Empower Your Life With Affirmations

Affirmation is a great self-empowerment tool for deliberate manifesting, personal transformation and self-healing. It is a simple, yet powerful spiritual practice to focus on what we wish to create and attract, and make the changes we wish for in ourselves and our life.

An affirmation is an affirmative, positive statement or mantra that you repeatedly speak, preferably daily. Words or language have metaphysical power. By thinking, speaking, and writing affirmative mantras, slogans, chants, spells, invocations, or prayers we set powerful intentions for transformation and manifestation. Here are some examples:

I lоvе and ассерt myself.

I fully believe in myself.

My potential is limitless.

I am achieving greatness.

My body is healthy and strong.

My mind is powerful.

I have control over my thoughts and feelings.

I am happy and fulfilled.

Affirmations reframe and improve our thinking. It reconstructs our negative thought patterns and rewires our mind to become more positively focused. The more we repeat it, the more it creates neural pathways for positive thought. These empowering new pathways gradually replace our old, negative thoughts habits.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens ~ Louise Hay 

The metaphysical power of thoughts and words can create and destroy. It can build us up, or break us down. Our subconscious mind accepts as true whatever we think, say, and hear. This determines our energy vibration, which will attract corresponding experiences and events that match this internal dialogue or state of mind. If our dominant focus is positive, inspired, hopeful, and empowered, then we attract more people, events and things that match this positive outlook.

We live in a vibratory universe. Our thoughts, words and emotions all carry a unique energy frequency. Negative thoughts and words have a low vibrational frequency, while positive thoughts and words vibrate at higher, more empowering frequencies. The energy frequencies we send out attract matching external experiences and manifestations.

For an affirmation to be effective it must be positive. It must also be stated in the present tense, and spoken with strong emotional intent and firm conviction. For example, if you want to make more money, you should not use a phrase like “I will not be poor,” because ‘not’ and ‘poor’ are both negatively charged words, and saying you ‘will’ be something means it is not yet manifest. Instead you should say something like, “My life is prosperous and financially secure,” or “I have all the money I need.”

Create your own affirmations that personally resonate with you. In the above context, I personally prefer to the affirmation, “I am abundance.” The words ‘I am’ affirms the speaker’s existence because the concept of I AM is the metaphysical name of the spiritual self, as distinguished from the human, physical self. It calls upon us to remember and affirm ourselves as conscious co-creators of our shared reality. I therefore aim to always include at least one ‘I am’ affirmation in my practice.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it until it begins to shine ~ Emily Dickinson

The keys to a successful affirmation practice are positivity, consistency, and how wholeheartedly we are engaged in the process. When you state your affirmations, feel the feelings you associate with that affirmation in your heart center. Be mindfully present with those beautiful, inspiring emotions.

While stating your affirmations, pay attention to any inner resistance that may come up. Sometimes we carry limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging uncertainties that contradict our best intentions. If you notice any such feelings of doubt, skepticism, unworthiness, or fear, or find your ego telling you that you can’t be, do, or have the things you affirm, do not ignore it. Confront it.

Analyse your doubts and fears. Why can’t you? Who or what mades you believe you ‘can’t’ in the first place? Challenging those false beliefs is the first step to changing them. The more consistent you are with your practice the more you will find you uncover these inner limitations and are able to deal with them more intentionally. You will likely also find that your inner dialogue improves as a by-product!

Affirmations are a simple, quick, and surprisingly powerful tool to help shift into a more empowered mindset, and manifest better outcomes in you life. It may feel silly, or even indulgent at first, but with practice it will become not only more comfortable, but also a part of your day you look forward to!

I love how I feel when I do my affirmations. Here are a few of my personal favorites:

I am love.

I am joy.

I am loved.

I am whole.

I am healthy.

I am powerful.

I am abundant.

I am blessed.