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    Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones Y Pensamientos Para La Vida
    Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones Y Pensamientos Para La Vida
    Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones Y Pensamientos Para La Vida
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    Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones Y Pensamientos Para La Vida

    By Adriana Marin

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    As lifes challenges confront us, we must rely on our personal powerthe power to reach inside ourselves to gather the strength and inspiration to live meaningful, fulfilling lives. This entails a continuous process of retrospection and self-examination. It also demands we be courageous and embrace the fullness of reality. In Affirmations and Thoughts for Life, author Adriana Marin presents a series of ideas for conscious living and for finding ones true voice throughout the continuum of personal development.

    Presented in both English and Spanish, this guide addresses the topics of willpower, acceptance, letting go, alignment, empowerment, expansion, and liberation. Providing a voice of strength, courage, support, encouragement, and inspiration for conscious living and self-actualization, it uses life lessons to guide a path of personal transformation, ultimately leading to unleashing our full personal potential.

    Inspirational and empowering, Affirmations and Thoughts for Life provides a practical companion for stepping into the realm of our deepest greatness and becoming the magnificent person we were born to be.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbbott Press
    Release dateJun 28, 2012
    ISBN9781458204332
    Affirmations and Thoughts for Life: Afirmaciones Y Pensamientos Para La Vida
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    Adriana Marin

    ADRIANA MARIN, M.S., is a sociologist with more than fifteen years of experience conducting research and evaluation. She has taught college and university groups and presented her work to state legislators. Adriana is also a registered yoga teacher with the National Yoga Alliance. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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      Affirmations and Thoughts for Life - Adriana Marin

      Copyright © 2012, 2013 by Adriana Marin

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4582-0432-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4582-0433-2 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4582-0434-9 (hc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012910325

      Abbott Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Abbott Press rev. date: 04/26/2013

      Contents

      Preface

      I. Willpower

      (Fuerza de Voluntad)

      II. Acceptance

      (Aceptación)

      III. Letting Go

      (Desprendimiento)

      IV. Alignment

      (Alineación)

      V. Empowerment

      (Empoderamiento)

      VI. Expansion

      (Expansión)

      VII. Liberation

      (Liberación)

      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

      Preface

      More and more, as we are confronted with the challenges of life, we are urged to rely on our personal power—that 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 evolving—while we release the attachment to future results—become 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 one’s 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)

      I. Willpower

      (Fuerza de Voluntad)

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

      Confía en ti misma a fin de proporciónate inspiración, no en los demás o en objetos. Tu, tú misma, eres tu mejor fuente de inspiración.

      ____________________________________________

      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, podría parecer demasiado. Pero hacer eso podría ser engañoso, 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.

      ____________________________________________

      Know your limits, but by no means limit yourself.

      Beware not to become an obstacle to yourself.

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

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

      ____________________________________________

      There are always hope and possibilities.

      Trust the process. Believe

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