Positive affirmations can have an amplified effect via your subconscious mind, as it will allow the mind to accept them as reality. With constant repetition of these affirmations, the subconscious mind will act so that it becomes the reality around you. This can be achieved easily with the use of subconscious mind power techniques.
1. Meditation Meditation allows you to connect with your subconscious mind, and ideally should be conducted in a peaceful environment that allows you to relax without interference. By combining your affirmations with meditation, you will see results a lot faster. The practice of using affirmations with meditation is at its optimal right before you rest at night. By constant repetition of your affirmations over and over before you turn in for the night, you are allowing your subconscious to work on it throughout the night as it does not need to rest.
2. Visualization An alternative technique for improving your affirmations is by incorporating a visual image to each affirmation. With constant visualization of your affirmations, you will experience greater efficacy of your positive affirmations.
3. Using your Vision Less than half of your brain is used for sight, and by penning down your affirmations and leaving them in places where you can see them easily, it acts as a physical reminder. Place your affirmations in areas where they are constantly in your line of sight, such as on the refrigerator at home, or on your wall at work.
4. Include greater Details Ensure that you are as clear and detailed as possible for all your affirmations, as this will make it easier and your subconscious mind knows precisely what you want to achieve. Be careful that you should limit this to the end goal, and not the process that the subconscious mind should take to achieve it. With greater details and clarity, it would make the affirmation more precise.
5. Use positive words Always use the present tense in your positive affirmations. This gives it the power of now, enabling the subconscious to act on it faster so that your affirmations become your reality. Use positive and stronger terms such as ?will? rather than ?might?, as there is a huge difference in the conviction level!
These are 5 techniques that you can employ in your everyday life to help you achieve results in the blink of an eye. With practice and time, you will soon find yourself a more positive person in mind, body and soul.
You have a past and whether you are proud or unhappy about parts of it every part of your personal history is permanently engraved like carving in rock. You can't erase what is recorded, and certainly you can't go back and live your life over again with the idea of making a revision in your history.
Your past has great value
I am about to ask you to display all of your past history completely and objectively, but I assure you that it will be a private session, and a rewarding one.
Just what has happened in the past?
Facing the past, decide upon a sizable span of time. Make this period about a third of your present birthday total. Thus a person of 40 would consider the immediate past 13 or 14 years of his life. Considering the time span you choose, I want you to paint a word picture of everything of consequence that happened to you. This is not going to be too easy to do, and it will have no value as a practical resource if you try to do it as a mental exercise. There is a simple device that will serve most effectively.
Get a piece of paper and a pencil. Now, draw a line down the middle of the paper, from top to bottom. At the top, and to the left of the line, write "Negative." On the right of the line write "Positive." Take your pencil and paint that word picture of those past years by making two lists. Letting your memory have free reign, list everything of consequence that happened under either the "negative" heading (as being undesirable, unwanted), or under the "positive" heading (as being desirable, approved).
The "zeros" in your past are important
Now go back over the lists and classify them, item by item. Put a check mark in front of every item that you believe you controlled the influences which made it real in your life. In front of every item that you believe you did not control, because of overpowering outside influences, place a zero (0). If you are in doubt about an item, pass it by for the moment. Eventually you will get them all classified. In fact, I predict that you will go back and change the classification of some, after a bit. You may go back and change some tomorrow, or even next week.
Why your past is recorded as it is
Before you make any changes, and to complete the analysis, let your subconscious memory serve you again. Go back over both lists and mark each item with the reason it carries a check mark or a zero. To save you time, since you would eventually come to this conclusion yourself, let me suggest that one of four terms will describe the reason in each case. These are "planning," "decision," "judgment," and "action" (or "lack of action").
Use your pencil and write the reason after each item. Now take a look at the lists. The same reasons appear on both the left and right columns. "Decision," for example, appears in the negative column for items marked with zeros and check marks, and it appears in the positive column in the same way. Likewise the other three reasons are indiscriminately scattered through both columns, covering both zeros and check marks. There is great significance in this scattering of the same reasons. It means that there was a definite pattern to your past.
Now you know the whys and wherefores
Now you know specifically where negative tendencies shaped your life, and you know what specific self-influence factors to apply to overpower such tendencies in the future. You know where positive tendencies did their good work, and you know that you will increase these tendencies by the deliberate use of more of the same self-influence factors.
So accept the responsibility for the past as being yours, and thus make it an invaluable tool for deliberate self-influence in the future. This acceptance will make a "noteworthy" impression in your subconscious mind. It establishes a positive attitude, one which lays the groundwork for continued responsibility for your own life.
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