairness? about life in any aspect? To what do you most want to give your attention?

As you become aware of specific beliefs that are limiting thoughts, you may wish to return to working with the affirmations of March 1 and March 2. You can adjust either or both affirmations to incorporate the limiting beliefs that you discover, if you choose. You will find that writing these affirmations according to the writing process explained in "Writing Affirmations for Empowerment" will be particularly effective.

"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.
“Pluck it for the Bucket” describes a process for releasing toxins from the energy field, such as, old emotional baggage, false beliefs, dysfunctional patterns.

Make this a clear day!

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