Affirmations... how to create them...

Creating Affirmations is a powerful technique that is not well understood. There are a lot of information available on this subject nowadays, but very few really know how to create them correctly. Start by taking some time to think about areas in your life you would like to improve and how you might want your life to be. It is worth taking some time over this process. Write the most important ones down in a list.

You will be well on your way to creating affirmations that work by keeping the following guidelines in mind:

Be POSITIVE - Use the most positive terms you can. Rather than saying "I am not fat", say "I choose to stay slim". The word "not" will be discarded by your unconscious mind, as it cannot distinguish positive from negative and will therefore hear "I am fat" which it will then seek to prove. Especially if you are a bit overweight, and are working at changing your beliefs around body image.

Use the PRESENT - You want your mind to know it has already happened. Make them short and specific. I suggest you keep in mind that the affirmation has to be believable to work. If you say "I have a million bucks", your mind will not believe you, need I say why? Combine with the choice method and rather say "I choose to have a million bucks". Here you might want to give yourself a time frame but always remember "believability". Your mind will do its best to bring it into reality.

PERSONALIZE - Personalize them with your name. As your unconscious mind only works for you, not for others, saying "My partner finds me attractive and loves me" will not be effective, because you have no control over your partner. Rather say "I choose to feel attractive and loved by my partner", as with this statement you are only controlling your own feelings.

Make them short and specific. I choose, I am, I can and I will are statements of self-belief to start them with. As you are learning to do affirmations, write them down so you will remember exactly what you want to say.

So this brings us to the foundation to an effective and successful affirmation.

Believability

First and foremost your affirmation must be believable to your unconscious mind.

In every instance this is the stage where most of the affirmations people use, fall apart.

For instance, you are so broke that you cannot even afford to pay attention... YET you now repeat to yourself "I earn 10,000 pounds or dollars per month", believable to your mind? I don't think so!

Would you not agree that this is an unrealistic if not completely unbelievable message you are giving to the unconscious mind at this point while hoping for and not believing in a positive response.

Here's a Suggestion

Always start by making choices and one of the best and easiest ways to do this is to begin your affirmations by using the words "I choose", so as opposed to:

"I earn 10,000 ponds or dollars per month"

Why not rather say "I choose to earn 10,000 pounds or dollars per month"

Try it!

Can you feel the difference? Even though you are not earning it yet, you are making a quantum leap in getting there by choosing to do so.

You now have the foundation, and are ready for the first building block to your successful affirmation.

As your unconscious mind can not distinguish between positive or negative, right or wrong, good or bad it will hunt for proof either way.

Countless people stay in poverty because they associate pain, bad, wrong and so forth with money.

Think on this for a moment...

Every time you have to spend money, you think of your loans or your outstanding and unpaid bills which in turn unintentionally causes you crucial pain. Or whenever you desire financial abundance or prosperity your immediate response is, "It is wrong, I’m a bad person for desiring money" because most of us were raised to believe that scarcity is good and "being rich" is bad.

Now... what to do?

As it is the feeling you attach to money that makes you rich or poor.

So the logical question is... how can you turn this to your advantage?

You are absolutely right... Next time you go out shopping, think of the pleasure of being able to spend as much money as you want to, on whatever you desire and feel the pleasure instead of feeling pain.

What would happen if you associated pleasure with spending money?

Why not try the following?

At the moment you take out your money or credit card, say this affirmation to yourself "I always have more than enough to spend."

This affirmation is always true, as long as you have money left in your pocket (no matter how much), so the unconscious mind will believe it.

AHA! Why not combine the choice method which is the foundation with the proof method which is the building block.

For example next time you spend money say: "I choose to feel (foundation) that I always have more than enough to spend." You have money left in your pocket (building block), so the unconscious mind will believe it.

Observe how you feel. With these methods only a few times of real life choices and proof will make your unconscious mind believe it.

Next time you desire financial abundance instead of thinking it is bad or wrong, think of the good you can do, the opportunities you can give those close to you, look around you and immediately give thanks for one thing you have, any one thing YOU HAVE!

Now let's have a look at how to SUPERCHARGE your Affirmations.

The Law of Attraction can and does work, all that is required is that you give it something to work with!