Mastering Your Mind Power: are Affirmations Really True?

Let us say that one of the items on your DO WANT list is a desire to be rich. You have written a brief paragraph of what being rich means to you, and you have crafted the following affirmation: EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY, I AM BECOMING RICHER AND RICHER! It will not be very long before the tail-enders ease themselves into your thoughts with statements like: Who are you kidding? Your financial condition today is the same as it was yesterday. You can not get rich with this affirmation stuff. You would be better off to take that $5 in your pocket/purse and go buy some lottery tickets.

One of the comments I hear from users of affirmations is that they feel affirmations are not true. This seems especially true for those people who discontinue their efforts to change their lives with affirmations. They seem to think that they are lying to themselves when they repeat an affirmation. There are two critical points I wish to reinforce in your mind.

Point 1 is you are moving your thoughts and beliefs in the exact opposite direction (180 degrees) from your previous consistent patterns of your DO NOT WANT thinking. It is similar to your having a patch of unused ground out back that is filled with useless weeds, grasses, and shrubs. You decide to plant a vegetable garden. That decision requires that you remove the unwanted and useless weeds, grasses, and shrubs.

Once the removal of unwanted things is done, you must cultivate the soil, add any needed nutrients, then you plant vegetable seeds of your choice. As the seeds are germinating, you must regularly pay attention to your new garden to quickly remove any new unwanted grass, weeds, etc. to ensure that you give your vegetable seeds an opportunity to fully develop.

You do not think of planting and caring for your new garden seeds as lying to yourself or to the earth. You simply have taken actions to remove something you DO NOT WANT (useless weeds, grasses, and shrubs) and you are replacing them with something you DO WANT (garden vegetables).

You should consider your affirmation regimen in the same way. Affirmations are as true as the seeds you plant in your garden. Even though you cannot physically see the fruits of your labor immediately, you know that a harvest already pre-exists in the seeds. You should seek to develop and maintain this or a similar attitude related to your affirmations.

Point number 2 is thoughts about lying to yourself are tail enders. This garden analogy serves as a perfect example how the old self image refuses to go quietly into the night. It feels you are bringing death to it, and it needs to fight for its existence. It uses tail enders, negative emotions, as well as repeated thoughts about events in the past in an attempt to stay put and stay in control. 

I’m sure you have noticed that I make references to the self image as if it is a separate entity within you. Working with the self image in this manner was critical for me. I would often communicate with it in my self-talk (I still do), reassuring it that my intentions were to re-train it, not destroy it. This is a strategy you might find very useful also.

This I know for sure. You can claim or re-claim control of your own mind power. You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin mastering your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.