Affirmations: What Positive Thinking Can Do for You

Affirmations are meant to evoke goodness in yourself. Curious how? Discover the personal power of positive thoughts here!

Affirmations are positive phrases that you say to yourself. They are a reminder of your own strength and the pleasures of life. Would you like to know how to create such an encouraging mantra? Find examples and tips here for creating a cheerful, personal spell to bring out your inner magic!

What Does Affirmation Mean?

The literal meaning of affirmation is ‘positive acknowledgement’. So It’s a positive spell you use to indicate that something exists. According to spiritual masters, with such a mantra you evoke the presence of something valuable from deep within you. Peace, understanding, compassion, justice?They’re all in there, you just have to invite them out to join the party. At the same time, positive affirmations require regular repetition, otherwise the contact with those beautiful qualities will be diluted. It’s therefore a good idea to take time for your mantra every day or whenever the situation calls for a boost of power from these qualities. As long as you repeat the spell often enough to remember how to contact this personal power, you’ll be tapping into your deepest well of positive energy and good qualities.

Affirmation and Meditation: What’s the Connection?

Most people usually repeat their personal mantras to themselves, without anyone else hearing it. That requires good concentration and the skill to keep yourself focused every time. But don’t be discouraged if that’s hard in the beginning, because we are all distracted sometimes. It’s just a matter of getting back to what’s important to you. Is this starting to sound a bit familiar? Meditation, of course, works on the same principle, so grab your Meditation Cushion, light an Affirmation Candle, and start your positive self talk!

Powerful Affirmations of Self Love

Do you want to learn to embrace life and others? Then start with yourself! Because those who can’t love themselves…well, let’s just say it’s cliché for a reason! Positive self-love declarations are therefore actually the best starting point for working with affirmations. What you think of yourself colors every other affirmation. For example, do you want to let go of fear because you love yourself enough that you believe you deserve a confidence boost, or is it because you think being afraid is cowardly? They may both be related to fear, but they are very different when it comes to how you look at yourself!

When Do You Use Affirmations?

Loving reinforcement can be used in a variety of meaningful, challenging, or exciting situations, such as:

• recurring anxiety
• difficulty sleeping or relaxing
• wish to have children, pregnancy and birth
• decreased health
• longing for love and abundance

Strong Affirmations for Anxiety

What is the right mindset to replace fear? You may say affirmations for letting go, because you want to get rid of something, the fear. But according to affirmation experts, you should take an even more positive approach. An affirmation that inspires confidence and strength works much better. Focus on the power you have, not getting rid of something! Give attention and energy to the things that you DO want. Read on for our tips for making affirmations.

The Power of Affirmations Before Going to Sleep

Sometimes it’s hard to relax. In addition to placing soothing Crystals Under Your Bed or clearing the energy of your bedroom with a Himalaya Salt Lamp Nightlight,  maybe a relaxing mantra before bed can help you get to dreamland. In any case, repetition is a tried and tested method for when you’re still awake – who hasn’t learned to count sheep in the past? A good tip for sleep-inducing spells is therefore a quiet and soothing rhythm. And can you sing it softly? Then the chance is even greater that you will put yourself to sleep singing your affirmation to yourself as a rhythmic lullaby.

Positive Thoughts During Pregnancy

Many people repeat positive thoughts to reinforce their desire to have children and to make the pregnancy and birth experience go well. Affirmations to let go can therefore be taken very literally in the latter situation! Not only do birth affirmations soothe expectant parents, they would also give the baby a warm welcome into this world.

Affirmations for Health

Health mantras can be a question of strengthening your vitality or finding the strength to bear your situation. Not every condition can be healed, but according to most healers, acceptance also provides much-needed energy. Where worries and stress disappear, space for healing is created again. If you also practice positive health, repeat mantras while you are symptom-free. Because again, it’s best to focus on things that you can foster and grow within yourself, not your problems!

Affirmations That Attract Love or  Wealth

Love and wealth are controversial concepts for most people. If you look at them spiritually, they can indicate the same thing, namely a desire for abundance. That can be enough love to share, enough money to live on, or work that fits you like a glove. Could it be more effortless for you? Then mantras for love or wealth might be a bull’s eye!

Making Affirmations Step by Step

Before you start, do some journaling to try and discover what you really want to achieve with your affirmations. Once you know what you want to focus on, get started with these well-known ingredients for a good affirmation.

Ingredients for Strong Affirmations

According to experts, your own affirmations work best if you:

• choose words that feel natural – an affirmation has meaning when it sounds familiar
• use the present tense, as if the desired has already happened or has been achieved
• speak in a positive way
• indicate what you do want, not what you want to avoid
• base it on (spiritual) support and help

Powerful Affirmations, Examples of Positive Thinking

Do you need a little more help figuring out what to say? Well, for example try:

I…

• am good enough
• have the strength to bear this
• get all the support i need
• feel free to choose
• earn work/people/situations that suit me
• always find a way

My…

• efforts yield results
• words are heard
• heart knows what’s right

Supporting Spells with Spiritual Tools

True gurus-to-be also use other spiritual tools to enhance their personal mantra magic. For example, you can use crystals that stimulate the energy to reach your goals, such as a Golden Triangle. You can also combine positive wishes with an energetic cleaning of yourself or your environment. For example, many people repeat mantras while Cleansing their House with Sage or when they want to cleanse themselves or their environment of negative energy with Florida Water. New Moon Affirmations are great for when you need a fresh start for example. For others, spiritual help is indispensable, for example from a Guardian Angel or Talismans.

What deserves positive attention in your life?