Creating Affirmations & Limiting Your Doubts
June 9th, 2006 (Success)
An affirmation is a statement of truth you make firm by repetition. Affirmations always take place in the present, hence the wording is always present tense. “I am a successful orchestral conductor, making $100,000 per year,” is how to state an affirmation, not, “I’m going to be…” or “I really want to be….” or “If it’s not too much trouble, I’d really like to be….”
Make an affirmation for:
- Your purpose
- Your Big Dream
- Each of the goals along the path to the Big Dream.
Read each affirmation out loud at least 1,000 times. (An hour each for your Purpose and Big Dream; 30 minutes each for your other goals.)
When you affirm, all that is between you and fulfilling that dream surfaces - in other words, the drawbacks of your “comfort zone.” Expect fear, guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings, anger and discouragement to do what they do to get you to stop. Keep going.
To bring up the limitations faster, look at yourself in the mirror while repeating your affirmation out loud. You can record your affirmations on an endless-loop cassette (the kind used for outgoing messages in answering machines) and play it softly in the background no matter what else is going on.
You can get an earphone and play your tape on a portable stereo wherever you go. Talk about your portable paradise. You can put your affirmations on the walls of your sanctuary so that you see them every time you come in.