What is an Affirmation?
An affirmation holds words of personal power to shift life to Hell, Yes, I Can!
Mix in attitude, emotion, and feeling and an affirmation becomes a strong statement of self-worth and Power Within.
Thus, affirmations hold words of Power-Within to shift the trajectory of your life.
Using the words and thoughts from old personal stories and outdated self-belief, an affirmation flips life’s motion in a positive direction. This shift helps reinforce new directions and new opportunities to expand, transform, and integrate.
An affirmation has these parts:
- A supportive statement, often begins with I and it’s usually set out loud,
- Describes new learning and self-understanding,
- Holds the intention to shift transform, and integrate,
- Establishes new personal beliefs and habits,
- Claims and new life path.
Let’s look at these parts from a deeper perspective.
A supportive statement
The fundamental nature of an affirmation is support. Support to move in a new direction. Support to release erroneous notions and whatever no longer serves you.
Most often, affirmations begin with I because this is about you and the change you want to effect in your life.
Additionally, affirmations are said out loud. This enhances the energy of the words and reinforces the reality of life here, now. An audible declaration focusing the direction of life away from the unsupportive and the outdated.
Always speaking and affirmation aloud is not required. However, the effect is noticeable, making a difference sooner than later.
I willingly release the old and the outdated.
Describes new learning and self-understanding
When life becomes intentional and the aim is deep learning and understanding, you create a path of release.
In the release, you come across a wide assortment of outdated personal stories, false self-belief, and bad habits which need shifting and moving beyond. The words embedded in the no-longer-you can become words and concepts within an affirmation. The affirmation holds the energy of the new direction. As the affirmation is repeated, the energy of the words reinforces the release and the power of the new direction.
In a later section, I will show you how to flip the old and outdated into the energy of your new trajectory.
I learn always!
Holds the intention to shift, transform, and integrate
The purpose of an affirmation is to help you move in a new and supportive life direction.
The energetic power of words combined with the energetic power of clear intention make affirmations words of personal power. The repetition of the affirmation clearly claims new belief and settles the new energy within you as you.
Both the action and result of an affirmation is to shift the direction of life. The shift initiates transformation which changes the framework of life and what you believe is possible.
The continuous use of the affirmation soaks the energy of shift and transformation into the new you. The affirmations weaves the new intention into the fabric of your life where the old outdated thoughts are no longer truthful for you.
This integrates the power of the affirmation into you and your awareness of and resonance with your truth and self-belief.
I live my life always at hell, yes!
Establishes new personal beliefs and habits
Because the affirmation first affects your sense of self truth and supports the release of the outdated, you now have the room and the ability to open the door to new beliefs and habits. The point isn’t to get rid of habit or belief – these are with you always.
The point is to shift your awareness in the direction which is for you. This creates the space to develop and rely upon beliefs, stories, and habist which support the very best of you and your personal power.
I am open to I am always open to new possibility.
Claims a new life path
When you gather courage to learn, to dive deep, and not accept the same old as the only possibility, life not only changes – life opens a new door to a new life path.
Possibility is enhanced and expands. New awareness makes an entrance.
Trouble doesn’t go away, but personal response is different. You feel more capable and more willing to see beyond the limits of expectation, blame, fear, and judgment.
The new shift brings you to a clear awareness of what you want your life to be.
No longer stuck in the old energy of I can’t, now you find an anchor to help you face life as it comes. You allow yourself to claim the best of your being and becoming. You find encouragement to declare Hell, Yes, I Can!
Another bonus maybe the elimination of feeling you must explain or defend or hold back. Gone is the block of I must serve others.
Instead, is the power of you supporting this your new life and your empowered path.
I claim my personal power for me!
This is a short piece I have written for a new book on Affirmations. Read more in this column: A View from the Boundlessness.
