There is a lot of corroboration to support the power of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable circumstances, from manifesting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the perfect life partner, or to cultivating inner peace. But, before we attempt to transform the conditions of our life through a determined “mental focus” on the changes we desire, it might be a good idea if we took a personal “reality check” to confirm that we fully trust that thought, our thought, actually has creative power, so that we’re not simply fooling ourselves.

If we believe that “certain things” in our individual life have no mental substructure or thought interrelationship, but instead are totally and unarguably physical in origin, then how can we expect to positively affect the circumstances in our personal life through positive affirmations? If we didn’t have a conviction that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what good would affirmations do for us? It is essential that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our individual life, in order for them to be effective.

We all display a certain amount of faith everyday. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Have you ever worried that the sun might not come up the next day? Most of us don’t think about our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a grain of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can begin with that and build a mountain of faith to from which to send out our affirmations.

Saying affirmations while filled with disbelief, seesawing between faith and fear, is the same as putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations flight because grounded faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. Realization is the “secret” to creative mental power. Affirmations can, indeed, really change our life – when they feel true, and what we say is what we truly believe.

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