Affirmations

     Affirmations are said to be wonderful tools to help raise your vibration and help keep you focused on what you want to bring into your life.  Years ago I was working with a personal training client who was a smart intelligent woman with a Masters degree in counseling and a wonderful career as a life coach. Both of us were in the business of motivating clients to reach their goals and one day our conversation turned to affirmations.  Her experience was that they did not work.  I personally was new to using affirmations as a tool and just assumed they worked because the books I read were full of testimonials of their success and I had never heard of them not working.  As I pondered my client’s statement, I realized that I had not experienced much success with affirmations either and my client’s statement raised a good question, why is it that they work for some and not for others?  I was at a loss, I had no idea why affirmations may not work for everyone, that part of the concept was not discussed in the books.

                The answer to this question of why affirmations work for some people and not for others came to me sometime later while reading Ask and It Is Given by Abraham-Hicks.  They explained that the most affective affirmations are the ones that do not stretch your beliefs or imagination too much and hold a vibration that is a bit above your own.  If you use an affirmation that deep down you believe is not true or will not happen, it will not happen and if you use an affirmation that you think is possible, even though it may be a stretch, it will happen.  If your current vibration is much lower than the vibration of your affirmation, it is too far of a jump for your mind, body, emotions and spirit to make.  If you are vibrating at a 0 and the affirmation you choose to use vibrates at 60 you will not have success in jumping past all the other intervals to get to 60. Going from 0 to 60 in just a few seconds may work for automobiles, but we need to take it a bit slower and build up our faith and belief in ourselves and the universe.  For example, let’s say you affirm that a million dollars will appear on your door step, but there is a part of you that cannot conceive this happening and so your vibration does not match the want or desire; the million dollars will not appear.  On the other hand if you ask that you receive checks in the mail or enough money to cover a current bill that affirmation may be a closer match to your vibration and belief and so it will happen.  Know that you can certainly move through the vibrational intervals quickly, but you still need to move through the intervals, you can’t skip them.  Does that mean that you can never wish, dream, or manifest something big?  No!  It means that you will manifest what you believe and as your belief or faith in the universe to provide for you increases, so will your vibration, your dreams, your wishes, and your desires. As a result, your affirmations ability also increases to provide an appropriate vibration to help you focus on your goals and draw them to you. 

                Affirmations are wonderful tools to help raise your vibration and help keep you focused on what you want to bring into your life.  Build your way up the vibrational affirmation ladder, step by step and watch the miracles unfold in your life!

 

     Thanks for stopping by Meaningful Living Now and allowing me to share my ideas, thoughts, and musings with you.  Please feel free to leave a comment or question.

In love and light,

Christine

Creating Vision Boards, What's Next? (What If? Workshop Part 2)

The What If? Workshop part two was wonderful!  Some even experienced the abundance flow just after the first workshop.  We had so much fun playing and creating together.  As we gathered around tables with our cut outs from magazines, glue, and gel pens, we enjoyed sharing a piece of ourselves during the creative process.  As we helped each other with ways to express our wants on our boards we discussed what comes next in the manifestation process.  

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            Now that we cleared ourselves and created vision boards, what comes next?  The first thing about manifesting to be understood is that we must allow things to happen.  The process of manifesting is not about controlling what we want and how we get it, but it is about allowing what is best for us (we think to small) and allowing it to happen in its own way not the way we think it should happen.  I think that the later is the most difficult thing to do.  We are limited in the way we think that things can come to us.  We can’t envision achieving our goals in any other way so we sometimes don’t even notice when it actually happens.  For instance, last year I put on my vision board that I wanted to write.  In my mind this meant finishing a book I had been working on, writing my blog and in general spends a good portion of each day writing something.  When I created my vision board in January I had already enrolled in and was about to begin a college English course.  With taking two college courses and all the other things going on in my life I really didn’t have time to work on my writing projects everyday as I had planned.  It wasn’t until the middle of April did I realize that I had been working on my writing through my English class.  I must have written a full book that semester between both classes I was taking.  I received exactly what I needed.  During that time I learned so much about writing and received so much practiced which was what my goal had been.  The moral of the story is to be open to your dreams coming to you in unexpected ways.

            It’s time to start allowing and stop controlling and begin recognizing all the ways that your dreams are coming true. 

Thanks for stopping by Meaningful Living Now and please feel free to leave a comment.

In love and light,

Christine

Asking What if? and Creating Vision Boards

Hello,

                Since many of you couldn’t attend the What if? Workshop last week (because you don’t live in the area) I wanted to share some of the things that were discussed.           

            In part one of the What if? event, we discussed two important ideas that ensure the success of manifesting our goals.  They are one; get clear about what you want and two; stay focused on it.

            To get clear about what we want we need to let go of beliefs that no longer serve us and listen to our hearts.  A list of things such as; old beliefs, out dated goals, negative self-talk, unsupportive people in our life and mental thoughts of lack and limitation (boy the list is long, hug?) can sometime prevent us from reaching beyond what we think we can achieve or what we deserve.

Clear away the old:

            Our group did some serious energetic clearing and forgiving to release those things getting in our way of knowing and achieving our goals.  You can do the same through prayer or making a list of things you want to let go of and one by one go down the list and say (or think) “I know willing release (fill in the blank) as it no longer serves me.”  There is no wrong way to release just do what feels best.  Once we can let go of those things that no longer serve us we moved on to getting clear about what it is we want by looking inward and listen to what our heart has to say.

Listen to your heart:

            This is the simply part, so don’t make it hard on yourself. We started by making a list of five things that we have wanted to achieve and used it as a guide.  Then we tried to expand each item on the list by asking “What if?” By asking the question “What if?” it allowed us to dream and think outside our normal beliefs of lack and limitation. Now take it a step further and listen to your heart and ask it “What if?”First you need to create space and time to get quiet and where you will not be disturbed.  Give yourself about 10 to 15 minutes to get quiet and try to clear your mind.  Next focus your mind’s eye on your heart and literally ask your heart what it truly wants.  You can also ask your heart about the items on your list such as do they still serve you or steps to achieve them. Your answers will come in different ways so again just go with it.  Picture, feelings even sounds and smells might come to mind to let you know your true desires.  Write them down and continue to write in a stream after the initial ideas have been expressed.  This flow of writing allows unconscious desires to come up (getting out of our head)!

            Now that you have an idea of what you want take some time to fine tune it.  “Sleep on it” if you will, to refine and get specific about your goals.  The next step is to create your vision board.  My next post will describe this process so you don’t want to miss it. 

            This week our group will gather once again and continue the process of making our dreams a reality through creating our vision boards.  I can’t wait to share with you the wonderful things that we come up with!

            Thanks for stopping by Meaningful Living Now and please feel free to leave a comment or question.

In love and light,

Christine

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