What Affirmations Can Do For You

Dictionary Before exploring what affirmations can do you for, let’s look at the definition of affirmations.

What exactly IS an affirmation?
The dictionary tells me that an affirmation is a statement asserting the existence of a truth of something, the act of affirming, asserting, avouching or stating something.

So when you make an affirmation, you are asserting the existence of the truth of your statement, right?

Now I am sure that you have read many affirmations over Twitter or Facebook (or both) and perhaps stopped to think and say: Well I am not REALLY sure that this is true for me.

For example: are you REALLY sure that you are a champion? Perhaps you are or perhaps you have doubts about that.

Let’s suppose that you are not yet REALLY sure that you are a champion. Why would there be some uncertainty in your mind about this?

Did you read the article on this blog entitled Discover Your Champion Spirit? In this article I talked about an experiment organized by Jack Canfield. I read about this experiment in a book on Accelerated Learning.

A team of researchers were sent to accompany 100 young school children (ages 5-6) for 1 day. They were to make a note of every word that each child spoke. The results were astounding.

The average positive comments spoken were 72 while
The average negative comments spoken were 684!

Small Children So that is a sample of how YOU probably grew up. Yes, you more than likely grew up speaking up to 10 times more negative words than you spoke positive.

Add to that the following fact:
The average person has close to 85,000 negative thoughts every day.

Now we have the reason for needing to make these assertive declarations EVERY DAY.

So what can affirmations do for you?
When you start to make assertive declarations every day you are reprogramming your brain from all of the negative influences that you were brought up hearing, and most likely still hear around you.

Note that the word “ASSERTIVE” is found in the definition of affirmation.

When you speak these statements out loud, your brain will hear YOUR voice and begin to respond.

As you speak with conviction (assertiveness) your brain will take even more notice. When you make these same declarations every day your brain will begin to create a new track in your mind. The new track will be a positive one. If you are diligent to continue with the habit of making affirmations (OUT LOUD) every day this track will replace the old negative one.

NOTE:
For these affirmations to REALLY “work”, you cannot simply make declarations every day and expect miracles to happen.

You will certainly notice some definite changes in your life as your brain responds to the positive words. However for the miracle to be complete in your life you also need to ACT.

Faith words plus ACTION will lead to miracles.

Start a plan of affirmations today!

There is a 210 Day Affirmation challenge happening right now. It is not too late to get started! Go to Life Style Freedom Club Blog and click on “Affirmation Challenge” at the top.

Get started today, and your tomorrow will be different! And don’t ever forget:

You were born a champion