The other day my friend and fitness mentor, Narina Prokosh, tweeted about an article by Melonie Dodaro on affirmations. The article gives great advice on how to maximize the benefit of making affirmations a part of your daily routine.
Today, I want to speak to one aspect of the article. In it, Melonie says “When you add sound, emotion, and physical feeling, the affirmation process becomes a more powerful change agent, deepening the effect in your brain.” This is because your subconscious mind can only fully comprehend something that it can see, hear and feel. In other words, it’s great to have an affirmation about being ‘happy’, but your subconscious mind cannot grasp the concept of ‘happy’ unless it can see, hear and feel what happiness means to you.
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To make it clear, write a few lines about what you would actually see when you are happy; see what you are doing, where you are living, what you look like now that you are living in happiness.
Now write down what you are saying and what others are saying about you, as a happy person. You might write something like: “I have never felt so energized/empowered/ blissful”. Others may say “You look radiant! I’ve never seen you look better/healthier/more glowing!” or “ She’s so much fun to be around, I really enjoy spending time with her.”
Finally, remember what it feels like to be happy. Take the feeling from a wonderfully happy memory and magnify it for your whole body to experience. Concentrate on that feeling until your entire body is completely enveloped in the physical experience of “Happy”.
Now that your subconscious can see, hear and feel what it means for you to be ‘happy’ it will make it much easier to effect the belief change you are making. Now you have your subconscious mind on side. You are open to seeing all the things that make you happy and bringing those things to your awareness – delivering you the happiness you desire.
Check out Narina’s site and Melonie’s too. Enjoy!
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