What's one thing I can do to make my life easier today?  When we have an affirmation, we want to grow into, it can benefit us to create a vision for the affirmation. Spending time where we want to be, before we have the skill set, can be beneficial. It opens us up to possibilities, creates inspiration and energy to grow and progress. Free write about what it feels like having the tools and confidence needed to read the affirmation comfortably and it feels like a fit. How has your life changed, did it open the door for; pursuing a new career, is self-care easier to do, has confidence or self-love grown? How did the areas of growth cultivate? From this free write, create a vision (short to long – let it fit your life) of having what’s needed for the affirmation. Visualize it often (3 days or more a week). Visualizing is empowering and spending time there can give us clues and open us up to new opportunities for growth and inspiration.  What we focus on, is what we bring to our lives. Let’s choose three optimistic words to carry our intent with us through 2020. To explore this, create a list and pick the top three. Here are some suggestions on how to start collecting optimistic intention words:
Choose your top three for the coming year. 2020 is coming, let’s create an awesome year! Coming in January, worksheets to explore this more: Wants For 2020 Part 1 - 4  We never know what is coming around the next corner in life, embrace the moments and gifts with others.  Another way to use an affirmation that doesn’t feel true to yourself is learn what’s needed and start growing these. Use the affirmation and this question as a prompt to free write. What skills, feelings and qualities do I need to grow and create for this affirmation to feel truer to myself? Free write or ponder this and write them down. The free write lets you know what’s needed and now it’s time to explore ways to gain these skills and release what’s holding you back by:
Soon you’ll grow more comfortable and confident saying the affirmation as you build a stronger foundation of skills, feelings and qualities needed.  There are different ways to tap with affirmation and we’re going to unpack another way to do this today. Pick an interesting affirmation that doesn’t feel quite authentic to yourself. Have paper and pen at hand and start tapping on the karate chop point while saying affirmation out loud.
As you're clearing out these issues, feelings and sensations the affirmation can start feeling truer to yourself when reading it out loud. When we release what's holding us back, we can move forward easier and be more open to growth.   Spend a bit of time in gratitude this Holiday season, here are a few ideas:
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I have fond memories of my Dad’s Virgin Tom & Jerry’s to enjoy during the Holidays. He’d make the best homemade Tom & Jerry Batter. Yummy!  Tapping For Holiday Stress Tap gently on the karate chop point and say: Even though I feel holiday stress, I love and accept myself. Take a deep breath in and out Continue to tap gently on karate chop point and say: Even though I feel holiday stress, I love and accept myself as I am. Take a deep breath in and out Keep tapping gently on the karate chop point and say: Even though I feel holiday stress, I love and accept myself and choose to release it. Take a deep breath in and out When tapping on the round points, remember to take a deep breath in and out before moving on to the next point. Tap gently on each round point, starting top of the head and say out loud: This Holiday stress Tap gently on each round point and alternate saying out loud: This Holiday stress I choose to release it Tap gently on each round point, take a deep breath in and out before moving to the next point, and say out loud: Peace and joy is flowing into my body and stress is flowing out Way to go on tapping!  When learning about affirmations, the idea was to say it often and over time it would feel truer to our selves. I could see how this could bring attention to it and some would naturally pursue avenues for it to become truer but others wouldn’t get the same outcome. Here’s a few ideas for this happens:
Combine both of these for an even more powerful affirmation tool. When we combine different tools with affirmations it makes them more powerful. Dust off some affirmations or find some new ones and start experiencing more results.  Tapping script for Making the holidays easier Tap on karate chop point gently and say out loud three times: even though I am tired from the Holiday hustle, I love and accept myself as I am. Tap gently each round point and repeat this phrase out loud Tired of the Holiday hustle Tap gently on each round point and alternate these phrases out loud Tired from the Holiday hustle Choosing to take needed breaks Way to go on tapping!  Thank you followers, I appreciate your interest. If you'd like a certain topic addressed with tapping or a tool, tip or idea for something let me know.  With the holidays here, we often have more to do then we have time for. Sometimes we need to find ways to make our lives easier. There are many different ways to do this. Here are 3 ideas:
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