Emotion/Feeling Affirmations

~ I expect to accept the reality of this feeling this year.

~ I intend to better attend to an emotion or feeling of mine this year.

~ I plan to note a strong emotion I feel here and now.

~ I am ready to practice checking out my feelings in various places and experiences now.

~ I am ready and willing to learn to note a good feeling of mine now.

~ I am ready and willing to learn to go into an emotion to see how I feel about it now.

~ I am ready and willing to learn to give a brief example now of what I believe led to my feeling. 

~ I am ready and willing to learn to know what it means to go out to check my feelings now.

Affirming While Not Feeling Affirmative

~ I choose to be more honest with myself here and now.
~ I am a custodian of the human race here.
~ The time is now.
~ I am ready to learn to teach as I am asked here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to accentuate the positive today.
~ I am ready, willing and able to learn to do that which is worthy of me here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to more promptly recognize a clear and present danger here and now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to feel safe enough now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to give myself a better chance to feel well enough protected now.
~ I propose to know how to repair a flaw of mine here.
~ I propose to fill in a gap in my understanding right here and right now.
~ I propose to learn here.
~ I propose to replace an old destructive attitude with a new consciously constructive attitude right here and right now.
~ I am willing to become more clearly aware of a destructive attitude of mine today.
~ I am ready to learn to identify a destructive attitude of mine here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to practice an consciously constructive attitude now.
~ I am ready to learn to do a systematic personal inventory here.
~ I propose to be a bit more aware of an attitude of mine of mine now.
~ I am ready to learn to consider the process involved here.
~ I am ready willing and able to learn to consider what it means to 'do that which comes naturally' now.
~ I intend to be more aware of what is happening this month.
~ I am ready to learn to find out what is going on with me here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to be more aware of what is going on with me this season.
~ I propose to know more about an motive of mine this year.

Feeling

I was listening to Nadja play the violin and thinking that it was wonderful that I could enjoy her playing very much even though I have difficulty remembering a melody.

That led me to think of a time I took some classes at Berkeley during the early part of the Vietnam war. I was a freshman, but sharing rooms with a number of Physics graduate students. A married friend of theirs was visiting. I knew he had been riding trains a short distance as a protest against the war.

On this particular visit Doug, the married student said to me, "You know what I did?" I answered, "No."
"I put put all of my son's  toys in the middle of the living room floor and stamped them to Pieces." I knew he meant toys related to violence.

His son was a pre-school child so I asked Doug how he had reacted. Doug said, "He looked up into my face and said, "Are you crazy?"  "Of course I told him that I was.

It was Doug who had broadened my musical interests.

As I continued to listen to the Nadja cd I thought that I had my crazy moments. I remembered a time that I was somewhere in Hispanic America at a well attended violin recital. The soloist was oriental and his first language was neither Spanish nor English.

I found his playing very satisfying. Toward the end I was particularly moved by the feeling he put into the piece. As he finished i came partially to my feet and said, "Once more with feeling!" I have a voice which carries well. I may have interrupted the applause. Ask me what happened.

Before my fellow audience members could mention tar and feathers, the soloist played it again with feeling.

When the house was nearly empty, I found myself standing by my seat. I may have cried a bit. I am sobbing now.

Say It Again

If it is true say it again. If it is not true for you, write it again so that it is.

1. I am ready to learn to consider the source for this feeling here.
2. I am ready to learn to consider the motive for this thought here.
3. I am ready to learn to clarify my thoughts and feelings about my doings here.
4. I am ready to learn to be clearer about how I keep tabs on myself here.
5. I propose to express myself more clearly this week.
6. I am ready, willing, and able to better know what it means to more nearly approach the best within me this day.
7. I am willing to reconsider the nature of the best within me today.
8. I am ready and willing to learn to consider the nature of the best within me here and now.
9. I am ready, willing, and able to learn to become more aware of what happened to me then.
10. I am ready to learn to think energy, agility, strength, and wit today.
11. Wisdom moves in humility today.
12. I am ready and willing to learn to engage in breath practice here and now.
13. I am ready to learn to better know the parameters of my ignorance today.
14. I am ready and willing to learn to attend to breathing here and now..
15. I am ready and willing to better understand the importance of the present tense today.
16. I propose to be a bit more aware of that which seems true here and now.
17. I propose to check the honesty of my act here and now.
18. I am ready and willing to learn to smile and enjoy a bit more here and now.
19. I propose to better know the nature of an honest act here and now.

Self Affirm

I seem to be reviewing a lot of my older affirmations these days. I guess that I am old enough to be reviewing my life. It's been amazing and wonderful. However, I am not yet fully perfected; so, I continue to affirm:
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be a bit more aware of a feeling of mine here.
~ I am ready to be a bit more aware of the nature of this emotion of of mine here.
~ I am ready to learn to know what it means to discover a greater sense of self today.
~ I am ready to learn to better know what it means to discover greater understanding of myself here.
~ I am ready to learn to remember here that I often discover best when I am not searching for something.
~ I am ready to learn to remember the limitations of my understanding of 'self' today.
~ I am ready to learn to better understand what it means to feel worthy here.
~ I am ready to learn to know the joy of my imperfection here.
~ I am ready to learn to remember here that I don't 'have to' anything.
~ I am ready to learn to expect to die or live here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to let change in my life be based on conscious choice here.
~ I am willing to do it on purpose today.

Old Affirmations Today

~ I see a choice here.

~ I see  an alternative here.

~ I see an option here.

~ I am ready to learn to sustain a strong enough flow of income to myself here.

~ I am ready and willing to appropriately express this feeling of mine here.

~ I am ready willing and able to learn to better use my judgement here.

~ I am appropriately loyal to myself here.

~ I am ready to learn to gain valuable information and insight from this experience here.

~ Life is good here.

~ I am giving myself a great day here.

~ I am good enough here.

~ I am worthy of happiness, health, strength, and joy here.

~ I express myself here.

~ I fill a need with pleasant dispatch here.

Me Affirmations

~ I am ready and willing to learn to keep the focus on myself right here and right now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to talk more appropriately today.
~ I am ready and willing to trust more appropriately here.
~ My feelings are vitally important to me here.
~ My feelings are fine here.
~ I attend to myself here.
~ I take care of myself now.
~ I am willing to take care of myself a bit better this year.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to talk about what is happening to me right here and right now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to feel a feeling today that I could not feel before.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be highly aware of a feeling of mine right here and right now.
~ I value my experience here.
~ I honor my experience here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to use my experience to my greater benefit here.