How to Transform Your Life Through Affirmations
September 16, 2009Is it actually feasible for you to direct your individual life experiences and change your personal circumstances, at least to some extent, through the the regular practice of speaking positive affirmations?
There is plenty of evidence to support the power of positive affirmations to bring about improved conditions, from “creating” a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the ideal companion, or to promoting inner peace. It might be highly beneficial, however, if we took a personal “reality check” to confirm that we actually believe that thought, our thought, has creative power before we put a lot of effort in attempting to improve the situations in our life through a continuous “mental focus” on the changes we desire, so that we’re not simply fooling ourselves.
We can’t hope to positively alter effects in our personal life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our point of view, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain conditions” are entirely and irrevocably physical in origin, have no mental basis or thought equivalent and, therefore, exceed our ability to bring about a change. What good would it do for us to try to “change our thinking” about our self, or a particular problem, if we didn’t have a conviction that by doing so we could “change our life”? If we want our positive affirmations to move a mountain in our personal life, we absolutely must have at least a mustard seed of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations to affect physical change in our life.
Everyday, each of us unconsciously demonstrates a measurable amount of faith. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Presumably you didn’t wonder if the sun would come up in the morning. It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a a bit of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can begin with that and build a mountain of faith to from which to send out our affirmations.
Saying affirmations while filled with doubt, fluctuating between faith and fear, is similar to filling a balloon with water instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Faith gives our affirmations flight because grounded faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. Realization is the “secret” to creative mental power. Affirmations can, indeed, really change our life – when they feel true, and what we say is what we truly believe.