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Hi, everybody, Michelle Walters here. Cynthia is taking a week off. On this solo episode, I'm going to talk about affirmations. Do you know what an affirmation is? Do you use them? Well, if you aren't using them, I would highly recommend you consider it. They're very powerful, and they can do a lot to shape your mind and put you into a happier, better place drawn to you the things you want to get. So let's start. What is an affirmation? Well, an affirmation is a statement or a proposition that is declared to be true. It's essentially just something that you say to yourself, that you believe in. Now, there's been a lot of famous people associated with affirmations, probably no one more famous for affirmations than Louise Hay. Louise Hay wrote a book called you can heal your life. And in her book, she comes up with all of these affirmations that are specifically focused on on affirming health in various parts of your body. And so if you are experiencing pain or trouble in some kind of your some part of your body, I would recommend you take a look at Louise Hays book, you can heal your life because it is really all about affirmations and very curious and interesting about how she connects various affirmations to body parts and how that can help you to heal. Louise Hay is not the only big proponent of affirmations, there's a whole lot of other very famous people that will tell you that they're great, including Oprah, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and a whole host of other folks sort of New Age authors, media personalities, who will tell you just how powerful affirmations have been in their life, and drawing to them what it is they are trying to receive. So my next thing to talk about, is how can affirmations be used? Well, affirmations can be used for all kinds of things. They can be used for health, like I talked about with Louise Hay, they can also be used for money for a new house for a new job, for release for forgiveness, for hope, for having a good day for meeting the right person. Affirmations really can be used for just about anything, anything that you can imagine, could be part of an affirmation. And so if you are trying to get over something, if you are trying to draw something positive into your life, all of these objectives can be things that affirmations can work on.

So what makes affirmations work? Well, affirmations work, because even though you might not believe it right away, you actually control your thoughts. Yes, you do. You have control over your thoughts, even though sometimes it feels like maybe you don't. So, you have to believe that because well, it's just true. And the more you spend your time working on controlling your thoughts, the more you will come to see that this is true. Thoughts are things thoughts have an energetic signature. And so when you have a thought about something, it actually makes a little piece of energy in the universe exist with that belief that thought in it. And when you create affirmations as thoughts, you are essentially pushing your mind to focus on what you want. You are creating thoughts you are creating little energy signatures that send energy in the right direction to bring to you what you are affirming in your affirmations. thought of another way you're sort of crowding out what you don't want. You are making sure that you are putting your mind your brain your attention, your focus on things that you do want. And by doing that, there's much less space and time for your brain to toe, go the other direction, go the wrong direction, and be focused on things that you don't want. So something you need to understand about affirmations is that they must always be positive. Yes, affirmations means positive. And they should always be in the present tense, saying that something exists now. Now, this can be a little bit tricky, because sometimes maybe you're affirming something that, you know, in reality hasn't really quite come to be like, I receive a beautiful house, and you haven't actually received that house yet. But here's the thing, what you want to do is essentially play a little trick on your mind, and you want to affirm things before they even come to be. And while that might feel like you're being a little self deceptive, it is what you want to do. You don't want to say things like, I don't want more. Because when you say something like that, what's your brain and mind here is the word war. So that's no good. Instead, you want to focus on something like, I accept peace now. Because when you say I accept peace, now what your mind hears is peace and accept. And that's the positive form. So make sure when you are listening to affirmations, or coming up with your own affirmations, that you always put them in a positive present tense, this is very important.

So there are different ways that you can do affirmations. So you can do one statement on repeat, and just repeat the same thing over and over and over again. And this can be very positive and very effective. You can also do affirmations that are kind of a collected related set of statements, where you're saying different ideas that all sort of weave around a theme. And you're supporting that particular theme. The theme could be happy day, the theme could be worthiness, the theme could be something you're trying to bring into your life, it's often recommended that you do your affirmations in a consistent time and place. I personally suck at this, and they've worked just fine for me. So I think what's important is that if you are practicing doing affirmations that you do them, and you don't necessarily have to do them in a consistent time and place. Although for a lot of people that does help them to make a habit and get them done. You can do affirmations in all kinds of places like you don't have to just sit in one spot, doing nothing to do your affirmations. You can do your affirmations while you go for a walk. And you could just go for a walk and leave off your headphones and repeat your affirmations to yourself. I have done this many, many times. It's very, very powerful. You can do your affirmations while you're sitting on a bus. You can do your affirmations while you're doing the dishes. I do make a recommendation that you don't try doing your affirmations while you're driving, or doing something where it's very important or safety is important. Because you don't really want to take your brain off of your important safety task for affirmations. That many other circumstances affirmations work perfectly fine.

So another question I thought some people might have is does hypnosis use affirmations? And yes, I would say it does. Although it's a little bit tricky to explain, because typically, affirmations are something that you are using for yourself. So you're saying something over and over again to yourself or saying statements on a related theme that you're on repeat so that you're putting this thought into your mind. Now, the reason why I say hypnosis does use affirmations is that really what we say about hypnosis is that all hypnosis is self hypnosis. Because while you may be listening to a recording or working with a hypnotherapist, really it's the individual that is opening their mind to that process that makes the hypnosis happen. So affirmations in hypnosis Is or affirmations in any state of trance can be very, very powerful because in those states, your mind is particularly open. And so you might often hear a hypnotherapist sort of repeating some of the same ideas over and over again. And while I guess if the hypnotherapist is speaking them, they would technically be suggestions. The person who is receiving them, received them more as affirmations, because they are hearing them in their own mind and putting them into their own thought patterns, their own energy signatures. So, yes, hypnosis does use affirmations. But it's kind of like, it's really just transferring those thoughts over to the individual who is using those thoughts to supplant what might have been in their mind beforehand. And to that point, using affirmations while you are in a state of trance, or even while you're falling asleep, or waking up, these are times when the mind is particularly open. And so it's a really excellent time, to be able to use affirmations to kind of put these good thoughts on, on repeat these good thoughts on a high volume, really putting your attention to them. Because when you are that relaxed, and that open, it's a more powerful way of sending those messages into your brain and your thought pattern.

So what are some good affirmations you can try? Well, there's tons and tons of them. There, there's an infinite number of affirmations, you can say. And I would encourage you that if you want to come up with your own, that's absolutely great. The ones that you've created on your own have a special power, because they came from you, from your mind from your heart. And so if you write your own affirmations, that's just fantastic, let's just excellent and perfect, and very, very powerful. But if you're not feeling creative, you can certainly go to the internet and search for affirmations, and you will find tons and tons and tons of them. And like I said, as long as they are positive, and in the present tense, and they resonate with you, they're going to work fine, I did want to share three affirmations that are sort of in my mind classic that you may want to consider using if you're just sort of seeking or getting started with this. And one of them is simply I am worthy. Or similarly I am enough. A lot of people have feelings of compromised self worth. They're feeling down, they feel like they're not good enough. And so using an affirmation of I am worthy, or I am enough, can be really helpful to helping you kind of get out of a rut and remind yourself that you're fine. You're good enough, you are worthy. And you can just keep going from there. The second sort of classic affirmation, I wanted to share a very personal one that I used several years ago that really, really helped me is this one, eye Release, release, release, let go and let God now you can replace God with whatever you want to replace God with. God worked great for me. At the time, when I was using this affirmation, my husband and I, Bruce, we're in the process of working through a child custody suit with his ex wife. And we were really, really struggling with how difficult it was the expense of it. All the emotional turmoil that was related to that lawsuit, and all of the uncertainty of not knowing what would happen as a result of of our pursuit of getting custody of his kids from his first marriage. And so I used to go for a walk usually on my lunch hour and just put this statement I release, release, release let go and let God on repeat and say it for five or 10 minutes, or maybe even more. And when I would say it on my walk It would just really helped me let go of my concerns and struggle and just accept that it was going to be what it was going to be. And one way or another, it would be okay. And so if you're looking for something to help you kind of put up with a difficulty, a challenge, and you just want to sort of let go of some of it. I highly recommend I release, release, release, let go and let God worked for me. The third sort of classic affirmation I want to share with you is from Emil koue. Emil koue, is one of the fathers of hypnotherapy. Actually, he was a pharmacist in France in the late 1800s. What he discovered was when he told people that their medicine would work, it worked better. Yeah, I know, kind of the beginning of the whole concept of a placebo. But anyway, his classic statement is this one. Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. You might have heard it before. But it's kind of nice because it it works for all kinds of things. It works for trying to improve your art skills, it works for trying to improve your diet, it works for pretty much everything. So if you don't know what to say, for an affirmation, and you just want to sort of have a nice positive one to focus on. Try the one from Emil koue. I'll say it again, it's every day in every way I am getting better and better.

So like I said, there's an infinite number of affirmations that you can make up out there, you could make up ones that are very specific to this particular day, you can do ones that are against a theme, something you're working on this month or this year, there's really no end to the number of, of positive affirmations that you can come up with out there. I'm really excited because as some of you know, I record for an app, the app I record for is called Aura. And on aura, there's all kinds of recordings that you can listen to. They're asleep recordings, tons and tons of sleep recordings, there's life coaching, there's career stuff, there's just, there's a ton of stuff on aura. One of the categories on aura now is affirmations. So there's a whole slew of new content being developed by me and other people like me out there to help produce affirmations for people who want to listen to a recording, and put their head into the right space to accept and move forward with those affirmations. So I have a recording, I will put a link in the show notes below of my hit. I got over 1000 plays last month on some morning affirmations for people. If you want to check out aura, you can play anything on aura for the first three minutes, I think for free. And then if you want to subscribe to aura, there's a special link that I'm going to put in the show notes that you can use to subscribe you get a free trial if you use my link. So and I have lots of other stuff on there, not just that affirmations. But if you want to try my affirmations, I have this new one that's been very, very popular. So that's what I have to share with you today about affirmations. I

hope this has been very helpful. If you do have questions about affirmations, feel free to shoot me. Shoot me a note. I'm happy to answer questions as I can. I did also want to make you aware Cynthia and I have a number of events coming up. Cynthia is doing some additional sound bath and Fifth Dimension events in Oakland. So please check her website for the details. And I am going to be offering a class at the end of November called boost your mood not your food. Details are on my website for that event. Thanks everybody for listening and have a great week. You've been listening to my power V's mystic