Good Day All!

After reading through the excellent thread that Meltinaway started about public ridicule, I thought that I might start this thread for two reasons – one is to help you understand affirmations, why they are important, and how to write one, and the second reason is for people that already use affirmations to share them with the group as examples, and what has changed since you started affirmations.
An affirmation is simply a way to change the programmed thinking – the standard responses that we experience in different situations and encounters. Affirmations are powerful. Thoughts, spoken words, and written statements are acts of creation. It is important that our words be in alignment with our desires. In order to live the life we want, we must affirm what we want, not what we do not want.

Each person has a resonance or vibration or frequency; each affirmation has a resonance or vibration or frequency. So, too, a desire to change resonates. Affirmations that are in proper resonance with the person thinking or saying or writing them can positively impact the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects and other invisible layers in the energy field.

To write out an affirmation, you must first decide what it is you want to change. Obviously we are all here to change our weight, but there are probably other behaviors, responses to situations, etc. that you may want to change also. Write down all these things. For example:

• I want to lose xxx pounds
• I won’t let people control how I feel by their insensitivity
• I am a person that people like
• I fit in
• etc.

You then take these things and turn them into positive, present tense phrases. For example:

• I am so excited that I weight xxx pounds. I feel and look incredible
• I deserve this and I am in control of my life and my destiny. People treat me with the respect that everyone deserves
• I am a caring and compassionate person that attracts good people and friends
• I make a difference in the people I am around, and they enjoy spending time in my company
• etc.

The key is to make everything positive – don’t put what you don’t want, put what you do want. You don’t want to say “I am excited that I weigh xxx pounds because people don’t tease me about being fat anymore”. That has a negative in it.

Write your affirmations down multiples times, and alternate using both hands. When you read them – do it out loud, do it multiple times a day, and do it with feeling – the feeling you will have when you have accomplished everything on the list, and do it believing 100% that it will happen. I will start by posting my Affirmation in the next post

I hope this helps!!