The Power of Affirmations (excellent)

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Friends, this is an excellent, excellent article that Susie wrote on

the power of affirmations. Please read this, or print it out to re-read when

you need it. This really is the way to do affirmations (printed below), and it

really does work!

There are only two things that I would add or recommend: 1) is that in

our family we do individual affirmations, AND affirmations out loud together as

a family. We usually do them as a family for about 10 minutes at a time - over

and over, and out loud. There is tremendous power in doing this! I've shared

several stories in the group about how it has changed our family's life. You

can even feel the strength and power of the affirmations while you are saying

them as a family together -- but each family member has to be committed to doing

this, and not think it silly, or kid around about it. Take it seriously. After

all, this is your life. If you want changes, and improvement in some or many

areas of your life, it takes a committment and action to make that change.

#2) Always remember there is a time delay when starting affirmations

and when quitting affirmations: When you start doing affirmations and positive

thinking when you come from a very negative or pessimistic background, give it a

little time. Don't expect it to work miracles the very first day. But, be

diligent in doing it daily, and the miracles WILL come! AND, the same thing

goes for quitting the affirmations. If you have been doing affirmations

regularly, and thinking positively and with good results; and then abruptly

quit, there will be a time delay before you see the affirmations stop working.

(I've learned those lessons the hard way)! Hugs, PJ

Susie wrote:

The Power of Affirmations

Imagine 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

all the way you tell yourself in your mind: " I can do it, I can do it... " In

your mind you see yourself completing the fifteen rounds. What are you actually

doing? You are using positive affirmations.

Positive affirmations are positive sentences repeated many times in order to

impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into action. A positive sentence is

constructed, about a state of affairs we desire to happen, and is repeated many

times during the day. It has to be repeated with conviction, and attention and

feelings.

We often repeat sentences about things we do not want to happen and consequently

enter into undesirable situations. Affirmations work both ways, to build and to

destroy. They are a kind of a neutral power. It is the way we use them that

determines whether they are going to bring good or evil results.

Repeating affirmations positively some minutes during the day, and then thinking

negatively, neutralizes the effects of the positive affirmations. Refuse to

think negatively; otherwise your positive affirmations will be useless.

They work like creative visualization. The words repeated build a scene in the

mind. It may not be clear-cut, but yet it is a picture held in mind. The words

help to focus on the intention and the object or situation you want to create.

These sentences repeated often, cause the subconscious mind to accept them, and

then the subconscious influences your thoughts, behavior and reactions. The

conscious mind, the mind you think with, can influence the subconscious mind by

using repetitions, and that why affirmation can change your attitude and

behavior.

Affirmations influence also the people around and circumstances and events. The

often-repeated affirmations, by influencing the subconscious mind cause you to

behave, think and act in accordance with the suggestions implanted in your mind.

It is like giving instructions to the computer. As mentioned above, affirmations

are similar to creative visualization. When a thought is projected into the

atmosphere, it influences people, events and circumstances, connected with that

specific thought.

We are using them all the time such as when we tell ourselves that we can't do

something, or that we are too lazy, or that we are going to fail. The

subconscious mind tries to find the way to materialize the failure expected. It

is the same principle at work when we tell ourselves that we can do it, that we

are going to succeed. It is the same power working both ways. Why not choose the

better way?

Affirmations should not be too long; a short sentence is quite enough. They can

to repeated often when your mind is not engaged in something in particular, such

when traveling in a bus, a train, waiting in line, walking etc. Do not affirm

when driving or crossing a street. You can also devote one, two or three

sessions of about ten minutes each day to affirmation when you are alone.

There should be no tension during the affirmations; no physical, emotional or

mental tension. The stronger the concentration, the more faith you have in what

you are doing, the more feeling you put into the act, the stronger and faster

will be the results.

It is very important to choose only positive affirmations. For example if you

want to lose weight do not say. " I am not fat, I am losing weight. " Saying this

sentence, you see yourself in your mind as fat. The word " losing " also evokes

negative images. On the other hand if you say: " My body has an athletic form and

weighs the right and healthy weight " , evokes only positive images, and also give

you incentive to go on with the affirmation.

Affirmations should be affirmed in the present tense, not the future tense.

Saying: " I will be rich " , means in the indefinite future, and each day you

affirm, you affirm that you will be rich in the future, and it never becomes the

present. Say: " I am rich " , and the subconscious mind will work overtime to make

it happen now in the present.

If the affirmation you use, is hard for you to accept, choose another, otherwise

it is useless. If you love the affirmation it gains power. Remember, results may

be fast or may take time. It depends how much time, energy and time you devote

to them, on how great the desired change is, and on other factors.

Using affirmations, you affirm what you want as true. It may be completely alien

to your present life. You may have doubts how it is going to happen.

Nevertheless, affirm with faith, at least at the moments of the repetitions,

even if you present situation is very far from the affirmation you are using.

Affirmations

- I am healthy and happy.

- Wealth is pouring into my life.

- The river of wealth is flowing to me.

- I am getting wealthier each day.

- My body is healthy and functioning in a very good way.

- I have a lot of energy.

- I study and comprehend fast.

- I am getting A's in my exams.

- My mind is calm.

- My thoughts are under my control.

- I am surrounded by love.

- I have the perfect job for me.

- I am living in the house of my dreams.

- I have good and loving relations with my wife/husband.

- I have a wonderful satisfying job.

- I have the means to travel abroad whenever I want to.

- I am successful in whatever I do.

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