Affirmations

Your outer reality is a direct reflection of your predominant thoughts and beliefs. Change your thoughts and you change your reality! Your thoughts manifest through your written and spoken word.

An affirmation is a positive thought or idea that you consciously focus on in order to produce a desired outcome.

   The power of thought processes, the act of thinking, and the effects upon the human organism in connection with health and illness is well documented. The belief is part of our folklore: clichés such as "healthy body, healthy mind" and "dying of a broken heart" express the mind-body connection.

Erase those mind tapes

Due to societal and familial conditioning, it is useful to clear negative internal dialogue from our mind fields. Negative tapes that continue to play in our minds affect our attitudes, beliefs and decisions. By the daily use of affirmation, one can remove undesirable mental feedback loops and re-create more desirable outcomes in our lives.

We tie human productivity and excellence directly to our mental attitudes and beliefs about ourselves. By changing negative mental patterns, and choosing more healthy attitudes, one can achieve improved self-esteem and self-motivation.

Examples might include:

• Affirming and acknowledging good health
• Affirming and acknowledging wealth and abundance
• Affirming and acknowledging spirit in one's life
• Believing in oneself
• Being thankful

Helpful Affirmations for Specific Results:

• To lose weight: I am slim and trim; I only eat when I'm hungry.
• To stop smoking: I breathe clean, fresh air; I am stronger than any habit.
• For depression: I am a worthwhile person; I attract joy into my life.
• For anger: I feel wonderful today; I have peace of mind.
• For fear and anxiety: I release all my negative emotions; I am confident.
• For stress management: All the above.

How to Create Winning Affirmations

1. State the affirmation in the present
2. Start with words like "I am" or "I choose"
3. Include the word "now"
4. State what you want as if it is already accomplished. "I am happy now."
5. Make the affirmation positive. "I feel good" works but using an affirmation like "I am not afraid" focuses the mind on the word "afraid" and augments that feeling.
6. Say the affirmation out loud with belief and conviction.

Examples of Power Affirmations

• Let go and let God. (AA)
• Anything is possible
• I am a forgiving person; I am a forgiven person; I release myself to my higher good; I release (one who needs healing) to his/her highest good. (unknown source) courtesy of Didi Ananda Amoha -- Ananda Marga
• I have more money than I ever dreamed possible.
• My supply is endless, inexhaustible and immediate and comes to me under grace in perfect ways. (Florence Scovel Shinn)
• Something great is about to happen!
• My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance. (Florence Scovel Shinn)
• I am warm and friendly toward all I contact; I treat everyone with consideration and respect.
• My life is free of tension & worry.
• Endless good comes to me in endless ways.
• I feel great and radiate perfect health.
• I am worthy of love. It is safe for me to give and receive love. (Louise Hay)
• I express my ideas easily, and I know others respect my point of view
• I have a positive expectancy of reaching my goals, and I bounce back quickly from temporary setbacks.
• I am aware of my value system and confident of the decisions I make based on my current awareness.
• I am my own authority and I am not affected by negative opinions or attitudes of others.
• It is not what happens to me, but how I handle it, that determines my emotional well being.
• No one in the entire world is more or less worthy, more or less important, than I.
• I am an action person; I do first things first and one thing at a time.
• I will be in total peace and in communion with divine order, and bliss.