Positive Affirmations Work!
In this post I will try to explain how and why positive
affirmations can be used to manifest your needs and bring positive and
permanent change to your life.
You will also learn how to Create and supercharge your own affirmations.
What are Affirmations?
Every thought you think every word you say is an affirmation
All of our self-talk or inner dialogue is a stream of affirmations.
We are continually affirming subconsciously with our words and thoughts and
this flow of affirmations is creating our life experience in every moment.
Our beliefs are just learned thought patterns that we have developed since
childhood, many of these work well for us, but others may now be working
against us, they are dysfunctional and may be sabotaging us from achieving what
we believe we want.
Every affirmation we think or say is a reflection of our inner truth or
beliefs. It is important to realize that many of these "inner truths"
may not actually be true for us now or may be based on invalid or inappropriate
impressions that we constructed as children which, if examined as an adult, can
be exposed as inappropriate.
Our subconscious uses the behaviour patterns we have learned to
automatically respond and react to many of the everyday events in our life. This
is essential to our survival because we
need to be able to respond quickly to events around us which would be
impossible if we had to re-examine every aspect of things every time something
simple happens.
Our learned responses and thought patterns enable us to automatically
respond to circumstances quickly and easily. Problems arise however, if at an
early stage some of the foundational beliefs on which many of the others are
built were formed from a skewed perspective, maybe the strategy was appropriate
for a perceived difficult circumstance, however often such beliefs are totally
inappropriate for succeeding in the real world as adults.
You can use "Positive Affirmations", which are usually short
positive statements targeted at a specific subconscious set of beliefs, to
challenge and undermine negative beliefs and to replace them with positive
self-nurturing beliefs. It is a kind of "brainwashing" only you get
to choose which negative beliefs to wash away.
The way these statements are constructed is extremely important. Later I
will show you how to construct you own affirmations. It is important to
remember of course that everything we say and think is a positive affirmation,
using positive affirmation statements forces us to keep focussed on our inner
goals and reminds us to think consciously about our words and thoughts and to
modify them to reflect our positive affirmation.
Do affirmations work?
YES! Affirmations really work. You will be hard pushed to find any self
help program anywhere that does not include affirmations, even the ones that
appear to pooh-pooh affirmations include them under some slightly different
guise. And the reason for this is, they work. The more determined you are to
make your changes, the more you are prepared to accept change and let go of the
past, the better they will work for you.
Why affirmations work
By choosing to think and say positive affirmations as true, the
subconscious is forced into one of two reactions - avoidance or reappraisal.
The bigger the issue the bigger the gap between the positive affirmation
and the perceived inner truth and the more likely that one is going to
experience resistance.
This is where the subconscious finds it easier to stay with its perceived
inner truth and avoid the challenge using any means at its disposal to avoid
examining the issue. You will recognise this reaction by a strong negative
feeling inside as you state the positive affirmations.
Equally if your experience a sense of joy and well being, your mind is
instinctively responding to something it believes to be true. When you get this
emotion, you know your affirmations are working!
Continually repeating affirmations with conviction and passion will chip
away at even the strongest resistance. However there are a number of additional
techniques you can use that will super-charge your affirmations and magnify
their effectiveness many fold.
Once the resistance is broken, your subconscious is able to re-examine the
core belief and patterns you have been working on.
The effect can be startling and things can change very quickly as the
dysfunctional beliefs get identified and replaced by your own new inner truth.
Depending on how deep into your consciousness these beliefs lie, every
other learned pattern and belief that relied on the original belief as a
premise, becomes unfounded.
The subconscious has to re-examine them all, this can lead to a period of introspection. If you find yourself
experiencing serious resistance or have identified an area of trauma in your
life, I strongly urge you to seek professional support, the journey you are
embarking on will release you from the past but having proper support around
you as you go through the process will make it so much easier.
Because affirmations actually reprogram your thought
patterns, they change the way you think and feel about things, and because you
have replaced dysfunctional beliefs with your own new positive beliefs,
positive change comes easily and naturally. This will start to reflect in your
external life and you will start to experience seismic changes for the better
in many areas of your life.
How quickly do affirmations work?
From day one, there will be affirmations you love and
enjoy saying, these affirmations are likely to be very effective for you and
you are likely to start experience changes almost immediately.
Others will feel very negative, almost like a big lie,
this indicates resistance and these areas may take longer to impact. How
quickly you can resolve an issue like this is like asking how long is a piece
of string?
It depends on the issue, how deeply the belief is held
and how determined you are to bring about change in that area of your life, the
latter being perhaps the most important of all.
If you are truly ready and want to make changes, the
quicker those changes will come for you. People have made cognitive changes in
their beliefs almost instantaneously, once you are prepared to embrace and
accept a change and you believe it to be right for you from your very heart,
then that change will happen. So it is not really a question of time, more a
question of how accepting of change you can be.
However, you should be under no illusion that by
embarking on this process you are starting a journey for your lifetime. As you
see and experience the techniques working for yourself will be driven to
explore your inner-self further and other techniques. As you make your changes
in one aspect of your life, other issues will pop up that you may want to deal
with.
Will Affirmations help me?
Yes. No matter what aspect of life you're dealing with or
who you are, affirmations will not only make you feel better about yourself and
your life.
But, if used correctly, they can manifest real change in
your life. Changing the way you think, reprogramming your mind and removing the
old negative beliefs that have been sabotaging you again and again throughout
your life. They can enable you to achieve the life you've always wanted for
yourself!
Why doesn't everyone use Affirmations?
They do!
It has been demonstrated that nearly 90% of our thoughts
are negative, no wonder we find ourselves struggling. Each negative thought or
word is a negative affirmation and these nasty little things can be even
more powerful than positive affirmations because we often find them easier to
accept.
It is these negative thoughts that feed and validate our
negative internal beliefs.
Under this kind of negative bombardment most people
simply do not have the strength to break free of their negative thoughts and they
become hopelessly locked into their own (usually false) negative beliefs.
Positive affirmations
are designed to challenge those negative beliefs and start to stem the flow of
negative thoughts and words that seek to validate them.
Affirmations are more than just repeating words. It is a
whole process of becoming aware of your thoughts and words in everyday life,
choosing to think and project happy positive thoughts.
The more you can consciously inject the spirit of you
affirmations into your daily thoughts and words, the quicker they will work for
you.
How to create your own affirmations
Start by taking some time to think about areas in your
life you would like to improve and how you might want your life to be. It is
worth taking some time over this process. Write the most important ones down in
a list.
Now look at each item on the list and write out a few
positive statements for each. They must be positive and in the present tense,
focus on what you do want, not on what you don't want.
For example if my list of things that were important to
me included...
"A fulfilling job"
My affirmation might read
“I have a wonderful
job that fulfils me on many levels”
Creating your own affirmations is the perfect way to get
the right affirmations for you. Here is
another example that is a very simple releasing affirmation.
"I am ready and
willing to release the past, now"
Supercharging Affirmations
As I have said earlier, there are other techniques you
can use that can super-charge the effectiveness of your affirmations. I will
outline a few here briefly.
Affirmation Mirror work
Perhaps the most powerful way of using affirmations is to
state them whilst looking in the mirror. Some of the most important messages
you have received have been from people looking you straight in the eye. By
looking yourself in the eye as you state your affirmation you magnify the
importance of the message to yourself.
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A great way of keeping your affirmation at the forefront
of your mind is to write them down, leave notes or cards around so that you
notice them throughout the day.
Another idea is to write your affirmation down many times
(10-20), this helps imprint it on your mind.
Say Affirmations with Passion
Say your affirmations with passion, the higher your emotional
state as you say them, the more effective they are.
Sing or Chant Affirmations
One of the most effective ways to use affirmations is to
sing them! The mind is much more accepting of affirmation messages when they
are sung. If you have ever attended a Louise Hay "Heal Your Life
Workshop", this technique is used extensively. Personally, I love them!
Subliminal Affirmations
There are a number of techniques that attempt to by-pass
the conscious mind and its resistance by transmitting the affirmations to you
subliminally.
There are CD's available that include subliminal
affirmations, the trouble with this technology is that it often comes
unsupported and people expect it to simply work without doing anything for
themselves.
There is, however, a very powerful technique known as an
"affirmation bath". This is often used in
workshops because it requires several people sitting around a person making
positive statements about them.
An Affirmation bath is a truly amazing experience, the
multiple voices, coming from multiple directions, often simultaneously simply
overwhelm the minds ability to resist what is being said and the positive
affirmations slip straight through to the subconscious.
It is normally impossible to experience this unless you can
get a group of like minded people together or you attend a workshop.
Example Affirmations
Affirmations for Health
·
Every Cell in my body
vibrates with energy and health
·
Loving myself heals my
life. I nourish my mind, body and soul
· My body heals quickly and easily
Affirmations for Abundance
·
I prosper wherever I turn
and I know that I deserve prosperity of all kinds
·
The more grateful I am, the
more reasons I find to be grateful
· I pay my bills with love as I know abundance flows freely through me.
Affirmations for Love
·
I know that I deserve Love
and accept it now
·
I give out Love and it is
returned to me multiplied
· I rejoice in the Love I encounter everyday
Affirmations for Romance
·
I have a wonderful partner
and we are both happy and at peace
·
I release any desperation
and allow love to find me
· I attract only healthy relationships
Affirmations for Weight Loss
·
I am the perfect weight for
me
·
I choose to make positive
healthy choices for myself
· I choose to exercise regularly
Affirmations for Self Esteem
·
When I believe in myself,
so do others
·
I express my needs and
feelings
· I am my own unique self - special, creative and wonderful
Affirmations for Peace and Harmony
·
All my relationships are
loving and harmonious
·
I am at peace
· I trust in the process of life
Affirmations for Joy and Happiness
·
Life is a joy filled with
delightful surprises
·
My life is a joy filled
with love, fun and friendship all I need do is stop all criticism, forgive,
relax and be open.
· I choose love, joy and freedom, open my heart and allow wonderful things to
flow into my life.
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