Loving Affirmation: I Want to be More Loving in My Heart, An Article

It's easy to find loving affirmations in books and on the Internet and in personal development forums. One of mine is, quite simply: "I want to be more loving in my heart."

Nearly 20 years ago, my friend Dr. Michael Beckwith introduced me to the passage from which this loving affirmation is extracted. You may know about Rev. Michael from The Secret DVD. He's a very special person who has inspired many.

For a long time, I read the passage I'm quoting below every day. And then with the goings and comings of daily living, I stopped. Recently, I decided to create a greeting card with the passage to share with some of my friends. Recently, I shared it with my Empowering Practices Ezine Subscribers. Now, I share it with my web site Visitors.

Recently I've returned to the almost-daily practice of reading this aloud. It's a wonderful reminder of how I want to live my life. Hearing my own voice reading it has more impact than simply reading the words silently. It's as if the words become my own.

Here's the recording I've made for you, which lasts a mere 2 minutes, 28 seconds:

I like to suggest to people that they find one or more passages that they like to read aloud each day. It can be the same passage or many different ones. It can be written by you or someone else. The idea is to find something that's empowering or uplifting to you.

The deeper purpose is to resonate with the passage or passages or loving affirmation that you've chosen. When it becomes integrated in your consciousness, you're vibrating or resonating to the consciousness of the passage and the author. I'm not suggesting that you memorize the passage, although if that's your style and you can speak the words with deep feeling, by all means, do so. However, the mere repetition of words will be of very little value.

If you choose to read the same passage or loving affirmation each day, be certain it stays fresh. If it seems stale, select another, at least for a while. Or read other works by the same author to return to your favorite passage from time to time with even deeper meaning.

I want to be more loving in my heart. I want to be more loving. Often there are good and sufficient reasons for exercising what seems a clean, direct resentment. Again and again I find it hard to hold in check the sharp retort, the biting comeback when it seems that someone has done violence to my self respect and decent regard. How natural it seems to give as good as I get, to take nothing lying down, to announce to all and sundry in a thousand ways that no one can run over me and get away with it.

All this is part of the thicket in which my heart gets caught again and again. Deep within me, I want to be more loving in my heart. To glow with a warmth that will take the chill off a room which I share with those whose lives touch mine in the traffic of my goings and comings. I want to be more loving.

I want to be more loving in my heart. It is often easy to have the idea in mind, to plan to be more loving, to see it with the mind and give ascent to the thought of being loving. This is crystal clear. But I want to be more loving in my heart. I must feel like loving. I must ease the tension in my heart that ejects the sharp barb, the stinging word.

I want to be more loving in my heart, that with unconscious awareness and deliberate intent I shall be a kind, a gracious human being. Thus those who walk the path with me may find it easier to be loving, to be gracious because of the love of God which is increasingly expressed in my living. I want to be more loving in my heart.

As I read these words, I feel the meaning deep within me. For me, this is more meaningful than repeating a single affirmation statement -- even a loving affirmation -- again and again. The additional ideas add different perspectives on the subject and support the power of the affirmation.

Copyright © 2008 Marshall House, All rights reserved. Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant and Coach, has developed Empowering Personal Development at http://www.empowering-personal-development.com to encourage you on your path.

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"I Want to be More Loving in My Heart."

Loving Affirmation: I Want to be More Loving in My Heart

An Article By Jeanie Marshall