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Prayer and affirmations are a very good place to start in development and I wouldn't do any spirit work without first doing a prayer or affirmative clearing the space. It is also the first tool people should use in clearing and releasing negative beliefs about spiritual communication.
Prayer is a very personal matter and for prayer to work best you need to be working with your concept of God(dess)(s), Spirit or Divine Creative Self. I know Buddhist, Pagans, Witches, Christians, Jews, and Native Peoples; they all pray in one form or another. The prayer builds energy, states intention and strengthens contact. For some this will be petitioning or evok ing a deity or deities; for others it will be affirming a statement of intention.
Many say that prayer is talking and meditating is listening. I find this very true. I stress meditation so much because every thought and feeling we have is sent out into the universe and starts the creation process. Every thought and feeling is a sort of prayer. It's good to sit and listen and discover what we've been creating. you have been sending out unintentional requests, prayer can be a great way to begin sending out a strong new truth to be manested.
I don't find much dference between prayer and affirmation. Over the years the line has gotten very blurred for me. As I have grown, my prayers have shted from a begging for help to an affirmative statement of creation. Affirmations can manest your hearts desire, erase or rewrite early childhood tapes, as well as transform your contact with spirit.
Whether you're praying or affirming you always need to create a clear zone. Always clear yourself and your surrounding area by doing the clearing and shielding exercises in this book. Or simply surround yourself and area with white light. Then get quiet, check into your body and make su re you're n ot harboring or holding on to any fears.
It works like this: affirmations are the act of affirming or making strong a new truth. The literal translations is 'making firm'. For truth to be effective it has to be on strong ground. It has to have a solid foundation, that foundation will not be strong you're in fear. It may take you twenty seconds or all day long to get in a good space energetically. But once you 're there, everything will flow easily. Changing limited beliefs will allow a new truth to manest.
Developing and saying an affirmative statement to correct old negative beliefs is very essential to spiritual growth. This lets you and everyone else know that you are strong in your belief.
A really powerful time to do your affirmative statements is after a clearing and shielding exercise or at the end of a chakra meditation. Anytime you are doing meditation work and feel very empowered is an excellent time to affirm statements. Once you're free from fear and feel secure, start your affirmations.
Declare these new affirmative statements from the solar plexus. State them out loud in a strong voice. Say them so you believe it. Sometimes you have to keep saying them, repeatedly, until you believe it. But once you believe, so will everyone else.
I can't tell you how many times I've simply not allowed myself to have what I've asked for. Usually because of an old belief or limitation that has crept back into my being. The only way to consistently be rid of old fears is to be rid of old fears. When they come back in, simply thank them for voicing their concerns and then tell them to leave. I would often have to remind myself that I didn't think that way anymore. Keep at it until you have become the new statement.
Here are some affirmations to get you started.
I walk in the divine light of the universe and am guided and protected everyday in every way. I am now surrounded and protected by the divine beings of love and light.
I am in constant contact with my own divine spirit.
I am a loving psychic medium and I receive messages from the other side easily.
I am able to receive messages from my guides and angels. This is my divine right and I accept it and honor it NOW.
I am now a receiver similar to a TV or radio and I am now able to psychically tune right in and communicate with the other side.
The interesting thing about affirmations is that you won't say them for yourself, who will? you find a negative belief that's stopping you from saying your affirmations, then make a positive statement to release this negative belief, then continue with your affirmations.
FEAR: I'm afraid that I don't have any control over my empathic abilities and I am just going to go through le processing everyone else's feelings.
Affirmation: I AM a talented and empathetic medium, I NOW have complete control over this ability and I quickly know which feelings are mine and which are other peoples.
Once you've done this to change your current thoughts and feelings you can easily move on to change external things in your le too.
FEAR: My current set of friends will think that my interest, desire and ability to communicate with the dead is all hocus pocus. They think I'm a little whacked already.
Affirmation: I AM surrounded NOW by people who love and support me in all my endeavors. I bring out the highest and best in my current friendships and attract the highest and best in my new friendships that are forming NOW.
you feel blocked, remember that finding the fear is simple. Looking is the hard part. Most people can't find it because they don't look. A good place to look is under the anger rock. In my early twenties I had a guy ask me about my resentments and I went off at him for about twenty minutes how I wasn't resentful. I eventually got it (that poor man). But under all the resentfulness and anger was just good old fashioned fear. I didn't want to see my resentments, my anger, or my fear. It would destroy the perfect image of how I saw myself. I soon got the chance to destroy even more perfect pictures of how I saw myself. Sometimes I get the chance to destroy more perfect images than I would care to admit.
Here are two really good techniques that I use. The first is: anytime I catch myself getting angry or going off about someone or something, I ask myself how this actually affects me or threatens me. I look for the fear under the rock of anger that I am throwing around. Then I sit down and talk and release this anger verbally.
The second technique is to write it out. Get into a relaxed state and with a pad of paper and pen, write out the following without really thinking too much about it. ‘I am afraid of…' Then finish writing the statement. Once the brain kicks in, the pen usually stops. So try not to think in an analyt ical way. R eally simple: stop the brain, move the pen.
Staying in a meditative state, now, think about mediumship and being a medium. Now finish some of these sentences: Being a medium and talking to spirits is wrong because… People view mediums as… People will think that I am a… Can you ask a few of your own?
you have any negative statements then reverse them into a positive affirmative statements. Work with your affirmative statements throughout the day. Working to release the old thoughts by replacing them with new constructive self-accepting thoughts.
Once you have done that, the next step is to go back to that meditative state of mind, and think about mediumship, and write out and finish this statement: I want to be a better medium because…
This will help focus your whole intent on why it's important to you. It can be a totally selfish reason; it can also be completely selfless. Each is OK. Just remember the reason may change over time.
I bring this up because of all the negative critics out there about mediumship and psychic phenomenon. Most of the harshest critics were actually very psychically attuned when they were little. Th eir parents told them they were being foolish and stupid. Now they're going through le trying to prove their parents right by making everyone else foolish and stupid. Or worse turning everyone who wants a deeper connection with their spirituality or intuition into charlatans or con men, demonizing the human spirit and the quest for contact.
I can get you to look deeply and honestly at your own intention, then outside critics will have less of an effect or influence on your confidence and abilities. External critics can only plant seeds of self-doubt, w e decide whether those seeds get watered or die.
We often get caught up in the external critics and forget to see the internal (self) critic that's actually doing the real damage. When you know and focus on your own intention and purpose, then the internal crit ic gets disregarded and dies. Your intention and purpose get nurtured.
People always ask isn't being skeptical and critical a good thing? I think that's a question you need to ask your own self and come to your own conclusions. Just make sure you understand the dference between critical/skeptical thinking and intelligence. Your cri ticism shouldn't be a di sguise for malice, prejudice, or moral religious self-persecution.
I used to start all my readings with a formal prayer when I worked at a bookshop. Energetically that shop was so convoluted the prayer needed to be formal and stated often. Here is the basic clearing prayer I used.
" God, Goddess, All That IS, please come in and clear out any and all negativity from this space. I invite in all the beings of love and light that wish to join us so we may learn and teach together, for the highest good, and so it is. "
Some invite in the Divine Consciousness of Horus or Jesus, Buddha, Hecate, Diana, or Isis and so on. I don 't think it matters which deity you worship as long as your prayer is for love, peace and protection. Having a fondness for Tao Buddhism, Kabala and Wiccan practices I just prayed to the all that IS. The clearing prayer set a tone and cre ated a focus, tapping into a power that is greater than the sum of me. When praying and working with a deity you're asking that consciousness to come in and create something for you. When you move the prayer into an affirmative you're creating that consciousness for yourself.
Now when I start a reading it's more of an affirmative statement and usually said in my head, not out loud. I also visualize and feel what I'm creating.
"I surround myself with the white light that is throughout the universe and I am NOW protected and shielded. I clear this space with my divine love and light. I invite in all the beings of love and light, the master guides, and angels that wish to join us. I invite in all the ancestors and loved ones who have crossed that have a message for us from the other side, for the highest good, and so it is."
I was raised to believe that the above statement is heresy. Using my own internal God creative powers, accepting that the divine is me and I control it is punishable by eternal damnation in the lake of fire, according to some.
Surprisingly I'm OK with that. Luckily I'm gay and the lake of fire is already my fate. The great thing about being condemned to the lake of fire, once I got past it, I was freed to believe, think and create however I wished. Being eternally Damned turned out to be rather a good thing. I have yet to have any spirit from the other side tell me I was damned to hell or that there was one. So it leaves me wondering what sort of spirits the conservatives are talking to?
OK, so now your working with affirmations and prayer on a daily basis. Great, now let's look at actions. Are you surrounding yourself with loving and positive people? Are you listening to lots of talk radio or watching TV? Is the programming uplting? Or are you listening to people complaining and griping? they 're griping about le or other people t he solution is simple: turn it off.
I rarely listen to the news or talk radio. The main purpose of mainstream media is to get me riled up, emotionally charged so I will stay tuned. This creates an audience so their sponsors can sell cleaners and products that are toxic to the environment or to my body.
I have a friend who only listens to it in the background. Background is worse. In the background you're not really evaluating it and it goes right into the subconscious. I had to stop engaging her in any meaningful conversations. It was like talking to the radio shock jock directly. It would take thirty minutes of heated emotional discussion to find out why she thought what she thought. Then at the end, she changed her answer. I no longer engage her; it's too much work.
I watch people do this a lot; they listen to toxic media programming and mindless chatter and then wonder why their personal interactions are either toxic or mindless. Hanging out in places that encourage excessive smoking and drinking isn't good during spiritual development times either. The consciousness with which you surround yourself, is the consciousness that surrounds you.
Make sure your actions are supportive of your affirmations and prayer goals. you're currently attending prayer meetings and sermons that teach spiritual communication is the work of the ‘ Devil, ' then the type of spirits you're going to attract are going to be an affirmation of that belief. Your actions and physical support of an oppressive institution will over run your inner goals. The solution to this is simple, find an institution that is loving and supportive of your spiritual needs and goals.
Telling and listening to jokes that are negative about your spiritual belief or the spirit world are counter-productive. There's a price for everything and the price for a good relationship with your angels and guides is respect. They're with you always, no matter what you say. It's OK. They can take it. You can't hurt them, but you can greatly damage your connection to them. you don't have respect and trust, you will not be able to keep your side of the connection open.
all your actions are respectful to your spiritual beliefs then all your actions are respectful to your spiritual connection. you discover that they haven't been, no need for guilt, shame or deep emotional apologies. Simply make amends to your own spirit and move forward. Moving towards deeper spiritual communication will mean more to your guides and angels than a thousand apologizes.