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Affirmations: Part Two

How do you change your thought patterns? How do you get the voices in your head to say things that are inspirational and helpful?

Feed Your Brain Good "Stuff"

To begin with, you must feed your brain with good stuff "brain food". Read biographies of people who changed the world for good. Listen to music that makes you want to work harder or dance longer. Watch movies and plays that exalt goodness, truth, nobility, courage, beauty and the magnificent gift of life. Steer conversations to constructive topics. Get a life.

Get a life? Sure. Too many people have way too much time on their hands. They have nothing better to do than sit around and worry, whine or complain. If they worked more, if they studied more, if they spent more time with their family and friends, they would notice a major change in the content of their thoughts, as well as in the quality of their life.

Affirm What You Want

Another thing you can do to change your thought patterns is the proactive use of affirmations. I know that many people have used affirmations and say they didn't work. But if we look closely at how their affirmations were crafted it is no wonder things did not go as well as they wished.

Here is an affirmation that I have actually heard people use for kicking a nicotine habit.

"I do not smoke because it is not healthy."

Quick. I do not want you to think of smoking. What happened when you read the previous sentence? You had to think of smoking in order to not think of it. Consequently, the above affirmation only focuses the mind on smoking! (This is why the Say No to Drugs campaign-as well meaning as it was-was such a flop.)

"I will no longer lose my temper."

What is happening here? Rather than affirming how They intend to behave from now on, the person is affirming how they wish to no longer behave. Again, they will end up focusing on the less-than resourceful behavior and, consequently, get more of what they say they no longer want!

Affirm what you intend to produce:
"I am a person who consistently makes choices that increase my health."
"I am a calm and confident person."

Once you craft your affirmation, you then need to spend time writing down as many reasons as possible for why this affirmation is your reality. If you craft an affirmation that declares you can learn anything you wish quickly and easily, then begin to go back in your history and think of all the times you learned something easily and relatively quickly. You learned to speak a language before you were three. You learned to ride a bicycle in a matter of days, tie your shoes in minutes. See the picture here?

Developing New Realities

What if the affirmation is a new reality-one you wish to create? What if, up until now, you have not been such a person as this affirmations declares? Then write out all sorts of new ways such an affirmation will inspire you to behave in the future. When you make the affirmation, see in your mind's eye this new desired behavior being acted out.

I suggest that you craft three sets of affirmations. 1. Write out three affirmations about your career and related matters.

2. Write out three affirmations regarding who you are as a person.

3. Write out three more affirmations about how your life is to unfold.

Place each set of affirmations on a 3 x 5 card.

From the time you awake until lunch, consistently profess one set of affirmations. From lunch until you get home from work, affirm another set of beliefs you will see turn into reality. Then, for the rest of the evening, do the same with the final set of affirmations. Do this for 30 days. Prepare for a new reality!

For instance, your affirmation gift may look like this:

• I am a massively productive and resourceful person.
  
• I consistently discover new ways to generate large sums of money for my business and life.
  
• I can learn anything I wish, easily and quickly.
  
• I am confident that I have all the resources I need for a happy and productive life.
  
• I am the sort of person that people want to be around, deriving confidence and hope for their own goals and desires.
  
• I live my life so as to deserve the trust of others.
  
• My future is filled with opportunities to do good and to prosper.
  
• My body has all the resources needed to attain and maintain health and to continually produce energy.
  
• I continually look for new and exciting experiences so as to grow as a person and enjoy the gift of life.
  

When you declare these affirmations, feel the words filling your mind and body. Feel the sound of your words turning into a light that permeates your whole person. See the light emanating from your body, bathing the world around you.

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Dr. Monte E. Wilson, III
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