Your thoughts directly impact your mood, attitude, and behavior. Negative thoughts tend to create bad moods, bad attitudes, and unsuccessful behaviors. On the other hand, positive thoughts lead to positive actions and positive actions lead to positive outcomes. This is why it is important to keep your thoughts positive and focused on the things you want in life. The repetition of positive thoughts – or affirmations – will literally change your brain and help you create the life you want.
Affirmations are short positive statements that help re-pattern your self-talk and rewire your brain. Be sure to create your affirmations in the present tense and clearly state what you want. For example, “I succeed in all I do.” The key to successful use of affirmations is repetition. By repeating these positive thoughts over and over, you are rewiring your brain. Brain cells that fire together wire together. Using affirmations will help you literally create new neural pathways in your brain (neural nets). This is like creating a new groove on a record or wearing a path in the grass. It takes some time – and repetition – to create these new neural nets, but with patience you will rewire your brain for success.
As you stay focused on the new positive thoughts, the old negative neural nets will wither away and the positive neural nets will strengthen. This will make it easier for you to stay positive and take the necessary positive steps to reach your goals.
Dear Kirsten, You are so right, affirmations re-wire the brain. I started with affirmations in the summer of 1991. Very soon after I decided I needed more than affirmations. I was not just interested in success but in Divine union. It was then that I started creating my mantra. Affirmations rewire the brain and bring you to a meditative state. For me, my mantra and reaching deep inside to find the Divine feminine was the natural outcome of affirmations. love and light, Stuart http://stuartmarkberlin.com
Thanks for this simple explanation. I have been wondering about neuro-linguistic programming I have read about and this makes total sense.
I have made a list. Now the re-wiring begins!
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Thank You Kirsten!!
You have reconfirmed my truth with such a nice and easy to understand explanation.
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Urmil
Great article. The power of training your brain is limitless. This, even thought it's so simple, is one of the fastest, and most effective ways to change your brain, and change how you feel. Everyday we think thoughts. Some of them make us feel inept, and some, adept. By repeating a phrase (ex: I am a powerful passionate speaker), you're telling your brain that this is true and whatever linguistic representation (be it internal dialog, or mental images) you create from those things interacts (I believe) with parts of your brain associated with FACTS and TRUTHS. Pamatha, NLP is a very practical, and quite powerful way to utilize your capacity to rewire synaptic connections in the brain. I personally have seen incredible results, in my life, from that specifically. Great article!
I couldn't agree more. Our thoughts are EVERYTHING. We ought to take tender loving care of them as we would a child. Mindfulness helps us to Be Impeccable with our Word, whether a quiet whisper in our mind or words we share. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a small but oh-so powerful book whose messages go everywhere with me now. ~Sheryl http://www.coastalcoaching.weebly.com