Create Your Own Affirmations

Affirmation is a way to empower our thoughts with sound. We can clearly see it if we recall that sound is a vibration of air and the energy of that vibration can be measured. When we accompany our thought with words saying them out loud we inflate it with the power. It is important not only repeat the affirmations but feel them. That will ingrain them in our heart.

1. Affirmation must stimulate positive feeling and emotions in you.

As it is with mental images, emotions play crucial role. By repeating the words that we like we bring the attraction force. They in turn give you the confidence on your path to your goal. That's why we need to be very careful choosing the right words for our affirmations. The must sound positive for you. As the words of motivational speakers can motivate people the same way the words you chose can motivate you to pursue your goal.

2. Affirmation must be formulated in positive sentence.

If we someone has problems talking to people and creates affirmations like "I'm not afraid of people, I'm not afraid to talk to them" he creates negative affirmation. The word "afraid" will trigger certain associations is his mind. The better way to phrase such affirmation would be "I enjoy talking to people". Try to use words like "I enjoy", "I get pleasure from" etc. Our mind will easier opens up to positive emotions and blocks the negative ones. Our whole organism always tries to have pleasure.

3. Affirmation needs to be short and concrete

We need to clearly see what we want to achieve in order to create short and straight to the point affirmation.

4. Affirmation must be phrased in present tense

If you are saying to yourself that you WILL have something that you want it will stay in the future. Tomorrow, one month form now, one year from now the situation will still be the same and what you want will still stay in the future. The future is always ahead of us. Here is a good example of it:

One of my friend put the sticker note on his refrigerator telling him to make a call to certain person tomorrow. A week has past before he realized that everyday he is seeing that note and thinking that he has to do it tomorrow.

5. It should to include "I"

Avoid using impersonal phrases in your affirmations. If it is hard for you then it can be a sign that you don't accept yourself. Try to become aware what aspects of yourself you don't accept. Include words like "I", "me", "my" into your affirmations. It also can help you to start accepting yourself.

6.Affirmations should be about changes in you not other people

It is well known fact that trying to change other people around us is useless. First we need to change ourselves.