How Positive Affirmations Unleashes The Power of Your Mind
Positive affirmations forms attitudes and promotes behavioral change. As you know,
successful weight loss doesn’t just happen. Take a leap of faith and follow some
basic principles.
Why you should begin with your "self talk"
This is the conversation that runs through your brain continuously. What kind
of conversation do you have with your self talk? What type of negative self
talk has kept you from reaching your goals in the past?
If you had a chance to do it over again, would you change the dialogue? That’s
a no-brainer isn’t it?
Well, the good news is
that you can
turn the tide of negative self talk beginning right now,
it’s never too
late to begin using positive affirmations, and
you start by
reprogramming your self talk.
What is positive language?
Positive language is a statement that uses positive words and
not negative words toward achieving a goal. An example of a positive statement
using positive affirmations would be, "I weigh 150 pounds. I am fit and trim,
and full of energy."
To the contrary, examples of negative statements are, “I will
not be fat anymore. I will not overeat. I am sick and tired of feeling sick
and tired. I will not eat fattening foods.”
While these negative statements appear to say what you want at
first, they truly only say what you don’t want, and the subconscious mind
does not know the difference between want and not, it only focuses on subjects.
Therefore, if you speak of not being fat, it only hears being fat; if it hears
you speak of not overeating, it only hears overeating; and if it hears you being
sick and tired of being sick and tired, it only actually registers being sick
and tired.
How do you start with positive affirmations?
Positive affirmations spoken aloud with authority and belief, positively affect
your attitude, focuses your thinking and lead to a course of action that will
help you become the person you want to be and have the things that you want
to have.
Begin by writing your affirmations on paper. You need to take some time for
this exercise. You can begin with something like, "I want to lose 25 pounds
before Christmas." That's a worthy goal and attainable, but we need to put some
work into structuring the affirmation.
Learn
how your subconscious mind functions!
First of all, "I want" gives the impression that what you desire is always
in the future. In order to re-program your self talk, you need to trick your
mind into believing that you have already achieved success. This is how your
subconscious mind functions.
The subconscious
is very literal, so use positive language at all times.
The subconscious
mind does not register the words "I will" either, because it has no concept
of past and future.
Think of dreams; have you ever dreamed of something and it seemed
like it was an episode that took forever, yet when you awoke you realized the
entire dream sequence took place in minutes while you dozed off? Or have you
experienced a dream where people you know may look as they did many years ago?
This is because the subconscious is simply storing images and words as they
happen, not in past or future tense. It is important therefore to speak into
your life what you want, and not what you don't want.
Your subconscious
mind has no capacity for understanding the concept of time.
Everything is in the moment. . .here and now. When you tell your subconscious
mind that you "want" that is exactly what you will get. . .want. .
.without ever achieving fulfillment.
Unless you change your mental tape recorder with positive affirmations,
you will achieve exactly what you are telling your subconscious, that you "want
to lose 25 pounds." You will "want to lose 25 pounds" for the
rest of your days unless you change your self talk.
If your weight is 150 pounds and you desire is to weight 125 pounds, then
you need to "be" 125 pounds from the moment you make the decision to
change your self talk.
How to write your positive affirmations
What if you write
your positive affirmation to read something like this: "I am healthy and
fit weighing 125 pounds."
What are you telling
your subconscious now? It’s extremely important that you phrase your positive
affirmations as if you have already accomplished what you desire. Work on
writing it out until you have it precisely as you wish to become.
It is very important
that your positive affirmations is crystal clear because what you affirm is exactly
what your subconscious mind will bring you. You needn't limit yourself to one
affirmation either. Write another one that reflects your new exercise program.
"I enjoy my healthy new exercise program," or, "I love the healthy
foods I eat."
Write and rewrite your positive affirmations until you are absolutely
certain that you have written your goals "in the here and now" AND represent
precisely what you desire. Only then do you begin to speak it aloud and
do so several times a day.
Remember to use the present tense. "I acknowledge achievement
in all my weight loss goals." "I have the skill and talent to exercise every
day." "I am a winner." "I am grateful for all of my accomplishments no matter
how small."
Repeat and practice!
At first you will feel awkward and uncomfortable and you may not feel or believe
what you are saying. It doesn’t matter, continue to speak your positive affirmations
aloud with as much conviction as you can muster. It’s taken a long time to train
your subconscious to use negative self talk. If you will persevere with speaking
your positive affirmations aloud, firmly and confidently, you will be amazed
at how quickly you can turn your thoughts around.
You didn’t hop on a bicycle the first time and just take off
down the street. It took practice to train your body to balance on those two
wheels. This will take some practice as well. Continue to repeat your positive affirmations
aloud, several times a day and you will be amazed at how much you change your
thinking and attitude.
Recall words that triggers positive
feelings - and use them!
Let's investigate how words affect you in your everyday life. Take a trip down
memory lane and recall some real life experiences that made you happy, proud,
successful or any combination of the three. Spend some time recalling how you
felt. Maybe you won a spelling bee as a child, or hit a home run. Who was there?
This will help you remember that you had those feelings once and you can achieve
them again. What words did others use while you were experiencing those feelings
of joy and happiness.
Recall those words and put them to work in your daily conversations.
They are words that are already proven to have a positive affect on your well
being. Recalling and including them in your day will trigger those feelings
again because your subconscious already has an association with those words
and their results.
Above all, take action!
If you have become a slave of procrastination decide to rid your life of it
once and for all. Yes, you can create positive affirmations to help you there
as well. "I have the attitude and skills to take action today." "I am winning
in my life by turning my attitude into action."
Do nothing and nothing gets done. Do something and many things
are placed in motion. Regardless of what you are doing in life, you need to
take action. Do something every day to put your plan in motion.
Take a close look at your attitude today .
. .
How is your attitude? What are your first thoughts when you awake in the morning?
You’ve got quite a lot to choose from. Do you begin the day by dragging out
of bed bemoaning the fact that you have to get to work? Or, do you embrace the
morning as another great opportunity to do great things?
Put the universal law of reciprocity to work in your life every single day.
Did you know that as much as ninety nine percent of our conversation is negative?
There are some folks who can hardly wait to get their mouths open so they can
"one up" another persons current negative situation.
Hmmm, think back to that self talk. If what you hear every day is negative,
it’s no wonder your self talk brings you down and prevents you from being, doing
and having everything you desire. Try this exercise.
. . . and make this decision right
now!
Make a decision today, right now, from this moment to spend the rest of the
day contributing to conversation in a positive way.
Impossible, you say? Not so. Say that somebody complains about another rainy
day. Your response might be, "yes, isn’t it great, see that beautiful rainbow!"
Try and create the habit of saying something positive to everyone.
If you are learning to say something positive to everybody about everything
every time, you are disciplining your subconscious for positive results in everything
that happens to you.
