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Positive affirmations are one of my top stress management choices. I have had very impressive results in different ‘sectors’ of my life and I strongly encourage everybody to plug into this powerful stress reduction, change management and personal development technique. I use them with very good results on regular basis alongside with the meditation and visualization.

The theory about affirmations is that your whole experience depends on the thoughts that go through your head, so if you introduce specific thoughts into your head on a regular basis, you are effectively training your mind to go in the direction you want it to go. Its about Conditioning, which could be both positive or negative.  

Positive affirmations introduce positive change through impressing the subconscious mind and trigger it into action (positive, desirable).

Steven Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People points out that a good affirmation has five basic ingredients:

- Personal

- Positive (such as ‘I am perfect just as I am’. If you repeat a negative statement, such as I don’t want to be fat’, it is the being fat, that your brain will pick up on and the affirmation will be self-defeating)

- In present tense

- Visual

- Emotional.

Say your positive affirmations  several times during the day.

Having said your affirmations you now need to let it take effect. This is the point where things sometimes start to go wrong. It is helpful to take note of the following:

• You must sit back and let things happen. We cannot always see how our goals are to be achieved. Sometimes we are so busy controlling what we think we want to achieve, that we miss or even reject the real achievement of our goal. Learn to let go and accept what comes, trusting that what you need will come to you.

• Believe that you have a right to receive your goal. Often we are the block to achieving our goals, because we don't really believe deep down inside ourselves that we are worthy to receive. You are - remember that!

• When we have a strong goal in our mind, we send out that positive energy, which attracts the kinds of people we need to help us achieve that goal.
• If you wish try my favourite affirmation - Abundance flows into my life every day in miraculous ways.

Related Article:

Positive Affirmations as a Stress Management Tool

Recomended Resources:

Maximum Achievement Affirmation by Brian Tracy

Relieve Stress & Anxiety: Guided Meditations and Subliminal Affirmations

The Sedona Method

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People