Because of your present situation or the
things that have happened to you in the past, do you have a hard time focusing on
prosperity? Do you find yourself
struggling with negative thought habits that only seem to attract more lack of
success and difficulty into your life?
Affirmations (the action or process of affirming something or being
affirmed) are one simple tool you can use to turn around your thinking
processes and make positive changes in your life.
Affirmations work by delivering new
messages to your subconscious mind. Most
often, this involves replacing old, limiting messages with new, empowering messages.
However, the way you word your affirmations will usually determine how
effective they are for you. What I’m
saying is that you can say different things with the same meaning, but the
words you choose to say it may have different connotations to your mind. For example, you can say “Do you want to
live?” or “Do you want to die?” The choosing of the appropriate words can
help you fix in your mind the way you want to visualize your future goal. Let’s look at this idea a bit deeper.
If I asked you to recite this affirmation:
“I am a millionaire,” how effective do you think it would be? Would you turn into an overnight
millionaire? Would money start falling
out of the sky to land in your lap? Probably not. Why?
Simply because you know the statement isn’t true. If you try to feed your subconscious mind a
belief that you are a millionaire, it creates a conflict with your current set
of beliefs. Your subconscious mind does
not like conflict, and it doesn’t like change – so nothing in your life changes
either!
In
order for affirmations to work, you MUST word them in a way that
your subconscious mind won’t resist. In
other words, make them believable. Compare
the above affirmation to one like this:
“I am becoming more prosperous every day.”
That one feels better, doesn’t it? Your mind doesn’t try to resist it because
you can actually imagine it happening (even if it hasn’t begun to happen yet).
Another power-boost for affirmations is to
word them in a way that places more responsibility on you. For example, instead of affirming, “I am
becoming more prosperous every day,” you could say, “I am open to the best
opportunities to make money quickly and easily.” The wording of such an affirmation makes you
feel more in control of your circumstances.
Rather than waiting anxiously for money to fall out of the sky, you send
a message to your subconscious mind that you can control how much money you
have by being alert to great opportunities and then taking advantage of those
opportunities.
Affirmations can vary in the length of
time required to firmly “take root” in your mind. For the most part, it depends on the
intensity of your opposing beliefs and the level of effort you put forth in
turning those beliefs around. If your
focus is on the lack of the reality of your affirmation and your opposing
beliefs are very strong, you’ll probably have to expend a fair amount of energy
and effort to retrain your mind to focus on prosperity.
However, it is time and effort well spent
to do so because the more you focus on positive thoughts and prosperous
beliefs, the more you’ll find yourself attracting good things into your life. Also, this will help you avoid the negative
aspects of whatever situations you may have to face.
Here are a few good affirmations to
help you get started on the road to prosperity:
• I use my thoughts and emotions to
attract abundance effortlessly.
• I am becoming more prosperous and
successful every day.
• I know I have what it takes to be as
successful as I want to be.
• I am talented and resourceful
regardless of the situation.
• I create a better life one positive
thought at a time.
Your hopes may be to keep yourself in a
positive frame of mind; however, the human tendency is to always view the
negative. We generally take the position
of Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.) That is generally a result of the fact that we’re
only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"With each step we move,
sometimes forward, sometimes backwards."
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