Being a positive thinker is a very good thing, however daily situations keep challenging us and it is easy to fall into the trap of complaining or emitting negative thoughts. One of the things I have learned to keep on track is to repeat affirmations daily.
An affirmation is a phrase you say to yourself that contains a positive statement that you would like to have happen in your life and you say it like it has already come true, in the present tense and with a lot of gratitude. When you have put this affirmation into your subconscious mind by repeating it many times over the course of the day and you add FEELING to it, it becomes alive.
According to the book Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill the strongest positive feelings are faith, love and sex! This book was originally published in 1937 and has been edited since, but the main content is still the same and I highly recommend it. It happens to be a favorite of mine.
One of my recent examples of using affirmations myself was to help me stop biting my fingernails. This has been an awful habit of mine for many years, but I decided to repeat to myself many times a day something like this: I have beautiful hands with long, strong, beautiful fingernails that I am proud of, and in three days I had stopped biting!
Try it on anything, put some faith in there and vividly imagine how the change would make you look, feel and act.
Happy thoughts
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