A Tea Gift Box to Encourage Positive Manifestation

"What you feed your mind, will lead your life."

- Kemi Sogunle

About the Monostich Tea Gift Box | What is an Affirmation Journal? | How to Create an Affirmation Journal

About the Monostich Tea Gift Box

In poetry, a monostich is a single-line poem that expresses a complete idea with surprising, simplistic depth. The goal of a monostich is to inspire a complete story to become imaginable within the walls of a few words.

The goal of the Monostich Tea Box is to create a collection of complete one-line affirmations/intentions (while sipping tea). By building an affirmation journal, we create inspiration; inside that inspiration, we build a story; inside that story, we imagine the best possible outcome, and through the continued practice of affirmation journaling, we make that outcome possible.

The Monostich Tea Box is the first in a series of gift boxes from Poetic Tea Company and The Narrative Boutique. This thoughtful gift box includes one large tin of the premium loose tea or tisane of your choice, a simple, blank-page kraft journal, a wooden teaspoon, and a gift card with your optional message. The idea is for the recipient to take a moment of solitude and interweave tea time with simple affirmation journaling. The process of preparing and brewing tea is a perfect time to focus one’s thoughts on the moment, become conscious of one’s breath, and to prepare a space to sit down for a cup of tea and practice some affirmation journaling. Over time, and as the tea diminishes within the tin, the blank journal will become full of one-line affirmations that will have helped the recipient adapt to a more focused and positive mindset. The journal cover can be decorated and celebrated, and the little book becomes worthy of becoming a keepsake.

What is an Affirmation Journal?

Affirmation journaling is the process of consciously letting go of what we cannot control and spinning what we can control in a positive light by assigning affirmation that the good things — the things we want, the things we love — are already present within our lives. When we are in the habit of feeling and recognizing all the positive things in our lives, our lives naturally become more enriched. With practice, affirmation journaling can be a powerful tool in replacing negative thought patterns, living in fulfillment, and achieving positive change. Affirmations are often only one line and some find that once an affirmation has been set, it is effective to meditate on it and/or recite it in order to make it real and memorable. Journaling can be a daily event, or it can simply be utilized whenever you start to notice self-sabotage, anxiety, and other destructive or negative energy seeping in.

examples of powerful affirmations that address specific feelings

When you are feeling unsure of a decision:

“I trust that I have what it takes to make the best possible decision.”

“I am at peace with putting this decision on hold until more information comes available.”

When you feel unsupported:

“I accept those around me for who they are and I pursue my life goals regardless of others’ input.”

“I am brave enough to ask for help.”

When you feel hopeless or like you cannot take anymore:

“I have what it takes to keep going because I know I can take another approach.”

“I am at peace knowing this is out of my control and I can walk away.”

How to Create an Affirmation Journal

Reflect on something that is weighing on you. Once you identify it, use the six steps below, to prepare your affirmation. You can use a piece of scrap paper, a notebook, or a laptop to jot down some ideas and work on the structure and word choice for your affirmation. Once it feels right, transfer it into a blank journal by rewriting it, printing/tearing it out and pasting it onto a journal page, or plopping it into a designated affirmation document on your laptop. The idea is start compiling your completed affirmations in one place so one day soon, you will have something wonderfully personal and positive to reflect on. Feel free to decorate the front of your journal (or your electronic document) in a way that inspires you.

Six Steps to Manifesting Positive CHANGE

The first four steps will help you to define a positive vision. These steps are the foundation — or the beginning — of driving positive action and change.

• BE YOU - This is your story, no one else’s. Own it. Author it. Revise it. Be it. Begin your affirmation with “I am…” and once you’ve ritualized the language, feel free to get creative.

• BE PRESENT - The past is gone and the future is yet to be. Mindfulness is simply being aware of now. Ensure your affirmation is coming from a now-mindset and uses language that represents the mindfulness of the present.

• BE POSITIVE - Forget what you don’t want and focus only on what you want. Rephrase every statement in a positive light until your positivity becomes ritualized and your normal state.

• BE CONCISE - Just like a monostich in poetry, defining an intention/affirmation should be brief and specific. One thoughtful, well-developed sentence is all it takes.

The next two steps will help you define your purpose, in turn, giving your vision value. When we give our intentions value, they manifest and they become real.

• FEEL IT - Assign a positive feeling to your intention/affirmation and validate that feeling by accepting it as your reality. Ritualize the relationship between your affirmations and positive feelings.

• BELIEVE IT - Your intention/affirmation is who you are, who you are meant to be, and who you want to be. Your intentions have value and therefore, you have value.