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: self-awareness, self-empowerment, study mind powers | Tags: creation process, feelings, inner world, manifest, Manifesting, mind like a garden, mind power practices, mind powers, seeding technique
This is a mind power technique taught by John Kehoe.
This technique is taught with the analogy of our mind like a garden.
If we plant seeds in a garden and nurture them we expect them to grow.
If we neglect a garden, weeds can also grow.
Hence cultivating our mind like a garden tends to lead towards harvesting more of that which we like to see show up in our life.
We reap what we sow is what this is all about.
The seeding technique is really honing in on the feelings of that which we wish to experience with whatever we chosen to manifest.
The idea of this technique is to focus on the feelings by claiming in our inner world what we are deciding is for us to manifest in our life.
Where the visualization technique hones in on the images to see on the inner screen of our mind, the seeding technique hones on the feelings and very importantly to feel those feelings in the now, we seed with those feelings of already having it. This means working or playing in the feeling of emotions of that we have chosen as our outcome. We go with the feelings of having it. It is already happened so playing out the type of emotions of joy and happiness that reflect having achieved the dream or goal.
As John Kehoe writes in his book
“Whatever your personal reaction, feel it in your guts and make those feelings a part of you. Live in the certainty that you already have the thing that you want.”
This is in essence claiming it in our inner world first.
This goes to the heart of understanding that all manifesting is born with the inner world. This is the field the creation process starts and the outer world reflects what has been nurtured , nourished and tended to with feeling and repitition. When we cultivate the garden of our mind in this way then growth takes place and results produced just like a harvest. Whether we neglect or cultivate in this field of ours, the inner world must and will bring forth results in our life. Are they what we really want ?
What seeds are we planting in our inner world ?
John Kehoe suggest we have seeding technique be part of our mind power practices and it is a five-minute burst of energy that we create for ourself regularly.
I played with this technique myself tonight before I typed this blog entry out. I followed what John Kehoe writes about this technique because I had not been feeling as connected or effective with my own mind powers when I been working with the visualization techniques in recent times. In his book John explains that :
“Unlike visualization, in seeding you are primarily concerned with the feeling of whatever it is you are visualizing.”
This is how I approached the focus of my 5 minutes of working with my inner world. I was honing in on the feelings and at moments visuals would consciously be in my mind but the focus for me was the feelings and whatever images happened were a by-product of what I was feeling.
To sum up this technique John Kehoe says ” Regularly seed the feeling that you already have whatever it is that you want. It’s yours. Live it. Vibrate with it. Exalt and thrill with it. Claim it, absolutely as yours. Take possession of it in the inner world. “
I hope you enjoy playing with this tool in the fertile soil of your own mind.
May you reap a bountiful harvest in your outer world.
i
