There is a lot of corroboration to support the efficacy of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable circumstances, from getting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting a soul mate, or to promoting inner peace. We might want to take a personal “reality check,” however, to be certain that we genuinely have no doubt that thought, our thought, has creative power before we try to alter the conditions in our life through a constant “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just deluding ourselves.

We can’t hope to positively alter effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our point of view, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain conditions” are totally and irrefutably physical in origin, have no mental cause or thought correlation and, therefore, are outside of our ability to affect a change. If we didn’t have a conviction that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what benefit would affirmations be for us? It is essential 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.

We all exhibit a bit of faith each day. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Did the possibility that the sun might not come up in the morning ever cross your mind? Most of us don’t question our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. We can begin by knowing that we do, in fact, have a “grain” of faith within us and we can grow a garden of faith with it.

Making affirmations while filled with uncertainty, vacillating between faith and fear, is similar to filling a balloon with water instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Why does faith uplift our affirmations? Because grounded faith is a mental insistence that elevates what we “say” we believe 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.

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