From getting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting a soul mate or cultivating inner peace, there is a lot of corroboration to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. We might want to take a personal “reality check,” however, to make sure that we genuinely have no doubt that thought, our thought, has creative power before we put a lot of effort in attempting to transform the conditions in our life through a continuous “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just deluding ourselves.

We can’t presume to positively transform effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our mental position, through affirmations, if we are persuaded that “certain conditions” are completely and irrefutably physical in origin, have no mental basis or thought equivalent and, therefore, are beyond our ability to influence a change. If we didn’t have a conviction that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what benefit would affirmations be for us? It is a prerequisite 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 work.

We all demonstrate a bit of faith everyday. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Probably you didn’t worry the night before that there might be a possibility that the sun might not come up again in the morning. Most of us don’t think about our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. We can begin by knowing that we do, in fact, have a “grain” of faith within us and we can grow a garden of faith with it.

Making affirmations while filled with uncertainty, fluctuating between faith and fear, is similar to putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because grounded faith is mental insistence elevated to a place of realization. This is the “secret” to creative mental power, turning mere words into substance. When our affirmations feel true, when what we say is what we truly believe, then affirmations can really change our life.

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