How to use Affirmations to Achieve Real Results

Using Affirmations is a powerful way to influence your mind in a positive way. Although the idea is not new we could all use some assistance in perfecting our techniques.

There are six major ingredients to building a positive, powerful affirmation.

1. Make it present tense.

2. Make it personal.

3. Give it a positive direction, no negative words.

4. Make it specific, the more specific the faster you mind will accept it.

5. Always use a feeling word. You should be inspired in some way.

6. Add an action modifier, something that states you are doing it.

Affirmations are used to either eliminate a bad thought or habits or to bring about new ones. Using the first 3 ingredients is essential however using all 6 is even better.

So if your desire is to make more money, isn’t everyone’s, then you would build your affirmation around that desire.

Example would be;

I am joyful that I easily make $100,000.00 a year.

As you can see I have all the required ingredients. Using “I am” puts it in present tense.

“Joyful” is my feeling word. The fact that I state I am shows a positive direction. I also stated the amount of money I desire to make. And I put it into action using the word “Easily”

These are the basics of using them. They can also be more powerful if we have an understanding of how the mind works.

On a daily basis we are dealing with thousands of images and words that our mind must process. And a huge number of them are negative. Personally I believe negativity is a plague that is eating away at our minds.

Through some research I have found some interesting material about the power of our minds.

You see we are born and programmed to fail. These negative influences have been drilled into us since birth. It’s not our fault, it is what it is and it has become our nature.

People in general expect bad things to happen. Here’s an exercise to prove my point.

Let’s say you arrived at work this morning and found a note telling you that the boss wanted to see you A.S.A.P. What is your first thought?

Is it that you must have done something wrong? Be honest it is the first step to discovery.

Or you get a note sent home from a teacher about one of you children and they want to have a conference. Now, what is your reaction to that?

Oh no, what has he done now? Don’t be judgmental, that is the common reaction but it also proves the point.

Maybe the boss wants to reward you hard work and dedication with a promotion. Or maybe the little one has displayed the makings of a genius and the teacher wants to discuss some options with you about their future.

When we are born we enter the world with an empty mind filled with possibilities, born to win. Then we are over exposed to years of negative thought, images and words which then fill the mind up.

Some scientists even theorize that we become addicted to it similar to a drug.

Have you ever met someone that always seems to have bad things happen to them and they are always cranky? I wonder why? (Note the sarcasm)

People come to expect bad things to happen in everyday life. When they miss a green light they scream” I knew I wouldn’t make that light!”

Or when they spill something they say “I always spill stuff I am so clumsy”

We even send our children out the door with a warning of dread like “Don’t get run over” or “Don’t miss the bus”

This is the mind of a person addicted to negativity. They are expecting the worst and the worst comes to pass and then exclaim they knew it would happen.

Well of course it did. The subconscious mind will deliver to you all that you desire. With that type of input that’s all they will receive.

We need to understand the power of our minds and what goes in there to make a positive impact.

Affirmations are just one, but powerful, weapons to defeat the addiction.

Since the mind cannot hold to thoughts at once, one positive and one negative, we have the choice of what gets in.

It’s important to remember that to change the negative mind take time and repetition. You did not become who you are overnight and the change will also not come overnight.

For a new thought or habit to take hold it takes at least 21 days. You also must repeat you affirmations at least 3 times a day, especially at morning and before bed when the conscience mind is at it’s weakest.

So build your new affirmations and repeat them until they are true in your life.

If you have built one around losing weight, then you will repeat until you are at you new weight. Same goes for any of them. Then start over with any new ones that you’re going to achieve.

If you make you $100,000.00 goal for the year in 8 months it is time for a new goal and affirmation to follow it.

You have the power to create whatever you desire! You must only believe it and do the work.

Success is a choice, you need only decide!