I Choose To Honor My Challenges (Compassionate Affirmations)

Reuben guides in a particular way, to help us drop into a spiritual connection with ourselves. We do this by honoring the challenges that we have faced.

We start with a simple introduction to settle us in, then some simple insights from The Wisdom of The Waves about this. Then, we will get to use these specific affirmations, in the acknowledgment and honoring of our challenges.

The ambient, cinematic music is designed to help us connect to this in an emotive way. This ideally is to bring us into a wiser and kinder acknowledgment, and appreciation of ourselves.

Transcript

I choose to honor my challenges.

For a fully immersive experience,

I recommend listening with headphones.

Let's go to the wisdom of the waves for our daily dose of gentle inspiration.

You chose this moment,

Meaning you chose yourself.

This is a gift for you and from you.

You are going to be affirming your relationship to the challenges that you have been through,

The tough times.

I choose to honor my challenges provides a deeper acknowledgment of the you here now.

A wiser,

Kinder and more compassionate acknowledgment of what you have been through.

Sometimes you gave up.

Sometimes your mind told you that you didn't have the strength,

That you didn't have the energy,

That you didn't have the skills,

Didn't,

Couldn't,

Shouldn't,

But right here,

Right now,

You are here for you.

Repeat after me,

I am here for me.

I choose to honor my challenges.

Everybody goes through tough times,

Struggling with their thoughts and feelings.

The mind doesn't like to give human beings the credit for the qualities that they have shown,

The strength that they have shown,

When recalling past challenges.

It's not the default of the brain to give you the credit that you actually deserve.

But you can do this for yourself,

With this amazing capacity you have for awareness and a gentle setting of intention.

This amazing capacity you have to choose,

This amazing capacity you have to honor your challenges as experiences that have helped you see deeper into yourself,

Deeper into others and deeper into your spirituality.

Relax,

Give yourself the right to be here now.

As the countdown from 10 to 1 takes place,

You can either 1 allow yourself to soften into this moment,

Surrendering to the pull of gravity as it gently holds you,

Or 2 you can listen to the space between the numbers.

Let's drop into this.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I choose me first.

Honoring my challenges,

Honoring myself,

Honoring my growth and honoring my future self.

I am coming to know more and more that I am the one person who knows exactly what I have been through.

I am coming to know more and more that I am the one person in my life who can be there for myself when I am faced with a challenge.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I choose to acknowledge unhelpful thoughts and to remember this is part of the human condition,

Especially when going through tough times.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I choose to acknowledge unwanted feelings and to remember this is part of the human condition,

Especially when going through tough times.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I don't have to like them or want them and in making room for them,

I get to choose who I am in the face of them.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I choose to gently acknowledge that this tough life has gentleness within it and has compassion within it.

My dear sweet soul,

There you are.

I choose to affirm this to you right now.

I appreciate the you that has shown up today.

Your challenges are valid.

You've been through so much.

Thank you.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I bring some love to you.

I bring some gentle flexibility to the obstacles in my life.

I see these as a chance to move through this and deepen the connection to my soul.

I acknowledge that I struggled at times.

I acknowledge that I gave up at times.

I acknowledge that it seemed foggy and confusing at times.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I know that I am the one human being who can always be there for me,

No matter what.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I know that I am the one person that knows exactly what it's like to be me and how difficult things can get.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I acknowledge these experiences.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I acknowledge these experiences will happen again in the future,

And I choose to hold myself lightly.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I am coming to know more and more that I am supposed to disconnect.

This is so that I can reconnect with my sense of self,

With my soul.

Soul,

Soul,

Soul,

Soul,

Soul.

As I choose to honor my challenges,

I am here for me.

Me first.

I am here for me.

Honoring my challenges,

Honoring myself,

Honoring my growth,

And honoring my future self.

And so it is.

Reviews

After waking from some pretty intense nightmares over the past week that brought up some past challenges, this was exactly what I needed to shake off the ugh feelings I was seemingly experiencing again. I am now facing different challenges in my current waking life and this helped me see that I need to come back to myself, my soul.

Hello Reuben, it was such a joy to see that you had posted this particular meditation just recently. You know that I have done this one before and I have loved doing it! It always inspires me and fills me with so much hope and happiness as it did today. Thank you always Reuben from the bottom of my heart 💕.

Beautiful and encouraging words my dear sweet soul! Thanks Reuben