Research has demonstrated that we have between 45,000 and 51,000 thoughts a day. That’s about 150 to 300 thoughts a moment. Research has likewise demonstrated that for most individuals 80% of those thoughts are damaging.
Now, we have been taught to think that many of these 51,000 thoughts are “sub-conscious” thoughts meaning that they're below our conscious cognizance level. Affirmations in reality make your sub-conscious thoughts conscious.
Affirmations make you consciously cognizant of your thoughts. If you begin making conscious favorable thoughts, you in reality become more aware of the damaging thoughts that are constantly threatening to take over.
It’s an interesting phenomenon, in truth. It in reality proves true what your mother always cautioned: be careful of what you think as what you think is what you get. She was essentially telling you that you produce what you think about.
When you’re not cognizant of your thoughts, they tend to be damaging. And not being aware of your thoughts tends to induce an awful spiral downward.
Remember that 80% figure of damaging thoughts? It gets worse. Whatever you're thinking about, 90% gets carried forward to the next day’s 51,000 thoughts.
So, if you’re thinking damaging thoughts, you'll cause yourself to think more damaging thoughts. This is not going to get you out of your mess.
Affirmations may change all of that! Affirmations make you conscious of your thoughts. To affirm means to state something positively. It means to announce firmly and assert something to be true. Affirmations are statements where you assert that what you wish to be real is real.
Here are a few affirmations you are able to use:
Over time they overwrite any limiting or damaging beliefs you might have about yourself or about not being able to do something, and substitute them with favorable thoughts and beliefs which instill self-confidence, belief, positivity, ambitiousness and much more.
Somebody who is perhaps a bit shy or un- confident would repeat affirmations about being confident. They would want to change themselves from being timid and introverted to becoming self-assured and more outgoing perhaps, and so they'd utilize favorable affirmations and repeat them again and again. And eventually they'd begin to sink in - the repetitive, favorable self talk would begin to become a self fulfilling prophecy. You are able to use the power of positive repetition for yourself!
Utilizing favorable affirmations gives you back command of your mind and the information it gets. It puts you in the driver’s seat of your brain and lets you flood it with favorable information which will change you for the better!