Affirmations


Affirmations are powerful sentences that we can repeat to ourselves in order to change our behaviours and mental processes.

Many people automatically self-talk in negative or critical ways, for example a shy person may think they are “rubbish at parties” or automatically think that other people perceive them to be boring or dullards. Without even noticing, we often remind ourselves of our shortcomings daily and then live up (or down) to those expectations that we hold. Sometimes we use these negatives comments in conversations with other people, for example “oh, I could never do that…” or “no, I am not creative”, or “I am useless with money”. In fact, the list goes on and on.

Sometimes these negative images that we hold were given to us when we were younger, perhaps by close friends or members of the family, “oh, she has always been a big girl”, “he isn’t as clever as his brother”, “you’re useless, just like your father!”

We can dislike the way we look, or certain parts of our body. It may be our hair colouring, our shoe size, the shape of our nose – nothing is too small to notice for our critical self and when we notice these things and dwell on them we are giving out the wrong image to other people.

Perhaps you are undervalued by those around you – your family or your spouse or partner. You may live in a state of waiting to be credited as something special by them, as being worthwhile or lovable.

Feelings of guilt, real or imagined, feelings of failure if you do not have the status in life that you wanted, feelings of jealousy towards those that you perceive to be better than you in some way… all these feelings are very harmful to us.

And perhaps you just never give yourself time to reward yourself for being who you are, for recognising in yourself the very special person you are and the special gifts you bring to those around you every day.

The outcome of thinking about ourselves in negative ways is that we become negative and pessimistic, relying too much on what others think of us and may become overridden with self pity and feelings of depression or inferiority. We can think thoughts about ourselves that really make us want to cringe.

When we work with affirmations we are clearing out these old negative patterns of thinking. They do not, however, work overnight. It takes a considerable time to groove those old negative thoughts into our mindsets and it will take regular repetition of our new affirmations to clear out the old and reprogramme ourselves with positive, wonderful ways of thinking.

When you work with affirmations you are programming yourself for success, happiness and a much more wonderful life.

Any positive statement can be an affirmation. Research has shown that affirmations work better when used in the present tense and in the personal. For example,

“I am getting better every day”

would be a good general affirmation. You can say these out loud to yourself whilst looking in a mirror. Look into your eyes, smile at yourself, recognise who you are in there and affirm.

A simple list of affirmations you may like to try are as follows:

  • I am feeling more confident every day
  • Success comes easily to me
  • I am a happy person
  • I enjoy meeting new people
  • My body is perfect as it is
  • I love myself

Using powerful positive thinking techniques you have the power to be anything you want and attain your goals. Many businesses employ the services of life coaches etc so that their employees gain the benefit of these new ways of thinking.

What we believe about ourselves and our lives becomes true for us. Every day we are creating our future with the thoughts we have now. With that kind of power, we need to be mindful of our thoughts and start creating a better future NOW.

Hypnochick Therapies are in the process of developing a range of MP3s and CDs in order to help those who would like to listen to spoken affirmations. The beauty of these is that they can be listened to at any time, even whilst stuck in traffic jams, and you can reprogamme yourself even during the busiest of times.

If you check out our product page you will find our new SUBLIMINAL PRODUCTS. This is a must-have recording for anybody who wants to increase the abundance in their life and it is currently being offered with the spoken affirmations as a bonus, so you can benefit both ways from this amazing mind stimulation.
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