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Jeanie Marshall's Articles in Affirmations

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Best Case Scenario
    Of course, the phrase "Best Case Scenario" is the positive opposite of the popular phrase "Worst Case Scenario."
  • 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.
  • Five Types of Affirmations for Empowerment
    defines five different types of affirmations to progress to greater empowerment, including examples.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ending Poverty Consciousness
    distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness and gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
  • Fighting Fires at Work
    uses the familiar metaphor of managers, consultants, and others who fight fires (or solve problems) in the workplace.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Freedom From Bondage
    "Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prepositions Tell Relationship
    While I don’t recall all the grammar I learned in school, I do remember that the preposition was viewed as a lowly part of speech. I personally think that it is a very important part of speech because it shows relationship.
  • 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.
  • Thoughts on Abundance for Personal Empowerment
    Abundance resonates with creativity and living from the overflow and knowing there is enough. It is a consciousness in which no fear exists. Abundance relates to self-esteem, prosperity, time, relationships, career, nature, money, vacations, rest, work, sexuality, laughter, confidence. Everything!!!
  • 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.
  • Say Goodbye to Struggle
    This article encourages us to end the practice of glorifying struggles of life.
  • Trust for May and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day
    This article provides an overview for the exploration of the theme of Trust in the month of May on the DailyAffirm Process. DailyAffirm offers this free process of positive affirmations day by day.
  • Transforming the Ruler of Time
    This article focuses on dissolving some of the limiting beliefs about time that make people feel powerless.
  • Take Time to Save Time
    This article identifies fifteen ideas for enhancing your effectiveness. You may resonate with many or with only one.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Power of Writing a Statement of Intention
    This article expresses some thoughts about intention, distinguishing a principle of intention from a technique to enhance the power of intention. Understanding both the principle and the technique is helpful in any situation.
  • What Do You Want and What are You Waiting for?
    "What do you want?" is a powerful question. Sometimes it is helpful to focus the question for greater impact, such as, "What do you want to feel?" Or, "What do you really want?" Or, "What do you want to experience in this situation?"
  • Purification That Sweetens Life’s Experiences
    This article focuses on ways to re-frame illness and on techniques for sweetening your life and enhancing your health.
  • 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.
  • Symphony of Human Dynamics
    This article focuses on the inevitability and value of differences when two or more persons come together. It would be pointless and boring for two or more to come together if there are no differences.
  • The Reality of Imagery for Empowerment
    This article focuses on the power of imagination and imagery.
  • Youthing, Not Aging
    This article challenges you to consider how your thoughts can make you feel older or younger.
  • 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.
  • Make it New, Now
    This article focuses on creating newness in your life, regardless of the situation, story, or timing.
  • Transformation Old to New or New to Old
    This article focuses on transformation. I like to think of transformation as a big word for big change. Everything in life is always changing, always transforming. Without change, there is no life.
  • 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.
  • Today is an Opportunity, Hear the Knocking
    This article focuses on the importance of listening to the opportunity that knocks at your door. Sometimes you may not hear the knocking. Or you may hear, see, or sense it and then ignore or discount it.
  • Transformation for July and DailyAffirm Positive Affirmations Day by Day
    Do you ever wonder about, worry about, or fear change? "Transformation" is a big word for big change. This article provides an overview for the exploration of the theme of Transformation in the month of July on the DailyAffirm Process.

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