Affirmations That Have Worked For Me
by Guy Spiro

It sounds ridiculous to many people when one of us new agers says you really do create your life. And I understand their consternation with the concept. After all, if we really do create our lives, then why are we all not rich, famous, healthy and beautiful? Why do we not have all that those we envy have? Well, because we should live so long, right? I mean, with my luck, I'd buy the winning lottery ticket and lose it.

I'm reminded of a bumper sticker that said, "Eat right. Exercise regularly. Die anyway." Speaking of bumper stickers, remember "Life's a bitch and then you die?" How about the ever popular "Shit Happens"? I laughed at all three when I first saw them but negative affirmations get into our minds and grind away with destructive results.

If asked whether one is a positive thinker or a negative thinker, most of us would respond "Positive!" When we take the time to think consciously, we would rarely feed ourselves negativity. But what about our habitual thoughts that run on and on, barely noticed? Here is where the affirmations that deliver to us our daily realities reside.

If you pay attention, how many times in a day do you think you have thoughts that reinforce your life as it is? "Oh, nothing ever works out right for me." "He (or she) would never want to go out with me." "Why does everything bad always happen to me?" There is the old blues lyric that goes "if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck." How many people are always waiting for the other shoe to drop? The list is endless and you can certainly come up with a few that I haven't listed.

The point of all of this is that two or ten minutes a day of positive affirmations is not enough to overcome the habitual negativity that runs through the mind. The affirmations that have worked for me have produced the life that I have and if I want to improve it, I need to think more positively and less negatively on a moment to moment basis.

So that's what I'm going to do . . . of course, with my luck . . . oops!