Pleasure, Passion, and the Path of the Sacred

I believe I have a spiritual duty to live my life in the most sacred way possible.  Many people would agree with that statement, however what it means is as individual as the people who take on that sacred mission.   To me it means two things primarily.  First, I believe in a life of service.  I see myself as an extension of my creator, and as that extension, I try to be an instrument of service on behalf of the divine as often and as well as I am possibly able.  I would suppose many people also agree with that. However, that may be where I part ways with the main stream regarding a sacred life.  My second fundamental belief regarding the sacred is that I have a duty to experience my life in the most sensual and passionate ways.  Now the words...

The Great I AM

Image by Tanya Dawn via Flickr There are a lot of varying view points out there about affirmations.  Do they work?  Are they a waste?  Do they possibly even make things worse?  Honestly, I think they work if you think they will.  However a lot of people don’t.  That said, I am a big fan of “I am” affirmations.   An “I am” statement used as an affirmation is very simple.  The subconscious is trained to respond to the words I am.  We think them all the time.  Those words form the very construct of our self identity.  I am fat.  I am lovable.  I am successful.  I am lonely.  Each of those statements are very powerful and absolute.  We are what we think we are.  The minute an “I am” statement is activated, it becomes the truth, at...