Affirmations with Attitude: Words of power to shift life to Hell, Yes!
An affirmation with attitude holds words of power-within to shift the trajectory of your life.
Maybe this is a nonsensical claim, another too-good-to-be-true assertion. Maybe your experience of affirmations are statements offering an easy out which can quickly be turned against you, becoming another reason to blame self for failure or worse.
However, when the clear attitude of your personal power is connected to words which reflect power-within, you literally are shifting the trajectory of your life and your underlying, often unspoken, beliefs about you. This isn’t woo-woo superficiality. This is truth.
When you’re willing to take a deeper look at life, then the words you need to shift can emerge. An affirmation with attitude skips the superficial and the misaligned forced upon you from the outside and emerges from within your personal truth.
The secret to this powerful transformation is to catch the words of self-judgment and self-blame, then flip them into the energy of you excited about and engaged in your life. Affirmations fail when the words do not reflect you and your inner challenges to feel connected to and leading your life for you.
Most of us at some point make do. In some circumstances this is all that can truly be done. However, making do, as a habit or retreat from life, is more like treading water or retreating to a shore that is not on your ocean of life. Making do is not taking care of challenge or moving forward into a life which works for you. Making do is the opposite of Hell, yes!
Hell, yes! is the point where the excitement of you meets the highest potential of you in this moment. Hell, yes! is not caving into the external demands of criticism and judgment.
Hell, yes! is you happy with yourself and your life. Here you have let go of the erroneous notions that your life and what you want to be and become is for someone else to decide for you. Your flaws and challenges are not reasons to ignore self-responsibility and allow yourself to be managed or controlled by somebody else.
Here’s where you begin:
Pick yourself up. Dust off your hiney. Clear the cobwebs from your eyes. Say to yourself:
Hell, yes! I can!
Feel inside yourself.
How do these four words feel to you?
Is there a little voice inside saying: Hell, no! I can’t! ???
Perhaps you feel resistance or have multiple reasons why you can’t now or ever.
Instead lean into this consideration: do I really want to believe I can’t?
Anytime? Within any challenge? Forever?
If you are comfortable with I can’t, there is no affirmation or spiritual practice in the world which will be effective.
If your attitude is one of defeat or you play victim or you don’t want to be troubled to look deeper into your life, then close this book and walk away. Go watch TV or pick at the dust bunnies under your couch because you have decided you aren’t budgeting from I can’t. End of story.
Affirmations with attitudes are geared to help those who believe somehow, some way: I am open to learn how I can. You do not need to know exactly how you will get to Hell, yes! I can! or how you’ll move beyond doubt, mistrust, blame, or fear.
Change in life doesn’t work in a vacuum. You must engage, show up, speak up for you! You got to be open to learn for yourself how you get to Hell, yes!
Fear of missing out, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear you’re no good or too much in your ego or just too much – these fears are the fuel of your attitude rather than being reasons for not being at Hell, yes!
At Hell, yes! you are not required to be perfect, know the answer to every question, and take care of everyone before you attend to you. To be the director of your life, responsible for your choices and your actions (or non-actions) all you gotta do is say: somehow, some way I can! Not because you are a perfect human being. Instead, you have decided to not let your perceived imperfections hold you back.
Yell it to the mountain top: Hell, yes! I can!
Whisper it to your heart: Hell, yes! I can!
If you find yourself struggling to believe, feel: I am learning that Hell, yes! I can!
Words have Power
Words have power. The words running amok in head and heart have the power to distract, delay, deform, and destroy not just forward movement in life, but also your effort to be in this moment who you truly are.
Words hold memory and trauma, hurt and harm, expectation and judgment. Repetition of these words pounds nails of defeat as a big L for loser on your forehead. Words reinforce bad habits and destructive choices. Words can interfere with your ability to respond and act on your behalf. Words can instill an attitude of mindlessness and denial, relegating you to the sidelines of life.
However, words, especially those with attitude, can loosen the binds, untie the restraints, and launch forward motion. Words connected with your power-within seek joy, create connection, and hum with your awesomeness.
You become the little engine who can, the Grinch with the heart, and an unfrozen princess dancing in the snow. Because, Hell, yes! I can!
A Cautionary Tale
Here’s the cautionary tale for this moment of your life story.
Don’t confuse Hell, yes! with I must or I should or I oughta.
The power of these words will get you stuck in the wonky idea life must be perfect and you must, without excuses, be always perfect.
Besides what is perfection? What is the demand within you to act, model, embrace, infuse, or be perfect? Essentially the demand for perfection is trying to get you to ignore you and be not-you. Rather to be the you which pleases them or pleases your sense of whoever or whatever is making demands on you.
The demand for perfection diminishes and disdains your power-within, your awareness of you, and what works for you. Judged lacking, the intention is to get you to believe that Hell, yes! I can! is a pipe dream, a delusion, an idiocy of your imperfect, damaged ego.
Caught in the nightmare of perfection, there will appear to be no path taking you away. But this, too, is a false notion.
The path to Hell, yes! I can! is always, no matter what, within you.
No matter the challenge, your path, your life’s journey begins within you, with one step: Hell, yes! I am learning I can! Hell, yes! I can!
Shifting Up a Level
Now here’s where the cautionary tale kicks everything up a notch.
The goal of Hell, yes! I can! is not perfection, always being and doing exactly right, always fulfilling expectation, and answering judgment.
Hell, yes! I Can! doesn’t have a destination. It is not how you get to the end of the line or finish life’s journey.
This isn’t about getting where everything is done, finished, completed. Where you pat yourself on the back and declare perfection and a job well done.
Hell, yes! I Can! this is your journey, the process, the way you live your life.
Hell, yes! comes from deep within you. From the place within you where you feel the rare excitement of the explorer, the learner, the lover of life.
Hell, yes! propels you forward asking for the next experience, the next learning, the next A-Ha!
Hell, yes! receives the flow of life and integrates experience across all levels body, mind, heart, and soul.
Hell, yes! is your statement of power-within. Hell, yes! is you saying to yourself there’s more to life than the blind pursuit of perfection. Hell, yes! it’s you on the path to something deeper, and imbued with the significance and awesomeness of you.
Hell, yes! I can!
My words of power illuminate my affirmations with attitude.
Let the good times roll because Hell, yes! I can!
Affirmations with Attitude is one of many articles in For Body, Mind, Heart & Soul. Plus, learn How to Do Affirmations of Personal Power! This is a course you can take self-paced or live and in-person with Cheryl.
