Can speaking positive affirmations, out loud or to ones self, on a regular basis really change your life, noticeably, for the better?
From manifesting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting a soul mate or promoting inner peace, there are quite a few demonstrations to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. We might want to take a personal “reality check,” however, to make sure that we actually have no doubt that thought, our thought, has creative power before we try to alter the conditions in our life through a fixed “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just fooling ourselves.
We can’t hope to positively alter effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our mental position, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain things” are entirely and unarguably physical in origin, have no mental basis or thought correlation 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 good would affirmations do for us? It is a prerequisite 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.
We all exhibit a bit of faith each day. When was the last time you were “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. We can begin by knowing that we do, in fact, have a mustard seed of faith within us and we can grow a garden of faith with it.
Saying affirmations while filled with disbelief, seesawing between faith and fear, is like putting water into a balloon instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because unshakable faith is mental insistence uplifted 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.