Affirmations as a Spiritual Practice

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PRACTICE

52 Weeks of Spiritual Practice

By Deborah Williams

The purpose of the 52 Principles is to develop a partnership, a connection with God. Connecting with God is why we are here; the soul’s desire. To be in communication with the Creator is ideally the most fulfilling life, our best life. The intent of the 52 Principles is God-realization through daily practice. Practice the principles with frequency and find God-consciousness through your own efforts. With practice, you will begin to encounter your experiences in a spiritual context as you begin to practice and master spiritual principles. This week’s spiritual principle is Affirmations.

Affirming is the process of harmonizing with God’s blessings and provisions. Speak encouraging and positive statements that support your prayers and moves you closer to soul qualities (inner peace, wisdom, and understanding). Like music, words create tone, harmony and vibration.  An affirmation is intelligent self-talk with purpose, power, encouragement, motivation, and conviction. Affirmations clear the mind of years of negative programming.   When we state affirmations with emotion, we feel the good coming alive. Everything we say is an affirmation– positive or negative.  The tongue can speak words that bring life or death. Those who love to talk must be ready to accept what it brings; Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose (Proverbs 18:21). Thoughts and words are powerful and create reality. Speak about what you want for yourself and others, and if necessary, bridle the tongue. Words are things.

The goal of affirmations is to change your thinking and as a result, a change of behavior occurs. We are what we think, say, and do. The process is thought-to speech-to experience. There is power in the spoken word. You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you, and the light shall shine upon your ways (Job 22:28). The establishing is not up to us, we leave the establishing to God and focus on intention. Even if we cannot see how our request can manifest; decree it anyway. Do all you can do; God is your Source and Supply. Demand and supply; you affirm your desires and God establishes them. Watch your thoughts, and if necessary, make a course correction on negative, limited thinking. Doubt and unbelief delays God’s blessings. All things whatever you ask for believe you receive them and you will have them (Mark 11:24). Affirm what is true for you with feeling, energy, attraction, and magnetism. Your thoughts attract your experiences. The promise of God is to manifest our desires. God always works on our behalf.

We are responsible for our lives through our thoughts and speech. Speak words of forgiveness, peace, and grace.  Speak on good things (Philippians 4:8). Affirm the good and reduce negative self-talk with the dynamic and creative energy of affirmations. Affirmations assist in plugging into the power source; the soul power from the Source – God. Words are things; words create.

Affirmations should:

Create positive feelings

Be stated in the present moment

Be spoken with conviction and belief
Be spoken with emotional energy

State what is true for you
State your desire and intention

Bring you joy and happiness

Establish a desire
State that a thing exists - “I am”

Although there are basic guidelines for constructing affirmations, create your own; what feels right for you. The “I AM” empowers the affirmation. The goal is to select words that arouse positive emotions. God is experienced through the heart not the intellect.

            I am attracting

            I love the though

I feel excited

I am thrilled

I love feeling

I am overjoyed

I am happy that

I am elated

Self-Assessment:

What do you say and believe about your life?

What do you intend?

Do you know what you want?

What are your passions and desires?

Can you express yourself clearly and directly?

What is it that you want for yourself and family?

Affirmation Practices:

• For optimal results, commit to an affirmation practice at least daily (approx. 30 minutes).  Listen to your affirmations on a recorder during the day, or as an auto suggestion before sleep. At sleep time, the mind is relaxed and less resistance. Affirmations reprogram years and generations of negative programming

• Affirmation: God is life, love, intelligence, substance, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence. I am a child or manifestation of God, and every moment His life, love, wisdom, power flow into and through me. I am one with God, and am governed by His law. I am Spirit, perfect, holy and harmonious. Nothing can hurt me or make me sick or afraid. I manifest my real self through this body now. God works with me to will and to do whatsoever He wishes me to do, and He cannot fail (Lessons in Truth by Harriet Emile Cady).

You are the thinker that creates the thought and creates the thing. You are powerful and responsible for your life situations. Decide for yourself what you desire to experience. Don’t doubt your progress or Process, and keep believing for the best.  Be careful what you think. Above all that you guard, protect your heart, because ·your thoughts run your life; life flows from your thoughts (Proverbs 4:23).

How do you affirm your goodness to Self, God, and others?  Develop your own spiritual practice.

Peace and Many Blessings