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Tips for Using Affirmations

 

What are affirmations? Affirmations are empowering statements that reorient your emotional compass from down to up. When you affirm your power, you choose to create and live that positive reality.

What Research Says

  • A study by the Mayo Clinic reports that a positive attitude can improve your health, including:

    • Increased longevity and energy.

    • Fewer limitations due to pain.

    • A greater sense of peace and happiness.
      (Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings, August 2002.)

  • More Americans are using mind-body treatments—45 percent of adults have used some method of prayer for health reasons. (Source: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2002.)

  • 82 percent of Americans believe that prayer can change what happens in a person’s life. (Source: Barna Research Group.)

What Vicky Thompson Says

Affirmations remind you that actions follow intentions. When your intentions are clear, you’re better able to recognize self-defeating actions and behaviors that are not in alignment with your goals. Affirmations are like guideposts, keeping you on the path to achieving your intended resolutions.

Make your intentions even stronger by meditating and visualizing yourself as a powerful person. Affirmations clarify your thoughts while meditations enable you to see yourself performing your chosen actions.

Here are three simple steps for using affirmations to develop a can-do attitude:

1. Be here now. Be aware of the blessings in your life, including friends to laugh with, family to lean on, and others who value you in their lives. Affirm these abundances by saying, I am blessed everyday in all ways.

2. Have an attitude. When a zipper breaks, you can get angry or go shopping. Only you can choose how to view life’s ups and downs. Affirm your resiliency by saying, I choose love and happiness in this moment.

3. Speak the language. Find positive things to say about others rather than grumping. Share your positive outlook and affirm the best in others by saying, Thanks for being a good friend.

What Life-Changing Affirmations Says

This integrated plan guides you through a thirty-day journey designed to help you achieve a deeper awareness of five keys to spiritual mastery: love, intuition, inner wisdom, forgiveness, and service. Each daily affirmation and meditational prayer focus on a specific spiritual state, giving you the power to direct the flow of vital spiritual qualities into your life.

Affirmation Excerpts

Love: I choose love and light to guide me.

Acceptance: I accept my divine path in life.

Truth: I hold all in the light of truth.

Vitality: I am the energy of life in all things.

Hope: I hope for all things, for all things are possible.

Forgiveness: I let go of the pain and forgive what came before.

Peace: In my heart, I am peace.

 

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Life Changing Affirmations

A 30-Day Plan for Spiritual Transformation

by Vicky Thompson

Published by Red Wheel, Paperback $9.95, 80 pages

Publication Date: July 2005

ISBN: 1-59003-085-0

 

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