CHAPTER 06

MAKE A STATEMENT

If you are like most people the vast majority of your communications are outgoing. Precious few are reserved solely for ourselves. And even less are heartfelt words supportive and comforting to the one person to whom we are closest. Again, that is ourselves.

An affirmation opens the door. It’s a beginning point on the path to change. — Louise L. Hay

Begin a deliberate program for change by starting momentum in a simple and effective manner: affirmations.

How are you going to represent yourself today? Write it down and say it. Affirmations are simple positive sentences that you can say aloud or silently. That’s it. Sounds too easy right? This doesn’t have to be difficult. Affirmations are fast and fun. They go anywhere. They are easy to remember and they produce major results. With positive affirmations in your pocket, positive events just seem to follow.

Here’s how they work. Affirmations are thought builders. Little foundations you begin laying brick by brick upon each repetition. Your mind can only take one thought at any given time so an affirmation grabs your consciousness, prevents the negative or counteractive thoughts to take hold and directs it to your desired result.

When your mind becomes bombarded with a statement of fact so definitive, it reacts to make that statement true. Your behavior adjusts, skill levels deepen and fear dissipates.

I even know a father who started whispering affirmations to his newborn baby. At night when the boy was crying, he would take him in his arms and bounce him back to sleep with the affirmation, “You are going to do great things in your life.” The father continued to repeat the affirmation for the next several years at bedtime as the boy dozed off. It may be a coincidence but the son has always been charismatic and enormously bright. In kindergarten he was reading at a fifth grade level and the boy effortlessly attains high levels of achievement. The best time to start affirmations is in the key time period when we first emerge from sleep. Simply repeating a short, positive phrase or sentence for two or three minutes sets a fruitful tone for the day.