Affirmations Made Miraculous

“When we love what we do and do what we love, the energy of the Universe opens up to us!” Dr. Sharron Stroud

Whatever the one thing  is in your life you would like to improve in the categories of Health, Relationships, Self-image, Wealth, Career, Creativity and Spirituality, affirmations can really help. Let’s use wealth as an example. You are tired of struggling financially and want to feel constant abundance. The first step is to personally acknowledge that there is no lack of wealth for those who are available to it. It may seem a small step but until one agrees with this truth, becoming wealthy is nearly impossible. Okay, here’s our affirmation plan:

1- Get a Vision: Money is just paper and metal; it means nothing by itself. The real wealth is what money provides. So please get a vision of how your life will be when you have the wealth you want. How will you live? How will you talk, walk, eat, sleep and have conversations? How will you be different than you are now? Will you feel free? Empowered? Healthier?

2- Make an Affirmation: Holding the vision we just completed in mind, make a simple clear and positive statement about yourself as though that vision is coming true and you are an abundant person. Here is an example: “My wealth is increasing every week and setting me free!” Another might be, “I am living the life of my dreams as my wealth continually increases!” It is also effective to visualize money coming to you on a conveyer belt, in trucks, in the mail; in any way you can imagine. That little trick helps clear the mind of the attitude of lack.

3- Express Your Gratitude: More wealth is available to us than we will need. It is our incoming flow of wealth that cries for expansion and it is a flow that can only expand through expressed gratitude for what we already have. Even the smallest blessings are seeds of future abundance and it is by expressing our gratitude that we plant those seeds for our harvest. Please look into every part of your life and give thanks for each blessing; then as increased blessings start coming your way, expand your gratitude to include them. I promise that you are going to see something wonderful happen!

4- Live as Though it is True: Thoreau wisely said: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Your belief about yourself must change from needy to abundant and that can only happen when you live your affirmation every day. Associate with abundant people, dress and carry yourself well and refuse to dwell on lack or failure. If you don’t have the money needed for something, surrender and do your best without feeling impoverished, reminding yourself your abundance is expanding every day. Others around you may try to pull you back down or say your new way of thinking is unrealistic. But don’t be deterred; this thinking is the road out of poverty consciousness and you are building a life of wealth with every affirmation said and practiced. You can make this journey easier and much more effective by using The Trask Triangle daily. http://arasfoundation.org/presentations/TheTraskTriangleInteractive.pdf.

5- Look for Miracles: Now new opportunities and possibilities for wealth will begin to open that perhaps you never dreamed would come your way. Pay attention to these breaks and when they arise don’t allow old feelings of self doubt to keep you from stepping forward and saying ‘yes!’

6- Finally a Warning: Thousands of my graduates have created the lives they dreamed of by using the techniques explained here. They also learned that there is a danger: if we do an affirmation that says, I am wealthy because we think we are poor, we are subconsciously validating being poor each time we say it. I recommend saying at least fifty affirmations a day (I do 200) while imagining them to be true. Do them without fail for 30 days and every day pay attention to what is changing in your life.

There are more steps you can learn about affirmations in my book Romancing The Soul, Your Personal Guide to Living Free. If you are serious about Being, Doing and Having all you were meant to in this incarnation; this is a must read! For personal guidance and coaching, about affirmations or attaining your vision, contact me at bob@arasfoundation.org or call: 425-868-8448

A bit of Humor For You:
At one point during a game, the coach called one of his 9-year-old baseball players aside and asked, “Now we need to talk; do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?”
The little boy nodded in the affirmative.
“And do you understand that what matters is whether we win or lose together as a team?”
The little boy nodded again.
“So then, I'm sure you know, when an out is called, you shouldn't argue, curse, attack the umpire, or call him a pecker-head. Do you really understand that?”
“Yes,” the little boy said.
“And when I take you out of the game so another boy gets a chance to play, it's not good sportsmanship to call your coach ‘dumb ass' is it?”
The little boy shook his head “No.”
“Good”, said the coach. “Now go over there and explain all that to your grandmother.”

Our Heroes:
Jackie Robinson was the first black player in the major leagues at a time when many whites actually believed that negroes were a sort of subhuman species. When Branch Rickey hired Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, it was with the agreement that for the first three years he would not respond to whatever insults, no matter how painful. Rickey knew his career and reputation were on the line as he was the only manager of a major league team who voted to integrate. He knew that, like Robinson he would be ridiculed, slandered, and excluded from the fellowship of other baseball leaders and that he and Jackie Robinson had to play it  cool, that any rebuke by them would only inflame others more. The two formed a team that changed much of America. Jackie Robinson loved playing baseball, but now he played under an assault of abuse. He got ulcers, did not sleep well and suffered constantly but he did so in silence because he knew it was the only way his race would ever have a chance to show what they could do. When opposing players intentionally tore his legs open with spikes and insulted him he only played better. When the three years were up and he began responding to slurs of racist reporters, fans and players he was labeled as “arrogant and uppity.” Unswayed by their vitriol, he continued to play well and the door opened for more black players to come aboard. Many agree that two men, Branch Rickie and Jackie Robinson paved the way for the later work of Dr. Martin Luther King. We thank you for your sacrifice and courage Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson. You are our heroes!