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In the post on self-talk I explained how your internal dialogue influences your emotional states and is a form of self-hypnosis.

One way to help you switch your internal dialogue from negative to a positive one is to practice affirmations.

Affirmations are used commonly in many self-help books and has become a staple of modern business life for several decades. Yet it is still an underused method in our time. Using affirmations is easy and regular use can serve as a reminder to you to think positive thoughts.

Affirmations can become even more effective when you use them in self-hypnosis. Just go to your meditative state and repeat your chosen affirmations to reprogram your subconscious giving you a boost in whatever self-improvement category you are focusing on.

The rule of thumb in using affirmations is to focus your affirmation on what you want NOT on what you don’t want.

If you say, ‘I don’t want to feel angry’ you are doing a negative affirmation. Notice that you are creating a thought or mental image of being angry in this affirmation. The result will be that your anger will stay the same of increase.

Instead of saying, ‘I don’t want to be angry’, say ‘I am feeling calm and peaceful’.

Notice how you create the mental image of being calm and peaceful just by saying those words. Also notice you are saying the affirmation in the present, i.e. ‘I am’ feeling a certain way. Not ‘I will’ because that assumes the calm and peacefulness will come to you in the future and not now.

You can make the affirmation even more effective by stating it from the present into the future such as ‘I am feeling more and more calm and peaceful everyday and in everyway’.

Notice how this focuses your mind on continuing to feel calm and peaceful into the future and creates the intention of increasing the calm and peace you want to feel

The following are some affirmations you can use. When you make your own affirmations make sure you model them on the ones listed here or on the ones in the videos on this website.

‘I am feeling more and more confident’

‘Everyday and in everyway I and feeling better and better and better’

‘It is getting easier and easier for me to exercise regularly’

etc.