How to Use Affirmations

How to Use Affirmations

Positive Affirmations are a powerful healing tool

You can use positive affirmations to change your thoughts, moods and habits to create positive actions, emotions and experiences in your life. An affirmation is a short positive phrase or statement that you repeat to yourself to challenge negative and unhealthy thoughts and patterns.

When you consciously choose to use an affirmation, you are deciding to either eliminate something from your life or to create something in your life. The process of repeating the affirmation with belief and emotion builds neural pathways retraining the subconscious mind, with the new affirmation bypassing the resistance of the conscious mind.

Benefits of using Positive Affirmations

• Change negative thoughts and patterns
• Improves self-esteem and confidence
• Increases motivation, achieve goals
• Improve health and well being
• Reduce stress and anxiety

Guidelines for using Positive Affirmations

• Say the affirmations to yourself or out loud – Energy follows thought.
• Repeat the affirmations daily – 3-5 times helps build neural connections
• Use the present tense when stating affirmations – I am (not -I will)
• Do not use negatives in the affirmation – I am wealthy (not- I am not poor)
• Affirmations need to be specific and direct – Keep it simple
• Affirmations have to be meaningful – You must believe what you say
• Add emotion for greater impact – Feel the affirmation
• Add visualization to support your affirmation – See the outcome
• Ground your affirmations – Take positive action towards your affirmation
• Develop a routine, reprogramming your brain needs consistency – Set reminders

Examples of Positive Affirmations

• My life is full of potential
• I treat myself with love and compassion
• I have the power to change
• I approve of myself
• I am enough
• I am free to take my own path
• I deserve respect
• I am open to opportunity
• My future is bright
• I trust myself and my feelings
• I express my true self
• I am beautiful and intelligent
• I am awesome

Using positive affirmations is a simple and effective way to make changes in your life.

Give them a try.