Positive affirmations are words or phrases which are said again and again to AFFIRM a single thought about yourself. I believe they are an important regimen in re-programming limiting and negative beliefs that you have developed in the course of your life.

When I think back over my life I can list down several limiting and negative beliefs about different aspects of my life.

How do they appear?

T. Harv Eker talks about it as part of his seminars on financial blue print. I believe the same can be applied for various aspects of your life.

He talks about 3 sources where your programming comes from:

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• Verbal - The verbal stuff that has been going into your head from your parents, teachers, religious teachers etc. A favorite example about money would be the phrase "do you think money grows on trees"
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• Modelling - The behavioral patterns that you mirror from people over the years. For example I have adopted a combination of habits from my parents
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• Specific Incidents - Incidents in life that have reinforced certain programming. Bob Proctor shared an example. Imagine children that would be punished in school for day dreaming and imagining. This type of conditioning would limit the creativity of these children later in life as adults
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As you go through these things over and over again in your life they become beliefs that you hold about your reality i.e. relationships, weight, love, money.

To re-program your self you need to undo the conditioning by coming up with new beliefs that you want to have in your life.

Positive affirmations are the way to do that. I use affirmations everyday. Usually in the morning as I wake up and just before I go to bed at night. I also find myself using them during the day whenever I find spare time. For example at a traffic light while waiting for the light to go green I say a few affirmations.

Now the important thing about this is that you FEEL the words. As with visualizations you connect with the words in a positive way. Because it is this feeling that drives the new programming into your mind.

Some of my favorite affirmations which I use everyday are:

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• I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me easily and frequently, in increasing quantities, from multiple sources, everyday
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• I am so happy and grateful now that I have wonderful family and friends that love me, trust me, and want me to do well
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• I am so happy and grateful now that I think only positively
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• I am so happy and grateful now that I am ready to receive all that I want
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I have followed Bob Proctor's tips of the tips on creating affirmations, which include making it in the present tense and having the words "I am happy and grateful now that" to come before each new programming.

Tags: Law of Attraction, Positive Thinking, T. Harv Eker, Bob Proctor, Affirmations, My Thoughts