"Hope, you are my friend."
… Greetings! Our theme is Hope at DailyAffirm, http://www.DailyAffirm.com. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting hope. 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, and many others on this DailyAffirm Process, are designed to ease or eliminate adversarial relationships. By "adversarial" I mean toxic and unproductive, not simply having differences. The "you are my friend" affirmation first emerged when I was working with a client who was deeply entrenched in victim consciousness. No one was her friend, she thought. The world was out to get her, she felt. She had to fight for everything she wanted, she believed. As the concept of allowing things and people and ideas to be friends grew in her consciousness, she transformed.
About Your Process
A "friend" as I am using the word here is one who supports you constantly, lovingly, unconditionally, and without judgment. I do not mean a friend who gossips and/or lets you down and/or colludes with you in destructive behavior. Of course, our human friends have the right to be …umm… human. This friend, Hope, however, is constant. You may be constant or not. That is, you may forget that Hope is always there, always supporting you. Hope is constant. Hope is. I know that some of you who are reading DailyAffirm are experiencing grief or concern related to challenges facing loved ones. Remember, you can invoke the friendship of Hope for others as well as for yourself, provided you do this in a loving, non-manipulative consciousness. Sometimes people explore hopelessness in order to clarify their true desires; usually people explore hopelessness unintentionally because they are unclear about their choices.
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. Sometimes I mention articles related to the specific DailyAffirm message. Today, I want to list titles that I do not mention regularly.
- “Finding Wholistic, Empowering Practitioners” guides you to trust your inner process when selecting professional help from others.
- “To Dance with Jim his Last Dance” is a true story about the author’s experience while enjoying a social evening, dancing to the music of a blues band with friends at a local nightclub.
- “New Meeting Paradigm” describes the old and new meeting paradigms and strategies for moving from the old to the new.
- “Preferred Methods of Dying” lists a variety of ways that individuals have identified as their preferred ways to die.
- “Transgenerational Healing: Clearing the Past for the Present” introduces a powerful process for neutralizing the negative effects of past generations.
- “Trust: New Bottom Line” focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
- “Watch Your Language” lists common negative expressions, encouraging you to avoid their use.
- “Water, Water, Everywhere” reflects on the importance of water as a physical element and as a dynamic in the energy field.
- “Youthing, not Aging” challenges us to consider how our thoughts can make us feel older or younger.
Make this a friendly day!
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