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September 21, 2008 |
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Affirmations
FOUND by Dan McPhillips
in Frankfort, Illinois
Our library accepts books from people, which they in turn sell to patrons for a fund-raising program. This note was found inside a book about sinus health.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
I prefer to whistle in the dark, unless I have a sinus headache, in which case, I hum.
Whoo-hoo..number 2!
I no longer have the need to delay my good, either. No more self-abuse and denying myself what I want!
(whoo-hoo, again)
I'll drink to that
(I hope this note wasn't part of a alcohol recovery program)
Affirmations are psychobabble. The world is safe and friendly [and] I am safe. What a load of horseshit.
"I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"
What happened to the person when they lost their security blanket-card of affirmations by leaving it in some book on sinus health?
These affirmations are too long after number 3. I'm not saying they work, because denying reality doesn't really get you anywhere ("the world is safe and friendly") but if you are going to have a security-blanket mantra, keep it short enough to remember under stress.
They can't help reality creeping in among the fine-sounding words..."my outer effect pattern of procrastination..." Yup, that's how it got left in a book...put off till another day.
Serenity now! Serenity now!!
Haha, Lolita. Stuart Smalley. Or is it Al Franken?
well, it's easy to see todays find-theme.
yesterday we got suicide notes, today we get the warm-fuzzies with pretty pictures and oh-so-positive Affirmations.
I for one feel all happy and tingly inside now... mainly my left arm... and chest... oh dear...
The world *could be* safe and friendly, if we'd just let it
....but no.
really?
i agree with someone famous(who i can't actually remember any more)whose reply when asked " what's the problem with the world today?" was "me."
if everyone actually believed the world was a lovely safe place, it would be a lovely safe place.
"Peace and harmony indwell me ..."
Sounds kinda ... messy, really. Not sure that I'd be too happy about it, myself.
L
Beautiful penmanship!
@ LOLITA- Ahahahahaha!!! My keyboard and desk are all sticky from the honey in my tea!!!!
My EARL GREY came shooting outta' my nostrils after reading your post!
Thanks for starting this terribly grey, overcast Sunday into a funny one...
I think I'm doing this affirmation stuff wrong.
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout."
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout."
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout."
Shit, it's still not working....
"I'm a little teapot, short and stout."
We're not worthy...we're not worthy!!!!
Hey Ghost, did you write this?
"release the need to be unworthy"???
That's the one part I don't get at all.
I could understand "release the feeling of being unworthy" (I am sometimes familiar with that one)... but the "need"?? Bizarre...
Melanie, some people feel the need to live down to the expectations of others never achieving their potential. Yes, it is bizarre and so is the human condition.
i've heard of these affirmations before.. and honestly, i think they really do work.
Ummm yeah.
Good Luck with that.
Is it written on an index card?
why you frontin'?
(LOL @ LOLita.. same thought popped into my head.)
If I just repeat this affirmation every day, my outer effect pattern of procrastinatino will fade awaaaay.. uhhhh. doubt it.
I hope that, rather than reading the affirmation silently from the idex card, this person recited it ALOUD- you have to release these words into the Universe for them to have actual intent and effect.
These look like Louise L. Hay affirmations :)or at least the way she suggests doing them...
I hope she/he succeeded at modificating her/his thought pattern.
Release the need to be unworthy is not that bizarre. One of the affirmations I took from a Deepak Chopra book says:
I will release any hidden need to suffer. Makes perfect sense to me.
I don't doubt that there are people who walk around feeling unworthy every minute of the day. They don't just "feel" they are unworthy, in their minds it is what they are. That becomes their role and they will play it even if not consciously.
This is nothing more than someone trying really, REALLY hard to convince herself of something she obviously doesn't actually believe a all.
Cynic nailed it on that third item. If you believe that shit, I've got a meditating bridge made of organic tofu to sell you.
Lolita, good one! Coffee almost spewed out over my keyboard (directed it at the dog, instead).
(Holly, glad I could make you laugh. I have my positive affirmation for the day!)
ooops.....I haven't had enough coffee..the second part was meant to be posted on the other find (grainy sunset photo).
(another cuppa, please)
@ FOOCH- LOL!! That's alright, sweetz! I had to grabba' another cup myself...HEHE!
This is sort of freaking me out because the handwriting looks like my mother's. She lives in California, so she probably didn't write this, but still...weird.
I am self-delusional. I have my head in the clouds, and my feet firmly planted in a rocking rowboat.
I don't want to face the hard choices of life that other people face. I think that simply by reciting warm fuzzy puffery something significant will change about my circumstances.
I will fall back into the same ruts and habits that have been following me all the days of my life. I will again grasp at straws the next time another self-help book or guru becomes popular.
I will convince myself that THIS time things will be different. And I will do that over and over again unless and until I confess my sin and accept the free gift of grace.
I too use affirmations...I believe they brought my second husband to me...and working just as well were the affirmations I used to get rid of the sucker.
My affirmation this week is: I release the need to say crackin'; I release the need to say crackin' all is safe and secure as long as I don't say crackin' ah...I feel better already.
Neat. I learned about affirmations in Peer Counseling, but I think they're just a *nice* way of forcing feelings on yourself that you don't really believe.
Basically it's like telling yourself, "I am happy," even though you really feel like crap.
The best part (only good part?) about this find is the finder telling us the totally unecessary and yet hilarious fact that it was found in a book about sinus health.
I am not a geek.
I am normal.
People are just jealous of my computer knowledge.
(opens eyes)
Dang, nothing has changed.
It's DIY cognitive behaviour therapy -- change the way you think, and you can get out of the ruts you are stuck in.
Really good advice and very simple and effective if you can do it.
Trouble is, it probably won't work, and then the writer will believe him/herself to be even more of a procrastinating failure than before.
You know, like diets.
Too funny, Librarian! Also, I had to look up "indwell" to see if it really was a word. It sounds awkward and horrible to me....
These are beautiful affirmations
Wow. "The world is safe and friendly. I am safe". Talk about furthest thing from the truth. The world is the opposite of safe and friendly and we are the opposite of safe in it. Sorry to sound negative, but i've learned the hard way that something really bad happening to you doesn't give you any immunity for any length of time against something else really bad happening the same day, or the next day, or three things on the following day. There are no guarantees. No one is safe. Such is life.
I work at this library. There are many many people like this there. Today a 60 year old man asked for books on the healing powers of crystals. sheesh.
"tuileriesa
These look like Louise L. Hay affirmations :)or at least the way she suggests doing them...
I hope she/he succeeded at modificating her/his thought pattern. "
Totally agree w/ you on this. And this does work...
this makes me sad.
Sound like she's been brainwashed.
This was written by my sister. I knew she gave some books to the library. I did not realize she left the stuff that her psychiatrist told her to do in it. Maybe she is finally realizing what I have been telling her all along. He is full of shit.