Positive affirmations are short motivational sayings which are like rays of hope.
I say my affirmations in the morning after my meditation session. When used correctly affirmations inspire and motivate, when misused they are veneers under which problems fester.
Misusing Affirmations
Positive affirmations have become trendy and are misused by many people who lead lives diametrically opposed to their affirmations. Unhealthy eaters who affirm they are healthy, students who don’t study but affirm they will pass the class, people who don’t put in the work but affirm they will be successful, the list is endless.
Harmonize
It’s easy to affirm something but it takes strength to live out these affirmations. Living out your affirmations is necessary for manifestation. When the individual’s lifestyle is different from his affirmations, conflict arises. Our affirmations and actions must have a reciprocal relationship.
If we affirm that we are healthy then we must eat healthy.
If we affirm that we are fit then we must exercise, do yoga or maintain some other physical discipline.
If we say affirmations for success then we must be committed to our goals.
Compare your affirmations to your lifestyle. Does your lifestyle reinforce your affirmations?
One of my affirmations is: “I am protected and nourished by nature.” To strengthen this affirmation I show love to all plants, animals and insects. I also farm without using harmful chemicals. Using GMO’s, harmful fertilizers, pesticides or being cruel to animals would make this affirmation just empty words. Empty words cannot bear fruit.
Beautiful Synchronicity
Positive affirmations are self motivational tools that reinforce healthy habits and keep us focused. When your affirmations and actions harmonize, your life will be filled with beautiful synchronicity.
iZUHM THA iNFiNiTE
While this iz true, affirmations can be used in many infinite ways. There’s no one way to use them as they have many uses. You can’t actually misuse them unless you believe you can misuse them. In telling people they can misuse them and their imagining that statement as true for them will experience that limited belief. We are not limited beings, but limitless abundantly infinite beings with infinite potentiality.
For example, affirmations can be used to slow the vibration of an old paradigm and installing a new paradigm which better serves them. Also affirmations can be used to become conscious of otherwise unconscious beliefs that limitless when we state an affirmation and are mindful of the thoughts that follow the stating of an affirmation we want to become. It’s still an action of faith that will produce results for them. Once they begin to believe in what they affirm they will follow the affirmation with action and if they don’t then they may very well allow the old paradigm to be re-installed subconsciously which will then become an obstacle that will keep showing itself in their circumstances producing less than desirable results that are calling their attention to the limited belief that iz blocking their desire from becoming, having, or experiencing their desires.
Affirmations are words and words are extremely powerful physical expressions that are birthed from the invisible desire of who we have already instantaneously become. But what manifests from invisible to invisible always takes time to manifest. All physical manifestations take time and a willingness to act upon those desires but it’s not the action that causes the manifestation, it’s never our working that makes them manifest, our working toward our affirmations iz merely an act of aligning ourselves into the vibration of what already iz and what we will become as we are showing the universe that we faithfully believe that we are that which we have already imagined ourselves to be, that we believe first in the invisible and not the visible as our reality. That iz where our power always remains, in the now, and what we feel now iz what will become our reality later. What iz physically experienced iz mirror of what was, it’s not now, it’s in a sense already the past manifestation of what was now.
Finding harmony in all things will always accelerate manifestations and bring us into the eternal present moment of now, where our divine power, eternal peace, and joy iz found and synchronicity will be used both as sign that you are in alignment and heading toward your desire, but just keep in mind to enjoy the journey of Now, and not make it a means to get to joy as that iz when the egoic mind has taken over and will make the future a means to receiving joy and the rewards that are never experienced in the future, but always experienced in the here and now.
Namaste!
Jaja Wallace
I wrote this article after meeting several people who thought that affirmations were enough to manifest without the action behind them. A student I know didn’t study and was given an affirmation and prayer by a guru who told him that all he needed was to say the prayer and affirmation every day and he would pass. So the young man spent his days partying and neglected his studies and failed all his exams. He dropped out and had to start over and it was only after studying and dedication that he passed. The guru told him that he didn’t need to study and as long as he said the affirmations whatever he wrote on the paper would have to magically be marked as correct. So I wrote this after meeting so many people like this. I wanted to show them that actions are just as necessary as the words.
Karen Francisco
Positive affirmations help me a lot with my anxiety