It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen – Muhammad Ali
When I first read about affirmations, I wasn’t sure this was something for me. Telling myself I’m the best and I’m good while I was feeling shit was not something I believed in. There was always a connecting with the law of attraction, but let me tell you, when you feel down this wasn’t the “thing” I wanted to focus and implement in my life.
While reading more and more books about positivity, the possibilities and opportunities with affirmations drew my attention again. The reason why this time it became interesting for me is that I read more about the scientifically proven evidence about “priming” yourself with confident and positive wordings. In none of these books they spoke about the law of attraction but about the positive emotions and the famous broaden and build concept from the book “Positivity”.
When reading the “Miracle Morning” from Hal Elrod I really started to implement affirmations on a daily basis and it really supported me in my own confidence and believe in my own competences.
Positive affirmations are very powerful because they release you from negativity, fear, worry, and anxiety. When these affirmations are repeated over and over again, they begin to take charge of your thoughts, slowly changing your pattern of thinking and ultimately changing your life.
For me affirmations are the way to set your “mindset” (thoughts, beliefs and focus) each and every day and boost your self-esteem.
Please watch this great video about affirmation:
How to create your own Affirmations?
On the internet you can find millions of great affirmations but it is important to define and create your own personal affirmation to make impact on your positive life.
Please find some starting points to define your own personal affirmations:
- Define your own goal, what do you really want in your life? Your personal affirmation needs to be connected with your goal so that you can program your mind with your positive thoughts, beliefs and focus. Couple of examples are; financial freedom, health, emotions, relations etc.
- Make sure you know “Why” you want your goal – know your goal and understand why you really want this – so that you start believing in your own destiny
- Understand what you want to do to reach your goal – you can create actionable affirmations that are connected to your goal. In order to reach your goal, you need to create an action plan with things that needs to be done. Just reading out loud your affirmations with no actions from your side (and hoping for the best) will NEVER work. You need to take actions yourself!
- Start writing down your personal affirmation based on your goal, your why and your actions. Don’t worry if you can’t think of the right ones from the beginning, please know that affirmations are not fixed and that you can change and update them to make them better and more powerful for yourself.
- When you have your first affirmation you need to start building the habit to read them out loud (so that if someone is next to you, he or she can hear you) every day! I do this each morning during my miracle morning habit.
One thing you can also do is to write down your affirmation on you “reminder cards” like I wrote in one of my previous post
To end this post, I will share with you my personal daily affirmations that supports me during my day, use them as inspiration but make sure you create your own personal affirmations:
- I feel strong, powerful & happy and all things will be fine because I never give up
- Hocus Pocus keep the fucking focus (when I’m overwhelmed and need focus to control my tasks and thoughts)
- I’m happy and relax
- Everything will be fine
- I take good care of myself
- I consistently think healthy and positive thoughts
- From today everything is going better
- I am valuable
- Whatever happens: I can handle anything
Have fun in defining your own affirmations and make them feel powerful for yourself!
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