The following is an article by Reverend Ken Daigle that I recntly finished reading.
It’s called Affirming Your Way to Health.
Health can apply to your physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and interpersonal well-being.
It’s an adapted excerpt from “Return to Wholeness”, a booklet from Unity international.
Use affirmations to create the life you want and deserve.
Here goes:
Affirmations are one of the most powerful medicines you can employ.
What are affirmations? Affirmations are concise, positive statements of a new future unfolding in your life. Affirmations are the tool used by millions of people – from professional athletes to school-age children – to transform their lives.
When you clear out an old habit or change your behavior, affirmations help to ensure the vacuum you have created is filled with the new things you desire, rather than more of the old patterns you have just cleared out. When you create affirmations that are positive, present tense, and grounded in truth, you cannot fail.
These four simple tips have always helped me create affirmations:
I Am. I Am is one of the most powerful statements to focus your beliefs and funnel the power of the Universe on your behalf. The words that follow I Am are going to be seared into your consciousness and help you manifest in kind. I am strong and resilient.
Positive. I am vibrant. I am healthy and whole. I am beautiful and balanced. We sometimes do not even see how our negative thoughts are embedded in our lives. Be careful if you find yourself affirming: “I don’t let things get me down; I overcome adversity.” You might be subconsciously affirming struggle.
Present tense. Set your affirmations in the here and now. Vibrant health is mine now. I appreciate and honour my body. Be careful of verbs that limit or postpone you’re good. For example, “I will lose weight” or “Next year I will be healed.” That small word can keep your good away from you for it always will be and never is. Words have power, so be clear. For example, “I am getting better.” While this may be true, it can keep your wholeness at bay.
Grounded in truth. While your affirmations should challenge your entrenched beliefs, affirming what you believe to be false does not work. However, all you need is a tiny bit of faith for your affirmation to be powerful and transformative. Find some small part of you that knows the higher truth of your being and affirm that. What I am asking you to do is to shift your perspective to affirm the glass as half full instead of half empty. As Rev. Paul Hasselbeck says, “Faith it ‘till you make it! “
For example, you can state, I am healthy and believe it because you know you are living a vibrant, active life, and the diagnosis you my name you might have received does not limit your good. Are you in perfect health according to some medical standard? No, but by affirming I am healthy, you can open yourself to the areas where your body is thriving and open yourself to a state of appreciation and gratitude that allows your health to expand.
Claim your good right now by using the power of affirmations in writing. I know that one of the ways for me to remember something, to commit it to memory, is to write it down. I have often written out my affirmations longhand, over and over again, like the good Catholic schoolboy that I was…
Claim your good right now by changing the words you speak. Words have power! Yet we use them so indiscriminately. “I am tired; I am worn out; I don’t have enough energy” are affirmations of the negative. Imagine what you could create by turning the spoken words around: “I am recharging; I am primed and ready; I have the perfect amount of energy.“
These alternative ways of using the power of your words may seem awkward at first, but experiment and find ways to make them your own, and you will experience the power within you to create health.
Step-by-step, affirmation after affirmation, we open ourselves to the power of God [Life] in our lives…
I hope you enjoyed the article and will include affirmations in your manifestation toolkit!
Keep manifesting only good things 🙂
Tony
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