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2014 by Ellen J. John
ISBN 9781456621483
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Using Affirmations
Take a look at your list of desires, goals and wishes. What negative thoughts or self-doubts come to mind when you look at each of your desires.
Write down the negative thoughts that come to mind because you are going to use contrast once again to write a list of affirmations that will absolutely erase those negative thoughts from your conscious and your subconscious thinking.
When you replace the negative thoughts with the positive ones, thanks to the affirmations, you will be sending out the right vibrations to manifest your desires. Your subconscious will be thinking only in terms of success, and you will be giving off the right vibrations that will manifest your desires for you.
How do you write affirmations? Look at your self-doubts; they are all in the present tense so you need to re-write them as positive affirmations, while keeping them in the present tense. This is where many people go wrong because they are working towards a goal that they have not achieved yet; they want to put the affirmations in a future tense.
Let us use Steve as an example. Steve would like to move up from account support to being an account manager but the account manager position requires him to travel, holding meetings and giving presentations. Steve is not a good public speaker and he is using the Law of Attraction to be a better public speaker and to be more confident so that he can get the account manager job. Steve writes the following affirmations:
I will learn to not be nervous
I will be better at speaking in public
I will be able to hold meetings with others
Steve says his affirmations several times a day but he is not getting any benefit. Finally, Steve asks a friend who is familiar with the Law of Attraction and finds out that his affirmations are written wrong.
They need to be in the present tense, as if they have already been achieved and they need to be specific instead of general and vague. Steve re-writes his affirmations as:
I am not nervous when I need to speak to people that I do not know
I am not nervous when I hold meetings
I am good at holding meetings
I am good at giving presentations
Steve finds that with these new affirmations, he begins to be less nervous about speaking in public and that he is more comfortable speaking up in company meetings. His boss takes notice of how Steve is participating in the meetings and recommends that he apply for the account manager position.
Write your own affirmations so that they are very specific to your desires and so that they are in the present tense. Yes, those are things that you want but write your affirmations as if they are true.
Every day, several times a day, you need to tell yourself your affirmations and soon, you will see that they are coming true. The power of thinking will be working for you.
In addition to your affirmations, you need to visualize your desires. To visualize, you need to imagine, very clearly, what your desires are. Just like your affirmations, you need to visualize it as being real and that it has already happened.
For example, if you want a better relationship, envision yourself on a date, with the type of partner that you want to be with. The trick to visualizing is that you need to make it like an interactive movie instead of a static picture so add elements from all of the senses to your visualization.
See yourself at dinner, on a patio in the summer so you can feel the breeze across your face and arms. See yourself eating, and envision how the food tastes, or how the wine tastes in your mouth. See yourself laughing, smiling and more importantly, your partner doing the same.
All of the specific characteristics that you want in a partner put those into your visualized partner. The more details you add, the more success you will have.
Focus on one desire at a time and throughout the day, envision that desire or wish as already being granted. See how happy it makes you and see it as if it has happened already; make it real and think of it as being real. The more real you make your visualizations, the easier it will be for the universe to manifest your wishes.
Another tool that many find useful is a vision board. A vision board is a way to have a physical representation of your desires, so every time you see your board, you think of what you want to attract.
The more you hold it in your mind, the easier it will be to attract. Print out pictures that represent all of the things that you want and set it where you can see it. Put versions of your vision board in various places of your house, on the dashboard of your car, and even at work. Create a virtual vision board with your phone, and pull up the photos that represent what you want so you can keep it fresh in your mind.
Exercises for Manifestation
Here are a variety of exercises that will help you manifest your desires better. These will help ensure that you are able to not only prepare your mind for using the Law of Attraction, but to help you achieve better success with it.
Clear Your Mind
A cluttered mind is a mind that cannot focus and without focus, you cannot visualize. Stress and anxiety will keep you from being able to visualize what it is that you are trying to get and they will make it harder for you to think positive, which is necessary for your success. Life is hectic and all of that stress accumulates in our minds, where we hold onto our worries and our anxieties, even though they serve no purpose.
Daily meditation will help you clear your mind. All you need is between five and ten minutes daily for meditation; nobody is so busy that they cannot take five minutes a day to improve their mental health.
Find a quiet spot in your house. Some people like to have nature sounds in the background, or instrumental music but nothing with vocals because you want your focus to be inward, not on anything external. Sit or lay down so you are comfortable and start focusing on your breathing, taking deep breathes in from your abdomen first.
Focus only on your breathing and then starting with your head, just do a body scan and relax each part as you mentally go down your body. By the time you are done, you will be feeling relaxed.
Goal Statements
Goal statements or goal journals are great visualization tools that will work along with affirmations and vision boards. Goal statements are statements that you write out based on your desires, written in positive language and that have all of your details in them. Basically, it is your visualization in writing but they are a powerful tool for visualization.
Your first sentence is your desire, or the intention that you have. So, going back to Steve, his first sentence of a goal statement would be I am attracting the ability to be a more confident speaker.