In today’s installment of The Secrets Of Personal Development From A-Z we’re going to look at Affirmations. Most people are at least somewhat familiar with what affirmations are, and yet most people don’t know how to get them to really work for them.

Let’s start with a quick review of creating/writing powerful affirmations.  Your affirmations should have the following qualities:

1.  Be a positive statement written in the present tense. For example:

I am vibrantly healthy and fully energized.

NOT

I am not exhausted and weak.

2.  Whenever Possible use visually descriptive words. For Example:

I love the feeling of the wind blowing through my hair as I drive my new BMW convertible down the sun drenched Pacific Coast Highway.

NOT

I like driving my new BMW.

3.  It excites you. Surprisingly this is often a missing ingredient in people’s affirmations.  They have heard that affirmation can be powerful in creating their reality, and so they pick some affirmations that someone else wrote, and sounds like what they want, but doesn’t really stir their passion or emotions when they speak it or think about it.

The best affirmations for you are usually going to be the one’s you create.  At the end of this post I am going to give you some examples of some of my favorite affirmations.  Theses are really only intended to give you some ideas.  If you find one or more of them that does excite you great, you are welcome to use it, if not use them as a guide to create your own powerful affirmations that do excite you.

Once you have created your affirmations, there are three really powerful ways to use them.  I recommend using all three before you go to bed at night.  The three ways are:

1.  Speaking your affirmations. The key here is to speak your affirmations with as much passion and positive energy as you can muster.  I do this while standing and taking a powerful stance with both hands on my heart.

2.  Write them out in cursive (as opposed to printing). Writing your affirmations in this way puts your affirmations directly into your subconscious mind.

3.  Visualize your affirmations as if you were experiencing them right now. Visualization is another powerful way to get your affirmations directly into your subconscious mind.  Also, your subconscious mind does not know the difference between reality and fantasy, so in visualizing, you are conditioning your subconscious mind to accept the new positive reality you want to create.

The three steps above can done in about five minutes.  I highly recommend doing them before going to bed at night when your subconscious mind is most receptive.  Below are some of my favorite affirmations for you to use as examples in creating your own.

I am always doing all the right things with all the right people right now.

I am living a life of perfect abundance, peace, joy, and love.

I am fully open to receiving the infinite abundance of the Universe

I am worthy of creating and receiving all that my heart desires.

I am attracting all the people, resources, and opportunities I need to make my dreams come true.

I am passionately living my dream everyday while being open to the possibilitiy of greater things to come.

I am extremely grateful for the blessings i have in my life, and those that I know are on there way.

I love waking up every morning fully energized and passionate to go through my day in the perfect way.

I experience peace, joy, happiness, and love wherever I am.

I express unconditional love in all that I think, speak, and do.

Follow the suggestions in this post, and I am confident that you will soon be a powerful creator of your positive reality.  In the next post on The Secrets of Personal Development From A-Z, I will be discussing the importance of Agreements.

I welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions, and of course I appreciate your sharing this post with others.

I had the opportunity and pleasure to interview Dyan Garris from www.voiceoftheangels.com During the interview she shared many valuable insights, keys,  and practical steps that any one can follow to get the Law of Attraction to work for them, and start manifesting the flow of perfect abundance into their lives.

You can listen to this audio interview on this site, or downlaod it to your computer or MP3 player, by click the appropriate link below.  To find out more about Dyan Garris and the many wonderful services and products she offers, you can go to http://voiceoftheangels.com

I welcome your feedback, comments, and suggestions.

Dyan Garris

I am not someone who is used to getting “sick”.  I have been in Germany the past month enjoying the holidays with my wife’s family.  A few days ago my wife and and brother in law came down with a very bad virus that completely knocked them out for a few days, and as I write this they are still not 100%.

I of course had/have great compassion for them, and was not at all concerned that I might suffer their same fate.  However at about 2am last night and for about the next 12 hours after that I was making frequent trips to the bathroom to throw up.  Once I was finished with denying that this was actually happening to me, I began to focus on what can I do to move through the experience as quickly as possible and regain my full strength.

There were four things that I did, that I believe have allowed me to rebound to 100% healthy after only 24 hours.

1.  I made a choice (which for me was difficult) to remain in bed the entire time.

2.  I drank only water during this time, at first only a couple of drops at a time and later a little bit more.

3.  I played relaxing/healing music (Bach)

4.  I meditated and visualized myself as healthy while gently making clockwise circles over my abdomen.

I believe these four steps are what have allowed me to rebound so quickly while my wife and brother in law are still suffering some lingering effects.  I also find the timing of this experience interesting.  I have been feeling urgings from the Universe to focus more my time on healing.  This is one of the reasons I am creating my Super Chakra Meditation Series.  I believe this will only be the beginning of what I create in the health and healing area in 2010.

I appreciate and welcome your comments and feedback.

Note:  I am flying back to the US on Wednesday, and as a result the normal Wednesday post will be delayed until Thursday.