Affirmations

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An affirmation used to just be a declaration that something is true. In this point in time, however, an affirmation is more often thought of as a statement of something we wish to have in our lives...

As such, affirmations have become a tool we may use when working with the Law of Attraction. The affirmation would then be a carefully worded statement that reflects our positive thoughts about whatever it is we want to bring into our lives.
An affirmation is stated from the perspective of ourselves already having it in our lives right now ~ and then, as is stated in the Law of Attraction, we can attract more of the same into our lives...

There are four points to consider in order to craft effective affirmations:

• It needs to be in the present tense.
• It needs to be personal.
• It needs to be positive.
• It needs to be specific.

This means that a good affirmation often will start with “I have ...”, “I am ...”, or “I will ...”. And whatever it is that follows that needs to make sense to you. It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks about it ~ after all, it is your affirmation!

The hardest one for me is to be specific.
For instance, using the following statement as an affirmation may not attract to you what you had in mind: “I am enjoying an ever growing wealth, I am wealthy”. As you crafted the statement, what you had in mind may have been money. Yet the affirmation can also attract a wealth of experiences into your live. Or even the things one may visualize when thinking about wealthy people, like handsome men, beautiful women, fast cars, big mansions, etc. And that is totally okay ~ as long as your intent wasn’t for the affirmation to help you attract funds to pay next month’s bills...
In other words, working with affirmations you have to call a spade a spade! If it is money you want to attract into your life, you should use the word ‘money’ in the affirmation.

It is always a good idea to create an affirmation that you can relate to with a visualization as well. And there too, it is good to be specific! If your visualization is a big river of money flowing by you, chances are that the money you attract into your life will do exactly that; as you get more money, you find yourself having greater expenses as well...
A better visualization might be a nice big magnet...

When you have crafted the affirmation that is in the present tense, is positive, personal, specific, and has a nice visualization to go along with it ~ you start using it.
You tell it to yourself. You write it down. You start or end your meditations with it...
And pretty soon you find that you are indeed attracting that which you are affirming!
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