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It is our joy to send you this Inspirational e-mail message, to offer you encouragement as you experience the wonder of finding your own Spiritual Path.
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Dear Spiritual Awakening Student -
On our Affirmations for Your Spiritual Awakening audio CD, in addition to our Twelve Awakening Affirmations, we introduce you to seven Release Statements to use in tandem with your Affirmations. (Proper instruction for using these statements is included with the CD)
They are:
I Release All Fear
I Release All Doubt
I Release All Need to Control
I Release All Need to Judge
I Release All Need for Approval
I Release All Need to Be Right
Release Statements are what Charles Fillmore, Co-Founder of the Unity Movement, used to call "denials". Several years ago, when the word “denial” took on the meaning of “refusing to own up to something” in pop psychology, we chose to use the term Release Statements instead, not only to side-step the negative spin that was being applied to the word "denial", but because we think the term Release Statements more clearly defines the purpose of the statements themselves.
In The Revealing Word, Fillmore describes how to best use "denials" or "release statements":
“A "denial" is a relinquishment and it should not be made with too much vehemence. Let us make our denials as though we were gently sweeping away cobwebs and our Affirmations, in a strong, bold, positive attitude of mind. When we poise ourselves in Divine Mind, our Affirmations and denials will be made in right relationship. We will know just when to let go of a thought and when to lay hold of another.”
Release Statements can truly clear the mental path and make it ready to receive the Affirmations. Keep in mind that your powerful Awakening Affirmations are intended to retrain your thought habits from negative to positive, not to change God’s mind about anything. God already knows that you are GOD’S OWN PERFECT CREATION. God created you perfect and never sees you any other way.
However, years of negative input and feedback from your earthly life experience may have you doubting your own perfection. By implementing the use of a Release Statement along with the statement of Affirmation, Ex: I Release All Need to Criticize Myself – I AM GOD’S OWN PERFECT CREATION, you may find yourself more ready and willing to embrace your own True perfection.
Or perhaps you have doubts sometimes when you say I AM A LIMITLESS BEING. Try saying first, I Release All Fear – I AM A LIMITLESS BEING and see if that doesn't feel more believable to you.
As Fillmore says, when we “poise ourselves in Divine Mind”, (don’t you love that wording), we will know when we need the Release Statements to “sweep away the cobwebs” of self-doubt, and when we don’t. Of course, as we use the powerful Awakening Affirmations over an extended period of time, the less self-doubt we feel.
Recently, while exploring more deeply the teachings of Louise Hay in her book, You Can Heal Your Life, we discovered an additional Release Statement that we would like to share with you. Hay suggests using it when we are having trouble overcoming a specific situation or habit.
The Release statement is: “I am willing to release the need for (to) _________, and then you fill in the blank. (Be sure, when you write your own version of this Release Statement not to substitute the term "my need" for "the need". It's best not to "claim" the need or personalize it because then it is more difficult to release.)
Example: I am willing to release the need to carry excess weight on my body – I AM A HEALTHY, WEALTHY CHILD OF GOD.
I am willing to release the need to hold a grudge against my ex-husband – LOVE, PEACE AND JOY ABOUND IN MY LIFE.
I am willing to release the need to have migraine headaches - I AM FILLED WITH A SENSE OF WELL-BEING.
I am willing to release the need to earn less money than I want – I AM A LIMITLESS BEING.
I am willing to release the need to direct my daughter's life – I AM WHO I AM AND I ALLOW OTHERS TO BE WHO THEY ARE.
I am willing to release the need to worry - THINGS ALWAYS WORK OUT FOR ME.
I am willing to release the need to keep working at a job that I don't like - I AM INTIMATELY CONNECTED TO ALL OF THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE.
I am willing to release the need to focus on what is wrong – I AM JOYFUL AND I AM GRATEFUL.
If there is a particular area of your life experience that appears to keep you in a “stuck place”, we encourage you this week to try using this powerful Release Statement to help you dissolve the mental obstacle that may be preventing you from fully internalizing the Truth behind the corresponding Awakening Affirmation.
The Truth is that YOU ARE A LIMITLESS BEING and THINGS ALWAYS DO WORK OUT FOR YOU. You have only to realize it and then watch your world expand in better ways than you can even imagine.
God Loves You and So Do We –
The Rev’s
John and Lauren McLaughlin
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Students and teachers frequently reverse roles. In fact, ancient Mystics tell us that we never truly internalize our most important lessons until we have the opportunity to teach them to another.
Rusty, one of our Spiritual Awakening Students, recently shared with us a story she discovered about a young boy and a middle-aged woman, who during a brief but significant period in each other’s lives, served each other as student and teacher. Then - as so often happens - they lost contact, only to find each other again years later when there was one more lesson to share. We liked the story especially well because it illustrates so clearly just exactly how we are so INTIMATELY CONNECTED TO ALL OF THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE and through that Power – inextricably to each other.
“When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in
our neighborhood. I remember the polished, old case fastened to the wall.
The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach
the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked
to it.
Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an
amazing person. Her name was "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know.
"Information Please" could supply anyone's number and the correct time.
My personal experience with the genie-in-a-bottle came one day while
my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer, the pain was terrible, but there seemed no point in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy.
I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger finally
arriving at the stairway. The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the
parlor and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in
the parlor and held it to my ear. "Information, please" I said into the
mouthpiece just above my head. A click or two and a small clear voice
spoke into my ear.
"Information."
"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone, the tears came readily
enough now that I had an audience.
"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.
"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.
"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.
"No," I replied. "I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."
"Can you open the icebox?" she asked.
I said I could.
"Then chip off a little bit of ice and hold it to your finger," said
the voice.
After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I asked her
for help with my geography, and she told me where Philadelphia was. She
helped me with my math. She told me my pet chipmunk that I had caught in the park just the day before would eat fruit and nuts.
Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary, died. I called,
Information Please," and told her the sad story. She listened,
and then said things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was not
consoled. I asked her, "Why is it that birds should sing so
beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?"
She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Wayne
always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."
Somehow I felt better.
Another day I was on the telephone, "Information Please."
"Information," said the now familiar voice. "How do I spell fix?" I asked.
All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. When I
was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my
friend very much. "Information Please" belonged in that old wooden box back
home and I somehow never thought of trying the shiny new phone that sat on the table in the hall.
As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood
conversations never really left me. Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity I
would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how
patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a
little boy.
A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in
Seattle. I had about a half-hour or so between planes. I spent 15 minutes or so
on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then without thinking
what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information
Please."
Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.
"Information."
I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying, "Could you please
tell me how to spell fix?"
There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess
your finger must have healed by now."
I laughed, "So it's really you," I said. "I wonder if you have any
idea how much you meant to me during that time?"
I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your call meant to me. I
never had any children and I used to look forward to your calls."
I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked
if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.
"Please do", she said. "Just ask for Sally."
Three months later I was back in Seattle. A different voice
answered. “Information."
I asked for Sally.
"Are you a friend?" she said.
"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this," she said. "Sally had been
working part-time the last few years because she was sick. She died five weeks
ago."
Before I could hang up she said, "Wait a minute, did you say your
name was Wayne?"
"Yes." I answered.
"Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case you
called.
Let me read it to you."
The note said, "Tell him there are other
worlds to sing in. He'll know what I mean."
Some relationships that once seemed very important to us just faded away on a pleasant note and others broke off with a bang - but there is no doubt that each one was significant in its time. And if our full experience with those people wasn't finished, we will meet again. Even our toughest teachers helped us to grow, to become more sure or ourselves, to be more grounded in knowing who we are and why we are here. And so, for each significant relationship, past, present and future, we can truly say, I AM JOYFUL AND I AM GRATEFUL. THINGS ALWAYS WORK OUT FOR ME.
If you tried to count all of the people who have passed through your life that made a significant difference, you would need a super calculator. Some of those people who boosted you along, you may not even remember - like the doctor or mid-wife who delivered you, for instance. But there are a few special people whose interaction with you was truly life changing; and from time to time, it's important to think about those angels - like “Information Please”.
Your memories may take you from a childhood pal – a “best friend” from whom you were once inseparable – to a favorite aunt, or grandfather or pet turtle. You may have had a short-term but meaningful relationship with a teacher, or a roommate, or a boyfriend; or a lifetime one with your older brother. Each relationship – each one – each student you had the opportunity to teach and teacher you were blessed to learn from, stands as proof that GOD LOVES YOU ALL THE TIME and always sends you the person you need at exactly the right moment.
If in your "remembering", you feel drawn to contact an old soul from your past – why not do it – just like the man in our story did?. It could be, that you, too, have one more lesson to learn, to teach and learn.
The Rev's
John and Lauren McLaughlin
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