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I love affirmations. I was first (informally) introduced to them as a child – before I even knew what to call them. My parents bought me a tape called, Success for Children, and a pillow speaker. Each night, I would listen to the ocean waves and a very soft voice seeping into my subconscious mind repeating tons of affirmations over and over again about how I would do well in school, succeed beautifully in life, and feel an overall sense of well-being.
At the time, I was far too young to know the impact that affirmations would have on me. I simply was doing what my parents asked me to do. Now, as an adult, I see firsthand the power of our mind and how we can actually reprogram old habits and limiting beliefs by shifting our thoughts from negative to positive. And affirmations are a wonderful tool to help us do that.
My friend, Scott Armstrong, is a master at incorporating affirmations into his daily life! Each time I talk to him, I leave with a new affirmation that he has given me. And they are always so helpful and exactly what I needed to hear.
I asked him to share his thoughts about affirmations with us today. He did that beautifully and also is offering his entire Best Affirmations Bundle for free to one lucky winner! Keep reading to find out how you can enter!
Do you have a favorite “go to” affirmation that has really helped to change your life the most?
I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life.
Can you share a story of how the power of affirmations helped someone you know?
Affirmations have changed my life and many of my clients’ lives. This is one of the reasons I wanted to write the Best Affirmations Handbook and get it out to as many people as possible.
One of my clients in Canada had a major breakthrough with affirmations. Within two weeks of doing his affirmations, he was a different person. He started using the affirmations I gave him and his life was changed forever. He started to attract many amazing things into his life by shifting his negative thoughts into positive ones. As they say: “What you think about is what you bring about.”
In your opinion, what is the best way to use affirmations? Do you write them onto cards and paste them up around your home or do you carry them in your pocket and repeat them out loud several times a day? Also, what role does “feeling” play with being able to internalize affirmations?
The best way to do your affirmations is what feels best for you. Some people like to set a certain time to do them and others say them throughout the day. I have my clients experiment and find out what works best for them.
There are a couple of ways I do my affirmations. You are getting programed all day long from the TV, radio, billboards, newspapers etc. I teach my clients that you have to program yourself for success daily with, what I like to call the “Creative Bombardment” technique with affirmations.
- The first way is that every morning I do at least 20 minutes of affirmations. I read them and then say them out loud with feeling. (It is important to get the feeling behind your affirmations.)
- I also have an Affirmation Ticker on my computer screen. So when I am on my computer, I am getting programed by my favorite affirmations.
- Recording your affirmations is very powerful as well. I have about an hours worth of my affirmations on my phone. I listen to them for about 15-20 minutes each day. (It is important to record your affirmations with enthusiasm.) When you read them and then hear them your subconscious mind starts to believe them and that’s when things start to happen for the good. New empowering beliefs start to form.
As I mentioned, it is very important to get the feeling behind your affirmations. I like what Neville Goddard says on this subject. He said that “ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling.” No idea can be impressed on the subconscious mind until it is felt, but once felt – be it good, bad or indifferent – it must be expressed. Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious.
Here is one of my favorite quotes:
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
~Florence Scovel Shinn
Why do affirmations work so well?
Affirmations work so well because you are in conscious control of your thoughts. They are a simple, powerful way to transform your life. Anytime you choose to be in conscious control of your thoughts, you are taking the reins back on what you determine to be reality.
Whenever you say or think an affirmation that resonates deeply within you, it becomes the framework that creates the world you see around you. By repeating your affirmations to yourself throughout the day, you are choosing to pave the way towards manifesting the life you most want to have and deserve.
Research has shown that we have between 45,000 and 51,000 thoughts a day. That’s about 150 to 300 thoughts a minute. Research has also shown that for most people 80% of those thoughts are negative. Now, we have been taught to think that most of these 51,000 thoughts are “sub-conscious” thoughts meaning that they are below our conscious awareness level. Affirmations actually make your sub-conscious thoughts conscious.
When you start making conscious positive thoughts, you actually become more aware of the negative thoughts that are always threatening to take over.
Do you use a vision board in addition to saying affirmations?
I do use a vision board, and I recommend it to all my coaching clients. They all have had great success with it.
A vision board is a powerful visualization tool that activates the universal law of attraction to begin manifesting your dreams and goals into reality. I remind my clients that they can actually “Visualize to Materialize!”
One of my clients had 39 items that she wanted to have on her vision board within one year. At year’s end she had 38 items on her board! The only one she didn’t accomplish was a new car. Not bad for one year!
We both believe in the power of appreciation. When we can live our lives from a space of gratitude, it truly puts everything into perspective. If we’re having a bad day, going back to our gratitude practice can instantly shift things. Can you tell everyone about the role gratitude has played in your own life?
Gratitude has played a big role in my life. As they say when you are grateful you are truly rich. Every morning, I spend at least 5 minutes in gratitude when I first wake up. I don’t let my feet touch the floor until I do this.
I first start by feeling how grateful I am to be alive. I then feel how grateful I am for all my family and friends. Lastly, I feel how grateful I am for all the great experiences I have had in my life.
One of my mentors taught me that you want to get to the point of crying because you are so grateful.
I read a great book that I recommend to all my coaching clients. It is called A Simple Act of Gratitude: How Learning To Say Thank You Changed My Life by John Kralik. This book inspired me to send gratitude/appreciation card each day, which has really helped me center myself in gratitude and appreciation. As of today, I have sent out 250 cards! I challenge you to give this a try. It is a wonderful daily gratitude forming habit.
What does your soul want you to know?
My soul has taught me that everything is just right in this perfectly synchronized universe. There is no need to worry or have fear. Everything is working out for your highest good and that you are loved more that you will ever know. I am a Miracle.
Is there anything else you would like to share?
Yes. Stop listening to yourself and start talking to yourself. 
Scott is graciously giving away 1 copy of his Affirmation Mindset Bundle!
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This includes his Best Affirmations Workbook: A 30 Day How-to Guide to Actively Create the Life You Want (pdf and audio) + 21 Sheets filled with powerful affirmations (pdf and audio)! (I have this myself and love it!)
Entering is super easy!
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Good luck!
Scott is a very giving guy (which I love!), and he’s offering extra goodies away to the first 10 people who order his Affirmation Mindset Bundle! In addition to receiving this amazing bundle, which includes the Best Affirmations Workbook (pdf and audio), you will also receive his complete audio version of his wonderful book, Boston Marathon or Bust + a free 20-minute affirmation strategy session!
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Wow. How cool that your parents had you doing affirmations as a child. When I was a teenager my grandmother gave me a copy of Og Mandino’s “Greatest Salesman in the World”. A lot of really good affirmations.
I wish that I did affirmations more. They have helped me out of some really tight situations, yet I get slack when times aren’t tough and quit using them. Thanks for the reminder.
DSG
ZenPresence.com
I loved this interview, so insightful and remindful that the way we speak to ourselves really does make a huge difference in not only the quality of our lives but what we are able to accomplish! I shared on Facebookthe paragraph about the research statistic on how many thorughts a day we have and how many are negative…what a personal as well as planetary UPLIFT could occur with the realization that the power is in each & every one of us to REVERSE that statistic!
My favorite affirmation is simple but never fails to calm and ground me in any situation: ALL IS WELL.
Thank you for your generosity in sharing your book & information with us, Scott! (and Jodi!)
Love that you did affirmations as a child Jodi – it’s a wonderful thing to teach our children. And your interview with Scott is fabulous – I’m sold and I’ve ordered. Couldn’t find the place to put in soulspeak, but that’s okay. An added bonus for me is that Scott quotes Neville. Anyone who reads Neville is great in my book. 🙂
Love Elle
xoxo
I’m new to using affirmations, so can’t say for sure I’m actually doing it right! I have a list of affirmations I would like to apply and use when I meditate. For now I’ve just been using the first one: ‘I am a prolific writer’ and I want to keep going with that until I really feel it before adding another. The idea was to convince myself to get my butt in the chair and more words down. It’s been working and I’ve been more productive these past few weeks, but have to admit I’m not sure I believe my affirmation yet.
Next I’d like to add something about the quality of my words rather than just the quantity 🙂
my favorite affirmation is
I am love
and it does open my heart and I can go around in life with LOVE, can see everything in the light of love….
Breathe.
I know it doesn’t sound like an affirmation but in some traditions the sound of the breath is a mantra. When I remind myself to breathe, I am reminding myself to return to myself, to be my own center. For me the breath is both grounding and transcendent.
I also love the five Reiki principles. There are variations of how they should be phrased and some have been written to sound like affirmations. Wonderful.
I am going through quite a tough time right now, and I know and feel the positiveness of this give-a-way would be perfect for me right now and assist in the healing and the better self-esteem I am needing to find right now. Thank you for the opportunity. I am very glad to be here and to be a part of the upcoming eCourse as well!
STARshine Blessings!
What a great offer! Here’s one I really like:
“”The tragedy of life is not death…but what we let die inside of us while we live””
Wonderful giveaway! I follow Soul Speak on FB! I don’t know if it’s my favorite affirmation but it’s one I have to say a lot – You can do it. 🙂
My daily affirmation is:
I choose LOVE and follow the guidance of my inner wisdom.
My go-to affirmations when I have moments of anxiety are: I am Well and I am Perfect Health. They have really calmed me down when no other thought could. Recently I went through a traumatic experience and found myself whispering to myself in the wee hours of the morning, “Everything that is happening to me is happening for my Highest Good.” That soothed me, too.
I am not sure if this is an affirmation, but I remind myself everyday,
“Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”
It’s the littlest things in life that often mean so much to us, and this quote helps me remember that. Thanks for the chance to win!
I’m an affirmation newbie – and have gotten away from even that. But the one affirmation I have used is “there is always enough time to do all of the important things.” Really keeps me on track.
I love affirmations. I have those little post-it note thingamajigs on my PC so I can be reminded every time I go to the desktop. My favourite is probably: I’m a powerful and enchanting woman.
I have followed Soul Speak and a favorite affirmation of mine is:
Everything I want, need and desire comes to me whether I ask for it or not.
Namaste!
Hello and Good Morning,
Everyday before I get out of bed I look out the window and tell myself that today is going to be a wonderful day. Then throughout the day my mantra is” your happy, healthy, smart and beautiful”.
“Life is short wear it out!!”
~Deana Chambers~
I approve of myself.
I didn’t know about affirmations but once they discovered me, they helped me realize how great my life could be. I LOVE them and do them all day long!!!!
The affirmation my Mother taught me that has stuck with me is:
“Other’s think of you what you think of yourself!”
Thanks for the interview and book suggestions.
my favourite affirmation is
” what’s mine won’t pass me by”
it helps me to know that it doesn’t matter what I do I will always get what is right for me ♥
my favorite affirmation (if it can be defined) is “the fire is the seat of the heart.” I repeat myself when I stop, I stop. I I received during a shamanic circle and helps me a lot!
This workbook sounds inspiring! My favorite affirmation comes to me from a friend who was instrumental in starting down a spiritual path of living: What the head can conceive, the heart will believe”. I find myself thinking that without realizing it sometimes!
Blessings to all here.
Thanks for sharing this interview! Very inspiring!
My favorite affirmation is: I don’t know how this will work out but I can’t wait to find out!
The affirmation I use the most is “Do what you feel in your heart is the right thing to do.”
My son had a daughter out of wedlock who he refuses to acknowledge. We never even found out about her until she was 14 months old! He’s very bitter that he has to pay child support. The child’s mother contacted me and told me about her. I told her I wanted to be a part of her life, which her mother also wanted, and I now see her regularly. Because of this my son has disowned me. I’m sorry he feels that way but I will not have my son dictate to me how to live my life. In my heart I know it is the right thing to see my granddaughter and I am at peace in doing so. This little girl has done nothing to my son for him to treat her so poorly. She may not have a father that cares about her but she has a grandmother whose heart she holds in her little hands and will be here for her always.
It is so important to pay attention to what our thoughts are!
My favorite affirmation is: Divine Love goes before me and prepares the way.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius
I have the right to express my feelings to myself & others. Life is unfolding as it should.
Affirmations is a new thing for me. However, after reading Echart Tolle’s books, and learning something really important from his texts, I have started reminging myself once in a while the following:
Life is now. Right now there is nothing to worry about. If something bad happens, I wil react to it when it happens. I don’t have to worry about anything in the past or in the future.
“Every day in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
“God provides me with all that I desire, whenever I desire it for as long as I desire it.”
My daily affirmation is
Today is a beautiful day, all day, – I deserve happiness
“Anything and everthing is possible and it sill always be the best for me”.
I love to read what are others affirmations…
Favorite Affirmation: I am enough!
Covers all the bases…enough mother, wife, daughter, employee, all the hats that I wear it reminds me to be the best that I can be and that on the whole, it will be enough.
I have plenty.
Keep it simple. Breathe deeply and drink water.
”I am creating a wonderful and abundant life’
What a great post Jodi, love it and have it bookmarked for myself.
http:www.empoweredwombyn.com
My favorite affirmation is:
I have enough. I do enough. I am enough!
I am loved unconditionally. I am safe in the universe and all of life loves and supports me. I love my life.
What a great giveaway! Here’s one of mine:
I am so thankful that I always have more than enough!
Hello Jodi, and welcome Scott.
Always enjoy your site Jodi, and thank you for providing wonderful gifts in the men and women you know, and who share so generously. I recently had a revelation, I was asked what I really wanted in this life, and without hesitation, I said……’ to …BE… me’ I am 53, so one would think I knew how to do that. But the truth was I had played the GAME of life for so long, so busy doing, I never took the time. So. to BE.. is now my quest, BE.. my true creation, my miracle, which I understand to BE… love..in its truest sense, BE… my true potential. After all, I am a Human BE..ing, not a human Do…ing.
So even Shakespears quote “To BE or not to BE.. That is the question? has taken on a whole new meaning. He was very insightful and ahead of his time. I choose to BE….. (its like coming home) if you know what I mean. Until the next time, enjoy each and every precious moment, from myself…. with LOVE n ABOVE
My favorite affirmation lately is “I am open to loving relationships.” Simple but powerful.
Great interview — very inspiring! I’ve recently started doing affirmations regularly and I’m so overjoyed at the changes i see happening in myself and in my life!! 🙂 One of my favorite affirmations is:
“I receive in joy and wonder.”
PS love the part about being grateful until you feel the tears coming on — I’ve done that so many times! And I’ve had the thought that Joy and Gratitude are one and the same, as I can’t be one without being the other at the same time!
Thank you SO much to everyone who entered! I loved reading all of your wonderful affirmations – they are all so positive and life-affirming!
Congratulations to Randy for winning this giveaway! 🙂