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Four UT Keys for Affirmations

 
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What are Affirmations and how do I use them?

Recently, I introduced the topic of Metaphysics via our Universal Truths Facebook Page so I thought I would share my experience with Affirmations and Four UT Keys for the most beneficial way I construct and use them.

An Affirmation is defined as 1. the act of affirming or the state of being affirmed; 2. a statement of the existence or truth of something; assertion.

The first time I recall giving any personal meaning to Affirmations was about six years ago when I first read “You Can Heal Your Life” by international bestselling author Louise L. Hay.

Mind activity that occurs just below the level of conscious awareness is referred to as the sub-conscious.  This sub-conscious mind is defined as being responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason.  It has been likened to a limitless volt of information retaining every detail from every moment in our life.  For example, someone sufficiently skilled enough to tap into this volt, may be able to recall the outfit, hair style, cake, friends, gifts, food, music, games, weather, colour of the paint or wall paper design along with every other detail pertaining to their 3^rd birthday party, assuming of course they had one.

Our thoughts, values, and beliefs (for more about these see my Blog titled, “What’s important to you?”) are also stored in our sub-conscious mind and whilst this makes life functional in terms of not having to learn how to operate a door or a car every time we approach one etc. many, many, many of the thoughts, values, and beliefs stored there are adopted, inherited, taught to us, limiting and no longer serve us for our highest good.

Affirmations are a useful tool to reprogram our sub-conscious mind’s obsolete data.  As an example, through slow normalcy I went from getting occasional headaches from my early teens to having a headache, of some degree, for as often as five out of seven days a week by my mid 20s.  Headaches, together with migraines which set in from age 19, were ultimately both eliminated by my mid 30s.  This included a period of time when, by becoming more and more aware of my thoughts, I could predict getting these and various other ailments in advance.  These days, I don’t have to exercise ‘stinking thinking’ for very long before an ailment will rear its head.  However, I like it this way, as I’m committed to heightened awareness and I now trust my body to keep me lovingly accountable.  Fortunately, as quickly as something appears, I can cause it to disappear and I often still use Affirmations as a tool of choice to achieve this.

It is important to understand that values, and beliefs stored in the sub-conscious, that play out automatically, are generated from thoughts that we have had millions of times over.  Therefore;

The 1^st UT key regarding Affirmations is to make them short, simple phrases or statements (initially at least) that can be learnt verbatim and are in the first and present tense.

The 2^nd UT Key regarding Affirmations is that they are repeated often throughout the day and perhaps over many days, until the old thought pattern is overridden.

Often times, although an affirmation may feel good at some level, it may sound foreign and a little awkward to your inner or outer ear at first.  Discipline and persistence are keys.  It’s very OK to have fun with your affirmation so a simple approach is to fake it til you make it.

The 3^rd UT Key regarding Affirmations is to understand that the sub-conscious mind is quite literal.  Let’s say you wanted to increase your income.  To the sub-conscious mind, an affirmation along the lines of, “I am excited about the pay rise I have coming my way”, will always be something that is coming as opposed to something that is happening now.  A rewording of this may go something like, “My income constantly increases.”

And the 4^th UT Key regarding Affirmations is to understand that by often I mean potentially hundreds of times a day.  It’s a tool for immersing our sub-conscious mind with uplifting, affirmative and present data enabling it to, not just suspend obsolete programming that was generated and remains in place by millions of repetitive thoughts each day, but permanently override it with a new thought pattern.  In doing so, the sub-conscious mind can produce automatical feeds to the conscious mind causing us to think, speak and act in a manner that instead of sabotaging us is constantly setting us up for our highest good and greatest success.

This is a sure way to permanently eliminate undesirable ailments, dis-ease and conditions that keep showing up, sometimes with a different face and name but that generate the same old unwanted feelings.

The manner in which I use affirmations is to adopt ones from someone or somewhere else, that resonate with me deeply, or construct my own based on the above UT Keys.

Until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J. x

On No, not the ‘G’ Word

 
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Notice how many people get freaked out by the ‘God’ word?  I know I used to.  In fact, I found it so repulsive, I banished it from my vocabulary altogether for a number of years.

It’s any wonder really, given that many of us are introduced to a version of a sinister, bearded man, up there, somewhere, yielding a rod that, depending on our ability to placate him during this poor excuse for a life, either grants us access through the pearly gates to heaven or banishes us forever to the hollows of hell.

Who needs that nightmare?  I certainly didn’t.  My life was scary enough without this dude in my life and if I wasn’t being told a horrible story about punishment and banishment, I was told he was unconditionally loving and forgiving. What the?  When I became so confused that I began to ask questions I was told, ‘have faith’.  Again, what the?

I found it easier to checkout from these godly beliefs, and so I did, for a while at least.

When my seemingly cosy life ‘hit the wall’ however, a cherished girlfriend gifted me a book called “Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)”.  The first part of the title put me off and the second half intrigued me enough to pick it up and open it to the first page.  I read non-stop for 48 hours!

What is succeeded in doing was it shook up my current and grossly distorted model of the world and God and brought home some resounding Truths that I was unable to deny. While it succeeded in snapping me out of manic depression, it was still some years, in fact many years, before I was able to use the ‘G’ word again.

Today, although I have become 100% comfortable in my relationship with and use of the term God, I am still mindful of using it around others.  Just recently, I was again reminded of the discomfort this word can conjure for people and yet, from my in depth study and implementation of the subject (whilst only having scratched the surface) I understand that this discomfort is primarily due to ignorance (1. (n.) a wilful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.).

There is a great deal of merit in acquiring the knowledge for ourselves about this Eternal Life Source rather than continuing to live in a maya of misconception and misrepresentation.

There is so much to gain and so much benefit to be had by doing so.  After all, we are told we are made in His image and likeness.  It’s fascinating to discover what aspect of us this relates to and what this entitles us, and enables us to be, do and have as a birthright.

Until next time…
Love the Life you Live
J. x

All paths lead to God

 
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All paths lead to God!
Well, at least they did in our instance…

Anyone who has read our Home Page introduction on this website (www.universaltruths.com.au) will be informed that Anthony and I have dedicated ourselves as individuals, in relationship, and in our careers to the study of human potential, sales, and business performance.

When Anthony and I first connected in November of 2005, Anthony had been a celibate Christian for some 14 years and I, well, I had distanced myself from religion as far as I could although metaphysics and spirituality had been emerging in my life in preceding years.

Our beliefs were generally vastly different and at some point, very early in our relationship, Anthony suggested we proceed on the proviso that we conduct the study that will tell us whether or not the Bible and its content are in fact the Truth, the Light, and the Way, or not.

A new covenant three months after we met, a relocation from inner city Melbourne to the majestic setting of Zaggi Point in Wamuran Queensland, and the journey continues...

First, we did some internet research and quickly found a plethora of material for and against.

Around the same time, we were seeking a coach that could assist us with a mortgage broking business we commenced.  After a number of ‘non matches’ including successfully suing one company for misleading conduct and failure to fulfil our contractual agreement, I stated that from now on I was going to appoint Christ as my coach. He was the only wholesome character I knew who was trustworthy, possessed infinite intelligence, is extremely resourceful, and 100% reliable.

Have you tried having a meeting with Christ lately?  Some questions that immediately came to mind were; where do we meet, how do I address Him, and how will we communicate…

These questions led us to research individuals that had not only acquainted themselves with the western biblical text intimately, but had studied the Greek and Hebrew origins of it, all excluded and relocated scriptural text, as well as the spiritual origins and books of the world.

To cut a long story short in this medium of sharing today, just like a jigsaw puzzle, one revealing piece led us to the next until eventually the scales tipped and the jigsaw puzzle became both complete and eternally incomplete.

By emanating Christ as best we can, at this stage of our existence, our journey has led us to grasp a foundation of Truth that produced the quality of results and feelings we had been searching for and continues to reveal to us the infinite potential and possibilities available to us for experiencing.

Our journey has led us to a relationship with God, so personal in its nature, that it surpasses anything our religious backgrounds obscurely taught us.

God is our Truth, our Light and our Way! In Him do we live and move and have our whole being.

To our fellow seekers of Truth I repeat: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8; Luke 11:9-10]

Until next time…
Live the Life you Love
J x