Right then, affirmations. In fact, GOAL affirmations.Listen, it's no good rolling your eyes and saying 'Here we go', I can see you from here!
Actually, here's a good exercise: If I ask you,. right now, to go and fetch me your written list of goals, could you? Yes? That's good! No? That's bad!
And if not, put any cynicism aside for a while and read on.....
A goal affirmation is where you have a statement or goal written down, and you read them to yourself at regular intervals, usually morning and night. You also have one or two of them as your 'mission statement', which you can reel off at any time.
Do they work? Well, yes they do, actually.
How do they work? Blimey, what do you think I am, a psychologist?
Basically it's to do with a big battle between
conscious and subconscious minds. Oooh it's a big bust up I can tell you, its like 'Lord of Rings' on acid.
The subconscious mind will believe what it is told by conscious mind, and unfortunately our conscious minds are programmed by society to not fulfill our full potential.
Paradoxically though, subconscious mind will *not* believe certain things......
This is important, and bearing that in mind, you need to be very careful about how you word affirmations.
Personality affirmations need to be in present tense. Materialistic affirmations need to be in future tense, and time specific.
Ok, you know me, I don't like messing around, here's examples.........
GOOD - If you say 'I am a strong and worthy person', your subconscious mind believes it, and will act accordingly.
BAD - If you tell it that 'by Dec 31st I will be a strong and worthy person', oh dear oh dear. This is no good, in fact it is damaging, because firstly you don't suddenly cross a finish line and become strong and worthy, and secondly it is telling your subconscious that at present you are *NOT* strong and worthy, and it will act accordingly!
