Affirmations (part-3)

 Chapter 8:

Using Affirmations

Affirmations may help you to alter harmful behaviors or achieve goals, and they may likewise help undo the damage caused by damaging scripts, those things which we repeatedly tell ourselves (or which other people repeatedly tell us) that contribute to a damaging self-perception. Affirmations are simple to create and utilize, but you'll need dedication to make them work.

Doing It Right

Consider your positive attributes. Scrutinize of yourself by making an inventory of your best qualities, abilities, or other attributes. Are you gorgeous? Put it down. Are you a hard worker? Make note of it. 

Write every quality down in a short sentence, beginning with "I" and utilizing the present tense: "I am beautiful," for instance, or "I'm generous".

These statements are affirmations of who you are. We seldom center on those things that we truly like about ourselves, instead deciding to linger over things we'd like to change. An inventory will help you break that cycle, and utilizing these affirmations to help you appreciate who you are will present you the confidence you need to accept your affirmations of who you wish to be.

Consider what damaging scripts you wish to counteract or what positive goals you wish to achieve. Affirmations may be highly useful to counteract damaging perceptions you have developed. Affirmations may likewise help you accomplish particular goals, like losing weight or stopping smoking. Make a list of your goals or the harmful self-perceptions you wish to alter.

Prioritize your list of things to work on. You might find that you have a lot of goals or that you need a lot of counter-scripts. It's best, however, to centre simply a few affirmations at a time, so select those that are most crucial or most urgent and work with those first. Once you see betterment in those areas or achieve those goals you may develop new affirmations for additional items on your list.

Write your affirmations. Add other affirmations to influence your conduct in the future. The affirmations you'll utilize to influence future changes ought to follow the basic form. They should begin with "I," and be short, clear, and positive.

Match up some of your favorable attributes with your goals. Which of the favorable qualities that you affirmed earlier will help you accomplish the goals you have set? If you're stopping smoking, for instance, you might need willpower or courage, or you might need to reflect on the fact that you're pretty or that you care about your loved ones. Choose 2 or 3 of these affirmations to support your goal-oriented affirmations.

Make your affirmations visible so you may utilize them. Repeating is the key to making affirmations effective. You wish to think about your affirmations a lot of times a day, daily. There are numerous ways to do this.

Make a point of writing your affirmations in a journal or diary every morning when you get up and every night before you turn in. Repeat the affirmations to yourself at these times, as well. Ideally, your affirmations ought to be the first thing you think of when you get up and the last before you turn in.

Meditate on your affirmations. Shut your eyes, keep out the rest of the world, and consider your affirmations. Say and repeat the words, but consider what the words mean to you; consider the future and try to feel the emotions that the affirmations bring up.

Leave reminder cards in assorted places. Utilize 3X5 index cards or sticky notes to write your affirmations (one per card). Make numerous cards for each affirmation, and then leave these cards where you'll see them: place one where you sit at the kitchen table, tape one to your automobile steering wheel, slip one inside your desk drawer, or stick one to your PC monitor, etc. Every time you see the card, read it and consider what it means.

Carry your affirmations with you. Create a list of your affirmations and put it in your billfold or purse. If you need a pick-me-up, or if you discover yourself about to waver from your goals, take out your affirmations and read them.

Chapter 9:

Advantages And Disadvantages

Positive affirmation or positive self-talk may benefit not only yourself but likewise other individuals that you interact with. Affirmation is the switching of thoughts resulting from damaging, dirty, and rough experiences or ideas to a more positive note. It relies on the principle that you may only become successful if you tell yourself “I can do that” rather than saying, “I can’t do that.”

The Good And Bad

If you believe that positive affirmation impacts only the subconscious then wait till you hear this. Studies have determined that individuals who perpetually bombard themselves with positive words instead of entertaining damaging thoughts and words have more substantial muscles.

Research claims that an individual’s muscles get stronger and more active when the subconscious mind is filled with favorable words. The same report indicated that the human muscles tend to get weak when an individual thinks and verbalizes that he's tired or that he hates the world or that he can't do a certain thing.

Aside from muscle strength, positive affirmation likewise impacts your energy level. A happy individual is commonly a result of a positive mind programming.

Positive affirmation does not only affect the physical but likewise the emotional well-being of an individual. Because of this, experts have always advised individuals to start their day with good and positive thoughts and words.

Starting the day right would extend the vibrant feeling throughout the day and would even act as a multiplier effect to all other positive aspects in your life.

Positive affirmation brings to life an individual’s capabilities, strengths, talents, and skills. Perpetually repeating the things that you're capable of doing and forgetting hesitant feelings that commonly hinder you from going after a certain goal may help a lot in accomplishing a positive result.

A light outlook, a smiling face, and a worry-free aura are commonly the features of very successful individuals. The principle of positive affirmation leans on the core tenets that the mind is just so mighty and what it says is commonly followed and miraculously accomplished by the body.

Our thoughts, self talk and affirmations, both positive and negative, get to be self-fulfilling prophesies much more often than not. Your actions and effort are influenced by what you're thinking, so if you think you'll fail at something you likely will. Likewise, if you think you'll succeed you likely will.

Most individuals don't realize that it is actually possible to choose to more think more positively. The consequences of such a choice are that your consequences are truly the ones you consciously want.

For instance, if you're attempting to slim down...

DON’T say or think, “I'm not going to cheat on my diet and I'll lose weight no matter what.”

The above supposedly positive thinking affirmation might lead to the person becoming dangerously skinny and/or under nourished. By saying "no matter what" in the affirmation, the individual could end up overdoing things. They could make them self seriously ill in their quest to slim down, although this was never the intent.

So it’s crucial to think things through and avoid producing unwanted side effects when composing your affirmations. With the above dieting affirmation, quite apart from the words “no matter what” making it potentially harmful, it uses the wrong tense. It might be further improved by selecting more meaningful positive words.

Chapter 10:

Conclusion

Utilize POSTIVE WORDS in your affirmation instead of utilizing words which serve to remind you of something you wish to eradicate. Producing the affirmation in the positive is much more effective.

DON’T say and think, “I'm not shy” or “I'm not insecure”

Rather SAY and THINK, “I'm outgoing” or “I'm secure” or “I'm confident”

When writing an affirmation, ask yourself what is it that you fundamentally want. Then compose the affirmation based on your answer to this question, instead of focusing and constructing your affirmation on what you don't want.

Again, your actions and effort are influenced by your thinking, self talk and affirmations. Centering on being outgoing, secure and confident is much more likely to bring about the results you want, than using an affirmation which veers toward what you're trying to overcome (in that instance avoid the words “shy” and “insecure”).

A different example - if you want to feel confident about making a speech you put up SAY and THINK “I'm a confident and articulate public speaker” instead of saying “I'm not anxious about public speaking and I don't falter over my words”. In that instance, steer clear of framing your affirmation in the negative by quashing the words “anxious” and “falter”.

The power of positive affirmations is amazing when you cautiously frame your affirmations in a manner which doesn't inadvertently create unwanted results.

When you utilize the present tense, positive meaningful words and aim high in a reasonable, realistic and incremental manner as described in this book, challenges which have defeated you in the past can be effectively tackled. If you wish to enhance your life, it's time to decide to think positively.