Riding an excellent vibration
Keysha recently posted about the value of doing affirmations. I’ve had great success using them in in finding the right relationship, and also to find a house in a neighborhood I dreamed about but didn’t think existed. Long ago, I used them to get a job in a highly competitive industry.
Of course, as Keysha mentioned, the trick is to do them (write them, speak them, sing them, whatever) and to keep doing them. You can feel like a big fat fool sitting around writing affirmations when you don’t have a job, for instance, or when you stubbed your toe and even the dog is giving you the cold shoulder. But keep on keeping on.
When you’re writing affirmations, it really helps to be feeling good. For me, that means turning off Morning Joe, where the panelists mean well, but they’re always talking about life going to hell in a handbasket. Face it; most TV is depressing. Turn it off.
Instead, turn on music that turns you on. Turn it up loud. Take a few extremely deep breaths; fill your lungs to capacity. Say a prayer (not a desperate, pleading, begging prayer. Make a simple request for grace and calm; accept it and allow it to evaporate all bad feelings). Shake off the troubles of the day. When you feel your spirit lifting, start doing those affirmations.
For continued motivation, excitement, and inspiration, turn to a good book about the power of faith, affirmation, and the Law of Attraction. Skeptics claim that The Secret is hogwash; it’s not, but it may not be presented in a way that’s helpful to you. If you’re a Christian, check out Norman Vincent Peale’s Positive Imaging. Shakti Gawain’s Creative Visualization will appeal to people of all backgrounds, and it’s written simply and accessibly. I’m a big fan of anything by Florence Scovel Shinn or Claude Bristol, as well.
When you use an affirmation, you’re impressing your subconscious with your intention. You may have heard about how Jim Carrey, a man who once lived in his car, intended to make twenty million dollars and wrote himself a check for “for services rendered.” He visualized himself owning a spectacular house in California.
Well, you know how that turned out. To hear Jim Carrey discuss the power of intention, click here.
