“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.
As we go through our days we have a running loop of thoughts. The question is, are these thoughts supporting you or bringing you down? This is where affirmations come in.
What are affirmations? Affirmations are positively phrased statements that are reviewed in your mind, stated out loud or written down to reinforce a new belief that you desire to hold about yourself or about the way the world works.
Affirmations work in two ways.
First, using affirmations is like a filter for your mindset. When you affirm something such as, “Everything always works out well for me”, your mind will automatically start to look for evidence to prove this statement. Unfortunately, it also works the opposite way. For example, if you are saying to yourself, “This is not my day!”, your mind will have a filter on that looks for the bad parts of your day and you will easily overlook all the good parts of your day. This also encourages us to interpret all events in a negative way. There is a quote from Eckhart Tolle that states that it is not what happens to us that causes suffering but the story we tell ourselves about what happened to us.
Secondly, affirmations work with the laws of energy. It is scientifically known that thoughts are energy. When we have a thought we are putting out a certain vibrational frequency depending on the type of thought. Every thought has an influence on us and everything around us; therefore, we need to be very aware of what it is that we are sending out into the universe.
We are able to choose one thought over another. What are you going to choose? Let’s choose to support ourselves. Let’s choose to bring in good energy into our lives!
- Amanda