Use Affirmations for Positive Changes in Life
The Mind Body Connection in Healing Diseases
May 14, 2009
An affirmation is a positive statement that can be reinforced in the mind by saying, writing or thinking the statement. They are conscious thoughts that, when thought often enough, become subconscious thoughts.
Subconscious thoughts are one's core beliefs, fears, likes and dislikes.
Louise Hay and Affirmations
Louise Hay, founder of Hay House publications, is a pioneer in the field of self improvement and in popularizing the use of affirmations.
Hay believes that negative thought patterns cause diseases such as cancer and diabetes in the body, and that these diseases can be cured with the use of affirmations, in addition to other healing methodologies.
How to Choose Affirmations
Its important to choose affirmations that are compatible and one feels comfortable with. For example, a non-violent person might feel uncomfortable about, "fighting cancer."
An affirmation of feeling a wave of wellness all over them, might be a better way of designing the affirmation.
One of Louise Hay's affirmations, "All is well in my world," is an all-encompassing positive statement, with no dependence on external circumstances or events.
When do Affirmations Fail to Work?
Affirmations may not work for several reasons.
- The practitioner may not have been consistent for at least 21 days.
- The thought pattern throughout the day might contradict the affirmation
- The practitioner may not believe the specific affirmation or he/she may not believe in affirmations in a more general sense.
- There is no positive feeling to back up the positive words being repeated even over a period of time. One way to remedy this is to find another affirmation, with the same intention, but with different words, that one also feels compatible with.
Relationship between Affirmations and the Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction states that, "the essence of that which is like unto itself is drawn." Affirmations, when used correctly, can change one's subconscious thinking.
A change in thinking changes one's mind and body dynamic. Ideas and thoughts available to a mind whose core vibration is higher ,are different from those available to the non-energized mind. A positive mind attracts like minded people, circumstances and events.
Do Affirmations Help Cure Illness and Disease?
According to Hay, mental thought patterns of fear and its various manifestations of anger, resentment and criticism create most diseases in the body.
The idea that most diseases have a psychosomatic element is also gaining ground among many scientists.
Dr. Bruce Lipton, a molecular biologist, has proof to believe that diseases do not originate in the genes, they originate in an organism's reaction to the environment.
Dr. Candace Pert, a world renowned pharmacologist, Scientific Director of RAPID Laboratories, Inc, believes that, "you are biologically hardwired for bliss — all you need to do is tap your own body’s unlimited natural capacity for living in joy and connecting to the divine."
Affirmations are a powerful tool to self-improvement. The most important feature of affirmations is - power in the hands of the individual, as one is the sole agent of change in one's life.
After all, positive change is only a thought away!
To learn how and why affirmations work, and how to use them, read How to Use Affirmations for Self Improvement?.
Related Reading
Readers may also like to read Louise Hay and The Power of Affirmations and Abraham and The Law of Attraction.
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