Royane Real

By Royane Real 

You are probably already very familiar with the words affirmations and visualization.

Affirmation and visualization are techniques that are often used to help improve our ability to reach our goals.  Yet many people complain that they have tried to use affirmations or visualization but they couldn’t get these techniques to work for them.

Why does this happen?  One reason is that every body’s brain is different.  Some people can visualize very easily.  Some have difficulty in visualizing.

The same is true of affirmations.  There are many different ways in which the technique of affirmations can be used, yet the underlying principle is the same.  If you have tried to speak your affirmations out loud to yourself, you may have found that your mind rebels against the concept and says, “No, that’s not true for me.”  Then your brain shuts down and stops listening to what you affirm.

Does that mean that affirmations won’t work for you?  No!  It just means you may need to experiment a bit to discover a technique for using affirmations that fits your particular mind set.

In the following article on affirmations, the author Gary Simpson presents one of the most simple and most effective affirmation methods that has been used by many people to improve their motivation for achieving goals.  This is the method of simply writing down your goal on paper and reviewing this written affirmation many times every day.

As the author mentions in his article, not everyone is born with the gift of having tremendous motivation.  Not everyone is surrounded by people who will enthusiastically cheer you on whenever you lose hope or lose focus to achieve your dreams.

Most of us have to struggle a lot to come up with the motivation and drive to keep on going when we are going after a particular goal.  We need to use tools like visualization and affirmations to keep recreating our vision and our confidence that the goal we are going after is worth reaching, and that we have the talent and drive necessary to get there.

Why is the technique of writing down your goals and reviewing them often so effective?

When you write down your goals, you have to activate several parts of your mind, not just the part that visualizes your future, but also the part of your brain that forms your ideas and thoughts into words, and the part that makes your hand move across the page to form your words on paper.

The more often you do something, the more automatic it will become.  The more parts of your brain you activate, the more you create and strengthen new pathways between parts of your brain that are normally not very well connected.

The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real, author of the book How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative which is available at http://www.lulu.com/real Learn more ways to use your brain effectively.

You can achieve anything you want. Yes, you can. But, like so many things there is a small catch. And here it is - no matter what it is that you desire you must believe strongly in it almost to the exclusion of everything else. Does that sound like an obsession?

Let me tell you how to turn your obsession into reality. You can do it via a little technique that I am going to outline for you.

But first, just so there is no misunderstanding I want to dispel a few myths. First, will just thinking about something bring your goal into existence? No it won't. Materializing a thought can only occur if you add some action to your desire. That is the key. The physical actions must be directed by a concentrated train of thought.

In other words, the mind MUST become involved FIRST.

Think about it. Everything that has ever been brought into existence was first just a thought in the mind of its creator. It had to be.

Unfortunately for most, the humdrum of life gets in the way. But that is only because most people have no method for keeping their dreams and goals uppermost in their minds. Allow me to give you an example.

Let's say you want to write a book. This is a good example for me because I have written several myself, so I know what I am talking about. Will merely thinking about writing a book get the job done? No. However, if you obsess on writing a book you will eventually spark yourself into action. Soon you will have outlined your plan.

Something happened. You obsess some more and you are driven to write the first chapter. Pretty soon the action and not the thought is the motivator. The book virtually seems to be writing itself using your hand as the instrument. It becomes almost self-perpetuating.

Highly motivated people can do these things almost at will. But what about everybody else? Not everybody was born with great reserves of self-motivation. How can you train your mind well enough to do these things?

There is a method. It's called an affirmation. First, you need to write your goal down on a small card. Next you read and focus on the words on that card as often as possible. It works. Constantly feeding your mind with the positive thought inspires not only action but also creativity. This method literally forces your mind to bring your goal into existence.

Here is a challenge for you. Try using the method I have outlined above for 30 days. For 30 days you need to read your affirmation as often as possible. Do not miss a single day. It only takes a minute to do. Read it every morning, every evening and as many times as you can in between. At the end of 30 days you will have progressed towards your goal. There is magic in this system. Try it. See for yourself.

Finally, let me leave you with this wonderful quote from Erma Bombeck: When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

About the author:

Gary Simpson is the author of eight books covering a diverse range of subjects such as self esteem, affirmations, self defense, finance and much more. His articles appear all over the web. Click here to go to his Motivation & Self Esteem for Success website where you can receive his "Zenspirational Thoughts" plus an immediate FREE copy of his highly acclaimed, life-changing e-book "The Power of Choice." To learn more about the magic of affirmations you can click here

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