100 Words of Wisdom for Women: Journaling Toward

Healing, Wisdom & Empowerment

by LB Lacey, MA.

www.SOULutionsForDynamicLiving.com

Where is Wisdom?

Did anyone ever tell you that everything you need to be wise, powerful and gorgeous is
already within you? Well, it is. No one here gave it to you. No one here may take it. The
truth of your unique wisdom and power lies inside you. The Creator placed authentic
wisdom within you before the very foundation of this world was set in place. Some of us
are intuitively aware of our inherent source of wisdom. Others of us need revelation.
Despite our varying levels of awareness, limitless power and wisdom are ours. Wisdom
and power are inexhaustible. Life itself has called each woman to acclimate herself to
wisdom, access it and use it. As you seek wisdom you will surely find it within yourself
where it has always been.

Wake up. Escape memories of the past. Stop wasting today daydreaming about
tomorrow. True wisdom is active in the moment. To fully integrate power and wisdom,
we as women must become fully aware of who we are--right here and right now. We must
emerge from the past. Yesterday is not real. Tomorrow never comes. Now is all there is.
As women we have individual and collective rights and responsibilities to be all that we
might be. We may need to heal some old wounds. Our bodies may need some attention.
Our minds may need soothing and our spirits may require some ministering to. 100
Words of Wisdom for Women, was born out of the desire to enhance our awareness of
sisterhood, healing, power and wisdom.

How Does Journaling Help?

The use of visualization, body-centered awareness, journaling, expressive arts and

sensory imaging has helped many people to access traumatic experiences, release painful
emotions and reverse the ill effects of stress, disease and other damaging maladies. I want
to reveal enough of what I know to you about therapeutic journaling and how the Body,
Mind & Spirit connection works, to empower you to change your life. The purpose of
this section of 100 Words of Wisdom is to help you understand how journaling can spark
the power of healing, wisdom and transformation in your life. I recently heard Oprah
Winfrey remark on her show that many women say, "Diets just don't work for me." She
smiled as she reminded us all that the reason a particular diet does not work is because
we stop dieting. It's the same with therapeutic journaling. If you stay with the process, it
will work for you.

Therapeutic journaling upsets your inner status quo and begins to shift your internal
paradigms. It changes old patterns of thought. The old and false way of thinking states
that you arrive in this world and the world imposes itself upon you. Old modes of thought
claim that you are powerless. It says that you cannot change the external world. They
state that you are no more than a slave to external forces, individuals, situations and
happenstance. Your powerlessness is an illusion. Learned helplessness is responsible for
the loss of a vast amount of human potential. Vow now to put off any self-limiting beliefs.
You create your reality as a co-creator with and through God. "They" do not want you to
know this. A woman who is ignorant of her own power and freedom to change her life is
not blissful. She is pitiful. In this benighted state a woman cannot even begin to conceive
of the fact that she has the power not only to change herself, but the world.

Journaling in a mindful way empowers you. The world would rather you not know who
you really are because an ignorant, unaware and complacent woman is easier to control.
There may be many people, forces and influences that have tried or are currently trying to
undermine you. People may bombard you with attempts to "fix" you ostensibly for your
own good. You may feel powerless to defend your sense of self. God, however, made
YOU. No one here can “fix” you because no one here created you. The power, by God, is
yours.

You have been divinely equipped with the ability to be everything that you were
intended to become. It is within you. The impression or notion that you do not have
control of your life may be a major source of feelings of helplessness, confusion and
conflict in your life. You may not be able to put your finger on it, but this feeling of being
powerless and out of control may be at the core of your medical, mental and emotional
struggles. Powerlessness, however, is but a feeling. It's a perception. Perceptions are
subject to change. Remember; as you think so shall you be.

Healing is in your hands--literally. You possess intuitive wisdom and power, but you
may feel cut off from the source of your wisdom and power. This may be due to past or
current physical, mental or spiritual trauma. Psychologist, James W. Pennebaker, a
leading authority on the effectiveness of expressive therapies, proved that when people
used therapeutic journaling to express their feelings regarding trauma, painful memories
and illness, their heart rates slowed, their immune systems were strengthened and
remarkably many people reported that they felt better. Individuals who journal experience
marked improvements physically and emotionally. This is good news for countless
women interested in using journaling as a means of healing and self-empowerment.
Again, power is in your hands. Use it. You will feel better. (Pennybaker 249)

Journaling in Action

When I began seeing clients at an agency that helped women in crisis, many of my
clients were suffering from a fractured sense of self. This fractured sense of self, lies at
the core of many symptoms that rear their ugly heads in a woman's life. Often women
enter therapy with gross feelings of inadequacy, self-loathing, disempowerment and
confusion. The feelings that cause a woman to decide to finally do something to help
herself often range from the very subtle to the extremely intense. Whatever the case, it is
always a good thing when a woman decides to take ownership of her own state of being.
Is this a choice that you have made? Perhaps you find yourself at an impasse. You are not
alone. Just the fact that you are reading this book reveals how powerful you really are.
Some women are not yet in a place where they can even take that first step toward
wisdom. It all starts with a decision. You have made your choice. You are stepping into
your greatness. When you begin journaling the power of transformation will dynamically
be unleashed in your life. And that's a fact!

Years ago I worked in a resource center for domestic violence survivors. Many of the
women would sit and go on and on about how an ex-husband or boyfriend had abused
them or cheated on them with a best friend or relative. They would cry and curse from
grimaced faces. Some would meticulously go through each and every detail of who said
this, who said that and who did the other. This kind of repetitious negative expression
was seldom very cathartic for them. They could not really hear or see their own process
while trapped behind a wall made of their own words. They did not yet realize that saying
things like, "I hate myself for...I want to kill him...She's a whore...I want to just die, etc."
was just making everything worse. They did not understand that simply repeating the
details of their life's drama was merely the superficial layer of a much deeper process. It
was my job to show them how to use the power of words and expression for healing.
Journaling is a secret weapon for healing that I was very eager to share with them. It has
worked in my own life and I have seen it work in the lives of others. It will work for you
too.

Without mindfulness many of the women I saw were often actually speaking life and
energy into all that they stated they wanted to escape. What you express and speak to you
give life to. You see, while it is helpful to express yourself when you experience loss or
trauma, how you do it is just as important as doing it at all. When I was able to persuade
them to use therapeutic methods to connect with how they felt about situations in their
lives, their personal breakthroughs began. As these women started to express their
negative feelings in a positive way, positive changes began to take place. The despair
faded from their eyes. They appeared to come to life. As soon as a woman begins to write
about her experiences and validate her emotions by mindfully giving them expression, a
light from deep within her begins to glow more brightly.

One of my most vivid memories is of one my very first clients. She was in her mid
thirties. She was an attractive young woman with a very painful look in her eyes. She
tried to cover it at first with forced smiles. You could still see her pain quite clearly
though. Her husband had cheated on her and gotten her best friend pregnant. She had
three children with him, a high school education and a very low paying job. He and his
new girlfriend had begun threatening her and she had to get a restraining order on him.
When she came to me she was so rattled and frazzled that she could barely express a
complete thought. I began with expressive art exercises for her in order to help her get in
touch with her innermost feelings. After a couple of weeks we moved into therapeutic
journaling.

One day I asked her if she was willing to share some of her experiences with the
journaling process. She smiled and said that she would. As she went through her writing
she had a sudden epiphany. She began reading a line over and over. It had nothing to do
with her husband or her friend. "I feel like I don't even love myself," she read, "I don't
love myself...I don't love myself...I don't love myself...” Suddenly this woman began to
cry like a baby. It was a bittersweet mixture of pain and the relief of sudden revelation.
She got it. She had touched upon the core of her own truth as a woman. Everything else
in her life was merely a symptom of her lack of self-love. After she cleansed her
emotional palette with a good cry, we continued with our work. Over the course of the
following few weeks this woman blossomed like a flower before my very eyes. She went
back to school. She organized hers and her children's lives. Counseling for her children
was arranged. She got legal help for the situation with her husband and decided to
divorce him. This woman had tapped into her own internal wisdom. She no longer looked
for me or anyone else to tell her what to do. She got it. Her process was a blessing to
behold.

How Journaling Will Help You

What is key here is that you re-frame and express personal past experiences in order to
process any internal pain, loss, confusion, anger etc. If unfortunate things happened to
you in the past, they do not have to be allowed to hurt you now and into the future. After
all, many things were likely not within your power to change in the past. They are,
however, subject to your power today. You create your life. You have the power to choose
to sit idly by and be an inactive participant in the unfolding of your reality. Even if you
decide to do nothing, you are still creating your life. Remember, sadly, many of life's
most important choices are made by people simply failing to choose at all. Take hold of
your personal power! Wise women choose to choose because wisdom tells them that
those who fail to choose choose to fail.

By allowing you space and time to contemplate your own experiences and express
them, a dynamic process of transformation will be activated. You will be reconciled to the
internal feminine power, essential beauty, boundless joy and sagacious wisdom that are
every woman's birthright. To do this we, as women, must go within. We must go into the
inner workings of our bodies, minds and souls. During this process you are encouraged to
go deep within and dig out all your "stuff." Address it, inspect it, respect it, express it and
learn from it. Then you must resolve to leave all that "stuff" in the past. You cannot move
forward while fixating on what is behind you. Failure to let go of the past is one of the
main causes of pain for most women who are suffering today. Again, learn from and
leave your past in the past. This is the way to reconnect with your own inner storehouse
of healing, power and wisdom.

Journaling is used in holistic based therapies to encourage body, mind, spirit integration
or re-connection. Therapeutic journaling enables you to go inside and take feelings,
thoughts and perspectives from mindlessness to mindfulness. To be mindful means that
you have been awakened to a heightened state of awareness and attentiveness. This
awareness brings you from the foolishness of girlhood illusions into the wisdom of a self-
actualized woman. As you go through the exercises in this book, you will begin to
discover who you really are from a deeper and more meaningful perspective. Holistic
(simply meaning "whole") perspective reveals to us that we are a complete. We are
composed of unified parts that form the whole, which is greater than the sum of all the
parts. That may sound a little bit confusing at first if this is your first time considering
your identity from a complete perspective. I t will become clearer and clearer to you as
we move forward. Please just be mindful of this: You are Body, but you are more than
that. You are Mind and more than that. You are Spirit and yet more than that as well.
What is the “more” aspect of who you are? It is who you are as Body, Mind and Spirit;
three separate, whole parts combined in one dynamic consciousness.

The Body/Mind /Spirit Connection

You are Body

You are Body. You likely have a basic awareness of your body as head, belly, arms,
legs, etc. Let's however, move into a deeper awareness wherein true growth may be
facilitated. We tend to think of “body” as the corporal self, the physical form. Our
physical body is a living, cellular map of everything that has happened to us since birth.
Good and bad experiences are stored in and affect the body constantly. The
hypothalamus, for instance, is a major "body control center" as it regulates bodily
functions. When a woman has unresolved emotions and fears trapped inside the body, this
triggers the hypothalamus to respond in ways that it "thinks" will regulate the body.
Surprise, love, heartbreak and fear are only a small list of emotions that have impacted
who we are and how we are today. If one leads a stressful life, physical manifestations
may be seen as headaches, insomnia, ulcers, general fatigue, cancer, etc. It is of
paramount importance to balance all the different aspects of life so that dis-ease or
ultimately disease is not created in the body.

By journaling your emotions, thoughts and experiences, you bring them out of your
internal landscape where left un-expressed they can become stuck, fixed and begin show
up as actual illnesses in the body. Think of your body as a canvas and yourself as the
artist. You are creating a lovely work of art. This work of art is not created by what
happens to you but by how you choose to perceive, process and respond to what happens
to you. By choosing to use holistic and expressive techniques such as journaling, you
grab the brush, so to speak. You take control as the artist and author of your own life. You
create your own body from moment to moment.

You are Mind

You are Mind. The brain is usually the focal point when we mention the mind. The
mind, however, is more magnificent than we imagine. It is not limited solely to the brain.
The mind permeates every cell of the body. The body is symbiotically connected to every
thought. Each thought builds the body. The mind has an uncanny ability to determine the
actions and reactions of the body. Psychoneuroimmunology is a complex word used to
explain the simple idea of mind over matter. The mind directly influences the body.
Thoughts of love, prayerfulness, hope, and positivism all effect who we are mentally and
physically. Conversely, thoughts of hate, fear, anger and negativity affect our resultant
selves. Amazing findings by Japanese researcher, Dr. Masaru Emoto, (Emoto, Masaru.
The Hidden Messages in Water) have provided dramatic proof that thoughts, words and
emotional vibrations directly affect physical reality. Dr. Emoto's study of the molecular
structure of water has shown that water exposed to various written words, spoken words,
and types music respond directly to the nature of the words, music or intention it is
exposed to. Every word you speak has an effect on you and others. Be mindful. (Emoto
160)

You are Spirit

You are Spirit. The spirit is the nucleus of our essential self. Spirit is the part of the
"trilogy of self" that manifests the eternal uniqueness of an individual. Your spirit is the
aspect of yourself that transforms knowledge into wisdom. Your spirit animates the body.
Your spirit activates the mind on its path of thought. The mind asks, "What is the
meaning of my life?" The spirit answers. Your spirit is the part of yourself that no one can
touch without your consent. In one of the most poignant and life changing books I have
ever read, Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, he offers poignant insight into the
indelible nature of the spirit. In essence, he said that during his imprisonment in the Nazi
death camps, he realized an ultimate truth. He came to know with certainty that while the
Nazis could starve and torture his body, while they could humiliate him and cause him
severe mental agony, they could not touch his essential self unless he allowed them to.
This is powerful.

Years ago I journaled my experience around reading that book and a deep awareness of
my own identity began to emerge. I began to become more aware of who I was created
and sent here to be. Through Frankl's book, I came to see my own incorruptible,
indestructible human nature. I experienced a level of revelation that has stayed with me
ever since. Remember, the body may be victimized. The mind too may be vulnerable.
Your spirit, however, belongs to you. Not even God will act upon your spirit without your
consent. You define your own essential state of being. You create your life. (Frankl et al,
1959)

You Are Whole

Body. Mind. Spirit. Put them all together and you have YOU. If you find yourself in a
state of imbalance or disempowerment it simply means that it is time to do what our
Sister-Teacher, Iyanla VanZant calls "housecleaning". In her book, In the Meantime,
Iyanla wisely instructs women to "clean out their heads." Through this cleaning-out
process, a woman prepares herself for true growth and for love. (VanZant et al, 1999) At
the core of any therapeutic journaling process is the intention to reconnect with self. Pain,
grief and trauma cause many women to disconnect or even disassociate from themselves.
Journaling can start a reversal of this disconnection. Through journaling a woman can
begin to form authentic connections with the world around her, other people and
ultimately with her own spirituality. This gives meaning to a woman's life. The process of
this book is about finding yourself and giving her/yourself the power of expression.
 As a holistic counselor, I endeavor to share and teach women effective modes of
expression and communication that will allow us to live more fully in the world. Before I
began my training in holistic counseling, I really had not seen or understood how truly
powerful hands on, experiential modalities of healing worked. I have seen personally and
with clients how expressive arts and journaling can liberate a woman once trapped in the
confines of her own diminishment. When a woman really gets that she is the co-creator of
her own life...watch out. She cannot be stopped. No man can beat her body down. No
system of thought or external authority can oppress or subjugate her. No malevolent
influence can possess her soul. When a woman connects with her own essence she
becomes aware of her connection to the Creator, to others, to nature and to the universe.
Yes, that's when a woman starts to live full-force!

How to Journal

Therapeutic journaling is a proven method of expression that fosters healing and

catharsis for individuals who use it properly. I stress "properly" because all journaling is
not necessarily therapeutic in nature. For instance, journaling, which basically serves as
'diary keeping' consists of merely recording the events of one's life. For instance, "Dear
Diary: Today I got a letter from my boyfriend. In it he said that he wanted to take a break
from our relationship. I tore the letter up, called him crying and cussed him out. He hung
up on me. When I tried to call back my calls went straight to voice mail." That is an
example of just writing out the events and recounting the details. This does not
necessarily help a woman to process her experience or express her emotions in a way that
validates or alleviates her pain.

The following is an example of the same experience journaled in a therapeutic way: "I
feel sad, lonely and rejected today because my boyfriend just sent me a letter saying he
wanted to take a break from our relationship. Saying something like that in a letter felt
impersonal and disrespectful to me. I felt anger build up in my belly and grow larger and
larger until I decided to just call him. Before I knew what hit me, words of anger and
contempt for him just starting flowing from my mouth. It felt like a dam of pent up hurt
and pain had broken inside of me. I did not like or love myself or him. Then he just hung
up on me. It felt like a slap in the face. Every time I called back and just got his voice
mail it was like another slap after another. I feel so lost, alone, scared and very angry!
This does not feel right. This is not my idea of what love should feel like. I do not want
this feel this way anymore."

The second example of journaling is an example of connecting with one's emotions and
thoughts in a therapeutic way. It shows a woman connecting to her sense of self. This is
how emotions are processed instead of repressed. This sparks growth. When a woman
expresses her thoughts and feelings on paper where she can see them, the process of
awareness and healing begins. It jars her senses. It jolts her into getting real when the
thoughts and emotions flow from her head, down her arm and out through her fingertips
onto a once blank page. She sees herself. The evidence of her pain and suffering may be a
bit difficult for a woman to view at first but it empowers her to recognize that she is
empowered to change what she sees. All she must do is decide. This brings about clarity,
revelation and understanding. Journaling therapeutically brings you into a loving and
meaningful relationship with yourself.

My initial intrigue with the power of journaling began when my professor, Barbara
Ganim, explained to us that in one study individuals with arthritis experienced a decrease
in pain, stiffness and reduction in joint swelling after using therapeutic journaling. This
was amazing. The concept of joints actually shrinking in direct response to therapeutic
journaling had a very profound effect on me. I wanted to know all I could learn about
therapies that offered measurable results. I have come to respect journaling as one of the
most effective and easily accessible therapies that offers notable improvement in physical
and emotional states of being. Journaling allows a woman to take an active role in her
own process. She no longer sits as an inactive victim of her own circumstances. She no
longer sits waiting for a hero. She is her own "shero". The activity of self-expression
marks the beginning of self-actualization for many women. It wakes us up. It heals,
empowers and enriches us on all levels of being.

As you go through this journaling journey, powerful women whom we call "Power
Sources", will lovingly speak wisdom into your body--however broken, your mind--
however troubled and your soul--however weary. Each day you are invited to journal
your thoughts and insights as you contemplate the wisdom shared. You will also be
assigned a "Power Affirmation" everyday to repeat throughout the day. This affirmation is
provided to help propel you along your path of empowerment and revelation. You are
asked to merely repeat the affirmation throughout each day in order to activate positive
energy in your life. Remember, you create your life. Affirmations extremely powerful
tools for the creative process of life.

As you journal and journey through this book, you will experience the joyous and the
challenging. Some things may make you laugh. Others may bring you to tears. You may
experience many emotions as all of the aspects of your life come together to increase you
in wisdom, stature and power as a woman. The most painful experiences of your life oft
times bring with them the gift of great wisdom. So do not be afraid. The development of
yourself as a woman is your highest call. This call moves you out of your comfort zone.
It stretches and challenges you. Fear not. We are sisters in the process. We go through it
simultaneously. We follow the paths of those who have gone before us and we pave the
way for those who follow in our footsteps. The path may get a bit rocky and winding as
times, but stay with it. You are loved. You are supported. Again, just stay with the
process...especially when it seems most difficult. The difficulty holds your greatest lesson
and your greatest opportunity for growth and transcendence.

Read. Journal. Affirm.

We have presented you with some of the most powerful, creative, dynamic and wise
women of the world. They shall speak pure greatness into your body, mind and spirit. The
larger portion of the expression, however, must come from you. Each word you write,
think and affirm within the context of this exercise is an injection of physical, emotional
and spiritual "medicine" into the core of your being. Well being. Life. Power. Freedom.
Jubilation. The loving and meaningful power of all these words and more are yours.

You are encouraged to journal your thoughts on a regular basis. Affirmations will also be
provided to enhance your journaling process. When you journal express how each entry
makes you feel. What memories arise and how do they affect you? Express your thoughts
and feelings as you move through the process. The important thing is that you read,
journal your thoughts/feelings and repeat the affirmations everyday. Read. Journal.
Affirm. Your life will change!

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

Oprah Winfrey

Using the Power of Affirmations to Enhance Your Journaling Process

Basically affirmations are stating what you desire to be as if it already is...and it is

very powerful. What do you want? What would the perfect life look like for you? Can
you imagine it? If you can imagine it, you can create it. Affirmations help you to manifest
the life you desire if you know how to use them. Using affirmations is simple.
Everything in your life today was brought into being through your personal power,
magnetism, thoughts, words and imaginings. You may or may not have been consciously
aware of the process, but you have already created your own reality. You can re-create it
too.
Years ago, Affirmations, unbeknownst to me, were destined to play a rather
significant role in my life. Over a decade ago the devastation of a painful divorce, had left
me feeling alone, depressed and utterly disempowered. I had three young children,
however, who needed me to be stronger than I actually was. I was unaware of it at the
time, but the Creator's hand was on my life. Through my pain, I still felt the need to
become a whole, happy, successful human being and live up to my full potential.
Many powerful, talented and wise women find themselves caught between what
others tell them they should be and what they really want to be. The challenge is for each
woman is for her to grow into the awareness of what she already is. Affirmations are
immeasurably beneficial in enhancing a woman's God given power to become all that she
might be.
Many years ago, I allowed negative statements, thoughts and fears to damage my
resolve. I allowed other people to tell me who I was and what I "should" do to be what
they believed I ought to be. What an awful way to live when God, the Creator has created
us perfectly. We have been given access to Divine Wisdom and the power to transform
our lives free from popular culture's projections and the opinions of other people. When
we allow ourselves to feed off of negative self-talk or aspersions cast by others, it always
harms us. It negates our worth. Affirmations validate our worth. They affirm our
GREATNESS.
Fortunately, I did not allow the screaming voice of negativity to wholly cancel out the
true Voice. The true Voice is that of the Creator whispering and straining to be heard.
When you utter positive affirmations, you echo the very Voice of the Creator. This Voice
creates. Your voice creates. Affirmations inspire, motivate & excite you because as you
speak them something within your body, your mind and your spirit tells you that they are
as TRUE as you will allow them to be. As you state your affirmations, negative voices
fade in the distance.
The power of therapeutic journaling, positive affirmations, and creative visualizations
will sincerely help you to fulfill your greatest desires. Start today. You must want what
you want enough to put your energy and intention where your mouth is, so to speak.
Creative visualization is like a prayer where you not only ask the Creator for this or that,
but you offer your energy to help manifest it. Your thoughts are the raw material required
to manifest your dreams.

To successfully begin practicing positive affirmation and creative visualization, you are
encouraged to use the following simple yet very important questions and guidelines in
planning your practice:

1.) What do I want? You may want to pray, meditate and think seriously about this
before moving forward. Be careful with what you speak or affirm in your life because
you will get it. Clearly and firmly create the vision of what you want within your heart,
mind and soul. Select affirmations
to support your vision. Visualize. Affirm. Let go of what you want. Yes, if you really
want it...let it go. This may seem somewhat contradicting but you must realize that
obsessing or clinging to anything repels it. When you use affirmations you are changing
your energetic patterns to attract what your want. Attraction, is passive and remarkably
powerful.

2.) When do I want it? Now. You must state everything you want as if you already have
it right now. Set your intention. Choose an affirmation that positively states what you
desire as if you already possess it. Remember, it is very important to state what you DO
want and NEVER to state what you DO NOT want. For instance, say "I am beautiful."
Do not say, "I want to be beautiful." "I will be beautiful" or "I am not ugly!" The key to
using affirmations successfully is to state everything positively.

3.) Why do I want what I want? Write out the purpose of your affirmation practice.
Know why you want whatever you desire. Why is it so important
to you? Why should God, the Creator and the Universe support your having it? It is
important for the energy of your practice for you to be clear on your "why". Purpose fuels
your process.
4.) How do I AFFIRM what I want? Engage all of your senses in your creative
visualization practice. See, feel, hear, taste and even smell the reality of having what you
want in your life. The more you engage your senses in the process the more real your
affirmations become...literally.

5.) Where will I practice? Your affirmation practice will ultimately become a part of
everything you do everywhere. At first you will need to find deliberately set times and
places when and where you know you will state your affirmation(s). Soon after you begin
to mindfully begin to state your affirmations throughout the day, they will become a
natural part of your daily experience. Your words will change. The thoughts in your mind
will change....and your life will change. Honestly, the world will change!

6.) When will I practice? It is good to repeat your affirmations and for 5-10 minutes at
night before you go to bed, and for 5-10 minutes in the
morning just after you wake up. It is optimal if you can find a space and time in the
middle of your day for your practice as well. It is very good if you can
mindfully say your affirmations at least to yourself all throughout your day. Saying them
while driving, showering, putting on your make-up, walking your dog, exercising, etc. is
good.
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7.) Who will be effected by it? In order to be successful your affirmation practice, you
must seek to harm no one. This is of vital importance for the Divine Law of Reciprocity
is always in place. So, affirm goodness, Love and Light in order to receive the same. For
instance, when you visualize yourself with the man of your dreams, this must not entail
stealing another woman's husband or establishing any relationship based on betrayal or
deceit. Deceitful, harmful intentions and selfishness negate the powerful positive energy
of affirmations. Also when you visualize yourself getting a promotion or new job, it must
not include someone else being fired. Compose your affirmations and create your
visualization to support the optimal result and blessings for everyone. Rest assured that
there is such Abundance in the Universe that you and everyone else on the planet can be
blessed many time over without anyone being alone, deprived or in lack of anything.
Lack is an illusion. Affirm Abundance.

R e a d . J o u r n a l . V i s u a l i z e. A f f i r m.

Powerful affirmations have been provided for you below. Read each one and see
which words resonate with you. Feel free to change, adjust or add to any affirmation to
suit you. Remember to journal daily, visualize and affirm. And get ready. Your life is
about to change!
 1 Affirmation
I draw strength from generations of grace, greatness, and courage to live my
life with wisdom, power, and boundless joy.

2 Affirmation
The positive transformation of my entire life begins with the decision I
choose
to make today.

3 Affirmation
I expect my special gifts to manifest God. The Creator’s glory and greatness in all areas
of my life.

4 Affirmation
The divine seed of my blessed destiny has already been planted within me
and it grows larger and brighter with every sunrise and rainfall.

5 Affirmation
I now embrace all gifts of Creativity and Power from God, the Creator to me
in order to share these gifts with the planet.

6 Affirmation
I have the faith, the power, and the courage to face and conquer the
challenges of my life.

7 Affirmation
I recognize, realize, and actualize the fact that I define and behold my own
essential beauty regardless of my complexion, weight, hair texture or bra
size.

8 Affirmation
As I embrace thoughts of power, abundance, love, and wisdom, they are
profoundly manifested in my life.
 10 Affirmation
Today I will listen for the Lessons of my life, I will learn them as they come,
and I will grow beyond myself with each new day.

11 Affirmation
I embrace each obstacle in my life as an opportunity for increased growth
and enhanced empowerment.

12 Affirmation
I am doing all things through the Love and Light of God, the Creator with an
inner peace that passes all understanding.

13 Affirmation
Today, I celebrate my power to choose to change for the better physically, in
my emotionally and my spiritually.

14 Affirmation
I am a woman of unlimited power, unequivocal talent, and undeniable
wisdom enabling me to accomplish great works in the world.

15 Affirmation
I dynamically shine my Light so that others will know that they are
empowered to shine their Light as well.

16 Affirmation
I am leaving the pain behind to claim the joyous, triumphant, peaceful life
that God, the Creator wants me to enjoy.

17 Affirmation
I make wise decisions that optimize my health--physically, mentally and
spiritually.
 18 Affirmation
All is full of Love and Light as I release all fears of loneliness,
abandonment, and rejection with the awareness that I am truly never alone.

19 Affirmation
My attitude, mood, and gratitude attract positive people, productive projects
and loving relationships into my life.

20 Affirmation
I reach out of my past, from my present and into the future of my boundless
potentiality.

21 Affirmation
I fully accept my true eternal significance in a world that tries daily to
convince me of my false unimportance.

22 Affirmation
I bless and edify my Body, my Mind, and my Spirit with everything I think,
speak, and do.

23 Affirmation
I arrive in this day wrapped in the finery of faith, beauty, wisdom, and
power.

24 Affirmation
Through self-love, self-esteem and, true sisterhood, we are propelled to
higher and higher states of greatness.

25 Affirmation
I diligently guard my thoughts and what I allow to enter my life on a
day-to-day basis.
 26 Affirmation
I now accept the powerful, creative, joyful, wise and gorgeous ME as God,
the Creator created me to be.

27 Affirmation
I fully embrace the power to be who, how, what, and where I want to be.

28 Affirmation
I am the embodiment of beauty, strength, confidence, intuition, humility,
grace and wisdom today and everyday.

29 Affirmation
My Voice resonates with the transformative power of authenticity, truth
authority, and wisdom.

30 Affirmation
I am now free from all hurtful, harmful or unhealthy people, habits
and situations.

31 Affirmation
I choose to radiate peace, Light and confidence from within while in the
presence of others.

© LB Lacey 2006