Spiritual Affirmations

Positive Affirmations

All thought is an Affirmation — not just the spoken word. Affirmations are actual things. Speaking positive affirmations can be a powerful tool for manifesting our desires. Right thinking can also make deep psychological changes to our personality, because the subconscious mind is open to any suggestion we affirm. It will manifest whatever we tell it, as long as we feel that it is possible. In fact, the subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between reality, or the things we suggest by affirmation. It processes even negative self-talk as suggestions, and goes about initiating magical processes to actualize them. Whether we speak positive thoughts to ourselves, or fearful ones, mind-chatter creates our future by the thoughts we dwell on.

Four Principles of Affirmations

1. Concentration: The first step to speaking affirmations begins with becoming aware of our thoughts. Some thoughts come to us cloaked in “feelings,” and these also need to be watched to stop the negative mind-chatter patterns. A watchful mind must develop the awareness of what we are thinking before we can begin to use positive affirmations with any real power of concentration.

Worrying is also a form of concentration. As another example of the wrong use of concentration, would be if we saw someone attractive and then, set our heart on them. Often, when we focus on the result of winning someone’s heart we realize just how wrong they are for us. If instead of focusing on the result, but delight in the feeling of love they cause, we would develop the awareness to attract someone who is right for us.

2. Meditation: After “awareness” has stopped the negative process, attunement with the “truth” can be established, and you can begin by speaking positive affirmations. (The “truth,” usually being the complete opposite (180 degrees) of the negative thoughts or feelings.) The “truth” is we are Divine, and any negative self-talk or suggestion is clearly false, and requires a change of perspective to correct. Reach for the truth!

As an example of the wrong use of meditation would be to take the image of the attractive person into the silent spiritual realm, causing most humans to masturbate, creating an appetite for eroticism, but not love.

The mind must be silent, without any erotic images that might be stirred in response to the pleasure increasing as we get closer to the spiritual plane within. Instead, we could use the feeling of someone attractive, to aspire us to be receptive to an influx of spiritual love.

3. Visualization: Every time we catch ourselves dwelling on negative thoughts, we replace them with a higher value, by recalling an image of love. Then, when you speak positive affirmations to yourself silently, you begin to “feel” the truth.

As an example of the wrong use of visualization would be to attach a lower value to them, such as hatred. If you were to visualize an automobile, you do not want to also think of stealing it, because the subconsciousness can also manifest it for you legally.

4. Adoration: We can bring positive affirmations into our day-to-day activities by speaking them to our ego personality out loud. We could also speak a statement to our spiritual identity, while looking into a mirror, saying, “You are gorgeous!”

As an example of the wrong use of adoration, would be if you obtained the perfect partner, or even a possession such as an automobile, but then forget where the source of that good-fortune comes from. Then, we begin to see the imperfection in the people and things we love.

Speaking Affirmations

Goodness, is reflected in our experiences, and positive affirmations can stimulate it if we choose the right words. We must analyze our negative thoughts to find their absolute opposite. This might take some work, such as with quitting smoking, we might say, “I don’t smoke!” Or, with losing weight, we might say “I’m not hungry; or, my sustenance is spiritual food.” Truth is always spiritual magnetism, and unless we spiritualize it with the light of truth by an affirmation, it has no gravitational, or celestial power.

Where is the power?: When speaking positive affirmations the power is in the words. Words are a vibration that manifest and hold together forms. Our name is a form of a vibration. We are co-creators that mediate between the world of thought, and the world of form. When we begin to use our thoughts, taken into the silence of the spiritual mind by the use of positive affirmations we can become “more than human.”

Where does Inspiration come from?: The inspiration is the creative muse is a level of consciousness known as imagination, a level of the higher mind, mind chatter, and ego. We can access our creative power only if the mind is clear, silent, with no ego. The only way to make the mind silent, is to be inspired. Most humans are so jaded that we have lost our ability to be awestruck. To be inspired, lifted out of our misery by speaking positive affirmations is the doorway to the silence.

Where is the demonstration?: Only prayers for spiritual things, like patience, understanding, or forgiveness are answered. A prayer for strength to overcome will be answered. Faith is the demonstration by speaking positive affirmations that strengthen the power within through inspiration. The sound of positive affirmations, inspires the mind to seek a demonstration of faith. A silent mind inspires the sensation of faith, when we are not afraid to act knowing that all our actions are successful, whether you win or lose. Writing our own positive affirmations to speak increases our spiritual power to manifest the things we dwell on.