Filed under: nature of reality, self-awareness, self-development, self-empowerment, study mind powers | Tags: affirmations, auto-suggestion, consciousness, declarations, mind powers, proclaimations
The technique of playing with words in such a way as saying silently or verbally a statement to our self is commonly said to be affirmations. In Napoleon Hill’s classic book it is known as auto-suggestion. T Harv Eker calls them Declarations. Other teachers call them other names such as incantations. I learn a new name for them as Proclaimations from my mentor Dov Baron. I only heard that this year but I like this one the most as it gives it a sense of ownership and proclaiming something as truth for me personally. I was listening to an audio yesterday of Louise Hay when she was celebrating her 80th birthday. I heard her say every word we say and every thought we think is an affirmation. Nevertheless the affirmations of harnessing our own mind power to create our reality I consider powerful when it is focussed, concentrated and repeated often. Scatterred thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces. Consider the force of sun rays. Scattered over a piece of paper a force is ever present but maybe not so readily observed in our world. Gather a magnifying glass and harness those sun rays on one spot on the paper and you will see the power present. Those rays of sunlight when concentrated in one direction can burn a hole in that same paper. Remember this is energy at it’s most fundamental level. Similarly our thoughts are energy at it’s most fundamental level. We get to direct those thoughts and are able to harness our thoughts using our mind like a tool similar to using the magnifying glass to harness the power of sun rays.
I was just reading about affirmations in John Kehoe’s book called “Mind Power Into The 21st Century”
In his books he says “Affirmations are simple statements repeated to yourself silently or aloud, whatever feels most comfortable and practical to you at a time.”… “You decide upon a statement that represents what you want to have happen to you, and you repeat it to yourself over and over again.”
This is a habit I believe all of us with any level of interest in creating our reality can start to bring into our life more consciously. I agree with Louise Hay. I’m sure we are affirming truths to ourself all the time. The challenge is we do most of these unconsciously and may have many disempowering affirmations and rarely do we take the time to focus on consciously directing our mind to affirm a positive empowering statement for ourself. Listen to the conversation of a stranger or friend and observe how many affirmation a person says to themselves subtlely within 5 minutes. We humans can be amazing how asleep we are to the power of our own words. They can cause us harm or help.
When done consciously affirmations give our mind something to focus on for our own benefit. As John Kehoe writes in his book “Your mind can hold only one thought at a time, so an affirmation works by “filling” your mind with thoughts that support your goal.”
An affirmation sculpted well, in the process of affirming, your mind ” effortlessly picks up the implications and message of your affirmation”
I highlighted a few things John Kehoe advises in his book to remember when doing affirmations.
” Don’t worry about believing, just keep repeating.”
I think his point here is like the Nike slogan.. Just Do It!
The believability factor is not needed to be there in the beginning.
Getting started is what matters. Improve on believability can be worked on once you atleast have begun in direction of your desires.
“The conscious mind will quite naturally pick up the content of whatever you are affirming and the correct thoughts will seep into your consciousness. You don’t have to force anything”
His second point I highlited was “Always affrim in the positive. Make a positive statement, not a negative one”
I want to get into this one quite a bit here.
His point here is when sculpting afftirmations go for the way that gives an image in your mind directly going for what you have as desired outcome. Using words like “Not” and “Do Not” are not part of consciously designed affirmations.
Meaning, an affirmation that you desire to bring you more relaxation and calmness is sculpted in a way that gives the mind only possibility of seeing images that represent this to ourself when saying the affirmation. A good example is in John Kehoe’s book of an affirmation sculpted the incorrect way would be “I’m not going to be uptight”
You actually want the affirmation sculpted in a way that directs the mind *towards* images of what you want rather than the indirect manner of moving away from what you do not want. Comparative use of words to get you away from what you do not want in the hope of getting what you want is not how our more powerful subconscious mind powers work effectively. If your desire is to feel relaxed and calm then create an affirmation that direct the mind *towards* this.. “I feel relaxed and calm” would be a good simple one rather than “I’m not goiing to be uptight”.. the important thing to get here is be directly *towards* what you desire with your affrimations… do not make the mistake of using affirmations that are moving you away from what you do not want. Give your mind the job of focussing *towards your desires*. Using affirmations in a comparatives sense is not a good way to use affirmations. Directly *for* your desired outcome is the best way to use affirmations.
John Kehoe’s third main point I highlited was: “Keep your affirmation short. An affirmation should be like a mantra: short and simple, easy to say and easy to repeat. I like to keep my affirmations to ten words or less.”
My personal suggestion is it is alright when designing your affirmation getting clear on what you want to write down lots of words but when it comes to actually using them as a habit to say to oneself find as few as words as possible to represent to yourself personally the essence of what you want to imprint into your own being. Fine tune it and make the affirmation you are actually going to use conscise and meaningful to you personally. This might take some work but you are worth it, right ? If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well!
Finally on this point John Kehoe writes “Repetition is what will imprint your affirmation into your consciousness, so the shorter the better. I repeat: make it short, make it rhythmic, make it easy to say.”
Hope my bit of sharing in this blog on affirmations is helpful.
take care and create a great weekend.
You are worth it!
Filed under: nature of reality, self-development, self-empowerment, study mind powers | Tags: Manifesting, Mind Power, mind powers, successful visualization, technique of visualization, Visualization, visualization technique
In previous post I described what John Kehoe explains the technique of visualization is in relation to our mind powers.
Here I will share what I learn from his book is the way to go about this visualization technique.
The very first aspect is simply deciding what we want to do.
That is, have a clear outcome we wish to be part of our life.
Decide what that is for us.
This is actually very important because in general a lot of us humans are very good at getting clear what we do not want or what we are against in life. However, giving real focussed attention on what we really desire that is ideal to our mind and dear to our heart is worth giving much more of our conscious attention to. Maybe in society in general this is something we can all get much better at. I certainly think and feel so.
So once we’ve picked a clear outcome we desire to see in our life the next important element is to relax our own mind in readiness to remove all distractions and give our concentrated attention to what we intend to see on that inner screen of our own mind.
Once we are comfortable in body and mind then we direct our thoughts to see the images that represent to us the outcome we desire taking place in our life. We spend a concentrated period of say 5 to 10 minutes where we linger on thoughts of doing and having the thing we desire in our own life. We live in this as an experience right now entering into the role in the detail we see as being real to us and become what we would be as we are experiencing it happening in our life.
Now doing this once is like creating an energetic calibration for our own mind and beingness to know the blueprints to experience this in our own life. Doing this more than once gives more power to what we put our mind to work on. As John Kehoe says in his book:
“the mental pictures we indulge in, the ones we regularly think about, become a blueprint for our goals, a mold into which we pour our energy. These pictures are real forces that will work for us.”
I like to point out at this stage he is talking about consciously being in process of creating things we like to see happen in our life. Let there be no doubt that if we give our attention and energy to unconsciously imaging scenarios happening in our life we fear seeing unfold or would hate to see happen that is also the very same technique but that is when we would be having our mind not serving us well.
Visualization is still visualization whether it is seeing mental pictures of what we desire or what we might fear or worry about.
Practicing getting better at this technique for what we desire is the aim here.
John Kehoe also describes we can have two forms of visualization.
One he calls precise visualization where we know the exact scenes of what we desire to see happen in our life and running them through our mind much like a preset script.
The other form is what he calls free-flowing visualization is which we allow images to come and go in our mind without choosing them directly. We allow to be shown on inner screen of our mind the outcome we desire to see unfold in our life. We live in the experience and let the visions come to us as our thoughts linger in being in the experience.
The key thing to successful visualization as John Kehoe prescribes is practice every day just like a committed and elite olympic athlete practices in their chosen field of sport.
As John Kehoe says “results come when the image is imprinted again and again and again….any thought put into our mind, and nourished regularly, will produce results in your life…. any image held in the mind is a force that will eventually produce an effect”
I like to finish of this blog entry by saying that in John Kehoe book he is not suggesting this is like magic wand and thought by itself will make the outcome happen.
There is a real force here whenever we are imaging with our thoughts, yes indeed. Energy is clearly at play, that is a definite role in forming our reality.
However, what I understand of this process is this technique attracts and leads to situations and opportunities coming our way that will *lead* us to our desired outcome. We still have to be actively involved in being and doing the behaviour and actions that are congruent with having this desired result in our life. We cannot sit on the sidelines so to speak. We have to get in the field of our own life game and make it happen to really win on the scoreboard that counts as meaningful result in our own life. A big part of our own mind power is to take inspired action based on what we’ve set our mind on the task of seeing happen in our life and our faith and trust in our heart what can unfold in our life.
Maybe this is the subtle shift that moves a desired result we are in process of attracting to an actual result we have manifested we are living.
Take wonderful care with your inner vision and happy manifesting in your inspired actions
