Lesson 2: Affirmation Imprinting

You are probably familiar with affirmations. They are your desires made into statements that you read or say to yourself. Don't underestimate this simple mind technique.

The goal with Affirmation Imprinting is to repeat a statement over and over again, day after day, until it makes an "imprint" on your subconscious. Once this occurs, your subconscious mind will sense a difference between what it sees as being "real" and your outer physical world.

This difference will cause a tension and your subconscious mind will provide you with ideas, motivation and behaviors so that your outer world will begin to match up with your inner world. It will seem almost magical the way doors and opportunities open up for you everywhere in order to make that affirmation a reality.

But wait! In order for the affirmation imprinting to occur most effectively, the affirmation statements need to be written a specific way.

Three guidelines to powerful affirmation statements:

1. They must be personal. You are going to use the words "I" and "My" in each case. For example, a proper affirmation would be "I am confident when speaking in front of a large audience", not "You are confident...."

2. They must be positive. You would state your affirmation like this: "I eat healthy meals each day." A negative, and thus ineffective affirmation, would be "I don't eat junk food."

You see, although the subconscious is a powerful tool, it is still rather simple. It sees what you are saying as images rather than words, and so it can't comprehend words like "don't" and "can't."

When you say, "I don't eat junk food," your subconscious mind brings up an image of you and junk food, and you actually begin to reinforce the behavior that you are trying to change.

3. They must be in present tense. Logically you would think to make the affirmation in the future tense, as in "I will be successful in my business." But this isn't the case. When you put your statement out into some distant future, no tension is created within the subconscious mind, and therefore no imprinting or changes will occur.

You see, when you say that you will be successful someday, you are also implying that you are not successful now. That matches exactly with what your subconscious knows to be true, and therefore no change.

Just by changing that same affirmation to present tense, "I am successful in my business," you create the tension needed and your subconscious goes to work. I don't mean to sound repetitive, but these three guidelines are crucial to Affirmation Imprinting.

Ok, now you know how to write powerful affirmations. Let's put this knowledge to use.

Action Plan for Affirmation Imprinting:

Step 1: Choose a maximum of three behaviors that you would like to change. Since you are just starting out, trying to change too many things at once will greatly reduce the probability of any affirmations being imprinted onto your subconscious. Ideally, you want to choose just one behavior to focus on. Once you start to see the effects of your affirmation becoming your reality, only then would you start with a new affirmation.

Step 2: Get ten index cards (the 3 1/2 by 5 inch kind) and using the guidelines I gave to you above, properly write out your affirmation in big, bold lettering.

Step 3: You are going to place these ten cards around your environment so that you see them constantly. Place one by your bed, one on your refrigerator, one on your bathroom mirror, one on the steering wheel of your car (please don't try to read the affirmation while you're driving), one by your computer monitor, and so on in places where you will see them often. I find it also helps if I keep one in the back pocket of my pants.

Step 4: As soon as you wake up in the morning and right before you fall asleep at night, say the affirmation out loud twenty times. When you repeat these statements, speak with enthusiasm, and smile knowing that with each affirmation read, you are deepening the imprint on your subconscious mind.

Step 5: Each time you see any of the other index cards that you wrote the affirmation on, say the statement out loud ten times, again with enthusiasm and faith.

Step 6: When the imprinting occurs and you start to see the changes in your life "magically " happen, you can move on to a new affirmation to work on.

I know that it sounds over simplistic, but this mind technique has worked for countless others and can work for you if you maintain the discipline to carry it out.

In our next lesson, we will talk about the cousin to the affirmation: subliminal messages.

Until then,

Gail Sober
MindMaximizer

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