How to use affirmations.
Affirmations Part 1
If you ever wondered how to use affirmations or thought that "positive affirmations" don't work, watch this video. Don't believe me try it and see for yourself that affirmations have an effect in your life.
Affirmations are positive sentences that describe a desired situation, and which are repeated many times, in order to impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into positive action. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the affirmations, they have to be repeated with attention, conviction, interest and desire.
Imagine that you are swimming with your friends in a swimming pool. They swim fifteen rounds, something you have never done before. As you desire the respect of your friends, you want to show them that you can make it too. You start swimming, and at the same time keep repeating in your mind: "I can do it, I can do it...". You keep thinking and believing that you are going to complete the fifteen rounds. What are you actually doing? You are repeating positive affirmations.
More than often, people repeat in their minds negative sentences and statements concerning the situations and events in their lives, and consequently bring upon themselves undesirable situations. Such sentences and statements work both ways, to build or destroy. It is the way we use them that determines whether they are going to bring good or harmful results.
Affirmations work in the same manner as creative visualization. The repeated words build mental images and scenes in the mind, and help to focus on the aim, object or situation one wants to achieve or create. Frequent repetitions affect the subconscious mind, which in turn reshapes and affects the way one thinks, acts and behaves.
The conscious mind, the mind you think with, starts this process, and then the subconscious mind takes charge. This means that the most frequent thoughts that pass through your mind, ultimately affect your life and your destiny.
Affirmations work like commands that are given to a computer. They influence us, other people, events and circumstances. It might seem strange to you, but they do also influence the people we meet, our circumstances and the events we encounter.
Sometimes they work fast, but more often they need time. Repeating positive affirmations a few minutes, and then thinking negatively, neutralizes the effects of the positive words. You have to refuse negative thoughts, otherwise you will not attain positive results.
We mentally repeat negative statements, without even being aware of the process. We use them when we tell ourselves that we cannot do something, that we are too lazy, or when we believe we are going to fail. The subconscious mind always accepts and follows what we tell it, whether it is good or bad for us, so why not choose only positive statements?
How to Repeat Affirmations
It is advisable to repeat affirmations that are not too long, as they are easier to remember. You can repeat them anytime your mind is not engaged in something in particular, such as while traveling in a bus or a train, waiting in line, walking etc, but do not affirm while driving or crossing a street. You may also repeat them in special sessions of about ten minutes each, several times a day.
There should be no physical, emotional or mental tension while repeating them. The stronger the concentration, the more faith you have in what you are doing, the more feelings you put into the act, the stronger and faster will be the results.
It is very important to choose only positive affirmations. If for example you desire to lose weight, do not say, "I am not fat, I am losing weight." By saying this sentence you are repeating to your subconscious mind that you are fat. The word "losing" also evokes negative images. It is better to say, "My body has an athletic form, and weighs the right and healthy weight". Such words evoke positive images in the mind.
It is important to affirm in the present tense, not the future tense. Saying: "I will be rich", means that you intend to be rich one day, in the indefinite future. You are actually telling yourself that some day you will be rich, never now. It is better and more effective to say, and also feel, "I am rich now", and the subconscious mind will work overtime to make this happen now, in the present.
As to results, sometimes they may come fast, and at other times might take more time to manifest. Getting results depends on how much time, energy, faith and feelings you invest in repeating your affirmations, on the strength of your desire and on how big or small is your goal.
By using the power of affirmations you state what you want to be true in your life. You see reality, as you want it to be. For a while, you ignore your current circumstances and your doubts, and concentrate on a different reality.
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@meyersonfire hahah, I know! I tried to do it with the power of my mind but it didn't go Then I started stating very positively, -I am manifesting an iron, I am manifesting an iron hahah
dacahe 9 months ago
you are right this method proved to work for me,and words do have tremendous power when spoken and you believe in the words spoken!
MyRay55 1 year ago
@MyRay55 Enormous power! in this modern society we have devalued language so much that we have forgotten how powerful words can be. To me, like I mentioned in the video they are the first physical manifestation of thought energy.
Thanks for the comment, have a great day and...
Be'dabe
dacahe 1 year ago
I stumbled upon this video in search of positive affirmations - I believe it may be the key I have been looking for, as in the video, I've spent YEARS reciting affirmations that never really worked. I blamed my own unbelief & complete lack of knowledge. However, the desire is still there. I like the part in your info - "In order to ensure the effectiveness of the affirmations, they have to be repeated with attention, conviction, interest and desire." - Makes perfect sense to me! I WILL succeed!
aotearoachik 1 year ago
@aotearoachik That's why they say 99% of failures is due to the system not the person employ it.
Glad this served you in any way.
For me it started changing things after I started changing the structure, and I like you was a process of trial an error.
Make sure than when you do affirmations you do them several times a day not just once, I would say 3-4 times for a period of 5-15 mins, of course this is no rule, it's just guidelines that have worked for me.
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dacahe 1 year ago
@aotearoachik ...Also start with small things that you have no resistance, it will build momentum and credibility. Attracting wealth has a lot of resistance, both consciously and unconsciously, but attracting strangers to smile at you is not, or finding money on the street etc, start with the small stuff, just like learning to walk, Every Olympian medalist started with baby steps like the rest of us
Be'dabe!
David C.
dacahe 1 year ago