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In this second article on The Power of Affirmations we present the instructions for the first two weeks of our ten week affirmations program. Instructions for subsequent weeks will follow in due course.
Of course, simply studying the instructions for this program will have few beneficial effects. You cannot expect merely to read this lesson and automatically become an empowered, enriched human being with no effort on your part. Once again, this is an interactive subject and the benefits can only be obtained if you exercise self-discipline and actually follow through on the program we present to you.
We can’t force you to take action, and nor would we want to force you. Our job is simply to present the techniques which you can use to change your life. Whether you use those techniques or not is entirely up to you.
With that in mind, here are your instructions for the first two weeks:
The Power of Affirmations Program – Week One
Objective
Your objective during the first week of this interactive affirmations programme is to decide exactly what you want in your life.
Reason
Only by knowing exactly what you want can you begin to affirm this new reality and expect it to manifest accurately on the physical plane of existence.
Method
Sit down for fifteen minutes each day and decide exactly what you want out of life. Think about every aspect of your life: finances, career, relationships, spirituality, family, health – everything and anything which makes a contribution to your life as a whole.
Take each aspect in turn and decide what you would like to experience in that aspect which you aren’t already. For example, if you currently have no social life to speak of, you might decide that what you would really like most of all with regards to this aspect is a healthy social life with lots of friends and acquaintances. Another example: if you currently work as a bank teller but you would really like to write poetry for a living, you would decide that you would like to change your career and become a poet.
Work your way through each aspect of your life and decide exactly what you want to change. As always, write your decisions down and be as specific as possible.
You may wish to focus on one aspect of your life each evening throughout the week or sit down for a few hours and work through all of your life aspects at once. Whichever approach appeals to you most is the one you should use.
The Power of Affirmations Program – Week Two
Objective
To write two affirmations for each of your life aspects.
Reason
Writing down your affirmations helps you to focus your thoughts and thus ensure that the actual affirmation work you will soon begin will be as beneficial as possible.
Method
In Week One you decided what you wanted to experience in every aspect of your life. This week you will transform those desired experiences into present-tense affirmations for use on a regular basis. Your affirmations can be as short or as long as you wish, but they must be specific and written in the present tense.
For example, instead of saying, ‘I want to be a writer’ a better affirmation would be ‘I am a successful poet’. The first phrase creates an astral image of a far-off hope, whilst the second instantly creates a compelling gap between reality as you experience it and reality as you say it is. This gap is what makes affirmation so powerful.
When you say, ‘I am a successful poet,’ or ‘I live in my ideal home,’ then your higher self notices the difference between your affirmation and physical reality and begins working to make sure that both are in synch. The easiest way it can do this is to attract your ideal home into your life or enable you to start writing successful poetry. Thus your affirmation creates physical reality!
Your affirmations must therefore be written in present-tense. We strongly suggest that you write your affirmations on index cards – one on each card – so that you can add or remove affirmations as and when necessary without too much fuss.
Two affirmations are required for each aspect of your life. One should affirm the physical quality you wish to experience and the other should affirm how this quality makes you feel.
For example, ‘I live in my ideal home,’ is a physical quality in your life and, ‘Living in my ideal home makes me feel joyful and secure’ is how this quality makes you feel.
By having two affirmations for each aspect, we can easily link emotion to your desire, and as you already know, emotion is extremely powerful as far as manifesting your desires is concerned.
A human being can be said to inhabit two universes – the exterior physical universe which is experienced via the physical senses, and the interior universe which is experienced via the mind and imaginative faculties. Understanding that you as an individual inhabit two universes and not just one is important, because trying to bring about change in the physical universe without first bringing about the same change in your interior universe is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Your interior universe is your primary domain as a spiritual being, and it serves as a pattern upon which your external experience is built. Furthermore, if your interior universe and the exterior universe are ever in conflict, it is always the interior state that will win out.
For example, if you are perfectly at home in your interior universe and you enjoy a feeling of calm, tranquillity and being at cause over life, those feelings will be part of your external experience even if the outer environment is full of challenges and deadlines.
Of course, the opposite is also true, and if you lack confidence and peace in your own interior universe then you will lack the experience of confidence and peace externally even if the situations in the environment are conducive to confidence and peace.
When you recognise that your interior universe effectively shapes the experience that you have in the external world, it is immediately apparent that if you want to create good things in your external reality you first need to create good things in your interior universe.
Most popular Law of Attraction techniques such as creative visualization and affirmations work because they gradually bring about positive changes in your interior universe, thereby allowing you to experience similar changes externally. Unfortunately, most popular techniques don’t create change in the interior universe as effectively as they would if interior creation were their primary purpose.
Whilst creative visualization, affirmation and so on are excellent tools, it can often be even more effective to take more direct and deliberate control of your interior universe and focus fully on making it exactly as you would want your external universe to be. By taking that approach you get to experience immediate results in your interior universe and your outer-world experience will quite naturally fall into line in due course.
To start with, you could landscape your interior universe so that you really enjoy spending time there. In a previous article we have discussed how to create an inner temple, and the process here is much the same. The big difference is that instead of creating a single temple you create the entire inner landscape of your interior universe. How large you make this interior universe, and the form it takes, is up to you. The important thing is to make sure that it accurately reflects the kind of experience that you want to have in the exterior universe.
For example, if you want to live in a large house in the countryside and enjoy a high level of financial abundance, glowing health and complete peace of mind, you could create all of that in your interior universe. You could create your ideal home in great detail, create the specific amount of financial abundance that you want, give your interior universe body the health and vitality you want, and so on.
Or maybe you want to experience a greater level of self-confidence in the exterior universe, as well as more peace of mind. In that case you would create more self-confidence and peace of mind for yourself in your interior universe, in whatever way appeals to you.
Whatever your exterior universe goals, creating them first in your interior universe will make it far easier for you to experience them externally. Spend as much time landscaping your interior universe in whatever way you see fit, then get into the habit of enjoying it on a daily basis. You might like to set aside thirty minutes a day to close your eyes and enjoy the reality of your interior universe, or perhaps you would prefer to go there when you close your eyes to sleep at night. Your personal routine is not important – what is important is that you enjoy your interior universe, and create whatever experiences you desire there, on a daily basis.
As far as your interior universe is concerned, you are the sole Creator, and you have free reign to create what you will. You can create a brand new world or a continent almost as easily as you can create a modest garden sanctuary, so allow yourself to be as inventive as you like. Just remember, the experiences that you create in your interior universe serve as a blueprint for the experiences that you will have in the exterior universe, so always be sure to create good things!
The power of the mind is enormous, if not genuinely infinite. For millennia philosophers, spiritual leaders and in recent years even psychologists and scientists have said that the attitude or mind-set of a person can often have a direct effect on what that person experiences. In my opinion this relationship between attitude and winning is so important that I believe everyone who wants to win at life should invest some time in developing their latent Mind Power as fully as possible.
When it comes to Mind Power, there are only two kinds of people: those who use it, and those who abuse it. Those who use it deliberately develop their Mind Power in an effort to gain every possible edge in life. Those who abuse it often do so unconsciously, but nevertheless suffer as a result.
If you want to win at life, you must first of all ensure that you have developed and are using your inner Mind Power to its best effect. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. It may, however, require that you change some of your core beliefs and attitudes.
To begin with, you should eliminate all negativity from your thinking. This is easier said than done, I know, but it is vital.
In this day and age it is easy to be negative about your life and your circumstances, but unfortunately, being negative never helps to turn your life or circumstances around. In fact, it only makes you feel worse and continue attracting negative circumstances! Being positive, on the other hand, can and does help to change both your life and your circumstances.
It is a fact of life that we all get what we expect. If we expect good things to happen then they invariably do. If we expect bad things to happen then they invariably do. In short, it can therefore be said that we always tend to get what we expect.
If you want to succeed and win at life, you must start expecting to succeed and win at life. It’s no good studying the Law of Attraction or simply going through the motions if you expect to fail deep down, because that hidden expectancy will still cause you to fail and your efforts would be fruitless.
The good news is that there are some very simple Mind Power development exercises which virtually anyone can use to start winning at life on a more consistent basis. There are three exercises in all, and using them daily will result in you developing your Mind Power with ease. All you have to do is carry out the following three exercises in the order given:
Exercise 1 – Affirm Success
Your subconscious mind is like a magical servant because it will do whatever it is told to do. Unfortunately, the conscious mind, which gives this servant its orders, often tells it to fail in life.
Affirmations have been proven by many people to help replace negative commands with positive ones, which obviously lead to more positive results. Our first exercise is therefore designed to bombard your subconscious mind with positive thoughts or affirmations.
Simply take five minutes each day (use a stop-watch if you want to be precise) and read the following affirmations out loud over and over again until the five minutes is up. You might feel a little self-conscious at first, but this is just because you are changing a pattern of negativity. Within a few days of practising the exercise the affirmations will become more and more believable as far as you are concerned and when this happens the positive effect will start to be seen in your external circumstances.
The affirmations to use are as follows:
I am a natural winner.
Whatever I touch becomes successful.
I am automatically guided towards success.
My positive mental attitude helps me to win at life.
Every day something good happens to me.
I am successful, victorious and happy.
Winning is automatic for me.
Exercise 2 – Picture Success
Images have just as much of an effect on our subconscious minds as our words do. It is therefore important to deliberately picture success and all that it means to you for five minutes each day if you want to become a genuinely consistent winner.
Now there are two ways of picturing success – one for those among you who can mentally visualize images (see Creative Visualization) and the other for those who cannot visualize so easily.
For those who can visualize, sit down quietly and imagine yourself living as a consistent winner. How would your life be different? Would you live in a larger home, drive a better car or enjoy more holidays? Whatever success means to you, imagine it now as though it has already happened. Enjoy this visualization completely. Actually work on convincing yourself that you are already enjoying the success you desire. This will ensure that the exercise is as beneficial as possible.
For those who cannot visualize with ease, do not worry. An equally effective way of picturing success is to collect a few pictures which symbolise what success means to you. Clip out a picture of the car you would like to drive, or the kind of house you would like to live in, or the holiday destinations you would like to visit. When you have a suitable collection of pictures, spend five minutes each day enjoying them, and just think how it will feel to have these things in your life.
Exercise 3 – Decide to Succeed
The third exercise calls for you to make a deliberate decision every single day to succeed and win at life. This might sound like a crazy idea, but it isn’t really. This is because when we make deliberate decisions, our subconscious mind automatically starts looking through its memory to find information, ideas and other items of data that will help you to follow through on your decision.
If you deliberately decide each day to win at life, your subconscious mind will immediately start working with you, rather than against you. It will start reminding you of books that you should read, steps that you should take and other things that you should do to help ensure that your goals are achieved as quickly as possible.
Making your daily decision to succeed is not difficult. You just decide! Some people like to profess their daily decision out loud, something like this:
‘Today I am committed to becoming more successful in every area of my life! I deliberately decide right now to focus 100% of my energy and concentration on taking more steps towards total success! Today I will win!’
How you phrase your own decision to succeed and win at life is up to you. Feel free to adopt the statement above, or invent your own. The way you phrase your decision is not important, all that is really important is that you:
a) Make a daily decision to succeed, and;
b) Stick to your decision by doing all you can to succeed today.
Like the previous two exercises, this one isn’t at all difficult, but it is still vitally important.
These three simple Mind Power exercises are simple enough for anyone to follow – even those who have no previous understanding of the Law of Attraction – yet they are still powerful enough to transform your life if you will allow them to. After you have been using them for a while you will feel good as a matter of course. You will habitually expect good things to happen – and they will! You will spend more and more time each day focusing on the things that can help you to succeed and as a result your whole life will become richer and more satisfying. In other words, you will be using the Power of the Mind to win at life!
Imagine the scenario. You are watching television and suddenly the latest lottery numbers are flashed up on the screen. You casually check your ticket and discover that you have all the numbers. You have won the Jackpot and stand to become a millionaire just as soon as your win is confirmed. The rules of your current “game of life” have suddenly and dramatically changed. No longer will you have to think about money and how much you have. You now have the financial wherewithal to focus your mind on other, more eternal issues. And all because of one incredible moment of good luck.
Luck comes in many forms to many different people. As we have just seen, good luck often manifests itself as a financial windfall, but there are many other ways in which good luck can affect our lives. We can bump into people or stumble into situations which benefit all concerned. We can find a book or manual which helps us deal with a specific problem at just the right time. We can make a seemingly random decision which dramatically and beneficially alters our current destiny.
Take a look at the people who live life in the spotlight – celebrities, businessmen, entrepreneurs and politicians – and you can usually see at a glance who is lucky and who is not. People who have good luck experience life as if blessed with a non-stop winning streak. Actors get starring roles in major movies – sometimes after being plucked from total obscurity. Politicians succeed in securing a peace treaty where their predecessors failed miserably. Businessmen clinch deals which secure their success for decades to come.
People who do not have so much good luck have a different story to tell. They often work as hard – if not harder – than their lucky counterparts, but nothing seems to go quite right for them. Actors lose their parts or star in movies which bomb at the box office. Pop stars have arguments which bring their careers to an early demise. Politicians say the wrong things at the wrong times and create more tension where they had intended to create peace.
Examine your own life and it will be obvious whether or not you are experiencing good luck. If good luck is on your side then you will find that everything is working together for your good – often in coincidental or unexpected ways. It seems as if nothing you do can go wrong. If good luck is not on your side, however, the opposite will tend to be true. Everything will seem to be conspiring against you. Try as hard as you will, it may seem as if nothing you do ever works out quite as well as you had hoped.
According to many people, luck is something which is beyond our control. Indeed, the dictionary defines luck as: “Whatever good or bad events happen to a person by chance; the tendency for a person to be consistently fortunate or unfortunate.”
Whilst this definition serves it purpose for most people, it is far from accurate from a metaphysical point of view. The fact is that nothing occurs by chance. Even seemingly random events serve a higher purpose. We therefore need to re-define luck from our more spiritual or cosmic point of view:
Luck is the automatic response to our automatic affirmations about life.
This might sound a little strange to some newer readers, so let us explain what we mean by this. Luck, the seemingly random events and situations which affect our lives either negatively or positively, are merely automatic responses to the affirmations we have automatically (or subconsciously) made about life on a daily basis.
Think of a universal vending machine and you will understand this definition even better. Whatever you put into the vending machine in the form of thought-currency will determine what the machine dispenses at the other end. Insert thoughts and affirmations of how lucky you are and the machine will dispense circumstances and events which are in line with your lucky self-image. If, on the other hand, you insert thoughts and affirmations of how unlucky you are, the machine will dispence circumstances and events which are in line with your un-lucky self-image.
Now it is vitally important that you realise your part in this process. Although the vending machine (which in this metaphor symbolises the universe around you) dispenses negative situations and events to some people, it does so only because these people have asked for such events and situations through negative affirmations. Similarly, when it dispenses huge, lottery-winning piles of good luck to other individuals, it does so only because those people have been emanating huge, lottery-winning thoughts and affirmations.
The universe is therefore totally unbiased. People are not singled-out to be blessed with luck or cursed with no luck. Rather, we ourselves put in a request to be lucky or unlucky according to the thoughts and affirmations we put out on a regular basis, both consciously and subconsciously. The universe then honours that request. Simple.
When you take this new understanding on board, you will come to realise that luck is not a quality which bestows itself randomly on people, but that it is an actual vibrational rate of spiritual energy which you can learn to develop through the continued use of specific exercises.
Consider your thoughts and affirmations as having specific frequencies, much like a radio. If you habitually turn your dial to the vibrations which correspond to negativity, failure and lack then these are the only radio stations you will be able to listen to. However, if you learn to turn your dial to the vibrations which correspond to success, optimism and abundance then these are the radio stations which you will be able to listen to on a regular basis.
In my last post I explained that the first step to creating the life of your dreams was to design your future. If you have done that you are ready to proceed to the next step, which is to create your future internally. This involves using a couple of techniques to bring you to the point where you completely believe that your future success has already been achieved on an internal level.
The first technique I recommend, and one that will be very familiar to anyone who is familiar with the Law of Attraction, is visualization. Visualizing is traditionally defined as ‘to imagine in pictures’, but getting the feeling of having accomplished something is just as important as imagining scenes of accomplishment, so don’t get too hung up on the visual side of things. Instead, concentrate on developing a feeling that the future you have created has already come to pass on an inner level.
To do this, close your eyes and allow yourself to ‘make believe’ that the future you have designed has magically come true. Imagine that you have the physique of your dreams, that your bank balance is as high as you ever wanted it to be, that you already live in your ideal home, and so on. Spend several minutes doing this and make sure that you enjoy every second, then make sure that you repeat the exercise at least three times each day. View it as ‘visiting your creation in advance’.
Astute readers will note that I asked you to ‘make believe’ rather than fantasize. That’s because what you are doing here is literally making a new belief about your reality, and when your belief is formed the magic of believing comes into play to speed up the manifestation process.
The second technique that you should use to create your future internally is affirmation, which involves saying positive statements with as much conviction and belief as possible. I suggest that you use the statements that you wrote down in Step 3 of the Design Your Future exercise and that you get into the habit of speak them out loud several times a day. Also speak them quietly to yourself when you find yourself with nothing particular to do, such as when queuing in a store or waiting for a friend.
Concentrate on using these two techniques of visualization and affirmation on a daily basis and always aim to develop the emotional feeling of having rather than wanting. By making the belief that you already have what you want, you effectively create your future internally and put yourself in a great position for the third and final phase, which I will discuss next time.
Reality is governed by your thoughts, and it may help your understanding if we describe reality as a loop. The loop begins with the thoughts you think from moment to moment. These thoughts become beliefs about yourself and your capabilities. These beliefs either empower you to accomplish your dreams or they hold you back from accomplishment. Finally, reality is produced by your beliefs and this feeds more thoughts and the loop begins again.
Thus a person who thinks about poverty will come to believe that he is destined to live a life of poverty. This belief will lead him to behave and act as though he is destined to live a life of poverty. Reality, being nothing more than a sum total of beliefs, will be one of poverty. And the person living in this loop will look at his reality and continue thinking about how poor he is…
Reality can be changed simply by changing the loop. Instead of thinking about poverty, one could begin thinking about prosperity. This will lead to him believing in his abundance, and then to act abundantly and experience this new abundant reality.
We have already seen how spoken affirmations can be very useful in programming the mind and helping to change the thoughts (and thus the reality) of an individual. What we now want to introduce is the idea of “Writing Your Own Reality” by forming the habit of making written as well as spoken affirmations.
If you look back at your school days, you will no doubt recall that on occasion a mischievous pupil was “punished” by being told to write a few hundred lines. A boy who constantly played games in the classroom might have had to write, “I should be studious in class and focus on the task in hand” several hundred times.
Such “lines” were given to pupils in order to harness the power of written affirmations. By writing a line over and over again, the pupil would, effectively, be re-programming his mind and thus his behaviour would soon follow suit in a new, more desirable pattern.
As people who are travelling towards total empowerment, we can take this principle and use it to write our own realities. We can make any changes we want to our beliefs simply by giving ourselves some “lines” to write each day until our beliefs, and thus our lives, respond in the way we want them too.
For example, if you want to experience more self-confidence in your life, you could assign yourself the following line:
“I am confident and strong – nothing shakes my confidence.”
If you were to write that line one hundred times each morning before going about your daily business, after just a few days you would notice a great increase in your self-confidence. If you really want even faster results, you could simply double the number of lines you write.
Writing your own reality is amazingly powerful. It is even more powerful if you create the emotion of the lines as you write them.
For example, if you are writing, “I am confident and strong – nothing shakes my confidence” then you should imagine how you will feel when you are confident and strong. Imagine yourself living life in a strong and confident manner. Imagine being so confident that nothing shakes you. Imagine being the master of your circumstances rather than having your circumstances master you.
The formula for writing your own reality is therefore as follows:
• Decide what affirmation you want to make real in your life.
• Decide how many lines you will write each day.
• Write this number of lines at the beginning of each day until your affirmation becomes a reality.
• Feel the emotion of your written affirmation as your write your lines.
This really is a magical formula which can bring astounding results in a matter of weeks – if not days! I recommend that if your writing ability is normal, you begin writing at least one hundred lines each day.
You can make up your own written affirmations or choose from the selection I have provided below to get you started. Either way, you should begin today. Write your own reality!
SAMPLE “LINE” AFFIRMATIONS
I am successful and prosperous in all things.
I am confident and self-assured.
Nothing disturbs my sense of personal power.
I am tranquil and at peace.
Nothing can disturb my sense of inner serenity.
I am a person who makes things happen.
I am strong and full of energy.
Life is good and I am glad to be alive.
My nature is a divine nature and I am one with the universe.
Problems are opportunities in disguise.
I can be, do and have anything if I believe I can.
The Secret Science of Wealth Creation is a matrix of seven simple but extremely powerful metaphysical principles. Here is the third principle:
Wealth Creation Principle #3 – Create A Wealth Talisman
There is a lot of mumbo-jumbo spoken about talismans, but one should never throw the baby out with the bathwater just because a few over-zealous people get their facts wrong.
The truth is that talismans can have a lot of power, but only when you charge them with spiritual energy yourself. This is because a talisman is a very personal object and what might work wonders for one person may not work for you simply because your personal energies are not compatible.
A talisman is, when all is said and done, a symbol. A wealth talisman is a symbol of wealth and every time you see it you will subconsciously release a thought-form of wealth and prosperity into the surrounding ether. After a few days of emitting such thought-forms you will find that the flow of wealth and abundance into your life gradually gets stronger. After a few weeks the flow will be so established that only a concerted effort will be able to stop your financial situation from improving.
Creating a wealth talisman is a simple process, but not one which should be rushed. You should set aside half an hour and proceed as follows:
• Take a coin and clean it thoroughly. The shinier the coin is, the better.
• Place the coin on the palm of your right hand.
• Close your eyes and relax completely.
• Imagine that your right hand is beginning to glow with bright yellow energy, and that the coin is absorbing this energy. Do not be surprised if your hand seems to tingle when you do this, but do not be concerned if it doesn’t.
• With your eyes still closed, say the following phrase out loud:
This coin symbolises the abundance which is mine.
I charge it with spiritual power and declare it
to be my personal talisman of wealth.
Attract abundance now.
Now close your right hand around the coin and imagine that the glowing stops. The coin is now charged as a talisman of wealth.
Using the talisman is very simple. Just place it in your purse or wallet (ensuring that it will not get mixed with other coins) and leave it there. Whenever you see it, give thanks silently for the wealth and abundance which is already yours. If you wish, you may visualise it glowing from time to time, but this is by no means essential.
Carry the talisman with you for a time and you will soon notice your financial situation improving. The longer you use it and the more faith you have in its ability to store the God-Power within you, the better the results will be.
