Archetypal Affirmations
THE CROWN CENTRE - SPIRIT
Spirit am I, a holy child of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, free to save the world.
Now, blue, that intense primary blue, combines with the red, and makes the crown, the purple, the colour of the crown chakra. ‘I am Spirit. I am connected - I am One with everything’. And ‘I am individuated in physical form’. And I am back to the red again, and I am flowing, it goes upwards, it goes downwards, it’s all around, it’s like a hologram.
All these energy centres are operating all of the time, and we have a choice about whether we activate the creator consciousness, or whether we activate our victim consciousness. It is up to us. This centre is concerned with using the will wisely. We gave ourselves choice. You are free to choose whatever you want.
This centre highlights the ‘newest’ part of the brain. The frontal lobes are only 40,000 years old and they develop after birth. The frontal lobes are the current fulfilment of our potential as Human Beings to connect to the past, heal ourselves in present time, and create a future based on compassion and awareness of connection.
The Archetypal Affirmations for this crowning energy centre are:
I am Spirit manifest in beautiful form!
I am limitless, a receiver of light!
I am a gift from God to the Earth!
I am a high thought…
I am love!
CONNECTION - THE THIRD EYE CHAKRA
Connection is no longer a concept, because you begin to connect all your parts.
FEELINGS - THE SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA
We think our feelings have a thought - they don’t!
You really discover: ‘I am a loving being. I’m doing all these wonderful things for myself’. And it is beginning to extend outwards, and I know then, in every cell of my body, that I am connected. It is no longer a concept, because I have begun to connect all of my parts. I have a thought, and it manifests in my body; in a SOURCE Breathwork session it happens instantly. So, you get the experience that ‘I am connected’.
And that begins to extend, and I can begin to include everyone. I know that I am thinking with you. I have experience, over and over and over again, of us thinking the same thought, or doing the same thing at the same time, or moving in the same direction at the same time.
I am connected, this centre, this amazing, fabulous, wondrous centre of love and wisdom and connection; the third eye, the eye that looks inward in order to see out. The eye that looks in and sees the whole Universe - as One. And then comes out, into it, with it. And that blue, combined with the yellow, makes the colour green - it’s so sweet, the colour spectrum, you can learn so much by just getting into the colours and how they combine.
EXPRESSION - THE THROAT CHAKRA
Expression is a circular process, it includes listening.
So, we move up through the chakra system, opening the heart, because we do have to get used to ‘I am safe, and I am supported’, and ‘it’s OK to feel’ before we really let it open a little bit. And when it’s open, we begin to have a glimmer of ourselves as the expression of love that we are. This energy centre (throat) is about expression, but/and it is not about violent expression, although that can be part of it. It’s about the expression of love to yourself.
And expression is a circular process - this centre includes the ears, includes listening. Listening is the key to all communication. Listening for love, looking for love, it’s there. As this centre opens, as we open our throats, and this is why we emphasize relaxing our jaw when breathing, you are physically opening the channel for more air, for more energy, more life support to move in - to help open your heart. It is a circular process, and it continues. It isn’t ‘Oh, I did this once’. It is not about opening your throat, and relaxing your jaw once, it’s an ongoing process because it expands, and expands, and expands. And believe me, it opens up channels to wonders you can’t even imagine.
Your Expression is Welcome!
If you were certain that someone was listening, what would you say?
If you knew that the world was watching what would you do?
How were you greeted at your birth?
The physical body is an expression of our thoughts about Life.
Listening is the key to successful communication.
When we know that we are safe and that support is certain, we can open our hearts and allow our feelings, our fabulous life energy, our passion, to nourish expression that causes healing and connection.
Our ability to be in the physical experience with love and honour and respect for ourselves and others is influenced by our earliest experiences, our culture, and our environment. If what we have learned is not creating satisfying relations with all aspects of life, we can re-source ourselves. We can change our patterning, our learned experience, and create from a new foundation, a new source.
The healing thoughts for this centre are:
- I am connected in love to all that lives and all that breathes!
- I am connected to Divine Intelligence that knows my good!
- My timing is perfect!
- I am always in the right place at the right time, doing and saying the right thing!
INNOCENCE - THE HEART CHAKRA
Life is a Love Story, A Story of the Heart
The heart is home to the Essence of Being. The colour of the heart centre in the individuated colour spectrum is green, the colour of Nature and healing. With an open heart we can experience being One with All that is whole and complete. In Source philosophy the heart is the centre of innocence and compassion...
it is essential to open the heart before we know what is going on at all..
As you open your heart’s eye you start looking for love, and you find it everywhere
When I am available and beginning to integrate ‘I am safe, There is somebody there for me, My feelings are safe, I have a choice’, I begin to centre in innocence, and that is what the heart chakra is about. Every one of us took a first breath right into this space, and we created, we caused, we began an enormous change. And at the same time all these other things were happening to us - that we have spoken about. ‘What am I going to think?’ – ‘I have done something wrong’. And I shut down. This energy centre is essential to the flow, free flow of energy. This heart chakra is right in the middle.
We have got three upper, and three lower, and this little thing here (resurrection chakra), and other ones, but the main issue is to open the heart, and that’s exactly what we do first. So, that is why we breathe into the high chest. On the esoteric level it is essential to open the heart before we know what is going on at all. We just don’t even have a glimmer of what is happening until we take the risk of breathing into this centre; letting it open like a flower, receive what is really happening. Beginning to look through the heart’s eye. Now, our heart’s eye up until now, through that shutdown, has been just like a little squint, and what we see is danger, most of the time!
Open it up, see what is happening. Listen with the heart’s ear. Begin to look out to find Spirit, look out to see God, look out there to see innocence, look for it! The heart’s eye looks for it. And we always find what we are looking for - I’m telling you, you will always find exactly what you are looking for.
Even if you think ‘that was not what I was looking for - I was looking for love’. If you encountered attack, if you encountered pain and struggle, then that is what you have looked inside and seen, and are looking for. As you open the heart, and you open the heart’s eye, you start looking for love - and you find it everywhere. Because it is everywhere, in every one. And it’s the truth, not just in song lyrics, and poems, and all of that.
The Heart Chakra is the bridge between the spiritual energy centres in the body and the physical energy centres. While the Solar Plexus is the mediator between these energies, the Heart is the Doorway through which the energies of Spirit can nourish the physical, and the energies of Earth can gift the spiritual. Many years ago a student in the English SOURCE Training said, “The heart is the doorway you have to go through to get to everything else!” The heart and the brain have similar cells. They develop together from the beginning of gestation and remain intimately connected physically and psycho-spiritually. Pictures taken of the electromagnetic field of a human heart are a duplicate of the electromagnetic field emitted by the Sun. The medical speciality psycho-neuroimmunology acknowledges this connection and the direct impact of our connection with other people and our environment on both our bodies and our consciousness.
The healing thoughts for this centre are:
- I am the innocent child of a Gentle God…
- I deserve to experience all of my Love!
- Everyone is safe with me!
- Everyone is glad that I am here!
- I am open to receive all the love that comes to me.
- I deserve it!
CHOICE - THE SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA
Creator Consciousness makes a choice about what to think, so that the energy that is flowing can nourish that thought.
As I choose what to I think,
I determine how I am going to experience the next moment.
And we come to the Binnie chakra! Now, there are many systems, and there are actually many more chakras than the basic seven we talk about all the time. It is this one between the yellow and the green of the heart that I call the resurrection chakra. Resurrection happens every spring when everything comes to life again.
And the colour of brand new leaves, this wonderful yellow-green, it has even become an important fashion colour in the last couple of years. The resurrection of God’s child is the knowledge, is the certainty that I am the one who chooses. I can feel however I am feeling, I can let my feelings move, I can let my energy move into every cell of my body, and I am the one who chooses what to think about it.
As I choose what I think, I determine how I am going to experience the next moment of now. I create how I am going to experience my life! I have a choice. This takes you directly out of victim consciousness, and puts you into creator consciousness.
Our feelings are just feelings. All of them, though, have a thought attached to them, out of past experience.
And this moves on to the solar plexus, which I notice is the place where we feel butterflies if we are really nervous. If there is really something going on we get a kind of cramp in the stomach, butterflies right in there, in the upper chakra of the physical. Some have called it the mind of the body, the solar plexus. And it’s directly related to the physical mind, because it is about feelings, and feeling engenders thought because an experience requires a thought and a feeling. We human beings are so run by our feelings that we think our feelings have a thought - they don’t! Our feelings are just feelings.
So this is actually the centre for sensation and feeling nature having a body. Feelings are life energy registering in the physiology, registering in this magnificent communication device that we have created, co-created. And all of them though, have a thought attached to them, out of past experience. So, we need to begin to change the thoughts, and let the feelings be whatever they are, so that we can get our energy moving, and not be afraid of it.
Because if I have the thought ‘Oh my God there is danger, I am afraid’ attached to this feeling, I’m just going to scare myself, I’m just going to hide. If I have a thought attached to these sensations, this energy that’s registering in my physiology that there is ‘no one there for me’, ‘I’m alone’, then am I going to come out, am I going to communicate what is going on for me? There is nobody there for me, it’s dangerous anyway.
So, I’ve got these sensations going on in my solar plexus, it’s probably going in different places, well I’m just going to have to get this together here, maybe I will take a digestive pill or something…
It’s safe to feel creator consciousness. Creator consciousness makes a choice about what to think, so that the energy that is registering, that is flowing can nourish that thought. Because when I think that it is dangerous, I’m nourishing that though with all this energy.
… it’s time to think about the thoughts and messages that we are sending and nourishing in our unborn children.
Everything alive needs food. We water the plants, we feed our bodies, our life energy is nourishing our thoughts, is feeding our thoughts. When a baby is in utero, you don’t have to think about it, a woman doesn’t have to think about nourishing the baby, it’s a natural process.
Well, this is exactly what is happening with thought and life energy, thoughts and feelings. We haven’t thought about it for so long that we have gotten ourselves in a real pickle.
It’s time to think about it, it’s time to think about the thoughts and messages that we are sending and nourishing in our unborn children. And any one of us has unborn children, the thoughts that create results in our lives.
So, we use the metaphor of birth and conception and pregnancy, and the truth is that in every moment you are conceiving a thought, you are nourishing it with your energy, and if those thoughts are ‘Life is dangerous’, ‘It’s not safe to be here’, ‘There is no one there for me’, then you are using your life energy unwisely, and you are responsible for pissing yourself off, making yourself really angry, because we don’t like lies. Everyone is exceedingly integrous.
So, this centre the yellow, and it’s fascinating too, because if you look at colour, you’ve got red, and yellow, you’ve got either danger, and associated with feelings, danger, coming together in the orange, and if you’ve got ‘Feelings are dangerous’, then who is not there for you? You! You have abandoned your self. You have separated yourself from yourself. You are the mother who has let go of her child, and let it out there into nothingness.
So, as we begin to integrate safety, and ‘it’s safe to feel’, in creator consciousness we choose ‘I am safe’, ‘My feelings are safe’ in the orange, the yellow and the red coming together, we begin to feel supported, we begin to think ‘I’m doing a really good thing here for myself’, ‘I’m taking very good care of myself’. This is all about you, your own consciousness, you become a loving mother when you begin to make choices that are going to enhance your life.
The healing thoughts for this centre are:
- All of my feelings are safe!
- I am enough…… I do enough…… I have enough!
- I am the power and authority in my life!
- I am the One who chooses what to think and how to use my energy!
Who you are is the one, and 'one' is not singular in my cosmology, who you are is the one who chooses. We choose apples, we choose oranges, we choose eggs, we choose flowers, we choose partners, we choose all the time. We are choosers. Bring it home, bring it in.
Start becoming so refined as a human being that you choose what you are thinking so that you can allow your energy to flow and move. Because if I choose ‘No’, if I choose danger then I’m going to contract. I have to, because I have to protect myself. I have to keep myself safe, because nobody else is going to. If I choose ‘Yes - I’m safe’; if I choose ‘Yes - there is someone here for me’, then I open and I begin to have that experience, because I’m available for it.
And then I can begin to listen to my heart.
SAFE & SUPPORTED
Being Safe and Supported in Healing.
Now, our next step was to discover that while there were lots and lots of these others around, nobody was listening, and no one was actually there to be gentle with us. And in fact we got put over in a little box, and there was nobody there at all. Now, this is engendered during pregnancy. What I have noticed is that pregnant women are supporting another human being. And that human being is in her body, in this second chakra, the chakra of support, the social chakra many people call it.
It’s a very intimate situation, but/and she is walking around and thinking ‘there is no one there for me’, because she was born the same way she is going to give birth to us, and her mother was born the same way. ‘I have got to do this’, ‘I’ve got this family to take care of, I’ve got this husband to take care of, I’ve got this house to take care of, and there is nobody there for me’. So, we are inside the body, and the mind system of someone who’s convinced that ‘it is not safe, and there is no one there for me’. What are we going to think?
They are in our cellular structure, these archetypals. We quite literally create ourselves in the soil that is thinking that it is not safe, and that ‘I am not supported’. And our mothers give birth to us in the way they think about life. So, we then have a physical experience of it when we are born. It’s a thought, it’s a concept, it’s there, but/and it can be changed at any moment if we are received in love, if we are supported in some way when we come out.
SAFETY - THE BASE CHAKRA
The heart of the matter is in the heart of matter.
Safety: The base chakra, the earthed chakra, the red, is about safety. In my 35 years experience as a breathwork therapist countless people have described to me their thoughts and feelings of danger and alienation interwoven throughout their lives. Instead of life on planet Earth being full of potential and a safe place to be, everything and everyone is to be feared on some level of consciousness. I have heard the same thoughts over and over, no matter what the person’s age or circumstance. Whether in counselling or when they are breathing, these fundamental thoughts reveal themselves:
“Life is dangerous” . . .“There is no one here for me” . . . “There is not enough for me” . . . “Feelings hurt” . . . “My body hurts” . . . “I have no choice” . . . “They are doing it to me” . . . “They take me away from what I need” . . . “Who am I?” . . . “What am I?” . . . “What have I done wrong?” . . . “I’m going to have to do this all by myself” . . . “I’m alone. I’m separate”.
I refer to these thoughts as Archetypal Negatives, shared societal thoughts. Each culture has its own unique manifestation, and they exist throughout the developed world, and are imposed on those cultures that are subject to increased globalisation.
The healing thoughts for this centre are:
- My body is safe no matter how I might be feeling
- The breath is safe, it supports the release of discomfort, no matter how long I have stored it!
- I am the Earth… I am creativity!
Embracing the physical leads to wholeness and health. To be whole and complete includes Body, Mind and Spirit. Our personal healing inquiry may include: Sensuality, the gift of having a body; Sexuality, a choice of physical expression; and Spirituality, our connection to ALL THAT IS.
We decide very early on, I think in-utero, because we come through the bodies of women who think it’s dangerous to be in a body, that it’s not safe to be in a body, thus life is not safe. This is an all-pervading thought form, what I call an archetypal belief, in civilised society, that it is not safe to have a body, the physical Universe is dangerous. This is victim consciousness, this is the consciousness of ‘at any moment, at any time - something can attack me: a tree will fall, a brick will hit me on the head, it will hurt’.
I don’t even need bricks and trees, I don’t need them at all. I can be all by myself, and suddenly my body has a pain, 'it is attacking me'. It’s the physical. The physical universe is right here, and everything we write about, everything we think about, everything we project on movie screens, and on pieces of paper is a reflection of what is going on here (inside). And any one of us, if we encountered any pain on our entry into this place, we think that it can hurt us.
Below are some uses of the affirmations to do with Safety and how Source students have experienced using them in their lives.
Everybody is safe with me:
'I have been so angry for not being received, that I had to keep myself separate in order not to hurt others. This affirmation helps me remember that my true being is a blissful soul'
It is safe for me to feel all my feelings:
'This affirmation is of vital importance in my pregnancy process. So many new sensations and feelings are coming up, and it is essential for my well being that I know that it is safe to feel all of it'
It is safe to express all my feelings all the time:
'Helps me overcome my fear of hurting other people through expressing my feeling'
My body is safe:
'I can relax more in my body because I don't fear future events I have gotten out of the alarm position'
My body is safe:
'Has kept be from 'hysteria' on numerous occasions'
My body is safe even though I may be feeling afraid
'Has helped me a lot when I feel afraid or uncomfortable'
My body is safe even though I may be feeling a lot of feelings
'Helps me to keep focused on safety where there are a lot of feelings going on in my body, especially sensations that I am not so familiar with'
The healing thoughts for this centre are:
- My body is safe no matter how I might be feeling
- The breath is safe, it supports the release of discomfort, no matter how long I have stored it!
- I am the Earth… I am creativity!
"A thought planted in the mind and nourished by the breath takes root in every cell of the body”
Each Archetypal Affirmation corresponds directly to a specific energy centre, or chakra, and the colour associated with that centre or body system. The fundamental healing thoughts are:
“My body is safe, no matter how I may be feeling!” “I am the Earth, I am creativity!” corresponds to the base, the first chakra, the colour primary red.
“I am surrounded by love and support from all the beings in my life!” “Everything and everyone in physical form is here to support me in physical form!” corresponds to the navel, the second chakra, the colour vibrant orange.
“All of my feelings are safe!” “I am the One who chooses what to think and how to use my energy!” corresponds to the solar plexus, the third chakra, the colour primary yellow.
“I am the innocent child of a Gentle Universe. I deserve to experience all of my love and compassion!” corresponds to the heart centre, the colour vivid grass green.
“I am an expression of Love!” “My expression is Welcome!” corresponds to the throat centre, the colour blue green, aquamarine.
“I am connected In Love to all that lives and all that breathes!” “I am connected to Divine Intelligence that knows my good!” corresponds to the third eye centre, the colour primary rich, deep blue.
“I am Spirit manifest in beautiful physical form!” “I am a gift from God to the Earth!” “My Love is received!” corresponds to the crown centre, the colour royal purple, a balance of the colour red, safety, and the colour blue, connection.
THE BREATH AND THOUGHT
Tens of thousands of thoughts come through our conscious awareness everyday. The choice we make about what to give attention is determined by our source beliefs, the archetypal decisions and thoughts that are held as absolute, ground of being. We are aware of some of these beliefs and not of others. The breath and the introduction of Archetypal Affirmations encourage the veil to lift and reveal the lies we may have been telling ourselves about life.
Breathing gently and fully, listen to the thoughts that reveal themselves when an Archetypal Affirmation is introduced. Allow all your thoughts to flow. Don’t take any of those thoughts personally.
Take a deep breath and simply choose where you want to place your attention. Choose your source.
Breathe and know that: Who we are is not any of our thoughts. Who we are is consciousness that is co-creating and choosing in every moment how to use our precious life energy.
Breathe deeply, fully and ask: What way of thinking is going to produce connection and peace, joy and satisfaction? What thoughts/environment do you consciously choose to nourish with your breath, your Life Energy, in order to produce optimum health and wellbeing? What do you choose to inhale? What do you choose to inspire?
Inspiration is of the breath. What inspires you becomes the inspiration you are to others. Be aware of inspiration, it is awakening, allow it, and inspiration will expand in you. What inspires you awakens your true being and your true purpose. Breathe it out and other Spirits are awakened. The expression of your true being is an inspiration to everyone.
WE ARE ONE
Generations of shock and separation at birth have caused us to protect and defend and live in fear. We see the results all around us in inner conflicts and global conflicts. Fear causes us to separate from everything and everyone around us. Fear causes us to separate from our true Being, from the love that we are. Fear has caused us to forget our true purpose, to serve. Our greatest service is to be wholly present where we are In the moment. In present time there is no fear. We are together to reveal True Being, Essence. We are together to allow Love to radiate, to occupy every cell.
Every spiritual path has as a purpose to bring us back to the awakening experience of our essential connection to Universal Source, oneness with all there is. Babies are being born today without the physical trauma, environmental shock, and sensory overload that make us forget, and that engender our negative beliefs about life with a body on Planet Earth. They are being received into the hands of welcome and love, given time and the opportunity to be recognised as an individual expression of love in the physical universe by the Mother, source of nourishment and knowledge. They never have to ask, “Who am I?” “Where is my missing Part-ner?” Connection is a certainty. They are free. They know themselves to be ‘One who Loves’.
Though a necessary function, when do we stop gathering information and welcome the state of being that will allow us to radically re-conceptualise and re-source our births and our lives no matter what our age or gender. We are in creation right now. In this moment, we can take a deep breath, give up our devotion to pain and struggle, expand, and birth every precious moment of our lives in joy. Our future depends on it.
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ARCHETYPAL AFFIRMATIONS & HOW THEY WORK
Archetypal Affirmations are statements that resonate a ‘Creator Consciousness’ in order to help us conceive the possibility that we are truly expressions of love, spirit, safe and supported. Used in the environment of a SOURCE Breathwork session, new ways of thinking about life can be integrated.
The Affirmation will support all that is unlike itself to arise in order to be released. Affirmations are points of contemplation, thoughts you intend to bring into reality in your life. It is a thought form you intend to have become a real experience for you.
Archetypal affirmations address what I have found to be the negative life statements uncovered over and over again in therapeutic exploration. In work with many people, baseline statements were discovered which asserted a belief about life that is still informing the adult and which, when they discovered it, they wished to change.
Each Archetypal Affirmation corresponds directly to a specific energy centre, or chakra, and the colour associated with that centre or body system. The fundamental healing thoughts are:
- “My body is safe, no matter how I may be feeling!” “I am the Earth, I am creativity!” corresponds to the base, the first chakra, the colour primary red.
- “I am surrounded by love and support from all the beings in my life!” “Everything and everyone in physical form is here to support me in physical form!” corresponds to the navel, the second chakra, the colour vibrant orange.
- “All of my feelings are safe!” “I am the One who chooses what to think and how to use my energy!” corresponds to the solar plexus, the third chakra, the colour primary yellow.
- “I am the innocent child of a Gentle Universe. I deserve to experience all of my love and compassion!” corresponds to the heart centre, the colour vivid grass green.
- “I am an expression of Love!” “My expression is Welcome!” corresponds to the throat centre, the colour blue green, aquamarine.
- “I am connected in Love to all that lives and all that breathes!” “I am connected to Divine Intelligence that knows my good!” corresponds to the third eye centre, the colour primary rich, deep blue.
“I am Spirit manifest in beautiful physical form!” “I am a gift from God to the Earth!” “My Love is received!” corresponds to the crown centre, the colour royal purple, a balance of the colour red, safety, and the colour blue, connection.
The table below shows Archetypal Affirmations with corresponding Chakra colours as well as Archetypal Negatives.
I’ve collected together my Archetypal Affirmations for you to print off and, who knows, pop up on your fridge door, keep in your purse, or maybe share with your dear friend who needs some love and support right now. Whatever you decide I share these with you, with Love.
Beautiful Affirmations Sheet.
