Can speaking positive affirmations, out loud or to ones self, on a regular basis really change your life, noticeably, for the better?
From “creating” a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the ideal companion or promoting inner peace, there are quite a few demonstrations to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. It might be highly beneficial, however, if we took a personal “reality check” to make sure that we actually believe that thought, our thought, has creative power before we try to improve the circumstances of our life through a fixed “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just fooling ourselves.
We can’t expect to positively transform effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our mental position, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain circumstances” are entirely and irrevocably physical in origin, have no mental substructure or thought interrelationship and, therefore, are outside of our ability to bring about a change. If we didn’t completely believe 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.
Everyday, each of us unhesitatingly exhibits a measurable amount of faith. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Have you ever worried that the sun might not come up the next day? It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a mustard seed of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can begin with that and build a mountain of faith to put behind our affirmations.
Making affirmations while filled with doubt, seesawing between faith and fear, is the same as putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because unshakable faith is mental insistence elevated to a place of realization. Realization is the “secret” to creative mental power. Affirmations can, indeed, really change our life – when they feel true, and what we say is what we truly believe.