Ever wonder what’s wrong with the touchy-feely advice that’s so popular now-a-days telling people to stay positive, say affirmations, and just think good thoughts?

Ever wonder why people aren’t seeing much success by doing these things?

Answer: Because they are using positive affirmations incorrectly and using them incorrectly is a detriment.

Three Guidelines for using Positive Affirmations Correctly

1. Stop looking for the one thing that will make the difference. There is no one thing.

Positive affirmations are like the chocolate chips in a delicious chocolate chip cookie. If I asked you what made your chocolate chips cookies taste so good and you said, “Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips are the key,” I would say, “ah-ha” and run right out and purchase those specific chips thinking they would be what I needed to make a delicious chocolate chip cookie.

This is one of the things people do wrong when it comes to saying and using affirmations. They are looking for the one thing that will make the difference to their business success. And by doing so, they focus on the one to the exclusion of the all.

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2. Don’t be so far out with your affirmations.

The mind does not value what it hasn’t invested in. Said another way, the mind does not invest in what it does not know. One of the common mistakes of saying positive affirmations is intending them too far into the future, too far ahead of your current business situation. Repeating, “I own a million-dollar business” isn’t likely to create that business for you when you are barely making ends meet. The difference between what the mind currently sees and the intended affirmation is just too far apart.

Instead, focus your intentions no farther than your mind registers as possible to achieve. Next, align your actions with the fulfillment of your vision and add positive affirmations in support of that direction. Then, your mind will register that as something that is attainable and invest in it.

3. Be on the look out for hidden hope.

Hope is just a nice way of saying that you’re not sure something is going to happen, but you sure wish is would. Affirmations that hold the energy of wish are really negative affirmations in disguise. Hope is not the same as knowing, without a doubt, that what you intend is going to happen. Fervently repeating affirmations that hold the energy of hidden hope will not help bring what you intend any closer, any sooner.

There isn’t much room for hope when planning a business formula for success. Running a business takes a lot of thoughtful, consideration. It involves some very clear, concise, left-brain thinking. It also requires the ability to envision the kind of success you want for your business. That’s where positive affirmations can come in. Done correctly and with care, positive affirmations can be a valuable ingredient for your business success. You’ll soon be on you way to using affirmations correctly and turning them from a business liability into a business asset, by following these guidelines.

Positive daily affirmation – Guide

Using a positive daily affirmation is a great Idea. Affirmations can truly help you change your life and train your mind into positive thinking modes.

After using a good positive daily affirmation for over 30 days, you will start feeling changes regarding the subject you chose.

If you are working on attaining more money, you will start observing many changes in that arena. It really doesn’t matter what subject you choose, a well written positive daily affirmation can work wonders.

I have been using affirmations for many years and have managed to create many positive avenues in my life, thanks to this wonderful method.

There is no perfect way of using a daily positive affirmation. Some use computer visual and audio software and others use workbooks or more conscious methods. I relate more to the later.

I enjoy practicing and using my mind consciously, I believe it is the true way of using any personal development tool, Shortcuts are really not my way.

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Here are some tips you can use to enhance your positive daily affirmation routine:

Meditation

Before every session, I meditate for about 10 minutes. Meditation is a practice of quieting the mind. After some practice, you develop the ability to enter a relaxed non resistant state. It works great when you are studying new materials or even when you just want to learn to relax.

If you meditate 10 minutes before every session, I guarantee you will see much faster and better results

Practice daily and at the same hour

This is one of the most important points when working with a positive daily affirmation. You must do it every day for a minimum time of 30 days. Also, it highly helps to practice at the same hour. This is the habit creating business, practice is a must!

 Record your progress

Training your mind to see positive change occurring around you, will help you learn to focus you mind more positively. The more positive things you observe the more positive things happen. It’s like rolling a snowball down a hill. It will get bigger and bigger

 Be thankful

Adopting a thankful attitude is a great way to increase the work you are doing. Appreciate what you have in the present moment and you will be showered by more.

It is amazing how many people are not thankful for what they have, always looking for something outside of them to make them fulfilled

 I would like to conclude by saying that one good positive daily affirmation can change your life from a negative one to an abundant easy flowing one. It takes time and patience but is well worth it.

What is The law of attraction ?

The law of attraction is a universal law ,which turns our thoughts to positive ones. This law attracts our thoughts and makes them come true. In this research, we’d like to discuss the meaning of that law, and how we can use it in our lives.

There are two ways you can approach life.  You can approach life as if you are at the effect of things or like you are the cause of things.  Both are true.  The way you focus  creates your reality.  It’s clear that you are being the cause of your life because you are reading this article about self improvement.

The only question is, “Are aware of what you are causing?”

In order to manifest a new lover, the perfect job, that next big opportunity or millions of dollars…you have to get present to your ability to magnetize what you want.  You have to see it, realize it, know it and trust it.  That’s why I host classes to create a structure for seeing your power in action.  That way you can trust it.  Because of the exposure people receive in my classes,  they are never the same again.

The Law of Attraction is operating in the background of your life at all times.  It is similar to gravity, which is so much a part of your life that you are almost never present to it.  Yet, whether you are present to gravity or not does not stop it from affecting your existence.

By getting present to the effect of gravity, we are able to use it to our advantage.  Airplanes, rockets, kites and cars all use gravity as a part of their operation.  In order to learn to fly, airplane designers had to get present to the invisible forces that pull objects back to the ground.  Rocket designers realized they needed to go 17k miles per hour to pull away from the Earth’s gravitational field. If you only go 16k miles per hour, you won’t make it.

Similarly, in order to manifest your desires and outcomes, you must get present to those unseen forces that orchestrate the activities of the universe in the background of your life.  The Law of Attraction: You attract into your life what ever you give your energy, focus and attention to, whether you want it or not.

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Like gravity, the Law of Attraction has no opinion or discernment.  In other words the Law of Attraction does not care what you attract.

You are free to create whatever you want.  The problem is that most people have been conditioned to believe they have no control over their lives and therefore keep attracting what they don’t want by focusing on it.  The Law of Attraction is always affecting you, whether you believe in it or not.  If you said to yourself “That’s it!  I give up on gravity!”  would you float away?  No.  Gravity is there whether you believe in gravity or not.

Even more important is the fact that we have named the unseen force gravity.  Is it really “gravity”?  No.  That’s just what we named something we observed.  It’s not true or false or right or wrong, it’s just something that occurs predictably.  By naming it, we make it useful to us.  So it is with the Law of Attraction.  By naming it, we make it useful.

As a child, you didn’t think about gravity.  Gravity taught its properties to you through demonstration, right?  Learning to walk was learning about gravity.  Gravity is invisible, and yet it’s obvious and measurable.  Gravity was revealed to us by an apple dropping.

The Law of Attraction is far subtler yet no less real.  Our senses can easily identify the effects of gravity because it’s instant.  Yet, the effects of the Law of Attraction are much harder to spot.  Not because the principle doesn’t hold true, but because of the duration of time it takes for it affect us.

Some of your desires manifest instantly, others take a life time.  It depends on how attached you are to the results.  The more attached you are, the longer it takes. The less attached you are, the shorter amount of time it takes.  Just like it was hard for us to see that the world was round when it appeared flat, the Law of Attraction is hard to see because it usually happens over long periods of time and is very subtle… But eventually you are living exactly what you had thought about, in one way or another.

I’ve been experimenting with this concept since 1989.  Through my tracking I have seen that approximately 70% of my dreams have materialized in one way or the other.  Like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Attraction becomes a powerful tool when you align yourself with its effects.  Fight against gravity and you’ll die.  Fight against the Law of Attraction and you’ll suffer.  Work with gravity and you can soar…Work with attraction and you can live a totally fulfilling and satisfying life.

Thinking is manifesting.  Thinking is setting forth intentions and delegations.  You get what you think about whether you want it or not.  The Law of Attraction is absolute.  Your life is the sum total of what you have been thinking about.

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Being able to use the law of attraction to manifest your desires is not something that you will EVER be taught in schools. However, this could be the most beneficial thing that you can learn. Most people will end up attracting more of what they do not want in life. When you know how to use the law of attraction to manifest your desires, you will be able to finally start attracting the things that you DO want in life.

Here are 3 Law of Attraction Tips that will help you Manifest YOUR Desires:

1. This is not something that will happen overnight. A lot of people want to believe that they will somehow be able to learn a method of using the law of attraction to make changes happen instantly. This hardly ever occurs. You are not going to read this article and wake up tomorrow with a brand new car in the driveway. It takes time and work to properly use the law of attraction.

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2. You have to think positive, but positive thinking alone will NOT attract your desires. There are some people that try to convey the message that the law of attraction is all about positive thinking. While it is beneficial to you to think positive, this is not going to attract the things that you want, by itself. You have to USE the law of attraction and apply it to YOUR life.

3. Money is not the only thing that you can attract. While the image of people just “attracting” money may sell more books and Cd’s, there are many more things that will make your life better that you can attract with the law of attraction. Things like romance, friendships, and even better opportunities are all possible with the law of attraction.

Would you like to learn more about how to manifest YOUR desires with the law of attraction?

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Positive affirmations may not be something you have given much thought to in the past. But, whenever you think, you are affirming! Whenever you listening to your inner self talk you are affirming!

On a daily, even hourly basis, you are continually affirming to your subconscious thoughts that will eventually become your beliefs. Your subconscious mind has taken these beliefs, ever since your childhood days, and developed them into the person you are today!

Working on autopilot, your subconscious will react to any given situation in accordance to how it has been programmed by your thoughts and beliefs. In other words your affirmations. This can of course be very usefull, you don’t need to constantly stick your hand in a fire to know you will get burnt. You learnt this early on and your subconscious stored this information, so you don’t have to keep re-learning it.

That’s all very well and good! But, what about other bits of information your subconscious stored that are no longer in your best interest. You may have programmed your subconscious with information that is actually working against you now! Beliefs relating to money, health, your self esteem etc.

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Is there a way to reprogramme your subconscious? In a word, yes! Positive affirmations is a simple process that can be quickly and easily learnt, in fact we probably all know at least one positive affirmation that has been around for decades.

“Every day in every way I am getting better and better.” Remember that one? It’s ages old but sums up what a positive affirmation is.

So what is a Positive Affirmation?

Affirmations are short positive statement used to rewrite, or reprogramme, your subconscious mind to overcome a negative area of your life.

For example, let’s say you have make a presentation to some collegues at work. The more you think about it the more nervous you become. You can actually feel the palms of your hands getting hot and sweaty from just thinking of standing in front of your workmates. What you want, is to confidently make a fantastic presentation, getting your points over in a clear and professional manner.

But, all you can think about is how awkward you will feel, how flustered and confused you will be, and how you’ll make a complete mess of the whole thing. And, if that’s what you’re thinking, and keep thinking it, that’s exactly what will happen! But, to overcome this you can make an affirmation of how you want the presentation to be. Something like this!

“I am full of confidence, I speak clearly, my presentation is a huge success!”

Now you are affirming how you want the situation to be. For this to really take effect you have to repeat the affirmation over and over again as often as you can.

Repetition is the key to success where positive affirmations are concerned.

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If you want to build self-esteem, affirmations are a vital part of your confidence toolbox. The habitual thoughts that you have every moment of the day are what drive your feelings. When you have confident thoughts, you feel confident. When you have negative, self-critical thoughts, you feel down about yourself.

It makes sense then, that if you can change the thoughts you have, you can directly transform your confidence. One of the best ways to change the habitual thoughts you have is by confidence affirmations. This is why confidence affirmations make up a significant part of the confidence building programs I create.

There are some basic rules to remember when using affirmations.

Word your affirmations in the positive. If you have affirmations that talk about what you don’t want (e.g. I don’t want to feel nervous) your mind will focus on what you don’t want instead of what you want.
Make affirmations present tense. In other words don’t affirm something for the future (e.g. I will be confident). Tomorrow never comes. You want to affirm things for now.
Make affirmations credible. Saying things that are blatantly false will cause your mind to say “yeah right.”
Say them as often as you can remember. The more the better.
Adding visualization to confidence affirmations supercharges them.
Adding emotion to confidence affirmations is another way to get accelerated results

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Here are some examples of good confidence affirmations you can use to build self-esteem:

“I have confidence in myself”

“I have confidence in my abilities”

“I am worthy and deserving of happiness”

“I like myself”

A confident person is thinking these thoughts most of the time. With these thoughts they are able to deal with any situation and feel confident and self-assured.

If you practice confidence affirmations every day, you will notice that they start to become second nature. Instead of responding to situations with unhelpful unconfident thoughts, you respond with empowering strong thoughts.

If you want to gain confidence, commit to using confidence affirmations in your life.

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The Law of Attractions. Which law is controlling your life, holding back your success and determining your destiny. We are all governed by laws. The law of attraction for example dictates the reality of your life, but the 3% who succeed defy the law and do the impossible.

We are all governed by laws, for example, Eternal laws, Natural Laws and Divine Laws. Laws are made to protect and control us, but they also hinder the progress of the majority.

You cannot allow yourself to be bound and restricted by laws which were intended to liberate us. Look at some laws that most people often allow to arrest and imprison them.

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Law of Probability:

The possibility or likelihood that a given event or situation will occur. The chances are that with all probability, the economy is going to recover sooner or later.

The sun will shine tomorrow is a clear probability.

Law of Attractions:

Both the conscious and unconscious thoughts dictate the reality of your live, whether or not you’re aware of it. Basically, if you really want something and truly believe it’s possible, you’ll get it. At the same time, if you put a lot of attention and thought into something you don’t want, means you’ll probably get that too.

Law of Diminishing Intent:

The Law of Diminishing Intent states: The longer you wait to do something that you know you should do now, the greater the chances are it will never actually get done.

Law of Gravity

Gravity is a natural phenomenon by which objects with mass attract one another. The law of gravity is an attractive force between all things. It is one of the universal forces of nature. The gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses. So in everyday life, gravity is most commonly thought of as the agency which lends weight to objects with mass.

MatthewNeer.com Will Smith gets it. He understands the law’s or prosperity and how it is possible to manifest anything you want into your life at a moments notice. It is important for you to realize that once more and more of humanity awakens to understanding these very simple and basic concepts it will become easier and easier to create the very same results within yourself and within your own life. I seriously commend Will Smith for talking about these concepts on national television because it is only when celebrities public icons begin to endorse this type of thinking will it become mainstream. And when it does become mainstream you will see humanity as we know it change it’s collective consciousness on a global scale making us not a United States, but a United World. SqueezeThemeUBD.com
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If you really want to get what you want in life you must stop using the law of attraction. That’s right. Stop using it.

Instead, learn to focus on those things that you want. You will immediately start seeing better results in your life.

This isn’t because there is a problem with the law of attraction, far from it! The law of attraction is one of the most powerful guiding forces in your life. The problem comes from trying to ‘use’ the law of attraction like a tool.

This is what many people do. They think that they can pull out their handy, dandy law of attraction tool whenever they need something new in their life.  Need a new car? I’ll use the law of attraction. Need a new job? I’ll use the law of attraction. Need a new love? I’ll use the law of attraction. But it doesn’t work that way. Not at all!

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What happens is that those people get all fired up about a particular goal or dream and start doing all sorts of law of attraction type things – things like saying affirmations, or building vision boards, or practicing visualizations…

… and these are all good things! But they don’t unlock your true manifesting power!

Not until you commit to making that change in your life. That’s what releases the true YOU. Making a commitment to change.

What those people fail to realize is that no one ‘uses’ the law of attraction or any other success principle.

If you are busy ‘using’ something like the law of attraction, chances are that a large portion of your time will be spent asking questions like:

“Is it working yet?”

“What am I doing wrong?”

Or even…

“Does this stuff even work?”

I think you realize that all that time and energy spent on questions like these is really time and energy that you could have spent working on your dream.

A much better approach to getting what you want out of life is to look at things like the law of attraction as a philosophy to live by, rather than a tool to use only when you need something.

When you do that, when you integrate ideas like the law of attraction into your life you will find yourself achieving your dreams better, faster, and with less effort than before.

Tired of how things keep turning out in your life? Have you ever thought that you might be sabotaging your own efforts to make things better? Then it is very important for you to develop a positive mindset. It is one of the most powerful life tactics. Using powerful positive thinking techniques, positive affirmations and visualizations it is possible to establish positive lasting change. Business professionals can use these techniques to build up personal power or gain a competitive edge. It will renovate your life, your health, and renew the joy and passion in your life.
Affirmations are statements of acceptance that one uses to permit the manifestation of your destiny. They are powerful statements to create positive thoughts which will in turn establish positive actions. To do positive affirmations, you have to eliminate the negativity around you. You must first believe that YOU CAN manifest your destiny. Every affirmation we think or say is a reflection of our inner truth or beliefs. It is a kind of “thought reprogramming” in which you have the power to choose the negative aspects in which you want to remove from your life.
Affirmations are used successfully in all areas of self growth and self improvement. Your affirmations can include how you would like to feel: I feel wonderful, I am energetic or I feel safe. Your affirmations can include how you would like your life to be: I attract positive people into my life, I am a prosperous person, I lose weight easily, I release my anger, I stop smoking now, I release my fear and anxiety, or I solve problems easily. There are little limitations to what you can achieve.
People use affirmations on a daily basis without even realizing it and without realizing the effect they have on our subconscious. Affirmations can be made in a number of different ways which help to boost your self-confidence or self growth, it only requires a little dedication and repetition. An affirmation is a statement that can change one’s pattern of thinking and belief from negative to positive and is best used as nightly affirmations rather than daily affirmations. Daily affirmations are subject to rejection by the built in rejection barriers of the conscious mind, nightly affirmations are directly accepted by the subconscious mind without rejection. This can be done using a specialized Awake2000 affirmation device.

If you are looking to change your finances, your lifestyle, your relationship or your current situation in life, you must start by changing the way you think about things – your attitude. Your attitude is how you view the world and your place in the world. One powerful way to change your attitude is through the use of daily positive affirmation.  An affirmation is a powerful declaration of support for a belief. “I am a successful person and opportunities come to me daily,” is an example of an affirmation.

There are 3 secrets to custom building your own powerful and effective affirmations. Once you master these concepts, you will be able to develop your own positive affirmation sequence and truly start to change your attitude and see tremendous improvement in the results toward achieving what you want in life.

The initial concept in writing your own positive affirmation is to make sure it is in The First Person.  You’re quest is to develop yourself and your self image, so you can improve your situation. You always want to start an affirmation with the word “I…” Remember to visualize what you want or what kind of person you need to be to get what you want. “I am confident and poised. I make quick, intelligent decisions. I am calm and determined.”

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The next step in building a relevant affirmation is to make sure it is in the Present Tense. “I am a positive and enthusiastic person,” is what you say; you don’t say “I want to be a positive and enthusiastic person.” When you speak the affirmation, you visualize yourself already possessing the quality or attribute you want. You are not becoming something…you have already become…and your words are merely affirming what you know to be true.

The final element you need in order to complete your affirmation is to make sure it is Vividly Detailed. As you speak the affirmation, you should try to see the word picture you are painting. The more details you provide, the easier the image is for you to see and believe. Which of the next two phrases is more descriptive? “I have energy,”…or this “I am powerful and alive. My skin feels electric with high energy. My senses are sharp and alert, my muscles coiled like springs. I am a sleek leopard, ready to pounce.” Remember, the more vividly detailed the better. Have some fun with it.

You will learn to master crafting these affirmations over time if you stick to the basic framework of keeping it in First Person, In the Present Tense and Vividly Detailed.

Now that you know the three secrets of building a positive affirmation, you should start immediately on crafting your own series. Once you have 4 or 5 written, you will want to repeat them once in the morning as you wake up and once in the evening before you go to sleep. As you do this daily, you will start to notice a positive change in the way you think about yourself and your level of confidence in your own abilities will rise. The key is to continue writing new, more powerful affirmations as you and your achievements grow.

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