Monthly Archives: July 2010

Daily Homework – Two Principles for your Transformation in Recovery

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Below are two more Principles of the Daily Homework for transforming your life, especially for those in recovery.

1.  Develop your Recovery plan.  Plan your work with your sponsor and therapist.  Your Recovery Plan is about your life.  Your Recovery Plan is about your integrity.  Integrity is the bottom line.  Are you in integrity with your Recovery Plan?  Are you in integrity with your life?  Without a Recovery Plan much of life may not be lived the way that you want.

2.  Develop your Daily Action Plan.  Work your plan and be held accountable to your sponsor and therapist.  Do your Daily Action Plan everyday.  Your Daily Action Plan is about your commitment and integrity with respect to your Recovery Plan.  Your Daily Action Plan is about fulfilling on your intention and commitments.  Your Daily Action Plan is about keeping your Recovery Plan in existence.

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Positive Affirmations for Experiencing a sense of Relaxation.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Below are some positive affirmations for experiencing a sense of relaxation and as a result reducing stress.  These affirmations are more powerful when mixed with relaxation music and even recorded in your own voice.

1.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

2.  I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.

3.  I accept and enjoy the moment, I live in the present.

4.  I am safe and protected at all times.

5.  I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

6.  I trust the process of life.

7.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

8.  I breathe slowly and deeply.

9.  With each breathe that I take I become more relaxed.

10.  I forgive myself and others and I set myself free from the past.

As with all positive affirmations repeated and consistent use of them will help to transform your life.

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Power Points from Louise Hay to Transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Louise Hay has made major contributions to the transformation of human beings and life itself.  Her work Your Can Heal Your Life started this process.  What follows below are some of her Power Points for us to think about and implement into our life.

1.  We are each responsible for our experiences.

2.  Every thought we think is creating our future.

3.  Everyone is dealing with the damaging patterns of resentment, criticism, guilt, and self hatred.

4.  These are only thoughts and thoughts can be changed.

5.  We need to release the past and forgive everyone.

6.  Self=approval and self-acceptance in the “now” are the keys to positive change.

7.  The point of power is always in the present moment.

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Daily Homework – Four Principles to Transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

There are ten principles to the Daily Homework.  Presented here are the first four:

1.  To take complete ownership and responsibility for your life.  Understand that you have created and chosen your life the way it is occuring.  You are the cause of what you experience and your life.

2.  Watch your word.  Stay presen to what you think and say.  Choose to say positive things about yourself and others.  What you think and say creates your experiences of how life will occur and be for you.

3.  Practice your Self Affirmations and Possibilities everyday.  Say your Self Affirmations and Possibilities in the morning, through out the day and before bedtime.

4.  What is your intention?  Plan your intention each morning upon awakening stay present to it throughout the day.  What are you committed to today?  What are you committed to now?  What is it that you want to create in your life?  What is it that you want to create now?

Read each principle slowly and contemplate them daily, throughout the day!

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Positive Affirmations for Hypertension.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Hypertension or high blood pressure can be a very serious condition.  While there are some prescribed things that you can do to work on your hypertension, such as eat better, exercise, not smoke, not drink alcohol or coffee, using positive affirmations can also assist you.  The following positive affirmation will help you with your hypertension.

1.  I am safe.

2.  I trust the process of life.

3.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am.

4.  I forgive and I set myself free.

5.  I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

6.  My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.

7.  I breathe slowly and deeply.

8.  With each breathe that I take I become more relaxed.

9.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

10.  I love and approve of myself.

As with all positive affirmations, utilizing them consistently everyday enhances and strengthens their power to help you change your life.

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Using Affirmations to Transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Louise Hay has written and spoken about the power of positive affirmations for years.  She believes that using positive affirmations consistently will change and transform your life.  While their transformative power is being confirmed and utilized more and more, using positive affirmations can also be difficult and even frustrating.  For some, after a period of using positive affirmation they sometimes experience resistance to their continued use.  What happens is that the positive affirmation are in conflict, sometimes direct conflict, to the thoughts and beliefs that the person has in their mind.  Many of these thoughts, ideas and beliefs have to do with what the person believes to be about themselves as a person, who they are in life.  In essence, ones identity gets calls into question, gets confronted and it is from the confrontation that ones experiences a sense of frustration and with it, creates a tendency to avoid and move after from and even stop the use of positive affirmation.  It is at this point that one has possibility of a breakthrough in their life, that is, if they are able to push through the resistance and stick with their use.  Sticking with the use of positive affirmations over an extended period of time can transform your life, can transform even who you believe yourself to be in the world.

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Acknowledgement, a way to transform your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Moving on our journey through life can have its ups and down.  We can have our breakdowns and our breakthroughs.  One of the important breakthroughs to have concerns that from which we actually create our life, from our thoughts and thinking.  We create our life and state of being from our thoughts, from how we perceive others, people, places and things.  We create our experiences from the meaning we give life.

One way to consciously and deliberately create our life is through the use of acknowledgements.  There are two forms or types of acknowledgements, for others and for ourselves.  To create a positive state of being, a positive space from which we can live powerfully, could be enhanced by acknowledging others, for saying positive things about others, to recognize and express verbally how that person is actually transforming their life in a positive manner.  What we put out will come back to us.

The second form of acknowledgement has to do with ourselves.  Given that we sometimes, if not a lot of the time, live life from a space of negative self concept, to generate positive statements or acknowledgements of self is about

actively transforming our state of being.  To acknowledge the positive things that we are doing is to reinforce them, to keep them alive in our world, to cause more of them to continue to show up in our life.

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The conversation of being inauthentic and recovery.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

One of the goals of counseling is to help a person become authentic.  One of the goals is to help others see where they are being inauthentic in their lives, in one or more domains of their life.  The work of becoming authentic helps a person to get unblocked thereby allowing them to move forward with the things that they want to create.  Being authentic requires a person to give up the pretense of life and to let that which has been hidden to be revealed to others and in some cases, to the world.

For a person in recovery the process will be the same.  Many individuals in recovery live inside a way of being that uses pretending as one of the defense mechanisms.  Putting forth the image or perspective that things and themselves are a certain way, and hiding what is true from others, is how a person in active addiction moves through life.  Create pretense and repress the truth.  The counselor’s role here is to help a person shave that which has been hidden and to take full ownership of it.  It is only from this admission that the possibility for change and transformation can take place.

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Positive Affirmations for helping with Forgiveness.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Positive affirmations work if we use them daily.  Positive affirmations help us to change or transform our thinking, to take us out of negative space and thereby assist us in creating a positive space in which to be.

Positive affirmations for Forgiveness:

1.  I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

2.  I forgive others and I set myself free from them.

3.  I forgive and I let go of the past.

4.  I am forgiving.  I forgive.  I forgive others.  I forgive myself.

5.  I forgive myself and I set myself free from the past.

6.  I accept others for how they are and how they are not.

7.  I forgive myself completely, let go of the past and choose to live in the present moment.

8.  The past is over.  I live life in the present moment.

9.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

10.  I forgive myself and I ask forgiveness for others.

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A passing can put things and life in perspective.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

My mother passed approximately two weeks ago.  My father passed two years ago this month.  While I was not present at my father’s passing, I was there for my mother, to witness her leaving this realm of existence.  It was a very powerful experience and one that can teach me even in her leaving.

What I became present to, something that my mother and I discussed after my dad passed, was that we do not take anything with us when we pass.  Mom’s comment was that my dad did not even take his pajamas with him.  Like my father, mom too took nothing physical with her.  I hope she took my love though.

Given that I too will eventually pass, I must stay present to what is important and also the fact that I will take nothing with me as well.  Everything that I have is on loan to me, I am merely using it and borrowing it for a certain period of time.  We own nothing, we keep nothing, we merely use things.  Many people believe that opposite from this fundational belief.  From this I get that what is important is my relationship to others and myself.  Being of service to others and taking care of myself in the best way possible is what is truly important.  It is from this conversation that we can put life in perspective.

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