Positive Affirmations, Why They Work

By Carrie Spry

Positive affirmations are positive statements repeated consistently to yourself. If you repeat these statements you will will create positive subconscious thoughts. In turn, these positive subconscious thoughts will create a positive subconscious mind. Your mind controls every aspect of your life.

Once you instate these positive thoughts, they will reinforce the positive image you would like to hold of yourself. Old negative thoughts will be replaced with new positive thoughts on a conscious and subconscious level. This will create a new positive reality and give you access to all the positive energy you have within yourself.

Each emotion needs to be experience fully while using positive affirmations. Close your eyes and imagine and believe that each state is a fact and is true. If you visualize and feel these emotions, your results will happen more quickly.

You should be using affirmations frequently for at least 30 days. It usually takes three weeks to make a change in your mental image and for some people it may take longer. That's why I suggest 30 days. You can write them down and take them with you until you know them by heart. This shouldn't take long, because you are using them so frequently.

These simple statements can be used anywhere in your home, car, work, etc. You can use them in the morning which getting ready, brushing your teeth or hair, showering, before you go to sleep or before a meal. Get creative, but remember, the affirmations should be at the same time everyday. This will help create a trigger for you. For example, every time you brush your teeth, after the first 21 days, it will just come automatically to you.

To help further change your thought pattern more quickly, you can eject all negative thoughts you experience every day as you become more aware of them. Your positive affirmations can do much good if it's continually battling negative thoughts and emotions. When you notice a negative thought, just make a decision that next time you will try to be more positive.

Most of us have been programmed from birth to think negatively. We didn't do it on purpose, we simply did it unconsciously. Once you begin to be conscious of your thoughts and thought patterns, you can begin to change them. In the beginning, you may not notice all of your negative thoughts or you may notice them several hours after they have happened. Simply acknowledge that you had the thought and eject it. Don't beat yourself up, that encourages negative thinking. Just move on. After a few days, you will become much faster and noticing your thoughts. And before you realize you can catch these negative thoughts before they start.

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