We hear so much about the power of positive affirmations to change our lives, but do they really?
There is plenty of evidence to support the ability of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable events, from manifesting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the perfect life partner, or to furthering inner peace. However, before we make an effort to improve the circumstances of our life through a determined “mental focus” on the changes we desire, we might want to take a personal “reality check” to confirm that we believe that thought, our thought, truly has creative power, so that we’re not just fooling ourselves.
If we believe that “certain conditions” in our personal life have no mental substructure or thought correlation, but instead are totally and unarguably physical in origin, then how can we expect to positively affect the conditions in our individual life through positive affirmations? If we didn’t have a conviction that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what benefit would affirmations be for us? It is necessary that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our individual life, in order for them to work.
We all display a certain amount of faith everyday. When was the last time you were “surprised” at a sunrise? Presumably you didn’t wonder if the sun would come up in the morning. Most of us don’t question our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. We can begin by knowing that we do, in fact, have a mustard seed of faith within us and we can grow a garden of faith with it.
Saying affirmations while filled with doubt, fluctuating between faith and fear, is like putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Why does faith uplift our affirmations? Because unshakable faith is a mental insistence that elevates what we “say” we believe 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.
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