I love this song we were singing last night in the singing group ( I missed one of our classmates there who is usually coming ) :
In unserem Leben da fließt eine Kraft die uns stets zusammenhält.
Es ist die Liebe zu Gott und den Menschen und der Natur.
Ein jeder findet die Einheit in seinem eignen Herzen nur.
Dort ist die Tür zu dem bleibenden Frieden der ganzen Welt.
I try a translation now:
In our live there is flowing a power that always hold us together.
It is the love for god, people and natur.
Everyone is finding unity (oneness) only in his heart.
There is the door for the remaining peace of the entire world.

I wish all of us remaining peace in our hearts. Monika

Negative affirmations

Most of us do not realize we are mentally (and mostly unconsciously) repeating affirmations to ourselves constantly! Alas, many of these are negative: "I can't do it!" "I am a failure." "I am too _____ (fill in the blank...fat, ugly, stupid, old)" "I am not enough." Negative affirmations affect us, whether we are aware of them or not. What affirmations do you constantly repeat? Are they mostly affirming and uplifting? Or are they mostly defeating? Do they enhance or deplete your life's energy? Perhaps you would like to make a conscious decision to become aware of the self-talk that goes on in your head. If you like, do some writing to help bring the unconscious into consciousness. As you become aware of harmful habits of thinking, healing begins - and this is a happy affirmation!

Positive Affirmations

     The affirmations below are not really meant to be positive affirmations. They are meant more as ways to bring you back into reality when you have slipped into frustration, irritation, etc. They are reminders. They are contemplations. If, for example, you are frustrated and irritated because life is not going according to your plan...

Yesterday I again asked the angels and my spiritual guides to comfort me. I found myself in intensive emotional reactions when I really opened myself to the possibility to receive what I asked for. To be open to receive implies an imense widenes. I do not yet know how far this goes and I feel a little scary with this field.
Love to all of you
Monika

I'm getting it!

First, hi to Annie, I see you are comment #56 up above in the school introduction. Good to see you back.

I want to share my understanding that my thoughts are not original, especially my complaining, negative, fearful thoughts. The same thoughts buzz around everyone's head. My contracted thoughts of fear and limitation are the same that everyone else has. I cannot tell you what a relief this is. I really get it. It is not just me. It is the same for everyone. Maybe the story changes, but the end result is always the same - fear, negativity, limitation, anger, resentment, you name it. Thanks school. Three cheers for us!

More on thoughts...

I have decided to use my classroom to learn more about myself. Myself? I know myself is not really this physical body, thoughts, & emotions. "I AM!" Just the same, I normally identify with physical reality as being me. Today I will try to apply what I am learning in our School.

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: thoughts

YOUR OPEN CLASSROOM!: thoughts

Hi Kevin,

as often I am a bit late in the classroom and just read your "thoughts". I am sure our egos love negative thoughts, because we like somebody to feel sorry for ourselves, the ego likes all this attention. We try to imagine how things would be different if we would have taken a different path, other people would have behaved differently and get angry and jelous... Sometimes when I feel down I "like" beeing down; I don't want to laugh, I dont want to join happy people, I like to be miserable and feel sorry for myself. Luckyly my downs never last long, and with the help of the school I become more aware of my silly ego and its little tricks. I know that we can't change the past and so I try to smile at these negative thoughts to let them go. Easier said than done, but it is worth a try. I hope you can give your negative thoughts a little smile next time they pop up.
Best wishes, with love Gabi