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Today is an opportunity for hope.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
One of the primary principles of the book on which these affirmations are based is “today is an opportunity.” In fact, every situation is an opportunity. Every minute is an opportunity. Every second is an opportunity. “An opportunity for what?” you might ask. “Anything you desire!” So, you come to the end of the affirmations about hope, which set the foundation for a powerful year. Resonate with hope.

About Your Process
So, what do you desire? What is your most hopeful thought about hope? I suggest that you re-visit your over-arching intention for hope that you developed at the beginning of the month. In addition, if you have made any notes about the various affirmations or about your process, review those. Reflection is part of the process of integrating and embodying the theme of hope.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com.

About Our Next Theme
When you feel ready, please establish an over-arching intention for February’s theme: Love. Remember, it is up to you do determine your intention, the meaning of the theme, and the application of the ideas into your life. As the month unfolds, I will share some of my insights, but they will not be nearly as important as what you tell yourself about love. During the first week, we work with (Releasing/Cleansing) Affirmations.

Make this a fulfilling day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I integrate hope into every aspect of my life.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
I sometimes hear people say emphatically, “Affirmations don’t work!” Well, first of all, that is an affirmation! I think they usually mean that “just saying words over and over again does not change conditions,” a statement with which I can agree fully. When you consider making a change, you are most successful when your intention, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions are all in alignment. You use words to express your perceptions to yourself and to others. If, for example, you say “I feel hope” and feelings that oppose this statement (like despair) come waffling in, you have work to do! Saying repeatedly “I feel hope” is unlikely, all alone, to erase the despair. So as you’re integrating hope during these last days of January, let opposing feelings/thoughts/beliefs come up, experience them, and return to the integration of hope. Stuffing the doubts or despair back because you think you “should have gotten it by now” is counterproductive. Hope in a world of duality includes hopelessness.

About Your Process
As you are meditating or reflecting on today’s affirmation, consider what parts of your life, in particular, are ready to receive hope. Consider the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of your life. Your integration may feel like a weaving motion, or it may be a surgical procedure, or it may be a process that requires sewing, or it may feel like swimming in the ocean. As you walk, dance, or swim through today, consider what helps you to integrate hope into every aspect of your life.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall” is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.
• “One Thought at a Time” is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a truthful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

Yes to Hope!

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
Yes! is a simple and clear affirmation. All your life experiences are shaped by those ideas and events to which you give your attention. To whatever you give your attention (even if you use the word “no”), you are saying “yes.” This month’s theme, of course, is hope. I personally find it very satisfying to come to the end of each month with these affirmations, as the last days bring a sense of wholeness to the theme. Integration is an important idea for me. It conjures up images of balance and blending and wholeness and harmony and peace. Breathing in and breathing out. Embodiment is another important idea, as it is helpful to embrace hope with the body.

About Your Process
You may find that you want to replace the word “hope” in this affirmation with something else: like, “life” Or, “living life fully” Or, “living all my hopes and dreams.” Consider, what is your hope? Say “yes” to that, right now! If you believe that you must wait for something to happen to live your hope, I suggest that you say “yes” to changing that belief, right now! Live hope.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall” is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.
• “Your Focus of Attention is Your Key to Happiness” helps you to clarify where you desire to put your attention — your energy — which is a creative force.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this an affirming day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I act with purposeful awareness of hope.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
Acting with hope is one idea; acting with purposeful awareness of hope is another. You act with purposeful awareness when you truly know that you are hopeful, and you stay consciously aware throughout the entire time of acting. It is easy to have a plan to act in association with hope; it is also easy to reflect on an event and determine whether or not you acted with hope. However, to be in the energy of hope, purposefully aware of the hope at the time of acting, is a powerful state of consciousness.

About Your Process
Select one action you must take today. It may be simple or the large action that you have been hoping will manifest because of your focus on hope this month. When you are clear about the action, develop a statement of high intention. That is, create a statement that guides you in the action. Examples of high intention for actions related to people are: “For honest and open communications” and “To be friendly.” Examples of high intention for actions related to work are: “To stay focused on my top three priorities” and “To love every aspect of my job.” After the statement of intention, act! And, most importantly, act with purposeful awareness of hope and of the specific intention you have set.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Today ends the fourth week of the month; tomorrow and the two days following, DailyAffirm focuses on Integrating and Embodying the theme of hope. Today is a good day to check for a final action you might want to take to demonstrate hope. Of course, each day forward you might want to claim and demonstrate hope. A re-visit of your over-arching intention for hope also allows you to integrate more deeply all that you have learned this month.

Make this a purposeful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I let every act be an act of hope.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
Every action is seeded by your consciousness. Language has a rich assortment of words to describe or represent ideas about consciousness: thoughts, beliefs, energy, intention, awareness, vision, mission. Form and actions follow thought. If you choose to believe that every action is an act of hope, then you must dip into the consciousness of hope in order to manifest every action. So, today, this is the claim: Dip into the consciousness of hope for every action.

About Your Process
This affirmation assists you in considering how you act. How, not why. I find that asking why often gets folks into trouble. Certainly some questions that begin with the word “why” are probing in an empowering way, but these are rare. Watch how you let hope be the source of your actions. How, not how well. You can get yourself into trouble by over-evaluating, as well. Observe your process before, during, and/or after you act so that you can understand more deeply how the consciousness of hope propels and enhances your actions.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “Asking Empowering Questions” assists you to ask — yourself and others — questions that uplift and enhance life.
• “Your Focus of Attention is Your Key to Happiness” helps you to clarify where you desire to put your attention — your energy — which is a creative force.
• “Moving Through Puddles” describes the “Puddle Theory of Personal Development” which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a hopeful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I draw a circle of hope to establish myself as a radiant being.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
The simple circle. Your responses to duality can generate the appearance that you bounce from one end of a pole to another, creating a line or lines which can be confusing. However, when you show up 100% for all experiences, unafraid of opposites, you create joy. It is empowering to create and experience life as a flow, as a process, as continuous. When you drop into despair or hopelessness to such an extent that you forget that life has many cycles, you have given your power to the effects rather than accepting yourself as the powerful source of your experiences. Today, imagine a container of hope which carries your radiance.

About Your Process
What does your circle of hope look like? A plate of spaghetti? A bent paper clip? A computer generated O? An amoeba? An egg? A sphere? You may find that drawing your circle on paper or representing it in some way enhances your ability to use it whenever you desire. Knowing what it looks like assists you in making it larger or smaller, thicker or thinner, closer or more distant. You are the creator of your circle of hope — how big do you want it to be?

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “How Big is Your World?” is a little article that focuses on how the world grows as you expand in consciousness.
• “Asking Empowering Questions” assists you to ask — yourself and others — questions that uplift and enhance life.
• “Moving Through Puddles” describes the “Puddle Theory of Personal Development” which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a flowing day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I manifest all things in association with hope and peace.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
All manifestations are products of consciousness. I consider that the consciousness with which you produce or create things is far more important than the things themselves. If your consciousness resonates with hope and peace as you are manifesting, your manifestations also resonate with hope and peace. You must be what you seek (as Gandhi and many others have said in a variety of ways).

About Your Process
This DailyAffirm Affirmations Process allows you to explore life-changing issues. As you know, I view these affirmations as part of an ongoing process, not a quick-fix formula. I often hear that a particular affirmation resonates deeply for you, and more often that the regular association with the ideas/affirmations is transformational. Keep up the good work — it is the stuff of which hope is made. Consider how you enhance your life by lifting your consciousness.

About the Book of the Month Recommendation
Here is a second mention of the book recommendation for January’s theme of Hope: “The Chronicles of Narnia” This is a collection of magically hope-filled stories written for children and enjoyed by people of all ages. Of course, now, a feature-length movie is available; it is the book series I recommend. Read my book comments.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a wonderful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I claim my hope.
I claim my power in all parts of my life.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
Sometimes you may forget to claim what you desire. You may ask. Or beg. Or assume. Or wish. Or bargain. Or wonder. Or complain. Today, claim hope and power and … well, whatever you desire. These daily affirmations were developed by listening to spoken and unspoken words of my clients. I hear spoken words similarly to most folks; in addition, I hear unspoken words through a skill called “clairaudience.” I am able to hear at different levels of consciousness. So, someone might say, “I claim my power in all parts of my life” and I might hear clairaudiently that the person is saying to himself or herself, “Oh, no you don’t.” Or “I’m really powerless.” The nonverbal voice may be the person’s own or someone else’s, for example, a parent or significant other or first grade school teacher. When I’m working one-to-one, I can identify these disempowering messages in the energy field and help clients to find better thoughts on which to land their attention.

About Your Process
Today, listen for your own disempowering messages. They may be loud and obvious, or quiet and insidious. If you find that you sabotage yourself in certain situations, you likely have a disempowering message operating in your energy field. If you consider that you are not doing what you desire in life, you definitely have a disempowering message operating in your energy field. You can neutralize the negative impact of this message simply by putting your attention on and claiming what you desire. Become engaged with your heart’s desires, and life opens up to you.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “Freedom from Bondage” discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
• “Interview: Joel Metzger Interviews Jeanie Marshall” emerged from an email interview by Joel Metzger, founder and coordinator of (Online Noetic Network) ONN.
• “Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall” is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a powerful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

I act with hope in my heart.
I speak with hope on my lips. I walk with hope in my feet.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
The words of this affirmation help to connect hope and movement with various parts of the physical body. As you read or say these words, feel the movement and experience the expressed ideas. Experience what it feels like to act with hope in your heart, to speak with hope on your lips, to walk with hope in your feet. The feelings may be sensations or emotions which generate images or symbols or sounds or thoughts. Make hope experiential.

About Your Process
As you say or think about each of these three statements, consider if thoughts come up for you that oppose the ideas. For example, You say, “I act with hope in my heart” and a pesky little voice says, “Yeah, except for….” Or you say, “I speak with hope on my lips” and you choke on the words. Or you chant, “I walk with hope in my feet” while you notice you are stuck or you feel despair. Instead of stuffing or denying your reaction to the statement, let it come forward so you can interact with it, not as an enemy but as a friend. Experience what happens. Say the statement again and notice the difference. Repeat the process until you can say the statement without an opposing reaction.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this a feeling day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.

Hope opens a pathway for travel and energizes my actions.

Greetings! Our theme is Hope. This fourth week of the month we work with acting and claiming hope. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and other resources.

About Today’s Affirmation
The light of hope I talked about several days ago can be constantly with you on your travels, touching all that you do. Everything in life is in motion. If you feel as if you are not moving, you can easily bump up against the flow of life. You move — sometimes forward; sometimes backward — and rest; again, you move — sometimes forward; sometimes backward — and rest. Life is a cycle, or, more precisely, a series of cycles. When resting, the flow of energy is different from when you’re moving forward or retreating. Over these last several weeks, DailyAffirm has been focusing on thinking about and feeling hope. Now, it is time to act with hope.

About Your Process
Consider one or more of the following questions: To what (or whom) do you desire to travel? With what (or whom) do you desire to travel? From what (or whom) do you desire to travel in the opposite direction? Also consider what action you can take to open pathways to new possibilities. It is exciting to me how much this Affirmations Process continues to expand, traveling to lots of places. Feel free to tell others, when you are prompted from inside yourself to do so. Perhaps you consider that a particular affirmation would be interesting for someone and you may redirect the affirmation to that person.

About Related Articles
We make available free to the Internet community many empowering articles, including the Marshall House Articles Section, the JMviews Empowerment Blog Articles, the Voice of Jeanie Marshall Articles, and Jeanie’s articles at EzineArticles.com. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• “Moving Through Puddles” describes the “Puddle Theory of Personal Development” which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.
• “Resonating with the Light with Jeanie Marshall” is an interview conducted by Susan Barber from Spirit of Ma’at focusing on Jeanie’s energy work.

About the DailyAffirm Bookstore
We have created the DailyAffirm BookStore to highlight books and other resources related to the monthly themes. Please visit the BookStore Section on Hope for January.

Make this an energizing day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed the Practice Meditation Now Program to encourage you to begin and maintain a regular meditation practice. You may republish this at your web site or blog, provided you include this paragraph and make all links active.