16 Affirmations Instructions
pick an illustration poster from the front of the gallery
after reading instructions pick an affirmation from the list of affirmations
let the affirmation rest in your spirit and body...
why is this illustration and affirmation for you...
repeat the affirmation while looking at the illustration
look at the parts of the illustration that repeat and repeat the affirmation with each part of the image
each moon…each sun…each hand…each heart
each seed…each drop…each flower
and listen
listen for what comes up in your heart, mind, and body as you sit with the illustrations and repeat the affirmations
Pause here and only go further if you'd like to dive deeper
after trying the first part of this practice
Further into your Root Truth
when you read an affirmation you may hear an inner voice speak a trooth. Why put the word Root inside the word Truth? Because every truth is as complex as a root system, and every trooth leads deeper into your soil to connect to another trooth, or higher into your sky to connect to the leaves and fruits that are also your trooths. If you sit with a trooth long enough you can sense where it lives in or just outside your body. You can listen to the stories the trooth tells, what narratives is it writing?
Further in your Root Truth via Poetry
when you read an affirmation you may hear an inner voice speak a trooth
you can sit with that trooth and feel where it lives in your body
you can explore that trooth and see the other trooths that are the foundation for that trooth
see what trooths are nourishing that trooth
and you can decide if that trooth is nourishing you
and decide if that trooth is still a foundation that you wish to continue growing from
or if the pathway of that trooth needs to stop controlling your growth and if it's time to intentionally grow your roots in a new direction
towards a different source of light and nourishment
here is the tree that you are
here is the soil that you are in
here are your roots being fed by that soil….soaking in the rain
here are your leaves growing towards the starlight
here are your flowers….turning slowly into fruits with seeds
here is your seed floating on the wind or dropping to the soil
here is your seedling growing familiar with the soil and sprouting a leaf
here you have choices
stay in this place and be this tree, grow to your fullest potential and connect to the other trees rooted with you here, rooting for you here
or hold the trooth that you are a seed, on the wind or in the fruit, ready to dig deep into new soil, and start over again… to become whole again. bathed in rain, awash in starlight, taking in the nourishment of the earth.
roots/ nerves/ veins
stars/ seeds/ same
a seed made of stardust sprouting to reach for the starlight it came from and is still a part of
flower/ fruit/ flame
soil/ earth/ space
a seed made of ancestars sprouting from the shadows of earth and space reaching for the light and darkness it came from and is still a part of
energy/ light/ vibrate
nature/ connection/ change
a seed made of energy rooted in the reality that everything is connected and vibrating in the abundance that is life as it changes its nature with every living expression
root system/ nervous system/ solar system/ galaxy/ …same
time/ space/ change
now lets explore the edges of these dimensions
reality/ beliefs/ safety
existence/ identity/ death/
transformation…
life…
abundance…
you are you own affirmation space