Affirmations
“Satorl Shimmering Marsh - Night
(Definitive Version)” by Manami Kiyota
WHAT IS AN AFFIRMATION?
It’s there in the name: an affirmation is a positive proclamation of something that is true. Their general purpose is to establish and maintain the healthy, confident, and resilient mindset necessary for continuous joyous living in the face of adversity. They’re reminders of the things you love and treasure and value, whether it is about yourself or something beyond yourself. In the context of therapeutic cognitive restructuring, affirmations are used to dispute and uproot maladaptive thought patterns. They’re like those cheesy motivational posters (wow! What a blast from the past! Has anyone seen those since 2012?) but much more personal and actually helpful.
In the context of magick, affirmations can be used to focus your mind and harness your innate spiritual powers. Most of the affirmations floating around in English I’ve seen are heavily influenced by the Law of Attraction popularised by the New Thought author Prentice Mulford in the late 1880s, a philosophy that has since been adopted by religious traditions as disparate as Christian prosperity theology, Theosophy, and Wicca.
The following affirmations may not strike others as particularly “magickal”, and some fall into the category of “command”, “directive”, or “instruction”. Personally, I work best with affirmations like that. One’s affirmations should draw upon one’s own personal experiences, values, and sources of inner strength—and the Law of Attraction is not a part of my own practice or philosophy. These are important to me, so I’ve written them down.
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GIOVANNI’S AFFIRMATIONS
- ⟡ I am the son of ███████ ████████.
- ⟡ Mu-Shin. (無心).
- ⟡ Fudou-Shin. (不動心).
- ⟡ Death does not scare me. I have lived…
- ⟡ My predecessors live through me. I am
living history—I choose to be living history. - ⟡ I am my heritage.
- ⟡ I will dance the very earth to ashes.
- ⟡ What will this matter in five years? /
I’ll stand in five years. - ⟡ Seven Deaths. (七つの死)
- ⟡ Life is fun. I enjoy living—
more than anyone else. - ⟡ My partner and I make the best team.
- ⟡ We’re the best. —And we’re going to keep it that way.
- ⟡ I have the best friends in life!
- ⟡ I am living grief.
- ⟡ I laugh the loudest and rage the longest of all the others… That’s the only way of living I’ve ever known, and I’m proud of it.
- ⟡ Ah, what a burden it is to be the scorpion.
[Take pride in it; smiling as he says so]
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MY AFFIRMATIONS
- ⟡ I’m pretty strong, actually.
- ⟡ I learn all the time.
- ⟡ Zan-Shin. (残心)
- ⟡ Sho-Shin. (初心)
- ⟡ I live with a lot of friends.
- ⟡ I can kill if I need to.
- ⟡ I’m in control of myself.
- ⟡ I live for my friends—I choose to do so.
Not blindly; it’s a choice. - ⟡ My connections are important.
- ⟡ Sever the unimportant ones easily.
- ⟡ I may not be kind, but I am good.
- ⟡ I’m strong enough to help those precious to me.
- ⟡ I’m as callous as I need to be.
- ⟡ I do things my way—joyfully.
- ⟡ I study seriously.
- ⟡ I have a full life.
- ⟡ My magick is unseen but beautiful.
- ⟡ I care about what I care about.
- ⟡ I am not afraid of death.
- ⟡ I am so much happier than all those “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”!
I can laugh harder than any of them. - ⟡ I love what I love, and I hate what I hate—
with all honesty. - ⟡ My hate is black-beautiful-tranquil,
as the perfect surface of dark water. - ⟡ I don’t know if there’s anything stronger than my contempt for others.
- ⟡ I can support ███████ in other ways.
- ⟡ I am proud of who and what I’ve become.
- ⟡ Until Giovanni comes back, I’ll be here.