The majority of people have heard of affirmations. They may have even heard that the foundation for self-improvement techniques is affirmations.
However, in reality very few people use affirmations in their life. Do you use affirmations, or are you one of the many that do not?
People tend to overlook the need for affirmations when they set out on a new path to self-improvement. This is really a shame when affirmations can and do have a revolutionary effect on your life and goals. It is possible that you will find yourself stuck in a rut and not progressing without the proper affirmations.
Positive declarations, statements and judgments are affirmations. An affirmation is when you make a statement that you declare to be true. When you use affirmations, be sure to use present tense phrases and positive tone and words.
Using words such as “don’t” and “can’t” or other such negative terms will produce problems or difficulties instead of helping you to achieve your goal. So instead of affirming “I can’t pay these bills,” you would affirm “I have plenty of money to pay by bills.” You should continually use positive affirmations on a daily basis.
A number of people do not understand affirmations and how repeating them can change their lives, therefore they resist the idea. If you do not understand how the process of affirmations work, then you may be in this category of people.
Self-improvement requires many steps and affirmations is just ones of these steps. When you are working to change things in your life from financial, emotional, spiritual or physical you set goals for yourself.
The goals you set are a result of what you would like to see take place; you may want a better job, more money, a better relationship or a more spiritual connection. You can reach these results and more with positive affirmations.
Results can be had without affirmation. Things that are in your life right now were brought about by your own prior thoughts, feeling and actions.
To change these results, you have to change your thoughts feelings and actions. To do this you have to start using affirmations. Your internal monologue has an intense influence on your life.
Thoughts that you have frame how you experience things and people around you. If you are negative distrustful and cynical and you are always looking for the worst, then your feelings and actions will follow the same path.
You need to change the way you think in order to make self-improvements. Thoughts that are gloomy and negative do not come out of thin air.
You have unknowingly been repeating negative thought patterns and your actions follow these patterns. Repeated use of positive affirmations will break your negative thinking.
Positive affirmations that are used repeatedly on a daily basis, you will begin to notice a change in your thoughts, moods and actions.
Realizing self-improvement with the use of affirmations is like an archer hitting a target with an arrow. In this case the affirmation is the targeting part of the process.
The archer has to take the time to line up the arrow and the bow correctly or he will miss. In the same way you have to use your affirmations to help you target your thoughts, feelings and actions in order to get the results that you want.
I think you are very right, but I feel you left out something. Not necessarily about self improvement, but creating a pattern/routine that would help future generations. Feeling good about yourself starts when you are a child. I feel parents should tell their kids positive affirmations on a regular basis. This installs the pattern of telling themselves positive affirmations. If you tell them they are great, they will feel great, and they will be great. It’s just my opinion, and I do not have the education and/or the facts to prove my opinion. I just do not feel parents tell their children enough positive affirmations. They also do not tell their kids how much they are loved. Being a parent, time escapes very quickly, but I always take moments out of the day to look my kids eye to eye and tell them how proud of them I am and how much I love them.
Wow, Stephanie what an awesome comment. You are right I did not bring up kids in this post, but you are 100% on the mark. Praising our children and showering them with positive affirmations will do wonders for their beliefs and confidence. I am a loving father of four myself so I know all to well the importance of this. I am constantly telling my kids that they are “filled with greatness”, then every time they have a “big event” of some sort, I tell them, “now go show them your greatness!” I was actually planning on adding a parenting section to my blog and this sounds like a great topic to start with. Thanks for stopping by my blog Stephanie, I do hope that you will share your wonderful insights with us again soon.