How to Transform Your Life Through Affirmations
Is it truly possible for you to direct your individual life experiences and change your personal environment, at least to a degree, through the repetition of positive affirmations?
There is plenty of evidence to support the power of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable conditions, from getting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the perfect life partner, or to promoting inner peace. However, before we try to transform the occurrences in our life through a consistent “mental focus” on the changes we desire, it might be very helpful if we took a personal “reality check” to make sure that we have complete faith that thought, our thought, truly has creative power, so that we’re not merely deluding ourselves.
We can’t hope to positively transform effects in our personal life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our point of view, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain conditions” are completely and irrefutably physical in origin, have no mental substructure or thought correlation and, therefore, are beyond our ability to bring about a change. If we didn’t completely believe that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what good would affirmations do for us? It is necessary that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our individual life, in order for them to work.
Everyday, each of us unhesitatingly exhibits a certain amount of faith. When was the last time you were “surprised” at a sunrise? Most likely you didn’t go to sleep the night before questioning the possibility that the sun might not come up in the morning. It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a mustard seed of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can start with that and build a mountain of faith to from which to send out our affirmations.
Making affirmations while filled with uncertainty, fluctuating between faith and fear, is like filling a balloon with water instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations flight because true faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. Realization is the “secret” to creative mental power. When our affirmations feel true, when what we say is what we truly believe, then affirmations can really change our life.