Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
Joan of Arc. Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1897. Oil on canvas.
I stay centered in my heart.
I stay true to myself.
I let my ideas live. I let them be without judgement.
I honor life on this planet.
I open myself to receive more nurturing.
I value myself.
I practice patience while I await resolution to that which has challenged me.
I refuse to be conquered by fear.
I remain faithful to love.
I am loved by the Universe.
My every need is witnessed and responded to.
I open to receive this love, this kindness.
I accept restoration.
I am worthy of such love and attention.
I seek the mirror that reflects back to me my own greatness and beauty.
I behold myself without judgement and I let fear fall away.
I step back from others responses to me.
I stop taking on the feelings of others.
I let external perceptions go.
I visualize my space filled with great love. I focus on the light within me. This light shines out of me.
I harness the power of the unconscious mind to affect change and healing in my life.
It is safe for you to become naked with life. This doesn’t necessarily mean stripping off and running wild in public. It does mean stripping back your beliefs, strongholds and mental or emotional security blankets so that you can live with less obstruction than ever before. Imagine the conditioning that has kept life away from you, just kept it dropping out of your hands like keys, coins or clocks. Conditioned beliefs about money, time, security, having, locking away, holding and controlling can be surrendered and allowed to fall away. What would it be like to feel as though you were on holiday every day? Perhaps there would be a softening in your way with life, an implicit trust in its flow and a faith in the ability of time to bend and stretch as needed so that all may be accomplished. It is an advanced stage of our spiritual relationship with life that we are able to feel held within it sufficiently enough to surrender our defenses, layer by layer, and to nakedly accept what is.
Sometimes we need our defenses. At other times, it is clear we are outgrowing them. There is something you have outgrown. It has to do with your ideas about productivity, time, control and money. It has to do with abundance, trust and living with the fundamental belief that everything is going to turn out okay. You are ready to be much more vulnerable and exposed to life. You don’t have to hide behind being organized, perfect, in control or financially secure and stable. Nor do you need any other ‘acceptable’ social face. It is time for you to loosen the strings of your own controlling nature. They are too tight and restrictive for you anyway. You were born to live in a much freer way. When you live as you innately are, rather than how you have been conditioned to be, you will experience greater joy, freedom and support. When you are not resisting yourself or resisting life, there is less resisting what you need as it comes to you.
You are shedding. It might be an identity, it might be a status symbol such as a car, home or suburb and it could even be a socially admired relationship. You are shedding because no matter what the appearance of things, those old forms were too constricting for you. It is almost like your spirit was trying to walk about in shoes several sizes too small – they were starting to pinch, the seams were ripping and eventually they would fall apart completely.
Likewise, you are being stripped of internal beliefs that are failing you, perhaps externally as well. Whether this seems to be your choice or not, make no mistake, it is your own spirit in cahoots with the loving spirit of life that has brought this situation about.
You are being guided to trust. Rely on life, and also on your inner knowing because at some point level, you get it. You understand and know that this is all freeing you. After letting go, there comes a temporary emptiness that provides a greater space for fulfillment to come forth.
Healing process :: Imagine you are running naked into a sea, ocean, river or waterfall. Be cleansed. Feel it happening. Be with it and enjoy the sensation of it. Feel freed of any weight that you no longer need, be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. Let go on all levels.
When you are ready, just open your eyes and rest for a few moments before going back into your day or evening. You have completed your healing process.
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
If we detach something from its source too soon, trying to force it to become what it is not yet ready or willing to become, we can unintentionally sap it of its strength and kill it. There is a dark wound in the consciousness of humanity which demands perfection and denies process. If you are thinking of publishers before you have even written the book, if you are comparing your unfinished song idea to the latest best-selling pop release, if you have decided you are not good enough or worthy enough to succeed before you’ve given it everything you’ve got and asked for divine help, then this dark wound has you in its grasp.
You have to let go of the death-grip of perfectionism and let yourself and your ideas live. Love is abundant, creative and inspiring. It moves us so much more joyously and creatively than fear. Honor the path of your own love – what inspires you, what feels exciting, joyful and perhaps even rather different? Let that live! Release the dark wounding of false belief. There are countless stories of vastly successful artists who very nearly binned the project that was making their career, because of the despair fostered by their own dark nature. They doubted. They were uncertain. Was their work any good? Was it useless? They struggled to believe in the right of a work to come to life, whether it was accepted, revered or rejected by others or not. They nearly lost their work to fear. Undoubtedly there have been many times when this has actually happened, and the work was not saved, not allowed to live. Do not let this happen to you. Whether something is meant to be a commercially-oriented venture or a more personal creation for your own therapeutic healing, it must be allowed to be, without judgement, without criticism, even without premature evaluation. It must be allowed to be what it is, and only time, love, patience and attention will reveal it.
Act on this immediately so that your path can continue under the protection of grace and wisdom.
Healing process :: Say the declaration below out loud three times. Be in your heart and really feel what you are expressing. I now choose of my own free will to release all cellular memories and belief systems based in the dark wound of criticism, judgement, shaming and fear, so that my creative, loving energy may thrive in a nourishing environment conducive to growth. Through all time and space, through all dimensions of my being, through unconditional love, so be it.
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
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I nurture the things I care about.
I reflect on my strength and challenges. I see how far I have come. I recognize my gifts. I take inventory of my life. I offer myself approval.
I choose the light.
I remove myself from lower energy experiences.
I choose not to be pulled into drama that limits my joy.
I allow myself to be the light.
I bring light to situations which are negative.
I redirect hostile conversations to love.
I protect myself.
I shine brightly.
I focus on all things positive.
I check in with my intuition. There is a force within me, I direct it at my will.
I encourage the expression of the Highest Self in all I encounter.
All can be transformed.
I share the wisdom I have developed.
I encourage harmonious action.
I nurture relationships. I serve the Divine Being within life.
Behold! You are the inspiration you’ve been looking for.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau
In the dance of life, sometimes you move toward your purpose, sometimes you move away, and when the stars align, you receive your reward. Outward recognition of an inward quest can be a jubilant affair, and yet, it can be its own challenge. If you’ve been focusing in the essence of the quest itself, for its own sake, not for the applause, ask yourself what you shall do with your ego during this time of recognition. There is nothing wrong with your ego getting a pat on the back, because it has come through this journey too, as a passenger not a driver. Recognition is code for resonance. It says that what you stand for rings a bell in peoples hearts and inspires them. The best part of this privilege is in being an inspiration for others to either join your quest or to reach deep within themselves and find their own raison d’etre.
Mantra :: I am a powerful giver and receiver of recognition!
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The Hero’s Journey dream oracle by Kelly Sullivan Walden
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
(Image credit: Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock)
I trust myself and know that I am working consciously to meet my own needs.
I am healing.
There is a storm passing through my life. I need not fear it. It is gathering energy so that it may be cleared. I am confident through it all.
I let go, holding on to my inner self, allowing everything to be cleansed in this sacred storm.
I believe in life.
I am moved by compassion.
I allow life to support me.
I send out good thoughts, I share a smile, I do something nice for someone without need for return.
I release all completed cycles. I have earned the right to step out of those patterns. I expand into higher frequencies of experience.
I reconnect with myself.
I stay aligned with what I know to be true.
I do not give in to the opinions of others.
I support myself.
What I have been dreaming of will fall into place soon.
I do not rush.
I do not worry about the future.
A tremendous force of light is gathering around me now. I will adjust as this light grows stronger.
I release fear and any worry of unworthiness.
I stay in the present moment.
I will not let another’s experience be the truth that guides me.
Sometimes we believe what others tell us we are, as though the self we see reflected back to us through their eyes is truth. Yet the accuracy of a reflection depends on the clarity of that which is doing the reflecting! If the receiver forms any opinion about what is perceived then what is reflected back to us will, at best, be distorted. It is not necessarily through ill will, it is just the mechanics of the situation. Even the moon reflects the sun in varying degrees of fulness and clarity. We can learn something of the nature of sun and moon, but not as much as through direct perception.
You have been putting rather too much faith in the reflections others have of you – to the point that you might not be honoring all that you are and all that you are becoming, because you believe too little of yourself.
There may be those around you that are able to reflect you more faithfully, and even help you to see more of your own greatness and beauty. These are the souls blessed with inner stillness. In the clear waters of their ocean of consciousness, you can come to recognize yourself with clearer perception. However, there are those who have not tended to their own ocean, and are unable to be still enough to genuinely receive and reflect your light back to you. There is no judgement here. Each takes the path of self-healing that is available and appropriate at any given time. However, to attempt to see the magnificence of a sun in a very partial moon doesn’t make too much sense.
If you are blessed with those in your life who can show you the beauty within you, wonderful. Begin the art of direct perception. This is the ability to recognize yourself not only in the eyes of others, but from how you feel about yourself, how you experience yourself and how you observe yourself (with compassion and kindness) from within. This is a step towards a radical empowerment that does not require perfection in order for you to recognize you are loveable and have much to offer. It is empowerment based on the acceptance of all that you are, working with your strengths, tending to your weaknesses and being loving, encouraging and nurturing of all that you perceive.
As you continue on this journey, you will not only see your human self, but the eternal within you. This is a breath-taking experience that opens you up to the creative energy that flows abundantly through all life! You are being nudged into that preparation, for when you have the experience of truly beholding yourself, all judgement, fear and doubt will fall away and you will just know yourself to be sacred. Then you will be asked to embrace the deeper journey of sacred rebellion against judgement and fear, and into passionate creativity and unconditional trust in life.
If you are getting confused about who you are and your motives or actions based on what others are saying or how they are responding to you, step back. In your quest to be a responsible person, you may be unintentionally taking on the feelings of others, making their reflections of you more than they are in truth. More often than not reflections are more about the state of the reflector that what is being reflected. Let those external perceptions go. Can you just acknowledge yourself? Do so and be free!
Healing process :: Say with feeling, “I now break any contract I have ever made with another, consciously or unconsciously, that has given them power over me, power over my sense of self, the authority to approve or reject me or anything about me, including my voice, body, creativity, spirituality and way of living. Of my own free will, I now choose to directly perceive my own inner beauty and turn within with kindness and compassion to see myself though the eyes of unconditional love. So be it.”
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
(Image credit: Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock)
I respect my emotional boundaries.
I continuously seek to know myself, to love myself.
I show myself the same care I desire from others.
I honor my truths and dreams.
I seek the higher self in others.
I gift my care and compassion to others knowing it will return to me at another time, perhaps from a different source.
I have the ability to draw harmony into being.
I am meant to create beauty.
I will not fail. I have a safety net of support in place.
I will overcome my fear and experience a beautiful outcome.
I trust – and I succeed.
I remember that laughter is the best medicine.
I focus my will upon that which I desire. I do what needs to be done.
I relax into the moment.
I breathe and go into deep thought.
My body is a clear channel, energy freely flowing.
I put my full energy into all that I love.
I nurture growth and receive in abundance.
I overcome obstacles.
I move beyond what is known.
I take time to experience myself.
I am transitioning from one level of experience to the next.
Neuroplasticity happens when connections are made across the neural network in our brain. Essentially, our brain creates super-highways that it travels quickly in response to outside stimuli. Thought patterns that are repeated often create massive highways that the thought travels on. The more the thought occurs, the more it will occur.
One of the most effective ways to reprogram the mind, to reformat the consciousness, is through using affirmative statements. I share with you examples that you may find helpful should you wish to use them to assist in reformatting the thinking mind.
(Image credit: Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock)
I will master fear and doubt.
I stabilize myself.
I accept my emerging self.
I drop my shield of resistance.
I do not need to hide who I am or the gifts I hold.
I move beyond limiting thoughts and patterns.
I am being assisted in moving forward in a fearless way.
I am stronger than I have believed.
I turn inward to find answers and ideas. I experience profound psychic awareness.
I have learned to say no to that which does not benefit myself and to say yes to the things that nourish me.
I have moved out of the phase of judging and blaming others.
I shift my understanding.
I do not have to be perfect.
I do not stress about making the right choice.
I make choices based on what I feel, not on what others may feel.
All is going to work out perfectly.
I finally see things as a whole.
I have arrived at a clear idea of what is truly happening in my life.
There is much going on in the world. I move beyond the small details to see the bigger picture.
