Hay - 21 Days to Master Affirmations

Louise L. Hay, 2011

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Research has shown that establishing a habit requires 21 days practice. Thats why Hay House has decided to adapt the work of some of its most prestigious authors into these short, 21-day courses, designed specifically to develop new mastery of subjects such as affirmations.

21 Days to Master Affirmations draws from Louise L. Hays bestselling Experience Your Good Now (Hay House, 2010), I Can Do It! (Hay House, 2004), and You Can Heal Your Life (Hay House, 2009).

Other titles that will help you to explore further the concepts featured in the 21-day program are listed in at the end of this ebook.

Many of the exercises in the chapters that follow need to be done on a separate piece of paper, so I recommend that you keep a pad of paper or a blank journal and a pen handy as you use this book.

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Welcome to the world of affirmations. By choosing to use the tools in this book, youve made a conscious decision to heal your life and move forward on the path of positive change... and the time for that positive change is now! There is no time like the present for you to take control of your thoughts. Join the countless numbers of people who have changed their lives for the better by doing what Im going to suggest to you in these pages.

Doing affirmations is not hard work. It can be a joyous experience as you lift the burden of old negative beliefs and release them back to the nothingness from whence they came.

Just because weve believed something negative about ourselves or about our lives does not mean that there is any truth to it. As children, we hear negative things about ourselves and about life, and we accept these ideas as if theyre true. Now, were going to examine the things weve believed and make a decision to either continue to believe them because they support us and make our life joyful and fulfilled, or make the decision to release them. I like to imagine that Im letting go of old beliefs by dropping them into a river, and they gently drift downstream and dissolve and disappear, never to return again.

Come into my garden of life and plant new thoughts and ideas that are beautiful and nourishing. Life loves you and wants you to have the very best. Life wants you to have peace of mind, inner joy, confidence, and an abundance of self-worth and self-love. You deserve to feel at ease at all times with all people and to earn a good living. So let me help you plant these ideas in your new garden. You can nourish them and watch them grow into beautiful flowers and fruits that will in turn feed and nourish you all of your life.

For those of you who arent familiar with affirmations and have never worked with them, Id like to explain a little about what they are and how they work. Very simply, an affirmation is anything you say or think. A lot of what people normally say and think is quite negative and doesnt create good experiences. You have to retrain your thinking and speaking into positive patterns if you want to heal your life.

An affirmation opens the door. Its a beginning point on the path to change. In essence, youre saying to your subconscious mind: I am taking responsibility. I am aware that there is something I can do to change. When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation. All of your self-talk, your internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. Youre using affirmations every moment whether you know it or not. Youre affirming and creating your life experiences with every word and thought.

Your beliefs are merely habitual thinking patterns that you learned as a child. Many of them work very well for you. Other beliefs may be limiting your ability to create the very things you say you want. What you want and what you believe you deserve may be very different. You need to pay attention to your thoughts so that you can begin to eliminate the ones creating experiences you do not want in your life.

Please realize that every complaint is an affirmation of something you think you dont want in your life. Every time you get angry, youre affirming that you want more anger in your life. Every time you feel like a victim, youre affirming that you want to continue to feel like a victim. If you feel that Life isnt giving you what you want, then its certain that you will never have the goodies that Life gives to othersthat is, until you change the way you think and talk.

Youre not a bad person for thinking the way you do. Youve just never learned how to think and talk. People throughout the world are just now beginning to learn that thoughts create experiences. Your parents probably didnt know this, so they couldnt possibly teach it to you. They taught you how to look at life in the way that their parents taught them. So nobody is wrong. However, its time for you to wake up and begin to consciously create your life in a way that pleases and supports you. You can do it. I can do it. We all can do itwe just need to learn how.

Throughout this book, Ill talk about specific topics and concerns, from self-esteem and fearful emotions to critical thinking and forgiveness; from health and aging to job success, money and prosperity; and from loving yourself to friendship, love and intimacy. I will also give you exercises that will show you how to make positive changes in these areas.

Some people say affirmations dont work (which is an affirmation in itself), when what they mean is that they dont know how to use them correctly. They may say, My prosperity is growing, but then think, Oh, this is stupid, I know it wont work. Which affirmation do you think will win out? The negative one, of course, because its part of a long-standing, habitual way of looking at life. Sometimes people will say their affirmations once a day and complain the rest of the time. It will take a long time for affirmations to work if theyre done that way. The complaining affirmations will always win, because there are more of them, and theyre usually said with great feeling.