The Power of Affirmations I
Today we start a new series of articles on The Power of Affirmations. In previous articles here at Create Good Things we have touched upon the important topic of affirmations and we have even given you affirmations to use. In this series, however, we want to take a much closer look at what is, when all is said and done, a remarkable metaphysical tool which can change your life – The Power of Affirmation.
Over the next few articles you will learn that affirmations have been used for millennia, but that most modern methods of affirmation are hogwash. We explain how affirmations really work and how you can speak anything you want into existence – when you know how. We also warn against the misuse of affirmations, which some people use to try and control others on a silent, subliminal level.
By the time you complete this series you will have at your disposal an amazingly powerful technique which will enable you to change the reality you experience both quickly and effectively.
Use it wisely!
Introducing Affirmations
On a basic level, affirmations are words and phrases that are spoken deliberately in an effort to change the reality experienced by an individual. On a deeper level, affirmations are extremely powerful vocalised thought-forms which affect the universe and your place in it the instant they are spoken.
Looking at the topic from this perspective, all of language is an affirmation of some sort. When you complain about the state of the nation, you are affirming negativity. When you complain about the weather, you are affirming negativity. When you listen to someone’s problems and verbally agree that they have a rough deal, you are giving a negative affirmation which helps keep them in that situation.
Of course, few people deliberately intend to affirm negativity on such a regular basis, but the fact is that in many Western countries negativity is so much a part of our consciousness that the affirmations come naturally. In other words, we don’t even know we are doing it.
The life you are living right now is the way it is – at least in part – because of the affirmations you have spoken in the past. It doesn’t matter if your life is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ from your point of view, the fact is that you made it that way. If your life is less than what you want then this statement might make you feel a little uncomfortable, but there is a bright side, and it is this:
If you created a life full of negativity with the power of affirmations without even realising it, you can easily create a life full of positivity by harnessing the power of affirmations deliberately.
To illustrate how affirmations change reality, let us carry out a simply exercise. Simply read the following passage slowly to yourself, aloud if possible. Take time to think about what you read as you read it. Ready? Then here we go:
You are standing in the middle of a green field. You are wearing a heavy wool sweater which makes your skin itch. The sun is high in the sky to your left. The sun is hot. It beats down on your face. You being to perspire and your sweater begins to irritate you even more. It sticks to your skin, clinging and itching at the same time. Your only desire right now is to take the sweater off.
Okay, end of exercise. How do you feel compared with before. More relaxed? Less relaxed? Warmer or cooler? Comfortable or uncomfortable?
Most people will find that the above exercise tends to make them feel less comfortable than they were previously. Yet all they have physically done is read one paragraph of text! Now obviously the text itself is powerless, so what causes the change in feeling that the reader experiences?
The answer is that the spiritual power within the words channel into a thought-form. When the student reads the text aloud, his mind and spirit focus on what the words represent, creating thought-forms on the spiritual plane of existence. The spirit of the student, being acutely aware of what happens on this plane, experiences the conditions as though they were real, and this manifests itself in the student becoming uncomfortable.
This simple example illustrates how even basic affirmations automatically create powerful thought-forms which are instantly manifested on the spiritual plane. Continued use of such affirmations would mean that this manifestation would also occur on the physical plane of existence.
Thus, once again, and as we have said many times before, the law of attraction comes into play and thoughts become things.
Now think of a typical Western nation. The majority of the population complain about the weather, the government, the economic situation and a host of other things out of habit. This means that millions of people are producing negative affirmations which manifest themselves like self-fulfilling prophecies.
Imagine what life would be like if people habitually affirmed more positive conditions. What if we all got into the habit of saying how nice the weather is, how efficient our government is and how productive our economy is? What if we all harnessed the power of affirmations to deliberately create the type of country we would all want to live in?
The mind boggles.
Such mass positivity may not happen overnight, but on a personal level you can change your world in an instant if you decide to put the power of positive affirmation to work in your daily routine. You can experience unlimited levels of abundance, joy, happiness, romance, success, power or whatever else you want, simply by deciding that you will start using the power of affirmation deliberately instead of accidentally.
The rest of this series is geared to helping you to transform your life dramatically by harnessing the awesome power of your affirmations. It presents nothing less than a ten-week program which – if followed – will totally revolutionize your life.
