I first heard of affirmations when I was a young girl, even though I did not hear that name for them until many years later. My grandfather, who had earned a doctor's degree in metaphysics made something for me when I was very young. He knew that I have always liked flowers. So he searched through various magazines and found pictures of flowers. These he cut out and pasted them around the periphery of a piece of construction paper, making a border of flowers. Then, in the center of that border of flowers, he wrote in large block letters the following: "EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, I AM BECOMING BETTER AND BETTER." I was supposed to read that aloud several times every day. The man was ahead of his time, he made his transition to the other side in February of 1955.
It was many years later that I again heard anything else about affirmations, although I never forgot that one.
Just what are affirmations and how do you use them? For all practical purposes, you simply decide what you want to accomplish, then in a loud and forceful voice, state just what it is that you want to happen, just as though it was a certainty that it was going to happen.
For instance, let us suppose that you have always been weak in math and it is hurting you on the job. So you decide to take a math course at the local junior college. The problem is that you fear that you won't do too well at it because you have always had a problem with math. So you decide to use affirmations to help you with it. You might use an affirmation something like the following: "I will have no problems with this course and will ace it." The wording is not critical as long as you get the full meaning over. You will say this affirmation in a loud forceful voice with conviction as though you really believe that it is going to happen just as you say that it will. Repeat it several times daily. Then go ahead and make the same effort with the course of study as though you were not using the affirmation. In this case, the affirmation is having a psychological effect on you and helping you to accomplish what you seek.
Or suppose that the company where you work has someone named Joe and you know that he is going to retire soon. You are only one of several people who could be promoted to take the position that is being vacated. And you decide that you want that job. You can use affirmations to help you get the position. You can say something like, "I will be promoted to Joe's position when he retires."
This will have two effects, first is the psychological effect on you that will help you to make your best effort in order to gain the new position. The second effect is that you will be putting positive energies to work for you to help influence those who must make the decision of who to promote. The earlier that you can start making theses affirmations, the better because they will have more time to do their work.
I know a young lady who worked as a cocktail waitress in a very nice restaurant that also has a lounge. She decided that she needed more income than she was getting in order to pay all of her bills, so she started using affirmations to increase her income. She found that when she used affirmations on a daily basis, that her income, most of which came from tips, would be just about double of what it would be when she did not use the affirmations. Again there was a two pronged effect taking place. The first was the psychological effect on her that made her give the best service that she could give, and the second was the positive energy that she put into the environment and caused her patrons to tip better.
Affirmations work in two manners. As has been stated above, the first effect of affirmations is the psychological effect that they have on the person making the affirmation. The second effect is that we put positive energy into the environment to aid in bringing about the desired end. One caution must be made in this area, the affirmation must be of a positive nature that will bring no harm or ill to any other person. It is a law of the universe that whatever we send out will return to us. So, if we send ill to others, that same ill will return to us, and the older our soul and the more aware that we are, the greater will be that ill. It can even reach the point where several times the amount that we send out may be returned to us. Likewise, if we send good to others, good will rebound to us.
I should also point out that not only will the energies that we put into the environment rebound to us, but the results of our actions will come back to us. If we knowingly do something to harm someone else, someone will invariably do something to harm us. As the old saying goes, "our chickens will come home to roost."
Joyce Chandler
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