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Affirmations That Work

Have you ever said a positive affirmation and heard a little voice inside say, “I don’t believe that”? 

When I first started writing my own affirmations, I knew I wanted to work for myself, have more freedom over my time, and do work I loved. Getting clear about those desires helped me find affirmations that meant something to me. Your starting point might be wanting more confidence at work, more ease in a relationship, or a kinder way to speak to yourself.

Here, I’ll share what affirmations are, how I use them in my life, and how you can write one that feels right for you. Start with one thing you’d like to change and give yourself a moment to think about what you’d love to experience instead.

Step 1 · Name what you want “I want to feel more confident speaking up.”

Step 2 · Put it in the present tense “I speak up with confidence.”

Step 3 · Find words you can believe “I’m learning to trust my voice and share what I think.”

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What Are Affirmations?

Affirmations are statements that aim to positively reprogram your subconscious mind so that you can eliminate negativity and manifest your dreams.

Affirmations can make you feel stronger and help you make wise choices. They are one of the most powerful and effective strategies you can use to change your life for the better.

To affirm something means that you declare it to be true.

This is what you want to achieve when you use affirmations. You want to declare to your consciousness that what you are saying and hearing is true.

When your conscious mind hears and believes a message, it passes it through to your subconscious mind (the greater part of you) and there the work takes place.

Affirmations are a wonderful, easy way to transform your negative thinking and negative results into positive thinking and positive results.

How I Started Using Affirmations

In 2008, I created affirmations that worked to fulfill my deepest desires. I wrote down what I wanted and created affirmations around my desires to:

• Be self employed
• Own my own business
• Be mobile and work from anywhere in the world
• Control my own time
• Control my income
• Have no employees or team members
• Enrich, uplift and inspire every life I touch
• Have fun
• Love with great passion what I do everyday

Well, here I am living those desires. This is in no small part due to my own inner self talk using affirmations that work. 

Three Easy Steps

The whole point of repeating affirmations is to convince yourself of the truth of that which you affirm.

1. Step 1 Know what you want.
2. Step 2 Create a powerful affirmation.
3. Step 3 Spend five minutes every day saying and feeling the truth of your affirmation.

Why I Use Affirmations

I use affirmations because there’s still a lot of the world’s population that tends to like dwelling on the negative. We, that is mass consciousness, started reversing that trend in late 2012.

I rarely watch or listen to the news and I never read the newspaper or any literature that doesn't uplift me in some way.

Don't worry, I don't miss out on major news stories — there's always someone that lets me know what's going on.

Many humans are on autopilot and feel it is their duty to warn people of the "dangers" in the world!

I notice that the more aligned I am to the goodness of the world, the less I encounter people who aren't. There's that Law of Attraction at work again!

So, I use affirmations to stay in alignment with the divinity of life.

Do Affirmations Work?

Yes, they do! All affirmations work, even the ones we don't want to — which is the negative self talk.

When we make affirmations, whether they are positive or negative, they are subject to the Law of Attraction.

Basically, this means that whatever thoughts you allow to fill your conscious mind, filter through to your subconscious mind and become your reality.

If you affirm something to yourself and believe it to be true, I assure you, it will become true for you.

Benefits of Using Affirmations

When you offer a desire in an affirmation and feel the end result of that manifested desire you have the entire Universe at your feet.

Affirmations that work are those that are infused into your mindset, so much so, that they influence your manifestations.

This works from both negative and positive viewpoints. You want to ensure that you have affirmations that work to elicit positive experiences in your life.

I use affirmations on a daily basis and they have transformed every part of my life. My health, my relationships, my prosperity, my success — every aspect of my life has changed dramatically as a result of using affirmations and understanding how my conscious and subconscious harmonize.

How to Write Your Own Affirmations

Think about what you're trying to create in your life. You have the ability to create life exactly as you want it to be — believe that!

Write in the Present Tense and Keep It Positive

To program your subconscious mind into believing your affirmations, write them as if they are already true. For example, “I am feeling more prosperous every day” rather than “I want to feel more prosperous.”

Keep your affirmations positive. For example, rather than saying “I don’t want to feel sick anymore,” say, “I am feeling healthier every day.”

Whatever you dream of, you will be closer to attaining your dream if you have a positive, focused mindset.

How to Use Affirmations

I infuse affirmations into my consciousness to remind me of the Divine Intelligence within.

If you repeat an affirmation over and over again on a daily basis, with feeling and belief, it will manifest in your life.

If you catch yourself doubting something or feeling any type of negative emotion – jealousy, anger, or fear – repeat your affirmation until you feel calm again. This may be once or twice or many, many times.

I find it helps if I say my affirmations out loud, but this is a personal choice.

So long as your affirmations are positive, in the present tense, and you are feeling and believing them, you are on the right track.

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Learn from the greatest creators of affirmations: Louise Hay, Catherine Ponder and Florence Scovel Shinn.

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