There are many websites out there that offer you long lists of affirmations, whether in written form or in an audio format. Some websites will sell you CDs with affirmations recorded on them, while others offer you an email service where a random affirmation will be emailed to you daily. In many ways, and this is just my humble opinion, these services offer a good value, but they all miss a big aspect of affirmations.
Affirmations are supposed to be personalized, positive statements stated in the present tense. The more personalized the affirmation are, the more effective they become. To me, as I said in one of my earlier posts, affirmations are synonymous with intentions as well as with goals. James Arthur Ray talks about how he likes to set intentions instead of setting goals, since the term ‘goals’ is overused and we, as a society, are somewhat accustomed to hearing it. Then, after thinking about it, I decided that affirmations and intentions are really the same thing. And you are supposed to use them in the same way too – you are supposed to keep your mind focused on them as much as possible by doing whatever your need to do (saying them out loud, writing them down on a card and reading the card regularly, etc). In other words, affirmations, intentions, and goals are all positive statements about something that you want to accomplish in your life or statements about the way you want to be and act.
So here’s my problem with the pre-made affirmations. They may sound personalized, but they are not personalized since you did not come up with them. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that it is possible to take an affirmation that someone made, make it feel personal, and internalize it. That being said, I think that it’s a lot easier to internalize an affirmation that you made yourself as opposed to an affirmation made by someone else.
You can use Affirmation Triggers to come up with a list of your own affirmations and then use this FREE service to send your own affirmations to your phone at regular time intervals to make it easier to keep them fresh in your mind. I would love to know what you think of the service.
Until next time,
V
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