Surging Ahead for Success, Issue 21
Friday, Oct 12, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE
How
to Use Affirmations and Visualizations for Success
Stephen
Hawking’s Power of Visualization
We are told that our thoughts become our reality. What does that mean?
It means that if we want to have something happen, we must start thinking about it. Planning it. Visualizing it. Do affirmations about it and lo and behold, the universe marshals all its resources to help you achieve it! The following articles How to Use Affirmations and Visualizations for Success, and Stephen Hawking’s Power of Visualization expand on this idea in greater detail.
............... June
How to Use
Affirmations and Visualizations for Success
by Jennifer Shepherd
You’ve probably heard about affirmations before. An affirmation
is positive “self-talk” that you use to retrain your brain.
Affirmations allow you to shift your focus from the positive to
the negative, which in turns helps you become more receptive to
good things happening in your life. It’s hard to be successful
when you’re telling yourself negative things like “I’ll never be
good enough” or “I don’t deserve wealth.” A negative mindset
prevents you from seeing the many opportunities that are all
around you.
The simple act of retraining the brain and changing your
self-talk around can have a profound effect on your overall
well-being. Researchers have proven through muscle testing that
the strength of our muscles increases when we tell ourselves
positive phrases like “I can do it!” or “Yes!” And when we are
thinking, “I’m tired” or “I’ll never make it” our muscles become
physically weaker.
In a similar way, the self-talk that we use on a daily basis
also influences our emotional well-being and our energy level.
So by using affirmations in the morning and programming yourself
with positive phrases, you’ll notice a major change in how you
feel throughout the day.
Some people like to ascribe a mystical quality to affirmations,
likening them to prayer or applied faith. And it is true that
affirmations have a mysterious ability to penetrate deeply into
the subconscious, which can begin a process which allows a
person to shift the very circumstances of their life. Whether
you call this process spiritual awakening or self-improvement
through self-hypnosis, it definitely works!
Here are some simple tips to follow as you experiment with your
own affirmations. These techniques have been proven to enhance
well-being and to increase the potency of your affirmations, no
matter what issues you are addressing through affirmations.
***Always state your affirmations in the present. There is
greater power in a phrase like “I am a magnet for abundance”
versus “I will get rich” or “I am going to get rich.” Your goal
is to acknowledge the wealth that the universe is bringing you
today so you can be open to receiving it, not to wish for money
to arrive in your future.
***Energize your affirmation with an “inner smile.” Before you
do your affirmation, take a moment and smile. Then use the
emotional energy that you feel as you are smiling during your
affirmation. Combine the smile and the affirmation to give your
affirmation extra “oomph.”
***Be persistent with your affirmations. We all have resistance
around certain issues, and at first, doing affirmations each day
can seem a little silly. You’ll have lots of negative self-talk
trying to interrupt you. “Why am I doing this?” “This will never
work?” Just ignore them and remain consistent with your
affirmations, and you will soon override that negative
programming with a positive overlay.
If you can make the commitment to doing affirmations for just
fifteen minutes every day, either in the morning when the day is
fresh and new or right before you are falling asleep at night,
you’ll notice some big changes. Your mood will feel lighter;
your energy levels will improve.
If you keep at it, you’ll find seemingly “miraculous” events
happening that allow you to become more successful. What you’re
doing is aligning yourself with a more positive reality through
retraining your expectations. By affirming that you will receive
better and brighter things in your life, you become open to
receiving them. And that’s a very special type of “magic” that
you can easily learn to tap into.
You can create an affirmation around any issue in your life –
improving your health, your finances, your emotional well-being,
and your relationships. If you’re new to affirmations, it’s best
to work with one issue at a time. Then when you notice
significant improvement, this will encourage you to add other
things to your list.
Don’t be afraid to experiment with the phrasing of your
affirmations, either. Certain words might carry more power for
you and make you feel good, while others might seem lifeless or
dull. You want to use magic words, words that inspire and uplift
you.
Words have power. Start putting them to use with daily
affirmations, and watch the miracles happen!
Jennifer Shepherd, the Lipstick Mystic, is
a syndicated spirituality columnist with over 2 million readers.
She writes about affirmations at her blog
http://affirmationstoday.blogspot.com and her website
http://www.lipstickmystic.com .
Stephen Hawking’s
Power of Visualization
by Tony Papajohn
Occasionally, I find someone who says, “I can’t visualize.”
While this may be true in rare instances, it is not most of the
time.
When someone says, “I can’t visualize,” they usually mean, “I’m
not very good at this.”
That’s fine. As Yoda might say, “Practice we can.”
Whether you are practiced or not at the essential success skill
of visualization, consider this interesting example of what one
mind can do when absolutely necessary.
Professor Stephen Hawking possesses one the world’s more
formidable minds locked in one of the world’s most useless
bodies.
A victim of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Hawking has lived for decades
with an almost total loss of motor skills.
He is also one of the world’s most brilliant cosmologists and
mathematicians, holding the chair at Cambridge once occupied by
Isaac Newton.
Since he cannot hold a pen or turn a page, he has to work out
all the mind-numbing subtleties of his art between his ears.
So, after much practice, he can visualize complex geometric
forms and study them much as a normal person might use a
diagram.
On top of this amazing feat of concentration, Professor Hawking
can think through arcane complexities about these forms that
bring the acronym “MEGO” to mind.
(My eyes gloss over.)
You might say, with some justification, that Nature has taken
away one resource (the hands) and replaced it with another (the
mind).
While this is true, that is still some serious visualization.
Fortunately, Dr. Hawking is blessed with a mind as powerful as
God makes them.
Also as fortunate, we mere mortals don’t need such grey matter
to master the art of visualization.
So, if visualization doesn’t seem to come naturally, look up,
and practice.
Use this skill and reach for the stars.
Copyright 2004 by Tony Papajohn.
Tony writes and speaks on success. Subscribe to his free
SuccessMotivator e-zine at
http://www.successmotivator.com .
tony@successmotivator.com
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