Enjoying Creating Affirmations

Feeling good about what I want, from the New Age philosophy of "Creative Visualization" by Shakti Gawain and "Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting" by Lynn Grabhorn. Also from the Buddha's teaching on skillful karma (intentional thought, speech or bodily action giving pleasant results). New Age affirmations risk flirting with false speech, as one pretends that the reality one wants to create is already happening, but Shakti addresses this point saying the affirmation is already real on a mental level. I hope you enjoy my blog :) Previously active mid-2022. Click on "MORE POSTS" at the bottom of the page.

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...