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Can speaking positive affirmations, out loud or to ones self, on a regular basis really change your life, at least in part, for the better?
From getting a parking spot or a better job, to attracting the ideal companion or nurturing inner peace, there is a lot of corroboration to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. But, before we attempt to alter the conditions of our life through a repetitive “mental focus” on the changes we want, it might be very helpful if we took a personal “reality check” to make sure that we have complete faith that thought, our thought, truly has creative power, so that we’re not simply deluding ourselves.
If we are persuaded that “certain conditions” in our personal life have no mental basis or thought correlation, but instead are totally and irrevocably physical in origin, then how can we expect to positively alter the effects in our individual life through positive affirmations? What good would it do for us to make an effort to “change our thinking” about our self, or a specific condition, if we didn’t believe without a doubt that by doing so we could “change our life”? If we want our positive affirmations to move a mountain in our personal life, we need to have at least a grain of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations to affect physical change in our life.
Everyday, each of us unconsciously demonstrates a certain amount of faith. When was the last time you were “surprised” at a sunrise? Have you ever worried that the sun might not come up the next day? It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a grain of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can start with that and build a mountain of faith to put behind our affirmations.
Saying affirmations while filled with disbelief, fluctuating between faith and fear, is like putting water into a balloon instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Faith gives our affirmations flight because true faith is mental insistence elevated to a place of realization. This is the “secret” to creative mental power, turning mere words into substance. Affirmations can, indeed, really change our life – when they feel true, and what we say is what we truly believe.