Affirmations may help you to alter harmful behaviors or achieve goals, and they may likewise help undo the damage caused by damaging scripts, those things which we repeatedly tell ourselves (or which other people repeatedly tell us) that contribute to a damaging self-perception. Affirmations are simple to create and utilize, but you'll need dedication to make them work.
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Consider your positive attributes. Scrutinize of yourself by making an inventory of your best qualities, abilities, or other attributes. Are you gorgeous? Put it down. Are you a hard worker? Make note of it. Write every quality down in a short sentence, beginning with "I" and utilizing the present tense: "I am beautiful," for instance, or "I'm generous".
These statements are affirmations of who you are. We seldom center on those things that we truly like about ourselves, instead deciding to linger over things we'd like to change. An inventory will help you break that cycle, and utilizing these affirmations to help you appreciate who you are will present you the confidence you need to accept your affirmations of who you wish to be.
Consider what damaging scripts you wish to counteract or what positive goals you wish to achieve. Affirmations may be highly useful to counteract damaging perceptions you have developed. Affirmations may likewise help you accomplish particular goals, like losing weight or stopping smoking. Make a list of your goals or the harmful self-perceptions you wish to alter.
Prioritize your list of things to work on. You might find that you have a lot of goals or that you need a lot of counter-scripts. It's best, however, to center simply a few affirmations at a time, so select those
that are most crucial or most urgent and work with those first. Once you see betterment in those areas or achieve those goals you may develop new affirmations for additional items on your list.
Write your affirmations. Add other affirmations to influence your conduct in the future. The affirmations you'll utilize to influence future changes ought to follow the basic form. They should begin with "I," and be short, clear, and positive.
Match up some of your favorable attributes with your goals. Which of the favorable qualities that you affirmed earlier will help you accomplish the goals you have set? If you're stopping smoking, for instance, you might need willpower or courage, or you might need to reflect on the fact that you're pretty or that you care about your loved ones. Choose 2 or 3 of these affirmations to support your goal-oriented affirmations.
Make your affirmations visible so you may utilize them. Repeating is the key to making affirmations effective. You wish to think about your affirmations a lot of times a day, daily. There are numerous ways to do this.
Make a point of writing your affirmations in a journal or diary every morning when you get up and every night before you turn in. Repeat the affirmations to yourself at these times, as well. Ideally, your affirmations ought to be the first thing you think of when you get up and the last before you turn in.
Meditate on your affirmations. Shut your eyes, keep out the rest of the world, and consider your affirmations. Say and repeat the words, but consider what the words mean to you; consider the future and try to feel the emotions that the affirmations bring up.
Leave reminder cards in assorted places. Utilize 3X5 index cards or sticky notes to write your affirmations (one per card). Make numerous cards for each affirmation, and then leave these cards where you'll see them: place one where you sit at the kitchen table, tape one to your automobile steering wheel, slip one inside your desk drawer, or stick one to your PC monitor, etc. Every time you see the card, read it and consider what it means.
Carry your affirmations with you. Create a list of your affirmations and put it in your billfold or purse. If you need a pick-me-up, or if you discover yourself about to waver from your goals, take out your affirmations and read them.
