Affirmation practice

This lesson includes…

1. Affirmations and The Mind
2. Sample Affirmations
3. The Affirmation Practice
4. Writing Affirmations
5. The Essence
6. This or something better

You have the power to create whatever you want in your life. This power is within you and can be released through the practice of affirmations.

Put affirmations to work in your life, NOW!

"What's this affirmation stuff?

Aha! Glad you asked!

#1 Affirmation and the Mind

One of the most important things we process is the mind. Look after the mind and there is nothing you can't accomplish. Affirmations are a powerful way of working with the mind to create what we desire.

The benefits you can expect from working with affirmations are based entirely on individual desires.

How do I practice affirmations?
write affirmations down on paper
carrying out an inner dialog
you can rehearse a future scenario
sing or chant them
record them on a tape player and use the playback feature
have a partner repeat them to you

#2 Sample Affirmation

This week's affirmation category is:

Health

My connection to the universe is pure love
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
I have all the energy required for my needs.
The light within me is healing my entire body.
I am one with the universe. I am healing now.
Divine light flows through every cell of my body.
I am a radiant being filled with light and love.
I radiate love to everyone I meet.
I sleep relaxed and awake refreshed.
My connection to the universe is my energy source.
I give and receive love easily and effortlessly.
I am bathed in radiant light.
I have the power to control my health.
I am in control of my health and well being.
I have abundant energy, vitality and well being.
I am healthy in all areas of my life.
I am always able to maintain my ideal weight.
I am calm, my mind is at peace.
I love and care for my body.
I am perfect just the way I am.

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#3 The Affirmation Practice

Creating your affirmation
Establish in your mind the specific area in which you most want to improve or which goal you most desire attaining.

Self-discipline
We advise setting aside a special time each day for your session. Either first thing in the morning or just prior to going to bed, whenever is convenient for you. Each session should last around 15 minutes.

The major benefit of the evening session is that you will continue your affirmation during your sleeping state. That is, the thought process established during your session will continue to operate on a subconscious level during sleep.

In the morning when you awaken refreshed; your mind is more receptive to positive thought patterns and better able to concentrate and receive new stimuli. This will also establish a positive mental theme for the day.

There are many broad areas in which affirmations may be used. Some areas are self-esteem, love and relationships, creative self-expression, work/vocation, prosperity, health and spiritual development.

It is suggested that your affirmations encompass a cross section of the above areas to create a balance. Striving to attain prosperity only, could leave you in poor health with relationships suffering. This is an imbalance.

Plan of action:
Affirmations should also lead to a Plan of Action. This means don't just sit there-do something! Regardless of your goal, by taking the first steps towards it you are already one step closer to its attainment and with each step it gets closer.

Helpful resource:

TEN STEPS to ACHIEVE EVERY GOALS written by Gary Ryan Blair:

Write It Down - Goals are specific, measurable, and time-bounded. Write your goals so that they reflect all three components.
List Your Personal Benefits - Identify exactly "Why" you want to achieve this goal. List all ways you will benefit personally.
Analyze Your Current Position - Success is information dependent. You need integrity in your information. Identify exactly your specific strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities as it relates to achieving this goal.
Identify Obstacles and Risks - List everything that could possibly prevent you from achieving this goal.
Identify Investments and Sacrifices - List everything, including time, money, and sacrifices that you can anticipate.
Knowledge Requirements - Identify what additional knowledge you need to acquire or have access to.
Support Team - List the people, groups, and organizations you may need help from as well as the specific role each one plays.
Develop Your Plan - List in chronological order each activity and their corresponding target dates for completion. Use all the information gathered in the previous steps to develop your plan.
Set a Deadline - Determine on what date you will achieve this goal.
Reward and Celebrate - Identify your reward for the achievement of this goal. You deserve it!

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Your Personal Philosophy
Legacy Statement
Personal Mission Statement
Identification of Core Values
Personal Code of Ethics
Lifetime Objectives
Goals and 5-10 Year Goals
Your Personal Board of Directors
A Plan for Maintenance and Performance Check Up

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TEN STEPS to ACHIEVE EVERY GOAL - Used with Permission
by Gary Ryan Blair - gary@goalsguy.com

#4 Writing Affirmation

For your affirmation practice:

Take a sheet of paper and fold it down the middle. Title the left-hand column "My Affirmations" and the right-hand column "My Responses."

Begin by writing your affirmation in the left-hand column. As you write, put all your attention into the practice (focus, and think about the affirmation), we want to really impress upon the subconscious your intent to have this thing come about.

As you continue writing your affirmation, some resistance will most likely arise, record the details of this resistance in the right-hand column.

For example, if you have been affirming, "Money comes to me easily and effortlessly" you may find yourself repeating, "don't talk crap, look at my bank account," record this dialog in the "My Response" column.

Then return to writing your affirmation; continue in this way until you have completed at least 24 repetitions, or, 10-15 minutes has passed.

It is a good idea to acknowledge your subconscious for revealing these resistances to you; a simple THAK YOU voiced after recording these resistances would work fine. This will help to establish a relationship between your conscious and subconscious mind.

Don't be concerned with the content of your responses, initially, rather be in a free flowing creative state. We will discuss analyzing your responses in a future lesson.

Our main objective in using affirmations is two fold:

through the act of repetition, with feelings to implant the affirmation into the subconscious mind.
to release resistance from the subconscious mind.

Note, it is quite natural to have resistance towards a new affirmation; we are affirming something that is not true (initially). If you already believed your affirmation to be true….it would already be in your life.

Sometimes at the start of an affirmation practice you may find yourself in total agreement with your affirmation. Just go along with whatever happens, have faith that it is working in a way that is right for you.

#5 The Essence

You will always get results
When practicing affirmation, the result may not come in the way you expect, but you will get results. As an example, Jenny has been affirming for a new car. Jenny has become discouraged with her affirmation practice because the car has now shown up. However, she does seem to be getting an unusual amount of friends coming to visit.

Look for the essence
In our car example, if Jenny looked at the essence of why she wanted the new car, a whole new picture becomes available.

For Jenny, the essence of the new car was that she wanted to be able to visit friends. She was feeling lonely and believed having a new car would enable her to become more social.

The subconscious knowing this, decided to give Jenny what she really wanted, not what she thought she wanted. Always look for the essence of what you want, this is what you will get.

#6 This or Something Better Now Manifests For Me in Totally Satisfying and Harmonious Ways for The Highest Good of All Concerned

Say the above statement to yourself after you finish writing each affirmation.

What is the meaning of this statement?
This leaves the way open for something even better (than that what we have been affirming) since our Higher Self wants only our greatest good. It will come about in harmonious and satisfying ways and this will ONLY work for the good of all concerned. And remember, even with our human limitations the Universe is capable of infinite manifestations.

In our previous example of Jenny affirming a new car, her Higher Self might have gone one better and sent new friends into Jenny's life.
OR
If you have been affirming a new job, our sometimes limited thinking may have restricted our job searching activities to newspapers and network a select group of friends. Our Higher Self being far more expansive could send us potential job offers in an unlimited number of ways.

This leads us to another principle of affirmations:
Be open to the unexpected. When working with affirmations, all previous conventional methods of reaching your foals go out the window. Note, you still need to tune in and do the legwork.

We are working with a divine/invisible power and things WILL happen that you can't explain. This is what we mean when we say affirmations are FUN!

Get rid of how you think things will happen, this can't prevent you from receiving. Be open and have fun, welcome the unexpected, tune in and be spontaneous.

"Let miracles happen!"