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Create Effective Affirmations - Part 2

By: Dr. Laura De Giorgio STAGE 2

The second stage of writing affirmations consists of your "goal-specific" affirmations. Your goal should be stated in positive terms (what you want to experience instead of what you don't want), and be in a present tense - "as if" the desired outcome is your reality now.

Your affirmations should begin with "I am" or "I am becoming", "I have", etc.

Your affirmations should also be specific. For example, if you affirmed "I now have more money" - you may find one cent somewhere and the affirmation would be fulfilled, but that's probably not what you had in mind. Your subconscious mind takes your statements literally and it fulfills them according to what you affirm. A better affirmation would be "I now have $ (specific amount)", or "I am now earning $ (specific amount) a month".

You may write these affirmations in the first ("I am"), second ("You are") and third person ("[your name] is").

Your affirmations will be even more effective if you incorporate "feeling" words into your affirmations. For example
"I feel so good that I am now able to have slim, trim and fit body I desire."

"I enjoy eating fresh fruits and vegetables."

"I have decided to melt 10 pounds from my body."

"I am committed to exercise vigorously each day. "

Certain types of general affirmations do work well, too.

For example

"All my needs are now and forever supplied", or

"I am enjoying perfect health and ideal weight now and forever".

These general types of affirmations are pretty close to the affirmations you were writing in the first stage of the affirmation process because what you're doing here is affirming and aligning yourself with spiritual truths. You are simply affirming that you desire to experience in your physical world what is already true for you in spirit. You are acknowledging these spiritual truths and allowing them to express in your life.

The universe (or, your subconscious / Superconscious mind - whatever term you prefer) follows the path of least resistance. This means that what you ask for will come in a way that is the easiest to get according to your beliefs, desires and expectations and according to beliefs, desires and expectations of everyone else who may be involved in your project.

If you leave the "how", what you desire will come about often much faster than if you insist that it has to come in any specific way. You can simply state:

"[your desired goal] now manifests for me in a perfect way for the highest good of all".

There may be many more ways of getting what we desire than the ways we are consciously aware of, so leaving this element to the universal creative intelligence (or to your "inner wisdom") would often help you to get something that is even better than what you have originally envisioned.

It is also good to distinguish between the "form" and the "essence". The "essence" relates to the feeling you're after, the feeling you believe the specific thing would give you. The "form" is the thing you believe will best fulfill this need and enable you to experience the desired feeling. Often times we may get exactly the thing we asked for only to find out that it didn't really give us the feeling we desired to experience. Also, focusing on the "essence" or the "feeling" will help to manifest the truly desired experience in your life much faster and to your greater satisfaction.

To find out what is the "essence" of what you desire, you may simply ask yourself a question "What will having this thing enable me to experience?" For example if you are in debt, you ultimate desire to have all of your needs met and all debts paid off. Even if it is a financial debt, you may or may not need money to pay it off. There are many different ways in which your debt may be cleared – it may happen that you encounter new opportunities to create that money and pay the debt, it may happen that money from an unexpected source lands in your lap, it may happen that the debt simply becomes erased as if it never existed, or some other serendipitous circumstances occur. For this reason, it is always in your best interest to remain open and expect even miraculous solutions, while at the same time you commit yourself to do your very best to help yourself.

The affirmations you write will work in conjunction with the beliefs which are already impressed upon your subconscious mind. So, if you are writing affirmations for prosperity, what may initially happen is that you end up with more offers for the same type of work you're accustomed to getting.

This simply means that, through repeated action, this method of acquiring money has become conditioned in your subconscious mind. And, of course, you can change it by reaffirming the method in which you'd rather be acquiring money now, until this new idea becomes impressed upon your subconscious mind.

Or, if you have a health challenge, and begin to affirm for perfect health, the first method you may come across may again be the one that is most acceptable to you according to beliefs and conditioning already impressed in your subconscious mind.

(continued in part 3)

Article Source: http://www.lifeweightloss.com

Dr. Laura De Giorgio is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. She has created hundreds of hypnosis recordings. She also publishes a free inspiring, informative and motivational newsletter and offers many free hypnosis downloads at www.deeptrancenow.com Here is one helpful program for working with affirmations: Affirmation Software

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