Disappointed by the
results of your affirmations?
Like
many of you, I have tried using positive affirmations to change behaviors or
beliefs. Initially I got pretty frustrated - I was pretty diligent about the
suggested repetitions, but did not feel like I was getting the expected
results.
So I quit.
Sound familiar?
Recently I've been listening to the audio book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. If you've never read the book, or listened to the audio version, allow me to recommend it! Especially if, like me, you best absorb information in small chunks, the audio book while driving about town can be particularly effective.
Napoleon Hill wrote this book almost 100 years ago. Amazing. As it happens, right now I'm listening to the segment about affirmations, autosuggestion, visualization, etc. Hill emphasizes that if one does not attach strong visuals and strong emotions to the verbalization of affirmations, they have almost no power. There's now plenty of proof that he was right - if you watched the Winter Olympics, you saw top athletes like Lindsey Vonn, gold medalist in women's downhill skiing, practicing visualization with full-body movement before they ever started the competitive event.
It's the emotion attached to the idea that gives it the juice. Think about it. Maybe even reflect on events or results that you've manifested in the past. When you were creating that desire, that result, were you really excited about it? Inspired by the vision of that beach in Hawaii, or that promotion, or that relationship? When you thought about the end result - the beach, the job, the partner - did your heart beat a little faster?
I'm inspired myself now, to choose a couple of important goals of mine, and to recreate the affirmation of achieving those goals with full XD dimensions where the color pops off the screen of my mental movie theater and the seats are vibrating! How about you?
So I quit.
Sound familiar?
Recently I've been listening to the audio book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. If you've never read the book, or listened to the audio version, allow me to recommend it! Especially if, like me, you best absorb information in small chunks, the audio book while driving about town can be particularly effective.
Napoleon Hill wrote this book almost 100 years ago. Amazing. As it happens, right now I'm listening to the segment about affirmations, autosuggestion, visualization, etc. Hill emphasizes that if one does not attach strong visuals and strong emotions to the verbalization of affirmations, they have almost no power. There's now plenty of proof that he was right - if you watched the Winter Olympics, you saw top athletes like Lindsey Vonn, gold medalist in women's downhill skiing, practicing visualization with full-body movement before they ever started the competitive event.
It's the emotion attached to the idea that gives it the juice. Think about it. Maybe even reflect on events or results that you've manifested in the past. When you were creating that desire, that result, were you really excited about it? Inspired by the vision of that beach in Hawaii, or that promotion, or that relationship? When you thought about the end result - the beach, the job, the partner - did your heart beat a little faster?
I'm inspired myself now, to choose a couple of important goals of mine, and to recreate the affirmation of achieving those goals with full XD dimensions where the color pops off the screen of my mental movie theater and the seats are vibrating! How about you?
1 comment:
And another trick I just learned from Dan Pink's book—To Sell is Human—is to ask yourself if you're ready, or if you can do it, or whatever. Instead of telling yourself 'I can,' you can also ask yourself 'can I?' Apparently it prompts us to start taking an inventory of all the work we've done, or all the things we've done in the past that worked, or other steps we've taken to prepare ourselves. This then works to let us convince ourselves that we 'can.' Cool, huh!
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