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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

I act with purposeful awareness of joy.

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

About Today’s Affirmation
All this month, you have been building up to be able to say and believe today’s affirmation. To be purposefully aware of joy, you must sometimes put aside hardship and give your attention to joy. Of course, there are times when you must give your attention to managing hardship. When you are in a mature state of consciousness, you know when to do what. It is important that you not use either hardship or managing hardship as an excuse to push aside joy. Today, act with joy while you are aware of both your actions and your joy.

About Your Process
To what are you giving your attention today? What are the actions? What is the consciousness from which you act? Decide. If you make an intentional and purposeful decision, you are more likely to be aware of that which you truly desire to be aware. What more do you need or want to accomplish with respect to joy? Tomorrow and the next day, the affirmations help you to embody and integrate joy. Enjoy in 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. Here are suggested articles that relate to today’s principles:

• "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions" discusses decision-making in the new paradigm and the importance of consciousness when making a decision.
• "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 Next Type of Affirmations
Tomorrow the Integrating/Embodying affirmations begin. Today is a good day to check for a final action you might want to take to demonstrate joy. Of course, each day forward you might want to claim and demonstrate joy. A re-visit of your over-arching intention for this month also allows you to integrate more fully all that you are experiencing.

Make this a purposeful 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 let every act be an act of joy.
I show up to tell my joyous truth."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
You can label any event or action whatever you desire to label it. You can call an act "difficult" or "wonderful" or "long" or "simple" or by any number of other adjectives. A name or label is a powerful means for orienting you to a thing or a person. So, with this in mind, today name every act an act of joy. The second sentence of this affirmation is also powerful. When you show up to tell the truth, you are in your power. Sometimes the truth seems joyous, sometimes not. But from the highest perspective, the Truth is always joyous.

About Your Process
Take a moment before you finish reading today’s message to consider the various acts you will perform today. Can you call them joyous? If you say an enthusiastic "yes" — bravo. If you say a hesitant "maybe" — what would stretch you into the enthusiastic yes? If you say a resounding "no" to the original question, what work do you need to do on yourself to move your answer to the hesitant maybe or an enthusiastic yes? Remember all needs for change in your life are indications of needs for change in your consciousness. Just show up and tell your joyous truth.

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:

• "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.
• "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.

Make this a truthful 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 draw a circle of joy to establish who I am."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
A circle has no beginning and no end. When you give your attention to the energy of joy, you create a space that helps you to focus more clearly on what you want. Your circle establishes how near or far you are willing for something or someone to come to you. Clear boundaries are essential for your self-awareness and development. However, if they are too rigid, they can keep out what you want, so fill your circle with joy so that you resonate with joy.

About Your Process
Today, look at your circle of joy. Is it round or irregular? Is it solid or wobbly? Is it permeable or impermeable? Is it flexible or rigid? Is it simple or complex? The more you can describe your circle of joy, the more you can access it if you find yourself during a distressful situation. When you are in a joyous and enlightened consciousness, notice the qualities or components of this consciousness. Noticing these characteristics can help you to more easily find your way back, like sprinkling bread crumbs (although, personally, I’d rather leave less edible markers because my bird friends are likely to think I have left the bread for them).

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.
• "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 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 manifest all things in association with joy."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
To "manifest" means to show or reveal or demonstrate plainly. It also means to be evidence of or to prove. You manifest physical reality from non-physical reality (Spirit). Joy is a powerful energy available to you to propel your desires into manifestation. Often there is a fear associated with a desire, especially an unrealized desire. Fear is also a powerful energy which propels manifestation, but manifestation of those things you most fear, unless you move through the fear to discover its positive opposite.

About Your Process
What do you most desire? What do you most fear? Let these be companion questions today — and try not to fear either the question or the answers that may surface. As you identify a desire, ask yourself if a fear operates amidst the desire. If there is no fear, so be it and bravo — you will soon manifest what you desire. If there is a fear, become acquainted enough with the fear to communicate with it. Ask the fear what it needs to tell you, as succinctly and quickly as possible. Let the fear be your friend, with whom you can communicate openly and honestly.

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.
• "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 creative 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 claim my joy.
I claim my power in all I do."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
I use the word "claim" to suggest action, not to suggest grabbing. When you are grabbing or taking, you are not in your true power. You may look powerful to yourself or to others when you grab. You may even feel powerful, at least temporarily, when you grab. This kind of "power" is short-lived, however. It is force. When you claim joy from inside yourself, you are empowered. When you are truly empowered, you do not grab or hit or blame or ridicule or complain. These are the actions of powerlessness. The power that is True Power equals joy.

About Your Process
Here are two situations to recall: (1) Remember a time when you felt powerful because you took or grabbed something from someone else. This may be a physical thing, air time in a conversation, a job, or an idea. Now, remember just before the grabbing (be honest), how did you feel? You felt disempowered, didn’t you? Or perhaps not quite disempowered, but certainly not truly empowered. (2) Remember a time when you felt powerful from the inside. Nothing that anyone said or did could change that feeling. Perhaps eventually you lost this, but right now, remember that time of true unshakable empowerment. Of these examples, which do you prefer to claim, (1) or (2)? Either choice is perfectly valid at different times, but just consider which do you prefer to live?

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:

• "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions" discusses decision-making in the new paradigm and the importance of consciousness when making a decision.
• "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 empowering 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 act with joy in my heart.
I speak with joy on my lips. I walk with joy in my feet."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
You may notice that sometimes you talk about the idea of joy or some other concept like honesty or integrity or freedom, yet find that truly living the idea is a challenge. To speak platitudes about joy is not enough. To repeatedly say you believe in joy is not enough. You must be the joy you talk about. You do not need to wait for anything. Claim joy now! You are here to live in joy. To claim joy, place your heart and lips and feet all in alignment with joy.

About Your Process
This is a "walk your talk" affirmation. If you have difficulty experiencing joy, consider some of the following questions. What do joyous people say? What do joyous people look like? How do joyous people walk? How do joyous people touch others? What do joyous people think about? What do joyous people laugh about? To what do joyous people say "yes"? Are you one of the joyous ones? If you are, hurray! If you are not, no need to wait — start today. Walk this talk.

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:

• "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.
• "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 an authentic 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

"Joy energizes my actions.
I re-negotiate my contract with the Universe
to advance along my path joyously."

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

About Today’s Affirmation
"Energize" is such a zingy word. It makes my shoulders lift up and my feet tingle to its vibration. Joy is energy. You are advancing along your path even though sometimes you may feel that you are stuck or blocked. It is an incredibly empowering concept to recognize that you create your own experiences. This is scary for some people, especially those who find themselves in circumstances they do not like! Please note that it is not an accusation, but rather an encouragement that if you do not like where/how/what you are, you can change it. I think that is one of the most empowering concepts you can embrace.

About Your Process
You probably already know the suggestion I am going to make: (re)view or (re)negotiate your contract with the Universe. Contracts are usually most effective in writing, but can be verbal or in one’s head and heart. Gather your helpers in Spirit: Spirit guides, angels, other beings of light. Honor your own belief systems as you clearly state your desires to your spiritual committee. For example, if you are uncomfortable in a relationship, clarify what assists you in living more joyously. If you feel overwhelmed in your job, describe the changes that would help you feel more aligned with your inner joy. You get the idea. Warning: Do not get trapped into believing that something outside yourself will bring you joy. The purpose of your contract is make adjustments (or affirm you like your circumstances) so that you feel a greater alignment with the joy from inside yourself.

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:

• "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 an energizing 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