Affirmations: Your tool for new thoughts

You want to be more relaxed, cheerful and self-confident in your everyday life? Affirmation are a simple tool to train your mindset.

Despite an extensive morning routine, it is not so easy to stay positive and self-confident in our driven everyday life. Every day you are confronted with new challenges or influences that rain down on you. Small disclaimer: Of course, it’s not about always being happy and positive – all feelings are allowed and may be lived. However, if your goal or desire is to go through the day confidently, calmly and optimistically, positive affirmations can help you – despite their dusty hocus-pocus image.

What are affirmations?

Basically, affirmations are simple, clear and positively formulated sentences. They serve you to provide your subconscious with new information and to remind you of it again and again by repeating the words. As you may know, among your 70,000 thoughts every day, there are many thoughts that block and slow you down. These thoughts are based on experiences you have had at some point and messages that were mostly repeated in your childhood. Messages like “Don’t be so lazy!” or “You’re always so sloppy!”. Do you know such sentences from your life?

Because these thoughts in the form of doubts and worries often slow you down and keep you in place, it is valuable to establish new, positive thought patterns. Affirmations can help you with this. With the repetition of positive claims, they slowly become your beliefs, your focus realigns, and you focus on the positive in your life.

And the best part? Affirmations are a simple and free tool that you can easily incorporate into your day to steer strengthened and self-determined in the direction you want.

How do you find the right affirmations for you?

There are plenty of worded affirmations to be found in podcasts, books and online, e.g. on Pinterest

. Of course, it is important that your affirmations fit your personal challenge and your goal. After all, they serve you as a new orientation or guide and anchor themselves in your subconscious over time. So what thoughts and beliefs can support you in your current situation? What would you like to think about yourself? Maybe you can already find suitable affirmations or let yourself be inspired in our online sessions.

Affirmations are formulated in principle in the present, i.e. as if they were already valid and true. In addition, they are affirmative statements, which means that words such as “not” or “none” should not appear in them. Examples of positive affirmations include:

• “This day is a gift and I use this gift.”
• “I feel beautiful and strong.”
• “I’m important.”
• “I am brave and full of confidence.”
• “With every breath I let go of my fears and become calmer.”
• “I draw into my life everything that serves me and enriches me.”

How can you use them in your everyday life?

Once you have found the right affirmations for yourself, it is up to you to feed your subconscious mind with them regularly in order to consolidate them as new beliefs in you. Because once they’re anchored in your daily thoughts, they have the power to influence your feelings, decisions, and ultimately actions.

Because the effectiveness increases with the frequency in which you use the affirmations, it makes sense to establish a small ritual in your everyday life. Whether in the morning, in the evening or in between. What matters is that you take your time, take care of rest, arrive in the moment and relax.

To do this, you can close your eyes and consciously inhale and exhale a few times. In this relaxed mood, you then recite the affirmations, preferably loudly. How often is up to you. Really take your time so that you let the words reach your whole body. Feel inside how they make you feel. The effect can be amplified if you associate the words with strong images in your mind’s eye and positive feelings. Imagine what you look like and how it feels when you are deeply convinced of it.

Another way to anchor your affirmations is to write them down and place them anywhere in your home where you see them every day. You can also write them in your journal again and again, because the hand movement while writing activates your brain and becomes more receptive to the new, positive messages. Or you can record them while you speak them so you can listen to them whenever you need a dose of strength.

As you can see, you can use the affirmations in many ways for yourself and integrate them into your everyday life as it suits you best. The effect always remains the same or even intensifies: You place new thoughts in your everyday confusion of thoughts, which strengthen you and support you in everything you want to realize! Isn’t that great?

Guest author Leonie Machbert

Guest author Leonie has been writing stories since she could write. She followed this passion, studied journalism and now rages in the wide fields of freelance journalism. There she collects stories about body positivity, self-love, feminism, personality development and the small, interpersonal phenomena. You can find more of her on her website
www.leoniemachbert.de
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