How To Gain Inner Strength and Empowerment

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
— William Ernest Henley

The first step to self mastery is self-authority, which means realizing you are the captain of your own ship of destiny. When you take mastery over your life, knowing you create your future through your thoughts, words, and deeds, then no one and nothing can dissuade you from your divine plan and purpose. You walk the royal highway to glory.

Self-authority means you are in control. Yet, at the same time, you are led by a higher force that guides you. As you walk the straight path toward your goals, a brilliant light illumines the way. You are not seduced by crooked byways and detours leading you astray. You walk patiently, step by step, with full confidence and faith, knowing you are on the highest road.

The Jungle of Habits, Patterns, and Belief Systems

Many people are weakened by the influences of others. They wander away from their divine purpose into dark, dank jungles of ignorance and delusion. Negative messages from parents, teachers, clergy, peers, the media, and other manipulative powers hold sway and weigh them down. Trapped in a web of confusion and fear, they have bought into prevailing attitudes shared by the collective human mind. Habits, conditions, patterns, and belief systems hold them in bondage.

Many get lost in that jungle and never find their way out. But you can find the open doorway out of the shadows and into the light of wisdom.

Let us begin with the foundation affirmation of this book — an affirmation recommended as the staple in everyone’s healing medicine cabinet.


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1. Self-Authority Affirmation

The Self-Authority Affirmation is the most important, potent prayer in this book. It can transform your life instantaneously. With daily use, you can gain tremendous self-empowerment and confidence. This affirmation closes your energy field to lower levels of mind, and opens you to the spiritual world. Therefore, you are no longer subject to “environ-mental static” — negative vibrations and thought-forms around you.

With this affirmation, you can heal “Psychic Sponge Syndrome” — oversensitivity to the mental atmosphere. Psychic sponges absorb the vibrations around them as a sponge absorbs water. They tend to take on the ills of negative people in their proximity. Lower vibrations of heavy environments weaken them. Their life energy is sucked dry by psychic vampires all day. After a day’s work in a dense, destructive atmosphere, psychic sponges feel drained and exhausted.

This affirmation can help you revive and restore your energy. Use it whenever you feel weak, afraid, powerless, off-kilter, or intimidated. It is recommended before you leave your home, before meditation, and before sleep. Use it whenever you need protection, self-empowerment, and confidence, such as entering a crowded area, before meeting an authority figure, before and after meeting clients or business associates, and before tests, interviews, auditions, or meetings. When you feel drained by people or situations, or you feel an invasive or overshadowing energy, use this prayer, in or out of meditation.

I AM in control.
I AM one with God.
I AM the only authority in my life.
I AM divinely protected by the light of my being.
I close off my aura and body of light
To the lower astral levels of mind.
And I now open to the spiritual world.
Thank you, God, and SO IT IS.

2. Divine Safety and Security

You are always safe in the arms of God’s love. All that is needed is to affirm that security and protection in your life.

I AM always protected by divine love.
I trust the process of life.
My needs are always taken care of.
It is safe to be me. I now accept and approve of myself.
It is safe to feel. My feelings are normal and acceptable.
It is safe to experience joy. I now breathe freely and fully.
It is safe to change and grow. I now create my new future.
It is safe to see and experience new ideas and new ways.
I love life and life loves me. I AM open to life.
I AM receptive to all of God’s good.
It is okay to feel good. It is okay to feel safe.
I deserve to feel good. I deserve to feel safe.
I now relax and let life flow joyously.
I AM safe in the arms of God’s love.
All is well.
Thank you, God, and SO IT IS.

3. Pillar of Light Visualization

How To Gain Inner Strength and EmpowermentVisualization can help you create a powerful sphere of divine protection. Many people imagine a sphere, bubble, or column of light surrounding and protecting them. Here is a way to visualize divine protection, increase energy and charisma, and feel lighter and lifted.

Close your eyes and imagine a beauteous sphere of protective divine light of whatever color (white, gold, violet, pink, or another color) above your head. Then see a ray of that light streaming down through the midline of your body, all the way from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Visualize this light ray vibrating and radiating from your energy centers, filling your entire energy field.

This beauteous light fills your energy field with divine love, invincibility, joy, and fulfillment. Feel this divine light vibrating and radiating within and around you. This light now expands beyond the boundaries of your energy field to create a pillar of divine light, which brings you strength, power, and energy. You are divinely protected by the light of your being.

(Editor's Note: The above affirmations are from Chapter One of the book and are the three affirmations we selected of the 18 affirmations or treatments in that chapter.)

Reprinted, with permission of the publisher,
from Instant Healing © 2013 Susan Shumsky.
Published by New Page Books a division of Career Press,
Pompton Plains, NJ. 800-227-3371. All rights reserved.

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Instant Healing: Gain Inner Strength, Empower Yourself, and Create Your Destiny
by Susan Shumsky.

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About the Author

Susan Shumsky, DD, author of the book: Instant HealingDr. Susan Shumsky is the award-winning author of several books -- Ascension, How to Hear the Voice of God, Exploring Meditation, Exploring Auras, Exploring Chakras, Divine Revelation, and Miracle Prayer. She is a foremost spirituality expert, pioneer in the consciousness field, and highly acclaimed speaker. Susan Shumsky has practiced spiritual disciplines for over 45 years with enlightened masters in secluded areas, including the Himalayas and the Alps. For 22 years, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru of the Beatles and Deepak Chopra. She served on Maharishi's personal staff for seven years. She is the founder of Divine Revelation®, a technology for contacting the divine presence, hearing and testing the inner voice, and receiving clear divine guidance.