The Power of Positive Affirmations to Change Your Life!

I was first introduced to the power of positive affirmations by Louise Hay, when I read her book You Can Heal Your Life

After reading the book, it became my bible for a couple of months. I kept it next to the bath and every time I got home I ran a bath and then lay there doing powerful positive affirmations and working through the various exercises in the book.

The power of positive affirmations has been enormous in my life, and when I forget to do them for a while I REALLY notice the difference.

Louise explains that if you were to take a three year old child and sit them in the center of a room, and then shout at them, berate them, tell them how horrible and useless and despicable they are, maybe hit them a few times, and keep doing this day after day, you would be left with a child who was completely destroyed. What kind of potential would that child realize in their lifetime?

However, if you were to take that same child and tell them how wonderful they are, how special, how valued, you would have a child that could achieve anything their heart desired.

You are that child!

The person you are inside is like that child in the center of the room and if you are spending all your time screaming and berating and criticizing that child inside, then you are stifling your own potential just as surely.

At first it can be a little difficult to use the power of positive affirmations. If your mind has become used to its negative talk it will rebel against you at first like an errant child.

Persevere, and you will get better and better at it. You exercise power over your mind in the same way you exercise any other muscle and gradually build up your strength.

Start with a couple of powerful positive affirmations such as: 'I love and approve of myself' and affirm this multiple times a day. At first it may be difficult, but as the days go by you'll gradually start to feel that it is becoming TRUE!

Your thoughts create your reality!

You are in control of your life and you choose which thoughts to think, which then form the basis of your reality. Whatever you believe will be what you experience. Start choosing to think with the power of positive affirmations.

It does take some work; it is like a detox for your mind, you have to weed out all those limiting beliefs and negative ideas.

Daily Positive Affirmations

A wonderfully powerful positive affirmation is:

I am open and receptive to all good!'

Say this out loud while throwing your arms wide. It feels SO good to say this.

Others I love to do are:

I am open and receptive to the abundance of the universe!

I trust in the power of the universe to bring me my highest good!

I am worthy of the best in life and I accept it now!

I have everything I need!

Every moment is an opportunity for me to grow!

I experience love and happiness wherever I go!

I am constantly inspired!

The best way to do powerful positive affirmations is to say them out loud!

It feels more real. Say them with conviction! Say them again and again. If it doesn't feel true, say it again until it does! Try to feel it AS you say it, the emotions are more powerful than the words.

Do them in front of the mirror!

Looking into your own eyes as you say the words starts to break down the barriers of self hatred and negativity.

This is especially true for affirmations like: I approve of myself, I love myself, I accept myself exactly the way I am.

The power of positive affirmations is in the changes they start to create inside you!

It isn't the words themselves, it is the way they make you feel. When you start to feel powerful, you start to feel like the creator of your own destiny, you start to realize your power to create exactly the sort of life you want.

You start to take responsibility for your experience and to realize that every moment IS an opportunity for you to grow.

Daily positive affirmations start to change your state, they start to overtake the weeds of habitual negative patterns that have been growing and overtaking the glorious garden of your mind.

As you begin to think in powerful positive affirmations you reclaim the beautiful garden and your true self, which resonates with joy and positive energy!