The Power of Positive Affirmations

By Jayaram V

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WHAT IS AN AFFIRMATION?

An affirmation is a positive thought or statement that you repeat to yourself frequently and implant in your inner consciousness, as a source of inspiration and motivation for your present and future actions. Once entrenched in your subconscious mind, it guides your thoughts and actions in the direction you desire.

You can use affirmations to overcome certain undesirable traits and negative and habitual thought patterns that prevent you from being what you are or what you want to achieve in your life. Affirmations are also called auto-suggestions because they are the subtle commands you use to feel and act differently.

WHY AFFIRMATIONS?

Your mind is a vast storehouse of accumulated knowledge and learned responses. It is programmed to act in certain mechanical and predictable ways. It relies upon certain habitual patterns of thinking and movements to make life easier for you. It has a tendency to minimize effort and draw immediate conclusions, by filtering the sensory input according to the set of beliefs, values, principles and prejudices to which it is already conditioned. It is difficult to control its movements and break its conventional habits. Using affirmations is one simple and easy way to control some aspects of your mind and mould it according to your needs and circumstances.

With the help of positive affirmations, you can instruct your mind and body to act in desirable ways and overcome the barriers that stand between you and your ideal personality.

By sending subtle thought forces into your consciousness, you can accomplish a lot such as the following...