How to Recreate Your Life
April 5, 2008
Do you remember that old song from years ago: “School days, school days, wonderful golden rule days. Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic’ ?”
The good old Three R’s. We’d like to share a different set of three R’s - three R’s that can transform your “definitely maybes” into “Definitely Definitelys.”
Recognize: Before we can change anything, we have to become aware of what needs to be changed. And our “sort of - kind of ” tends to wear costumes that make it hard to recognize. For example, how about the phrase “yeah, but?”
“Yeah, buts” are strong negative affirmations. (I am filled with glorious heath and energy yeah, but why do I feel so bad? OR yeah, but I’ve just been given a horrible diagnosis. I magnetize money, and have plenty to share and spare yeah, but I don’t really know where the money is going to come from to buy groceries this week! I am one with God and all is well yeah, but I sure don’t think God is doing His part!)
“When, then games” are how we trick ourselves into putting off our joy. (For example, we might say “I believe that what we give comes back to us multiplied — and when I get that new job, then I’ll start really tithing!” Another example is “I believe I a, connected with Divine Substance, and when I start getting my retirement income, then I’ll be able to have fun!)
“Mismatching words and actions” occurs when what we say and what we do don’t match. (For example, many companies have excellent Mission and Values Statements up on their walls, but the day-to-day actions of the leadership are totally opposite what these statements proclaim.)
Refute: Deny any power of other people’s attitudes to affect you. (I refuse to allow our attitude to have any affect on my attitude). Deny any power of appearance of lack, or illness, or fear to affect you. (There is no lack in my world. OR This perceived illness has no power over me.)
These statements are called denials — which means to declare to be not true; to declare as utterly false. We use denials to put our error thoughts where they belong. Denials are a way of talking back, refusing to give power to something ‘outside’ of us that seems controlling or restrictive.
Reprogram : A denial without an affirmation is a very dangerous thing! So we must fill the vacuum created by denials with powerful affirmations what we know to be truth. In the Gospel of Luke 11:24-26, Jesus tells the parable of the man who was cleansed of an evil spirit. However, the spirit returned, finding the “house” swept clean, and so it moved back in, with seven of its buddies, more wicked than he. This reminds us of how important it is to reaffirm our beliefs and reprogram our thinking, by following up denials with powerful affirmations!
In her classic, Lessons in Truth, Emilie Cady states: “to affirm anything is to assert positively that it is so, even in the face of all contrary evidence. Deny the appearance of evil; affirm good. Deny weakness; affirm strength. Deny any undesirable condition, and affirm the good you desire.”
The secret is to claim your affirmations with power — with faith! When you use a “sort of - kind of ” approach, you are simply wishing. When you affirm “Absolutely Positively,” from the strength of your Christ consciousness, you are speaking with a voice of power and Truth!
Our granddaughter graduated from Daisies - the pre-Brownies group. As a graduation gift, the leaders gave each girl a little book filled with pictures capturing the events they had participated in. We were struck by one of the pictures. The girls were lying on the ground, in front of a fire truck. The words above the photo were “Stop, Drop, Roll.” Our granddaughter explained that it was a phrase the firefighters used to tell us how to handle ourselves if we ever get caught in fire.
It really connected with us and so we applied it to the 3 R’s: STOP - Recognize the maybe’s that dilute your spiritual growth and happiness; DROP - Release error thinking and behaviors by denying their power; and ROLL - Reaffirm the transformative power of the beliefs, the Truths, of spiritual principles! Put the 3 R’s into practice so you take the Maybe out of Definitely.
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