Boosting Self-Esteem With Affirmations
Written by Jerry on November 3, 2009 – 4:15 am -Boosting Self-Esteem With Affirmations
When you consider that low self-esteem is the result of negative messages being absorbed by the subconscious, it makes sense that feeding your mind more positive messages can make a powerful difference!
What stops most people is not being sure of what to say, and how to word affirmations for optimal results. Below you’ll find some simple tips to help you write effective affirmations for improving your self-esteem.
1) Present tense. First, it’s helpful to word affirmations in present tense, not the future. You wouldn’t want to say, “I will learn to love myself” because that makes it sound like you’ll get around to it “someday.” Instead you could say, “I choose to love myself.” The wording of that affirmation does two things: it empowers you with the addition of the words “choose to,” and it puts the timeframe in the present moment.
2) Believable. At the same time, your affirmations should be believable to you. If you try to say, “I am a wonderful person with a lot to offer the world,” you may not really believe it, so your subconscious mind might reject it. Instead, try to focus on a process rather than an end result in your affirmations. Say something like, “I am learning to embrace my uniqueness and share it confidently with others.” As your confidence builds, your ststements can become more bold.
3) Use the right tone. When you recite affirmations, you can do so aloud or just mentally, but you should focus heavily on the TONE you use. Rather than saying the words without emotion like you were reading a newspaper – really inject an element of love and passion into them. Your subconscious mind picks up on the emotional aspect of what you’re saying more than the actual words. Imagine the difference between saying the words, “I really love myself” with a tone of love and compassion, or of sarcasm. Which do you think would have a greater impact on your subconscious mind?
4) Repetition. Once you’ve got some affirmations formed to work on your self-esteem, try saying them several times a day. Remember, your subconscious mind is constantly playing back old, negative messages – so you want to counteract those as often as possible. Keep reciting your more positive thoughts on a regular basis – especially when you catch yourself thinking negatively about yourself.
5) Give it time. Finally, remember that it will take time to change those old, negative messages in your mind to something more positive. It may take a few weeks or even months before you’ll notice an obvious difference in how you feel, and you may be tempted to think it isn’t working. Keep with it, and you will begin to see a difference eventually! Most likely it will be a gradual change. Little by little you’ll start feeling more positive, and notice that you’re feeling a bit happier and lighter. That’s your signal that it’s working!
6) Remember that you can use this formula for anything you want to change for the better in your life.
Start today, with something small and…
Never Stop Exploring Life!
Jerry L Saunders, RM
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Affirmations That Attract Prosperity
Written by Jerry on September 30, 2009 – 3:58 am -Affirmations That Attract Prosperity
Do you have a hard time focusing on prosperity? Do you find yourself struggling with negative thoughts that seem to attract more lack and difficulty into your life? Affirmations are a simple tool you can use to turn it around.
Affirmations work best by delivering repeated new messages to your subconscious mind. Most often, this involves replacing old, limiting messages with new, empowering messages.
However, be careful of the way you word your affirmations. This will determine how effective they really are.
If I asked you to recite this affirmation: “I am a millionaire,” how effective do you think it would be? Would you be a millionaire tomorrow? Would money start falling out of the sky to land in your lap? I don’t think so!
Why not? Simply because your mind knows the statement isn’t true. If you try to feed your subconscious mind a belief that you are a millionaire, it creates a conflict with your current set of beliefs. Your subconscious mind does not like conflict, and it doesn’t like change – so nothing in your life changes!
In order for affirmations to work, you MUST word them so that that your subconscious mind won’t reject them. In other words, make them believable.
Compare the above affirmation to one like this: “I am becoming more prosperous every day.”
That one actually feels better, right? Your mind doesn’t try to resist it because you can actually imagine it happening, even if it hasn’t begun to happen yet.
Another way to boost your affirmations is to word them in a way that places the responsibility on you. For example, instead of affirming, “I am becoming more prosperous every day,” you could say, “I am open to new and better ways to become more prosperous.” The wording makes you feel more in control of your circumstances.
Rather than waiting anxiously for money to fall out of the sky, you send a message to your subconscious mind that you can control how much money you have by being alert to great opportunities.
Affirmations can vary in the length of time required to “take root” in your mind. For the most part, it depends on the intensity of your opposing beliefs and the level of effort you put forth in turning those beliefs around.
If your focus on lack is very strong, you’ll probably have to spend a fair amount of energy and effort to train your mind to focus on prosperity. You may have to repeat affirmations hundreds or thousands of times over a few weeks or months.
However, it is time and effort well spent because the more you focus on positive thoughts and prosperous beliefs, the more you’ll find yourself attracting good things into your life. Then, the more you will focus on good things that are showing up in your life… It’s a great cycle to be caught up in.
Here are a few good affirmations to help get you started on the road to prosperity:
* I use my thoughts and emotions to attract abundance effortlessly.
* I am becoming more prosperous and successful every day.
* I am talented and resourceful.
* I find it easier and easier to reflect on new opportunities that have come into my life.
* When I think wealthy thoughts, I become more wealthy in all aspects of my life.
* I am now using my imagination to create new wealth for myself and for others.
Never Stop Exploring Life!
Jerry L Saunders, RM
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Affirmation Song
Written by Jerry on April 10, 2009 – 5:15 am -I found this great song on YouTube and wanted to share it with you. Here are the details straight from the source:
Written and performed by Jennifer Holt and filmed by Kimman Harmon in 1988, the Affirmation Song features the themes of recovery and learning to love ourselves, using the new age technique of affirmations. "I deserve to love and be loved, I deserve it from the earth and the heavens above, oh I deserve it!" Includes other performers such as Lane (congas) and Cristel Little. (guitar). For more of Jennifer’s music, check out: http://www.drjenniferholt.com/music/i…
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Jerry L Saunders, Renegade Monk
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Monk Moments 12 – Affirmations of Action
Written by Jerry on April 3, 2009 – 11:21 pm -
In this podcast we’ll talk about the fourth and final type of affirmation – Affirmations of Action!
This is one of the shortest podcasts in this series but, you will see just how powerful this information is when you begin to understand and use it.
Get ready and take notes.
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Jerry L Saunders, Renegade Monk
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Monk Moments 9 Affirmation of Word
Written by Jerry on March 5, 2009 – 11:05 pm -If you listened to Monk Moments Podcast 8, you know we defined 4 types of affirmations.
This week we’ll talk about the first and most popular one, Affirmation of Words.
Remember that Affirmations of Word are only 1 of the 4 kinds of affirmations and they aren’t always the most important but are a good starting point.
Check in next week and you’ll start getting a clearer picture of how other affirmations work.
Please feel free to leave comments or use the “Contact” button at the top of the page to ask specific questions. I listen and I will answer!
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Jerry L Saunders , the Renegade Monk
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