Step 1: Decide What You Want to Create in Your Life
Begin by examining what you would like to change in your life within the next few months or within the year. Would you like to have a job that is more fulfilling? Would you like to care less about what others think? Would you like to be more patient, understanding? Would you like to feel more like yourself in every aspect of your life? Write this down. If you have a long list, pick the most important, follow all the steps and then repeat with the others.
Step 2: Create Positive Statements
Once you get an idea of what you change you would like to create, put that idea into a few simple statements that reflect the reality of that change. When writing an affirmation, be sure to make it a positive statement in the present tense. For example, if you want to have a more fulfilling job, you might think your affirmation would be: I want to have a more fulfilling job. But really a more powerful affirmation would be: My job is fulfilling. These two sentences are similar but by using the second sentence the intention is shifted from the wanting a fulfilling job to actually having one. Being this specific and positive is very important when writing your affirmations.
Step 3: Make Them Realistic
Your subconscious mind can benefit from positive affirmations that stretch and expand your perspective, but if you push things too far, your "inner judge" steps in and negates the affirmations. Therefore, make your affirmations realistic, but hopeful as well. If you do this, positive affirmations will work for you. For example, the affirmation "My job is fulfilling." might feel like too much of a stretch, and your subconscious mind might put up a fight. In this case, you might need a "bridge" affirmation to help you feel the truth of your affirmation. Your "bridge" affirmation could be: "I am on my way to a fulfilling job." or "I am grateful for all the fulfilling aspects of my job."
Step 4: Use Them
Congratulations! You've created life changing affirmations. Now you put them to use daily.
• Read them aloud daily, either in the morning or before going to bed. When reading them, speak in a strong positive voice. It's also great to read them in front of a mirror.
• Type them up and post them somewhere you'll see them every day like your fridge, or your bathroom mirror. Or write them on sticky notes and stick them everywhere!
• Record yourself reading them and listen to them in the car, on the subway or while you exercise.
You get the point. Making your affirmations part of your daily life will keep you focused on what you would like to accomplish. You can do it!
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