Thursday, February 21, 2008

AFFIRMATIONS! Do they REALLY WORK?

Let's talk about positive affirmations and how they can be used to manifest your needs and bring positive and permanent change to your life. You will also learn how to Create and supercharge your own affirmations.
What is an Affirmation?
Everything we think of and every word we say is an affirmation All of our self-talk is a free flow of affirmations. We are continually affirming subconsciously with our words and thoughts and this flow of affirmations is creating our life experience each and every day and moment that we live. Our beliefs are just learned thought patterns that we have developed since childhood, many of these work well for us, but others may now be working against us, and preventing us from achieving what we believe we want. Every thought or word we utter is a reflection of our inner truth or beliefs. It is important to realize that many of these "inner truths" may not actually be true for us now or may no longer be valid because they were based upon inappropriate impressions we constructed as children.
Our subconscious uses the behavior patterns we have learned to automatically respond and react to many everyday events in our life. This is essential to our survival, we need to be able to respond quickly to events around us which would be impossible if we had to re-examine every aspect of things every time something simple happens. Our learned responses and thought patterns enable us to automatically respond to circumstances quickly and easily. Problems arise however, if at an early stage some of the foundation beliefs on which many of the others are built were formed from a skewed perspective, maybe the strategy was appropriate for a perceived difficult circumstance, however often such beliefs are totally inappropriate for succeeding in the real world as adults.

You can use "Positive Affirmations", which are usually short positive statements targeted at a specific subconscious set of beliefs, to challenge and undermine negative beliefs and to replace them with positive self-nurturing beliefs. It is sort of like "Brain Draining/Cleaning"only you get to choose which negative beliefs to drain away. The way these statements are constructed is extremely important. Later I will show you how to construct your own affirmations. It is important to remember of course that everything we say and think is a positive affirmation, using statements of affirmation forces us to keep focussed on our inner goals and reminds us to think consciously about our words and thoughts and to modify them to reflect our positive affirmation.

Do affirmations work?

YES! Affirmations really work. You will be hard pressed to find any self help program anywhere that does not include affirmations. And the reason for this is, they work. The more determined you are to make your changes, the more you are prepared to accept change and let go of the past, the better they will work for you.

MORE TO COME ON AFFIRMATIONS!

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