DICTIONARY OF SELF-AFFIRMING POWERFUL QUOTATIONS DICTIONARY OF SELF ...

457 Pages·2001·1.62 MB·English

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By Christian H. Godefroy
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Contents
Introduction ...................................................................3
A .................................................................................... 10
B.....................................................................................36
C .................................................................................... 47
D .................................................................................... 78
E...................................................................................103
F ...................................................................................125
G .................................................................................. 152
H .................................................................................. 160
I.................................................................................... 181
J .................................................................................... 204
K .................................................................................. 209
L................................................................................... 211
M .................................................................................229
N .................................................................................. 254
O .................................................................................. 261
P...................................................................................272
Q .................................................................................. 306
R...................................................................................307
S ...................................................................................331
T...................................................................................387
U .................................................................................. 408
V .................................................................................. 412
W .................................................................................418
Y...................................................................................437
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Introduction
What power do words have?
You surely remember fairy tales from your childhood where the
wicked queen cast a spell on the hero. The spell usually consisted of
some gesture, accompanied by a “Magic Formula” with powerful
effects. Sometimes the spell was a curse or malediction (literally: words
which convey a wish that harm come to someone).
During your childhood people around you cast all kinds of spells
on you. Very often you were not aware of it, but Magic Formulas -
transformed into so-called “killer sentences” - had their effect on your
mind, and continued harming you in subtle ways.
Let’s look at a few examples. Has anyone ever said something to
you like:
- You’re really good for nothing.
- You’ll never make it.
- Blockhead!!!
- You’re just a chip off the old block!
- You’re even worse than your mother.
- You’re not going to start crying again, are you!?!
- Stop trying to be so special...
- It never fails : you’re incapable of being on time.
- What an idiot you are!
- You have absolutely no sense of humor.
- You’re always sick.
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- You just don’t have any talent.
- You should never...
Every time someone used the words “be” or “have” or “always”
or “never” when referring to you, chances are they were casting a
harmful spell on you.
How harmful spells affect your life
Because these kinds of sentences were stored in your subconscious
at an age when you were not able to question their validity, they con-
tinued to affect you in subtle ways right into adulthood.
Of course they may be more specific:
- Beware of women.
- Beware of men.
- You’ll never understand anything about math.
- Mechanics is a man’s job.
- Never trust a Frenchman.
- Making love is dirty.
These kinds of thoughts may not prevent you from getting mar-
ried, making love or repairing your car, but the causes for your lack
of confidence, for the problems and failures you encounter in life, can
very often be traced back to these negative seeds.
You are also casting spells on yourself
Do you sometimes talk to yourself? Of course you do, just like
everyone else. And do you sometimes blame yourself for the way
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you behave? Are you ever negative about yourself? Of course you
are.
- What an idiot I am!
- I’ll never make it.
- I’m always so clumsy when I’m with other people.
- I’m just not lucky.
- I’m going to get shafted (taken for a ride) again.
- I’m not good enough.
- I’m so much less talented than...
You’ve taken up where the others have left off, and are casting
spells on yourself! Ideally you would identify these kinds of negative
reproaches and replace them with stimulating, positive thoughts
which liberate you, make life easier, and affirm your worth instead of
inhibiting and prohibiting you.
How to weed out these negative thoughts?
Using the Dictionary of Self-Affirming Powerful Quotations is
an excellent way to discover where these seeds of failure, anxiety,
health or relationship problems, etc. are hidden. It’s as if, by consult-
ing the dictionary, you are trying to defend yourself against them.
Whenever a positive thought makes you uncomfortable, or bothers
you without your knowing exactly why, or just seems stupid, take it
as a sign. Continue working with that thought until it reveals its se-
cret meaning to you.
You can also make a list of the difficulties you have to face, the
problems you encounter, and then use a corresponding positive
thought as an antidote.
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Try to remember what was said to you just before you started
feeling “down on yourself” or depressed.
How to neutralize the power of negative spells
Many people before you have had to deal with these kinds of
negative thoughts. That’s why therapists, doctors, and specialists in
the art of suggestion have developed antidotes in the form of posi-
tive affirmations. The Dictionary of Self-Affirming Powerful Quota-
tions offers you a selection of the best of these.
Better still, they’ve all been transcribed into the first person (I) so
that you can use them to replace the negative spells you are casting
on yourself. Here’s what to do:
1. Using the alphabetical headings and index, find a positive
thought that can serve as an antidote. If you like you can copy
the structure of existing affirmations to create your own new
ones.
2. Read it carefully, out loud if possible. Then repeat it silently to
yourself. Copy it on a pad or in a notebook that you carry
around with you. Make it a theme of meditation: while driving,
or riding on the train or bus, or lying the beach - any time your
mind starts wandering - repeat the positive thought.
3. Use altered states of consciousness resulting from relaxation,
meditation or self hypnosis to impregnate your subconscious
more deeply. You can tape an hypnosis-inducing text on cassette,
followed by your positive thought(s), and then a wake-up mes-
sage.
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4. Discuss your situation with a friend or close relative. Exchange
points of view with persons who do not have the same problem
as you do, in order to understand how their minds work, and
eventually to use them as models for your own behavior. Also
try to read personal accounts of how others have successfully
dealt with the same type of problem.
5. Allow at least 21 days for your inner transformation to take
place. If you are trying to make some very drastic changes, per-
severe for at least 3 months.
A marvelous tool for personal development
The Dictionary of Self-Affirming Powerful Quotations is a con-
stant companion, always ready to inspire you and guide you along
the paths of life. It will help you learn to know yourself better, and
exploit the formidable power of your subconscious to help you attain
your goals.
You can also use it as an instrument of divination: just ask your-
self a question, and then open the book at random. You’ll be sure to
find an answer, or at least its essential elements.
Copy the thoughts you find most inspiring. The simple act of
writing out a thought helps make it your own.
If you’re living through a difficult period in your life or feel that
you’re under a lot of stress, immerse yourself in the Dictionary of
Self-Affirming Powerful Quotations and let it wash away all the nega-
tive influences and emotions you experience during the course of a
day.
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And if you happen to be a therapist or teach some form of relax-
ation or meditation, or if you want to use positive suggestions to help
your children, the dictionary will provide you with a constant source
of counsel and guidance.
A valuable tool in your interpersonal relations
Does your child have a tummy ache? Does he or she have trouble
concentrating? Is your sister in the process of rebuilding after a diffi-
cult divorce? Is your partner having business problems?
Open the Dictionary of Self-Affirming Powerful Quotations to
the appropriate page. Select one or a number of sentences. A single
positive thought can change your life. It can be the branch that saves
a drowning person, the talisman, the blessing that breaks the evil spell.
Offer these thoughts to others as you would offer a bouquet of
flowers. The Dictionary is like a jewel box, the positive thoughts it
contains are like precious gems. Offer them as gifts to your friends
and loved ones. And like jewels they will reflect the light of love and
dispel the shadows of despair.
As you’ll soon discover, this dictionary is an amazing collection
of positive thoughts with almost magical powers. It’s almost like an
Aladdin’s lamp, ready to grant all your wishes. All you have to do is
keep reading it. In no time at all your life will become simpler and
easier, free of all the obstacles which have been holding you back in
the past.
Life gives you what you expect of it, on condition that you culti-
vate positive and creative thoughts. And the Dictionary of Self-Af-
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firming Powerful Quotations will help you change your way of think-
ing. You’ll see opportunities where others see only obstacles, solu-
tions where others see only problems, lessons to be learned where
others see failure, and beauty where others see nothing at all.
Consider this dictionary as a great prayer of enthusiasm and con-
fidence in life and in humanity, full of gratitude.
Christian H. Godefroy, mailto:[email protected]
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ABUNDANCE
This great power, the power to choose, gives me the necessary
hope and the necessary state of mind and the necessary courage to
get everything I really want out of life.
J. Martin Kohe, Your Greatest Power, published by A Different Life Ltd., 1979
I believe in abundance, I desire abundance, I receive abundance.
Shakti Gawain, Reflections In The Light, New World Library, 1978
I allow this infinite abundance to pass freely through me and
through all those who listen to me, just as I freely give up the money
I possess, allowing it to flow through my hands, giving where it can
do the most good.
Robert Collier, Riches At Your Doorstep, S.I.P. 1962
I am grateful, and I rejoice in a life full of abundance.
Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Miraculous Power To Attract Infinite Wealth, Godefroy Publications, 1979.
I lead a rich and abundant life, physically, spiritually, and on other
levels.
Shad Helmstetter, The Power Of Inner Motivation, 1987.
The universe is a horn of plenty which everyone can draw from.
My very nature is abundance, and I accept it fully. Abundance is what
I really am. And I accept it fully and joyfully. The universe is pure
abundance!
Shakti Gawain, Techniques Of Creative Visualization, Editions Soleil, 1978.