Practising Affirmations: Change Yourself Through Affirmations

By www.anandaindia.org

Practising Affirmations: Change Yourself Through Affirmations

An affirmation is a statement of truth which one aspires to absorb into his life. It has been said that we are what we eat. It would be truer to say, "We are what we think." For our minds express, and also influence, the reality of what we are far more than our bodies do. Our thoughts even influence, to a great extent, our physical health.

Words, which are crystallized thoughts, have immeasurable power, especially when we speak them with concentration. The mere thought of fatigue is enough to sap our energy. To strengthen that thought by the words, "I'm exhausted," gives definition, and therefore added power, to the thought itself.

The difficulty is that our habits are buried in the subconscious mind. Thus, even when we resolve to change them, we find ourselves being drawn back repeatedly, and quite against our conscious will, into old ways.

Affirmations, on the other hand, when repeated with deep concentration, then carried into the subconscious, can change us on levels of the mind over which most of us have little conscious control.

Affirmations should be repeated in such a way as to lift the consciousness toward superconsciousness. This they can accomplish when we repeat them with deep concentration at the seat of divine awareness in the human body, the Christ center, which is a point in the forehead midway between the two eyebrows.

1.    Repeat the affirmation loudly at first, to command the full attention of your conscious mind.

2.    Then repeat it quietly, to absorb more deeply the meaning of the words.

3.    Then speak it in a whisper, carrying its meaning down into the subconscious.

4.    Repeat it again, silently, to deepen your absorption of it at the subconscious level.

5.    Then at last, with rising aspiration, repeat it at the spiritual eye, or the point between the eyebrows.

6.    At every level, repeat it several times, absorbing yourself ever-more-deeply in its meaning.

By repeated affirmation you can strengthen, and, later, spiritualize your awareness of any quality you want to develop.

Source: www.anandaindia.org

.

.

More from same author see: www.anandaindia.org

(See also: Practising Affirmations, Affirmations, Practising Affirmations, Life Transforming Affirmations, Essence of Affirmations, Faith and Belief, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Body Mind and Soul)