The Transformative Power of Affirmations

Below you will find an excellent article written on Affirmations by the people at www.MyMindMakeover.com

I’m posting this information because I believe that properly done, Affirmations along with ZPoint, can be a very potent means of becoming the person and having the life you wish to have for yourself.

The My Mind Makeover people have developed an ingenious software program that makes recording affirmations in your own voice a snap. It will also allow you to layer those affirmations subliminally beneath soothing music of your choice. What excites me is that you can also record ZPoint Clearing Statements and add music to create your own custom ZPoint CD’s. If you’re looking for a really simple way to Practice ZPoint and create the life you want for yourself, you may wish to read the following.

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What is the Most Effective Way to Use Affirmations?

So, you know what affirmations are and perhaps you have even used them successfully. Or, like many people, your results have been mixed or non-existent. Make no mistake about it, if you want affirmations to help you achieve significant goals or results, you have to use them consistently every day until the desired result is achieved. You aren’t going to get results overnight.

The Battle for Your Mind

But, the challenge most people have in today’s world is the overwhelming number of distractions. First of all, there’s all the normal demands most of us have—family obligations, work obligations, and the normal things we all have to do every day. Second, when we manage to get a few minutes to ourselves, we often “unwind” by watching television, going to the movies, reading, listening to music, or surfing the internet. We have developed the habit of thinking we have to fill every waking minute with either work or recreational activities.

And when you think about it, when we engage in many of these activities, there’s all kinds of people and advertisements clamoring for a piece of your mind. There is so much noise in our environments (including non-verbal “noise”) it’s no wonder that we find it difficult to get any quality quiet time to ourselves. Time to focus on our goals. To find our own voices. The time to effectively use affirmations.

Take Back Control of Your Own Mind

What I did, and I’m suggesting that you do, is take back control of your mind by using some of the very same techniques that advertisers have been using to influence us for years. Why do I compare using affirmations to advertising? Because most of modern advertising employs the principle of “intermittent repetition” to influence us to take action. Take for example radio or television commercials. These are typically loaded with slogans, music, visual cues, and humor to capture our attention and plant suggestions for us to act upon. And, if you watch an hour of commercial television, the odds are great that you will see the same commercial multiple times.

What do I mean by intermittent repetition? Simply this. You see the television program… then some commercials…then the program… then more commercials (some of which are probably repeated from the previous batch). And so it goes for as long as you watch that channel. Advertisers don’t use the repetition simply to reach additional people. They are specifically targeting the exact same people who have seen the exact same commercials before. Advertisers know that their commercials are significantly more effective when there are more “impressions” of the same message (the number of times you see a commercial).

Print advertisements use even more repetition. Movie print ads in malls are an extreme example of this—at least here in Los Angeles. There’s one mall I was recently in that had the same posters for the same movie in every open area of the mall. All repeated about every 20 feet. Of course there were also television ads, billboards, and merchandising tie-ins with various corporate partners. The entire campaign was blatant saturation advertising. You couldn’t go anywhere without being exposed to ads for this movie. By the way, the movie earned over $100 million dollars of gross box office receipts within the first three weeks in the United States alone, so their marketing strategy clearly worked.

Why do advertisers spend millions of dollars on these types of advertising campaigns? There is only one reason. They know from years of experience that these campaigns are very successful. They know that with enough intermittent repetition, they will “own” a piece of your mind.

I am suggesting that you take action to take back control of the what goes into your mind. How? By creating a multimedia “marketing” campaign to yourself using affirmations that uses the principle of intermittent repetition.

It’s much easier than it sounds.

Here are five simple things you can do with very little effort:

1. Create posters of affirmations that you can hang up where you will see them often. They don’t have to be fancy—they can be simple large print text that you create using your word processor. The key is to make multiple copies and hang them up in multiple places. It helps to make copies of the exact same affirmation(s). Or affirmations around a specific theme.
   

2. Use small cards with the affirmations that you can carry with you everywhere you go. Then when you have a few spare minutes, all you have to do is pull them out and review them several times during the day.
   

3. Create a “vision board.” This is simply a collage of pictures you put together that are related to your goal. Hang it up some place where you will see it often.
   

4. Find some theme music that you come to associate to your goal. This is great because you can listen to a song or piece of instrumental music multiple times to fully “anchor” it (and your goal) in your subconscious mind. Music has a strong emotional impact. That additional emotional power can help you achieve your goals faster.
   

5. Make recordings of your affirmations in your own voice. I found this to be the most powerful method of all. The recordings only have to be a minute or two per affirmation. Because the time is so short, it’s a lot easier to sustain a high level of emotional energy that is actually captured with the recording. That energy comes through in the tone of your voice. The pace at which you speak the words. And when you listen to the recording at later times, it triggers the emotional memory that is recorded in your subconscious at the time you record affirmation. Based on my personal experience, it is difficult to a high level of high energy for more than a few minutes when you are speaking affirmations live. While it is energizing, it’s also physically exhausting to do it for a long period of time. This is one of the primary reasons people give up on affirmations so quickly.

   But, and here’s the magic of using recordings, it’s really easy—even relaxing—to listen to the recordings for long periods of time. And as you listen, you are feeding your subconscious mind both the content of the affirmations and (more importantly) the concentrated energy you released at the time you made the recording. You will find that just by listening to your affirmations repeatedly they will set your thought habits so that you are more positive more often and that you focus on your goals more frequently and with greater emotional energy.

There is only one tool I am aware of that is specifically made for recording affirmations on your computer. And it even allows you to mix your recording with the music of your choice. That tool is a software program called My Mind Makeover. Once you create the audio recording, you can either create an MP3 to listen on your favorite MP3 player or burn it to a CD that can be played on any normal CD player. To learn more about it, visit mymindmakeover.net.

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This article is provided courtesy of www.MyMindMakeover.com. My Mind Makeover is an interactive software program that enables you to produce personalized affirmations in your own voice and embed them in music to be listened to daily for life-changing results. Receive two complimentary bonus gifts from Bob Proctor and the Mind Makeover team when you visit www.MyMindMakeover.com or call us toll free at 866.794.9888.