Posts Tagged ‘Affirmations’
Create Your Future Internally
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.
Write Your Own Reality!
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 – Part 3
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.
The Secret Science of Wealth Creation – Part 2
The Secret Science of Wealth Creation is a matrix of seven simple but extremely powerful metaphysical principles. Here is the second principle:
Wealth Creation Principle #2 – Be Grateful
Believe us when we tell you that this principle has enormous power to change your financial situation around virtually immediately. It is a principle which has been used for millennia, and which no-one who wishes to reach his full potential can afford to ignore. It is the principle which tells you to:
Be grateful for your abundance.
Now many people will say that it is ludicrous to give thanks for something which hasn’t yet manifested on the material plane. From a flesh and blood point of view we would agree. But look at things from the spiritual point of view and you will soon discover that giving thanks is what enables the manifestation to take place.
Let us explain:
You may have already learned that one of the keys to making things happen is to believe that they have already happened. What better way is there to express this belief than to give thanks for what you have asked for? By giving thanks in advance you are proclaiming that you already have what you want, and this way of thinking unleashes tremendous spiritual power.
Consider the multiplication miracles which Jesus of Nazareth performed during his lifetime and you will see this principle being used to excellent effect.
‘Then Jesus took the loaves of bread, thanked God for them and gave them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, giving as much as the people wanted. When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his followers, “Gather the leftover pieces of fish and bread so that nothing is wasted.” So they gathered up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left from the five barley loaves.’ (John 6:11-13)
This is how Jesus fed over five thousand people with just a few loaves and a few fish – he expressed his gratitude. The gratitude was two-fold. He was giving thanks for what he already had – the few loaves and fish – but he was also giving thanks for the miracle of multiplication which he was about to perform. In his minds eye, the miracle had already taken place, so giving thanks was natural.
To unleash the power of this principle in your own life, you too need to get into the habit of expressing two-fold gratitude. Give thanks for what you already have, and then give thanks that a whole lot more is coming your way. In doing this you are preparing the way for a torrent of wealth and abundance to enter your life.
We suggest that you begin this habit by taking your wallet or purse and opening it. Look at the money inside – even if it is just a few coins – and then express your gratitude to the God-Power within you for providing you with this money. When you have done this, express your gratitude for the fact that even more wealth is winging its way towards you at this very moment – a veritable flood of wealth which can never be stopped.
This is an extremely simple principle to put into place, but it is absolutely and vitally important. The more you express gratitude for what you have and for what is to come, the faster wealth will manifest in your life. Ignore this principle and your lack of gratitude will actually hold back the flood of prosperity which is waiting to arrive in your life. So be grateful!
