How powerful is an affirmation?

[Amir]

Hello, my fella co-creators! I know this looks very long but trust me, it's very short.

I would like to talk to you all about affirmations, and about their power. So I sit here the night I posted this... and ask "How powerful IS an affirmation?" and I ask not out of doubt, but out of mere curriousity.

So I am yet to begin the 100-day challenge. I start on September 5th. During my 100-day period, I will practice affirmations, journaling, appreciation, and I think I will consider meditation, I'm not really sure.

People always tend to say keep your affirmations' setting in the now. This is all good, but I don't think it really matters and that it all depends on the person, really. Take a person who is miserable. They say things like "Oh I hate my life. Life sucks. God hates me, etc, etc." What they don't know is that they are affirming that to themselves and the Universe is just thinking that that is what they want and just bring in more of that.

When a person affirms "I'mma be in so much trouble." They feel the guilt of the wrongdoing of whatever they have done and they fear of the following consequences and the Universe is doing just that.

So say a man tells his daughter he will give her $1000 for her birthday. She wouldn't be sitting in silence looking at a physical or mental image of the one grand every day until her birthday. She may just affirm to her friend(s), "Hey! I'm gonna get $1000 for my birthday!" and she would imagine every now and then what cool things the girl is going to do wiht the money.

I have already posted my successful "My bus is going to be the first one here!" affirmation story so I will tell another success story that I've had.

During this past Spring, my technology teacher is a 60-year-old man. He's not the meanest teacher in the world but not the nicest either. But I mmust say, he can be a battle axe sometimes! So I wanted a substitute teacher. So in the beginning of one week, on a Monday, I spoke and stated the affirmation, "We're gonna have a sub sometime this week!" and I let it go and didn't think of it anymore. Note that I said "we're GOING to" which denotes something happening in the future that we WILL do which is an apparent rule that i've broken when applying the Secret Attraction's Law.

So I waited... and waited another day. I will be honest. I have a string of dreaded doubt here and then but I knew that it was going to work. And come Wednesday, our teacher announced to the class that "I won't be here tomorrow." Then I got all excited. I didn't mean any of this out of rudeness, just to stretghen my manifestation muscle. The following Thursday we did have the substitute teacher.

This would be repeated again once more in April and twice more toward the end of May. Same future-tense affirmation but it worked ALL FOUR TIMES!!! YAY ME!!! No offence Mr. C, in case for some erie reason you just happen to be reading this! Anyway, never have I said once, "we HAVE a subsitutte this week" b/c I'd take it the Universe would know what I meant and it would take it I'm not being trustworthy.

So next time you're at work one day and you make a mistake, don't affirm or tell yourself under any circumstances that "Oh! I'm late for work! My boss is gonna yell at me!" or "Oh! I'm gonna so get fired if I get caught!" because ya know what??? You will! 'Cuz ya kknow why?!?!? Ya feelin in! You are adding the emphasis and feeling and passion to that statement! AND you're dwelling on it! Just do yourselves a favor and dwell on forgiveness in these instances.

So I hope I have sucessfully convinced you people that it perfectly fine to state a futuristic affirmation, just as long as you add positive passion, power, and enthusiasm like someone promisced you it really was going to happen.

It kind of sounds like I answered my own question here but do some of you find it more easier to affirm an affirmation than to apply all steps of the Law of Attraction?

(Last little tid-bit I promise!)

One other thing I wanted to talk about was manifesting my ideal woman. I was never able to manifest her. I don't know why but something always kept me from manifesting her, be it being unsure of what i want, having doubt, my subconscious thinking I wasn't ready, noticing that she wasn't here yet, etc. I've been trying for a year to bring her to my life and have always found it hard to manifest people and that's why she isn't here!!! I tryed EVERYTHING! I would visualize her everyday, I would speak affirmations, I would fantassize about her I followed the steps of the Secret but one thing I failed to do was let go. In the beginning of the Spring Break that just passed, I even tried "I will meet my perfect girlfriend right after Spring Break!" and after returning to school that week, I was expercting her, wondering when or if she would turn up and... I kept dwelling on her absence and she wasn't there. So I now, being at peace with the now, know that after a year of always wanting a partner... I will finally meet her this coming fall! DEFINATELTY!!!


Affirmations I am curently practicing-

- I will meet my ideal woman this fall and she fits everything on my "Perfect Girlfriend" list!

- I am going to recieve my Dell laptop this fall as well!

- God will give me everything that I want!


PS- Thank you for taking the time to read this post! It was shorter than it looked, didn't it? Yeah, because I affirmed it to you and you affirmed it to yourself.

[alison]

lol! I love your vibes' and humour. Thank you I needed this today. I think we can all take things a bit too seriously at times. I can see that you have fun with your manifestations too. Its a great feeling to send something out there and watch it come to you as requested.
Good luck and happy manifesting x

[Jason]

"Not only do affirmations impress the subconscious mind thus producing action in accordance with the will, but they project outwards from the mind into space, attract forces and help from other sources and bring them to minister and to bless."

-Henry Thomas Hamblin
Dynamic Thought, 1921

[Jason]

I like your post by the way. Not only do affirmations have power but the words you say do too. "Speak as if!"

"There is tremendous power in our words, and many of us are not aware of just how important they are."

-Louise L. Hay
The Power Within You,1991

Never read that book. It was quoted in another book.

[Amir]

Forgot to mention one thing.

Often when I walk past the pictures of my woman, I would often say "See ya this fall!" and feel excited about them. By the way, I think the words have power if you ADD the passion and power.

[Jason]

I agree.

[Lisa]

Great post, I needed to read this.

[Resham]

Wow this is really great - funny enough I was thinking about affirmations today as I've been pretty useless in practicing them. It shows you enjoy having fun with them - that's fantastic. a truly inspiring blog post Thanks :0)

[sara]

lol cool story:)

[Nadia]

that`s cool I do the whole "I`m getting an MP3 player" thing like I say it out loud so I know I WILL get it I sometimes doubt myself but I won't anymore =)

[Amir]

You do that! You will git that mp3 player.