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    31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version: 31 Days of Affirmation
    31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version: 31 Days of Affirmation
    31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version: 31 Days of Affirmation
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    31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version: 31 Days of Affirmation

    By Phyllis Hopper

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    Do you wish you could feel spiritually stronger? Do you wonder how some people seem to sail through their days when you find yourself struggling? It's time to learn their secret.

    Counteract negative spiritual influences with the strategic use of positive scriptural Truth statements. 31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version will help you do just that.

    Here's what you'll discover:

    • The Biblical argument for statements of affirmation
    • The science behind their effectiveness
    • Scriptural backing for each day's affirmations
    • How to use affirmations to strengthen your faith and improve your decision-making
    • Daily affirmations for four key areas of your life that are common points of spiritual attack
    • Practical, step-by-step instructions for the effective application of these affirmations
    • Enough affirmation statements to keep you growing spiritually, healing from life's wounds, and thriving in all your relationships for months on end.

    Life transformation begins from within; 31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version provides a clear roadmap.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhyllis Hopper
    Release dateJul 5, 2018
    ISBN9781386740544
    31 Days of Affirmation: The Christian Version: 31 Days of Affirmation
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    Phyllis Hopper

    Phyllis Hopper is a creative free spirit who celebrates Life (not just existing) and promotes Shalom, a Hebrew word that stands for the comprehensive wholeness that comes when mind, body, and spirit are working together as a healthy whole. 

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      31 Days of Affirmation - Phyllis Hopper

      Introduction

      I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. – Philippians 4:8, The Message

      I AM A FIRM BELIEVER in the effectiveness of affirmation statements. Why else would I devote myself to developing a series of books on the subject? And yes, I am a Christian. I view statements of affirmation as one way to align my heart and my mind with what I know to be True.

      How Affirmations Work

      A FEW YEARS AGO, MY life fell apart. Actually, it felt more like my life had been torn to pieces, ripped to shreds, and somebody was grinding their heels into what little was left.  In the aftermath, I discovered something interesting. Because my heart was so raw, I easily sensed the connection between what I said to other people and how I felt inside.

      If I had critical words to say about someone else, my heart/soul/what-have-you actually felt as if I had spoken those words to myself; I could actually sense my heart shrinking back into a corner. At the same time, if I spoke words praising the Good and the Beautiful, it felt as if my heart was opening up to receive a soothing, warm embrace. It didn’t seem to matter to whom I was speaking; my poor, battered heart drew Life, healing, and energy from those few positive, affirming phrases.

      The Biological Base

      A SHORT TIME LATER, I was recounting this experience to a psychiatrist. She explained what was happening from a biological perspective. The deepest part of our minds is the seat of our most basic urges, she explained. The fight-or-flight instinct, our drive toward food and drink, even sexual desire, all have their roots in this basic, almost-automatic part of our brain. This is what moves us – sometimes without our conscious awareness – to knee-jerk react to a threat, at least to what our brain perceives as a threat! 

      The funny thing is, this part of our brain can’t tell the difference between something we say to ourselves and something we say to another person. So, if I’m angry at a friend, this instinctual part of my brain perceives the anger as being directed at myself and gears up for defensive action!

      The good news, you may have already guessed, is that the same thing holds true for statements that de-escalate this reactive part of our brain. Soothing words, words that encourage, words that rejoice in a beautiful sunset, celebrate catching a football in the end zone, or praise a toddler’s first steps, all are interpreted by the instinctual part of our minds as indications that all is well, this place is safe, and our hyper-alert bodies can stand down and relax.

      Do you begin to see how something like statements of affirmation can potentially impact our deepest instincts and shift our deep-seated attitudes?

      Counterspells

      ONE OF MY FAVORITE authors, C. S. Lewis, once described the process of realizing you’ve gone off-track in your logic (he was describing a mathematical sum); it does no good, he explained, to just keep on going forward in hopes of working things out right in the end. No, you must stop your progress and begin to retrace your steps with backward mutters of dissevering power, he intoned, undoing everything until you have come to the spot where you first went astray. Only then are you free to move forward again.

      The same is true in our lives. No matter where or how we grew up, we have all been exposed to destructive untruths, or the even more devastating half-truths. We all absorb messages that say we are too small, too slow, too dumb, or too weak to accomplish anything of value. We are repeatedly reminded of our past mistakes as if they are our inescapable destiny. Even well-meaning instructions tend to focus on the negative: You can’t drop out of school and expect to succeed or You can’t do X if you want to be a good person.

      By the time we’ve survived two or three decades of this bombardment, those negative

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