Enjoying Creating Affirmations

          I have two fast Windows 10 desktop computers with solid state drives and 16GB RAM.           I have all my precious data backed up.           I have strong 1TB and 500GB external hard drives.           I have Nero Wave Editor.           I have Microsoft Lifechat LX-3000 headphones with microphone.           I have a working camera for Zoom.           I have a solidly stable Oppo smartphone.           I have a fast solid value-for-money Internet plan.           I know how to tidy my computer desk.           I am abundantly grateful to Dad for Internet connection and installing LG monitor.           I am abundantly grateful to Mum for giving me her private office.

     When I directly witness this scenery I don't need the petabytes per second of data required for high resolution color holographic video.      I will be a connoisseur of my friends' physical presence when I meet them face-to-face next week.       My visual life is coming to me live and uninterrupted.       Every day is a holiday.

     I enjoy witnessing this human body.      I have cash to spend on improving how I present myself.      I celebrate embodying the human state.      I enjoy bathing this body.      I successfully use massage to heal past bodily life events.      I am grateful for help with diagnostic tests to monitor this organism.      I am attaining whole-body awareness all over the place in this body.      This body is one organism with arms and legs an afterthought.      I follow Lord Buddha's example by at the very beginning of every day walking meditation slightly slower than normal pace.       I walk strongly in colossus mode.      I stand like a tree (tai chi).      I have powerful ch'i.      I'm too big, too strong, too fast, and that's the end of it!

I read the archives (36 posts April-July 2022). Affirmations that I'd completely forgotten about have come true: Wearing my "expensive" watch (it cost me US$9!) Shaking hands with my brother and sitting at the front of the bus/"luxury limousine" (visualizing the end of the pandemic) Bathing under my perfectly adjusted temperature shower (new hot water system, cold showers) My new pillow Enjoying grocery shopping with Dad (I used to be grumpy) Getting my eye glasses fixed Fast computer Writing "thank you very much indeed!" (in Mum's birthday card) Daily recollection of merits (computer journal) Continuing to live at home with my parents Inhaling happiness (instead of Tibetan tonglen breathing in suffering!) "I'm enjoying tidying my desk. I'm enjoying looking at my spotless desk" Millions of dollars of real estate beside the path to the supermarket (booming market) Dana (giving) reducing my fear of death (and fear of not controllin...

     I'm moderator of a Facebook group called Gratitude Train . I've started using it as a way of expressing gratitude to loved ones from my childhood as well as other people in my daily life who I otherwise don't have the opportunity to thank face-to-face because they're extremely busy.      I believe that being grateful for things and people in this life supports the likelihood of meeting with them again in future lives. Sometimes as I walk to the supermarket I imagine I've stepped out of a time machine and it's already the year 5000 AD. I don't have to wonder what it might be like to be reborn after death, because after all here I am!

"You’re not here just stuck in a bad situation where there’s nothing you can do about it. Even though there may be limitations on what you can do, you always have the opportunity to do the skillful thing, say the skillful thing, think something skillful. And that will be your food down the line. Even though the refreshment and the nourishment and the rapture may not be coming immediately, the simple fact that you’re convinced that there will be something good coming down the line gives you energy right there. Because the mind is not like the body. The body can’t feed off of anticipation but the mind can . And that’s what gives it the strength to keep going. So conviction is an important way of nourishing the mind." ~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Feeding Off the Future"