My Water Goals

April 29, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

As this week is about emotional cleansing, these are my water goals for this week:

Continue to explore my emotional life
Continue to cleanse and declutter my home and office
Evaluate my relationships
Speak my truth in love
Connect with my inner child and take time to play
Embrace my childlike wonder.
Examine childhood issues
Explore my dreams
Follow my intuition
Allows the water in the shower to cleanse my body and my spirit
Check my plumbing and fix any leaks
Experience the spirit of water
Drink at least 64 ounces of water each day to flush toxins out of my system

My Process Journal

April 1, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

The process journal is to be a space for mental and emotional clearing. It is a space to write my insights throughout this journey.

My Daily Affirmations

April 1, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

April 1, 2011 -- My evaluation of myself is not who I am.

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I honor my commitments to myself and to others.

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There is clarity within me and around me.

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I love and accept who I am and who I am is enough.

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Fresh, invigorating energy fills my life.

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I am safe and centered no matter where I am.

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Who I am is enough

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I unconditionally accept my feelings and what I feel is not who I am.

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My life experiences have powerful, positive meaning.

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I am moving into harmony with everyone and everything in my universe.

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I am loved and loveable. I love deeply and fully and am loved deeply and fully.

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In the center of my being, there is always stillness and peace.

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My life is blessed, and I am so grateful.

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Who I am is enough, just as I am.

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I am safe.

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I am free to experience joy in every moment of my life, no matter what is happening in my life.

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I unconditionally accept all parts of myself.

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I invite the pure light of sun into my heart. May it shine from my heart to the world.

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I live in the present moment with courage and love.

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I am a loving spiritual being.

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Incredible creative life forces flow through my entire being.

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I am one with my earth, I am one with my body.

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MY mind, body, and spirit are clear channels for love, kindness, and the Infinite Presence.

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My body is incredibly strong and healthy.

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I am in harmony with the natural rhythm of life.

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I am at home, no matter where I am.

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My future is filled with love, joy, and peace.

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I give love deeply and fully. I receive love deeply and fully. My essence is love.

Air Goals

April 1, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

As this week is focused on clearing out mental debris and clutter and focusing on the air that I breathe in, my goals for this week are as follows:

To assess and evaluate my life
To clear out the clutter in my home
To make commitments that empower me
To do things I have been putting off or make a plan to do them
To organize my home and office space
To examine my beliefs
To breathe before speaking
To listen to inspirational music and become aware of the sounds in my home
To use my voice
To speak my truth

My Joy Journal

April 1, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

One of the things I will be doing over the next 28 days is keeping a joy journal. At least once a day I will be writing about the joyful, magical or great moments in the day. I will be journaling about experiences, writings, images, etc.

Week 9, Day 7 – Rewarding Yourself, The Grand Adventure

February 16, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

The goal for today was to plan this great adventure to some place we want to go and go there. my great adventure is to go ride the ferries in New York state. I love ferries. We were to write about what permits us or doesn’t permit us to have what we want right now. We were to write down what the world of our wealth is right now. She also suggested we right about how the state of your birth, the feelings of your future, and eh wanderings of today affect and show who you are. Write what you know about rebirth in living. Write what your soulful self wants you to know. So if I were really going to have this grand adventure, I would do one of two things.

Week 9, Day 6 – Rebirth

February 16, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

I have been thinking quite a bit about this whole notion of life, birth, and rebirth. Life for me is the entirely of my journey from birth to death. Birth is the moment I came into this world, until then and since then I was and am a work in process. For me, the time in between birth and death I am in a constant state of rebirth, whether it be conscious or unconscious. Every moment of every day there are countless cells in my being being regenerated, so physically at the end of the day I am not the same person I was when I woke up that morning and I am not the same person I was when I went to bed the night before. The same is true in every other aspect of my self, every movement that I make in my life consciously or unconsciously which takes me to that higher place of spiritual evolution is about my being reborn

Week 9, Day 5 – Death

February 14, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

If this were the last day of my death, and I knew it, I think I would make a point of being with those people who are nearest and dearest to me and sharing stories of love and gifts that I would want them to have. I would want the opportunity to say goodbye to them in my own way and on my own terms. I would not want it to be somber, but a time of celebration. I would eat and drink whatever I wanted and throw all caution to the wind. I am reminded of this scene from the movie Chocolat and how the old woman celebrated her last birthday. That is what I would do if it were my last day. the practical side of me would make sure I sent an email and an excel file to my department chair so she knew how students were doing, I would let Zoe know what I wanted for my homegoing, and I would write a final reflection for Inspiritual telling everyone thank you for being part of my ride. And of course, I would leave Zoe a things to do list, which she will definitely procrastinate in doing

Week 9, Day 4 – Aging

February 14, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

As I reflect on this period of my childhood, I remember having this sense, as a child, that I was not fully appreciated for who I was and what I was growing to become. I rarely felt fully seen or fully appreciated by the members of my family. While there are many experiences of joy during this period, it was also a time where I went from feeling as if I were an integral part of my family to feeling as if I were not as much a part of my family as my brothers. There was this clear sense of otherness that developed as I was growing up, of not fitting in. Yet at the same time, there was this fear of being abandoned, rejected, and set aside. There was also this fear that if I was abandoned then something bad would happen like when I was sexually abused by my dentist. What I did not realize was how that experience also moved me to a place of fighting for my dignity and the dignity of others. For example, in nursery school there was this boy who tried to kiss me. I said no. So he peed on me.

Week 9, Day 3 – Transitions

February 12, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

This is a list of the endings in my life and where I was at when they were happening.

Week 9, Day 1 – The Past

February 10, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

The minute I saw the exercises for today, my brain went to this poem I wrote a few years ago called, I am enough. I thought this was a great place to start with the negative messages of the past and flip them over. so I decided to insert lines in italics that were the flip or the reinforcer when they were already positive.

Week 8, Day 7 – Rewarding Yourself, The Choice

February 8, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

So today was to be field trip day and we were to go out and look at fences. We were supposed to notice how they were made and the purposes they serve. are they about holding something in or keeping something out. how do fences give us peace of mind. Finally, have there been different kinds of fences in our lives at different times. I would so love to do this, but when the weather is in the single digits and the snow cannot seem to stop falling, my ideal field trip is not to go strolling looking for and at fences. Not even sure that with all the snow we have right now, I could even see someone’s fence. In fact, in my neighborhood, there is not a single house with a fence.

Week 8, Day 6 – Happiness

February 7, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

I have always found these magazine one challenging as I rarely, if ever, have any around the house, but this time I did. Well a few copies of the same magazine. Therefore, here were the article titles on the covers Your total health plan. Stress free simplicity, instant calm, and charge up your health. Then I found one from a different magazine that said pasta pasta pasta. So if I were to choose one article name and write an article about it, I would probably call it either your total happiness plan or happy happy happy! But for whatever reason I am not really feeling either of those titles. And I am not sure I am comfortable saying somebody seems happy. Some people in my life seem happy, but you get them behind closed doors and you find out they are not and are miserable. It’s as if they have this happy make up on

Week 8, Day 5 – Simplicity

February 6, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

The short story I wanted to reflect on was already quite short, but spoke to my spirit this afternoon. It is called Stay in the Desert. The story goes like this, “Why do you live in the desert?” “Because I can’t be what I want to be. When I begin to be myself, people treat me with a reverence that’s false. When I am true to my faith, then they begin to doubt. They all believe they are holier than I, but they pretend they are sinners, afraid to insult my solitude. They try all the time to show that they consider me a saint, and in this way they become emissaries of the devil, tempting me with Pride.” “Your problem isn’t trying to be who you are, but accepting others the way they are. And acting in this way, it’s better to stay in the desert,” said the gentleman, walking off.

Week 8, Day 4 – Gratitude

February 5, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

Writing a list of nouns for three minutes was harder then I thought. I found myself going room by room in compiling my list which included the following: Cat, Dog, Fish, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother,, Lover, Wife, Teacher, Writer, Spiritual Companion, Computer, Books, Shell, Bed, Desk, Kitchen, Food, Music, Glasses, Soda, Plants, Catnip, Treats, Schedule, Course, Paper, Printer, Keyboard, Mouse, Walker, Wheelchair, Bed, Cover, Pillow, Hamper, Toilet, Shower, Sink, Sofa, Futon, Loveseat, Desk, Bookcase, Lamps, Curtains, Table, Chairs, Refrigerator, Stove, Dishwasher, Cabinets, Towels, Toothbrush, Medication, Juice container, Pots, Pans, Blender, Toaster, Waffle iron, and Food processor. As I look at this list, I realize how much I have to be grateful for. First and foremost, I am grateful for my wife. I tell her that all the time, but I truly am grateful for her.

Week 8, Day 3 – Humor

February 4, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

Well I didn’t have any magazines around the house, so I decided to spend a bit of time watching commercials and there are a few that make me laugh. Sadly, or ironically, many of them are from the same company – GEICO. I love the commercial with Maximus the Pig who is going wee wee wee wee wee all the way home. I love that commercial. I crack up laughing every time I watch it and sit there and go wee with Maximus. Watching it brings me back to being a little girl and that game my mom used to play with me about the five little pigs and the little one that went wee wee wee all the way home. Love it! On the other hand, I also love the drill sergeant psychiatrist commercial for Geico. I was talking about this commercial with a few of my friends who do counseling and they love it too. It is not that we are not compassionate and sensitive, but sometimes you are working with someone who is stuck in this swamp of despair and does not seem committed to their own recovery/evolution.

Week 8, Day 2 – All We Can Handle

February 4, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

Well, the reality is that the ones I wanted to begin with were numbers 2 or 3. Then I had to go hmm, so you do not want to write on number 1 why. Well if I write about a secret fear or trouble within myself, then it would no longer be a secret would it. But if I write about it then I have to be honest with myself about it and I can’t keep it in one of those deep dark places where it is safely hidden and has been for a while. So it would be easier to write about what I have and have not done well or the rituals in my life, etc. but if the whole purpose of my doing this is to stir my own waters and move through stuff, then I have to break open the secret vault and not always play it safe. So one of my secret fears is that if I lose weight, ok, let me change that, when I lose weight people might find me attractive and someone might try to abuse me again.

Week 8, Day 1 – Forgiveness

February 3, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

Hmm. The one that really is speaking to me the most is #3. So I guess I will be coming back to this entry for the next week. Isn’t that kind of like life – a work in progressJ? So this morning my first thought was how I just wanted to make it to the bathroom on time and then when I did I was angry because I realized I was having my first period in over a year. I thought I was through with this part of my life. Not really holding any grudges this morning and am at a space where the one thing in my life which is unresolved, well I know in time it is going to be resolved. So that is a good thing. I can live with knowing it is all going to be ok. I think it helped that I have clarification from CDR about what they will do for me as an individual and how I can work to get others involved systemically. So let me take just a moment to pray before I get started with my day.

Week 7, Day 7 – Rewarding Yourself, Gifts Offered

February 3, 2011 Sharon Jacobson

So today was field trip day. We were to go wherever we wanted to go today and observe the buildings, the people, the weather, and anything else that caught our interest. We were to notice what we were drawn to and what we learned in the process. Ok, so here is the thing. I have begun to notice that whatever I am “assigned” to write on that day is what I really need to write about at that time in my life. So Tuesday’s are my busy day with school and this Tuesday was no different. I was gone much longer then I would have liked, but it was all good. Well except for the weather, as we prepared for the “blizzard” of 2011. In some respects, there has been this kind of emotional blizzard going on in my life around liftline, so the bitter cold, snow, and wind in the weather kind of matched some of what I was experiencing and like the blizzard,

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