Four positive affirmations that can change your life

This article focuses on four great affirmation techniques that will help you develop a positive outlook

In previous articles I have written about the benefits of having a positive attitude and how it is the key to being happy, leading a successful life, and helping yourself through any challenge. Our self talk plays a huge role in how we feel and positive thinking leads to a confident person who is happy with their life as it is right now - even if they are working towards achieving goals and dreams.

To achieve a sense of being fulfilled with who you are right now it is important to combact the negative thoughts that will be drifting through your mind every single day that will sow the seeds of doubt and result in us putting ourselves down for every little mistake we make.

One thing that can help are positive affirmations and there are a few different ways you can use positive affirmations which is what I cover in this article.

Positive affirmations can be used throughout the day anywhere and at anytime you need them, the more you use them the easier positive thoughts will take over negative ones and you will see benefits happening in your life.

An affirmation is a simple technique that is used to change negative self-talk that we are rarely even aware of doing, into looking at your life with a more positive attitude. Most of us have for many years bombarded ourselves with negative thoughts so changing your thoughts and the way you think won’t happen overnight but if you stick with affirmations they will work once you have retrained your way of thinking.

Adding your emotions to affirmations

To enjoy success using affirmations you must put all your emotions into saying them. It is important to avoid just saying words over and over, you have to allow yourself to feel what you are saying with passion. Remember you want to develop a new you which means you must be sick and tired of the new you. So embrace this new you with emotion, allow your emotions to take over and say it like you mean it. Feel the emotion of determination and with that emotion say your affirmations.

Using positive affirmations in this way is far more effective than just repeating a bunch of words that don't mean anything to you.

Affirmation techniques

There are many different affirmation techniques for dealing with different situations in life and the most popular and successful are listed below.

The mirror technique
This technique helps you to appreciate yourself and develop self-awareness and self-esteem, you should stand in front of a mirror, preferably a full length one in either just your underwear or better still naked. Start at your head and working down your body say out loud what it is you like about areas of your body, for example you could say “I like the way my hair shines, the slight differences in color where the light hits it” or “ my eyes are a lovely shade of _ _ _ _. They sparkle and glint; my eyes are a wonderful feature” take the time and go slowly over all your body building up a more positive image of yourself.

If you don't like your body you may want to come back to this one, or you can just embrace it, strip down (when you know you have complete privacy of course) and choose to say those words to yourself. After all if you can tell yourself you are no good, why not embrace telling yourself you are brilliant.

When I first used the mirror technique I was told to kiss myself too - you may (or may not LOL) want to embrace that too! Kiss the mirror and say "I love you and I intend to show just how much I love and appreciate you by looking after you" - it's easy to fall in love with yourself when you say that. If it helps see the face of someone you love looking back at you and saying that too you. How would you feel as they say those words?

If using someone else helps you at the beginning then go ahead but eventually your aim must be to look in that mirror, stare back at yourself and affirm what is great about you.

The anywhere technique
This technique can be used anywhere and whenever you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, when you realize you are having a negative thought think of yourself turning down a volume knob inside your head so that you turn it down low enough so as not to hear it any longer. Then think a positive affirmation to replace the negative and turn the volume back up repeating it to yourself.

I will often scream "ENOUGH!" in my head, some people scream "STOP" or "CANCEL" - whatever word works for you is fine. Find a word that will stop you in the middle of your negative thought and then cancel it out by saying something positive immediately. In fact for every negative thought I encourage you to say 7 positive things about yourself!

This technique can be used any time, any place and any where! On the train, at work, while in bed falling asleep  - at any moment you hear your self-talk changing to negative then cancel it out and change it around.

The trashcan technique
If you have negative thoughts write them down on a scrap of paper, screw the paper up into a ball and throw it into the trashcan, by doing this you are telling yourself these thoughts are nothing but rubbish and that’s where they belong. I LOVE this technique and my recommendation is that you carry around a small notepad with you because at the beginning you may find yourself writing alot! To add to this technique you may also want to follow it up with something positive. Write something great in your notepad and keep it in there.

Put the date on the top of the page and see how many positive thoughts you have on that one page in a day - it will give you a hint as to how many negative ones you have thrown away as rubbish. Hopefully as time goes by your list will show shorter because you won't be engaging in negative thoughts as much.

The meditation technique
Find somewhere quiet where you able to relax for 5 or 10 minutes close your eyes and let your mind empty of all thoughts and feelings. Begin to repeat your affirmation to yourself over and over again while concentrating on the words you are repeating and believe in what you are saying. Always remember to engage your emotions too, this is not about repating a bunch of empty affirmations but about a desire to experience (by choice) a particular emotion. So if during your meditation you repeat the phrase "I choose to love and appreciate myself" then bring in the emotion of love - think about someone you love and appreciate - once you feel that emotion remember it and bring it back whenever you think about yourself.

These four affirmation techniques can support you in developing your self worth and you can choose to use just one or more than one - whatever works for you. A combination of them all will really help to speed up your personal growth and provide you with even more tools to help you on your journey towards embracing your divine self.

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