The Verdant Cycle Affirmations

If you have arrived here looking for my affirmation booklet published last year, I have pulled it on the Autumn Solstice, Sept 21st, 2025. I will be putting the PDF version that utilized my own words and artwork, back up here by end of October 2025.

When completing my booklet last year, I followed the siren call of AI. I utilized AI for the artwork instead of using my own, I used AI to edit the copy, including adding aggressive sales blurbs, but not the actual affirmations, visualizations and prayers.

After working on LLMs and AIML for the last year, and watching what is happening, I have developed serious educational, developmental and spiritual concerns in what we as humans will lose if we continue down this path. I believe so strongly in it that I have left the tech industry after 25 years.
Those of us who grew up before smart phones and now AI, learned how to train our minds to work for us to accomplish things. With AI, younger generations will not develop their brains. Thinking and understanding is hard work. Nowadays just take a pill to feel better! and now its "“Why work to generate that story or idea on your own? Just plug a few “prompts” in and watch it create that for you in 5 seconds! This will lead to no good.

The use of smart phone navigation apps have already caused brain changes with people who used to have more developed spacial reasoning parts of their brains. Our attention spans are getting even shorter.

We are drowning in content as a species. Unplug, turn off and go out side!

-Eric

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Below are the Opening and Closing Prayers. While you wait for your Verdant Cycle Affirmations booklet to arrive, you can begin your new practice with these simple steps:

1. Find a quiet place.

2. Ideally, go outside, or look out a window.

3. Silence your phone—or better yet, turn it off.

4. Sit comfortably yet upright, or stand. [Link to easy sitting comfortably for mediation video]

5. Read the Opening Prayer, either silently or aloud.

6. Take a moment to observe your surroundings. Watch the wind, notice a bird, listen to traffic, or hear the people around you—just listen.

7. Take ten slow, deep breaths.

8. When you feel ready, read the Closing Prayer, either silently or aloud.

**Verdant Cycle Affirmations Opening Prayer**

**There is One Power,**
**A Power for Good,**
**A Seed of this Power is within me.**
**It is a transcendent Spark,**
**I was born with it,**
**It will always be a part of me.**
**I choose to nurture this Spark**
**and open to it through every cycle of life.**
**To bless it as it blesses me.**

Verdant Cycle Affirmations Closing Prayer

**I recognize this Seed within, this Spark. Its Power fills me.**
**With grace and encouragement, I tend Life’s garden for myself and those around me.**
**Each cycle unfolds blessings. I keep watch for them**
**and, like the ebb and flow of the ocean’s tide, I release what must be let go.**
**Within every ending is a new beginning. I will watch for it.**

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