To get the most from today's Angel Affirmation, please read the two earlier posts - New and New 2.
Sachiel, Angel of Thursday - Rules over wealth and charity
Sachiel uplifts us by providing wealth, dignity and tranquillity of the mind.
Thursday is a good day to do affluent things or pursue plans involving wealth building or charity. The tool is a helping hand. By lending a helping hand we open the way for the help we require. As we uplift others, so are we uplifted.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Angel Affirmations - Raphael
To get the most from this angel affirmation, please read two earlier posts, New and New 2.
Raphael Angel of Wednesday
Raphael brings understanding and knowledge. Today is the day of healing, of intuition, of knowledge and the day of awakening the intellect.
Today is an excellent day for meetings, to discover things and to awaken our intuition and understanding. All that we need to know is revealed today. Our intentions today involve wisdom, knowledge, psychic power, healing, communication, creativity and intuition.
Raphael Angel of Wednesday
Raphael brings understanding and knowledge. Today is the day of healing, of intuition, of knowledge and the day of awakening the intellect.
Today is an excellent day for meetings, to discover things and to awaken our intuition and understanding. All that we need to know is revealed today. Our intentions today involve wisdom, knowledge, psychic power, healing, communication, creativity and intuition.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Angel Affirmation - Samael
To fully appreciate this angel affirmation, please read the two earlier posts - New and New 2.
Samael Angel of Tuesday
Today we think about the empowerment of Life; about healing all the afflictions of spirit, mind, heart and body. Today Samael brings peace of mind and release of the ego. Today Samael focuses our intentions on romance, passion, law and courage.
Samael Angel of Tuesday
Today we think about the empowerment of Life; about healing all the afflictions of spirit, mind, heart and body. Today Samael brings peace of mind and release of the ego. Today Samael focuses our intentions on romance, passion, law and courage.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Angel Affirmation - Gabriel
To more fully appreciate the following Angel Affirmation, please read two earlier posts - New and New 2.
Gabriel Angel of Monday, Angel of the Moon
Today our thoughts dwell on our dreams, balance and beauty, protection and intuition. Today Gabriel develops our feminine forces and psychic abilities and we let them guide us; allowing our bad habits, fallen graces and lost loves to die, while opening all doors for us.
Gabriel Angel of Monday, Angel of the Moon
Today our thoughts dwell on our dreams, balance and beauty, protection and intuition. Today Gabriel develops our feminine forces and psychic abilities and we let them guide us; allowing our bad habits, fallen graces and lost loves to die, while opening all doors for us.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Angel Affirmation - Michael
To better appreciate the following Angel Affirmation, please read the previous posts - New and New 2.
Michael Angel of Sunday
Today is a day of thanksgiving. We are thankful for our reality as Spirit and our freedom from all that binds us to the past. Today we think about new beginnings, fresh starts and clean slates. Today we allow creativity and illumination to lift all adversity from us. Today everything that keeps us from health, happiness and affluence is released.
Michael Angel of Sunday
Today is a day of thanksgiving. We are thankful for our reality as Spirit and our freedom from all that binds us to the past. Today we think about new beginnings, fresh starts and clean slates. Today we allow creativity and illumination to lift all adversity from us. Today everything that keeps us from health, happiness and affluence is released.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
New 2
What happens when we feel these unexpected, ‘out of the blue’, non-rational, positive effects? Are we grateful and appreciative? No, we wonder about them; think they’re a mistake, an aberration that won’t last. The ‘won’t last’ part is true, but the ‘mistake’ part isn’t. The more we learn to get our bloated nothingness out of the way, are grateful and appreciative, the more unexpected positive effects we’ll get. What you dwell on – what you focus your energy on, is what you get – be grateful and you get things to be grateful for. When things happen that you’re not grateful for, it’s OK to be upset, disappointed and annoyed, but get over it and try to be grateful anyhow, then make lemonade from those seeming lemons. If we let the universe be for us, it will be for us.
Another thing that happens when we feel unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects besides wondering, is we get curious about them and want explanations. We’re uncomfortable with ambiguity and mystery, want to know. That’s why we name things. The name doesn’t really explain a whole lot, but it gives our rational, worry- prone consciousness something to hang on to, something it can know. For example, ‘gravity’ – a single word for a huge concept; does the word itself mean anything? No, we learned what it means. Same for ‘evolution’; look at all the baggage that word has. Words are but symbols of symbols, twice removed from experience.
Traditionally, words like, ‘God’ and ‘angels’ have been used to name and explain the unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects we’ve been talking about. Like the word ‘evolution’, the words ‘God’ and ‘angels’ can work for us or against us, it’s our choice – our choice. We can let tradition, culture, religion, family or the dictionary define these words for us – even the dictionary has many definitions for each word, or we can take responsibility for the meanings we assign to them. We can be comfortable with the ambiguity and mystery, and the fact that everyone will not agree with us and that we might be ‘wrong’ – who’s to say - and take responsibility for the words we use and our own experience and its effect on our lives, families and communities.
After all, we’ve got to call these unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects something, right, ‘God’ and ‘angels’ seems just as good as anything. Perhaps even better, because free of their baggage and negative connotations and denotations, these words bring continuity and a deep connection with the best of many religious and spiritual traditions.
So, instead of having the positive effects we want happening unexpectedly, ‘out of the blue,’ I’m going to offer a name to reduce the ambiguity and mystery and offer a semblance of control to enable us to consciously invite the positive effects into our lives. For the next seven days, I’ll be posting an angel affirmation for every day of the week. The idea of these is to consciously invite the positive effects associated with each ‘angel,’ to focus and dwell with that angel for four or five minutes. Do this first thing in the morning, more often if you like, and the positive effects will be with you all day long. Taken as a whole, all together, the seven angels represent the highest and best we would want in our lives.
Another thing that happens when we feel unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects besides wondering, is we get curious about them and want explanations. We’re uncomfortable with ambiguity and mystery, want to know. That’s why we name things. The name doesn’t really explain a whole lot, but it gives our rational, worry- prone consciousness something to hang on to, something it can know. For example, ‘gravity’ – a single word for a huge concept; does the word itself mean anything? No, we learned what it means. Same for ‘evolution’; look at all the baggage that word has. Words are but symbols of symbols, twice removed from experience.
Traditionally, words like, ‘God’ and ‘angels’ have been used to name and explain the unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects we’ve been talking about. Like the word ‘evolution’, the words ‘God’ and ‘angels’ can work for us or against us, it’s our choice – our choice. We can let tradition, culture, religion, family or the dictionary define these words for us – even the dictionary has many definitions for each word, or we can take responsibility for the meanings we assign to them. We can be comfortable with the ambiguity and mystery, and the fact that everyone will not agree with us and that we might be ‘wrong’ – who’s to say - and take responsibility for the words we use and our own experience and its effect on our lives, families and communities.
After all, we’ve got to call these unexpected, non-rational, ‘out of the blue’, positive effects something, right, ‘God’ and ‘angels’ seems just as good as anything. Perhaps even better, because free of their baggage and negative connotations and denotations, these words bring continuity and a deep connection with the best of many religious and spiritual traditions.
So, instead of having the positive effects we want happening unexpectedly, ‘out of the blue,’ I’m going to offer a name to reduce the ambiguity and mystery and offer a semblance of control to enable us to consciously invite the positive effects into our lives. For the next seven days, I’ll be posting an angel affirmation for every day of the week. The idea of these is to consciously invite the positive effects associated with each ‘angel,’ to focus and dwell with that angel for four or five minutes. Do this first thing in the morning, more often if you like, and the positive effects will be with you all day long. Taken as a whole, all together, the seven angels represent the highest and best we would want in our lives.
Friday, January 1, 2010
New
Have you ever felt, right in the middle of everything going wrong or all hell breaking loose, that you were OK in spite of it all? Felt deep down, that though you didn’t know how, it would all work out, that you’d get through it somehow?
Or, you’re going about your business, working hard, staying out of trouble and suddenly you feel light and free and expansive, like anything was possible for you and you really didn’t have to work so hard?
Or, you’re stuck in traffic, worrying, mind racing, frustrated, angry, blaming, and for an instant, it all doesn’t mean what you thought it meant, you can see it differently and know you have a choice about how to think and feel about it, all of it?
What would you call moments like these? Gifts, opportunities, blessings, mistakes, delusions, grace? Why do such experiences renew and refresh us, give us hope? Is it that they reveal the vast, unbounded, ‘anything is possible even for me’ potential in life and living, that life and living are more than we think they are? Is it that, for a moment, we shake off the blinders, narrow thinking and that all pervasive fear and cynicism and realize there’s really nothing holding us back but our own habits, thinking and feelings? That life itself is neutral, not for us or against us, just neutral, and that we can have it be for us more of the time?
What do you think ‘God’ is? Is It an old, white guy with a beard on a throne in the sky, frowning down on us? Is It an idol or an icon; supernatural or natural? Is It contained in a church, synagogue, temple or mosque? Is It more abundant and available in ‘sacred’ places? Is It exclusive – only for true believers, or inclusive – for everyone, true believers and non-believers alike? What does It require of us – ceremony, rituals, worship?
What, if anything, do these experiences of feeling good in the midst of everything going wrong; of feeling suddenly light and expansive in the midst of working hard; and of suddenly feeling peaceful in the midst of traffic, have to do with ‘God’? What, if anything, are ‘holy instants’ like these trying to tell us?
To me, they’re saying, not only is life itself neutral towards us, but it’s actually for us. That if I take responsibility for what AA calls my “stinkin’ thinkin,” get my fear, negative attitudes, and limiting beliefs out of the way, I’ll find unbounded opportunities, new choices and greater freedom there for me, that its always been there for me, just as the sun is always there even when its hidden behind a cloud. It’s what Ralph Waldo Emerson described as, “getting your bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits.”
All of this is not mystical or religious; it’s provable. Haven’t you already felt it, had the experiences? It’s not supernatural; you don’t need any ‘sacred’ spaces or places, people or rituals, myths or legends. You just need to connect with the sacred already there within you, yearning to be free and to express Itself. Do as Emerson suggests, get your bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits. Allow yourself to have more of those strange and wonderful experiences; feel it, prove it to yourself, allow it to be real in your life. It’s not a mistake, not a delusion but an opportunity, grace, a blessing.
Or, you’re going about your business, working hard, staying out of trouble and suddenly you feel light and free and expansive, like anything was possible for you and you really didn’t have to work so hard?
Or, you’re stuck in traffic, worrying, mind racing, frustrated, angry, blaming, and for an instant, it all doesn’t mean what you thought it meant, you can see it differently and know you have a choice about how to think and feel about it, all of it?
What would you call moments like these? Gifts, opportunities, blessings, mistakes, delusions, grace? Why do such experiences renew and refresh us, give us hope? Is it that they reveal the vast, unbounded, ‘anything is possible even for me’ potential in life and living, that life and living are more than we think they are? Is it that, for a moment, we shake off the blinders, narrow thinking and that all pervasive fear and cynicism and realize there’s really nothing holding us back but our own habits, thinking and feelings? That life itself is neutral, not for us or against us, just neutral, and that we can have it be for us more of the time?
What do you think ‘God’ is? Is It an old, white guy with a beard on a throne in the sky, frowning down on us? Is It an idol or an icon; supernatural or natural? Is It contained in a church, synagogue, temple or mosque? Is It more abundant and available in ‘sacred’ places? Is It exclusive – only for true believers, or inclusive – for everyone, true believers and non-believers alike? What does It require of us – ceremony, rituals, worship?
What, if anything, do these experiences of feeling good in the midst of everything going wrong; of feeling suddenly light and expansive in the midst of working hard; and of suddenly feeling peaceful in the midst of traffic, have to do with ‘God’? What, if anything, are ‘holy instants’ like these trying to tell us?
To me, they’re saying, not only is life itself neutral towards us, but it’s actually for us. That if I take responsibility for what AA calls my “stinkin’ thinkin,” get my fear, negative attitudes, and limiting beliefs out of the way, I’ll find unbounded opportunities, new choices and greater freedom there for me, that its always been there for me, just as the sun is always there even when its hidden behind a cloud. It’s what Ralph Waldo Emerson described as, “getting your bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits.”
All of this is not mystical or religious; it’s provable. Haven’t you already felt it, had the experiences? It’s not supernatural; you don’t need any ‘sacred’ spaces or places, people or rituals, myths or legends. You just need to connect with the sacred already there within you, yearning to be free and to express Itself. Do as Emerson suggests, get your bloated nothingness out of the way of the divine circuits. Allow yourself to have more of those strange and wonderful experiences; feel it, prove it to yourself, allow it to be real in your life. It’s not a mistake, not a delusion but an opportunity, grace, a blessing.
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