There is beauty in asking for what you want in the most vivid, spectacular and specific way you can express yourself. Then can the Universe provide your “custom order” with ease. Gives new meaning to the concept of “made to order.”
Ever since this “project” we affectionately call “PDA” came to life a fortnight ago, I have not only spent a lot of time thinking about how to write affirmations, but I have spent considerable time studying the power affirmations around me all the time.
In every book, in songs, in dialogue overheard, in headlines, in the Facebook posts of friends, I see affirmations EVERYWHERE.
I recall the day I bought a brand new car: a metallic grey Jetta in 1991. That was the day I started noticing Jettas everywhere in closer proximity to me than previously noticed before. The abundance of Jettas was always there, I just was less tuned in before a Jetta became my vehicle of choice.
Where affirmations are concerned, I am as tuned in to being aware of them– like never before. And I feel, I am more discerning of what is potent and what is less so. How could I not be, composing them everywhere I go these days for the subscribers to the daily email, the fans at the Facebook Page, the Twitter account and so on.
So a few thoughts on How To Write Effective Affirmations (and don’t take my words as gospel, take what you can use and leave the rest as you please.)
1. Begin from your heartspace and reflect on what you want in a particular area of your “life-at-large. ” When we lead from our heart, in my experience, we will manifest more quickly that which we authentically choose.
2. Imagine it is simple to write your heart’s desire in an affirmation. And again from this open and curious space, see what rises up or unfolds as wanting to be expressed.
3. Promise not to edit yourself the first time through. We edit ourselves so much more than we need to when in the company of others. There is no need to do so when you are alone, yes? If it is you alone writing out your bucket list then try a little stream of consciousness writing (aka a brain dump) to provide yourself a batch of raw ingredients to work with and refine. Forget the grammar, the spelling, the things we were drilled about all through elementary school.
Put another way: channel e.e. cummings for a change in what gets to come through. Let it all out. Let it all in. Let it have its say.
If you are feeling stuck, fill in the blanks of starter sentences like:
I create my perfect…
I attract …
I travel to…
I receive…
When once I allowed myself full creative license to ramble on about my heart’s desire– in the area of love and partnership, I generated a pretty long and specific list, full of vivid details. I then took that pure and enthusiastic writing to a crystallized form and arrived at a final piece that read in part like this:
I CHOOSE are that I am worthy of being loved/appreciated, I am good at making long-term work well, I am a committed partner despite all hardships, crises and and complications.
I am able to let my partner be himself and love him for who he is.
I am capable of and successful at deep, abiding loyalty. I am an amazing mother and friend and companion.
I cherish and value monogamy, commitment and devotion to our family.
I have a rich friendship as foundation for my marriage partnership.
Long-term contentment in partnership is achievable.
Marriage and family is a GREAT adventure I want and deserve.
Where else can one deeply delve into the conversation with one’s own heart as to what we want and how we want it? Why not do so in the areas of:
Your work and livelihood…
Your health and well-being…
Your long-term aspirations for your creative life…
This kind of activity for me is an on-going work in progress; that gets expressed in the present tense always. This keeps it vibrant for me.
To create affirmations in the present tense, in rich and specific language is going to work like a charm…for the power of the word is magical. The more intentional and vivid your vision, the greater the “nowness” of it, the more effective it will be for you.
And one last pair of tips:
1. Post that power affimation in places you will see and often.
2. Speak it daily to invoke the magic and power in the words and you will call it in to being that much sooner.
May your creativity express your heart’s desires with ease and confidence.
What wild and wonderful things I am creating with my unbridled enthusiasm and self-confidence! I am a creative force to be appreciated.
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“I see affirmations EVERYWHERE”
Yep. Even when the light is off.
I love this set of suggestions for writing affirmations. It is true that we are very quick to edit ourselves, particularly in this area of voicing desires. I have a question though. What does one do with the gap, sometimes large, between where you want to be, and where you are? How do you negotiate that space without feeling discontent? Is it not possible to have such a large list of wants that you create opportunity for sorrow and frustration? It seems to me that at the same time you’re affirming what you want in the future, you should simultaneously be grateful for where you are now, and also to recognize that sometimes, for very good reason, you will NOT get what you want.
Hank,
Yes, sometimes there is a larger gap than we imagine we can bridge. As for negotiating that extra wide jump with grace…I say yes we can with trust and support from our human family and the divine energies always in the wings. Let us be grateful for what we have in each moment–as we also imagine a future of our design. Could you do that?
If our thoughts create a force, much like a series of waves at the ocean growing in intensity one through seven, the seventh being the largest of the series of waves…observed by me as a child and an adult over and over again(I must get me to the Ocean!)… let our affirmations be like the waves, growing in strength, once realized, we begin again.
And agreed, sometimes the gifts we seek are not the ones given and we don’t get what we want but we always seem to get what we need.
I live with this daily…and I laugh at it more and more and say, OK, thanks, I’ll work with this as best I can.
I love the light and shadow in my life. Honestly I do. Can you? I suspect you can.