Every Time – the affirmations

Readers will notice that the affirmations in “Every Time” can be extracted and read separately.

I feel gratitude for what I can do
I am thankful for where I am
I see the learning in all that comes to me
I appreciate everyone’s gift, and my own
I am grateful for what others bring
I love unconditionally
I feel the Qi
I breathe
I listen with my heart
I accept and embrace who I am
I do what feels right
I see rejection as setting healthy boundaries
I go through the fear
I remember what’s important
I accept what is
I embrace patience
I follow my heart

Every Time

Every day, every night, every thought, every action, every moment
Every time
I have a choice

Instead of feeling I can’t do something
I feel gratitude for what I can do

Instead of regretting I can’t go somewhere
I am thankful for where I am

Rather than avoiding difficult experiences
I see the learning in all that comes to me

Rather than consider my creativity as less than someone’s
I appreciate everyone’s gift, and my own

Instead of judging I’m better or worse than someone
I am grateful for what others bring

Rather than doubt someone’s love
I love unconditionally

Rather than ruminate
I feel the Qi

Rather than tightening my body
I breathe

Instead of trying to fix someone
I listen with my heart

Instead of judging myself as broken
I accept and embrace who I am

Instead of doing what I “should” to please others
I do what feels right

When feeling excluded
I see rejection as setting healthy boundaries

Rather than stew in my own juices
I go through the fear

Instead of fussing over a forgotten thought
I remember what’s important

Before I want something else
I accept what is

Rather than living in a state of urgency
I embrace patience

Rather than following others
I follow my heart

Every time I make these choices
I am saying to myself
I am worthy, I am lovable
And my heart opens more

Into the Fire

Reaching out, being rewarded
Then feeling caged
By my aching body
Wanting to go somewhere
Do something
To find release

While knowing that this somewhere
This something
Really lies within
And I don’t have to try
To push, to analyse
To find it

Because I’m not in a cage
It’s a gift
Holding my feet
To the fire of rebirth
So I can feel
The depth of my passion

So this Christmas
I choose to take
One step at a time
Into the fire
Into myself
Into life

 

All About Me

I’ve said so long
There seems so few
Of those with whom
I can share my truth

Now I see
I’ve judged some near
Not good enough
To be sincere

Others glow,
A light that shines
But it seems
They’ve not the time

But underneath
There’s more to see
It’s I who chooses
To not believe

I create a storm
Of fire and ice
To keep at bay
Protect my life

This serves me not
This old old game
Time to shift
And shine again

For this I need
To bare my heart
And now have found
A place to start

So I let go
Of victim stance
And stand instead
In my own pants

Next to my body
I must go
Open channels
To the flow

Then the deepest
Work of all
Feel the feelings
Behind the wall

What a Time

What a time
To write poetry
To feel the magic
Tugging at me
To be free

What a time
To feel the shifts
To believe them at last
Just taking root
Against force of habit

What a time
To feel the joy of grief
The well of emotion
Enticing me
Knowing patience is key

What a time
To lie awake
To accept the now
Without trying to blame
God or myself

On the River

Old thoughts of victimhood
Bubble and surge
Yet they no longer serve
And fade to the edge

My thoughts are chaotic
Let them bounce back and forth
The struggle for words
Shows the search for my truth

I flow swiftly downstream
Beginning to feel
Still dogged by fear
But starting to heal

Downstream at last

Enough cataracts
That was intense
Time for self-love
Time to work with my ego
In a different way
It only got more frantic
When I pushed so hard
But I learned what I most needed to

So it’s time to teach
That lovely, powerful ego
To focus on being loving and kind
And for me to acknowledge
My perfection: in self
And all I have done
And will do