How to Use Affirmations to Create the Life You Want! #ManifestChal...

An affirmation is a declaration made with confidence that induces not only a picture, but also the experience of already having our desired goal.

It's been 7 days of mindfulness. A week of visualizing our goal. Congratulations guys! I am so proud of you!

Today we are going to add affirmations.

You use affirmations all day, every day. All your internal dialogue, all the things you tell yourself, are affirmations.

You are in a stream of affirmations whether you even know it.

You are creating and affirming your life experiences with each thought and word.

All of your beliefs are simply habitual thinking patterns learned in childhood.

We learned how to overcome limiting beliefs on Day 4 of the #ManifestChallenge and how to be mindful and replace them with empowering beliefs until it's our norm.

Affirmations work because by programming your mind into believing the stated concept. The mind doesn’t know the difference between fantasy and real life- that's why you cry during sad movies even though you are not truly in that situation.

The affirmation works if you make it present tense. Just like our visualizations.

For example: My goal at the end of the 30 day challenge is to have earned $3162.00, and that is my monthly goal. Even though I do not have it at the very moment, my affirmation is:

I earn $3162.00 per month, easily and effortlessly.

That is the affirmation I repeat in my mind during my visualizations and throughout my day. And the one I write down two dozen times on a sheet of paper each night before bed.

If you are trying to get in shape, you affirmation can be Step by step I am losing inches today and gaining fitness! of I am healthy and strong and totally in shape!

If you are trying to find your life path, you could say My life's purpose comes to me easily and effortlessly!

For that promotion, your affirmation might be *I make an awesome supervisor, and my employees follow me easily and respectfully*

Your affirmation must be positive and must be in present tense!

It won't work if you say "I will be fit at the end of the 30 day challenge!" That's not how affirmations work as that's not how the brain is designed.

And your affirmation must make sense and flow naturally for you. It cannot be forced. It must feel right. If you do not feel "comfortable" when you say it, rearrange the words or develop a whole new sentence until it feels right.

Then repeat it! All the time. You will program your subconscious brain to receive it :)

And remember to use an affirming closing phrase after every exercise: This or something better now manifests for me in totally harmonious and satisfying ways for the greatest good of all concerned.