18: AFFIRMATIONS: How to Use Brain Chemistry to Unlock Your Greatest Desires

Everywhere you turn, the word “affirmation” seems to be taunted as the end-all-be-all to shifting your mindset into a permanent place of positivity. Yet, even with the widespread popularity, many question whether affirmations genuinely work or if they are just another personal development/self-help scheme to sell more journals and books. Yet, most do not understand that the practice, when used correctly, does have the powerful ability to shift your mindset and your life!

This week we are taking a one-on-one deep dive into understanding the affirmation practice through factual science, brain chemistry, the thought process, and the ins and outs of making this practice genuinely work in your favor, despite what others may be touting.  

So, let’s shift our perspectives and our ability to create greatness for ourselves with positive affirmation…

Key Takeaways:

00:00 Intro

02:01 Are you someone who automatically rejects the unfamiliar? Two important questions: Do you understand the process and intention of what you are rejecting? Are you someone who keeps their mind open to new ways of being?

03:19 Being open to change helps us grow—daily affirmations work when grounded in science.

04:09 How an affirmation practice helps rewire our brains and our habits.

04:40 The formula to moving affirming words from statements to powerful life-changing direction pointers.

05:03 Workable affirmations start first with mindfulness

05:43 The actual definitions of mindfulness

06:37 The truth: every single human can be and is mindful.

08:12 Why most people say affirmations do not work and an A-ha moment.

10:01 The Life Cycle of a Thought: thoughts, emotional response, action.  

10:15 A deeper understanding of the way thought patterns work

10:38 How the conscious mind affects our beliefs in affirmations

11:29 Your subconscious mind

12:40 The difference between subconscious and conscious thoughts.

13:56 How the subconscious mind reasons and looks for patterns

14:24 The second step in the thought process: bringing in the emotional body

15:23 an essential understanding: It’s you that places meaning to your thoughts.

15:58 The baseline to our affirmation formula: What we affirm, we must feel. Rule #1 Affirm   

17:10 The last step in the thought process: Action

17:52 What an affirmation actually is—breaking down the ins and outs.

19:39 A WARNING: Affirmations can be used negatively, too.

21:04 An additional list of positive benefits

23:10 The Formula

23:53 Step #2: Write every statement in 1st person

25:00 Step #3: Affirmation are to be written in a positive light, not negative

25:21 Step #4 Bringing your emotions in to create the affirmations into reality

26:40 Step #5 Present moment language

28:18 Step #6 Be open to creating a new pattern

29:43 Step #7 Affirmations are called a practice because it must be a habit to make them practical tools

31:41 Ways to use your affirmations

33:40 A bonus! How to add fuel to your affirmations

38:45 Another question you must answer when it comes to affirmations

40:28 A few affirmations to get you started

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