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"Joy enhances all my thoughts and feelings."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
The essence of this week’s process is embodied in this last of the Being/Intending affirmations. Joy that permeates your thoughts and feelings comes from within you. While you are learning to be joyful, you might remember joy as an afterthought or an add-on. However, true joy is an energy in which you live and move and have your being. When your thoughts and feelings are bathed in joy, they are transformed. And so are you.

About Your Process
I encourage you to re-visit your over-arching intention today, since it is likely to have deepened as a result of working with Being/Intending affirmations all week. Change it or embody it more deeply or define it more clearly or just leave it alone. If you do this with the expectancy of joy, you will find the process enlightening. You will want to be certain that you are clear about your intention and your relationship with joy before you work with the power affirmations that begin tomorrow.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Transgenerational Healing: Clearing the Past for the Present" introduces a powerful process for neutralizing the negative effects of past generations.
• "Guided Meditation for Empowered Consciousness " presents an overview to approaching meditation as a practice for greater empowerment.
• "Laughter, Play, Fun, Joy, Happiness" discusses the value of these dynamics in our lives as a reminder to laugh and play in a spirit of fun and joy.

In addition, three interviews are available:

• "Innerview: New Paradigm Digest Interview" is a reprint of a 1992 Interview about Jeanie’s innovative work in organizations.
• "Interview: Joel Metzger Interviews Jeanie Marshall" emerged from an email interview by Joel Metzger, founder and coordinator of (Online Noetic Network) ONN.
• "Interview: Robin Davidman Interviews Jeanie Marshall" is reprinted from the Member Profile of the Los Angeles Macintosh Users Group Magazine.

About the Next Type of Affirmations
Tomorrow the Acting/Claiming affirmations begin, so you will
want to be certain that you are clear about your over-arching intention for joy
and about your relationship with joy before you work with these
action-oriented power affirmations.

Make this a thoughtful day!

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

"I understand the meaning of joy.
I know that joy is a deep freedom."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
I have been reflecting on the meaning of "deep freedom" and how that might compare with just "freedom." Freedom is often thought of as "freedom from," for example, freedom from an unhappy relationship or dissatisfying job or slavery or oppression. The joy of such "freedom from" is often short-lived, likely followed by recreating bondage in either similar or different forms. By "deep freedom" I am attempting to convey the depth of freedom that is possible when you live in joy, a joy that comes from deep within you regardless of the outer circumstances or life dramas or relationships with others. (Incidentally, DailyAffirm explores the theme of freedom in October.)

About Your Process
What is the true meaning of joy for you? And if you define joy as a freedom, is it "freedom from" or "freedom to"? Through what experiences have you gained your understanding of the meaning of joy? I suggest you take a few minutes to write — preferably stream of consciousness writing — about the meaning of joy. Let the energy of joy bubble up to teach you its deep meaning. Nothing I nor anyone else can say can teach you as much as you can learn from clear listening deep within you.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Ask Questions that are Empowering" provides you with many different questions that you can ask yourself or others that encourage empowering answers. These questions move you forward on your personal development journey rather than backward.
• "Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
• "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 a meaningful day!

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

"I remember joy. I remember who I Am.
I am alive with the expectancy of joy."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Each sentence in this affirmation presents a different nuance about remembering joy and being joyful. I like the rhythm of all three. I also like the rhythm and meaning of each one, worthy of exploration for many days, gosh, many years! This remembrance that you affirm today is more than remembering historical events, it activates memory at the core of your soul. I Am that I Am.

About Your Process
Consider what it means to remember joy. Re-member means to reconnect, to be associated with a body. When you consider what it means to re-member joy as a consciousness, you reconnect with a body of consciousness. As you say today’s affirmation, feel the buoyant resonance of the word "expectancy." Compare this resonance with the vibration (feelings, senses, sounds) of the word "expectation," which is often heavy pavement on the road to disappointment. Let expectancy lift you up to the possibilities; let expectancy help you to feel the aliveness of joy.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Let’s Replace this Expression: ‘No Pain, No Gain’" encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.
• "JoyPhrase Entries" lists the entries and awards of the June 1996 and continuing campaign to replace the expression "no pain, no gain."

Make this a memorable day!

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

"My mission is to bring joy to my world.
I give my attention to joy so that it expands."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
What a beautiful mission! What you give your attention to expands. If you give your attention to lack, lack expands. If you give your attention to joy, joy expands. If you give your attention to fighting disease, you expand fighting disease as well as both fighting and disease. If you give your attention to abundance, abundance expands. This is a Universal Law, which more and more people are referring to as the "Law of Attraction." The Universe interprets your giving your attention to something as your interest in experiencing more subjects similar to that one. After all, you surely would not give your attention (which is your energy) to anything that you do not want to experience, would you? Think about it.

About Your Process
So, what has your attention today? Is it joy? agony? satisfaction? pain? What? After determining what has your attention, consider…… Is that where you desire your attention to be? Is it worthy of your attention? If your answer is no, change the focus of your attention. If you accomplish nothing else today but to shift your attention from what you do not want (e.g., pain, discomfort, regret, loss) to what you do want, this promises to be a powerful day. Your life will be even more powerful if you practice shifting your attention many times each day.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Ask Questions that are Empowering" provides you with many different questions that you can ask yourself or others that encourage empowering answers. These questions move you forward on your personal development journey rather than backward.
• "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.
• "Ending Poverty Consciousness" distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness; gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
• "Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.

Make this a powerful day!

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

"High intention operates in the midst of joy.
Joy operates in the midst of high intention."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
This affirmation is effective when using either or both sentences. Joy is an energy that makes the environment more fertile for high intention. High intention is a consciousness which fosters joy. This DailyAffirm process works regularly with the principle of intention because it is a powerful concept, frequently overlooked as the source for all actions. Perhaps you are often unaware of your intention, especially when performing ordinary or regular tasks. By asking "What is my/your/our/the intention?" you bring to the surface the intention you desire to live from and with. You convert ordinary activities to extraordinary activities by raising your intention as high as you can.

About Your Process
Select a project or task that has your attention today. It matters not if it is big or little, just one that has your attention. Got it? (Pause and reflect, if needed.) Now, state an intention with respect to that project or task. Maybe it is simply "to get it done." Now ask yourself, is this a high Intention? A high intention might be to use the task, "to open communication between my boss and me." If your original intention does not seem high enough for you, change it. Now ask yourself, is this high intention joyful? A joyful high intention might be, "to appreciate every moment with my boss as we deepen our relationship." Adjust your intention however you need so that you have a joyful high intention for this task. As tasks present themselves to you throughout this day, you will find it easier to move directly to realizing a joyful high intention.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Strategies for the Highest Good" presents simple techniques for living in the consciousness of the highest good.
• "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 an extraordinary day!

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

"I deepen my awareness of the consciousness of joy,
from which my gracious actions spring."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
I often envision consciousness as a sphere or a pool. This sphere or pool is the consciousness in which you move and live and have your being when you work at the depth of these affirmations. Although I have used the word "gracious" to qualify the actions, be assured, you need not be gracious at all in the traditional sense of that word. Sloppy or awkward or clumsy will do just as well. The more you dip into the consciousness of joy, the more gracious are your actions, regardless of how they may be perceived.

About Your Process
Pay close attention to the differences you feel when you are in the consciousness of joy and when you are not in the consciousness of joy. Which do you prefer? Intellectually, you probably opt for the most frequent and obvious response, usually emphatically, "IN JOY!" However, you may have become accustomed to being annoyed or angry or resentful or grumpy or depressed. If you quickly and authentically express such negative feelings as these, you may be amazed how easily you can move yourself toward joy. The key is to find places to put your attention that prompt you to feel just a little better than the negative emotion you frequently feel. Today, give yourself permission to be. Give yourself permission to be human — not as an excuse to screw up, but as a gesture of self-love and grace.

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Strategies for the Highest Good" presents simple techniques for living in the consciousness of the highest good.
• "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 springy day!

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

"I know that joy leads to the highest good for all."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. This third week of the month we work with being and intending for joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Joy is both a path and an energy that propels you on a path. When you live in the consciousness of joy, you can more easily accept the concept of the highest good for all. It is obvious when you are in the consciousness of joy that the highest good for all does exist; however, this is elusive until you let go of the belief that you have figured out what the specific good is for each. It is tempting sometimes to try to take control, have judgments, and express opinions. You can experience a power beyond words when you hold a space for the manifestation of the highest good for all, letting go of control, judgments, and opinions. You can affirm the highest good for all as a consciousness without knowing the specific outcomes.

About Your Process
With your over-arching intention for joy in the forefront of your mind, consider what "highest good" means to you. You may find it helpful to identify a real situation in your life, although beware the trap of thinking you know what is best in a situation that is too close or emotionally charged. You may find it more helpful to focus on a real situation in someone else’s life or one in your own life that is of minor importance. Envision joy operating in the situation you have chosen; let this joy be the energy that creates the highest good. Just joy, now, no opinions. If you are a helping professional, you will find this approach enhances your work greatly without giving up anything you are already doing (unless, of course, you hold onto control and judgments and opinions).

About Related Articles
Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Strategies for the Highest Good" presents simple techniques for living in the consciousness of the highest good.
• "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 magnificent day!

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

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 or alters by email, please subscribe to one of our email alert lists (check the options on the navigation bar).

Remind yourself of your over-arching intention for joy. Your statement serves as an umbrella over the whole month’s exploration of joy. It is especially helpful to re-visit your over-arching intention as you work and play with this week’s Being and Intending Affirmations.

About Being/Intending Affirmations and Joy
"To be" and "to intend" are companion ideas, associated also with mission and purpose. It is from your being and your intending that you create and act. Next week, DailyAffirm focuses on doing, acting, claiming, and manifesting. This week, though, stay focused on the consciousness from which you act. Many people choose to go on spiritual retreats or vision quests or to engage in dream journaling or other kinds of inward exploration in order to understand more fully who they are or who they want to become. I advocate that you choose to (under)stand right where are.

About your Process in the Third Week
So, here’s the big question of the week: what is your life mission? If your immediate response is your job or career or role, my next question is: what is your life mission? Or I might vary the question and ask: What is your purpose for being on the planet? Or, who are you here to be? You are here in the context of a larger whole. You are here to do, certainly. But, who ARE you? Who are YOU? What is your higher purpose? If you are uncertain, let yourself accept the uncertainty. And return to the questions, who are you? What is your life mission? (Please note: answers to such questions need not be the same each time. As you keep asking yourself these questions, you will become more and more comfortable with a grand variety and richness of answers.) So, who are you? What is your life mission?

About the Affirmations in the Third Week
If I were to select the definitive affirmation for the week to represent being and intending for Joy it would be "I give my attention to joy so that it expands." The Universe is ever-expanding and this expansion is based on the focus of your (and our collective) attention.

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