Affirmation Power Blog

It’s a brand new day, a new start – where do you begin? The place to start is where you are right now.
It’s easy to feel lost and confused when you expect a clear master plan to unfold. In actuality, the master plan does exist, with every small step you take. The actions you take [...]

I’ve been contemplating my eyelids for over 30 years. It’s been a marvelous journey. The simple act of closing my eyes and emptying the mind has been completely life-transforming. While the benefits of meditation are truly astounding, there are certain pitfalls to be aware of.
1 - Meditation as Escape
Meditation can be so enjoyable that one [...]

There’s a revolution going on.

Amy and I just got home from a 4 day Conscious Growth Workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas is somewhat of an incongruous place for conscious growth, but conscious growth can be realized no matter where you are. It was an intense period discovering one’s alignment with respect to Truth, [...]

I used to think way too much. I would continually ask myself questions over and over again and ponder deeply in a confused miasma of circular thinking. I was addicted to it. My wife would tease me, “Be careful — your head might explode!”
The mind is designed to generate thought, but sometimes we get into [...]

I think we think too much. Don’t get me wrong, I think the mind is an amazing tool to help us live and survive in this world, but sometimes it feels like my incredible thinking machine has a life of its own!
When I start thinking, thoughts seem to morph from one thought to another. “I [...]

As a coach, I’m in the business of helping people find solutions to their lives. I’ve found that it’s not uncommon for clients to know what they don’t want but few know what they do want.
They tell me how unhappy they are in their current jobs or lives but they are unwilling to invest the [...]

Knocking down the walls of conditioning and ego opens up new vistas. Your perspective widens. Expansion reveals a deeper intelligence, awake and alive, pulsating with loving energy. I go to this place when I meditate. It’s the Ground of Being, and this is my home.
Remembering the deeper states of awareness in your daily life and [...]

The mind itself is intangible, in fact it does not exist. The surest way to control it is to seek it. Then its activities cease. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi

Enlightenment is your essential being. It is your natural state. There is nothing to be attained, you are already enlightened. When all layers of the onion skin are [...]

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. -Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. -Mother Teresa

I was amazed in reading a review of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light that the saint from India had [...]

Lately, I’ve been meditating on the heart center. As a result I’ve enjoyed new experiences and realizations. Since the heart is at the center of our being, and many people protect and keep the heart constrained, it is important to be aware of the necessity for its opening and purification.
Releasing and clearing negative emotions like [...]