My attitude determines my receiving. Therefore, I am in control and am always an expression of praise and appreciation. I receive lavishly. I love my inner spirit unconditionally.

I surround myself with loving people understandand spiritual law. We assist each other along the way fully understanding the more we help others, the more we receive benefits.

I am a blessing to all people and all people are a blessing to me.

Through giving thanks I receive ever increasing blessings.

I immerse myself in the friendly energy of life, joy, peace love, health, harmony, wealth and gratitude.

As I keep my thoughts positive, life brings to me only pleasant experiences.

Here’s a short quiz that has 5 affirmations. There can be more than one correct answer for each affirmation. This is just for fun but it will help you learn about affirmations.

Enjoy!

Terrie

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Suppose you’ve done all the identifying and clearing that you can and have really prospered of late. For quite some time while you were actively “working” on your life, everything seemed to be going the right way. Everything was speeding up around you but in a good way. Your life has improved tremendously and you are on your way to a brand new level of success. You seem to be climbing the Empire State Building. But after awhile something happens. If you’re not careful, you could misinterpret that as bad or even wonder if your life will now be stagnant and meaningless. This is so far from the truth. You are actually at a new point in your life.

A sign of a new level of receiving is when you get this feeling that nothing’s happening in your life. You’re bored. When you look around and other people that you’re close to are having good things happen. You wonder why isn’t some of this happening to you? You’re doing everything that you’re supposed to be doing.

It gets to a point that it really doesn’t matter. You have a very strong sense of peace that it’s okay. “Where I am and what I’m doing is what I’m supposed to be doing. There is something going on, even if I don’t see it or recognize it at the moment.” This is something that’s really important for you to be able to recognize.

Another sign is worry stops. If you get a phone call that’s not to your liking you think, “So what? It’s okay. So what?” Then those topics combine to give you a feeling of expectancy. That expectancy very shortly brings on that new step, which will be a new opening or new awareness or new understanding in some way that this life force that is within you is moving you onward and upward. You can just relax, let go and go with it.

The next step is in keeping a record of giving and receiving. Reminders of receiving help your gratitude. The more gratitude you display, the more benefits you receive. That’s one of the areas where what we call “divine surprises” begin to come in. You ask for divine surprises frequently.

Sometimes people have reached a point in their life where they have achieved the things that they want, the financial prosperity and good relationships. Their children are happy and healthy. They’re in good health. They don’t really have any goals right at the moment, so they always ask for divine surprises.

That is when the universe really, really blesses you. It will bring things into your life that are just some of the greatest things you could even imagine.

In order to find out more about how to bring massive positive success into your life and become the director of your life, check out The Art of Making Things Happen.

Terrie

Sometimes people want to find out what limiting beliefs govern them but can’t seem to figure it out. In another article I discussed how to use other people in your life to identify the qualities you want to eliminate. I’ll review that here too. But you can use a simple phrase to get the “juices flowing” (or actually to have the Universe start bringing information to you). You can also figure out what you want in your life and then see what is holding you back. These beliefs are deeply embedded in you and you must want to challenge and change them.

Look at people around you that you’re not really fond of and see what qualities they have that you don’t like. These are most likely qualities you have within you (or some variation of) and are probably based on limiting beliefs. So make a list of these people on one sheet of paper and start a second list of the qualities. When you’re done listing the qualities you want to get rid of, begin a third that lists the beliefs behind those qualities. You’ll be surprised how you’ll find many limiting beliefs behind these qualities.

You can use this simple phrase to get the Universe to bring you some answers. But be aware that you may not really like the truth you receive. However, realize that it is the truth. If the Universe brings you the answers you’ve asked for do not question it or try to rationalize it. The phrase is “Reveal to me the truth about myself”.

You also can make a list of everything you want in life. Just let it free flow and write as fast as you can. Once you’ve made this list you go over it and on each thing you don’t have figure out what it is that’s been holding you back from getting it. This master list will show you the keys to your limiting beliefs.

If you still believe what people told you, whether it was this morning or years ago and you need to ask yourself, “Why in the world would I believe that? Why would I listen to somebody who would tell me something like that? They didn’t have any money. They never wanted any money. They didn’t think they could have money. They didn’t think they could expect to have money. They’re making me still live with what they told me a long time ago.”

Your subconscious still accepts that until you get rid of it. It does not get rid of it by itself. You have to change it. After you have recognized this and recognized who’s doing it, ask yourself these questions, “Why did I accept her authority?” It’s usually a relative or someone in authority.

If you believe that you have to work hard to get more money, then you’ll find yourself getting more jobs that you can work longer hours at. If you believe that you need more schooling, then you’ll be behind the eight ball unless you tell yourself, “No, I can make money. I know more and I have common sense.”

You need to use self-talk to get rid of it. Self-talk is when you argue with yourself. Why in the world would I believe something Aunt Susie told me? Why would I believe something that Uncle Joe said when he didn’t have a penny to his name and somebody else was buying his clothes? Why do I still believe that? What he did or said has nothing to do with me.

You argue with yourself. Those are the denials. To find out more about how your limiting beliefs hinder you from succeeding in changing your life and what to do about it, check out The Art of Making Things Happen

Defining Your Self-Awareness

As we are Self-aware and someone disagrees with us, we do not feel a need to defend our Self.

We do not get upset by their disagreement. Someone else’s disagreement with us is their own self-interpretation and has nothing to do with us. They are experiencing their own consciousness.

When we are actively Self-aware, living out the inner idea of life, love, individualized, we do not really have to plan what we are going to say or what we are going to do.

This is because the idea with which we are identifying will always tell us what we need to know as we need to know it.

When we are Self-aware, there is ALWAYS something within our Self that knows what to say, what to give, what to express.

As long as we are always BEING our Self, living out of this inner reality, we are divinely guided and given instructions out of that “I” that we are, because Mind always fulfills every concept, every self-image, every idea that we use.

First of all we have to be Self-aware.

“There is One self, One Presence, One Being.

That Self that I really am is God and all that I can conceive of God to be.

I am an individualization of It, therefore my good already IS.

Since I am that which is forever complete, then mine is the consciousness of Truth, Love, God.

I am eternally aware of this Presence living through all that I think, say and do and thus I am free to go anywhere and know infinite success always, for the Presence of God is always in action as me.

When we are Self-aware, actively knowing Who and What we really are, and we are EXPRESSING the love that we are—our Self-acceptance – then we can only know, express and hear the words of love, which then draw out of the Infinite Mind the action and experience of love.

When we plan what we are going to say and do we are dealing with shadows because our plans may not fit the situation when it arrives.

It may not be at all what we imagined it was going to be for each moment has its own purpose and its unique opportunities.

When we are busy minding our own business, being involved with the uniqueness of our Total Self, then we are free to act rather than to react.

When we are busy giving, there is always action instead of reaction.

When we are actively Self-aware, when we are involved with Truth about our Self and therefore about everyone else, when we are expressing Love and a sense of completeness, we can only see, hear and experience our True Self.

There is really no one else in our experience but our own Self.

Everyone in our experience represents a facet of our Self.

They are shadows of our Self. The power is Self. There is only one power, one being.”

Dr. Tom Johnson