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Gratitude Affirmations!

To summarize all the powerful effects of gratitude, these are:

• Puts you in the vibration or energy of your desires fulfilled, making you a stronger point of attraction for their manifestation

• Brings completion in advance, convincing the subconscious mind to deliver this imagined reality (recall that the subconscious mind makes no distinction between the actual and the imagined)

• Dissolves internal resistances that lock in dysfunction and what is not wanted, so that change is made possible

• Confers inner freedom to your being, as you are accepting and a ‘fluid’ energy able to move easily with life

• Speeds up learning so you can move on in life

• Puts you in vibrational harmony with the best outcomes in all situations, so that you’re choosing blessings rather than lessons

• Harmonizes you with the Thinking Substance and the Mind the God, drawing you near to the source of all blessings

• Gives back to the universe so that balance is maintained at all times (leaving you free of involvement to restore balance, i.e. karma)

• Confers wholeness and a state of inner peace, which promotes healing

• As a force of unconditional love, it activates the hidden workings of the cause and effect of love that operate in the universe, which is expressed in life as being in the grace of God

Below is a set of gratitude affirmations that will help you develop an attitude of gratitude, which can accelerate the manifestation cycle for you.  These affirmations may be enhanced with the Affirmation Enhancer Tool, which is like ‘etheric software’ that contains clearing and rescripting protocols that clears all that stands in the way of integrating an affirmation energetically and awakening to the co-creative power inherent in the divine self and to a deep understanding of our divine right and our responsibility to manifest our life according to our true desires. The Tool enables a person to embody the energy of the affirmation instantaneously, at deep levels of being. It does this by dissolving the back-wash of opposing thoughts, hidden agendas and unmet needs that often underlie affirmations, cleansing the subconscious mind of all memories, programs and patterns that do not support the affirmation, releasing emotional and mental body patterns and programs that support the denial of the affirmation, and infusing the body, heart, mind and soul with divine ideal traits that will support deep integration of the truth of the affirmation. Accelerated manifestation is further enhanced by the creation of an imagination in the auric field that acts as future potential drawing a person to that affirmed reality that has been purified of hidden intent.

Gratitude Affirmations:.

1. I AM blessed in so many ways and am deeply grateful
2. I AM grateful for my life and growing consciousness within it
3. I AM profoundly grateful for the power granted me to command the formless intelligence all around me.
4. The more grateful I am, the more my soul may live in close touch with God.
5. My soul continuously rejoices and unites with my experience as I engage in gratitude.
6. Gratitude opens the door for my essence to flow through my life, and spirit blessings to pour into all that I choose to create.
7. Gratefulness is how I return energy to the universe for the bounty I am blessed with.
8. The more grateful I am, the more blessed I am.
9. The more grateful I am, the more connected I am to the source and power of creation.
10. I am deeply grateful to the Creator who wants me to thrive in life.
11. I now immerse in gratitude and cultivate it as a habit.
12. In profound gratitude, I am in a harmonious relationship with the formless Substance out of which my life emerges. 
13. By my gratitude, I am close to the source of abundance.
14. My subconscious mind is continually finding things that I am grateful for.
15. In my sleep, I am continually fed inspirations to support me to develop a habit of gratitude in life.
16. I am able and willing to embrace all experiences and derive the gifts they hold for me. 
17. I am grateful for life hugging me in a perfect reflective way.
18. I release all resistance to any part of my life and accept it all, knowing it is there as ‘love in action’.
19. I release all bitterness, resentment and dissatisfaction that I may see the blessings I’ve missed.
20. In gratitude I am at peace with my life and able to withdraw from non-serving energies and focus wholly on creating wonderful things in great joy and expectancy.
21. In gratitude I am fluid energy able to move easily with life and direct it according to my desires born of love.
22. In gratitude I am inwardly free and unattached to specific outcomes; everything that comes to me is imbued with divine wisdom.
23. With a grateful heart I see opportunities for growth and joy everywhere.
24. My gratitude reaches God and God moves towards me.
25. My gratitude reaches the source of abundance and the source rushes towards me.
26. In gratitude, I love unconditionally and become infinite being with infinite potential.
27. I am capable of doing what I do because others have come before me. I am grateful for the world I see.
28. I engage and enjoy the luminous divine Essence in all who enter my life.
29. I am grateful for all the players in my life. Everyone in my life is “love in action”.
30. I appreciate all people in my life, for each one brings an opportunity for learning to me.
31. I now experience being fully supported by everyone in my life.
32. I am strongly and constantly grateful for all that is in my life.
33. Gratitude keeps me connected to the power of the universe.
34. Gratitude is love, and my heart opens to receive all the blessings coming my way.
35. The grateful mind focuses on the best.
36. I focus on the best in everything and everyone, and the best appears abundantly for me.
37. My life is the image of what I give attention to. What a wonderful experience!
38. I am thinking Substance taking the form of what I think about.
39. I am a lucid dreamer, dreaming wonderful possibilities and potentials.
40. The grateful mind expects the best.
41. I continually expect the best in everything and everyone who enters my life.
42. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through the love that I am.
43. I am profoundly connected to the source and power of life through continual gratitude.
44. I breathe in the beauty, abundance and goodness of life; it abounds.
45. I see only abundance and supply all around me; how wonderful to be alive.
46. I am loved my God and in deep gratefulness, I allow myself to take this love in deeply.
47. Before going to sleep, I release all idle thoughts and focus on all my blessings.
48. As I count my blessings, my blessings grow.
49. As I am grateful to others, they are gracious to me.
50. In gratefulness, I give back to the universe and I am fulfilled.
51. Being in gratitude is heavenly.
52. In gratitude I am in harmony with the creative energies of the universe.
53. By continual gratitude, I am open to receiving God’s grace.
54. I am deeply and continuously grateful, and thereby I align to the outcomes of greatest blessing.
55. I am grateful and thereby allow more supply into my life for which to be grateful!
56. I release all concern as to how to feed, clothe, or supply my world, and turn all my thoughts to expressing the love that I am in freedom and joy.
57. The grateful mind expands to embrace even more of the blessings of life—I am continuously grateful and expanding.
58. I dwell only on the best and the blessings, and I become the best, blessed, and a blessing unto others.
59. Faith is born of gratitude; I have faith and am filled with joyous expectancy.
60. I continuously expect great things and am deeply grateful in advance.
61. I am so grateful to be alive!

Anita Briggs writes articles about The Spirituality of Wealth, a program to develop the consciousness of abundance that contains activations of the Inner Mastery Tools and the Affirmation Enhancer Tool. Other articles written by the author related to affirmation can be found on the web.

Affirmations for Stress Relief

I CAN SEE STRESSFUL SITUATIONS AS CHALLENGES

CHALLENGES BRING OPPORTUNITIES

I CAN CHOOSE A POSITIVE FRAME OF MIND

I CAN HANDLE WHATEVER COMES

TODAY HAS LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES

I CAN FIND BALANCE IN MY LIFE

I CAN FIND LOVE AND SUPPORT

I CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING

I CAN HANDLE WHATEVER COMES

I CAN CREATE INNER PEACE

MY INTENTION IS FOR PEACE

I AM STRONG

PEACE IS POWER

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

MY INTENTIONS CREATE MY REALITY

STRESS IS LEAVING MY BODY

TODAY I CHOOSE JOY

I CAN MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES

I AM DOING MY BEST

I BREATHE IN PEACE

TODAY MY INTENTION IS FOR PEACE

I AM IN CHARGE OF MY LIFE

I HAVE MANY OPTIONS

I CAN CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE

I AM WISE

MY HAPPINESS COMES FROM WITHIN

I CAN START HEALTHY HABITS

EACH MOMENT BRINGS CHOICE

I CAN STAY CALM UNDER PRESSURE

I CHOOSE HAPPINESS

I CHOOSE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

Various Affirmations

Here we are in the home stretch!  I would really like to see some comments about how you are doing ;-) (hint hint...) Light and Love, Sister Bridget

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Our thoughts create our reality. Here are some Affirmations which create a more positive, happier more fulfilling reality.

A. About Ability and Security

1. Anxiety solves no problems – actions do.

2. Some problems are problems only because I believe them to be.

3. I have the inner power and strength to deal with whatever life brings me.

4. I am capable of handling any possible difficulties which might occur.

5. I feel safe and secure in every situation.

6. While making my own sincere effort, I entrust my life, my family and the results of all my efforts into God’s (the Universes) wise and just judgment.

7. Life gives me in each moment exactly what I need in every situation in order to be happy, perform my life and purpose and grow spiritually.

8. I am intelligent and capable enough to succeed in any endeavor which is important to me.

B. About Self-Worth

1. My self-worth is a function of my inner being (0f who I am) and not what others think of me or how much I accomplish.

2. The results of my efforts depend on many different factors including also my efforts.

3. My self worth is totally independent of any external factors such as: intelligence, wealth, my home, appearance, talents, professional success, my children’s success, being attractive to the opposite sex, making friends, disciplines, "spiritual" activities.

4. I am worthy of love and respect even when I am not perfect in what I do and even when I make mistakes.

5. My self-worth is totally independent of whether others agree with me or are satisfied with me.

6. My self-worth is totally independent of how people behave towards me.

7. My self-worth is totally independent of how much others work or how they work or what they believe about me.

8. My self-worth is a reflection of my divine nature and not my gender, religion, social class etc.

9. I am a good person, a worthy person.

C. Freedom and Love

1. I respect and love all persons (especially my parents and family) without feeling any need whatsoever to live my life according to their beliefs or values. I live my life in harmony with my inner values and beliefs.

2. I am in no way responsible for others people’s reality but only for my own motives and behavior towards them.

3. No one else is responsible for my reality. I am totally responsible for what I feel and experience in life.

4. I am responsible for my purity of my motives and quality of my efforts and not for the results of my efforts or their affect on others.

5. All beings deserve my love and respect, including myself

6. I understand the fears behind each person’s negative actions.

7. I am free in each moment to be myself.

8. No one can limit my freedom unless I need something from them.

9. Real freedom is freedom from fears, needs and false limiting beliefs.

10. Real freedom is the ability to do what ever is in my best interest as a soul in the process of evolution.

11. Real freedom is the freedom to experience peace, love and happiness regardless of what happens or others’ behavior.

50 Affirmations to Raise Your Self-Esteem

How are you all doing with your affirmations? Leave a comment and share your progress!

Light and Love, Sister Bridget

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50 Affirmations to Raise Your Self-Esteem by Helene Rothschild

Are you ready to feel good about yourself? That is the key to health, happiness, fulfilling relationships, and success.

Negative thoughts hurt your self-esteem and positive thoughts help you feel good. To raise your self-esteem, say, sing, or write the following 50 affirmations (positive thoughts) until they become part of your automatic thinking. It is even more powerful if you add your name.

1. I, your name, am okay even when I am scared.

2. I, ____________, am a worthwhile person.

3. I, ____________, am important.

4. I, ____________, am good enough.

5. I, ____________, am okay.

6. I, ____________, am lovable.

7. I, ____________, am attractive.

8. I, ____________, am intelligent.

9. I, ____________, am creative and intuitive.

10. I, ____________, am competent and talented.

11. I, ____________, am a good person.

12. I, ____________, am wanted and I belong.

13. I, ____________, trust my decisions.

14. I, ____________, accept all my feelings.

15. I, ____________, am expressing my feelings in healthy ways.

16. I, ____________, am releasing my anger into a pillow and others and I are safe.

17. I, ____________, forgive myself for all my mistakes.

18. I, ____________, am forgiving others for all their mistakes.

19. I, ____________, am saying "no" and I am okay.

20. I, ____________, am self-caring and I am there for others.

21. I, ____________, am capable of taking care of myself.

22. I, ____________, am taking control of my life and seeing all of my choices.

23. I, ____________, am taking responsibility for my happiness.

24. I, ____________, am communicating honestly and clearly what I want and need.

25. I, ____________, am listening to what others want and creating win-win solutions.

26. I, ____________, am courageously facing the unknown, even though I am scared.

27. I, ____________, am allowing myself an abundance of love and prosperity.

28. I, ____________, see myself attractive, happy, and healthy.

29. I, ____________, am slim and in control of what I eat and drink.

30. I, ____________, am visualizing myself in a successful career.

31. I, ____________, am successful and people are very happy for me.

32. I, ____________, am modeling success for many people and I'm loved and safe.

33. I, ____________, am successful in my career and in my relationships.

34. I, ____________, am more successful than my parents and they love me.

35. I, ____________, am successful, because I want to be.

36. I, ____________, am prosperous and I am a good, honest person.

37. I, ____________, have an abundance of money and people want to be with me because they like me.

38. I, ____________, am successful and I have enough time for my loved ones and myself.

39. I, ____________, am allowing others to support and care about me.

40. I, ____________, am in a loving relationship and I am free to be me.

41. I, ____________, am in a lasting, fulfilling relationship.

42. I, ____________, am taking time to relax and play and I am productive.

43. I, ____________, am doing things effortlessly.

44. I, ____________, am taking total responsibility for my life and I am having fun.

45. I, ____________, am only responsible for my thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

46. I, ____________, like myself.

47. I, ____________, love myself.

48. I, ____________, feel peacefully powerful.

49. I, ____________, am creating what I want in my life.

50. I, ____________, believe that I deserve it all.

You sure do! Go for it!

©2007 Helene Rothschild, MS, MA, MFT, is a Marriage, Family Therapist, intuitive counselor, speaker, and author. The article is excerpts from her new book, "ALL YOU NEED IS HART!” She offers phone sessions, teleclasses, books, e-books, MP3 audios, tapes, posters, independent studies, and a free newsletter. http://www.lovetopeace.com 

How To Make Your Own Affirmations by Steve Gillman

How To Make Your Own Affirmations by Steve Gillman

You may have used affirmations before, writing positive statements on cards and repeating them every day. Hopefully you stuck it out and got the results that you wanted. More often, we find it hard to take the time to read them every day, and without that constant repetition, we don't get the effect intended. That is why affirmation CDs and audios have become so popular.

The idea makes sense to anyone who has noted how depressed they get when they repeat certain thoughts or say certain things over and over. If repeating negative thoughts and beliefs "works" to produce a negative state, why wouldn't positive affirmations work as well? And with a CD, it doesn't even take time as with written affirmations. Just push that play button and go about your business while constant repetitions reprogram your mind for success.

But what if you don't like the affirmations that you hear on the popular CDs? What if you don't want to spend the money to buy eight different ones for eight issues you are working on? Why not make your own? Use a tape player, or get a microphone for your computer and make a CD. Then follow the guideline below.

Rules For Making Affirmations

There are a couple "rules" for making good affirmations that are likely to affect your mind. The first is to keep statements in the positive form. Say, "I don't bite my nails," and your unconscious mind - which has a hard time with negatively stated instructions - may take it as "bite my nails." Instead you would say something like, "I take care of my nails with a nail clipper and nail file."

The second rule for making affirmations that work is to use repetition. This means not only listening to your CD as often as you can (and at least once per day for three weeks), but also repeating the statements several times each on the recording. A little trick to make them even more powerful, is to use inflection with each repetition to create a slightly different meaning. For example:

I create my future with the actions I take now.
(The basic belief you want to program in your mind.)

I CREATE my future with the actions I take now.
(Emphasizing that your future is created, and doesn't just happen.)

I create MY future with the actions I take now.
(Emphasizing that it is your future.)

I create my future with the ACTIONS I take now.
(Emphasizing that your actions are what matter in creating your future.)

A final "rule:" Stick to one area at a time. Don't try to work on losing weight, motivation, quitting smoking and making money all at once. Start with a clear goal, such as "Improving my relationships," and make a CD for that purpose. Listen to that for several weeks before starting the second one.

Make positive statements. Repeat them several times. Use inflection to "squeeze" the most meaning out of each statement. Finally, listen to them often and consistently. That is how to make and use your own affirmations.

Copyright Steve Gillman. For more on Better Life Through Better Brainpower, and to get the Brain Power Newsletter and other free gifts, visit: http://www.IncreaseBrainPower.com

Five Types of Affirmations for Empowerment

This is a really great article about the different types of affirmations! Enjoy! Sister Bridget

Five Types of Affirmations for Empowerment by Jeanie Marshall

Five categories of affirmations support you in manifesting powerful change. These five categories or types of affirmations have emerged from my consulting work with clients and workshop participants. You may work with affirmations in every category concurrently, or you may focus on a different category each day or each week. It is important that affirmations you select resonate with you, that is, that they feel natural and appropriate. In order to experience this resonance, you may need to change words in the ones listed here as examples, or let these inspire you to create ones you prefer, or develop your own from scratch.

Popular Affirmations

Many popular affirmations are beautiful, indeed, they are quite extraordinary! However, if you do not believe them, they are useless or even counterproductive. If you say an affirmation you do not believe, saying it repeatedly will not make you believe it. Actually, the repetition can build up greater resistance to believing it. Consider this example: Sam feels powerless. He has had many experiences that he can point to that justify his feelings and his belief in his own powerlessness and unworthiness. Saying "I am powerful" is less likely to erase his feelings of powerlessness than to prompt an emphatic reaction, such as, "Oh, no, I'm not!" If Sam does not deal with the resistance, he carries it with him as he lives his life.

An empowering process emerges by using these five categories of affirmations in a systematic way to assist you in embracing an affirmation that you desire to believe but do not. If you have an intention and a desire to say and believe "I am powerful," start by releasing powerlessness, open to the possibility of being powerful, affirm an intention and readiness to live in your power, claim your power, and let the idea of powerfulness integrate into your life.

Following are the five categories of affirmations described briefly with a few examples of each type.

Releasing/Cleansing Affirmations

The purpose of Releasing and/or Cleansing Affirmations is to let go of unwanted and unneeded stuff. Especially, they help you let go of resistance. They allow you to purify your system. These affirmations stimulate the release of toxins such as negative thought forms, repressed or suppressed emotions, old memories, negative bonds with others, karma, dark consensus reality, illusions of all types.

Examples:

    * I give myself permission to release toxicity from every level of my energy field.
    * I rescind outdated vows of poverty, celibacy, struggle, silence, and unworthiness.
    * I release resistance.
    * I let go of old programs that keep me stuck in old patterns.
    * I let go of everything I do not want or need for my highest good.

Receiving/Accepting Affirmations

The purpose of Receiving and/or Accepting Affirmations is to open to allow something to be. They allow us to receive goodness from the Universe. They neutralize the misqualification of energy; that is, they can reverse illness or other density. In addition, they help us shift the attention from disempowering actions such as, "getting" or "taking" to more freeing concepts such as, "receiving" and "allowing" and "accepting."

Examples:

    * I open to the gifts of the Universe.
    * I allow abundance to flow through me.
    * I accept support when I need it.
    * Dear God, please let me know what to do in a way that I can understand.
    * I accept peace and joy in all aspects of my life.

Being/Intending Affirmations

The purpose of Being and/or Intending Affirmations is to ground your purpose, especially your higher purpose. These affirmations enhance conscious awareness of your intention about something or about your mission in life. In addition, these affirmations can deepen your understanding of your reason for being and/or acting generally or in a specific situation. They can be used to enhance any and all actions that follow.

Examples:

    * I know that this is for the highest good of all concerned.
    * I deepen my awareness of the consciousness from which actions spring.
    * I live my mission.
    * My intention is to live free from struggle, fear, and hopelessness.
    * I remember.

Acting/Claiming Affirmations

The purpose of Acting and/or Claiming Affirmations is to bring something into manifestation or to direct the energy of your intention to appropriate manifestation. These affirmations bring into the physical experience those ideas that you hold in your mind and/or heart. In addition, these affirmations help you to claim your power and establish boundaries in relationships.

Examples:

    * I act with high intention and purposeful awareness.
    * I step into the world to live my mission in every word and action.
    * I demand my good right now.
    * I make every act an act of love (or freedom or mastery or hope, etc.).
      I am powerful. I am worthy. I am loveable. I am free.

Integrating/Embodying Affirmations

The purpose of Integrating and/or Embodying Affirmations is to allow the energy and meaning of the affirmations to merge with your consciousness. Affirmations and ideas that do not resonate, drop away. Integrating/Embodying Affirmations support us in knowing more deeply -- integrating -- what we have learned rather than introducing new information.

Examples:

    * I integrate trust into every aspect of my life.
    * I breathe love into my job, my body, my relationships.
    * Yes to Life!
    * Today is an opportunity for peace.
    * I breathe in abundance, letting my whole body feel its energy.

Affirmations as Lifestyle

As you work more and more with intentional affirmations -- written, spoken, read, chanted, meditated upon -- you will make them part of your lifestyle. Affirmations are already working for (or against!) you. It is your job to select the ones you want to live by. Remember, you are already using affirmations every time you think or speak! If your current affirmations are disempowering, you can intentionally change them to ones that you choose to live by.

Copyright © 1994-2005 Marshall House. All rights reserved. You may save this article, send it to a friend, or reprint it in your online publications, provided the article remains complete and this information is attached.  DailyAffirm  http://www.dailyaffirm.com

What is positive affirmation?

On to a new topic! There has been lots and lots of talk lately about affirmations, what are they, how can we use them, what do they do? In the next couple of weeks we will talk about that, practice writing some and using them to help our mental and emotional outlook. So lets get started!

What is positive affirmation? 

Positive affirmations are those encouraging words you tell yourself when you want to boost your morale or you simply want to energize yourself into doing something you desire. That little voice you talk to when you want to do something and you debate with when you doubt that you are capable of doing something is all part of positive affirmation.

Every word you say to boost your performance and thoughts are actually positive affirmation. Your positive affirmation reflects the thoughts and beliefs you may have obtained or formed when you were a child. However, they may no longer be appropriate for you now.

An example would be a failure experienced when you were still young. You cannot let this experience sabotage your success now because such thought and experience may no longer be appropriate for you considering a lot of factors that has influenced your life from that timeline.

By using words of encouragement or positive affirmations to modify your views on failure you are able to instill in the subconscious mind the necessary positive changes that you need to overcome fear of failure. And by barraging the subconscious mind into believing that you can do it you are slowly washing away that old negative mindset and paving the way for a new outlook.

Positive affirmations can come in the form of positive statements, usually short, and which aims to challenge the negative beliefs you have about yourself. These daily affirmations are meant to replace the negative beliefs that undermine your belief in yourself.

Every person encounters negative thoughts everyday; some negative thoughts are mild and do not really produce serious effects. However, there are negative thoughts that prevent you from achieving your dreams and even from living a good life. Some negative thoughts can even affect your performance at work and even the way you deal with your relationships.

Positive affirmations lead your subconscious mind into believing the opposite of the negative thoughts that pervade your mind. It is just like brainwashing only this time, you can choose which perception to change.

Negative thoughts are the most common source of emotional baggage that causes bitterness and discontent. By using positive affirmation to change these thoughts you increase your chances of becoming successful and of leading a happy life.

With positive affirmation to bolster your self-image, nothing can hold you back into becoming what you want to become and what you hope to achieve.

Positive Affirmation Rewiring The Brain

So, how do affirnations work?

Positive Affirmation Rewiring The Brain

A simple definition of positive affirmation states “An affirmation is a form of autosuggestion in which a statement of a desirable intention or condition of the world or the mind is deliberately meditated on and repeated in order to implant it in the mind”.

Is this just some New Age or Far Eastern idea of meditating and planting seeds of reality disillusionment, or is the idea of affirmation, backed by Neural Science?

Although the idea of the use of positive affirmation and meditation is often associated to some New Age “hocus pocus”, nothing could be farther from the truth.

These ideas are based on sound solid medical facts, and deal with the science of your mind and neural biology.The joining or wiring together of brain cells, is often referred to as, "cells that fire together, wire together", and the theory explains that, when we learn, groups of cells that are activated together, grow a stronger connection.

This grouping of common brain cells gives us our learned behaviour, it allows us to walk, talk, run, write, sing, in fact any learned activity we do, seemingly without thinking.

But it goes much deeper than that, every bodily function and every aspect of our personality is in the wiring of these groups of brain cells.

Even before you were born your brain arranged cells or neurons in particular orders, testing and rewiring its circuits, routing and rerouting its electrical signals. The day you were born, you were programmed to function, to pump and clean blood, control an army of defence cells, feel hunger, digest and dare I see it, fill a nappy.

From this day on you started to make use of your senses, collecting data, analysing and testing. You started to recognise smell, sound, taste and sites and form Neuron Circuits to help you identify these things again.

Was the smell good, how did I react to that taste, was this sound pleasant and did this look nice. Whatever the reaction was the first time around, will probably be the same again, the circuit is formed, the cells are structured, the brain is wired.

You test reaction and response, that’s why babies cry, you test taste and texture, you learn about pain, fear, love and laughter, and each action and re-action is wired in for future use.

So how does this process work?

The process of wiring habit, pattern or memory into your brain is in two steps.

As I have already mentioned, “At birth, you start to make use of your senses, collecting data, analysing and testing”, this is the first process of learning. This is the action of the objective or conscious mind, testing, retesting and programming data.

The second step takes place once all the data has been passed, and all responses verified, this is then belief, we know the fact to be true and the response to be appropriate and we then pass the fact to the subjective or subconscious mind, to be programmed in biologically.

So why do we need a Positive Affirmation, if we are passing facts to our subconscious?

Quite simply, to evolve our intellect, to achieve, to overcome and to grow as a human race. Now that’s quite a statement, but I’ll go further, “Positive Affirmation is the key to all advancement and all achievement, without exception”.

You see there is quite a biological flaw with our outstandingly clever bodies, wiring facts into our brain means that we can achieve and remember almost anything. The analysis of data, testing of response and the programming of our circuits seems a flawless system, but there is one big, giant monster of a stumbling block.

What happens if the data was wrong and the response defective or inappropriate?

So how do we overcome faulty facts? Well to coin a phrase, it’s just like riding a bike!

But seriously it is, just like riding a bike, and how you learnt to achieve this marvellous feat is the answer to the problem.

Riding a bike is one of the most unnatural things to do, your subconscious is already in charge of your balance and speed, the data has been tested, retested analysed and programmed as fact. You know how to stand up, walk and run. But a bike? Balance on a couple of square centimetres and propel yourself forward at three times the speed? I don’t think so!

“But you know it can be done, you practise, you tell your body to take the pain each time you fall, you are determined, you will achieve, overcome and ride this bike”.

This is a Positive Affirmation at work!

To help you see this as a positive affirmation let me make the statement personal lets go back to our time learning to ride a bike and say the statement to ourselves, as if we were still learning.

“But I know it can be done, I will practise, and tell my body to take the pain each time I fall, I am determined, I will achieve, overcome and ride this bike”.

A powerful Positive Affirmation!

Now lets imagine that you live in 1790 and a Frenchman gave you his new invention “The Celerifere”, this was one of the earliest bikes, with no steering.

Your beliefs and programming about balance and speed would be the same as they were when you actually learnt to ride a bike, but your experience would be different. You would never of seen one, never have witnessed it work and I’m sure you would believe, that the idea of a bike seemed an outrageous way to move.

How then, would your “Positive Affirmation” read?

It would probably go something like this.

“But I’m not sure if this can be done, I don’t know how much I can practise, and take this pain each time I fall, I will never do this, I can’t achieve or overcome and ride this bike”.

Hardly a Positive Affirmation, but an Affirmation all the same.

OK, so it’s easy to see how we can use a Positive Affirmation to achieve a physical goal, but it surely can’t make me earn more money, find love or be happy.

Or can it?

This is the second flaw in our biological make up.

Your subconscious does not think, it only accepts, it cannot decide. Your subconscious discharges chemicals into your bloodstream every time certain circuits are activated, and you will perceive these chemicals as emotion, but your subconscious doesn’t feel, it does not know whether these chemicals are good or bad, wanted or unwanted

If you’re in debt you will be all to familiar with the dread of the arrival of the postman, the feeling of another bill, another demand and then the bill arrives, the letter is opened, yet another demand or final notice, and you experience the feelings of despair and depression.

The event is anticipated and the relevant circuit is activated, the corresponding chemical is released and you perceive the chemical as emotion, as dread. The event happens and another circuit is activated, the corresponding chemical is released, and you perceive the chemical as emotion, as despair or depression.

But this then grows more powerfully as our bodies start to crave this chemical rush, and just like the smoker, who’s body crave the rush of nicotine or the drinker the rush of alcohol, your body is crying out for the rush of proteins that give you these emotions of dread, despair and depression and you will keep moving towards the things your body needs.

Our subconscious, does not analyse this, it does not know that you do not want this result, why should it? After all, you are the trainer, you set this in motion by practising the event every morning, you analysed it, and passed it on, therefore it must be true.

This is why the abused, seems to move from one abuser to another, or the failure to more failure and the broken heart to the heartbreaker.

Whether you believe in the Law of Attraction or not, if you cannot see that like attracts like, surely you can see that what you think you like, you will keep moving towards by default. By your very own actions, you are what you think about.

You have today, built your destiny for tomorrow, and you will continue to become the things you fear the most, that is, until you respond, until you stand up and shout out.

“I know it can be done, I will practise, and tell myself each time I fall, I am determined, I will achieve, I will overcome and ride towards my chosen destiny”

"I will be, what I will to be”

What a Positive Affirmation.

With Gratitude and until next time

John Peace and Victoria Welch

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