Empowering Meditations
The Negative Voice (whether internalized or projected from predatorial people or patriarchal society) reflects harmful ways of thinking. A Positive Response is necessary to defeat the Negative Voice.
January Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that insists that your positive qualities don't
exist. View yourself from the perspective of the all-knowing Deity. Recognize
you are sacred. Affirm the existence of your positive qualities. Affirm you are
equal to others, intelligent, capable, compassionate, and lovable.
February Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that dwells on, or magnifies the importance of, your
negative qualities, actions, and experiences. Evaluate it from the perspective
of the all-knowing Deity. Focus on your positive qualities, actions, and experiences.
March Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that uses negative and hurtful labels and
sexist/racist stereotypes. Reject the label or stereotype; affirm they do not
reflect real people. Focus on how you (and others) don't fit the label or
stereotype. Defend against words and actions of predatory people.
April Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that concludes that someone doesn't like you, is
sexist/racist, or is otherwise thinking negatively, without any objective proof.
Recognize that you are projecting a negative motivation. Affirm "I don't
really know what he/she is thinking. He/she is probably not hostile toward
me."
May Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that urges you to hate, to be disrespectful, or to
cause harm of any kind to others. Evaluate it from the perspective of the all-knowing Deity.
Recognize the harm that your hate, disrespect, and physical/emotional harm cause to yourself as
well as others. Recognize others are
sacred.
June Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that dwells on, or magnifies the importance of, the
negative, the evil, and the ugliness in the world. Evaluate it from the
perspective of the all-knowing Deity. Focus on the positive, the good, and the
beauty in the world. Recognize all is sacred.
July Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that tells you your performance must be perfect or
it is a total failure. Focus on the positive aspects of your performance. Affirm
that even an imperfect effort is valuable in itself and necessary for the
learning process. Keep trying.
August Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that tells you a single negative event reflects a
never-ending pattern of defeat. Put the negative into perspective; focus on
positive events and accomplishments. Keep trying.
September Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that anticipates that things will turn out badly,
and treats the prediction as an established fact. Recognize that you are
sabotaging yourself with a self-fulfilling prophecy. Affirm "I don't really
know how it will turn out; I will try to make it turn out well."
October Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that says others are the cause of some event, which
you were, in fact, responsible for. View the situation from the perspective of
the all-knowing Deity. Affirm "I am responsible for all I do, good and bad.
No one else is."
November Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that says you are the cause of some negative event,
which you were not, in fact, responsible for. View the situation from the
perspective of the all-knowing Deity. Affirm "I am not responsible for the
acts of others."
December Empowering Meditation
Confront the Negative Voice that tries to motivate you to reach unreasonable
goals or sexist expectations with "shoulds" or "should nots."
Affirm "It's healthy/unhealthy for me to do this, and I want to be
healthy," or "It's respectful/harmful for me to do that, and I want to
be respectful."
[For a complete practical guide providing cognitive psychology tools for self-empowerment and overcoming depression, read: "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy," and "The Feeling Good Handbook," by psychiatrist David D. Burns.]
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THE MYSTIC'S WHEEL OF THE YEAR 2003
A Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality
© 2002 Marija Miovski
www.WheeloftheYear.com
