Affirmations are short positive statements that help us visualize what we want as if it is our current reality.
Positive affirmations help counteract the negative self-talk that can frequently take over our subconscious mind and tell us that we are not good enough to be who we want to be or do what we want to do.
Neuroscience experts have a popular phrase:
“Neurons that fire together wire together”.
In the world of positive psychology, this means that repetitively thinking positive or negative thoughts about ourselves creates real neural pathways in our brains that reinforce those ideas as truth.
So, if you allow your mind to regularly entertain negative self-thoughts, your brain paves neural pathways of limiting beliefs that psychologically hold you back from achieving your goals.
Luckily, however, the opposite is also true. By regularly entertaining positive beliefs about yourself, you allow your brain to wire together in a way that empowers you with the most confidence and enables you to reach your highest potential.
This psychological truth is why affirmations and visualization are so powerful.
Positive affirmations are the perfect tool to help you rewire the neural pathways in your brain and empower you to achieve your goals.
Affirmations are most effective when you take time to VISUALIZE and IMAGINE what the statement will look like for you personally in your own life.
For example, when you hear or say the affirmation: “I am wealthy and attract abundance into my life, it helps to visualize specifically what that looks like in your life. Where do you live in your ideal life? What business, job or income do you have? How much do you make? What do you do with your abundance?
The more specific your visualization is the better, so think about how you will reach your goal, what your goal will look like and what it will allow you to do.
Visualizing your affirmations daily allows you to focus on what you want in life and how to achieve it. Affirmations enable you to consciously and subconsciously recognize opportunities throughout the day that will move you in the direction you wish to go.
How to Use Affirmations
Selfpause has an incredible library of guided affirmations that, help your brain explore the immense possibilities of joy and success in your life. In addition to professionally recorded affirmations you can write, record, and meditate on your own personal affirmations, so you are best empowered to do your own dreaming.
Keeping your affirmation goals top of mind is key to achieving them. The more constructive energy and positive beliefs you give your brain about your goals, the more you push yourself in the direction of achieving them. With this in mind, go dream, affirm, and achieve!
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