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I accept trust, joy, and love in all aspects of my life.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
To experience something, you accept it into your life. You may tend to argue against this point when you are in the middle of uncomfortable circumstances or when you feel like a victim. When you are in pain, it is hard to understand that you have invited the painful conditions you are experiencing. And, of course, you have not done this intentionally. As you become more intentional about your thought patterns and responses, you might become impatient when your circumstances do not change as quickly as you grasp ideas for change, tending to blame the circumstances or conditions outside yourself. Self-kindness is required as you develop new habits that encourage receiving what you truly desire. A simple "yes" to trust and joy and love is a starting place; consistent "yeses" yield the manifested desires.

About Your Process
Today, remember to be kind to yourself and to life. As you work with today’s and other empowering affirmations and methods, you are moving away from old thoughts and patterns. The conditions you find yourself in today are manifestations of previous thoughts. It is true that your birthright is to experience joy, however, if you have not yet lifted your consciousness to focus on joy, just take that on as your work. Life is a process. You are not here to manipulate the Universe, but to experience life to the fullest. Today, appreciate all that surrounds you, for you have accepted these things into your life. If you are not pleased with what you have already manifested, start today to accept what you desire into your life by giving your thoughts to trust, joy, and love.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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.
• "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.
• "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.

Make this a joyful day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

Trust, you are my friend.
I take you everywhere I go.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Ordinarily when you think of a "friend," you are likely to think of a person. Today as you think about Trust as your friend, expand your definition of friendship. While you cannot take a human friend everywhere you go, you can take Trust everywhere you go. Trust is something you carry in your heart. Also, the Angel of Trust can be with you everywhere. Trust is not an elusive concept, but a real energy.

About Your Process
As you live today, remember Trust as a special friend in all you do and say. Remember Trust as you meditate, as you drive, as you walk, as you speak to a human friend, as you eat, as you dream, as you play. Talk to Trust, your friend. And listen. You may choose to ask some of the following questions: "Who are you?" and "How will I know you?" and "How can I recognize you when I am feeling lost (or lonely, despairing, confused, afraid, etc.)?" and "How will you let me know that you are with me when I forget?"

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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.
• "Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
• "Fire Free Bird" recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.

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 Trust for May.

Make this a friendship day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

Dear God,
allow me to see trust in a way that I can understand.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
The divine is always showing you trust in ways that you can understand — it is up to you to notice, to see, to perceive. This simple prayer asks for more than just "seeing" with the physical eye or "understanding" with the mental processes. It asks for the grace to know trust, to realize trust, to live trust, to experience trust. Seek the trust that transcends the concrete.

About Your Process
Sometimes you may be called upon to demonstrate your understanding and knowing of trust. In fact, such a demonstration may bring you to your knees in surrender. Demonstrating trust is one way to lift your consciousness. Your demonstrations are unique to you, and need not be like any one else’s. It is a rite of passage that you face — perhaps you are even experiencing this rite of passage right now. Knowing trust moves you to the other side of the initiation: trust yourself, trust your process, trust the divine. If you are regularly on your knees in gratitude, you are less likely to be forced to your knees in desperation.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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:

• "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.
• "Fire Free Bird" recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
• "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.

Make this a divine day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

I allow trust to flow through me.
I accept the Truth from a higher Source.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Today’s affirmation helps you to perceive trust as fluid, and able to flow through you. Trust can wash away old memories of distrust and mistrust and non-trust. Trust is aligned with Truth from a higher source; that is, trust is pure, not manipulative. This is a perfect affirmation to use just before participating in an event (a meeting with the boss, a sales presentation, connecting with an associate or friend, etc.), especially an event that seems challenging. Or you may choose a commonplace event, such as driving your car, which is a very important time to be aligned with the divine and with trust.

About Your Process
I talk with many folks who understand intellectually and speak articulately about the idea of "being in the flow" and "trusting the Universe" and "living in the moment." Understanding intellectually and speaking articulately are worthy starting places, especially if you find that language helps you to integrate your thoughts and be in touch with your feelings. The test comes when you are challenged by circumstances — if you try to manipulate those circumstances, you are not "in the flow." Start where it is easiest for you. If you experience deep satisfaction with one aspect of your work, feel what it is like to trust there. If a walk in the woods evokes ecstasy or freedom, experience being "in the flow" there. If you feel total trust when you are with your partner, let that feeling of trust expand from there outwardly to other parts of your life.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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.
• "Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
• "Fire Free Bird" recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.

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, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

I receive trust from the Universe.
My trust in the invisible increases.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Some folks say they only trust what they can see and/or touch. Even some folks who have deep trust in the invisible want to have certain things proven to them in the visible world. You might consider your own areas of trust in both the invisible and the visible. The process of creation is the act of moving energy from the invisible (Spirit) into the visible (matter). This is relatively easy to understand when you think of certain everyday acts of creation. I expect that sitting at a blank computer screen receptive to putting ideas into words is a familiar experience to you. As the characters click under your fingers, words appear on the screen because you have moved the invisible to the visible. All things manifested in this world are the result of changing the density of energy from Spirit into matter.

About Your Process
Consider those things in your life you trust that are visible, and those you trust that are invisible. Do you trust the recklessly driven car in front of you? — that is visible. Do you trust the love you share with close friends — that is invisible. Do you trust your own intuitions and inspirations? Do you trust yourself? Today, consider three events and/or persons in which you believe the quality of trust is particularly desired or needed.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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:

• "Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
• "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.

Make this a magnificent day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

I open to allow trust to operate in my life.
I let self-trust lead to the path of trusting others.

Greetings! Our theme is Trust. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting trust at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Trust, of course, is always operating, faithfully and fully. However, if you are not open to it, you can miss it or mistake it for something else. Take off the brakes and blinders. I believe the key issue of trust is self-trust: when you trust yourself, you know when to trust other persons and events and ideas. In fact, the energy of self-trust is a light that shows you the way along the path, pointing to appropriate places and people. Trust in the moment, because now is the only time that exists.

About Your Process
Now that you have cleared out a lot of non-trust stuff during the first week, you are more ready than ever to open to trust. Open to trust as you open the faucet in your sink or shower. Test the force and temperature. Let trust bathe you with its expansive energy. Take a few moments, right now, to see or imagine that you see the energy of trust. Soak in it. Feel it. Sense it. Hear it. Smell it. Love it. Receive it. Absorb it. Trust it. Be it.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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:

• "Trust: New Bottom Line" focuses on replacing trust in the visible with trust in the invisible to assist in moving to a new and more trusting paradigm.
• "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.

Make this a remarkable day!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

Greetings! In this message, I’ll give you an overview of the next seven days of the DailyAffirm Process. The sidebars provide you with additional information. Read the messages Day by Day, or simply check in when the spirit moves you. If you prefer to receive the daily messages by email, please subscribe to one of our email alert lists (check the options at the bottom of the navigation bar).

Remind yourself of your over-arching intention for Trust.

About Receiving/Accepting Affirmations and Trust
Trust is closely related to safety. If you feel safe, you are more likely to trust. If you feel safe and trusting, it is easier to open. Sometimes you may be required to step into a void and pretend that you are trusting when you do not really feel trusting. When you do this, the feeling of trust can more naturally follow because you have imagined and practiced the feeling.

About Your Process in the Second Week
How can you open to trust when you do not feel safe and/or trusting? Here is a worthy question for you to ponder from time to time through the week. Notice when you naturally feel safe and trusting. Notice your thoughts and beliefs; notice your feelings and sensations. Become aware. You may find it helpful to develop a vertical number scale — a Trust Thermometer — so that you can determine more easily how you feel and/or think. For example, you might assign "-10" at the bottom to the idea of "total distrust" and "+10" at the top to the idea of "total trust," with various levels of distrust and trust as gradations between. As you become more and more aware, you will find it easier to trust yourself to trust a situation or another person. If your inner prompting says "be still," be still. If your inner prompting says "act," act. Trust yourself.

About the Affirmations in the Second Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent receiving and accepting for Trust it would be the affirmation for May 10: "I allow trust to flow through me. I accept the truth from a higher Source." The higher Source, of course, is right inside you; it flows through you; it is you.

Make this an ACCEPTional week!

Copyright © 1994-2008 and beyond including all revisions, Marshall House, http://www.mhmail.com Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, focuses on Empowering Personal Development.

I am ready right now to live in clarity.

Greetings! Our theme is Clarity. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting clarity. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Being ready is not a wimpy position. It is powerful to be in a state of readiness, especially for the unknown. If you must have everything proven to you before you are ready, you miss opportunities — opportunities for clarity as well as the many other events and conditions you desire in your life. Open to feelings of readiness and expectancy and buoyancy and aliveness. Recognize that being ready is a state of mind that you choose.

About Your Process
Are you ready? Really? On this last day of the Receiving/Accepting Affirmations, you may wish to spend a little time contemplating this idea of readiness. Here are a few questions to inspire you: How do you know that you are ready and/or not ready? Are your senses sharper or duller? Do you stand differently? What is the rhythm of your heart beat? How does the energy flow through you? What else do you notice? How do you know, without any doubt, that you are ready and/or not ready?

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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.
• "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions" discusses decision-making in the new paradigm and the importance of consciousness when making a decision.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Tomorrow the Being/Intending affirmations begin. Today is a
good day to test your readiness and to reflect on the
clarity you have already received so that you can explore
more deeply who you are. Please re-visit your over-arching
intention for clarity because you will use that as a foundation
for this further exploration.

Make this an expectant 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.

I accept clarity, peace, and order in all aspects of life.

Greetings! Our theme is Clarity. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting clarity. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
To deepen the meaning of today’s affirmation, suppose that clarity and peace and order are physical things with consciousness. (They are not physical, of course, but play with this . . .) So, let’s say that clarity is white and stands two feet tall and has a face that smiles. Peace is pink, round and fluffy like clouds, and sings a sweet melody. Order is straight like a pole and green, offering strength. If you invite these three objects into one part of your life, what happens? Something changes, obviously! What and how? That is for you to experience.

About Your Process
So often in a consultation when a person is close to breakthrough on a subject, he or she reaches the realization that "self acceptance" is the key. As you play today with clarity and peace and order as objects (if you choose to accept this assignment), notice how much easier it is to accept yourself and your life. Everything in life is always changing. Each moment is an opportunity to experience change in the direction you truly desire.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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:

• "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.
• "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.

Make this an extraordinary 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.

Clarity, you are my friend.
I am willing for you to surround me with your energy.

Greetings! Our theme is Clarity. This second week of the month we work with receiving and accepting clarity. Following today’s affirmation are comments about the affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Today, acknowledge Clarity as a friend and invite Clarity to surround you. Every month on DailyAffirm, I talk about this idea of friendship. A True Friend is loving and nonjudgmental, always available and accessible. Your Friend Clarity does not have the frailty of a human friend. You must give yourself and your human friends the space to make mistakes and forget and not be there for you. Clarity, however, does not fail you. You may misinterpret or misunderstand, but Clarity is clarity. Let clarity be your friend.

About Your Process
If Clarity is feminine for you, let her surround you as a nurturing mother, wise grandmother, loving sister, or caring aunt. If Clarity is masculine for you, let him surround you as a protective father, wise grandfather, loving brother, or caring uncle. Or just call Clarity "friend" without thought of gender or similar ideas that separate you from others.

About Related Articles
Please check out our many empowering articles in different locations, 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:

• "Masculine and Feminine Energies" discusses the importance of balancing these energies, with special reference to organizational 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.
• "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.

Make this an outstanding 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.