Targeting Affirmations
March 16th, 2007A lot has been written about affirmations, how they work and why affirmations fail for some people. Generally speaking, the idea behind the repetition of affirmations is to get you closer to where you want to be. If you are lonely or single and are looking for love, perhaps your affirmations will be targeted towards attracting people. When you are strapped for cash and are looking for some kind of financial boost you might find benefit in repeating affirmations about abundance in your life. Basically what ever it is you want you can target the affirmation appropriately to drive your subconscious mind into that new direction. There is one affirmation targeting technique I use to impregnate my subconscious that really works and it is the easiest way you could possibly work with affirmations.
I used to have moderate success with repeating affirmations to myself but I never seemed to get the kind of results I read about in numerous books. This lead me to become less interested in using affirmations for reprogramming my subconscious mind and I began to use them less and less. However, I could not get the idea of affirmations out of my head as I truly believed they were an effective way of changing your subconscious mind when you had a bit of spare time to repeat them to yourself. Ever since I read about using positive affirmations I always had a couple of affirmations in the back of my mind that I would automatically repeat in my head when I found myself just killing time, like waiting for the subway, in a queue or while traveling. One day while I was in town waiting for a train I was repeating an affirmation to myself when I noticed a circle of people around me all wearing mini headphones. All I could see were the headphones and the cords attached to those headphones but obviously they were connected to something like an mp3 player and it suddenly got me thinking.
I didn’t own an mp3 player and although I like music I am not a real music buff, I rarely buy music cds and previously had never thought that I would have any use for an mp3 player. Now I could see the possibilities if I could record my own affirmations onto the mp3 player and have them playing over and over saturating my subconscious mind without me having to even concentrate. This was a couple of years ago and I had a bit of difficulty in finding a super compact mp3 player that had a voice recorder but eventually I found one.
When I first got the mp3 player I did not even download any music onto it, I simply repeated different affirmations relating to different areas of my life that I wanted to change and recorded my own voice repeating the same affirmation over and over for about 5 minutes. I made up about 5-6 affirmations and stored them in the memory of my tiny finger size mp3 and would listen to my affirmations in my own voice whenever I had the time. It was great, it made affirmations easier and I think if you tune out your subconscious mind still gets bombarded by the constant repetition of the affirmation in a subliminal kind of way.
What I thought was a problem with affirmations in the past was, when you repeat certain affirmations to yourself sometimes there is a bit of doubt from your conscious mind and this doubt can have the unwanted effect of neutralizing the positive affirmation and perhaps even turning it against you. What I mean by this is, if you are repeating an affirmation to yourself saying you have abundance in your life but you really do not believe it because you are penniless, it may have the effect of enforcing your belief that you have no money.
While using an mp3 player or something similar you can blast recorded affirmations away to yourself and even if you do not believe them, the constant repetition and the fact you are making no conscious effort at all to repeat the affirmations to yourself makes it more likely the subconscious will absorb your new set of beliefs.
All said and done, the use of affirmations is designed to reprogram the subconscious mind. What ever you believe in life will be the reality you live in. If you believe you have something you will have it, if you believe that you do not have it, you will not. By using an mp3 player it might help you to finally break through to your subconscious mind in a way you have not been able to before through the constant repetition of affirmations in your head. Although I believe in the regular use of affirmations, I think hearing a recording of your own voice repetitively without any effort makes the results come quicker.
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