Positive affirmations/Manifestation

I get it. Even before I was “sick,” I wasn’t quite normal. I had physical limitations that others my age and even older didn’t have and rarely ever felt really good. Seemed I always felt tired, groggy headed, or headachy. I wonder if I have ever really known what true normal feels like.

Still, there was “before,” when I was as normal as I was able to be. A few years before I got sick, I was involved in a Christian dance ministry. I try to imagine myself dancing and twirling flags again with all of my might.

I have been sick so long now, that I have trouble even recognizing what my symptoms actually are. I have joint stiffness, muscle weakness and muscle fatigue, and numbness. The numbness is the one I have trouble noticing, but I think it’s to some degree all over my body.

Visualization is a big part of DNRS
My favorite is focusing on an earlier positive memory with all my senses.
I create a visualization around a memory so everything dont have to be true.

I really like one around when I got home from school when I was a kid and my mother had baked cinnamon buns with a glas of cold milk, Focusing on the smell of the buns. Sitting there with my brother and my mother asks how my day has been. Then my father joins after a while and we sit there having a good time.

When use visualization for the future I focus on a certain thing I have a problem with. It can be that I open a new surface pro tablet and dont think at all about checmicals.
That I travel with my girlfriend somewhere.
Eating something like onions that I cant eat now.

I have meditated for years and even before my illness. I see it as a quiet time to focus on breathing. If my mind wanders that is no problem. I just refocus on my breath when I notice it. I have used Headspace or just a timer.
I really love it.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 10/8/2019 1:57:21 AM (GMT-6)

It's not even trying to feel healthy or better necessarily, it's just visualizing myself elsewhere, in another location, like a fantasy of sorts. Like Sleep's exercise. Feeling like you are actually there. I can't remove myself from my current reality and immerse myself in a vision. I wish I could. It is a gift to be able to do that.

No offense but they've been predicting this is the end of days for every generation dating back to, well, almost 2000 years ago

I'm no expert, but I think it might be that God delays healing because when we are down on our luck, we spiritually grow the fastest and learn His important life lessons.

Not to hurt us, but to make us grow. Make us smart and wise and grow spiritually.

Kind of like fasting, the fact that you don't have the comfort of food for a day, it makes you focus on other important things.

Stripping you down of comfort. Getting really down to your core.

I'm not good at putting it into words but I hope you guys understand what I mean.

jb1994 , I understand. I'm sorry.

I heard in a song once:

God's favorites have a hard time! ;-)

Maybe God has really special plans for you. Making you even stronger than the average soul.

Lvg123 said...

I do positive affirmations all the time. The help me but I believe them. If I don’t believe them I read and have started saying “I want to believe I am healed”. Then after saying that sentence over many weeks I will move on to saying “I am healed”. If I don’t believe an affirmation my hearts start beating and I know it won’t work.

I am going to try this! Thank you! I hope it works. I just feel like when I say them, I don't believe them.

RainyCloud you are so right. I believe it 100%. He puts us through difficulties to test us and our belief in Him, and to encourage us to come closer to Him. It's a test of faith and trust in His process.

jb1994: Hang in there my friend. I totally get what you're saying. I am suffering big time just like you. But I take things one day at a time and I look back on the trying times that were short lived and God pulled me out of them. So I hold onto that hope and wait for Him to grant me relief soon. I also believe that God tests those He loves. Keep trying ok, I sure am. I have no choice. I want so desperately to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know it's there, just have to hold onto that hope. Some days are so so hard, but there is no option except to keep fighting, trying and hoping.

Don't give up!

Yeah sunfun it is a difficult task. I gave up to be honest. I have so much on my mind lately it's just too much effort. I am doing the asking God for blessings though. I'll take whatever I can get lol.

I've found spirituality through study in karma and reincarnation.

Perhaps there are unresolved issues from a past life that I have to overcome in this life through my current struggle?

Maybe it seems hokey and stupid, but that's how I cope with "the why."

In terms of visualizations and positive affirmations. I find to ask for the realistic. "Help me, help others." "Help me get through the day." "Guide me to what's right." "Pray for so & so who just lost her son."

If I make it too much about me or what I want or I think I need, fate/God seems to laugh.

Post Edited (ElizKA26) : 10/18/2019 12:03:00 AM (GMT-6)

Eliz, I was told in one of my past lives I was a child with anemia or another fatigue-related illness and this life I wanted to overcome it and not be a victim to it like I was then. It's a nice story but I don't know how much of it I believe haha.

I just don't want my struggles in this life to carry over in the next one, I feel like if reincarnation exists that is the purpose of it, to overcome them, but like I just don't want to deal with them period lol

JovaLyme said...

jb1994 said...
Eliz, I was told in one of my past lives I was a child with anemia or another fatigue-related illness and this life I wanted to overcome it and not be a victim to it like I was then. It's a nice story but I don't know how much of it I believe haha.

I would be inclined to believe absolutely none of that nonsense to be honest!

I can't believe people actually make a living peddling all that BS. For years I looked into all this kind of stuff, went to see mediums, psychics etc. My mother was into all that crap along with star signs. I grew up having my head filled with it all. My grandmother on my dad's side also claimed to be a white witch and put a spell (or curse as it turns out) on me when I was a baby.

It's not stuff that anyone should mess with and comes from a very bad place.

I'm not inclined to believe anything until I know it's real, that includes Judeo-Christian beliefs, Hindu, Islam...and also reincarnation, witches, spells, astrology. Its all religious/philosophical theory.

However, everyone has to have something that works for them. Maybe it's conventional religion, maybe it's alternative form of spirituality. Maybe it's reincarnation. I was raised believing in this. I was also baptized in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

I've had experiences of the unexplained...who knows? I can't say for certain anything from heaven, hell, reincarnation, whatever is real. The suffering I'm enduring in this life, and there's been a lot, has made sense to me through karmic/Hindu philosophy. That's how I cope. Everyone has their own way of going about life. I also believe in God.

I'm not however, into the occult! That is dangerous and something completely different than what we're talking about. If you're equating reincarnation with that, than I'm sorry, respectfully, you're misinformed.

Post Edited (ElizKA26) : 10/30/2019 7:18:54 PM (GMT-6)