How To Use Affirmations To Create Lasting Change

How Affirmations Can Create Lasting Change

Affirmations are powerful tools that can help you change your life and effectively manifest your desires.

Affirmations are positive statements that describe a desired goal or outcome. When you repeat them often enough and believe in them, they can help you overcome self-doubt and negative thinking, and eventually they will begin to transform your beliefs.

If you want to change your life, you need to change your thoughts. The first step is to become aware of your negative self-talk, and then to start replacing those thoughts with positive, empowering ones.

Affirmations are a great way to do this.

Here’s how they work:

When you repeat an affirmation, it enters your subconscious mind, where it starts to reprogram your beliefs.

Your subconscious mind is very powerful, and it controls your thoughts, emotions, and behavior.

So, if you want to change your life, you need to change your subconscious beliefs. And affirmations are one of the best ways to do that, if not the best way.

The more you repeat an affirmation, the more it will begin to impress upon your subconscious mind, and the more it will influence your thoughts and behavior.

Eventually, with enough repetition, you will start to believe the affirmation, and it will become your new reality.

For example, if you want to attract more money into your life, you could repeat the affirmation “I am a money magnet” every day.

At first, you may not believe it, but if you keep repeating it, it will enter your subconscious mind and start to change your beliefs about money.

Eventually, you will start to believe that you are a money magnet, whatever that may mean to you, and you will start taking actions or seeing opportunities that will lead to more money coming into your life.

It’s important to note that affirmations alone will not change your life. They are just a tool that can help you change your thoughts and beliefs. And our actions and volition to act are direct reflections of our beliefs.

In order to see lasting change, you need to take action and follow through on your goals. But affirmations can help you get there.

Here are a few tips for using affirmations effectively:

1. Make them specific

The more specific your affirmations are, the more effective they will be.

For example, if you want to attract more money into your life, don’t just say “I am attracting more money.”

Instead, say something like “I am attracting $10,000 into my life by the end of the month.”

The more specific you are, the more your subconscious mind will believe it, and the more likely it is to happen.

2. Make them present tense

It’s important to make your affirmations present tense, as if they are already true.

For example, instead of saying “I will have more money,” say “I have more money.”

When you make your affirmations present tense, it tells your subconscious mind that they are already true, and it will start to believe it.

3. Make them positive

It’s important to make your affirmations positive, because your subconscious mind does not process negatives.

For example, instead of saying “I am not poor,” say “I am wealthy.”

When you make your affirmations positive, it tells your subconscious mind what you want, rather than what you don’t want.

It is important not to place focus on what you are avoiding as it is just more negative attention.

4. Repeat them often

The more you repeat your affirmations, the more they will enter your subconscious mind and the more they will affect your thoughts and behavior.

I recommend repeating your success affirmations at least once a day, and preferably more.

You can repeat them out loud, or you can say them to yourself in your head.

5. Believe them

In order for affirmations to work, you need to believe them.

If you don’t believe them, your subconscious mind will not believe them either, and they will not work.

So, it’s important to find affirmations that you can believe.

You can start by finding affirmations that are already true for you, and then work your way up to the ones that are not yet true.

Alternatively you can only say affirmations that you know are true by playing around with interpretation. This makes it easier for our subconscious mind to absorb.

For example, if you want to attract more money into your life, you could start by repeating the affirmation “I already have money.”

Once you really start internalizing that (because it's hopefully somewhat true) you can move on to affirmations like “I am attracting more money into my life.”

Visualization & Affirmations

You can also use visualization to help you believe your affirmations.

Visualization is a powerful technique that can help you program your subconscious mind.

When you visualize something, it tells your subconscious mind that it is already true, and it will start to believe it.

So, if you want to attract more money into your life, you could visualize yourself receiving a large sum of money.

See yourself in your mind’s eye, holding the money in your hands, and feel the emotions that you would feel if it were really happening.

The more real you can make it, the more your subconscious mind will believe it, and the more likely it is to happen.

Affirmations are powerful tools that can help you change your life and effectively manifest your desires. But they are just one piece of the puzzle.