Today's Affirmation

 

"Today, I will be truthful, with myself and others."

 

 

My good friend Rachelle, a wise, caring, and loving soul, shared with me that people lie for 5 different reasons:  (1) to avoid consequences, (2) to be safe, (3) to be in control, (4) to be right, and (5) to look good.

 

What stands out to me is number two:  to be safe.  When we feel threatened, our survival instinct kicks in and we do whatever we can to protect ourselves from danger and harm.  The form of the danger or the impending harm is contingent on our own perceptions of the damage that can be done to us.  If we feel we are in danger, even if the danger isn't real, then our survival mode kicks in.

 

Sometimes the survival method of lying moves to the front of the line, and before we know it, we are voicing untruths.  Other times, we engineer the untruth so that we will be prepared IF a threat occurs.  And other times, we simply refrain from responding.

 

I don't think any this is bad necessarily, it is just the way we have always operated.  (Unless it is a chronic situation-then help may be required.)

 

When we disclose information, it is NOT necessary to disclose EVERYTHING.  We get to decide, specifically, how much information is required to satisfy the situation.  Sometimes telling the WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH is hurtful or painful to ourselves or others.

 

I don't have any definitive answers about when to tell the truth or when to refrain or when to just out and out lie.  I really don't.  We each must wrestle with this issue for ourselves.

 

I do know that sometimes trusting a person enough to tell them the truth is important, risky, but important. 

 

Today, it is my turn to tell the truth about something.  I have lied for the very reason of feeling threatened and in need of protection, but today, I will shed the cloak of the lie (more like an omission) and just trust and disclose the reality.  Once I put it out there, it is out there, but I know that Universe is supporting my process and gives me comfort.

 

So, dear, dear, friends, for today, consider the TRUTH and rely on Universe to carry you through the situation. 

 

In Love and Light-always,

Robin

 



Today's Affirmation

 

"Today I will consciously surrender to my Higher Power and feel confident and trust that my Higher Power will carry me through the struggle."

The reason it's called a struggle is because, well, it is a struggle.  It's painful and difficult.  We look out at the proverbial battlefield, and we each have one, and wonder, "How do I do this?  Do I have the energy and the resources to fight today?"  What if we just, like our favorite pet, the dog, simply just lay down, give in, let it overtake us?

Sometimes this is a hard choice.  We may want to just give up, lay down and let the situation overtake us, consume us, but in doing this, we set off a chain reaction of events that bring on a whole set of situations that  we are not equipped to deal with, and what then?  Do we just continue to lay down?  Just continue to give in?  Just abdicate our entire lives?  Go live in a cave in Tibet (although sometimes the idea is appealing)?

Perhaps it is time to surrender.  Surrender is very different from giving in.  Giving in connotes defeat.  Surrender implies knowing that we can no longer do it on our own and require Higher Assistance.  Surrender implies being at a point when we say to ourselves and to the Universal Source, "I am at my breaking point, I need help.  Carry me through this.  Show me, clearly, the road to travel and my best course of action in this situation.  Lead me where I need to go because I cannot get there on my own.  Help me."

So, dear friends, do not despair.  Reach out to your Higher Power and give it over into the hands that can hold you up, sustain you, carry you through to the other side. 

Surrender.  Don't just give in.

In Love and Light-always,
Robin

Today's Affirmation

 

"Today I will trust the Highest Power That Is and make a leap of faith."

There comes a time in each of our lives when we are on the brink of change.  We are asked to make a leap of faith.  It feels like standing on the edge of a cliff and seeing the other cliff farther away than we can jump.  There we are standing there with hundreds of feet below us and across from us and we ask ourselves, "What the heck am I going to do?"

Option one-Play it safe.  Back away.  Walk away.  Go back to the same way we have been living.  Feeling unsatisfied, mediocre, incomplete, unsatiated..

Option two-Trust.  Jump.  Move on.  Move closer to the goal, the dream.

Hard choice.  It is easy to just stay where we are:  safe but unhappy.  It is much harder to trust and jump.  But at some point, we have to decide, we have to move, we have to ask ourselves, "Is where I am better than where I could be?"

I am, myself, standing on the edge of that gorge, asking myself the same exact questions. 

The people around me, and maybe the people around you are encouraging you, but not in the way you and I need to be encouraged.  They are afraid for us; they are encouraging us to stay where we are, we have good thing going, why change, upset the apple cart. 

But deep inside of me, deep inside of you, we are screaming for release, we are screaming for change, we are screaming for new life.

Well, the only way to get it is to push those who safer encouragements away and just close our eyes, say a prayer, trust in the Highest Power that Is, and then stretch our feet and move across the abyss.

If we can find the courage to do this, Universe will support us and keep us from falling.  Universe will see to it we have everything we need to move from one side to the other successfully.  After all, isn't it Universe who brought us here in the first place.  If Universe did, indeed, bring us to this brink, then, then shouldn't we trust enough to know that we will be safe.

I don't know about you, but I am going to jump.  Come with me.

Today's Affirmation

"Today, I will love and nurture those that I love-my pet(s), my gardens, my family."

Early in the morning, each morning unless it rains, I like to take a slow walk around my gardens.  I like to touch each of the trees and greet them.  I close my eyes and focus on each one.  I still my mind and heart and listen to the energy. 

My plants and trees talk to me.  Each of them is different, feels different, has a different personality.  By doing this, I can discern each's temperament, their needs, and then follow through with trimming or fertilizing, or repotting, or repositioning.

I love my gardens, my trees, and I treat them all with love and care.  They, in turn, bloom and blossom, and bear fruit and vegetables.  They grow tall and full and green. 

Some people feel about dogs or cats or other animals the way I feel about my gardens.  It doesn't really matter if dogs or cats or birds or gardens are our interest, we all need something to love and care for and nurture. 

So take extra time today and "listen" to those you love.  Get down on the level of your dog or cat or gardenia, and hold it lovingly.  Tough your forehead to him, and send your loving thoughts into them.  Listen with your heart.  Do this frequently, and before you even realize it, you, too, will be able to hear the thoughts and feelings of your beloved pets and plants.

Love them as they love you.

In Light and Love-Always,
Robin

Today's Affirmation

 

"Today, I will embrace my personal journey.  I will step onto the road that leads to my personal transformation.  Universe supports my journey and transformation."

Because we are human, we are subject to all of the human frailties, all of the lower aspects of character.  It is up to us to conquer these frailties and overcome these lower aspects of character.

Easier said than done.  We have a tendency to turn and run when these frailties come into the light.  We would rather push them back down into the depth than bring them out into the bright sunlight.  We would rather lock them away deep, deep down where we think they belong instead of exposing them to bright sunshine.

We want to do this because we  may be afraid to confront them or because we don't feel we have the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual resources to combat them, or because they may be unsavory and we don't want to admit they are a part of us.

But they are part of us.  We don't have to like them, but we should own them.  By owning them, we can then move into amending them.  These frailties may never go completely away, but we can find a way to master them.  By doing so, we progress.  We come closer and closer to who we truly are meant to be. 

Our humanness involves journey.  It involves traveling from one state of being to another state of being.  It involves moving ourselves from who we are to who we want to be.

So don't be afraid to confront your frailties.  Be brave and do it.  You won't be sorry.

Begin your journey today.  Embrace the journey.  Learn as much as you can.  Begin your personal evolution.  You will be pleasantly surprised at who you can truly become when you embrace the work that leads to your transformation.

In Love and Light, Always,
Robin