There will have been times in your life that you doubted yourself. You were trying to achieve something and a voice in your head told you that you were not good enough. There could be several reasons for this. Many people hear negative statements about themselves when they are a child and this has a negative impact on their future.

We all have limiting beliefs. These are rooted in our subconscious minds and hold us back in life. If you failed to achieve something in the past then you probably have a limiting belief about that now. For example, if you were learning to swim and you couldn’t do it you could now have a limiting belief that you will never learn how to swim.

Affirmations Neutralize Negative Thoughts

Imagine that you are really determined to learn to swim despite the negativity in your head from the limiting belief. Everyone experiences negative thoughts and the best way to deal with them initially is to neutralize them. So, if your negative thought is “I will never learn how to swim” you can neutralize this with “I am an excellent swimmer”.

It is all about positives and negatives. Affirmations are positive statements that you make about yourself repeatedly. The reason that this works so well is because you are bombarding your subconscious mind with these messages.

Your Subconscious cannot Differentiate between Positive and Negative

Your subconscious mind will pick out various words when it hears them. If you say to yourself “I am a loser” then it will focus on the word “loser”. Creating an affirmation like “I am not a loser” will not be effective because again the focus is on the word “loser”.

When you are writing your affirmations, you need to look for opposites. For the example above, the opposite of “loser” is “winner” so it is best to use this in your affirmation. You could write an affirmation like “I am a winner”.

When your subconscious mind hears that you are a winner repeatedly it will start to question you being a loser. After a period of time the perception that you are a winner will replace the notion that you are a loser.

Affirmations Work

There have been numerous studies into affirmations and they all revealed then when they were performed correctly there were positive changes in the individual. The most important thing to note about this is “performing them correctly”.

You need to get your affirmations right when you create them and then you need to use them properly to get the best results. It is not just a case of finding some affirmation examples online and then copying them and expecting them to work for you.

Many people think that affirmations are a waste of time. Their perception is that affirmations are just statements of hope and a wish list. But this is not the case. Lots have people have transformed their lives using the power of affirmations.

Believe in Affirmations

If you want affirmations to work for you then you need to believe that they will work. This belief needs to be unwavering. You cannot go into affirmations in a half-hearted way and expect to see amazing results.

Total commitment is required to make affirmations work for you. You need to be passionate when you are creating them and when you are reading them. If you get it right affirmations certainly have the potential to change your life for the better.