for years i have healed myself by focusing on how i want to feel, not how i’m afraid i might feel. i believe deepak chopra when he tells me that scientific evidence shows that the physical cells of my body are eavesdropping on my thoughts. but where is the line between focusing and putting one’s head in the sand? i hear people who don’t style themselves spiritual scientists bragging that “they never get sick, so they won’t” or “that they’re good” or “they’re over it” (whatever those two statements mean). these statements seem to come with a side of not social distancing, not obeying safety orders and certainly not wearing masks or gloves in close quarters.
i have never been all that into affirmations, even though as a spiritual scientist i’m supposed to be. i was literally schooled in them. they are at their best powerful seeds to plant in the soil of consciousness that they may eventually grow and replace the weed thoughts that choke my experience of life. some examples of weed thought/unconscious affirmations that take root in my head are “nothing i do works,” “i am always going to be_______,” “my life sucks,” “i am not enough” “there’s something wrong with me.” if i focus on or believe these error/weed thoughts, they tend to become reality.
in spiritual circles, we like to affirm how we want to feel as a way of attracting or creating that experience. common affirmations are “i am loved” “all of life is supporting me” “everything is for me, nothing is against me” “i am a powerful creative being” and like that.
a few years back author and coach maria nemeth at the academy for coaching excellence https://acecoachtraining.com/ taught me a powerful exercise on how to gather evidence for a new conclusion. i immediately took to the process because it struck me as the “thinking woman’s affirmation.” instead of saying a magic phrase that i totally don’t believe and therefore that makes me feel like a fraud or slightly sick to my stomach, the new process encouraged me to be a sort of spiritual sleuth gathering evidence for a new possibility.
where i come from we believe that everything is spirit. god is not a man in the sky with a beard and a staff; god is the energy of love and intelligence that has formed itself into all things. that means spirit is not just an affirmation or a prayer; it is also a scientist or public health official’s recommendation. spirit is gloves and a mask.
since spirit is all there is and it is literally impossible to be separate from it, i take spirit with me today. i speak my word for health and wholeness for me and all people, for a cure for this virus. i know that everyone on earth is fully employed, that the universal spirit puts food on the table, a roof over the head, clothes on the back and love in the heart of every single person on earth. i know that no person, place or government is my source and that every person, place or government is an agent of source. i look for evidence that this is true and i take the actions i can take that are in alignment with my higher truth. i love my neighbors as myself and i love my god with all my heart. the lord is my shepherd i shall not want. and i wear my mask and gloves and stay 6 feet away because that is what is being asked of me.