Merrie Meet
Today’s offering is extracted from my own Book Of Shadows and
deals with the subject of affirmation. Affirmations are statements that should
always be made in the present tense.
Positive
Affirmations
I live by the maxim that every day I get a little bit better which
is what is commonly known as a Positive Affirmation
Positive
Affirmations work!
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.
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 learned thought patterns that have been developed
since childhood and whilst many of these work well for us, others may now be
working against us, sabotaging us from achieving what we believe we want.
Every affirmation we think or say is also a reflection of our
inner truth or beliefs.
But we must 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..
Our subconscious uses the behaviour patterns we have learned to
automatically respond and react to many everyday events in our life.
This is essential to our survival because we need to be able to
respond quickly to events around us and this would be nigh on 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.
However problems can arise if some of the foundational beliefs
that form the basis of many of our adult beliefs were formed from a skewed
perspective,
Maybe the strategy was appropriate for a perceived difficult
circumstance as a child , however often such beliefs are totally inappropriate
for succeeding in the adult world.
You can use "Positive Affirmations", which are
usually short positive statements, targeted at the subconscious, 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 you wash
away.
The way these statements are constructed is extremely important.
Later I will explain how to construct your own affirmations.
It is important to remember 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.
Let me just say here that I am not one of those positive thinking
gurus but I do believe in taking a positive approach to life. I certainly don't go out into the garden and
chant there are no weeds over and over again expecting the weeds to
disappear.
NO I believe that if there are weeds a positive approach to their
eradication is necessary.
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.
By choosing to think and say positive affirmations, the
subconscious is forced into one of two reactions - avoidance or reappraisal.
The bigger the issue and the bigger the gap between the positive
affirmation and the perceived inner truth the more likely it is that you are
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 are 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.
A cautionary note
The subconscious has to re-examine all your beliefs and 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, In
other words they change the way you think and feel about things, and because
you now 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.
Well as I explained earlier they can 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 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!
Example – every single thing in our life tables, chairs,
lightbulbs, cars etc were once in the realm of affirmation and
visualisation. Now I don't want to get
into the realms of Quantum Physics here so suffice to say that this table had
to be visualised and created from a set of affirmations.
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.
Written
Affirmations
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. Louise Hay's "Heal your life
Workshop", uses this technique extensively.
Affirmation
Bath
There is 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.
ooooOOOOoooo
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Love, Light and Blessed Be!
Merlin.
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