A blog by Dr. Harry Henshaw
Posts tagged affirmations
Ten Principles for Transformation in Recovery.
Aug 20th
The ten principles listed below can be of assistance to a person who is in recovery. While they are not to be confused as the actual work in recovery they will provide a frame or structure from which to do recovery.
1. To take complete ownership and responsibility for your life. Understand that you have created and chosen your life the way it is occurring. You are the cause of what you experience and your life.
2. Watch your word! Stay present 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, throughout the day and before bedtime.
4. What is your Intention? Plan your Intention each morning upon awakening and 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?
5. Develop your RECOVERY PLAN. Plan your work. 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?
6. Develop your DAILY ACTION PLAN. Work your plan. Do it 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!
7. Acknowledge yourself and others daily. Acknowledge the miracles in your life. Practice affirming that every moment of your life is a miracle.
8. Practice patience! Remember that you are doing the best you can. At the moment that we do we do the best we can. When you know more, you will do things differently. Do this in regards to others too.
9. Share with others what you are getting out of your recovery.
10. STAY HUNGRY FOR YOUR RECOVERY!
Positive Affirmations for Creating Healthy Relationships.
Jul 31st
Much of who we bring into our life is a reflection of our inner conversation about ourselves as well about others. Below are some positive affirmations that can assist you in manifesting the type of relationship that you truly want to bring into your life.
1. I am loving, lovable and loved.
2. I accept others for who they are and who they are not.
3. I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past. I am at peace.
4. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
5. I attract loving relationships into my life.
6. I love. I am love.
7. I respect and care about others.
8. I am grateful for the people in my life.
9. I deserve love in my life.
10. I love everything about myself.
Positive Affirmations for Experiencing a sense of Relaxation.
Jul 25th
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.
Daily Homework – Four Principles to Transform your life.
Jul 25th
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!
Using Affirmations to Transform your life.
Jul 24th
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.
Combining Positive Affirmations and Therapeutic Relaxation Music.
Jul 13th
Enhanced Healing is in the process of developing two programs for combining positive affirmations and therapeutic relaxation music. As we know, when a person listens to the therapeutic relaxation music, especially with headphones, a very relaxed audio environment is created. When a person becomes relaxed the delivery of positive affirmations is much more effective, in fact the positive affirmations take on being like hypnotic suggestions, suggestions to help to transform the person’s sense of self and inner conversation.
The first program will be approximately 30 minutes long and the second about 10 mins long. There will be listenings that combines therapeutic relaxation music and positive affirmations as well as others that will add the sounds of nature, stream, ocean, forest and rain to the music and affirmations. There will also be positive affirmations mixed with only the sounds of nature.
It is suggested that one use these programs daily. Furthermore, there will be 16 different topics, ranging from self esteem, relaxation, smoking, confidence to sleep.
Affirmations for enhancing a person’s Spirituality.
Jul 13th
Transformation can be enhanced by the use of positive affirmations, Positive affirmations can help a person change his or her internal conversation about many things, including ones sense of spirituality. The following affirmations were designed for helping a person to further enhance their beliefs and thoughts about spirituality.
1. I am in harmony with God.
2. I am always connected to my Source, to Spirit, to God.
3. I am one with all that is and with the power that created me, with Source , with Spirit, with God.
4. I am perfect, whole and complete.
5. I am the manifestation and infinite possibility of God.
6. I live life in the present moment, in the Now, in Spirit.
7. My power is in the present moment, in my Source, in Spirit, from God.
8. Who I am is Spirit, Source, God.
9. I am the divine expression of God.
10. God is always present in my life>
Affirmations for Positive Self Esteem!
Jul 11th
The following affirmations can be used to enhance a person’s self esteem.
1. I love myself. I love life.
2. I love everything about myself.
3. I love who I am. I love my life.
4. I am good enough just as I am.
5. I am perfect, whole and complete.
6. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.
7. I always take good care of myself.
8. I love and approve of myself.
9. I am loving, lovable and loved. I am love.
10. My life is filled with love.
Daily use of the above affirmations can make a difference in how you think and feel about yourself.
Affirmations for Recovery from Drugs and Alcohol
Jul 8th
The use of positive affirmations can be very powerful, can help a person to enhance their life and even strengthen ones recovery. Below are positive affirmations for recovery from Drugs and Alcohol. Using these affirmations daily can strengthen ones overall program of recovery.
1. I am grateful for the things and people in my life.
2. I am open minded. I am willing to learn.
3. I trust and allow others to help me. I follow suggestions.
4. I am responsible for everything that I think, say, fell and do.
5. I joyously release the past. I am at peace.
6. I have the courage to change the things I can change.
7. I love everything about myself. I am perfect, whole and complete.
8. I am willing to change.
9. I love and accept myself exactly as I am now. I love my life.
10. I accept the things that I can not change.
Positive Affirmations can transform!
May 4th
I believe that who we are or who we are being is merely the words that we have in our mind. The words or language that exists in our mind defines who we are in the world. It also guides and determines much of our behavior, what we do in the world, with others and towards ourselves. If we are to change our state of being, who we have been being, we need to change the words and language that exists in our mind. One way to do this is through the constant use of positive affirmations. Many if not all of the individuals in recovery, esp early in recovery, have very negative language or words that make up their daily existence. Positive affirmations, more specifically, the constant and repetitious use of positive affirmations will change a person’s state of being and actually make a difference in the recovery process for that person. It is recommended that individuals in recovery explore and start to utilize the technology of positive affirmations.