Pete Koerner, author of The Belief Formula
Affirmations are simply positive, or affirmative, statements of truth. The tricky part is that the truth of the affirmation need not be a “present reality;” it can be a future reality you truly wish to create. By declaring this future reality in positive, definite terms, you are tasking your conscious and unconscious mind with finding this new reality. It is important to consider that, when your prayer is answered, it will be now; so, the proper way to “declare a thing” and make it so is to offer thanks NOW – in this moment – for your desired reality as if it had already happened. Your emotional guidance system will seek to recreate the experience of being happy for having achieved this particular goal; and it is likely to do it by bringing that goal to fruition.
Life is a continuous series of changing circumstances. Our thoughts help us make sense of this ever-changing landscape; and they help guide us from one event to another along this path to future “now’s.” Along the way to your future, you are continuously asked to offer thought as a way of generating your future realities. Change happens with or without your input; but you can create affirmative change with affirmative thought. Consider the following words from two great teachers of this path of positive thought and affirmative action:
“Be the change you seek to create in the world.” – Gandhi
“Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.” – Jesus
“Declare a thing and it is so.” – Jesus
“As a man thinketh, so is he.” – Jesus
“Our thoughts become our words as they become our beliefs; our beliefs become our actions as they become our habits. Our habits become our values as our values become our destiny.” – Gandhi
“Whatsoever you desire, when you stand in prayer – believing – will be given unto you.” – Jesus
Believing in a thing is affirming it – it makes it firm, or physical. As you think about a thing which has sparked your interest or curiosity, or which has become desirable to you, your thoughts will naturally want to return there. As you think of a new thing, you will begin to notice that new thing in your world where you haven’t noticed it before. You will also begin to look in new places, read new books and magazines, and perhaps begin doing research or study in this new area of thought. As you give more attention and thought-energy to these ideas, you will develop mental imagery and additional ideas.
The imagery and new ideas you experience, while giving thought to your new desire, will make you feel a certain way. If the feelings are positive, your desire will grow; if your feelings are negative the desire may also grow, but it will likely grow into that which you are afraid of. If your thoughts are positive, and they excite you, you will probably begin speaking about them, as we think and talk about those things which most interest us. These thoughts and words will then stimulate actions and behaviors. Affirmative thoughts inspire affirmative action. Inspired action seems to be effortless and always creates positive change and new realities.
Just imagine that you are programming a computer; you wouldn’t tell the computer all the things you don’t want it to do. You simply tell the computer – in a language it understands – what you want it to do; and then you tell it to do it. Your mind and body operate in much the same way; so, your self-talk – which is actually a type of self-programming – should always be affirmations of what you want to happen. Your programs should always be positive, affirmative, direct, and specific; but you should keep in mind that this is a process – and part of the process is exercising patience and a peaceful countenance. You may not master this immediately; so relax, and be of good cheer.
By thinking and speaking affirmative words, we can generate an affirmative mood, or disposition; an affirmative disposition is one which is free from stress. This state of mind and body is a healing state. Positive thoughts do not stress us out; that’s because they do not cause or stimulate the release of the harmful stress hormones which we experience as “bad feelings.” The way we phrase our words and intentions has a lot to do with the way our subconscious hears, interprets, and acts on those thoughts we hold so important that we took the time and energy to turn them into words. When you turn a desire into words, it is one step closer to becoming a physical reality.
Imagine that you are ordering dinner and you tell the waitress what NOT to bring you. Do you know what you will get for dinner? Some people say that affirmations are not useful or effective because they affirm the lack of the thing you are affirming. In these cases, semantics are everything; re-framing your negative desires into positive affirmations may take some time and thought, but it is worth it. A declaration of what you do not want is really a “negation,” and not an “affirmation.”
By saying, “I don’t want to be sick,” or “God, please take away my illness,” you are focusing on the fact that you are sick, or have an illness; and you are trying to negate it by thinking about it. This does not work. Though you may heal; it will be through natural processes that you could have sped up with an affirmation instead of slowing down with a negation. “Thank you, God, for giving me this wonderful health and strength so I can go for a walk!” is a much better prayer for restoring health and wellness than those listed above.
To create health, wellness, happiness, success, and prosperity, in all areas of your life, begin thinking positively and affirmatively. Think creatively and optimistically if you wish to create a new reality. Express gratitude in your affirmations; and try to feel the feeling of gratitude in your heart as you imagine the happy, new reality you wish to create. Continue to affirm only those things you wish to experience in your life, body, and experience. Below are a few examples of affirmative prayers for health, prosperity, etc; they will give you an idea of how effective thinkers effectively create using effective, affirmative thought. Affirmations need only contain gratitude, joy, and a positive intention.
Try generating a new attitude in the areas where you have problems or suffering. Consider re-framing your focus on the most positive statement you could make about the conditions you wish to experience. “A man must first assume those characteristics he wishes to possess.” Some people say, “Fake it until you make it;” but repeating affirmations will help you choose a more positive track for your thoughts. Try some of the following affirmative thoughts and see how they feel to you; say them out loud and hear how they make you feel:
If you are ill and thinking, “God I feel miserable!” try thinking:
Health – “Thank you, God, for giving me health and strength so that I might live fully and be a model of health and joy to others. Thank you for giving me the strength, courage, and willingness, to do the things that enrich and empower me…”
If you are in turmoil and chaos and thinking, “I’m going to kill someone if these people don’t get off my back!” or “I don’t know what to do! I’m so afraid and worried…” try thinking:
Peace – “Thank you, God, for giving me peace. Thank you for giving me faith and trust and for quieting my mind so that I might rest and hear more clearly your will…”
If you are experiencing relationship problems, instead of thinking, “God I am married to such a _________!!! I can’t stand this anymore!” try thinking:
Relationships – “Thank you, God, for giving me the love and wisdom to see you in all your creation and to love all creation and all living things unconditionally. Love and harmony are alive and well in all my relationships.”
If you are experiencing weight issues and you hate what you see in the mirror, try thinking:
Weight Loss – “I am happy and peaceful here and now. I am safe and loved and create my own peace, security, and nourishment from the power from within me. I am free; and I release the past and others to be free now.”
If you are having financial difficulties, instead of thinking about debt, or a pile of bills, try thinking:
Prosperity – “My good returns to me now in an avalanche of abundance; thank you, God, for prospering me in all my ways. Only good comes to me; and there is always more than enough to share.”
If you can’t seem to make things work out, and you’re thinking, “Why can’t I ever catch a break?” try thinking:
Success – “Thank you, God, for growing my good thoughts now. I give thanks for the wonderful insights and ideas which I have been given and are now coming to light. Thank you for all things going my way, favoring me with your blessings, and for benefiting all as your grace now benefits me. “
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
– Muhammad Ali
September 3, 2012 By admin
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: About, aboveppTo, Abundance, achieved, Action, actionppbBe, Actions, Actually, additional, affirm, affirmation, affirmationppBy, Affirmations, affirmative, affirmatively, affirming, Afraid, Alive, Along, Already, Always, Another, Answered, Anymore, areas, Asked, assume, Attention, Attitude, Avalanche, Because, Become, becomes, Becoming, Before, Begin, behaviors, Being, belief, beliefs, believing, Below, benefiting, Benefits, Better, Bills, Blessings, Books, bppbWhatsoever, bppIts, Break, Bring, Bringing, Cases, Catch, Cause, certain, Change, Changing, chaos, Characteristics, cheerppBy, Choose, circumstances, clearly, Closer, Comes, Coming, Computer, Conditions, Conscious, Consider, contain, Continue, continuous, continuously, conviction, Could, countenance, courage, Create, creates, Creation, creatively, Curiosity, declaration, Declare, declaring, definite, desirable, Desire, desired, desires, destiny, Develop, difficulties, dinner, Direct, disposition, Doing, Effective, Effectively, effortless, Emotional, Empower, Energy, Enough, Enrich, Event, everchanging, Everything, Examples, excite, exercising, Experience, Experiencing, Express, Faith, favoring, Feeling, feelings, feelppIf, Financial, Finding, First, Focus, focusing, Following, fruitionppLife, Fully, Future, Gandhi, GandhibppbDo, Generate, Generating, Given, Giving, Going, Grace, gratitude, Great, Growing, guidance, Guide, Habits, happen, Happened, happenpp, Happens, Happiness, Happy, Harmful, Harmony, havent, Having, Healing, Health, hears, Heart, hormones, Ideas, ideasppThe, Illness, imagery, imagine, immediately, Important, input, Insights, Inspire, Inspired, Instead, intentionppTry, intentions, Interest, interprets, Issues, JesusbppbAs, JesusbppbDeclare, JesusbppBelieving, JesusbppbOur, Landscape, Language, Leads, Light, likely, listed, Living, Loved, Magazines, Makes, Married, Master, mebppIf, mental, Might, Mirror, miserable, Model, Moment, Muhammad, Natural, Naturally, negate, negation, Negative, Notice, noticed, nourishment, nowbppIf, Offer, operate, optimistically, Ordering, Others, pAffirmations, particular, Patience, Peace, Peaceful, People, Perhaps, phrase, Physical, Places, Please, Positive, positively, Possess, Power, prayer, prayers, Present, Probably, Problems, Process, processes, programming, Programs, Proper, prospering, Prosperity, quieting, realities, realitiesppJust, Reality, realityppImagine, Really, recreate, reframing, Relationship, relationshipsbppIf, Relax, Release, repeating, repetition, Research, restoring, Return, Returns, saying, Security, seems, selfprogramming, selftalk, semantics, Sense, Series, sharebppIf, Should, Simply, slowing, Someone, sparked, Speaking, Specific, Stand, State, Statement, statements, stimulate, Strength, Stress, Study, subconscious, Success, Suffering, System, tasking, Teachers, Terms, Thank, Thanks, thats, There, These, Thing, Things, Think, thinkers, thinketh, Thinking, thinkingppbHealth, thinkingppbPeace, thinkingppbProsperity, thinkingppbRelationships, thinkingppbSuccess, thinkingppbWeight, Those, though, Thought, thoughtenergy, Thoughts, Through, Track, tricky, Truly, Trust, Truth, Trying, turmoil, unconditionally, Unconscious, Understands, Until, Useful, Using, Values, waitress, Weight, Wellness, Where, Which, While, willbppIf, Willingness, Wisdom, Wishes, Within, Without, Wonderful, Words, World, worried, Worth, Would, wouldnt, Youre
Affirmations can be used to improve practically any area of your life. It does not matter if the situation is a simple one or if it is absolutely critical, affirmations can be of great use. However many people who have used affirmations do not get the full benefit from them and even go as far as to claim they do not work. This is simply because they have not learned how powerful affirmations really are, how to use them to their fullest and why creating your own affirmations is so important.
What are affirmations used for?
Affirmations can be used in many areas of your life, for instance if you are going to an interview and you are feeling nervous you can use an affirmation like “I can do this, I will be a hit, I am a winner or I will succeed” to help you calm down and boost your moral and confidence. Affirmations can also be used to change your beliefs about something. Lets say you have the belief that there are no good men around anymore, you could use an affirmation like “I am open to the idea that there is a good man out there for me.” This will help you to change your belief about men. There are countless ways for you to use affirmations in your life.
Why write your own affirmations?
There are literally thousands of websites online offering you lists of affirmations that are supposed to change your life and although the affirmations are often powerful in of themselves, they often do not help the user for one simple reason. They are not specific to the users situation and beliefs. Here’s an example, suppose you are not happy about your body any you want to change the way you think about your body. So you choose an affirmation from a pre-written list that says, “I am beautiful and I love my body.”
Although this may be a good affirmation it is likely to be useless for anyone who is truly unhappy with his or her body. This is because if you have a negative belief and you try to change it by stating the direct opposite the first thing your mind will do is resist the positive statement as it is simply to big a jump from one end of the spectrum to the other. This is why it is so important to learn how to write affirmations that are specific and fully directed towards your needs.
Instead of trying to convince your mind of a fact that is directly opposite to what you believe, instead you would write an affirmation that is hopeful, positive and opens your mind to accepting a new belief. The affirmation could be something like, “I am making healthy choices to improve my body” or “little by little I am changing the way I look” or “I am open to the idea of reaching my perfect weight.”
When you soften your affirmations you receive less resistance and therefore stand a much greater chance of actually changing your beliefs and improving the negative self-talk. Then as your self-image improves you can make your affirmations even more powerful. The most important thing to remember when using affirmations is to focus on how the affirmation you are using makes you feel. If when you state the affirmation you feel tension or resistance to the words then the affirmation is too far away from your present belief and needs to be softened. Also when you do this you should include hopeful words and statements like “I intent to, I am moving towards, I am reaching for, and I am open to.”
Following these simple tips will help you to write powerful focused affirmations that will change your life and you will also be more in-tune with your feelings which will in turn help you to recognize when an affirmation is right for you and when it is not.
Want to know more?
August 25, 2012 By admin
Visit Carol King at Missing Ingredient Coaching and grab a copy of the highly acclaimed ebook How to Write Powerful Affirmations. This guide will teach you every thing you need to know about affirmations including step-by-step instructions on how to create focused affirmations that are specific to your needs and how to use them in your daily life. Go Now!
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: About, Absolutely, accepting, Actually, affirmation, Affirmations, affirmationsstrongppThere, Although, Anymore, Anyone, areas, Around, Beautiful, Because, belief, beliefs, Believe, Benefit, bodyppAlthough, Boost, Chance, Change, Changing, Choices, Choose, Claim, confidence, CONVINCE, Could, countless, Creating, Critical, Direct, Directed, directly, example, Feeling, feelings, First, Focus, Focused, forstrongppAffirmations, Fullest, Fully, Going, Great, Greater, Happy, Healthy, Heres, hopeful, However, Important, importantppstrongWhat, Improve, improves, Improving, Include, instance, Instead, Intent, Interview, intune, Learn, Learned, lifeppstrongWhy, likely, Lists, literally, Little, Makes, Making, Matter, Moral, morep, Moving, Needs, needsppInstead, Negative, nervous, notppWant, Offering, Often, Online, Opens, opposite, Other, People, Perfect, Positive, Powerful, Practically, Present, prewritten, pstrongAffirmationsstrong, Reaching, Really, Reason, Receive, Recognize, Remember, resist, Resistance, Right, SelfImage, selftalk, Should, Simple, Simply, Situation, soften, softened, Something, Specific, spectrum, Stand, State, Statement, statements, stating, Succeed, suppose, Supposed, tension, Their, Themselves, There, therefore, These, Thing, Think, Thousands, toppFollowing, towards, Truly, Trying, unhappy, Useless, Users, Using, Websites, weightppWhen, Which, Winner, Words, Would, Write
There is little doubt that using affirmations can help you develop a mindset that can help you achieve limitless wealth, success and self fulfillment. Most people when they use affirmations simply use positive affirmations and while they are effective, there are a number of things that you can do to make your use of affirmation far more effective.
1. Record your own affirmations. Commercial recordings work very well but, affirmations recorded in your own voice are more effective. While commercial recordings use a generic voice, it has been scientifically proven that your subconscious mind is far more sensitive to the sound of your own voice. When your subconscious mind hears your voice, it is far more likely to accept the affirmation and embed it permanently in your memory than the generic voice on a commercial recording.
2. Write your own affirmations. Commercial audios, by nature, design their affirmations for the widest possible audience. While this may help, if you write your own affirmations, they will specifically address the areas that you need to work on. In addition, your subconscious mind is also more sensitive to your style of writing and speaking and will therefore accept the affirmation much more readily.
3. Record your affirmations with a musical background. Famed super learning researcher Georgi Lorzanov discovered that the mind will achieve a super learning state when you play certain types of music while listening to your affirmations. Play Mozart, Bach or possibly an entrainment audio and the mind will settle into the Alpha State and be much more receptive to new knowledge or affirmations. The scientific name for this is the “Mozart Effect.” This is also the reason that they recommend that you play classical music while your child is very young. Children who listen to classical music up to the age of five, typically develop a much higher IQ.
4. Use the Lorzanov pattern to listen to your affirmations. Lorzanov also discovered that a specific repetitive pattern was more effective in creating a super learning state. Repeat your affirmations 3 times with a 6 second interval and the effect of the affirmations will be much stronger.
5. Don’t just use positive affirmations. While positive affirmations are very effective, they are only part of the story. The human mind is a steel trap. Once you have learned something, you will never forget it. If you learned a self limiting belief when you were young, you will remember it for life. For this reason, you should use clearing affirmations. What you are trying to do is correct the old false belief with a corrected version of that belief. For example, you may have heard as a child that rich people are greedy. To try to correct this false belief, you might try a corrective affirmation like this: people say that rich people are greedy but, the truth is that the truly wealthy are the most charitable people in the world. This way the old self limiting thought pattern has been replaced with a corrected version which will not limit your financial growth.
Affirmations are incredibly effective in creating a wealth mindset and these few little steps will make them much more effective. Affirmations are far more than just positive thinking.
August 13, 2012 By admin
Stan Pontiere has been an avowed self-help geek since high school-more than 50 years ago and I am still a believer in that classic affirmation-Every day in every way, I get better and better. For more information on using affirmations to achieve wealth, success and self-fulfillment please visit: http://www.wealthbyaffirmation.com For articles and reviews of self improvement programs, please visit: http://wealthsuccessreviews.com Join me in the Consciousness Revolution. For every person that we help reach greater degrees of self fulfillment and consciousness, the closer we come to making the evolutionary jump in the consciousness of all mankind.
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: Accept, Achieve, Addition, address, affirmation, Affirmations, Alpha, areas, Audience, Audio, audios, Background, belief, certain, charitable, Child, Children, classical, clearing, Commercial, Correct, corrected, corrective, Creating, Design, Develop, discovered, Doubt, Effect, Effective, effectivepp1, embed, entrainment, example, false, Famed, Financial, Forget, Fulfillment, generic, Georgi, greedy, growthppAffirmations, Heard, hears, Higher, Human, incredibly, interval, IQpp4, Knowledge, Learned, Learning, likely, Limit, limiting, limitless, Listen, Listening, Little, Lorzanov, Memory, Might, mindset, Mozart, Music, Musical, Nature, Never, Number, Pattern, People, permanently, Positive, Possible, possibly, Proven, pThere, readilypp3, Reason, receptive, recommend, Record, recorded, recordingpp2, Recordings, Remember, repeat, repetitive, Replaced, Researcher, Scientific, scientifically, Second, Sensitive, Settle, Should, Simply, Something, Sound, Speaking, Specific, specifically, State, Steel, Steps, Story, strongerpp5, Style, subconscious, Success, Super, Their, There, therefore, These, Things, thinkingp, Thought, Times, Truly, Truth, Trying, Types, typically, Using, Version, Voice, Wealth, Wealthy, Which, While, widest, World, Write, Writing, Young
In a short answer, yes affirmations do work. Of course you have to use them properly to get best effect from them.
What are Affirmations?
An affirmation is a statement of something you believe to be true. In terms of personal development, it can be a statement of something you wish to be true. As such, an affirmation can be a trigger or a tool for change. An affirmation can help a person change themselves or move them forward in their personal improvement.
How can affirmations be used?
Affirmations can be used to create a positive attitude Affirmations can be used to create good habits or to replace bad habits with good ones Affirmations can help a person to achieve their goals Affirmations can help maintain a calm or balanced manner in the face of a threat or provocation Affirmations can help change your lifeTo be fully effective, affirmations need to be stated in positive terms. They also need to be stated in the present tense. Affirmations tend to be a statement of belief, they work on a subconscious level and work on the principle of a self-fulfilling belief. Therefore, the more you say or recite the affirmation, the stronger the message becomes and the more the message is accepted by the mind of the person reciting the affirmation.
Each of us has an ‘inner voice’, a form of ‘self talk’, that we use in thinking or talking to ourselves. Many of us may be unaware of this, it is most evident when we have time to ourselves to think or if we have the opportunity to rehearse a speech or presentation we have to give. Affirmations utilise this self talk to communicate their message to us. All too often, for many of us, our self talk is negative, we use it to tell us when we have made mistakes, or to put ourselves down, to criticise ourselves, or to say that we cannot/should not do something. Affirmations turn this around and get us to use positive language to develop or reinforce positive messages to ourselves.
Traditionally, affirmations have been written or spoken, sometimes both, yet affirmations are also linked to learning styles. Many of us tend to think more in images rather than words, other think or learn better through actions or sounds. The fact that affirmations have tended to be seen as a written or spoken method, may account for why many people have not yet fully seen the benefits of affirmations; written or spoken affirmations do not fit easily with the preferred learning style of those people.
Affirmations, of course, need not be words alone, they can be visual or involve movement or gestures. In this way, affirmations can be used successfully by a wide range of people. Indeed, many of the best uses of affirmations have tended to employ more than one method of communicating the message. So an affirmation may link a positive statement with an image. In this way the user, sees associates the positive message with the image and vice-versa. Similarly, an affirmation can be linked to a gesture, such as clicking a finger, so then the person can perform the gesture and recall the message.
So finally, here are five tips for using affirmations;
1) Phrase the affirmation in a positive way (e.g. say “I am…” rather than “I am not…” or “I am no longer”) 2) Phrase the affirmation in the present tense (e.g. “I am …” rather than “I shall be …” or “I want to be”) 3) Combine the affirmation with an image in your mind or a physical object 4) Add a simple action or gesture to help remind you of your affirmation 5) Finally, write down your affirmations (writing things down is a powerful aide to memorising)
August 4, 2012 By admin
Doug Woods is a qualified teacher, life coach, counsellor and trainer. You can find out more about his work at his website http://www.dougwoods.com
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: 2Phrase, 3Combine, 5Finally, accepted, Account, Achieve, Action, Actions, affirmation, affirmationppEach, Affirmations, affirmationsp1Phrase, AffirmationsppAn, Alone, Answer, Around, associates, Attitude, balanced, becomes, belief, Believe, Benefits, Better, cannotshould, Change, clicking, Communicate, Communicating, Course, Create, criticise, Develop, Development, Easily, Effect, Effective, employ, evident, Finally, finger, Forward, Fully, gesture, gestures, Goals, Habits, Image, Images, improvementppHow, indeed, Inner, Involve, Language, Learn, Learning, Level, lifepTo, linked, longer, Maintain, manner, memorising, Message, messageppSo, messages, Method, Mistakes, Movement, Negative, Object, Often, Opportunity, Other, Ourselves, ourselvesppTraditionally, People, peopleppAffirmations, perform, Person, Personal, Physical, Positive, Powerful, preferred, Present, Presentation, principle, Properly, provocation, Range, rather, Recall, recite, reciting, rehearse, reinforce, remind, Replace, selffulfilling, shall, Short, Similarly, Simple, Something, Sometimes, sounds, Speech, spoken, Stated, Statement, stronger, Style, Styles, subconscious, Successfully, Talking, tended, tense, Terms, Their, themppWhat, Themselves, therefore, Things, Think, Thinking, Those, Threat, Through, Trigger, unaware, usedpAffirmations, Using, utilise, viceversa, Visual, Voice, Words, Write, Writing, Written
Positive Daily Affirmations are so vital to the sustainment of a positive mental attitude. Wise men know that their attitude is the compass that guides them because they understand emotional intelligence. Our emotions come from the thoughts that we have stored in our subconscious memory programs.
If this is so then positive daily affirmations would slowly but surely transform the spiritual heart into that which it is affirming on a daily basis. Like I said in words of affirmation, through teachings in school we have been conditioned to create problems for ourselves. This can be reversed if we fill our minds with abundant affirmations, peace affirmations, health affirmations and wealth affirmations.
The mind is like a garden and whatever you plant in it will grow. It is important that you plant seeds in a orderly fashion because you don’t want your plants to grow disorderly. Renew your minds daily with positive daily affirmations until it becomes implicit to think wealthy thoughts. Make it an implicit positive daily affirmation of peace and love. Just harmonize the word love in the back of your mind at feel how your body responds to the word love resonating in your spirit.
This is the power of affirmations on a highly emotional level. Whatever you believe to be is to be with all your heart mind and soul. The problem is people are a sleep at the wheel in their vehicle. We let our minds gain control over our consciousness and we fail to affirm daily positive affirmations. Take the time to look yourself in the mirror and speak into your existence.
List of Affirmations
I am at peace with being myself
I am grateful to be alive
I am that I will to be
I am a powerful conscious being
I am attracting abundance in my life
I have the power to change my life with my thoughts
I always seem to find the answers to my question
I am living a life full of joy and fun
I have all the reasons in the world to be glad to be alive
I always expect to get checks mailed to me
I see my self in so much wealth
I am a healthy being
I love positive daily affirmations
I love words of affirmations
I love abundance and financial freedom
My mind is powerful and powerful is my mind
I always get great ideas to come to me
I love my family and my family loves me
I am grateful to be alive
I am thankful for my heart beating with out me thinking about it
I can create a new mind for my self
I am not bound by the genes of my parents
I can create my own reality
I have free will to choose my desires in my life
I can choose my thoughts wisely
I can conquer my self
I can master my own emotions
My brain is the most amazing thing in my existence
I have GOD in me.
I have all the power in me I need.
I have the ability to renew my mind daily
I am a product of wealth and abundance
I attract money easily without even trying
Miracles happen to me everyday
I can create my day every day
I will create no problems for myself
Positive daily affirmations can change paradigms and belief systems. It can challenge any doubt or inferior thoughts with truth and conquer it with love and grace. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Renew your mind daily by positively affirming your presence in consciousness. You can write into your dna whatever internal dialogue you paint on your insides. You actually are daily affirming something rather good or bad rather you know it or not everyday.
If you wake up and affirm your miserable job you are hardwiring your brain to experience more of the same miserable job everyday day in day out. If you have bills due and its the first thing on your mind when you wake and the last when you fall asleep you are affirming debt. If you think people are taking advantage of you everyday you are affirming the victim mentality. Like Henry ford said, “Rather you think you can or you think you can’t, your right.” Whatever you affirm is hardwired in your brain and the pattern can fire automatically. It has become an automatic function to respond however you have trained yourself to respond subconsciously.
Positive daily affirmations should be held in the mind at some degree almost consistently. You have to train your body and your mind by positive daily affirmations to be aligned with right action. If you want increase in your life you cannot affirm thoughts of lack, want and decrease. You have to move forward in your mind. You can only perceive what your brain is organized to tell you. Organize your brain with positive daily affirmations until it becomes a part of you. This is a world of abundance and the universe is expanding. More gold can be minded out of the ground. More creations can be created. More ideas can be born. More life can be expressed when we have affirmed more love.
July 19, 2012 By admin
You go from thinking like a millionaire on a regular basis to doing the things millionaires do to being a millionaire and it is done with the power of the winning millionaire mind.
http://www.winningmillionaire.com/
Millionaire affirmations are energy fields, that permeates and penetrates the cells of your body and attract money, money, and more money the more you affirm millionaire thinking. http://www.millionaireaffirmations.com/
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: Ability, About, Abundance, abundanceppI, Abundant, Action, Actually, Advantage, affirm, affirmation, Affirmations, AffirmationsppI, affirmationsppThe, affirmed, affirming, aligned, aliveppI, Almost, Always, Amazing, Answers, asleep, Attitude, Attract, Attracting, Automatic, automatically, basis, Beating, Because, Become, becomes, Being, beingppI, belief, Believe, beppI, Bills, bound, Brain, cannot, Challenge, Change, Checks, Choose, compass, conditioned, Conquer, Conscious, Consciousness, Consistently, Control, Create, Created, creations, Daily, dailyppI, dayppI, Decrease, Degree, desires, dialogue, disorderly, Doubt, Easily, Emotional, emotions, emotionsppMy, Every, Everyday, everydayppI, everydayppIf, existenceppI, existenceppList, expanding, Expect, Experience, expressed, Family, Fashion, Financial, First, Forward, freedomppMy, Function, funppI, Garden, genes, Grace, grateful, Great, Ground, Guides, happen, hardwired, hardwiring, harmonize, Health, Healthy, Heart, Henry, Highly, However, Ideas, implicit, Important, Increase, inferior, insides, Intelligence, Internal, itppI, Level, lifeppI, Living, lovep, Loves, mailed, Master, Memory, mental, Mentality, meppI, Minded, mindppI, minds, Mirror, miserable, Money, myselfppI, myselfppPositive, needppI, orderly, Organize, Organized, Ourselves, paint, paradigms, parentsppI, Pattern, Peace, People, perceive, plant, Plants, Positive, positively, Power, Powerful, pPositive, Presence, Problem, Problems, Product, programsppIf, questionppI, rather, realityppI, Reasons, Renew, renewing, resonating, Respond, Responds, reversed, Right, School, seeds, selfppI, Should, Sleep, slowly, Something, Speak, spiritppThis, Spiritual, stored, subconscious, subconsciouslyppPositive, surely, sustainment, Systems, Taking, teachings, thankful, Their, Thing, Think, Thinking, Thoughts, thoughtsppI, Through, Train, Trained, Transform, transformed, Truth, tryingppMiracles, Understand, Universe, Until, Vehicle, Victim, Vital, Wealth, wealthppI, Wealthy, whatever, wheel, Which, wiselyppI, Without, Words, World, Would, Write, Yourself
If you have already read any materials related to Law of Attraction, you will understand that one of the main purposes for using affirmations is to strengthen our belief system so that we can harness the power of subconscious mind to attract and manifest what we want in our life.
You may start thinking, yes I did start to affirm what I want, but it just doesn’t seem to happen as things just don’t go according to plan and seem worse than before.
In this article, we will explore 5 main reasons why your affirmation doesn’t work:
1. Verbal instead of mind reading – During the time when we are working with an affirmation, we may be just using our mind to read from the material, such as an affirmation book or affirmation card. If that’s the case, our mind will just simply read and observe it, so it doesn’t have enough energy to hold the intention and it will not be able to create a solid belief and programming. The best way is to affirm it out loud verbally. Sound is form of vibration and when we use our voice, it creates a higher frequency, thus it helps to strengthen the belief, so your subconscious mind thinks you are quite serious and mean what you are saying.
2. Don’t be greedy – sometimes we just want everything in one go, especially when it comes to affirmations. Our ego may think, ‘the more affirmations we read, the better it will go!’ But do you know, when we are reading a list of affirmations, we tend to lose focus of which affirmation we are actually focusing on? Because of this, the mind is not able to register the affirmation since it has already become confused. To counteract this, why not just pick 1 affirmation and focus on it with all your energy and enthusiasm? I would suggest that affirmations are done at least twice a day for 5 to 10 minutes every time.
3. Lack of perseverance – affirmations mean we keep on affirming what we want so that it becomes a part of the positive belief in our mind. But, most of the time we tend to lose focus and become distracted by external factors such as work challenges or relationship issues, so it is very important to set your own time and focus on the affirmation everyday without letting external challenges beat you. From the scientific and metaphysic point of view, if we keep on doing the same affirmation for 21 days, it will form a positive habit and programme within our subconscious mind, so why not set yourself a goal, do it for 21 days and also show your faith to God?
4. Lack of Feeling and Emotion – How we are feeling when we are doing our affirmation work directly affects their efficiency. If you are affirming but feeling a fear of lack or you are doing affirmations for the sake of affirming then your affirmations are not likely to work the way you want them too. Our feelings and emotions serve as the “lubricant” for affirmations so if we charge up the affirmation with positive feelings of love, joy and enthusiasm, your manifestation power will be significantly magnified. It is the same process in reverse if you affirm with emptiness or coldness, the feeling will eventually block the manifestation process and your affirmations will not work.
5. Too focused on Positive beliefs – Our subconscious mind is full of a mixture of positive and limiting beliefs that may cause inner conflict. For example, we belief we want abundance, yet we also believe we don’t deserve it. This issue is known as having dual-beliefs. So these two beliefs actually counteract the other, with the end result of nothing being achieved. When we want to cultivate positive beliefs we have to be willing to be honest with ourselves to see if we have any negative and limiting beliefs that may block the “new” positive belief that we are trying to cultivate from being manifested? To do this, create a list of negative beliefs that you may have and clear them from your subconscious mind through affirmation work. By doing this, your new and positive affirmations are able to function easily and effectively.
July 12, 2012 By admin
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: Abundance, According, achieved, Actually, Affects, affirm, affirmation, Affirmations, affirming, Already, Article, Attract, Attraction, Because, Become, becomes, beforeppIn, Being, belief, beliefs, beliefsa, Believe, Better, Block, Cause, Challenges, Charge, Clear, coldness, Comes, Conflict, Confused, counteract, Create, creates, Cultivate, Deserve, directly, distracted, Doesnt, Doing, dualbeliefs, During, Easily, effectivelyp, Efficiency, Emotion, emotions, emptiness, Energy, Enough, enthusiasm, Especially, eventually, Every, Everyday, Everything, example, Explore, External, Factors, Faith, Feeling, feelings, Focus, Focused, focusing, frequency, Function, Godpp4, greedy, Habit, happen, Harness, Having, Helps, Higher, Honest, hrefhttpwwwabundancebeliefcomcategorychartsattractionlist, Important, Inner, Instead, intention, Issue, Issues, Known, Least, letting, lifeppYou, likely, limiting, lubricant, magnified, Manifest, manifestation, manifested, Material, Materials, metaphysic, Minutes, mixture, Negative, Nothing, observe, Other, Ourselves, perseverance, Point, Positive, Power, Process, programme, programming, Purposes, Quite, Reading, Reasons, Register, Related, Relationship, relnofollow, result, Reverse, sayingpp2, Scientific, Serious, Serve, Significantly, Simply, since, Solid, Sometimes, Sound, Start, strengthen, subconscious, suggest, System, targetnew, thats, Their, These, Things, Think, Thinking, thinks, Through, timepp3, Trying, twice, Understand, Using, Verbal, verbally, Vibration, Voice, Which, Willing, Within, Without, Working, workpp1, workpp5, worse, Would, Yourself
I Hear Voices…
This is not a statement of paranormal; it is a statement of truth. Yes, we all have an inner voice…Is yours an ally or an enemy? Do you realize you say things to yourself you would never let anyone else say to you? Don’t let your inner voice tear you down and strip away your confidence.
All outward success first starts with inward success…learn the secret strategies to winning communication with your self.
________________________________________
“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and sorrows. …Through it, we think, see, hear and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant…To consciousness, the brain is messenger.” -Hippocrates
________________________________________
Did you know that each day you have more than 50,000 random thoughts flying around in your head? You might find it interesting to note that we all have voices in our head. Sometimes the voice is calm and reassuring providing you with great confidence in your abilities. Other times, this voice is the negative and self limiting voice that calls into question all of your deficiencies. The voice that brings up all of the past failures and shortcomings and reminds you of all of the things you have going against you.
In sports, this voice is the last thing you hear before you take action. In interaction with others, it is sometimes the voice that challenges your worth in relation to others and weakens our own esteem.
Although we are born with this amazing supercomputer, the most complex and incredible instrument known in the universe, it does not come with an owner’s manual.
________________________________________
Success principles are not secrets; they are hiding in plain view.
________________________________________
Famed journalist, Edward R. Murrow remarked, “The obscure we eventually see. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.” They are not reserved for the rich or famous, but to everyone who will apply them. We are inborn by our creator with tools to guide us and protect us and to open the world of abundance to us; if only we will let it.
Like understanding the law of gravity will place you on your bottom if you violate it, principles of success are laws of nature. Every idea you produce consciously produces subconscious activity to fulfill what was first created in your mind.
A farmer choosing what to plant in a field is like the conscious mind. The field itself is the subconscious mind. Whatever the farmer plants, the field grows. The field does not possess a will of its own; it must grow what was planted. It would be ridiculous to think of the farmer planting corn and having beans grow. In the same way your subconscious mind will carry out the actions our conscious mind directs. If the farmer neglects the field and plants nothing, there will still be growth. The growth will be wild and weedy based on whatever was accidentally planted.
Over time the field will be out of control with weeds. In the same way our minds, if not consciously directed, will fill with mental weeds.
There is good news!
The good news is that just like any other skill, you can learn to take greater control of your inner voice and in doing so, create greater control of your life.
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -William James
________________________________________
Create Your Destiny
with the
Power Of
Questions and Affirmations
________________________________________
The Power of Positive Questions
Most people ask themselves the wrong question which produces a negative subconscious effect. You can learn to program your super computer brain by learning to ask yourself the right questions. The key is to ask yourself solution-based, positive and empowering questions rather than negative, disempowered, problematic questions.
In the past, you may have asked questions like the following. “Why am I so fat?” “Why is my life such a failure?” “Why do bad things always happen to me?” “Why am I so stupid?” These questions and all the ones like it take a terrible toll on you.
First they start with a negative assumption, stated as fact with the question supporting the wrong conclusion. If you ask yourself, “Why is my life in the crapper?” any answer you give provides support to the negative assumption. This can be compared to an attorney taking a witness from the opposing side down the path to prove the lawyer’s point.
Next time you find yourself doing this, interrupt yourself with the quip, “Objection your Honor; leading the witness!”
Improving your condition comes through asking yourself better questions. This allows the creative inspiration to work through our subconscious to bring about the conditions or magnetize the conditions we seek.
You not only have the ability, but also all the resources necessary to learn anything you need to learn to fulfill any ambition or achieve any goal you desire. The goal for your questions to yourself in any situation should be outcome or solution based. The assumption is that there is an issue that needs to be fixed. Rather than what was presented above, look at an approach leading to an action conclusion. “What do I need to change about my habits to get to my fitness goal?” “What do I want to do with my life that gives me meaning and satisfaction?” “What do I need to do differently to change this string of results?” “What can I learn and apply from this?” “What is affecting my mood that makes me feel my life is not going the right direction?”
Tony Robbins asserts, “Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.” Probably the single best question you can begin to ask yourself in any situation is, “What outcome do I want from this event/situation?”
You may certainly wish to adapt this slightly, but when you go into a situation, whether it is a business meeting or negotiation or class, knowing your desired outcome is vital. As I began to work on this habit in earnest for myself, I was simply amazed at how many actions I took and how many activities I worked on without asking this clearly up front? I need to research a better mortgage for my house. What is my ideal outcome? Is it lower payments, less interest over time, more house for my money, flexibility? Without knowing the right question, the answers don’t help much. What outcome do I desire for my relationship with my spouse and children? Do I know and plan or just let it happen?
We have the power through understanding and training of our subconscious minds to plant the seeds and affirm health, security, happiness, abundance. We also have the opportunity to allow society’s programming to plant the seeds of lack, insecurity, fear, doubt, and negativity. I am not speaking about deep hypnosis or anything out of the ordinary.
It takes practice to keep your mind free from worry and insecurity. It takes dedication to constantly feed your mind new information and positive stimuli that will provide positive associations. It takes vigilance to associate with positive people and positive influences. Make sure your questions ask for what you want, not what you don’t want.
Remember…your mind is a supercomputer. In addition to the information and educational programming you provide as input to your computer, how you talk to yourself and the questions you ask is the most influential factor in your outcome.
The Simple Power of Affirmations
We need to find a way to control our thoughts to keep them as allies rather than adversaries. In her book, The Secret Door To Success, the late Florence Scovel Shinn talks about having a Watchman at the gate of our thoughts. Her assertion is that we have the power to choose our thoughts. She uses an analogy of a single sheep dog controlling frightened sheep into the pen through gentle determination.
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
Although her book was written in the early 1900s, she hits upon a tool that is one of the best and yet underutilized tool for controlling and programming your thoughts, the power of affirmation.
Affirmation as a mental programming technique is an extremely powerful tool, yet one that is scoffed at by many. Affirmations are tremendously misunderstood and very much underutilized. What you may not realize is that you use them all the time although most time not to your benefit. Affirmations are simply statements of intent. You can develop into all that you desire to be based on what you chose to affirm about yourself.
I Am The Greatest!!
Mohammad Ali is one of the most widely known and recognized sports figures as a former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Ali is famous for his repeating of an affirmation he used with great effectiveness to convince not only himself, but also his opponents and the rest of the world. “I am the Greatest!” Mohammad Ali’s affirmation created his legacy.
Like goals, affirmations work best when they are worded in the present tense as “I am” or “I achieve” type statements. The mind cannot hold a negative. Affirmations are nothing more than affirming the truth as you wish it to be to instruct your subconscious mind to take action in that direction. It is really very simple.
Affirmations help you believe in your dreams and what you wish to be. Belief is essential to convincing your subconscious to act the direction you want to go. Affirmations are like exercise. You will not see immediate results until you create the habit which over time helps you build strength in yourself and in your beliefs. This ultimately affects your actions which affect your results.
An affirmation in some cases might be a lie at present, but you are in a sense trying to convince your subconscious that it can be true to make it a reality in the future.
________________________________________
“To affirm anything is to state that it is so, and to maintain this as being true in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Repeating an affirmation is leading the mind to that state of consciousness where it accepts that which it wishes to believe.”-Ernest Holmes
________________________________________
Sometimes we inadvertently affirm and reinforce old established beliefs. “I am so stupid.” “I’m going to lose this account.” “I always flub this shot.” “There is no way I can make this deadline.” “I gain weight just smelling chocolate.” “I need a drink.” “I am a horrible golfer.” I can’t speak in public.” “I could never write a book.” “I am such a klutz.” “I never win.” “I’m not smart enough to do that.” “I could never do something like that.” “I am such an idiot sometimes.” “I would lose my head if it were not attached.”
Have you ever said things like this to yourself; or worse to others about yourself? Of course you have…we all have done this. This kind of talk while sometimes self effacing and done for positive effect, can actually have negative consequences. If taken to extreme and developed into a habit or pattern of self talk, the message and programming can be damaging. The issue that separates people is their underlying attitudes and beliefs about themselves. How do you respond to setbacks and adversity? Do you take it in stride, or do you take the glum and negative approach of “this always happens to me, I never catch a break, etc.”
The other choice is to create and affirm and reinforce our desired positive beliefs. This happens all day long, moment by moment, and takes hold a little at a time. “This is easy.” “I only eat when I am hungry.” “I feel great when I exercise.” “I know I can drop the pounds when I put my mind to it.” “What an awesome day!” “I don’t run and hide from problems, I attack.” “I feel great!” “My life is really working.” “I see a lot of opportunities in this situation.”
I have one friend who repeats to herself daily an affirmation of, “I feel healthy, I feel happy, I feel terrific!” Every time I see this person, I can tell it is real, applied and working in her life. Another friend of mine, when asked how she is, replies glumly sounding like the always depressed Eyore from Winnie The Pooh, “I’m here.”
You make the call which one is progressing faster in their lives. Can you guess which one has more abundant opportunities “luckily” come her way?
The Art (and Science) of Affirmations
When you learn to change and direct your thoughts and your internal communication your life will reflect the change (law of correspondence). Creating affirmations can change your beliefs and change the course of your life. For affirmations and autosuggestion to be effective it needs to have the following six elements. In order to be effective, your positive declarations should embody most or all of the following characteristics:
Personal (Usually a statement beginning with I)
July 8, 2012 By admin
Positive (The mind cannot hold a picture of a negative)
Present Tense (The time is now)
Short (Easy to remember and easy apply)
Specific (A specific target allows for a specific course of action and most direct route)
Emotionally Intense (This is necessary to break through the clutter of the thousands of thoughts and images that you are bombarded with on a daily basis)
The real goal is to imbed this into the subconscious to allow it to do the yeoman’s work. The only real obstacle is convincing your subconscious that you are serious and committed and that you truly have a burning desire for what you want. Long-term change will only happen when there is congruency between who you think you are and how you act and behave and the choices that we make.
Affirmations are Catalyst for Success
Positive affirmations mixed with emotional intensity produce amazing results. Music is an amazing mood catalyst. To really get the most out of affirmations and create an incredible Incremental Advantage in their effectiveness in your life, I suggest recording your affirmations to inspiring music.
A good friend of mine challenged me to do just this ten years ago. I purchased an inexpensive karaoke machine, put an upbeat instrumental tape in and recorded all of the affirmations I could create to change behaviors and support my goals.
Unless you are willing to step out of your comfort zone and give this a real opportunity to work in your life, you could never know the simply incredible power and way that this mental programming technique can work in your life. I literally wore my first tape out listening to it, but it created significant leverage and results for me. I know the vast majority reading this will not make the commitment to this habit. It is a shame, but for those of you who do, I promise your results in every area of your life will improve as your internal communication improves. I constantly look for, borrow, adapt and write down affirmations. I cannot claim originality for all of them as they have been collected and changed over the years.
I turn challenges into opportunities.
I eliminate debt as dead weight and a YOKE around my neck. I will only be as free as I am free from debt.
I am a leader and a developer of people!
I am calm and composed under pressure.
Stress makes me stonger.
I utilize my strengths and abilities to benefit everyone I come into contact with.
I actively pursue excellence in myself and others.
I get up at 5:00 every morning feeling energized and ready to take on the day.
I face my fears and conquer them.
I am empowered by the energy that I feel and that flows through me.
My daily routines are positive and improving.
I always increase my value to other people.
I am flexible and adaptable in every situation. I look for creative alternatives and seek out new ways of accomplishing my goals.
I have money in savings and a balanced plan for security and income growth.
I see people, not as they are, but rather for what they can be.
I am a strong, motivated and extremely dedicated leader.
I am a great leader and achieve my victories thru the victories of those I serve.
I choose to spend my time with positive and forward thinking life affirming people.
I am persistent in the pursuit of my goals.
Solutions and alternative ideas come easy for me.
I take time each day to play and to enjoy my family.
I am an excellent role model for others.
I forget the mistakes of the past and press on to my greatest achievement.
“What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.”
“I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-Henry David Thoreau
________________________________________
Excerpted from Stack The Logs!
by Frank F. Lunn
for information about “Building a Success Framework to Reach Your Dreams,” other valuable success resources or to purchase your copy, please visit www.stackthelogs.com or email tim@kahunaworld.com.
About The Author
Frank F. Lunn is an expert in leadership, marketing, and small business entrepreneurship. A former military officer and Gulf War veteran, Lunn is the founder of the Kahuna Business Group, a $20 million annual company. Lunn is the author of STACK THE LOGS!: Building a Success Framework to Reach Your Dreams, pledging to donate 10 percent of all sales to St. Jude Children?s Research Hospital, where his son?s life was saved.
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: 1900s, 50000, abilities, Ability, About, Above, Abundance, Abundant, accepts, accidentally, Account, Achieve, Action, Actions, Activities, Activity, Actually, Adapt, Addition, adversaries, adversity, Affect, Affecting, Affects, affirm, affirmation, affirmationppAffirmation, Affirmations, AffirmationsppppThe, AffirmationsppWe, AffirmationsppWhen, affirming, Against, allies, Allow, allows, alter, altering, Although, Always, amazed, Amazing, ambition, analogy, Another, Answer, Answers, Anyone, Anything, applied, Apply, Approach, arise, Around, Asked, asking, assertion, asserts, associate, associations, assumption, attachedppHave, Attack, attitudes, Attorney, Autosuggestion, Awesome, Based, Beans, Beautiful, Before, began, Begin, Beginning, Being, beings, belief, beliefs, Believe, believeErnest, Benefit, Better, Bottom, Boxing, Brain, Break, Bring, Brings, Build, Business, Calls, cannot, carry, Cases, Catch, certainly, Challenges, Champion, Change, characteristicsppPersonal, Children, Chocolate, Choice, Choose, Choosing, Chose, Class, clearly, Comes, Communication, Compared, Completely, complex, Computer, conclusion, Condition, Conditions, confidence, confidenceppAll, Conscious, Consciously, Consciousness, Consequences, constantly, contrary, Control, Controlling, CONVINCE, convincing, correspondence, Could, Course, crapper, Create, Created, Creating, Creative, creator, Daily, Damaging, deadline, declarations, dedication, deficiencies, depressed, Desire, desired, Destinyppwith, determinationppWe, Develop, developed, Differently, Direct, Directed, direction, directionppTony, directs, Discovery, disempowered, Distinguish, Doing, Doubt, Dreams, Drink, Early, earnest, Educational, Edward, effacing, Effect, Effective, Effectiveness, Elements, embody, empowering, enemy, Enough, Essential, Established, esteemppAlthough, etcppThe, eventsituationppYou, eventually, Every, Everyone, Evidence, Exercise, Extreme, Extremely, Eyore, Factor, Failure, Failures, Famous, farmer, Faster, Field, Figures, First, Fitness, Fixed, flexibility, Florence, Flying, Following, Former, Friend, frightened, Front, fulfill, futureppppTo, Generation, gentle, Gives, glumly, Goals, Going, golfer, gravity, Great, Greater, Greatest, GreatestppMohammad, Grows, Growth, guess, Guide, Habit, Habits, happen, happenppWe, Happens, Happiness, Happy, havewe, Having, Health, Healthy, heavyweight, Helps, hereppYou, herself, hiding, himself, HippocratesppppDid, HolmesppppSometimes, honor, horrible, House, Human, hungry, Hypnosis, Ideal, idiot, immediate, impresses, inadvertently, inborn, Incredible, Influences, influential, Information, Inner, input, insecurity, Inspiration, instruct, instrument, Intent, Interaction, Interest, Interesting, Internal, interrupt, inward, Issue, itppLike, Itself, JamesppppCreate, Journalist, klutz, Knowing, Known, laughter, Lawyers, leading, Learn, Learning, legacyppLike, lifeppThe, limiting, Little, Lives, longer, Lower, Luckily, magnetize, Maintain, Makes, manualppppSuccess, Master, Meaning, Meeting, mental, Message, messenger, Might, mindppA, minds, misunderstood, Mohammad, Moment, Money, Mortgage, Murrow, Myself, Nature, Necessary, Needs, Negative, negativity, neglects, negotiation, Never, newsppThe, Nothing, Objection, obscure, obvious, OfppQuestions, opponents, Opportunities, Opportunity, opposing, Order, ordinaryppIt, Other, Others, ought, outcome, outcomeppThe, outward, Owners, paranormal, Pattern, Payments, People, Person, Place, Plain, plant, planted, plantedppOver, Planting, Plants, pleasant, Pleasures, pointppNext, Positive, Possess, Potential, pounds, Power, Powerful, Practice, Present, presented, Principles, Probably, problematic, Problems, produce, produces, Program, programming, progressing, Protect, Prove, Provide, provides, Providing, Public, Question, Questions, questionsppIn, QuestionsppMost, random, rather, Reality, realize, Really, reassuring, recognized, Reflect, reinforce, relation, Relationship, remarked, reminds, repeating, repeats, repetition, replies, Research, reserved, Resources, Respond, Results, resultsppAn, ridiculous, Right, Robbins, Satisfaction, Science, scoffed, Scovel, Secret, Secrets, Security, seeds, seekppYou, seems, selfppppMen, Sense, separates, setbacks, sheep, Shinn, shortcomings, Should, Simple, simpleppAffirmations, Simply, Single, Situation, situationppAlthough, situationppI, Skill, slightly, Smart, smelling, societys, Solution, solutionbased, Something, Sometimes, sorrows, sounding, Speak, Speaking, Sports, Spouse, Start, Starts, State, Stated, Statement, statements, Still, stimuli, Strategies, Strength, stride, String, strip, Stupid, subconscious, Success, successlearn, Super, supercomputer, Support, Supporting, Taken, Takes, Taking, Talks, Technique, tense, terrible, terrific, Their, Themselves, theppPower, There, These, Thing, Things, Think, Thoughts, Through, Times, Tools, Training, tremendously, Truth, Trying, Ultimately, underlying, Understanding, underutilized, Universe, Unlimited, Unlocking, unpleasantTo, Until, Usually, viewppppFamed, vigilance, violate, Vital, Voice, voiceIs, voices, VoicesppThis, wantppRememberyour, Watchman, wayppThe, weakens, weeds, weedsppThere, weedy, Weight, whatever, Where, Whether, Which, While, widely, William, Winnie, Winning, Wishes, Without, witness, witnessppImproving, worded, Words, worked, Working, World, Worry, worse, Worth, Would, Write, Written, Wrong, youppFirst, youppIn, Yours, Yourself, yourselfppI
It appears that everywhere you turn these days you cannot help but run into someone espousing the benefits of affirmations. Many of these people are very well intentioned, and some are simply riding what they believe to be a popular wave of excitement. The truth is affirmations do work, when you work them.
Affirmations are not a new idea. The history of the word can be traced back to the mid 1500s. Still today’s culture provides a fertile playground for their use and abuse. Affirmations are touted as the end all and be all of human aliments, discomforts and desires. The truth is much more subtle. Reciting an affirmation once or twice or posting in on your bathroom mirror simply does not cut it. Affirmations must become a part of your feelings and emotions. We must also determine just what feelings and emotions are. Feelings are the physical aspects of an event and your emotions are the mental reaction to those feelings. It follows that first we must create a feeling, something that moves our physical being and this will produce an emotional response. Here lies the true power of affirmations.
In order to manifest our desires, change our conditions or create a new reality for ourselves we must create an underlying sense of having already accomplished our desire. Many of us have heard or used the phrase “Fake it until you make it.” While this does in some sense hold true, I prefer to think in terms of “Know it as possible and Know it as SO.” Affirmations help us to know the possibilities. I do not believe we need fake anything. Faking it subtly implies the impossibility of something. We are working with a very subtle principle here so the more specific we are the better results we will experience. Knowing IT is possible leads us to feeling hopeful, expectant, accepting of our truth or greater yet to be. This is the real feeling we are after with affirmations, the Greater Yet To Be. We simply know our good is coming to us; there is really no way it could not. The Law of Attraction (LOA) spells all this out clearly we will get whatever we think about. Affirmations are a simple way to initiate the LOA and we must do so with a firm belief that our requests are already manifest in the mind of the Universe. Once we recognize our affirmations as possible in the Universe it is only a short path to recognizing these same affirmations as manifest in and as our body of affairs. Are you with me?
How many times have you heard “thoughts become things” or “what you think about you bring about”? These statements are very true, but can you simply think a thought once or twice and expect to experience a manifestation of that thought? Of course not, if this was true we would all be murders, divorced, or in jail. Our errant and wild thoughts do not become things because we give them very little energy. Our affirmations become reality when we give them energy. Where then does the energy come from? The energy in affirmations is repetition. How many times must a recite an affirmation for it to work? The answer is simple, as many times at it takes. I have always bee a proponent of “praying unceasingly” and this refers to praying until you see or experience the manifestation. Remember as soon as you affirm your truth the Universe begins moving that good into your life, if you give up affirming before you experience the good it is not that the universe failed to bring you your desire, it is that you must remain steadfast in your belief until your life matched the good you have been attracting. Repetition is therefore the key to manifesting our affirmations.
A good affirmation is short and easily to remember. This makes it a simple process to repeat 100 times a day. Try reciting “I am whole and complete with nothing missing in my life.” Now say that ten times. How long did it take? Now try repeating this affirmation ten times at ten different times a day. If it takes 1 or 2 minutes to repeat ten times you will invest ten or twenty minutes a day reciting this affirmation 100 times. It is a simple process to get to one hundred. The fun begins when you realize it need not be a verbal recitation to be effective. What if every time you used a restroom you silent repeated “I am whole and complete with nothing missing in my life”? Soon you will begin to feel this affirmation as the truth of your life. As you build the feeling you begin to believe this truth. As you begin to believe the Universe responds by bringing experiences that prove this as true of your life. As you begin to experience the proof of your affirmation you more easily accept and recognize the experiences of life as more proof of this truth. This self feeding cycle builds and builds until you no longer need remind yourself of your truth. Once you experience the manifestation of your affirmation you are open to moving into a new affirmation. Soon life becomes an amazing experience of Divine Truth operating as you life in every moment.
Will you slip and forget this truth? The obvious answer is yes you will, but you are not required to forget and repeat these reminders. The belief that you may forget your truth is one of those limiting beliefs that I believe no longer serve your Divine Life. Why not try affirming “I let go of any beliefs that no longer serve me and my evolution as a spiritual being.” The possibilities are endless and that’s the good news.
The truth of Affirmations is simply that they do work and they are the truth of your Divine Life if you use them. Many people today tell me they have tried affirmations and they did not work or that they worked for a short time and then they became too simplistic of a process. I ask you to consider if you are really working your affirmations or are you playing lip service to this powerful spiritual practice? The term spiritual practice is just that, a practice. We must continue to use the tools we have and practice them daily in order to master the skill.
I want you to know I recognize you as a Divine Emanation of Spirit, GOD, the Universe and you have the Power to express that Divinity in every moment. I suggest you practice reminding yourself of this truth by using affirmations unceasingly. Enjoy today and remember to affirm your truth until you see the manifestation and you will create the life you truly desire.
June 30, 2012 By admin
You can find more information about crafting your own affirmations or order a copy of my affirmation e-book by following this link. http://www.spiritevolving.com/Bookstore/Robert.html
Robert Brzezinski R.Sc.P. The Spiritual Evolutionist is a Professional Practitioner of Religious Science.
He currently resides in Lakewood CO.
Robert also serves as a Nationally Certified Vision Facilitator with United Centers for Spiritual Living.
He provides workshops, class, and retreat facilitation on a wide variety of Spiritual topics.
Robert is also available for Professional Speaking Engagements.
He can be reached at info@spiritevolving.com
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: 1500s, About, Abuse, Accept, accepting, accomplished, Affairs, affirm, affirmation, Affirmations, affirmationsppA, affirmationsppIn, affirming, After, aliments, Already, Always, Amazing, Answer, Anything, appears, Aspects, Attracting, Attraction, Bathroom, Became, Because, Become, becomes, Before, Begin, Begins, Being, belief, beliefs, Believe, Benefits, Better, Bring, Bringing, Build, Builds, cannot, Change, clearly, Coming, Complete, Conditions, Consider, Continue, Could, Course, Create, Culture, Cycle, Daily, Desire, desirep, desires, Determine, Different, discomforts, Divine, Divinity, divorced, Easily, Effective, Emanation, Emotional, emotions, Endless, Energy, Enjoy, errant, espousing, Event, Every, Everywhere, Evolution, Excitement, Expect, expectant, Experience, Experiences, Express, Failed, Faking, Feeding, Feeling, feelings, fertile, First, follows, Forget, Greater, Having, Heard, History, hopeful, Human, Hundred, implies, impossibility, initiate, intentioned, Invest, Knowing, Leads, limiting, Little, longer, Makes, Manifest, manifestation, Manifesting, Master, matched, mental, meppHow, Minutes, Mirror, Missing, Moment, momentppWill, Moves, Moving, murders, newsppThe, Nothing, obvious, Operating, Order, Ourselves, People, phrase, Physical, Playground, Playing, Popular, Possibilities, Possible, posting, Power, Powerful, Practice, praying, Prefer, principle, Process, produce, Proof, proponent, Prove, provides, reaction, Reality, realize, Really, recitation, recite, reciting, Recognize, Recognizing, refers, Remain, Remember, remind, reminders, reminding, repeat, repeated, repeating, repetition, requests, Required, Responds, Response, restroom, Results, Riding, Sense, Serve, Service, Short, Silent, Simple, simplistic, Simply, skillppI, Someone, Something, Specific, spells, Spirit, Spiritual, statements, steadfast, Still, subtle, subtly, suggest, Takes, Terms, thats, Their, themppAffirmations, There, therefore, These, Things, Think, Those, Thought, Thoughts, Times, Today, Todays, Tools, touted, traced, Tried, Truly, Truth, Twenty, twice, unceasingly, underlying, Universe, Until, Using, Verbal, whatever, Where, While, Whole, worked, Working, Would, Yourself
When you search the Internet for information on how to create affirmations you find that there is an overwhelming predisposition to phrasing affirmations in the first person – that is using I, me, my, or mine in the affirmations.
There is a good reason for it. Traditionally, affirmations were used by people a narrow subset of the population – people in recovery, super salespeople, or elite athletes. The formula preached by the affirmation gurus who worked with these groups was to write your affirmations in the first-person and sit in front of the mirror (Stuart Smalley style) and repeat your affirmations until – by sheer will – you believed them.
No one can deny that many people used this technique to great effect. The fact is, however, that most people are too busy or find performing this ritual kind of cheesy. The parody created by the Stuart Smalley character on Saturday Night Live, in my opinion, only served to make affirmations “nerdy” and cause people who could use them to shy away.
Today people who want to change their habits, reshape their thinking, or condition their minds for success get their affirmations by listening. My own 15-plus year experiment with affirmations has found that repeated listening (both with intent and passively) is every bit as effective as the mirror talk.
Listening to affirmations provides the added benefit of being able to augment first-person affirmations with second-person affirmations – affirmations using you or your. The importance of adding ‘you’ to affirmations is that it allows you to tap into one of the greatest powers of affirmations – thought substitution. Thought substitution is a process by which you replace an existing negative thought or belief with a positive one. It is one of the most important benefits of using affirmations.
Most of the negative self-talk you seek to overcome with affirmations originated from outside of you. Other people planted the thoughts and you internalized them and made them part of your thinking. These thoughts are almost always phrased (even in your own mind) using ‘you’ because that is how you originally absorbed them.
For instance, your mother said, “You are so stupid,” when you were 10 years old. For whatever reason, you internalized that thought. Over the years, whenever you mess up you hear the phrase, “You are so stupid,” in your mind.
So, using this example, you create a first-person affirmation that says, “I am smart,” to counter the old thought. The affirmation will be somewhat effective in countering the old thought, but it will not replace it. Oddly enough, there is something about the thought substitution process that requires a one-for-one switch for maximum effectiveness.
The “I am smart” affirmation plays a role in affirming our own belief in our intelligence. However, the old thought, “You are so stupid,” is still floating around in your mind and you wind up with two conflicting beliefs.
What I have found resolves this situation is to complement the first-person affirmation with a second-person version that can – with repetition – actually replace the old thought. The most effective means is to listen to or repeat the affirmation in the first-person affirmation several times and follow it with the affirmation in the second-person several times.
The result is that you are simultaneously planting a new internal thought, “I am smart,” and replacing the old external thought with a substitute thought coming from the outside that confirms, “You are smart.”
Try adding the power of ‘you’ to your affirmations!
June 29, 2012 By admin
Ray Davis is a writer, poet, and thinker based in the American Midwest. His writing advocates the principles of personal freedom and spiritual development. He has developed B2B sales traning programs for a Fortune 40 company for nearly seven years. Prior to that he was a top producing sales rep for six years. He is the founder of The Affirmation Spot http://www.theaffirmationspot.com
He writes a near daily blog on positive thinking and motivation also called The Affirmation Spot at http://theaffirmationspot.wordpress.com
Filed Under: Affirmations Tagged With: 15plus, About, absorbed, Actually, added, Adding, affirmation, Affirmations, affirmationsp, affirmationsppMost, AffirmationsppThere, affirming, allows, Almost, Always, Around, athletes, Augment, awayppToday, Because, Being, belief, beliefsppWhat, believed, Benefit, Benefits, Cause, Change, Character, cheesy, Coming, Complement, Condition, confirms, conflicting, Could, counter, Countering, Create, Created, Effect, Effective, effectivenessppThe, Elite, Enough, Every, example, existing, experiment, External, First, firstperson, floating, Follow, Formula, Found, Front, Great, Greatest, Groups, gurus, Habits, However, Importance, Important, Information, instance, Intelligence, Intent, Internal, internalized, Internet, Listen, Listening, Maximum, Means, mindppSo, minds, Mirror, Mother, narrow, Negative, nerdy, Night, Oddly, oneforone, Opinion, originally, originated, Other, outside, Overcome, overwhelming, parody, passively, People, Performing, Person, phrase, phrased, phrasing, planted, Planting, Plays, Population, Positive, Power, powers, preached, predisposition, Process, provides, pWhen, Reason, Recovery, repeat, repeated, repetition, Replace, Replacing, Requires, reshape, resolves, result, Ritual, Salespeople, Saturday, Search, secondperson, selftalk, served, Several, sheer, Simultaneously, Situation, Smalley, Smart, smartppTry, Something, somewhat, Still, Stuart, Stupid, Style, subset, substitute, substitution, Success, Super, Switch, talkppListening, Technique, Their, themppFor, themppNo, There, These, Thinking, Thought, Thoughts, Times, timesppThe, Traditionally, Until, Using, Version, whatever, whenever, Which, worked, Write, Years
Affirmations are simply statements that we make to ourselves; it’s our self-talk. You use affirmations all the time, whether you’re doing so intentionally or unintentionally. If you make a mistake and you think to yourself, “I’m always making mistakes, I never do anything right”, you’ve just made a negative affirmation. If instead you make a mistake and you think to yourself, “That’s OK, I have the ability to correct this”, you’ve just made a positive affirmation.
Your self-talk has an enormous impact on your conscious and subconscious minds. By repeating positive affirmations you can reprogram your thought patterns. Creating new thought patterns will allow you to begin to change your underlying beliefs and the way that you think and feel about yourself, others, and your place in the world. In this way, you can improve your life dramatically through the use of daily positive affirmations.
Choosing Your Affirmations
Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization, offers the following advice for choosing your affirmations:
o Always phrase your affirmations in the present tense, as if it already exists. Say “I enjoy being at my ideal weight” instead of saying “I will reach my ideal weight.”
o Affirm what you want, not what you don’t want. Instead of saying “I am no longer a procrastinator”, say “I always get things done on time.”
o Don’t simply go through your affirmations by rote; add positive feelings and emotions to your affirmations.
o Choose affirmations that feel right for you. If you come across an affirmation that you like but you would feel more comfortable changing a couple of words, go right ahead.
Use Three Different Pronouns
A technique that you can apply to make your affirmations more effective is to write down the same affirmation using different pronouns. For example, if you want to affirm that you’re surrounded by positive people who want the best for you, you can write down the following three affirmations (in this example your name is Joan):
o I am surrounded by positive people who want the best for me.
o Joan, you are surrounded by positive people who want the best for you.
o Joan is surrounded by positive people who want the best for her.
When you say affirmations in the second and third person it’s as if someone else is talking to you or about you. Your internal critic is less apt to interject a negative comment if it thinks someone else is making these positive affirmations about you.
Affirmations Can Be General or Specific
Affirmations can be general or they can be very specific. Some examples of general affirmations are the following:
o Abundance is all around me.
o Abundance is my birthright.
o There is more than enough for all.
Use general affirmations to “set the stage”. Once you’ve established clear, well-defined goals for yourself you can create specific affirmations to help keep you focused on your goals and to strengthen your belief in your ability to reach your goals. For example, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds in the next three months by exercising, your affirmations could be the following:
o I now jog for 40 minutes, 4 times a week.
o Jogging helps me to lose weight and makes me healthy and fit.
o I am now lifting weights 3 times a week.
o I enjoy going to the gym and lifting weights.
o I am getting excellent results from jogging and weight lifting, and it shows.
o Every day I am getting fitter and fitter.
o I now weigh X amount of pounds (your target weight).
o People comment on how much thinner I am and how good I look.
You Have to Be Able to Believe Your Affirmations
Whenever you choose to change anything in your life, you’re choosing to move out of your present comfort zone. We should always strive to grow and expand our definition of ourselves and of what we are capable of. However, you have to make sure that your affirmations are not so far off from where you are at the moment that there’s no way you can get yourself to believe what you’re affirming.
If you don’t believe the affirmations you’re saying to yourself, then you need to start with a less ambitious affirmation and gradually make your affirmations bigger and bigger. For example, if you currently make $3,000.00 a month, it may be difficult for you to believe “I am now making $50,000.00 a month”. However, you can probably believe the following affirmation: “I am now making $4,500.00, or more, a month”. As you move forward and begin to see results you can progressively increase this number until you do feel comfortable affirming that you make over half a million dollars a year.
Repeat Your Affirmations Often
There is much power in repetition. Positive affirmations are not something that you do once in a while, instead, you should expose your mind to the affirmations that you choose for yourself as often as possible. In the words of Robert Collier: “Constant repetition carries conviction.”
Write down your affirmations and place them where you can refer to them often (you can even carry them around in your wallet). You can say them out loud to yourself every morning when you wake up and at night before going to bed, or you can set aside a few minutes each day to scribble them on a sheet of paper several times to help reinforce the message in your mind.
Taping the affirmations in your own voice and listening to the tape while you’re relaxing-or, even better, meditating– has had extraordinary effects for countless people. Louise Hay, author of the International bestseller “You Can Heal Your Life”, recommends that you sing or chant your affirmations. Some people leave a CD with positive affirmations playing softly in the background while they sleep at night.
In addition, there are several programs that allow affirmations to flash on and off on your computer screen unobtrusively, helping to program these affirmations into your subconscious.
Affirmation Bath
Practitioners who offer healing workshops often use a technique called “affirmation bath”. Basically, several people stand around one person and they all begin saying positive affirmations directed toward that person. The person is “engulfed” by positive messages from others. You can try this technique if you can find several like-minded people to participate in this exercise with you.
Release Any Negative Feelings That Arise
Negative feelings can act as self-imposed stop signs to getting what you want in life. If you feel any discomfort, self-doubt, fear, anger, and so on when saying your affirmations, you need to let go or release these negative feelings. One way to do this is by using the Sedona Method. As stated before, you have to add positive feelings and emotions to your affirmations, and if negative feelings are getting in the way, you need to be able to let go of them.
Your self-talk can either prevent you from getting what you want in life, or it can be a powerful catalyst for creating the life you’ve always wanted. Create a daily practice of using positive affirmations to help motivate, support, and inspire you to go after your dreams.
Written by Marelisa Fábrega who blogs at http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com