35 Affirmations that will change your life. Taken from Carmen Harra- Intuitive Psychologist and Life Coach.
Repeat five times, three times a day.
My life is just beginning.
Morning ritual mastery: morningritualmastery.org. (Define your morning ritual to master your life.) In the morning we wake up too late. We know that we should be up earlier, but we aren’t exactly sure why. We know we should get to work, because we measure our days against objectives. We eat a grapefruit carefully so the peel becomes a bowl to collect things in.
I possess the qualities needed to be extremely successful.
The Seine has been flooded for weeks. Lifting tree branches and bicycles and garbage cans into its bulk. We sit near the edge and wonder about having children. It doesn’t look like it is moving that fast. We start saving our fingernail cuttings to have a record of the time.
By noon one of us calls round for coffee. We go to the market. The animals curled in the cases, bald, their eyes bulging. We touch cashmere scarves with dirty hands—some of the cashmere sticking to us and some of us sticking to the cashmere. The man selling the scarves swears.
I am a powerhouse. I am indestructible.
We want to go to a libertine club, most likely just to watch. We want to see the men jumping around like bunnies. We remember a story about a pig with a beautiful voice. We remember a picture of a pig eating human faeces. We go in one of the churches to see a giant shell that holds the holy water. The shell is rimmed in gold. We look up the meaning of the word benediction. Paris seems like a city of layers sometimes. Our feet fit the dips worn into the stone steps.
I am at peace with all that has happened is happening and will happen.
Shape note, or the sacred harp, is a simplified tool for teaching sight singing. It was used mainly to teach religious songs and hymns to congregations in the Appalachian region of the United States. Positioning self-affirmations as a the sacred rituals of neoliberal congregants, these texts have been translated into shape notes by finding the notation shapes between the letters of each word, and then sung in the style of the sacred harp.
These blocks and cuts of vegetable jelly, infused with trimmings, clippings, husks and remainders, and displayed like meat at a market stall, intervene in a constant flow of detritus by processes of snagging and congelation. The shiny quivering mass is both inviting and repulsive- like cuts of flesh they are both familiar and abject. Over the course of a few days, the slabs will evaporate, releasing their objects back into the waste stream.
On the arcade men sleep on the floor in front of a store called Convertible Contemporain. While we are installing this show the men ask us if they can have the cardboard and plastic that is the runoff of our practice. We are both complicit and resistant in this economy of objects and desires.
My fears of tomorrow are melting away.