Affirmations.per
se are not really a part of most eastern religions. For the most part
eastern religions have to do with self-purification, self-realization,
self-actualization.(on
the road to one's full potential).and
so on, involving such things as meditation and,
with a few of them, denial of many material pursuits, at least for a while.
The ancient
Vedic
writings however are daily being proved essential by quantum
physics and solid life principles, just as much of the Bible
is also. The Vedic writings reveal consciousness in its singularity.
This is the
oneness of the
universe and all things in it.
One doesn't need the repetition
of affirmations, which can be a burden.(Matthew
6:7), because an intellectual overstanding
alone will cause transformational changes in one's life and
body,
without need for affirmations, which are efforts used to convince oneself
against what he or she has felt to be habitually true. What man has felt
to be true has been mostly error prone:.Proverbs
14:12.
One first must have both
desire
for and a basis
for higher consciousness living. This basis is God to the believer. Lacking
belief is lacking this basis. Changing one's ego
based belief
structure to include God as a basis for living begins
with proving the Creator exists and that man's lame
explanation for the beginning of living organisms
is just that, lame and laughable.
Your.soul.(you).when
convinced of its true
reality, that is, you are sure that this reality is true, then has
foundation
for higher consciousness living and all that comes along with it.
Hard effort is against the
way of the spirit. The way of the spirit is easy:.Matthew
11:30.
Once introduced into the
western world, positive thinking principles and psychological principles
have been added to some eastern religions, as they blend somewhat. As a
result many eastern religion
disciples
now espouse
affirmations.
Many others also utilize
affirmations in order to acquire what
they think they should possess. There are some cautions here against
worrying about stuff:.James
4:3;
John 17:3;.Luke
12:25,26 "And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature
one cubit? If you
then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take you thought.(original
is 'anxious thought or worry').for
the rest?".The
Creator says when you
are His,
He will take
good care of you and
yours, so do not be so worried over all the daily things that are necessary
for sustenance:.Luke
12:23-31. Put effort into that which will produce a super abundant
life. In this way you make your request to God and it will be looked after
by the laws which He put in motion to
bring all good into your life. Meditation
is extremely important here.
Use your mind to
become more deeply convinced, thus increasing the power already set
up as laws of the universe to cause change. This power is available to
you!
One affirmation from Alan
Cohen is."I accept
responsibility for creating my experience of you by way of how I have thought
about you. I now wish to change my experience by changing the version of
you I am holding in my mind. I now choose to see you as loving, wise, healthy
and kind. I recognize your higher, better and whole self. I see this situation
as working out to everyone's well being and benefit"..Alan
goes on."The
words you use are less important than the intention you hold. When you
accept one hundred percent responsibility for setting the situation up
as it has been, you gain one hundred percent of the power to create an
outcome that works for you and everyone involved. But that's the level
of responsibility you and I must accept if we wish to attain mastery in
our life and make the world a better place."
This belief is from a mix
causing confusion, confusion.(and
can be one of what is often called the devil's
tricks, or the tricks of your
ego).so
you never discover the secret.
Many 'New Age' books teach
these things and other concepts based on parts of the Bible. New
Age has many ways to correct one's life and much good advice, however it
deals from the premise
that there is something that.you.must
correct.(similar
to the alternate gospel that Paul often
spoke to early New Testament Christians about),
whereas true Christianity reveals from God the Father, the source of all
continuous creation and its maintenance, through His word, the Bible
and other ancient writings which reveal much truth about humanity and spirituality,
such as the works of Buddha and even earlier than that, the ancient Vedic
scriputures; that because of your belief, your acceptance in what His Son
Emmanuel the Christ did, you are already correct.(holy,
righteous
and perfect).
It's a matter of realizing it and finding out the
gifts God has for you
Become aware of that and
live
your life in a
way which brings all good to you. And in this, these ancient texts
are excellent guides to opening and keeping open the way to your soul,
which is the doorway to what we call the Infinite Intelligence.
The reasoning goes; that
since you are Gods, then you create your own life, but you have to program
your heart to accept what it is that you say, by saying it over and over
and over to yourself. This convinces you, so you want to be sure that what
you are convinced about is of God and not a mix of confusion. However,
the soul needs no 'convincing'. It is what you are in reality. Most affirmations
are simply icing on the ego. Affirmations from the soul level work fine,
for you cannot have what you do not possess first in your heart, your soul:.Luke
19:26. So, it's a matter of understanding your
soul.
Advertisers know affirmations
work. Continuous exposure programs non thinkers by sending the same message
to the 'computer' processor the body has - the
brain. The brain's frequencies are received by mind, the part of the
soul that is one's uniqueness.
Within one's uniqueness is a mix of what the ego has and is providing to
what it is that is us and what, if any, higher
consciousness things have been able to affect us and
to what extent.
Advertisers know you must
first have it in your mind before any action can occur to bring their product
into your life. They do not spend billions on a hope it will work. They
know it works.
In order for all this to
be effective for your use, you must add feeling to what it is that you
are repeating, what you are imagining, for the process to be personally
effective:.Matthew
6:27-33. If you do not feel you have it, then you feel you do not deserve
it for some reason or other, and work needs to be done. Meditation will
take you into the boundless from which all material or physical things
come from and are supported by.
But how does one add feeling
to that which he may have no feeling about, yet knows it to be something
good in his life that he wants?
Build your own belief to
the point of acceptance, and then the universal laws will 'align', providing
for you exactly what the affirmations you used were all about, what the
images of the state you want were all about. Sounds very credible all this
"your consciousness builds your life" stuff. But it is built on the Holy
Bible's "you are what you think"
and "you reap what you sow".
So in this we trust not in
ourselves, but in the power of the laws the Great Infintie One has designed
for our good:.Proverbs
28:26.
If one believes that his
consciousness is to blame for what is happening or could happen in life,
what will he think when things go bad? Guilt?
Confusion? Depression? Hopelessness? Do any
of us really have it all together enough to create our own destiny? Not
exactly,
as the life of Job recorded in the
book of Job shows. But in understanding what this God has designed and
the
pathway He has opened, we have power to change life to be what is good
for us and for others.
The wisdom of the Infinite
existed before any man:.1Corinthians
2:7.
Affirmation people are fine
sincere people, desiring better for themselves and their families. They
need to know this
if they do not already know it.
They need to understand that
faith is a gift from this Great Infinite One. A person does not create
his own faith:.Ephesians
2:8. So, once you have the faith,.use
it.for good,
for yourself, your family and for others' benefit too.
To try it yourself: Tell
yourself something very easy to believe. Let's see: How about telling yourself
over and over for a few days or a week that somehow, out of the blue, a
free holiday cruise in the Caribbean.(or
where ever you may like to go).will
come to you? That ought to do it!
Now be sure to really feeeeeellllll
those warm Caribbean breezes a blowin' on your face as you bask on the
deck in the hot Caribbean Sun. Make it real to yourself. Get pictures of
it. Put them up where you can oft be reminded of what it is that you're
affirming. It may sound hokey,
but you must remember that your subconscious does not know the difference
between the physical and what is imagination. It just responds to what
are your deeply held assurances. This law of the universe, this subconscious
functioning, works off attention; that is, what your attention is on, comes
to pass.
