Visualizations and AFFIRMATIONS. Your thoughts????
I don't know how to quite say this so i'll just throw it out there. I've read about the power of visualizing what you want in life, and for the most part I think it has turned me around somewhat.
For example, I know FOR A FACT, that I have attracted certain situations or people in my life; but I am having a real big dilemma on self control and habits.
Basically, it seems visualizing myself being healthy, and doing healthy things tends to work and helps me build habits, but it usually only works like 20-40% of the time. I notice that it takes a lot of quiet time and a lot of mental visualization to get me into the habit of say, eating healthy, or say, not drinking alcohol.
I do have some vices, and I would say I have some addictions that I am really trying to kick.
Now if I use all of my mental resources, I can kick the habit, by visualizing myself free of the habit every day.... for a while. But it usually comes back the moment I stop visualizing myself "Free of the habit." which has lead me to think "Maybe I'm doing it wrong" ?
Recently, I've been experimenting with Affirmations.. and.. WOW.
However, they say when you have anxiety, fear and worry, you tend to attract more of that into your life.
Now when I do my visualizations, I tend to feel good for some-time, but eventually it wears off and I'm back to the regular hum drum. One day I did an experiment, and began to do affirmations in the mirror. Eery fear that crept in my mind, every anxiety that came into my being, I would reverse.
For example, if I thought that people were looking at me weird, I would change it to "People think I'm cool, and interesting."
I made about a list of 20-30 affirmations. (I have a lot of fears, heh)
Within a week, I literally felt like I was floating in a cloud of Magic. I felt so great about life that I continued to do it.
The problem is, on top of doing this, I also had my "Goals" that I visualized everyday. Well one of these goals was to break an addiction. No matter how much I tried to visualize myself breaking from the addiction, I couldn't.
I am still working on it, and I am starting to believe that if I tell myself I am "Free" of this addiction every day, it will be broken. I know that what we say to our minds is super powerful, almost life changing. In fact, I felt like my attitude about life was changed in a week.
I would walk into public places and start random conversations with people. I felt an "inner self" growing agains, that I hadn't felt since I was a teenager. I know that this was the free spirit I once had, but had been bogged down and destroyed by fears, poverty, and struggle still to this day.
I am wondering if, doing this "visualization" isn't as powerful as visualizing what I want in life. For instance, I will take 20-30 minutes a day to visualize what I want in life, and for a while I feel good, but it wears off.
However, I am beginning to think, instead of visualizing, I should just go to the mirror and declare it. "I will have 5 million dollars." - the reason I am thinking this might work is because, after I do my visualization, I feel good, then it wears off the next day and it's back to reality.
However, affirmations seem to "Stick" with me a little more. It's like a verbal command that doesn't really go away. I guess it just seems like I am speaking directly to my own soul. And if I am speaking directly to my own soul, and telling my own soul that I WILL be a millionaire, instead of fantasizing about it, it's almost as if I am INSTRUCTING my soul to do this.
This also may be a form of "Auto-suggestion" as evidenced in Think and Grow Rich.
I love visualization, I have spent many months doing visualizations, but the truth is I am not so sure if it as effective as verbal commands. I have used visualizations to help me become braver in certain social situations, but then it wears off rapidly and I have to keep them very limited, meaning I can only visualize a few things at a time, otherwise they don't work.
But affirmations? It seems just doing them for ONE week gave me so much confidence I was shocked. People even sensed my better energy and opened conversations with me. It is said that, people pick up your "Vibes" and if your vibes are usually fear and anxiety then they most likely wont talk to you. I am beginning to think that Mirror affirmations are almost instantaneous.
I was telling myself in the mirror "Women think I am attractive" a few times before I went to work. Well I was getting something from a gas station and the cashier told me how handsome I was. Keep in mind, I havn't been complimented like that by a total stranger in a long time!
I th I think verbally commanding my soul to toughen up might just be what I need. However, I have read a few books that stresses the importance on visualizations, and that thoughts literally become things.
The truth is, I am wondering it is more powerful to say "I HAVE 5 million dollars" or is it more powerful to visualize it? Declaring it, is almost like not giving your soul permission to not believing it, whereas visualizing it just seems like you may be daydreaming.
Thoughts????
For example, I know FOR A FACT, that I have attracted certain situations or people in my life; but I am having a real big dilemma on self control and habits.
Basically, it seems visualizing myself being healthy, and doing healthy things tends to work and helps me build habits, but it usually only works like 20-40% of the time. I notice that it takes a lot of quiet time and a lot of mental visualization to get me into the habit of say, eating healthy, or say, not drinking alcohol.
I do have some vices, and I would say I have some addictions that I am really trying to kick.
Now if I use all of my mental resources, I can kick the habit, by visualizing myself free of the habit every day.... for a while. But it usually comes back the moment I stop visualizing myself "Free of the habit." which has lead me to think "Maybe I'm doing it wrong" ?
Recently, I've been experimenting with Affirmations.. and.. WOW.
However, they say when you have anxiety, fear and worry, you tend to attract more of that into your life.
Now when I do my visualizations, I tend to feel good for some-time, but eventually it wears off and I'm back to the regular hum drum. One day I did an experiment, and began to do affirmations in the mirror. Eery fear that crept in my mind, every anxiety that came into my being, I would reverse.
For example, if I thought that people were looking at me weird, I would change it to "People think I'm cool, and interesting."
I made about a list of 20-30 affirmations. (I have a lot of fears, heh)
Within a week, I literally felt like I was floating in a cloud of Magic. I felt so great about life that I continued to do it.
The problem is, on top of doing this, I also had my "Goals" that I visualized everyday. Well one of these goals was to break an addiction. No matter how much I tried to visualize myself breaking from the addiction, I couldn't.
I am still working on it, and I am starting to believe that if I tell myself I am "Free" of this addiction every day, it will be broken. I know that what we say to our minds is super powerful, almost life changing. In fact, I felt like my attitude about life was changed in a week.
I would walk into public places and start random conversations with people. I felt an "inner self" growing agains, that I hadn't felt since I was a teenager. I know that this was the free spirit I once had, but had been bogged down and destroyed by fears, poverty, and struggle still to this day.
I am wondering if, doing this "visualization" isn't as powerful as visualizing what I want in life. For instance, I will take 20-30 minutes a day to visualize what I want in life, and for a while I feel good, but it wears off.
However, I am beginning to think, instead of visualizing, I should just go to the mirror and declare it. "I will have 5 million dollars." - the reason I am thinking this might work is because, after I do my visualization, I feel good, then it wears off the next day and it's back to reality.
However, affirmations seem to "Stick" with me a little more. It's like a verbal command that doesn't really go away. I guess it just seems like I am speaking directly to my own soul. And if I am speaking directly to my own soul, and telling my own soul that I WILL be a millionaire, instead of fantasizing about it, it's almost as if I am INSTRUCTING my soul to do this.
This also may be a form of "Auto-suggestion" as evidenced in Think and Grow Rich.
I love visualization, I have spent many months doing visualizations, but the truth is I am not so sure if it as effective as verbal commands. I have used visualizations to help me become braver in certain social situations, but then it wears off rapidly and I have to keep them very limited, meaning I can only visualize a few things at a time, otherwise they don't work.
But affirmations? It seems just doing them for ONE week gave me so much confidence I was shocked. People even sensed my better energy and opened conversations with me. It is said that, people pick up your "Vibes" and if your vibes are usually fear and anxiety then they most likely wont talk to you. I am beginning to think that Mirror affirmations are almost instantaneous.
I was telling myself in the mirror "Women think I am attractive" a few times before I went to work. Well I was getting something from a gas station and the cashier told me how handsome I was. Keep in mind, I havn't been complimented like that by a total stranger in a long time!
I th I think verbally commanding my soul to toughen up might just be what I need. However, I have read a few books that stresses the importance on visualizations, and that thoughts literally become things.
The truth is, I am wondering it is more powerful to say "I HAVE 5 million dollars" or is it more powerful to visualize it? Declaring it, is almost like not giving your soul permission to not believing it, whereas visualizing it just seems like you may be daydreaming.
Thoughts????