Days of Affirmation, Sending Love Ahead to Your Day

June 26, 2009
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Days of Affirmation
Sending Love Ahead to Your Day

Upon waking, many people consider the coming day with trepidation. Because of the natural human tendency to focus on what we fear or dislike, it is easy to unwittingly send a message of unease into the future that negatively impacts the quality of your day. However, while our lives are busy and frequently replete with challenges, they are also rich with joy and experiences worth savoring. We can attract this natural bliss into our lives by starting each day with a message of love. When you send love ahead to your day, that love will manifest itself in your interpersonal interactions, your professional endeavors, and your domestic duties. Tasks and circumstances once made trying by your own anxiety are transformed by your love, and you will find yourself approaching life’s subtle nuances with great affection.

Each morning, when you have cast off the fog of sleep, take several deep, grounding breaths and reaffirm the love you have for yourself. Speaking a loving, self-directed blessing aloud enables you to access and awaken the reservoir of tenderness in your soul. Before you leave the comfortable warmth of your bed, be sure to tell the universe that you are eager and ready to receive the blessings it has set aside for you. Then as you prepare to meet the day, visualize yourself first saturated by and then surrounded with a warm and soft loving light. Gradually widen the circle of this light until you are able to send it ahead into your future. If you are commuting to work, send love to the roads upon which you will drive, your fellow commuters, and your parking space. If you have colleagues who arrive at your workplace before you, send them love. Likewise, a day spent being a parent or addressing household chores can benefit from the sentiment that precedes you. Sending love ahead to everyone you will meet and everything you will do can ensure that your day is suffused with grace.

If you have difficulty sending love to those situations and individuals you deem particularly frustrating, consider that the warmth and tenderness you project can change your life for the better. Each morning, in sending this love, you will exercise your power to control the ambiance of your existence and to color your day with positivity.

My Cousin's Keeper

Minutes stacked upon days and days stacked upon years, I have gotten closer to realizing IT. But as I continue on this journey, I must still ask: what does it take for a person to stop feeling bad for thyself? You must know that the whole 'woe-is-me' mentality only lasts as long as you would like it to. For sure, we go through some very tough times - even the really hard ones that seem like they will never end or get any better. There is one truth here: one day, this will all be over, done and gone in the wind. So what is the point of getting caught up and feeling bad for thyself? Be grateful that you are living and breathing because there are MANY MORE individuals in the world who have it worse than you. And there are even MANY MORE individuals in the world that have it worse than those people. So why not live? Why not dream? Why not DO? Everyday I talk to individuals who are afraid to BE. Everyday I talk to individuals who are afraid to live for they are merely existing as complacent beings. Five years ago, I lost a friend and a cousin who dreamed bigger than anyone I have ever known. Dreams of great worth and integrity. Dreams to prosper and help others. Dreams of realizing IT. At times we lose sight of what is most important - to work with what we have and to work to change the things we are not willing to accept. My cousin succumbed to leukemia at the age of 14, but never EVER gave up the fight to live, the fight to dream. I still remember the moment when it was his time to go. There was a definite pain in my heart when I experienced the passing of someone who was younger than me. It was then, when I realized that age was nothing more than a number. I fight today because I know that one day, a tomorrow will be my last. I live and love earnestly knowing that nothing is permanent in the world. I dream knowing that there is nothing I can NOT do. Of course, times get hard and they sometimes will, but it should be those times that wakes us all up as we say, "I am the master of my own fate, I will not feel sorry for myself any longer, I will fight, I will love, I will work harder, I will follow my dreams, I will BE." Be whatever you want in life, but be ready to work hard for it and understand that shit happens [had to be frank].

Life is short. Eat it up why you can. To my little cousin watching over me, I do this for you.

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About a year ago, I lost a woman that I considered to be a 3rd grandmother. About two years ago, I lost one of my blood-grandmothers. Blood or not, I miss you both. I live and dream for you. I will never give up. Always looking up! Love you!
-A.E.

Message to the Dreamers

'Day by day, we asks ourselves: what makes ME special? What makes ME one of a kind? For decades, YOU have been experiencing, living and writing your own story. If you have not been satisfied with the last few chapters, I would only ask: which words and actions will you alter today to change the memoirs of the future? What can YOU do to begin living your ideal life? What can YOU do to make the most of your day. How will YOU conquer today? Go Forth.'
-A.E.

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Summer 2009

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