Adriana Marin - Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones y Pensamientos para la Vida

Affirmations and Thoughts for Life

(Afirmaciones y Pensamientos para la Vida)

Adriana Marin

Affirmations and Thoughts for Life

Copyright 2012 by Adriana Marin

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Contents

To those eager to accumulate and share knowledge

To those willing to live an improved life

To those who stand for themselves and free their mind

Love

More and more, as we are confronted with the challenges of life, we are urged to rely on our personal powerthat is, to reach inside ourselves to gather the necessary strength and inspiration to live meaningful, fulfilling lives. This entails a continuous process of retrospection and self-examination. It also demands that we be courageous and embrace the fullness of reality.

It follows that learning from our past and evolvingwhile we release the attachment to future resultsbecome the vehicles for bringing about unlimited positive change and progress into our lives. By drawing strength and inspiration from within ourselves, we are able to overcome our greatest challenges and thereby become our best version. We are able to fully face reality, rise above difficulties, express our full potential, emerge from adversity stronger and more beautiful, and, ultimately, become the magnificent person we were born to be.

Drawing on my reflections about life, I present a series of affirmations and thoughts for conscious living and for finding ones true voice. I have gained exposure to many different types of people through my sociological work, and I often inquire about the factors separating success from failure in terms of personal realization. Moreover, my personal experiences have allowed me to attain a deep understanding in this regard. That is, by being exposed to progress and adversity, I have become increasingly conscious of the key role we ourselves play in determining our attitudes and behaviors, which, in turn, influence our ability to build personally fulfilling lives.

Affirmations and Thoughts for Life evokes several different stages in the continuum of personal development through which we fluctuate as our lives unfold. Chapter 1, Willpower, reflects personal determination, self-discipline, productivity, self-responsibility, focus, perseverance, goal orientation, and life purpose. Chapter 2, Acceptance, reflects introspection, self-evaluation, acknowledgment, consciousness, self-awareness, self-understanding, and reality reception. Chapter 3, Letting Go, reflects reality orientation, detached awareness, past-based learning, unambiguity, complete presence, and clarity. Chapter 4, Alignment, reflects self-arrangement and change, as well as the effort to confront and overcome fears and shadows, correct negative behavioral patterns, and exercise self-control in order to remain calm. Chapter 5, Empowerment, reflects self-worth, self-confidence, self-respect, self-assertion, autonomy, independence, and individuation. Chapter 6, Expansion, reflects personal development, receptivity and connectedness, positive attitude, positive change, improvement, progress, and evolution. Finally, chapter 7, Liberation, reflects personal growth, stability and balance, inner peace, self-actualization, and fulfillment.

In all, Affirmations and Thoughts for Life offers words of strength, courage, support, encouragement, and inspiration from which I have drawn during good and bad times. To a great extent, these are the words that have guided my personal life journey and have led me to become the person I am.

I share these affirmations and thoughts with you, with the ultimate purpose that you make them your own. To this end, the main message is in some instances repeated in order to provide alternatives that personally resonate with you. As you embark on this journey, exploring these words, take care to find your own rhythm and follow your own pace; be unconditionally and nonjudgmentally open to what is to come.

I hope that you find these words helpful. I hope that they contribute to making you aware that you have within yourself all you need and everything necessary to become the person you have always dreamed to be. You are capable of greatness. Believe in you, live fully, be you.

Affirmations and Thoughts for Life

(Afirmaciones y Pensamientos para la Vida)

Willpower entails carrying out decisions with absolute determination to achieve your personal goals. This process involves your ability to control yourself, including thoughts, emotions, impulses, actions, and behaviors. When you invoke your willpower, you bring forward personal determination, self-discipline, productivity, self-responsibility, focus, perseverance, goal orientation, and life purpose. These qualities and intentions are reflected in the following affirmations and thoughts for life.

Find inspiration within yourself to keep moving forward toward your goals. Find inspiration deep within to keep the focus on your goals.

Rely on yourself to provide you with inspiration, not on people or things. You, yourself, are your best source of inspiration.

Encuentra inspiracin dentro de ti misma para seguir avanzando hacia tus metas. Encuentra la inspiracin dentro de ti para mantener el foco en tus metas.

Confa en ti misma a fin de proporcinate inspiracin, no en los dems o en objetos. Tu, t misma, eres tu mejor fuente de inspiracin.

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If you put everything together and take it all at once, it might seem too much. Doing that could be deceptive, though, so there is no point in doing it that way. The best approach is to take only one step and do one thing at the time, thereby realizing that your task is not as daunting as it might seem at first glance.

Si pones todo junto y tomas todo a la vez, podra parecer demasiado. Pero hacer eso podra ser engaoso, por lo cual no tiene sentido hacerlo de esa manera. El mejor aproche consiste en dar solamente un paso y hacer una cosa a la vez, con lo que darte cuenta de que tu tarea no es tan intimidante como pudiera parecer a primera vista.

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Know your limits, but by no means limit yourself.

Beware not to become an obstacle to yourself.

Conoce tus lmites, pero de ninguna manera te limites a ti misma.

Ten cuidado de no convertirte en un obstculo para ti misma.

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There are always hope and possibilities.

Trust the process. Believe and perseverenever ever give up.