Turning Around Negative Affirmations on the Fly

This may be the most important therapy or "modality" in using affirmations as therapy: what I call "turning them around on the fly" or "catching them in action" when they spontaneously "pop" into your mind.

The reason this works is because there is a symbiotic, or more plainly, "see-saw," relationship between your results, or your present reality, and your thoughts. They depend on each other for survival.

Although it doesn't feel like it, in the moment, if you stop the negative thought in its tracks, what you are doing is cutting off the oxygen supply to the negative feeling and negative behavior that caused it.

In yesterday's blog post I used the example of turning around, "Yes, because I'm an idiot!" in this:

I am a genius. I am a very smart person. I always do what is best for me in any given situation, and I make my life work!

Now, at the moment I "caught" this, I really did feel like an idiot. And my behavior was also idiotic. (Listening to negative news instead of meditating as I had intended.) But the important principle to remember is this subconscious will accept anything you tell it as being true, and that it's the dominant thoughts in your subconscious that are determining your behavior and feelings. They're running the show.

Here's another real life example that happened to me today. I've been working hard at losing weight beginning a couple of weeks ago. I got on the scale this morning, and I had gained half a pound! Immediately I felt and caught my mind saying:

This is so frustrating!

So, I Googled and found the Antonym for the word "Frustrating." It is "pleasing." Also, "helpful and facilitating" are antonyms in the other sense of the word. So, I wrote, actually I voice dictated into my iPhone these phrases:

This is so pleasing! This new way of thinking, this new way of being, this new way of life is so pleasing! It's so helpful and facilitating. It's so helpful and facilitating to turn around negative affirmations into positive ones because the subconscious mind accepts whatever you tell it. 

Now, one may say, "Well, aren't you affirming the negative and so keeping the negative alive?" No, what you are doing is putting yourself in a new, higher vibratory state, which will have a postive affect on your behaviour and feelings going forward. And your future results will reflect that.

As you practice this therapy and put them in your notes, you will gradually build up an Affirmation Script. This leads to the second modality of Affirmation therapy: Reading out loud or listening to an entire Affirmation script being read to you. Here's a neat trick: if you have an iPhone, you can tell Siri: Read this note, and she'll read the note back to you. While not perfect, it is fun, and effective, to have her or any other type of Text to Speech (TTS) application read this scripts back to you. And you can also create your own recordings. It's therapy in and of itself to create them, but also sense Repitition is such a key principle in Subconscious Therapy, it's important to have some kind of recording that you can listen to as often as possible, especially when you are driving or brushing your teeth for example.