Is it actually realizable for you to control your individual life experiences and change your personal environment, at least to some extent, through the the regular practice of speaking positive affirmations?
From manifesting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the perfect life partner or nurturing inner peace, there are quite a few demonstrations to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. We might want to take a personal “reality check,” however, to be certain that we actually trust that thought, our thought, has creative power before we try to transform the conditions in our life through a constant “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just deluding ourselves.
If we believe that “certain occurrences” in our personal life have no mental substructure or thought equivalent, but instead are completely and unarguably physical in origin, then how can we presume to positively affect the circumstances in our individual life through positive affirmations? What difference would it make for us to make an effort to “change our thinking” about our self, or a particular problem, if we didn’t have a conviction that by doing so we could “change our life”? If we expect our positive affirmations to move a mountain in our individual life, we absolutely must have at least a mustard seed of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations to affect physical change in our life.
Everyday, each of us manifests a certain amount of faith. When was the last time you were “surprised” at a sunrise? Probably you didn’t worry the night before that there might be a possibility that the sun might not come up again in the morning. It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a a bit of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can start with that and build a mountain of faith to put behind our affirmations.
Doing affirmations while filled with doubt, seesawing between faith and fear, is like putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because unshakable faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. This is the “secret” to creative mental power, turning mere words into substance. When our affirmations feel true, when what we say is what we truly believe, then affirmations can really change our life.