Positive affirmations are a powerful tool to get the law of attraction working for you in manifesting the thin, strong body you want. But there are definitely plenty of “wrong” ways to use affirmations, or perhaps I should call them “ineffective” ways. Some people think that just reciting an affirmation is enough to transform their body, but the words you say have no power to change anything. Rather, all of the power contained in an affirmation is in the way it makes you feel.
What are you trying to achieve when you speak a weight loss affirmation? A thinner body, right? But how often are you focused on that slender, beautiful body? Do you spend more time focusing on how much you hate being overweight?
Are you constantly putting yourself down and feeling frustrated about your weight? Do you often voice complaints like these: “I hate being overweight! I’m so sick of these fat rolls. I’m tired of feeling this way and looking this way”? Can you feel the negative emotions that those statements trigger within you? The problem is that every time your thoughts move in that direction and you start feeling negatively about your body, you keep attracting the conditions that will keep you stuck feeling that way. To attract a better outcome (better body), you need to choose better thoughts that make you feel better.
Many people try using affirmations that are stated in present tense, like these: “I now weigh 130 pounds. I love my thin body. I wear a slim size 6.” As you read those, you can probably guess why they won’t work much of the time. You know they aren’t true (yet), so it brings up a ton of resistant thoughts, and the manifestation is blocked from forming in physical reality.
It is possible to overcome this by persistently repeating the affirmation all day long every day, but that takes a ton of energy and focus. Instead, an easier way is to simply change the phrasing of the affirmation so your subconscious mind won’t resist it.
Examples: “I feel so light and free at 115 pounds. My body has been good to me over the years. Size 6 clothing sounds so good to me.” Can you feel the difference in these affirmations? You aren’t trying to battle your existing beliefs. Instead you are just saying that these ideas make you feel good. Even if you know they aren’t true YET, you are still “tuning into” them and adopting that lighter, happier frequency, so you begin attracting the essence of it.
The bottom line is to create affirmations that trigger positive feelings within you. If it makes you feel bad in any way (or even neutral) then the affirmation needs some further work before it will be effective. No matter what, your objective is to tune into the essence of the outcome you are trying to attract, and focus on feeling that way now. If you do that enough, the outcome eventually becomes yours.
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