Ok. I think we are all familiar with Stewart Smalley from SNL. He is a self-improvment coach who thinks little of himself and speaks his affirmations in the mirror: “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me.”
We almost laugh because this skit captures something in us. When we speak these words to a mirror, which are meant to be sincere and heartfelt, we feel silly. I understand. It’s okay to feel that way.
And some people feel that they can’t sincerely say those words in the mirror. They feel speaking those words they do not yet believe is just lying.
In Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker uses the term, “Declaration” for this purpose. It’s like you are declaring to the world that you want this thing to be true. (Amazon link to Ecker’s book: http://amzn.to/2xsIzlt using this link supports the blog)
There are many words for affirmations:
- Affirmations
- Declarations
- Incantations
- Mind files
- Beliefs
- Paradigms
- Scripts
- Programs
The truth is we use “words” to TEACH ourselves a new belief and to assign a new meaning to something or program a new response to an event. We are reprograming our mind and our mindset (attitude).
We were originally programmed through our …
– Environment
– Evidence
– Experience
In other words through …
– The words we hear ourselves and others say
– The behavior we witness others model
– The results we experience personally
We are reprograming our mindset to generate the feelings that will lead to the actions that ultimately lead to the results we believe should be in the world (notice I didn’t say the results we want in the world).
So, when you are doing your affirmations, you need to do them sincerely, with power, with emotion, often and focused. You need to act. You are not lying anymore than an actor is not lying when speaking their script. We do not really believe that Romeo and Juliet are really in love and just killed themselves. We know they are just actors on a stage, saying stuff. But we allow it to be true in our mind. And we are moved by it.
We must move ourselves. We must make ourselves believe in a new way.
We must use our imagination. We must become actors in a way. We must program our minds and our mindset to bring us a better result.
We must do this because You and I deserve to live a happier, fuller life!
It is within our grasp. There are things we can do to get it. Let go of your discomfort with speaking affirmations. Words are what brought about your unsupportive beliefs and Words are going to help you replace them with supportive ones.
So, act your heart out. Affirmations are not lies, they are true in our heart, they are born of a grain of hope. We plant an apple tree by putting a seed in the ground, not a full-grown tree. Put the seed of belief, the affirmation, in the ground consistently, and let your supportive beliefs grow.
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