Tuesday, October 23, 2012

I am Healthy and Getting Healthier

I am Healthy and Getting Healthier

There is a much conversation, many workshops and seminars, and volumes of books about the power of personal healing through the use of affirmations. The list of resources includes the works of Iyanla Vanzant, Acts of Faith, Louise Hay, You Can Heal Yourself, and Catherine Ponder, The Healing Secrets of the Ages, and many, many others. One of the most profound affirmations, or the form that has made a significant impact in my life and ministry, was shared through in these words:

I am healthy and getting healthier.

Several years ago, I was part of a teaching team at the Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development. My teaching partner, Rev. Deanna Mathias, spoke those words of guidance and support to a student who was dealing with a physical health issue.

Powerful affirmations are rooted in the understanding that: energy goes to where the attention is. If your affirmation is that you don’t want to be sick, your consciousness or attention is on being sick. If your affirmation or prayer is for money to pay the bills, your attention is actually on the bills. Therefore, the energy is directed at being sick or the bills. However, if your prayer or affirmation is on being healthy, your attention is on being healthy.

The affirmation, “I am healthy and getting healthier,” is on the state of being healthy. The affirmation “I am healthy and getting healthier” has two components worth expounding. The first component “I am healthy,” represents the divine consciousness; the awareness of the divine state of being that is at our core and is our core. We, through our human experience, sometimes or most times, forgot that at our core is the divine state of being. In this case is it being healthy.

The second component, “and getting healthier” represents our journey to full remembrance or full realization of the divine state of being. Our life journey is our human state of being moving towards the divine, a reconnection to the divine and sacred. Therefore, the affirmation, “I am healthy and getting healthier” states that “I recognize my divine state as being healthy, and my human experience is to walk the road of getting healthier, such that my human consciousness aligns with divine consciousness.”

I am healthy, and getting healthier.
I am abundance, and experiencing increase.
I am joy, and experiencing and expressing more joy.
I am strong, and realizing my strength and getting stronger each day.

I am reminded of a prayer I wrote several months ago:

Beloved, I thank you for praying for me.

However;
Don’t pray for my healing; pray that I realize I am healthy and getting healthier.
Don’t pray for my abundance; pray that I realize I am abundant and receiving more.
Don’t pray for my salvation; pray that I realize my Oneness with Spirit and that my awareness grows deeper with each breath.
Don’t pray for me to get a job; pray that I will my will to align with Thy will of the Universe and that I call forth the courage to follow Thy will.
Don’t pray for me to find my soul mate and one true love; pray that I realize I am love and that I remember that love attracts love.
Don’t pray for me to rise above my situation and circumstances; pray that I realize I have the power to choose.
Don’t pray for me to find God; pray that I know Spirit is closer than my breath.
Don’t pray for me to put away feelings of sadness, hopelessness and depression; pray that I realize the joy that is my heart, and that I experience that joy with each beat of my heart.

Beloved, pray that I realize the Indwelling Spirit and that God Is; and that Love Is and that I am love …as I pray for you in kind.

“I am healthy and getting healthier” is a reminder of the divine with us and a response to the call to realign with the divine.

When I was released from the hospital several years ago, people would always ask, “how are you doing?” I created my own answer that also serves as my affirmation: I am good; and getting gooder. For those whose first response is “gooder is not a word,” do not understand that through this statement I am affirming the goodness of the Divine and re-aligning myself with that goodness.

I share this with you in joy and with love,
Rev. Anthony Farmer, OUnI, CMH

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