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"Today is an opportunity for joy."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Truly, every day is an opportunity for joy. DailyAffirm names this last day of June as a special opportunity for joy. When you declare an opportunity, you open a space for joy to show up. Here is a quotation to end this theme: "Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy." — Upanishads [c. B.C. 800]

About Your Process
I encourage you to take some time today to review your month’s exploration of joy, which has, of course, included some non-joy. Make notes (mentally or in your computer or on paper) about your progress. Identify what you need to do to bring closure to the theme of joy for you. Remind yourself what it feels like to live in the consciousness of joy.

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.

About the Next Type of Affirmations and New Theme
Tomorrow is a new day. A new month. A new theme. The theme is "Transformation." This is a big word for big change. What does it mean to you? Identify your over-arching intention. That is, what intention do you wish to hold with respect to transformation? Here are a few examples intended to inspire, not limit you: "To be in the flow of life." "To drop the old for the new gracefully." "To change/transform from the inside out." "To transform my human consciousness to my higher self consciousness."

Make this a joyful day!

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"I integrate joy into my life with every breath I breathe."

… Greetings! Our theme is Joy. These last days of the month we work with integrating and embodying joy at DailyAffirm. Here are comments about today’s affirmation, suggestions for your process, and information about related articles.

About Today’s Affirmation
Your breath is always with you. And you take many breaths each day. One in, paired with one out. Followed by another breath in and out. Some breaths may be shallow; others, deep. Some breaths may be relaxed; others, strained. When you embrace the idea of this wonderful affirmation, you use your breath to integrate and embody joy. In my guided meditations I often say, "breathe in light and breathe out anything unlike the light." And I say many other variations, for example, "breathe in joy, breathe out non-joy." Breathe in what you desire to feel, breathe out what you do not need or desire. Every breath gives you an opportunity to embody joy.

About Your Process
Do you have two minutes? Just two. Good. Take a long, deep breath that clears you with the out-breath and opens you with the in-breath. Very good. Now relax. Slow down. Identify one situation or project or relationship — something that you have been focusing on this month. Close your eyes for a few seconds if that helps you to identify a relevant subject. Continue to breathe deeply. Breathe light into this subject; breathe out heaviness. Breathe in joy; breathe out non-joy. Continue to relax and integrate joy and embody light. When your two minutes have passed, congratulate yourself for receiving this gift of joyful relaxation.

About Related Articles
Here is asuggested article that relate to today’s principles:

• "Centering: Purpose and Phrases for a Group" suggests ways to talk about how to focus group participants for more meaningful meetings and other group experiences.

Make this an integrative 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 the last week-plus of June with the theme of Joy at DailyAffirm. This message serves as an overview for the acting and claiming affirmations of this fourth week and the integrating and embodying affirmations of the last three days of the month. 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 an email alert each time a message is published, please subscribe to the Feedblitz announcement (see the lower part of the navigation bar).

About Acting/Claiming Affirmations and Joy
This week’s affirmations help you to step out in joy and with joy. You have been clearing yourself and readying yourself for these outward expressions and manifestations. If you are not quite ready to ACT from the consciousness of joy, then the better choice is to retreat or stand still. Acting from non-joy is detrimental. Focusing on these affirmations keeps your attention on joy and can make you more ready to claim joy later if you are not quite ready now.

About your Process in the Fourth Week
Here is a suggestion for working with this week’s affirmations. Each time you act, ask yourself, "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" Of course, you "act" hundreds of times a day. It may seem unreasonable to you to consider asking yourself "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" hundreds of times a day. Yet, think about it…. you are asking yourself something, so you might as well enhance your awareness with questions such as, "Am I in the consciousness of joy?" Or, "How can I act in the consciousness of joy?" Some of the questions you ordinarily ask yourself may be disempowering, for example, "What have I done wrong this time?" Or neutral, for example, "I wonder who that is (on the phone or at the door)?" Or empowering, "Is this worthy of my attention?" Let the questions you ask yourself this week be about manifesting with joy.

About the Affirmations in the Fourth Week
Usually I find it easy to select the definitive affirmation for the week — or I make up a new one! This week challenges me because I love how most seem to embody so many of the aspects of the ideas of acting and claiming joy. So I select the one which represents an idea that I have experienced many folks are working on right now: "I draw a circle of joy to establish who I am." — the affirmation for June 26.

About Integrating/Embodying Affirmations and Joy
I love the idea of integrating learnings and experiences. I jokingly say that I developed this fifth category of affirmations because I had to do something with those remaining days of the month, but the truth is that this concept of integration is essential and not an afterthought. It is often missed. It is important to honor the in-breath as much as the out-breath. One aspect of the process of integration is to let go of anything you do not need during or after an experience while you keep, use, and experience what you desire.

About your Process in the Remaining Days
As you say "yes to joy" and open to let every situation be an opportunity for joy to express, give yourself permission to release any ideas that do not resonate for you. Be as specific as you can. At the same time you sort through the thoughts and feelings to release, allow your consciousness to embody all those thoughts and feelings you wish to keep. If you have been journaling about the affirmations or if you have completed other exercises, review those. Clean up your email files, etc.

Make this a powerful week-plus!

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