Affirmations: Become the Divine Being You Were Born to Be

When we are born, we are beings of perfect and pure unconditional love. This includes loving ourselves completely and unconditionally. We then begin to learn by our experiences, the things we are told, or hear. By observing the world around us, especially those we love and trust, all of these things begin to program our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind has no discernment, it believes and trusts everything it is fed, and it takes it all as truth and fact.

So, when a child is told over and over, they are bad. The parent may think they are kidding or teasing about the rambunctiousness of their child, but what that child's subconscious mind is learning is that they are bad, and they will believe it.

All of these things we learn as children create what our inner self, our subconscious, believe about the world and ourselves. If we watched our parents struggle with money and call it the root of all evil. We may find we have money issues because, in our subconscious mind, we believe that money is evil and it will cause us to struggle.

As we grow and mature, so does our consciousness or conscious mind. This conscious mind is the part of your mind that has discernment. Unfortunately, our conscious minds are not fully developed until our late teens/early twenties. Then at some point we start to consciously choose to say "Hey, I want to make money so I can create a secure life for myself and my family." The only problem is deep down in your subconscious mind you still believe that money is the root of all evil. So, you end up subconsciously sabotaging you plans to make money and create that financial security.

We need to reprogram our sub-conscious mind!

How do we go about doing that? Affirmations are one very powerful tool you can use to do that.

Remember how that child began to believe they were bad because they heard their parent say it every day. That is exactly how affirmations work as well. But here is the MAGIC... we now get to use our conscious mind to CHOOSE what we are feeding our subconscious mind.

By using kind and loving, healing words and flooding our minds with them, we can re-write what our subconscious mind believes. If that child who was told they were bad, is now trying to grow and become the best parent they can be for their children, but they still feel like every move they make they still end up messing up. Why? Because their subconscious mind still believes they are bad. They might start with an affirmation like..."I am a good and capable child of the Goddess".

They might write this 10 times when they wake up and 10 times before going to bed. Might write it on their mirror so they see it when they look at themselves. Put post it notes with it on their computer. Repeat it to themselves when they are sitting in traffic. Just inundate their minds with is so that their subconscious mind is so flooded with this new thought that it overwrites the "I am a bad kid" program.

You want to choose a message that hits you in the feelings. You want to keep it in the positive. . (Our subconscious does not comprehend words like not or no. So, if you would say I do not want debt. your subconscious is going to take that as I want debt and guess what you will end up creating for yourself?) You may not completely believe the affirmations you are saying at first and that is ok. Just remember you are not lying to yourself. You are working to clear up the lies that were told you your subconscious, that you have been living.

This is also why positive self-talk it so important. But we will talk about that much more at a later time.

For affirmations to really be effective and reprogram our subconscious minds you have to be consistent and prolific with your repetition. If you just use them now and again to boost your mood when you are down they are not going to really be effective.

The one other rule I would like to note is that you want to say them in the present tense. Make the statements like they are already facts in your current life. If you make them in the future, they will always be in the future. For example, "I will be successful." Your subconscious mind takes that as it will always be in the future...not now...tomorrow. And what did Annie say about tomorrow...It is always a day away. Your subconscious will then try to always keep it at least a day away.

None of this denies or negates that things might suck right now, and life is not all rainbows and unicorns. It is natural and healthy to acknowledge ALL of your feelings and the realities of your current circumstances. Things do not have to be an all or nothing. You can still do affirmations and still feel completely authentic. Start with something like “This situation is difficult, but I have the skills and abilities to deal with it.” or “I’ve survived other situations like this, and I’ll survive this one, too.”

You can acknowledge that you are sad or angry as hell at the world and still strive to make your life better and change the track your subconscious mind has kept you on. Feel ALL of the feelings then pick yourself up and choose to make the changes so that the current suckfest does not have to continue to be the future suckfest. You are the only YOU there is in this world and you deserve the most joy and love the universe has!