 Today, we are out in the wilderness. No, I'm just gonna wear my backyard. Alright, so, I'll be honest with you guys, for the last few years, I kind of thought that affirmations were bullshit. And I know I've been on this affirmation kick lately, but it's only because I finally, I finally figured it out. And so, I want to be sharing my newfound knowledge with you guys, so that you don't have to go through the whole process that I went through, and trying to figure out how the hell these work, and how to make them effective so that you can change your life using affirmations. If you're new here, I'm Sarah, and I created this channel to help you build a more fulfilling and positive life through self-mastery and spirituality. And today, I'm going to give you a really big tip on how to make your affirmations super effective, super quick. So, our minds can't think in a negative. What does that mean, Sarah? So, if you tell your mind not to think of something, guess what it's gonna do? It's going to think of that thing. Let me give you an example that a lot of people use. Right now, don't think, don't think of a pink elephant. Did you think of a pink elephant? I bet you did. Let me give you another one. Don't think about losing your job. Did you think about losing your job even just for a split second? So, that's what I mean as far as thinking in negatives. What happens is when you're thinking of negatives and you're affirming in the negative, is you're actually affirming for the opposite of what you're trying to affirm for, because your mind is immediately going to that thing. So, what you have to do is switch that affirmation to, you guessed it, a positive. So, let's go back to the pink elephant thing, right? Okay, so instead of saying, don't think of a pink elephant, you go, I only think about gray elephants. Did you just think of a gray elephant? My work here is done. Just kidding. So, let's go through some examples of this, because I feel like the concept of doing this is pretty easy, but actually implementing it, I don't know. It was a little more difficult for me, and I realized how much I was affirming in the negative. So, I just want to give you guys a few examples of how to switch that into a positive affirmation when you bring that awareness in, when you catch yourself affirming in the negative. And this could be with anything. This could even be with thoughts, but we're going to focus on affirmations today. Okay, so for job security, a negative affirmation would be, I never have to worry about losing my job. I never have to worry about being unemployed. So, you would switch that to, I always have job security. I always have income coming in. And kind of in alignment with that, let's go with money. You might think I will never be broke again, but instead you say I always have an abundance of money. I always have more than enough money. One for, you know, losing weight or weight gain or whatever. You might think I will never be overweight again, but instead, and this is what I do, my body is always at x percentage body fat or my body is always at x amount of pounds. Here's our last example, and this has to do with relationships. I will never be in a toxic relationship again. What am I going to say? Comment below, what would you change that to? I'm going to ruin the surprise anyway. I always have healthy, loving and fulfilling relationships. So, there's a really simple formula for making effective affirmations that are actually going to work for you, that are actually going to be effective. And that is, one, make sure you're staying out of the negative and make sure you're affirming only in the positive. If you catch yourself affirming in the negative, like I have so many times, you just have to kind of flip the script and figure out how to reword it in the positive nature. And then the second part of the formula is just to affirm in the present tense, as if that thing is happening now. Notice that I didn't say I will always have an abundance of money. I said I always have an abundance of money. I didn't say I will be in a healthy relationship. I said I am in a healthy relationship. And that's really it, guys. And honestly, like this has been so effective for me once I've started learning how to do this. Like, when you're affirming in the negative, you're literally working against yourself in what you were trying to do. There's almost no point to it. So, I hope you guys found some value in this video. If you did, please like and subscribe if you haven't already, so we can hang out again next week and share it with someone if you think that it could help them as well. I love you guys so, so, so much. And don't forget, be limitlessly yourself.