5 Powerful Soul Affirmations, Soul Journey Poem
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Feed Your Soul
Soul affirmations are a way to look at nourishing your patient ancient soul and convincing your ego to play nice, cooperate and learn to share with others while letting your soul out to play. It’s a way to blend the wise with the younger part of self still in the learning stage.
Our egos are trained and shaped and often defeated by the family and national culture into which we are born. Once we become adults it is up to us to parent those parts of ourselves that have been undernourished, neglected. Often we have been denied acceptance, understanding and love.
An easy way to begin that journey is to start with soul affirmations. It allows our own soul to come out from under the lock and key of unbelief, finally able to help us in our daily lives, often healing us.
Affirmations are so simple on the intellectual level yet they have powerful effects on the emotional and spiritual levels. Try meditating on the simplicity of one for a few days or weeks, thinking of variations of your own. What you will find is that your soul will send up all your negative defeatist thoughts for you to see clearly. Then you can take action by applying the positive thought and statement to the negative. Eventually, the power of the negative beliefs fall away as you practice a healthier thought culture.
When I was working my way out of an abusive family culture, no matter how strong and tough I was, it was still evident to me there were negative thought “left-overs” – bad programming - that needed to be addressed. I refused to stay down or allow anyone to negatively define my confidence level so I started developing my own affirmations to help me get complete freedom. Since we just celebrated All Souls Day what better time to think of our souls and help heal ourselves? Here are a few affirmations that helped to change my life for the better!
5 Powerful Soul Affirmations
I can achieve - if only I allow it. I do achieve.
I can live happy - if I choose to practice choosing it. I choose to be happy.
I can learn whatever is required to fulfill my daily life and it’s in perfect timing, appearing right when I need it. I learn easily and it fits me perfectly.
I am not defined by what other people say to me. I define who I am.
I am loved. I am loved. I am loved. I am loved. I love.
Soul Awareness
Poem: Soul Journey
Sometimes we banish our best friend
When our awareness is young but
Our soul returns again and again
Offering daily help and new insight
Sometimes we deny our soul
Withering into the cold slowly
Our soul waits and pines to
Be free of its confining prison
Sometimes we loose our soul
When we choose to love another
Our soul rejoices to live abundantly
Offering kindness to spread around
Sometimes events sadly happen
When love goes wrong and ends
Our soul weeps to be joined again
Giving us strength to begin anew
Sometimes we are perplexed by life’s absurdity
The love heart confounds us, shattering fantasies
Our soul plunges the dark abyss of emotions to
Lift us back to safe ground and new understanding
Sometimes we revel in the wonderment
Transfixed by the starring moment
Our soul celebrates our latest discovery
Guarding carefully our dreaming time
Sometimes we are in tune with Nature
Inhabiting that perfect place of serenity
Our soul sighs in the beauty of resting union
Observing us present in Time with eternity
Sometimes we are out of tune with everything
Insisting upon our own pleasure and willful way
Our soul extends us a loving patient hand
Guiding us at a slower pace until we peacefully agree
Sometimes we rise up on new inspirations
Secure in the larger awareness of soul
Our soul gently cradles our expanding minds
Waiting, assisting in our next evolving step
Sometimes we suddenly conceive what is beyond us
Yearning to reach new dimensions undiscovered
Our soul cheers our efforts no matter how small
Protecting our new knowledge now conscious
Sometimes when reaching high too fast
Frightened of intense emotions flood rising
Our soul descends to cover with darkness
Quieting our fears, steadying us once more
Sometimes as we learn our inner depths
Struggling against all odds for illumination
Our soul warms us with healing inner fire
Powering us mightily for the Transition
Sometimes there are spiritual leaps forward
Forcefully exploding within and without
Our soul glimmers with rising anticipation
Savoring soon our completed inner union
Sometimes we are stressed to nearly breaking
Agonizing over the temporary and unimportant
Our soul braves the chaos of inner darkness to
Pull us back from the brink of wrong surrender
Sometimes we live as if disappearing invisible
Wandering and stumbling in the shifting fog
Our soul calls us, encouraging return to Hope
Singing soothing words on our long journey
Sometimes we turn inward ferociously
Blocking a world too much coming our way
Our soul cocoons us ever silent and vigilant
Rocking us sweetly on the churning stormy waters
Sometimes our ego performs painfully under many masks
Role playing for decades, often an entire life time
Our soul suffocates, groaning under heavy pretense
Stripping down unworthy deception and hiding lies
Sometimes we reach so high we forget how greedy
Grasping is not the same as eagerly reaching
Our soul steers us once more toward respect
Standing still with layering Time to greet us
Sometimes we arrive triumphant at our destination
Harmonized with Eternity’s shimmering playground
Our soul relaxes and melts into simple ecstasy
Knowing we will now turn back for others
Denny Lyon
Copyright 3 September 2009
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Hi Denny,
A good entry point for my own introspection before the Christmas season. Thanks for this illuminating poem. Both form and substance of your poem is beautiful!
Beautiful, Denny.
Hi, quietnessandtrust, thanks for stopping by, much appreciated! Never have been much for just skimming the surface of life because you get more out of life by digging deep to discover the hidden treasures.
Hi, franciaonline, thanks for visiting and your kind compliment! Now that I think about it, you are right, it's a good meditation preparing for the Christmas season, thank you!
Hi, Tatjana-Mihaela, thank you for your visit and lovely compliment!
Denny--these are just fantastic. I adore your work--you always seem to know the deepest of emotions. The images are beacons for thought and reflection. Bravo.
Hi, AID Y, thanks for visiting! Been doing daily posting on my 12 blogs, taking up waaaay too much time and not publishing enough for HP... but, at least I get to audition some work there first to see how it flashes or fizzles with the readers. :) This poem was a favorite with hundreds immediately and also reflects a lifetime of studying and learning - so it happens to be my favorite work of the moment these days.
If I jettisoned this planet Earth today I'd be happy to have this particular poem as my only writing legacy.
The art photos are awesome and are from my flickr contacts. Two of them are h.koppdelaney and alicepopkorn, both practicing Buddhists from Germany counterbalancing to my mystical Christian in America. Fun!
Very nice, Denny. Love all the photos; they're wonderful, as usual.
Hi, Nancy, thanks for the visit!
wow. nice.
Hi Denny, I am so glad I became your fan. Today I had that moment of being in harmony with nature and when I read your poem, I felt as though you had been where I was. So neat that that can happen. Even though the internet isolates us in some ways it brings us closer together.
Hi, storytellersrus, thanks for the read!
Hi, readabook, I try, so glad (relieved) to know I hit the mark for you. Thanks for the visit!
Awesome, inspirational, visually delightful, and your poetry is magnificent!
Awww, thanks Kebennett1, you are too kind... Thanks for your awesome visit and wonderful review!
Love the photos and the sense - choose positively everyone!
Photo Credits
Blue tree photo, no attribution available
Friendship Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Cold Soul Photo by Hamed Parham @ flickr
Whispering Secrets Photo by HAMED MASOUMI @ flickr
Tears: Baptism of the Soul Photo by honikum @ flickr
A Matter of the Heart Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
U will never know wonderment Photo by honikum @ flickr
Serene Photo by honikum @ flickr
You need to know what really happened Photo by honikum @ flickr
Inspiration Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Next Dimension Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Feelings Flying Too High Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Book of Transition Photo by alicepopkorn @ flickr
Lightness Photo by alicepopkorn @ flickr
Surrender Photo by alicepopkorn @ flickr
Invisible Photo by alicepopkorn @ flickr
The Introvert Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Ego Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Present in the Now Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
Spiritual Grace Photo by h.koppdelaney @ flickr
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quietnessandtrust says:
3 weeks ago
DEEP =)
~Shalom