This one is inspired by a friend's Facebook update: "Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes," she wrote, "find the cause of your problem and eliminate it."
A wonderful sentiment, absolutely, but you want to be careful when using negative words like "problem" in your affirmations. The subconscious is very literal, and if you tell it to "eliminate a problem," it might hold on to that second word (I've already written it too many times here).
I suggested a revision: "find the cause of what you are currently perceiving to be a 'problem' and discover the open door to which that this challenge is pointing."
She liked it, so let's give it a whirl, shall we?
Visit the mini meditation page to learn the steps to inducing a light state of relaxation.
When you are fully comfortable, repeat the following:
I locate the anxious energy within me
A challenge
Smile
A challenge
Transform that energy's shape
A doorway
A doorway
A message above the open door
A message that reads...
Repeat it as often as you like.
Locate the energy somewhere in your body. Mine, when it flares, tends to pulsate dully like a dim spherical light in the lower right corner of my abdomen.
With the word "smile", you will be amazed at the change in the relationship between you and the situation currently causing you anxiety. Anxiety occurs for a reason and, despite making us feel yucky, always presents a positive opportunity, which is why I seldom have it disappear completely in my mediations.
Use whatever method works for you, but I envision myself molding the dull, dim spherical light like a ball of clay into the shape of a doorway.
Obviously, only you can determine what the message above the door is, which is why we leave it ambiguous.
Be open to a message OF ANY KIND. Maybe a fully formed, clearly articulated sentence, but it might be an image, or part of an image — the beginning of a journey of self-discovery, perhaps? Be encouraged by whatever your subconscious sends your way!
Peace.