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Jeanie Marshall's Articles in Affirmations

  • A Dream Come True, Again and Again
    Do you have a dream? This article focuses on the importance of having multiple dreams. When one is in the process of being fulfilled, that is the time to dream another dream. And another.
  • Abundance for September and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day
    Do you often feel that you do not have enough or that you are not enough? If so, you are in a state of lack consciousness when you are having such conversations, either with yourself or others. This article gives an overview of the focus on Abundance explored by the DailyAffirm Process during September each year, freely given to the Internet community.
  • Are You on the Inside or the Outside of Jargon?
    How do you relate to jargon? It makes a considerable difference whether you are in the inner circle that already understands that jargon, or if you are outside that circle.
  • Asking Empowering Questions
    assists you to ask -- yourself and others -- questions that uplift and enhance life. This popular article includes a list of empowering questions that you can apply to a wide variety of real-life situations.
  • Basic Operating Question (BOQ) for Empowerment
    This article helps you to identify your default basic operating question so that you can begin to practice one that is more empowering.
  • Beginnings and Endings Create Life that is New and Fresh
    This article advocates honoring both beginnings and endings for a more fulfilling life. Life is filled with beginnings and endings.
  • Being in the Awareness of Balance to Do What You Do More Joyously
    Do you sometimes feel out of balance? Or lacking in joy? This article focuses on the idea of making choices to draw more variety into your life. Joy comes with the balance of reflection/relaxation and action/forward movement.
  • Best Case Scenario
    Of course, the phrase "Best Case Scenario" is the positive opposite of the popular phrase "Worst Case Scenario."
  • Brief Grounding of an Idea: A Guided Meditation for You
    This is a brief guided meditation, including instructions for reading it, to help you to making an idea solid, centered, and grounded.
  • Centering: Purpose and Phrases for a Group
    This article suggests ways to talk about how to focus group participants for more meaningful meetings and other group experiences.
  • Corporate Career Development Networking
    It’s common for people to want to have a "career development plan." Many think that those successful individuals who have preceded them in the corporation had a plan to get where they got. Some did, but quite honestly, it’s easier claim that they had a plan with the benefit of hindsight and success than to produce the plan they had years before.
  • Create Your Positive Power Position Picture for Personal Empowerment
    Do you ever step into the pit of despair, inadequacy, depression, hopelessness, or fear? This article helps you to be more conscious of your process of moving and being in and out of the pit so that you can be more empowered.
  • Creating the Reality of Your Life
    Do you ever find yourself in a mess and wonder how you got there? This article focus on the empowering concept that the reality you experience is a function of your own consciousness.
  • Decisions, Decisions, Decisions for Enhanced Empowerment
    Do you sometimes feel disempowered because of all the decisions you must make or because someone else has made a decision? Decisions focus your attention. This article identifies some of the types of decisions that are a natural part of life, encouraging you to look more closely at your choices.
  • Dichotomy of Preference
    This is a wonderful world of duality. The physical world as we know it could not exist and grow, nor could our consciousness expand, without duality. I think this is extraordinary.
  • Diversity Means They Will Be Different
    Diversity encases many more attributes than gender and skin tone, and a celebration and/or honoring of those differences. Many attributes are used to sort people out, to place them in categories, often with ideas of better or lesser.
  • Empowerment at Work
    Are you empowered in your workplace? The word "empower" has potency and strength. It's used frequently these days — some say "overused." It's also misused.
  • Empowerment in an Unexpected Field
    Referring to the popular film, "Field of Dreams," this article focuses on trusting the inner guidance process. Sometimes we do not know the whole picture until we are willing to commit to the journey.
  • Ending Poverty Consciousness
    distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness and gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
  • Energy at Work
    Do you find that you are often overwhelmed or tired? This article gives you an overview of the importance of reading energy so that you can be more empowered.
  • Euphemisms for Saying "I Don't Know"
    There are times when the perfect answer is, "I don’t know." At those times, say precisely that, with confidence or authority.
  • Faith, Yes, But in What?
    In most conversations about faith, we generally mean that "everything will work out for the good." As we give our attention to the various aspects of our life, we have the opportunity to consider in what we put our faith.
  • Feeling the Positive Opposite
    This is an empowering practice: to identify a not-good feeling and then identify its positive opposite. The positive opposite feeling is a place to move when feeling a not-wanted feeling.
  • Fighting Fires at Work
    uses the familiar metaphor of managers, consultants, and others who fight fires (or solve problems) in the workplace.
  • Finding the Rhythm in Your Breath
    This article explains the value of focusing on your breath, and especially on the rhythm of your breath. This practice is equivalent to a very brief meditation.
  • Finding Wholistic, Empowering Practitioners
    guides you to trust your inner process when selecting professional help from others.
  • Fire Free Bird
    recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
  • Five Types of Affirmations for Empowerment
    defines five different types of affirmations to progress to greater empowerment, including examples.
  • Fly a Kite in the Energy Field
    This is a vignette about using playfulness and imagery in personal growth work. In my view, it can be helpful when it enhances life's experiences.
  • Focus of Our Attention
    helps us to clarify where we desire to put our attention -- our energy -- which is a creative force. Our attention is so powerful that it creates our life experiences -- where is your attention?
  • Freedom From Bondage
    "Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
  • Guided Meditation for Empowered Consciousness
    presents an overview to approaching meditation as a practice for greater empowerment. This article includes some principles for more enriching meditative experiences.
  • Guidelines for Energetic Meetings
    Everyone has a unique perspective of what constitutes an "energetic meeting." Some may believe that an energetic meeting must be lively and fast-paced; others may believe that a meeting is energetic when they leave feeling energized and uplifted.
  • Happy Groundhog Day
    This article is about a celebration that has taken place each February 2 in Pennsylvania, USA, since 1886, Groundhog Day and a recommendation for a film of the same name.
  • How to Minimize Stress When You Present to a Group
    Do you feel stressed when you have to present to a group? Here are some thoughts to keep in mind before, during, and after you present that can keep your stress at a manageable level.
  • Joy for June and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day
    This article provides an overview for the exploration of the theme of Joy in the month of June on the DailyAffirm Process. DailyAffirm offers this free process of positive affirmations day by day.
  • Laughter, Play, Fun, Joy, Happiness
    discusses the value of these dynamics in our lives as a reminder to laugh and play in a spirit of fun and joy.
  • Learning by Your Own Experiences and Learning by Others' Experiences
    There is no question in my mind that learning directly from your own experience is the best, all 'round way to learn. In my view, the value of learning from others' experiences is overrated.
  • Learning The Power of Intention
    Intention is the basis for all action. Here is an incident that helped to form my interest in helping others to be aware of intention.
  • Let's Replace this Expression: No Pain, No Gain
    This article encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.
  • Listening Below the Surface
    Most people listen selectively. There’s really nothing wrong with that. We can’t listen to everything. In each situation, we need to determine how, what, how much, and where to listen. We can listen and learn anyplace. Life takes place in little vignettes.
  • Listening to and Understanding Your Feelings
    Do you listen to your own feelings? I think that listening to your feelings is one of the most powerful and under-rated skills for empowerment and self development. Feelings are part of the language of your inner guidance. Sometimes pesky, sometimes hot, sometimes fun, sometimes funny, sometimes exhilarating — feelings speak volumes in a single impulse.
  • Make it New, Now
    This article focuses on creating newness in your life, regardless of the situation, story, or timing.
  • Meditation is a Quiet Revolution
    Are you part of the meditation movement that is quietly changing the world? Meditation is simple, but you must practice meditation if you want to have a meditation practice.
  • Money, Prosperity, Abundance
    This article presents the dynamics of these three energies (money, prosperity, abundance) and encourages you to release the fears related to lack and limitation.
  • Moving Through Puddles (Or, The Puddle Theory of Personal Development)
    "Moving Through Puddles" describes the "Puddle Theory of Personal Development" which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.
  • Noticing Energy for Personal Empowerment
    Are you sometimes mystified to find yourself in a disempowering situation? This article focuses on the importance of noticing energy so that you guide yourself to more empowering places. Included is a set of questions to help you to notice subtle energy.
  • One Thought at a Time
    is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.
  • Paradigms are Containers for Change
    Paradigms are ubiquitous. They show up in conversations, books, bedrooms, films, families, restaurants, professions, games, sports, industries, and social systems of all types. Paradigms fall within paradigms, overlap other paradigms, and bump into still others. Paradigms are big or small, new or old, comfortable or uncomfortable, familiar or unfamiliar, long-term or short-lived. Paradigms are ever-changing.
  • Peace for August and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day
    Do you often find yourself thinking and talking about war and disasters? If so, you are in a state of non-peace when you are having such conversations, either with yourself or others. This article gives an overview of the focus on Peace explored by the DailyAffirm Process, freely given to the Internet community.

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