Affirmations and the Law of Attraction: A Dynamic Duo for Achieving Your Desires
Affirmations promise to provide us access to our untapped potential. By affirming that we already have and are what we desire to be, do, and have, we tap into the law of attraction to manifest our heart’s desire.
It sounds easy enough until practically everything you objectively observe with your senses negates what you’ve affirmed. This is one of the most frustrating components when manifesting your good. Likewise, just about everyone could use more financial wealth and well-being. However, affirming that “I am financially wealthy” is easily negated if one’s account shows a balance far below what anyone would consider a symbol of wealth. It becomes much more challenging to believe, whereas what you desire while your reality reflects the exact opposite you affirm that you already possess. Disbelief is often the sole reason why repeatedly restating and reciting affirmations day in and day out fails. In other words, you can constantly read and repeat affirmations until the cows come home, and it will continue not to work until you wholeheartedly believe. Otherwise, it is just wishful thinking.
Understandably, believing in something that cannot yet be observed and experienced through your senses is challenging. This raises an interesting question: how does one shift their belief when everything around you negates your intention? So glad you asked. We are all creative beings with the ability to think independently of circumstances. Thoughts are things, as the thoughts we think create our reality. Hence, as within, so without. From an early age, we are born into a set of cultural and familiar beliefs that impress and shape the pattern of our thoughts. We think, analyze, and rationalize our thoughts through the faculty of our conscious mind.
On the other hand, we impress our subconscious mind with our beliefs. Unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious can only accept what is impressed upon it. In other words, it cannot selectively filter what it receives.
Be it good, bad, or indifferent, the subconscious can only accept what is implanted. We can either sow seeds of what we desire to invite into our experience or deposit seeds of thought that mirror what we admonish. Add in emotion, and it impresses your subconscious much faster. We have been conditioned to disproportionately focus on the situations, circumstances, and events we fear most. Fear stirs up heightened emotion, accelerating the rate at which the things you fear most are planted and accepted into your subconscious. Being that like attracts like, one fear-based thought attracts another, and another, taking you into a downward spiral of disempowering thoughts that are likely to leave you feeling depressed, oppressed, and dejected until it is neutralized with better-feeling thoughts that raise your vibration. We can change by shifting the pattern of our beliefs and impressing new habits onto our subconscious. Everything across this planet is static—situations, circumstances, perspectives, truths, individuals, animate and intimate objects, plant life, and the like. Thankfully, we can all release what no longer serves and form new habit patterns by impressing new beliefs onto the subconscious mind by meditating (focusing your thoughts and attention on your intention) on what you want.
Mediation has been misconstrued as requiring prior training, instruction, or pre-qualification to mediate. Contrary to popular belief, anything you think about and focus your attention on things, aka “mentate” is mediation. Desired beliefs can be impressed into the subconscious by repeatedly affirming and reaffirming your intention in the present tense (I am all health, wealth, and well-being) by resting in a quiet, still space, without distractions several times a day, affirming aloud while looking in the mirror, and meditating while in a tired, sleepy state immediately before drifting off to sleep at night and in the early waking hour before you rise to ready yourself for the day while remaining steadfast to your intention until it forms a pattern of belief, and manifesting your intention.
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