If we are using an affirmation that is not working, we need to look
at "where we were coming from" when we chose it.

Thought patterns and intentionality can be very powerful but they
will NOT HAVE POWER if they conflict with the divine plan for our
lives, or the divine plan for the lives of others.

Below I offer some lessons that I have had to learn "the hard way" I hope that
you find them helpful...

Health, Wealth & Well-being Affirmations Can Fail!
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For example, I may want to have more money to make life easier for myself or my
loved ones but if I, or they, need the experience of poverty or ill-health in
order to change our lifestyle/thought patterns or to learn a "soul lesson"
(personal growth), my affirmations will be a waste of time and effort.

"Well-being" affirmations may stem from a desire to have life
easier, but of course, the path of growth and healing is often not
the "quick fix" short-term "soft option".

Sometimes we need to go forward through suffering/hardship/loss
rather than prevent, avoid or be relieved of it. The reason is that
suffering/hardship/loss may be a place where we can re-connect with
a forgotten part of ourselves (Soul-loss and Soul Retrieval).

Affirmations can fail us if we try to use them to compensate
for "soul loss".

Soul loss manifests in 3 main ways:

* Inner emptiness
* Outer life emptiness
* Lack of courage/strength/power/potency

Soul-loss and Soul Retrieval
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If your affirmation is not working, this may be a symptom that you
are suffering from "soul loss".

i.e. if our soul energy/identification is weak, we will be tempted
to attach to affirmations that FOR US (they may work fine for
others) are inappropriate because they are driven by:

* Negative aspects of our ego (selfishness, self-centredness,
craving, addiction)
or
* Our PERSONA (= the neurotic "mask" whereby we make ourselves
appear acceptable, useful or "special")

You can peruse an overview of Soul-loss, Soul Remembrance and Soul
Retrieval here:
http://www.sunflower-health.com/popups/shamanic.htm

Conclusions
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1. Don't keep straining at affirmations that aren't working!

2. Don't give up on all affirmations just because your present one
is "off target"!

3. When an affirmation doesn't work it's a good message that we need
to look again at "where we were coming from" when we chose that
affirmation.

a) Was it our ego?

b) Our persona?

c) Our deepest, intuitive (soul) wisdom?


Good luck!
Brother Michael
http://www.brothermichael.org.uk