Affirmations - your Passport
to Happiness

November 01, Passport 2000 Newsletter Vol. 2 Number 11

Contents:

1. Editorial

2. Letters to Publisher

3. For Sale Section

4. Upcoming Seminar

5. Ask Caroline by Caroline Ryker

6. Lets Make Miracles with Maya

7. Reiki Article by Caroline Ryker

8. My Viewpoint by Darlene O’Neill

9. Phoenix Newspaper presents Ask Anne Marie Column

10. Article on Forgiveness by Anne Marie Evers

11. November Affirmation

12. Free Book Draw

13. Contac & Legal

Editorial:

Happy Birthday, Jett!
I am glad you enjoy Passport 2000 Newsletter!

I wish to say Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers. This is a time for reflection and gratefulness for our blessings.

I say, “Thank you, thank you, thank you Father for every day.” I would like to share the following poem with you:

BROKEN DREAMS

As children bring their broken toys
With tears for us to mend
I brought my broken dreams to God

Because He was my friend
But instead of leaving Him
In peace to work alone,

I hung around and tried to help
With ways that were my own
As last I snatched them back and cried;

How can you be so slow
My child, He said, "What could I do
You never let them go.”

Author Unknown

Editor’s Note on the Affirm & Learn Program:

The Affirm and Learn Program for Children in is still going strong. As we told you in the last two Passport 2000 Newsletters the Affirm and Learn Program is now in effect as a pilot project in a Grade Three class in a County School in Washington State.

We are monitoring it very closely and the teacher involved is reporting great successes. In one lesson she taught the Magnetic Circle and how to use it to send love to one another. She reported that one of the boys in her class told her how he was sitting on the sofa at home trying to read a book. His younger sister kept pestering him. He said he thought for a moment, and then he put the Magnetic Circle around him and started sending her thoughts of love. To his surprise and delight, she tired of bothering him and left him alone. He said, “Yes, the Magnetic Circle worked and we didn’t even have a fight!”

When the students really learn and use the positive words and exercises and put them into practice, the teacher rewards them with a colored, plasticised Affirmation Family Book Mark. These are very coveted prizes and the students have to work for them.

This Grade Three class has huge cardboard stars hanging from the ceiling to each student’s desk. On one side they have the following poem and on the other side they have made up their own personal affirmation.

Study more than you can study,
Then do it!

Bite off more than you can chew,
Then chew it!

Attach your goal to a star
Hang on tight

And there you are!

 We will keep you posted on this wonderful children’s’ project. If anyone is interested in learning more about this Affirm & Learn Program, etc. please e-mail Anne Marie. We are always very pleased to receive your input, information, ideas and suggestions.

Editor’s Note About Affirmation Technique Correspondence:

Course being offered over the Internet:

This Affirmation Technique Correspondence Course is designed to help you learn all about affirmations and how to make them work for you. We will teach you exactly how with simple, effective exercises just how to harness the wonderful power of your subconscious mind within to make your dreams a reality -- Now!

Call (604) 988-9907 now for further information. 

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Letters to Publisher:

Actual Affirmation published with the Judith’s permission

Dear Anne Marie:

Here is the affirmation I used. I used Judith because this is on my birth certificate but friends and relatives call me Judy.

Judy writes “You are welcome to put it in your book or on your website, etc.”

My Car

“I Judith Berlin, deserve and now have purchased a 93 Ford Escort GT in excellent condition and loaded. It is strong, reliable, attractive, safe and economical. It has A/C and many other options. I own and use it to the good of all concerned, Thank you, Thank you, thank you!”

Judith wrote this affirmation out three times and this became her Master Affirmation.

Judy reports that the car cost her $5,700 and is in perfect condition. It has features such as interior trunk and gas tank levers, a sun and moon roof, extra wind and rain shield over the side windows, a light in the trunk, lit vanity mirrors. The paint job is as new (a metallic, bluish green). It worked and she now has her car!

Publisher’s Note:  thank you Judith for sharing your testimonial on affirming your special car!  Have fun and enjoy!

Love Anne Marie

Dear Anne Marie:

I have been studying your book Affirmations, Your Passport to Happiness and I thought I would let you know it is one of the best and most effective works on the subject that I have come across. I have made something of a study on the topic. I particularly like you Angel Letters. They work when nothing else does in some sticky situations. Anna

Dear Anna:

I am so pleased that you are using this wonderful method in your life. Yes, Angel Letters have really worked in my life as well, some with startling results! Please keep me posted on your process and Happy Affirming.

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For Sale Section - Medallions For Sale:

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Upcoming Seminar:

Zebra Ventures Presents a Seminar Featuring:

Psychic Healing with Alan Dion Of the Healing Clinic in North Vancouver.

Affirmations with Anne Marie Evers Author of Affirmations Your Passport to Happiness.

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Ask Caroline - Caroline, Psychic & Counselor:

Caroline is a Psychic Counselor and accomplished Reader of the Tarot and the Cards of life. She is also an Affirmation Teacher and vigorously promotes my book on Affirmations, Your Passport to Happiness. She has used the affirmations directly from the book in numerous situations in her life with fantastic results. She has over thirty years experience and many loyal, devoted clients. Keep up the good work Caroline!

She can be reached directly at e-mail:  Carolineryker@hotmail.com

Dear Caroline:

My common-law husband and I mutually agreed to separate. We were separated for approximately three months when Chad initiated reconciliation. I was reluctant at first, but soon became enamored at the idea as a result of frequent love letters and floral bouquets.

When we decided to reconcile, I asked Chad if he had been intimate with anyone during our separation. He looked me straight in the eye and vehemently denied he was capable of being unfaithful to me. He said, "I love you and you only." Based on this information I decide to reconcile with Chad.

Eight months later I received an anonymous phone call reporting to me that there had been a baby born to a mutual acquaintance and this baby resembled Chad.

I confronted Chad and he initially denied he was the father of this child. A few hours later, after many tears and much discussion he finally admitted that he was the father of the child. That was nine years ago and Chad's daughter is now 9 years old.

We are still together but all sexual and romantic feelings on my part for Chad have never been rekindled because the trust issue was shattered when the man I loved looked me straight in the eye and bluntly lied to me.

I now love this man as a brother and companion and nothing more.

I can't seem to put the past behind me. Should I stay with him longer or leave? I really need your help.  Thank you, Donna

Dear Donna:

It is devastating when we have lost trust with our mate and it is hard to forgive and forget.  However, when you found out eight months after your reconciliation that Chad had a child you accepted this situation by continuing your relationship. This tells me there must be something holding you both together. 

No one can tell you to leave Chad or stay with him.  That is a decision only you can make.  My suggestion is for both of you to go to a Marriage Counselor and a marriage workshop where couples can spark their relationship again.

Ask yourself would I be better off with him or without him? That would be your answer. Keep the Faith

Caroline, Psychic & Counselor

Dear Caroline:

I am a single father with a teenage son. His mother sees him sporadically and offers no emotional support.

I am trying my best to raise him to be a stable well-balanced son, but I notice recently he is exhibiting temper tantrums and could be careening out of control. I am wondering if he needs counseling.

I work full time and often find myself emotionally exhausted and just too tired to try and figure out this problem. What would you suggest? Thank you.

Leonard

Dear Leonard:

This sort of acting out behavior in your son is quite common when parents divorce.  Being a teenager going through hormonal changes poses problems in every boy's life.  He and you definitely need counseling. It is important for you and he to spend time together doing some activities and communicating.  Before you know it, he will be all grown up and gone.  This is the time to develop a close relationship.

Good Luck

Caroline, Psychic & Counselor

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Lets Make Miracles:

With Maya Please send me your stories at  mayasmiracles@hotmail.com

Poem (Maya’s Theme Poem)

Lets Make Miracles

Miracles happen in all manner of ways

Creating hopefulness, joy and inspiration.

Delivered to us to brighten our days

Our true path to inner realization

Lets make miracles together, you and I,

We can start with recognition

It is simple if we choose to try

Realization, Gratitude and Celebration!

Maya's Thought for the Day:

“What you think about, you bring about!”  When you focus on past miracles and present ones, you invite future miracles into your life!

Dear Readers:

Thank you for your enthusiastic response. One of our Passport 200 Readers wrote in and wanted to share the following miracle with us.  

Love Maya

Lisa’s Story

“A few years ago I was a single parent struggling through Nursing School.  I had been dong affirmations as taught by Anne Marie’s Book, Affirmations, Your Passport to Happiness for a few weeks and they were helping me think and active in a more positive mode.

But at this particular time I was a very low point in my life, having no money to pay my bills and renew my drivers license which I needed to complete my Nurses training.

One day feeling very discouraged, I took a sick day from Nursing school and after I dropped my daughter, Cindy off at elementary school, a thought popped into my head. I thought why not stop of at the 711 store and buy a coffee and maybe even splurge for a lotto ticket. Goodness knows I could really use some extra cash at this point.

A blazing light caught my eye as I looked at the scratch and win tickets. I noticed in particular this light was around a Joker’s Wild Ticket. I bought the last one in the showcase. I took it home and much to my amazement and delight when I scratched it I won a prize of $10,000! This was exactly what I need to pay my bills and finish nursing school. I am convinced that (like Anne Marie says) Affirmations When Properly Done Always Work!  So I say to all readers and people out there TRY IT – IT WORKS!!

Gratefully,  Lisa

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REIKI  -- The Healing Touch:

The knowledge that an unseen energy flows through all living things and is connected directly to the quality of health has been part of the wisdom of many cultures since ancient time.  The existence of this "life force energy" has been verified by recent scientific experiments, and medical doctors are considering the role it plays in the functioning of the immune system and the healing process.

Reiki, a technique for stress reduction and relaxation, allows everyone to tap into an unlimited supply of "life force energy" to improve health and force energy, and is a technique for transmitting this energy to yourself and others through the hands.  Thought to have originated in Tibet thousands of years ago, Reiki was rediscovered by a Japanese Buddhist monk in the nineteenth century.

My Reiki practioner is a Master of Reiki,  Ahwren B. Sheldan.  What got her started was her desire at a young age to heal with her hands.  In her 20's she became a Certified Massage Therapist.   At age thirty, she first learned how to do Hands on Healing.  She felt instant comfort with this method of healing.  "It felt like going home".  Five years later, in 1992, she became a Reiki Master.  She integrates these two mediums. 

Reiki uses Japanese symbols and different symbols for power and healing.  Reiki will either give or take away the proper amount of energy needed to balance the mind, body and emotions.  It can affect change in the chemical structure of the body, helping to rebuild muscles, nerves, skeletal structure, and regenerating organs.  It will provide the energy to balance and straighten the spine. 

When it is combined with the sincere desire of the healee, who is willing to effect a cleansing within his or her emotional and spiritual consciousness, a total healing occurs.  Simply placing one's hands on oneself, or another person, and opening to the flow of the Reiki energy, allows this energy to flow through the individual.  It fills the healer's body first and then flows out from the healer through the healer's hands into the individual who is receiving the healing.

Therapeutic Touch is another name for Hands on Healing, which is used by many Nurses in Canada.  The title Therapeutic Touch is used to avoid the religious concept that Hands on Healing would convey.

Hands on Healing is energy, which is directed by the universe of God's spirit or nature, depending on your belief.  When we place our hands and direct the energy, it is moving from one hand to the other hand.  Reiki, however, considers the practioner is a vessel, and the energy passes through her to be used by the client.  It must be used for his or her highest good at all times.  Ultimately, the client and practioner and spirit all work together.

Anybody can learn how to do Reiki.  You just need a desire and an awareness of how the energy is moving in the body.  It is recommended that you take a course from a certified Reiki Master.  In doing this work it helps a person go in to a meditative state where inner spiritual healing takes place.  Everything begins with energy.  Energy is all around you.  A mother, who hugs her child, sends energy to heal the child. We draw energy in and give energy out.

In order to be healthy in the body, there needs to be energy moving and if something is not moving then the body is not healthy.  Ill health begins on an energy level.  It takes a couple of years before a doctor can find that the body has a problem.  The more you align the body, and give it energy the easier it will heal.  If it is physical, trauma, emotional, or spiritual, any one of these can be focused and realigned.  Reiki is a great benefit when you go through chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.  You need nutrition and water but you also need energy.  How many treatments do you need?  It varies with the individual.  Acute distress requires they come in more often, like 2 to 3 times a week.  Once a month is often enough for regular maintenance. 

Just before cancer surgery, I was affirming for a successful operation.  I found Ahwren one week before my operation.  She did a Reiki treatment on me and had me visualize my operation being a success.  This helped me to be calm before the operation and it was a success.  Reiki practitioners do not diagnose conditions, nor do they prescribe, or perform medical treatment.  Nor do they prescribe substances, nor interfere with the treatment of a licensed medical professional.  The purpose of Reiki is stress reduction, relaxation and healing with energy.  Reiki is just one aspect of good health.

I have been asked can Reiki be transmitted over the telephone?  Yes, there are a few ways of sending healing.  This is a process you will learn when you take a Reiki course. 

You are your own best healer and the Reiki Master is the facilitator to help you get there and help you in the process. Trust yourself to find ways of healing that work just right for you.

The REIKI Ideals

Just for today, I will not be angry

Just for today, I will not worry,

Just for today, I will give thanks for my Many blessings

Just for today, I will do my work honestly,

Just for today, I will be kind to my neighbor and Every living thing

Ahwren B. Sheldan resides in Bellingham.  She is certified in the following Craniosacral Therapy - Therapeutic Massage - Energy Therapy Reiki – Biokinesiology. Telephone:  (360)733-5017

Interviewed & written by Caroline Ryker Psychic & Counselor

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‘My Viewpoint’ - by Nurse Darlene:

Fat, Fact or Fiction?

Anyone who has ever had a serious weight problem knows how differently many people of the world view him or her. Most people assume anyone that is fat is a pig, overeats, and eats the wrong food, a lot of junk food, potato chips or ice cream. While this is true in some cases, the majority of overweight individuals must limit their intake to a very low caloric intake in order to manage to lose or maintain weight. Some even have to revert to starvation diets.

Most everyone I know that has a weight problem must give up the foods they love and crave. They spend their life thinking, dreaming and planning all about food and they become preoccupied with food because the body is being starved and it craves the various foods, fats and carbohydrates.

When we go on diets our bodies go into a starvation mode and hoard the fat. This then results in the dieter having to take in even fewer calories than before.

Also some people assume that the overweight people are overweight because they do not exercise at all or care about their bodies or how they look. This, too, in untrue as many overweight individuals are in very good physical shape. They exercise religiously, walk, lift weights and do aerobics.

A lot of people assume an obese person has no will power or determination and some business people even see them as a risk when considering employing them. It is felt that the overweight person will have many health problems, which would result in loss of time causing the employer to expend more money.

Also some business people feel that a fat person looks unattractive and detracts from the overall company image. Even when an obese person wears beautifully tailored clothes and is well-groomed, insulting remarks are made with good intentions. These remarks can hurt. An example of this is,  “You have such a pretty face and you dress so well, it is such a pity that you cannot lose weight.”

I know of a mother who said she was ashamed of her child because she was overweight and called her an embarrassment.

Even on the street the fat person is not safe from insults. I know of incidents where people have shouted insults out of the car window, saying, “Hey fatso why don’t you go on a diet? Or “Hey lady there is a Jenny Craig just around the corner, or “Hi butterball, what’s for dinner tonight?”

One sales person made oinking sounds when a young, obese lady was trying on clothes. This was embarrassing and completely devastating to her. This should not be tolerated! How dare she insult another human being?

Yoyo dieting is a destructive tool of the obese. When you have lost 50 pounds and the diet is over and you gain back 60, the fact remains that you have gained ten more pounds.

This steady gain can result in a serious weight gain over the years and cause health problems. Most of us have tried every diet known to man, none of which results in permanent weight loss.

Personally, the only time I have been successful was for a short period of time when I was totally consumed by counting fats, calories, etc. and feeling that I had to spend hours exercising every day without fail.

When I relaxed and slacked off the pounds started piling back on. Obesity definitely has an inheritant faction, whether it be physical, mental or both. Most weight is insidious and it creeps on over a period of time and as we age our bodies are even more reluctant to let go of excess fat and poundage.

As I see it, we, the obese are in the majority in the Western World. We do not have poor self-esteem, we do not hate ourselves or how we look. Many of my fat friends are well dressed and attractive.

Some people believe that the obese person has no control; therefore he or she is not trustworthy. Many occupations do not wish to employ obese people for example nurses, doctors, psychologists, etc. because it is felt that a person that is obese has poor self- esteem and would be a poor role model for the patients.

The real truth is that most obese people are very happy, but exposure at the beach can be a difficult time for them. Children point, people stare and teens snicker when a fatty walks down the beach.

In addition my fat friends are the most caring, loving, helpful people that you could ever meet. I am proud to be among them.

Some people assume that fat people are not as good as their slim, svelte cousins.

The above my personal point of view and I welcome any comments, ideas or suggestions from the Passport 2000 Readers

Next month our topic will be “How Can we Deal with the Fat Delimina?”

Darlene is a free-lance writer who can be reached by addressing your e-mail to Darlene, c/o Anne Marie

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The Affirmation Column:

The Phoenix News Network presents Ask Anne Marie (reprinted with permission from Nicole M. Whitney, Publisher of Solution Oriented News -- the Phoenix North Shore Edition)

Dear Anne Marie:

I am a faithful reader of the Phoenix Paper and read your column regularly. I read your Passport 2000 Newsletter on the Internet and have to tell you about the success of one of your suggestions or exercises.

I was having trouble keeping my energy in tact when dealing with, or being in the company of negative people.

How this particular Energy Exercise worked for me was my husband Harry was in the habit of criticizing me and putting me down especially when were traveling the truck. The other week while on a long trip, he started his usual, verbal abusive dialogue. For a moment I felt trapped and wanted to jump out of the truck, then I remembered the exercise you talked about.

I did as you said; I simply crossed my ankles, put my hands together and repeated over and over to myself, “Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful.”

It worked like magic! He abruptly stopped and started talking about the trip we are taking to Las Vegas in two months.

Thank you.  It helped so much. Now I feel I have a great tool to use whenever I need to.

Next week I am meeting my sister for lunch She is very negative and usually I come away from our meetings feeling very drained and depressed. But I have a secret weapon...  I will keep you posted.

Thanks much! Lori Lee

Dear Lori Lee:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing the results of this simple, yet effective exercise. By the simple act of crossing your ankles, putting your hands together while repeating the word “Peaceful” you are keeping your energy in tact. This way people who are energy robbers are unable to zap your energy. Let me know how the lunch with your sister goes.

Love Anne Marie

Dear Anne Marie:

I am a single dad with a thirteen-year-old daughter. I enjoy your teachings.  I saw you on television about a year ago, then I found you on the Internet and now I pick up the Phoenix Newspaper and I find you again!

The method of doing affirmations that you teach really does work. Allow me to recite the ways:

1. I affirmed for a perfect place, in the perfect location at the perfect rent.
   - It manifested!
   
   

2. I affirmed good marks for my daughter, Tracey. I found a great private school with only 12 students in a classroom. I enrolled her in the school.  She loves it and her grades reflect her satisfaction.
   - Now she is proud of her marks and I am too!
   
   

3. I affirmed the perfect home for my mother. The place that was just right for her had a waiting list of l8 months but she was accepted in three months. She moved last month. Thank you. thank you. thank you!
   - I had tea with her in her new home yesterday!

Now all I need to do is affirm money to me and that loving, lasting relationship with the perfect woman for me. Thank you for all your assistance.  Maurice, West Van

Dear Maurice:

It is so wonderful to hear that you are making the Affirmation Process work for you. Now that you have three affirmations that have manifested, I am certain that the other two are already happening for you.

I am so delighted for you. Please let know when money begins flowing to you. Oh yes, please send me a picture of you and your new relationship partner!

Kindest Regards,

Anne Marie

Send your questions, comments, suggestions and letters to Anne Marie Evers in an e-mail to Anne Marie and she will answer them in this column. Anne Marie is the author of four books on Affirmations, free-lance writer, lecturer, radio host, columnist, contributor to the Royal Critters Affirmation Book, Whale Magic 3-D Trading Cards and story development of affirmations. She is also the on-line publisher of the Passport 2000 Newsletter. Her website is http://www.netadssell.com/affirmations

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Forgiveness - by Anne Marie Evers:

Before you can use positive, uplifting thoughts to improve your life and change it for the better, you need to forgive.

Forgive self, other people and circumstances. When you have done this, you can then proceed using the thought process to change your life for the better.

One of my readers, Josie had not spoken to her daughter, Alice for the past 15 years. This situation was actually eating her alive. She spoke about it constantly and lamented on the reason why. She was full of anger and you could just see a black cloud of pure negative emotion about her person.

A year ago she was diagnosed with a serious type of stomach cancer. When she became ill, her husband contacted Alice and told her of her mother’s illness.

Alice started to cry and immediately made plans to travel out west to see her mother. When Josie herd of this, she became very angry and defensive. She told her husband if Alice came to see her she would have her police escorted out of the hospital.

As the disease progressed, Alice kept trying to see her mother without any success.

When Josie contacted me she was in the final stages of stomach cancer. I asked her if she had used the forgiveness process. She said that no she had not and was not about to do so.

Three weeks later she again contacted me asking me how the forgiveness process worked and asked me how she could get started on it. I explained to her that forgiveness of self, others and circumstances is healing the only way to attain true peace of mind.

The last I heard she was working with the forgiveness process that I outlined to her. It must have worked because Alice had left her home in Toronto and was staying with her at the hospital.

Alice reports that her mother is now forgiving herself. Now the healing process can begin and she can use the powerful thoughts and Mind Commands of Healing for the healing of her own body and family members.

I cannot stress enough how important forgiveness is in attracting and enjoying happiness and peace of mind.  Forgiveness heals even the deepest of wounds

Forgiveness is very powerful. Never underestimate the power of forgiving. When you forgive, your energy changes the physical structure of your cells and DNA. When you are embroiled in guilt, shame or depression, you close down the energy systems of your body. All types of negative problems can erupt. Forgiveness is a process of untangling mental and emotional parts of your being. If you have become tangled up in the negative energy of another person or situation and need to forgive, now it may be time to release and let go!

Forgiveness is a choice. Not forgiving is also a choice. When you do not forgive another person or a situation, you are energetically connected or tied to them. When you forgive others you break those ties and allow them to move on with their lives. You can also move on with yours. Good Luck!

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Affirmation for November:

“I, (your name) deserve and now am grateful for every day. I focus on my blessings. I awaken every morning with a song in my heart. I invite the wonderful, positive energies of the sun, moon and the whole solar system into my being and life. I enjoy and now have peace, joy, love and happiness and this extends to everyone I meet. I am happy to the good of all parties concerned. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!”

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Free Book Draw:

Results of our free monthly draw for a Free Electronic Version of the Fourth Edition of Book Affirmations, Your Passport to Happiness!

We are pleased to announce that one of our brand new subscribers; Laurel von Pander from British Columbia, Canada is the lucky winner of the Free Electronic Book for the month of November, 2000.  Congratulations Laurel and happy reading!

To be eligible for this "Free Monthly Draw" please join our Passport 2000 Monthly Newsletter.  Once a monthly we put all the names into a hat and draw the winner! You could be the next lucky winner!

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