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This lesson includes…
1. Getting The Most Out of Your Affirmations 2. Affirmation with a Partner 3. Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance 4. Sample Affirmations 5. Visualizations 6. Guide to Meditation - Effective Affirmations
If you are like most people, you probably want to accelerate the process of going from wherever you are now, to where you desire to be. Well, Visualization is a great technique that can greatly improve your results.
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#1 Getting the Most Out of Affirmations
When composing your affirmations include your own name in the first, and second person, i.e.,
- I, Jeff am happy and blissful just being alive
- Jeff, you look happy and blissful just being alive
#2 Affirmation With a Partner
A delightful way to doing affirmations is to practice with a partner, take turns affirming to each other. It is okay to get a little carried away, giving your partner a round of applause now and again, say yes, yes, you can do it!
By presenting the affirmation in an original sometime humorous form, the subconscious files the event as a unique occurrence. It is best not to overdo this; you don't want it to be predictable.
The Practice: Sit opposite each other, straight back chairs are ideal. Then take turns in affirming to each other. This practice is simple yet extremely powerful.
You might like to try repeating your partner's affirmation in a lyrical monotone, hypnotic style. The idea is to lull your partner into a relaxed state.
Having a new-age, relaxing piece of music in the background will aid in achieving this state, baroque music is also highly recommended. To practice this technique by yourself, you may like to record your affirmations on tape and play them back.
The power of the spoken word We have impact-author's story. "I remember playing snooker with a friend, he was really quite good, and occasionally boasted of his ability. To make light of his obvious advantage over me I occasionally broke into song, "Robert's my hero,'" at the time it was all I could do to make light of the situation.
Anyway, this friend happened to be a graphic artist, and loved playing around with Photoshop, a graphical imaging software package.
I was visiting him one day when he was showing me some of his work. He had created this promotional piece featuring himself (no surprise to me) with the caption, you guessed it "Robert's my hero."
By the way, there would have been about eight years between the two incidents. This clearly demonstrates the effect the spoken word has over others.
#3 Creating A Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance
When thinking about abundance, what do you think? How do you feel about abundance?
If you are thinking "it's hard," or "I just don't feel abundant" or similar, you are working against the principles of abundance.
Abundant principle affirmation: "I now let go and let the Universe work through me" OR "I now surrender my financial affairs to God," (or other spiritual power). Substitute "financial affairs" for any are you would like to work with.
At those times when you are feeling abundant, you will feel a oneness with your environment, you will feel open and energized. When you tune into abundance, you are placing yourself in accordance with universal laws.
Being abundant is your birthright. It is a lot easier to succeed than it is to fail, you have to work hard to fail, whereas to succeed you only have to let go. If you knew how much energy you invest in creating failure you would drop it in an instant.
Be like nature, it is not always right to take action, sometimes we rest, sometimes we shine and sometimes we do take action. It's just a matter of taking action when it feels right, when the time is right you will feel compelled to take the appropriate action to bring about your desired outcome.
Abundant principle affirmation "I listen to and take action when it feels right"
When you resist abundance you are going against your natural state. For example, resisting a desire to become an artist or make that phone call, or follow a childhood dream are all ways in which you resist, we are literally cutting off your energy flow.
What can you learn from these abundant principles? You can learn to follow through on those activities that you love and give you a feeling of being open and energized. Just remember doing what you love will open up your energy and opening up your energy will allow abundance to come into your life.
Abundant principle affirmations: "I am an open channel receiving the abundant energy of a loving Universe" OR "I do what I love, the Universe amply supplies me"
The above affirmations will get you started in creating an abundant consciousness.
Whether you are thinking about prosperity, health issues or relationships, whatever. You can open yourself up to having more simply by choosing where to focus your attention. Use the principle of gratitude to focus on the good that is already happening in your life.
- Affirm thanks to family and friends
- Affirm thanks for your health, eyesight, and your feeling nature
- Affirm thanks for the food you eat, your digestive system, the clothes you wear and the environment where you live
- Affirm thanks to the transport systems, your car, your shoes and your feet
See how many things you can be grateful for today. This is a wonderful exercise and very powerful. Be mindful of what is happening here, what you focus on expands.
This simple exercise will also open up your expectancy for your greater good. You are literally saying to the Universe, I focus on what is good in my life, I expect the best and I am open to receive it.
Abundant affirmation: "I now focus on what is good and working in my life, I expect the best"
Just as these abundance principles can work for you, if you think about what you don't want they can also work against you, by creating undesirable results. This is why you have to be mindful of what you are thinking. Don't beat yourself up if you notice yourself thinking negatively.
Firstly, you need to acknowledge your thoughts, negative, positive and neutral. We need to get rid of the notion that we have good and bad emotions, emotions just are. The problem lays in getting into habitually thinking patterns where we judge, compare and evaluate ourselves against others.
From year one, as newborn babies, most of us were taught that we were not OK. As time goes on we create personas to present to the world that everything is fine, but this is wrapped around our false "Not OK" self, the ego.
To help support this illusion, we are constantly judging ourselves and others to see if our persona is firmly in place. For some it appears to be stable on the outside, but once again trying to maintain this feeling of OK is both unnatural and takes an enormous amount of energy.
Under your persona, under that "I am not OK," you are perfect, this is your real self, that is the self we want to operate from when we talk about abundance.
Get past habitual negativity and ego judgmentally; this is just the false self trying to make sense of it all. It wants to be in control of structure that it is incapable of understanding.
We can still acknowledge this negative self-talk, but we don't have to buy into it, see it for what it is, put light on it, love it and understand it.
Be as a loving parent, dialog with your negativity as follows: Come along this way my love, this is best, a nicer way, remember that time when we laughed and laughed, that was so much fun. I am with you my love; you are cared for, I will look after you. You don't have to be a super woman, it is OK to be you." Work with love and will! Go higher.
We don't want to deny our negativity, we want to befriend it, be there for it and show it a better way.
When you can come home from your true self, negativity simply does not exist. Your vibration is such that you have transcended the dense matter and love is the prevailing energy.
Remember the Eagles' song "Hotel California" where they sing "this can be heaven or this can be hell?"
Hell is of a dense vibration and will produce negative thoughts; Heaven is of a high vibration and will produce positive loving thoughts.
You really do have a choice, start with an intention, a desire, help will come, "Seek and you shall find." Decide today to have more control over your thinking, your vibration. You are in control of your thinking with positive intention, you can raise your vibration.
Check in on your thinking during the day, be an observer. You might want to create a journal and document the type of thoughts you have. Check in hourly and ask yourself "what am I thinking?" How am I feeling? Do not judge, just observe and dialog.
You might like to ask yourself. Is this what I want to think? If this what I want to produce in my life? If not, change your thinking. No judging, just acknowledge your thoughts, dialog and choose whether this is your preferred thinking. Raise your vibration, go higher and you will not be experiencing these dense energies associated with negativity.
In closing, one thing that we often forget and it is so terribly important is to "ASK." So many times we have been less than positive, we endure, we put up with, then remember, "ASK," then simply repeat the following:
All I have to do to be one with my higher self is to think of my higher self and request that the connection be strengthened.
Then repeat: "I am now thinking of my higher self and desire that connection be strengthened, I ask this in faith and know that it is so."
Repeat this affirmation about 6 times, go on your way and a couple minutes later you will find yourself thinking how wonderful life is.
This affirmation works every time, but how often do we forget we're getting better (smile).
Have a wonderful day, how are you feeling? If you connected with the place where this information came from, you should be feeling uplifted and energized. Stop now and simply "ASK."
Then wait a few minutes, you will KNOW this works, you are loved, you are not alone, NEVER, the ego does not understand this, it can't.
It all begins by taking the first step…
#4 Sample Affirmation
This week's affirmation category is
Abundance
- I always succeed
- Everything I touch turns to riches
- I am always productive
- I respect my abilities, I have creative insight
- I am constantly adding to my income
- I always spend money wisely
- The Universe is looking after me
- I always have enough money for all my needs
- I am rewarded for all the work I do
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#5 Visualization
By visualizing your goal, your subconscious mind will work for you behind the scenes, to encourage the manifestation of situations, which will ultimately enable your goals to come true. A process of achieving your goals through the application of positive mental images will empower you to create a reality from your desires.
Each of us has five senses. We can use these senses to work for us in reaching our desired goals. By combining the elements of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch to visualize our objective, it becomes real to our imagination and in so doing becomes embedded in our subconscious as a part of our reality.
Imagine your goal: As an example; if you desire to own a yacht and cruise the islands, concentrate and tune in your senses. Feel the motion of the yacht beneath you, as you smell the sea air, hearing the flap of the sails and calls of seagulls from the tropical beach you see just ahead. Taste the salt spray on your face as you enjoy the pleasure of your surroundings.
The subconscious mind, being non-critical, will believe your visualizations as being real. We can use this faculty to consciously select images, which we give to our subconscious.
Conversely, as we mediate on our affirmations, the subconscious mind will raise to our awareness images and sensations of our successes; this is a clear indication that the affirmation/image has been accepted by our subconscious mind.
Aid to visualization An excellent visualization technique is to employ the aid of posters, fine artwork and photos. Just browsing images that depict what you desire to have happen in your life is a great tool for conveying to the subconscious mind your desires.
You don't have to purchase any of these items, although the advantages of having some special and meaningful art images around the home would be beneficial. What we are suggesting is that you play around at browsing these archives. Pay attention to how you feel after just 5 minutes of browsing, we suspect your spirits will have lifted considerably.
After you have finished your browsing session, you might like to try recalling your favorite pieces, have fun with this as it can greatly improve your visualization skills. This practice will have a powerful uplifting effect on your being. Don't take our word for it, try it out.
We included the following link for you to browse the Internet's largest collection of posters, fine art and photo images. To find out more.
Click here --> www.Art.com
A few favorites pieces are:
Meditative Rose (For Meditation), Salvador Dali
- The Kiss (For Relationships),
Gustav Klimt
- Le Violiniste Bleu (For Musical Interests),
Marc Chagall
- Angel (For Spiritually)
Carol Robinson
#6 Guide to Mediation-Effective Affirmations
Through the use of meditation techniques, your mind will become more receptive to the underlying messages contained within your affirmations. As you relax both your mind and body, you become more responsive to the mental stimuli programmed within your affirmations and less conscious and critical of information as it filters down to your subconscious where it resides and becomes your reality.
It is recommended that prior to your affirmation sessions, you spend several minutes relaxing to clear your mind. Follow these three quick steps and the benefits of your affirmations will be improved greatly:
Step 1. Sit is a comfortable chair with your back straight, feet flat on the floor, hands resting lightly on your lap and your eyes closed.
Step 2. Concentrate on relaxing your body. A good technique for this is to send a relaxing message first to your feet; and work your way up through your calves, thighs, stomach, chest, shoulders, neck, arms, hands, etc., until you can feel each part of your body totally relaxed and comfortable. As you relax concentrate on your breathing, taking several deep, calming breaths. Each time you slowly exhale, you feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed.
Step 3. Now as you concentrate; count slowly to yourself from ten to one. Keep relaxing as you count downwards, relaxing more and more with each descending number. Spend around 1 to 15 minutes practicing this meditation technique prior to your affirmation session. With time, you'll find yourself being in a totally relaxed, receptive state in a matter of minutes.
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