Using Positive Affirmations

Welcome to Post number 11!

bcb_thumbs-up_woman In the last few posts, I’ve highlighted the importance of positive thinking, recommended that you set goals to give you definite aims, talked of visualisation as a way to embed those positive intentions into your subconscious mind and emphasised ways to positively manage your time and energy.
The next tools to use are affirmations that reinforce your new thinking.

Creating Good Vibes!

Our body and mind are affected and controlled by what we think, believe and perceive. It’s a fact – every thought we think, every word we utter, and every action we take begins with our energy. Depending on the attitude and intention we have when we employ that energy, is either of a high or low vibration. The higher the frequency of the vibration, the better.

As you read more about self and spiritual development you will regularly notice references to ‘vibrational energy’ and the philosophy of humans as vibrational or energy beings. Science won’t discredit this theory either – as everything is energy in varying degrees; from the very fine vibrational energy of light or sound, to the denser variety of say, the human body.

The ancient and established practice of Eastern medicine has worked with human energy for many thousands of years, using the body’s meridian points or chakra energy centres for healing.

“Every thought vibrates, every thought radiates a signal…” Abraham / Hicks Ask and It Is Given

bcb_ripples The energy or vibrations we put out affect our immediate surroundings and even the world at large – as the stone thrown into a pond creates ripples that radiate across the whole surface of the water. An ‘energetic’ example: you walk into a room, and you can feel that the couple in there has just had an argument. The atmosphere you can ‘cut with a knife’ is a result the dense, negative vibrations they’ve been generating!

Clearly then, we render our best service when we create the best energy and highest vibration that we can. Imagine how alive, awake and present you can feel – how healthy and vibrant if you adopted this as your everyday state? With that realisation, can you understand just how disconnected we have become from our true state?

How Do I Create High Vibration Energy?

We all appreciate recognition of our value from our friends, employers and family – but recognition counts most when it comes directly from your ‘self’. Recognise yourself – you are a vibrational bundle of energy waiting to be tapped into, expanded and set free. I am talking about releasing the loving, kind and compassionate you; the you who knows your value and worth. There’s no ego or arrogance involved – it’s a simple acknowledgement that you are a valuable, loved and loving person with a contribution to make – and you are alive!

Re-establish the connection with yourself. When you make contact with your inner self, you automatically become more deeply connected to all your loved ones, to all people, your surroundings, and to life. You are then in ’harmonic balance’ with your world.

Importantly this is about paying attention to yourself, your inner voice – to who you really are; what you feel, what’s important to you, the messages from within. We all have a natural antennae system that enables us to feel, hear, see and sense what is truly right for us. Call it ‘gut feeling’, intuition, instinct – it’s there, like gravity. TV, alcohol, toxic foods, smoking etc basically anaesthetise that inner connection and as a result, essentially, we lose contact with ourselves.

This is when we experience a disconnection … which can lead to feeling confused, lost in life – dis-ease!

“We’ve been looking outside us for our own peace. We’ve been looking in the wrong direction. Katie Byron, Loving What Is

Creating Harmonic Balance

Harmonic balance basically results in ultimate health in all realms.
There are three key elements in making contact with your inner self:
• Visualisation which we have already covered
• Using your breath which I’ll be talking about later this week
• Positive Affirmations which is today’s subject!

Positive Affirmations – see your true potential

The use of affirmations, spoken positive messages to ourselves, is an important part of liking and loving ourselves and moving toward the goal of harmonic balance.
Louise L. Hay author of the world famous book ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ believes one of the most powerful ways to re-condition our minds is to look, with love, into our own eyes and repeat “I love and accept you exactly as you are.”
She says “I ask my clients to pick up a small mirror, look into their own eyes, and say their names and, “I love and accept you exactly as you are.” This is so difficult for many people. Seldom do I get a calm reaction, let alone enjoyment from this exercise. Some cry or are close to tears, some get angry, some belittle their features or qualities, some insist they CAN’T do it…”
So a small immediate task – without any hesitation, look into a mirror or anything that reflects well, look straight into your own eyes and repeat after me “I love and accept you exactly as you are.” Yeah – quite right too!

“I love and accept you exactly as you are” is an affirmation. Everything about it is healthy, positive, and it’s true. Even if you feel far away from easily saying it – you know you want to, because on a deeper level it is the truth – and the energy, vibration of truth shouts louder than that of untruth!

Negative messages create low vibrational energy, whereas positive messages are high vibrational energy. Your body – organs, cells blood and bones – is tuned in intently to what your inner messaging service is saying. By using positive affirmations will ensure yours is leaving healthy high vibration messages!

Reprogramming your inner dialogue becomes easier once you start employing positive, conscious affirmations. Have faith in them and say them often enough that you believe them. Begin by writing them with a conscious hand, and etch them into your subconscious mind.
Here are some examples of affirmations to encourage you to find and create those that are pertinent to you and to your goals. You may decide on just one or two affirmations, whatever works for you!
• I eat healthily everyday and I feel wonderfully energised, vibrant and alive
• I love all of me, I love who I am
• I love and accept myself completely
• I am committed to being the best version of myself
• I am constantly moving towards my true self
• I am happy, healthy, wealthy healed and whole
• I easily let go of *habits / thoughts / foods / people * that no longer serve me
• Life is easy
• I live to love and love to live
• I happily release all old core beliefs that no longer serve me
• I see with love and compassion
• I choose to move into the T.E.D. and become a Creator* / Challenger* / Coach*
• I am living life joyfully, abundantly and successfully
• I am authentic with myself and others
• My life is filled with love
• I am attracting great health, wealth and happiness
• I am limitless
* Use whatever feels right for you.

Here are a few from one of the world’s most respected authors on the subject:
• I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others.
• I am beneath no one.
• I fearlessly handle any and all challenges in my life
Deepak Chopra The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire

Key Points for creating Affirmations:

• Always frame your affirmations in the ‘now’, use present tense.
• Remember your affirmations are for you – don’t just toss empty words into the air, say them clearly and firmly to yourself. State your affirmation powerfully and with conviction. Say the affirmation until you feel the power of belief in those words vibrating through your body and mind.

There are ready-made affirmations available to begin with, but the strongest ones are those that you create for yourself and which are pertinent to you. Borrowed ones are a great start and a good example of structure and wording.
Once you’ve created your affirmations, say them out loud and write them down – this increases power, definiteness and new beliefs. Stick them on the fridge door, bathroom mirror and bedside or even around the computer monitor, anywhere where you will see and repeat them. State your affirmation/s at least every morning upon waking and every evening before bedtime.

See them, speak them, feel them – and be them!

“The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (‘to think’) and tra (‘tool’). So the literal translation is ‘a tool of thought.’ And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.” Russell Simmons – Do You!

Wishing you happy affirming and high vibe health!