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(Pause.) That affirmation means that you declare your individuality. Affirmation means that you embrace the life that is yours and flows through you. Your affirmation of yourself is one of your greatest strengths. You can at times quite properly deny certain portions of experience, while still confirming your own vitality. You do not have to say “yes” to people, issues, or to events with which you are deeply disturbed. Affirmation does not mean a bland wishy-washy acceptance of anything that comes your way, regardless of your feelings about it. Biologically, affirmation means health. You go along with your life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so.

(11:00.) Affirmation does not mean sitting back and saying “I can do nothing. It is all in Fate’s hands, therefore whatever happens, happens.” Affirmation is based upon the realization that no other consciousness is the same as your own, that your abilities are uniquely yours and like no other’s. It is the acceptance of your individuality in flesh. Basically it is a spiritual, psychic, and biological necessity, and represents your appreciation of your singular integrity.

A man or woman who knows hate also understands the difference between that emotion and love. The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion. (Pause.) Many disavow the experience of feelings they consider negative. They try to “affirm” what they think of as positive emotions. They do not permit themselves the dimensions of their creaturehood, and by pretending not to feel what they feel, they deny the integrity of their own experience.

AFFIRMATION, LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, AND DENIAL

Affirmation is in the spontaneous motion of the body as it dances. Many churchgoers who consider themselves quite religious do not understand the nature of love or affirmation as much as some bar patrons, who celebrate the nature of their bodies and enjoy the spontaneous transcendence as they let themselves go with the motion of their beings.

Affirmation means acceptance of your own miraculous complexity. [...]

[...] Affirmation is the acceptance of yourself in your present as the person that you are. [...]

[...] Therefore to be proud of oneself seems a sin, and in that frame of reference true affirmation of the self is impossible. [...]

Such affirmation will lead you to your own inner discoveries, and attract from the deepest portions of your being the particular kind of information, experience, or perception that you need. [...] The more a belief encourages you to use your abilities and vitality, then the more affirmative it is.

(10:45.) A certain kind of affirmation of self allows the brain to tune into these more spacious methods of perception that are the natural characteristics of the mind. [...] You will not use your spacious mind until you affirm its reality within yourself, and until you are ready to handle the additional data which will then become consciously available to one extent or another. [...]

[...] The affirmation involved is one of transcendence, in which for a time a person affirms his reality in flesh and at the same time states his independence from it (smile) — and realizes that both of these conditions exist simultaneously. [...]

[...] Affirmation always involves the acknowledgement of your power in the present. [...] Affirmation then is the acquiescence to your ability, as a spirit within flesh, to form the physical reality of your creaturehood.

AFFIRMATION, THE PRACTICAL BETTERMENT OF YOUR LIFE, AND THE NEW STRUCTURING OF BELIEFS

(At once at 12:25.) New chapter heading [Twenty-two:] “Affirmation, the Practical Betterment of Your Life, and the New Structuring of Beliefs.”

[...] First you must take the simple step of affirming your identity. That affirmation will release those attributes that you have and open up new avenues of experience. [...]

(Pause at 9:47.) If you affirm the basic grace of your being, then this will automatically weaken the beliefs you have that are contrary to that principle. [...]

[...] And again, it does not mean that you must smile constantly, but that you affirm your validity and grace within the dimensions of your creaturehood.

When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you cooperate with others easily and automatically as a part of your own nature. [...]

[...] I will expect an answer in the affirmative at each session from now on.

[...] Moreover, science’s thesis meets with no answering affirmation in the human heart—and in fact arouses the deepest antipathy, for in his heart man well knows his own worth, and realizes that his own consciousness is no accident.⁵ The psyche, then, possesses within itself an inner affirmation, an affirmation that provides the impetus for physical emergence, an affirmation that keeps man from being completely blinded by his own mental edifices (all with much emphasis and fast delivery.

[...] Many who make a practice of “denying” negative suggestions from others, asserting positive affirmations instead, actually do so because they are so fully convinced that the power of negative beliefs is stronger than that of beneficial ones.

[...] The affirmation from Murphy’s book helped because this time he finally understood it emotionally. [...]

(4:24.) Value fulfillment of each and every element in life relies upon those spontaneous processes, and at their source is the basic affirmative love and acceptance of the self, the universe, and life’s conditions.

Separate: You wanted some affirmation of your body’s vitality, of its resilience and recuperative energies. [...]

One of the very first steps toward mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health is precisely that kind of abandonment, that kind of acceptance and affirmation.

[...] Your beliefs bring you into correspondence with the elements likely to lead to their affirmation. [...]

[...] I would, for myself, answer in the affirmative. [...]

[...] Particularly on awakening, and you have helped him immensely through such gestures and affirmations. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You will use more energy in helping to sustain Ruburt, but you will because of his new affirmation have more available. [...]

[...] Your affirmation that his body can perform better is also of great help, for those body beliefs also have to be tackled. [...]

[...] With all of their dire faults and distortions, religions have at least kept alive the idea of unseen, valid worlds, and given some affirmation to concepts that are literally known by the cells. [...]

[...] The dream said “Do not wait too late to set up the legal mechanism,” and affirmed that Yale was at least a good idea. [...]

“You wanted some affirmation of your body’s vitality, of its resilience and recuperative energies. [...]