I have good news. Positive affirmations really work. For real. I have gone through various times in the past few months of writing affirmations in the morning and when I stick with it, the results appear before my eyes. Almost effortless.
I have done affirmations various ways for a while, though not consistently. A few months ago I returned to an affirmation journal I had started in 2007. At the beginning of June this year, there was mostly blank pages in this journal; now it is almost half-full.
When I am practicing affirmations, I fill one page in the journal with the positive statement I am working on. This statement is always written in the present tense ("I have 5 successful paying massage sessions every week"), as if you already have that which you are manifesting. This sentence gets written repeatedly until the page is filled and this is repeated everyday until the sentence becomes true in the present moment.
When I started it took me no more than 5 days to switch from writing that I have 5 sessions per week to 10 sessions per week. The month before I started writing the affirmations, I had 4 sessions per week at the most. The first week of writing the affirmation of having 5 sessions every week I had 7 sessions. I had done no extra advertising and went from having 4 to 7 sessions a week. The affirmations and the intention behind them brought me those sessions. I figured, this is easy, lets go for my long-term goal of seeing 10 people every week. Though never making it to 10 sessions for the week, I fluctuated between 7 and 8 sessions that month. My affirmations lapsed when I left for a week at the end of June and then came back straight into a very intense summer semester.
I didn't return to the affirmations until months later. In August, I had gone down to 5 sessions a week, if that. I know that a big part of that was that I couldn't work that much with such a heavy load of schoolwork. I had just enough work to sustain me and knew I would return back to manifesting more once there was the room for it.
In September, I started back again with affirming 5 sessions a week and by the second week in September I was meeting my quota. Then I decided to try something different. I increased the number to 6 sessions per week. It took a while for the energy to work but I jumped from 5 sessions a week to 8 sessions a week. I was still only increasing the number I was writing by 1, but I was having to catch up with the number of sessions on my schedule. This is all still with no extra advertising. I was really amazed.
In October, I decided to apply this new practice to another challenge I was facing. My affirmation switched to "I am passing my comprehensive exams with ease and enjoyment." This was my last semester of graduate school and I had put off taking my comprehensive exams which basically required me to write three term papers in one week. Even though I felt fairly confident that I will pass (as of now I am still waiting to hear my grade), writing this sentence every morning leading up to and during the exam week I felt more secure and relaxed about the task.
At the end of the week of writing my exam, I was having a casual conversation with a friend of mine who is also in her last semester of a graduate program at UF. She mentioned something about a graduation application. I paused. Apparently the application deadline at UF had passed weeks ago. When I found this information on the USF website I saw that the deadline was also back in September. What a denouement. Here I was at the end of my exam and now I wasn't even sure I could graduate this semester. If I couldn't, I would have to take another class next semester though I would be finished with all my course work; I have to be enrolled to graduate.
On Monday, I contacted the people at the college that I needed to and by mid-week my case was in review by the dean. This revelation of my questionable fate this semester was reflected in my affirmations. In November, my sentence became, "I am graduating with an MA in Religious Studies..." I wrote this one for about a week before I heard back from the graduate office that I had been approved.
The thing with affirmations is that we do not have the capacity to link the outcomes with the act of writing these sentences definitively. But I am surely convinced enough to keep at it. I will admit that I don't write everyday, but let's say 5-6 days out of the week. I do feel the writing everyday builds an energetic momentum. The physical act of writing solidifies the intention. Almost literally. The Universe takes the vision and creates it right in front of you in real form.
Affirmations don't need to be written, or repeated, though repetition surely creates more power. Sometimes I will write affirmations on sticky notes and place them places I will see often. One can also say affirmations out loud, preferably in the mirror.
I recently came across a great demonstration of verbal affirmations. May the cuteness convince you to take a look in a mirror and state your love for life.
I have done affirmations various ways for a while, though not consistently. A few months ago I returned to an affirmation journal I had started in 2007. At the beginning of June this year, there was mostly blank pages in this journal; now it is almost half-full.
When I am practicing affirmations, I fill one page in the journal with the positive statement I am working on. This statement is always written in the present tense ("I have 5 successful paying massage sessions every week"), as if you already have that which you are manifesting. This sentence gets written repeatedly until the page is filled and this is repeated everyday until the sentence becomes true in the present moment.
When I started it took me no more than 5 days to switch from writing that I have 5 sessions per week to 10 sessions per week. The month before I started writing the affirmations, I had 4 sessions per week at the most. The first week of writing the affirmation of having 5 sessions every week I had 7 sessions. I had done no extra advertising and went from having 4 to 7 sessions a week. The affirmations and the intention behind them brought me those sessions. I figured, this is easy, lets go for my long-term goal of seeing 10 people every week. Though never making it to 10 sessions for the week, I fluctuated between 7 and 8 sessions that month. My affirmations lapsed when I left for a week at the end of June and then came back straight into a very intense summer semester.
I didn't return to the affirmations until months later. In August, I had gone down to 5 sessions a week, if that. I know that a big part of that was that I couldn't work that much with such a heavy load of schoolwork. I had just enough work to sustain me and knew I would return back to manifesting more once there was the room for it.
In September, I started back again with affirming 5 sessions a week and by the second week in September I was meeting my quota. Then I decided to try something different. I increased the number to 6 sessions per week. It took a while for the energy to work but I jumped from 5 sessions a week to 8 sessions a week. I was still only increasing the number I was writing by 1, but I was having to catch up with the number of sessions on my schedule. This is all still with no extra advertising. I was really amazed.
In October, I decided to apply this new practice to another challenge I was facing. My affirmation switched to "I am passing my comprehensive exams with ease and enjoyment." This was my last semester of graduate school and I had put off taking my comprehensive exams which basically required me to write three term papers in one week. Even though I felt fairly confident that I will pass (as of now I am still waiting to hear my grade), writing this sentence every morning leading up to and during the exam week I felt more secure and relaxed about the task.
At the end of the week of writing my exam, I was having a casual conversation with a friend of mine who is also in her last semester of a graduate program at UF. She mentioned something about a graduation application. I paused. Apparently the application deadline at UF had passed weeks ago. When I found this information on the USF website I saw that the deadline was also back in September. What a denouement. Here I was at the end of my exam and now I wasn't even sure I could graduate this semester. If I couldn't, I would have to take another class next semester though I would be finished with all my course work; I have to be enrolled to graduate.
On Monday, I contacted the people at the college that I needed to and by mid-week my case was in review by the dean. This revelation of my questionable fate this semester was reflected in my affirmations. In November, my sentence became, "I am graduating with an MA in Religious Studies..." I wrote this one for about a week before I heard back from the graduate office that I had been approved.
The thing with affirmations is that we do not have the capacity to link the outcomes with the act of writing these sentences definitively. But I am surely convinced enough to keep at it. I will admit that I don't write everyday, but let's say 5-6 days out of the week. I do feel the writing everyday builds an energetic momentum. The physical act of writing solidifies the intention. Almost literally. The Universe takes the vision and creates it right in front of you in real form.
Affirmations don't need to be written, or repeated, though repetition surely creates more power. Sometimes I will write affirmations on sticky notes and place them places I will see often. One can also say affirmations out loud, preferably in the mirror.
I recently came across a great demonstration of verbal affirmations. May the cuteness convince you to take a look in a mirror and state your love for life.
