Start Your Day The Jessica Way
Can you think of a better way to start your day than this?
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Back in my twenties, I did a lot of therapy, and much of it was “inner child work.” A lot of that is pretty negative–prying around in old hurts. But the part of inner child stuff I love is getting in touch with your playful side.
As a lover of Winnie the Pooh, bubbles, toys, and working in my pajamas, I am all for anything that lets my inner kid come out and have some fun. I have never enjoyed affirmations, but doing them the Jessica way looks like a lot of fun.
Notice how she combines her affirmation, “I can do anything,” with appreciation for things she loves. Jessica has inspired me. I’m planning to start my day the Jessica way from now on, Dancing appreciation, here I come (although, to be honest, I won’t be climbing up onto the bathroom counter).
Want to join me in doing the Jessica Vortex Dance?
Tags: affirmations, Appreciation, I can do anything, jessica's affirmations, Vortex
May 15th, 2010 at 7:28 am
Excellent Video. Wow, what a great kid.. Where did you get that one?
Hey, I just wanted to copy and paste something that you wrote on another’s blog because it is so excellent that I just wanted to share it with your readers on this site. What an excellent response to a question. The ? is how does LOA play a role in your life and the person asking is fed up with the materialistic side of LOA and people wanting to just Get Something using it. I thought your response was so well written and excellent that I hope you dont mind me cutting and pasting it here for your readers to see. This is what Ande said…
This is an important distinction. Way too many so-called LOA experts and teachers are saying LOA is a tool or a philosophy, something you can activate or use. I suppose that to the same extent that we “use” gravity to keep our feet on the ground, we do use law of attraction. And the more conscious we are of an energetic law, the better our choices will be (i.e, knowing the law of gravity keeps us from walking off the edge of cliffs).
Still, the law of attraction is responding to our alignment, and if we start working on alignment solely for the purpose of “activating” or “using” the law of attraction, we’re missing the point, and ironically, we won’t get what we want because trying to align so we can get something by its very nature comes from a place of lack. If we’re trying to get law of attraction to work, then we are focused on what we don’t have, what we want. We never want what we have, and law of attraction matches our current vibration. So the paradox is that we have to feel like we have it to have it. Hence, alignment.
So what we need to do is align for the sake of aligning, i.e., be happy for the sake of being happy, which is ours to do in THIS moment, with what we have NOW.
That’s a form of acceptance. But it’s different than the “acceptance” that a lot of people think of–liking what is. We don’t have to like what is to accept it. Accepting it means it it what it is and that’s okay and now I’m putting my attention on a thought that feels good because it feels good. And oh, by the way, there’s this energetic force in the universe (that’s how I think of LOA) that matches the way I feel to what I experience, so the better I feel, the better my reality is. Another good reason to find a reason to feel good.
Ok, that was it. Wonderful explanation. You can have anything you want as long as you already have it. You can be anything you want to be as long as you already are.
May 15th, 2010 at 10:05 am
Isn’t Jessica fun? I saw the video on another blog–I forget which one–I’ve been surfing so much and then I looked it up on youtube. I thought it was a great example of a true rampage of appreciation.
Thanks for quoting my comment. It’s a topic I’m actually going to write about here next week–this whole activate the law of attraction thing I keep hearing is interesting. And the subject of “acceptance” seems to need some discussion too.
May 15th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Omigosh, what a video! Yep, it’s great to start the day the Jessica way!
And thanks to Greg for the Ande quotes.
In our Barnes & Noble weekly book study, we’re reading Byron Katie’s LOVING WHAT IS. So, acceptance is a very big theme there.
If we accept what is (release resistance), we certainly feel better. But then the next step, Abrahamically, is to use what-is as a springboard to think about what we want. Katie doesn’t seem to cover that part, but then again, I’m still early-on in the book.
May 15th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Acceptance is the starting point–without it, we don’t have the bounce we need to find that “I’ve got it!” place from which to match up with more “I’ve got it!”