21 Pianist Affirmations

Today’s Thought:

“But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.”
~ Alicia Keys

In our modern world, the piano is a mainstay instrument common most types of western music. However, the modern piano has only been with us for about 300 years. The Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) is generally considered the inventor of the piano.

The piano was based on earlier instruments like the harpsichord (which was loud enough for concert play, but lacked the expressive control sought by composers and players) and the clavichord (which offered expressive control, but lacked sufficient loudness).

The instrument remained largely unknown until an Italian writer Scipione Maffei wrote a widely circulated article about the new instrument that included a diagram. That article inspired a generation of piano builders.

Today the instrument is a vehicle of expression for composers and players and a means of inspiration to billions of listeners.

The following affirmations are written for those intrepid pianists at all levels seeking to bring their brand of beauty into our world. I have used piano player and pianist interchangeably. Use the one that works best for you.

1. I am a great piano player! I am a great piano player! I am a great piano player and I get better and better each and every day!
2. I am a good pianist and ready to be great!
3. I am great pianist and ready to be world-class!
4. I am a great piano player! I use the piano to connect my heart to the listener’s ears.
5. I am a great piano player! Who I am is expressed through the keys on a piano.
6. I am a great pianist! I am a worthy next step to the great pianists of the past!
7. I am a great pianist! I transform the composer’s vision into a work of art for the ears!
8. I am a great pianist! I add something special to an ensemble!
9. When I am at the piano, I am in my zone!
10. When I am playing the piano I am calm, cool, and confident!
11. Breathing in, I am attuned to the piano. Breathing out, I am one with the piano.
12. Every time I sit down at the keyboard, I make a difference in the lives of my listeners!
13. A great piano player lives within me! Today that piano player shows up in my auditions.
14. A great piano player lives within me! Today that piano player shows up in my recital!
15. A great piano player lives within me! Today that piano player shows up at my concert!
16. When the pianist is ready, the audience appears! I am ready and my audiences are growing!
17. Piano is my passion and I live my passion to the fullest!
18. When my fingers dance across the piano keys, magic happens!
19. My technique is flawless and it comes through in the music I play!
20. When I play the piano, the melody shines through like sunlight in the morning!
21. I am a great artist and the keyboard is my canvass!

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is the author or the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life – a book of 416 original empowering quotes, thoughts, and affirmations.

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45 Soccer Affirmations

Today’s Thought

“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
~ Mia Hamm

Most experts agree that soccer is the most watched and played sport on the planet. Somewhere out there right now there is a wannabe David Beckham, Pele, or Mia Hamm in the making. As they advance in the game, they are realizing that the mind is as useful a tool as the feet and the head.

These affirmations are written to encourage and inspire your greatness as a soccer player whatever your level.

Please feel free to substitute football or soccer, whichever term works for you.

1. We are a great soccer team! We are a championship soccer team! We are a team of destiny!
2. When we come together as a team, everything becomes possible for our soccer team!
3. I am a great soccer player! I am a great soccer player! I am a great soccer player and I get better and better each and every day!
4. I defeat my opponent in my mind and then I defeat him/her on the soccer field.
5. I always outplay my opponent by out-thinking my opponent.
6. When I face superior skills on the soccer field, I win with the superior determination!
7. When I have superior skills on the soccer field, I win by maintaining my focus and executing!
8. I am one part amazing soccer skills! I am one part of amazing mental skills! I am all parts a champion!
9. Soccer is easy! Soccer is fun! Soccer is easy and fun for me!
10. I am good soccer player on my way to being a great soccer player!
11. I am a great soccer player and I am ready to be world-class!
12. A world-class soccer player lives within me! Today I AM that player during my match!
13. When I take the field, I channel my emotions into amazing soccer plays!
14. I am a great soccer player. When my team needs a lift, I am always there to provide it!
15. I love soccer and it shows in the way I play every match!
16. I am a great goalkeeper! When the game is on the line, I always make the save!
17. I am a great goalkeeper! I thrive on the one-to-one of a penalty kick! Bring it!
18. I am a great goalkeeper! The net and me are one!
19. I am a great goalkeeper! I am the leader of my defense!
20. A great goalkeeper lives within me! Today that goalkeeper shows up in the net!
21. I am a great scorer! When I’m on my A-game, I am unstoppable!
22. I am a great scorer! One on one I am better than any goalie!
23. I am a great scorer! My kicks are always powerful and accurate!
24. I am a great scorer! I am always working my way into scoring position.
25. I am a great scorer! I know where I am going with the ball before I get it!
26. I am a great scorer! I know the goalie’s tendencies and I use them against him/her!
27. I am a great scorer! When my teammates shoot, I always follow the shot!
28. I am a great scorer! I know when to use power and when to use finesse!
29. I am a great scorer! Both of my feet are dangerous scoring weapons.
30. A great scorer lives within me! Today that scorer shows up as balls in the net!
31. I am the best striker on my team! When the game is on the line, I want to take the shot!
32. I am a great striker! When I get in scoring position, I finish!
33. I refuse to dwell on bad plays! I am always focused on the next good play!
34. I am a great passer! I put my teammates in a easy scoring situations!
35. I work hard on my dribbling skills! They make a real difference in my game!
36. I am a play maker! I am a great play maker! I am a difference-making play maker!
37. A great forward lives within me! Today that forward shows up on the soccer field!
38. I am a great forward! I get my shots and I make my shots!
39. I am a great forward! When I miss a shot, I am already focused on making the next one.
40. I am a great forward! I am all about scoring goals! I am happy scoring goals or getting assists!
41. I am a great defender! My job is to shutdown the best scorer and that is what I do!
42. I am a great defender! I perfect my tackling skills and stop scoring opportunities before they start!
43. A great defender lives within me! Today that defender shows up on the soccer field!
44. I am a great midfielder! I win with speed, strength, and smarts!
45. A great midfielder lives within me! Today that midfielder shows up on the soccer field.

If I have missed a particular skill or soccer topic that you would liek an affirmation for, please leave a comment and I will update this list.

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is the author or the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life – a book of 416 original empowering quotes, thoughts, and affirmations.

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Poem: Ultimate Reality

There are many ways to view the deeper nature of the reality around us.

I wrote this poem in 1993, as one way of seeing that reality.

It expresses the sense of wholeness, devoid of our individual personalities, that underlies the nature of our existence.

It’s a bit existential with some Buddhist overtones. I hope you enjoy and that it makes you think.

“Ultimate Reality”

Cling not to what is fleeting
All is fleeting, therefore, cling not.
Matter and energy, time and space
Are but reflections in the void.

Desire nothing and everything shall you attain
Have everything and, in truth, nothing is yours.
For no holder is there and nothing held;
And nothing to hold, only unity.

I am but a process in gentle progress; simply
Inter-connected energy flowing in a manner
Created by what has come to pass,
Its interaction bringing forth the future.

No self may be found behind the process,
Only a conscious part of a greater whole
Moving back and forth as far as may be seen
Yet, verily, never having moved at all.

Copyright 1993 Ray Davis

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is the author or the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life – a book of 416 original empowering quotes, thoughts, and affirmations.

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41 Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss Affirmations

Today’s Thought:

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

~ Buddha

On our health, rides every other aspect of our life in this world. Nothing is more important to your health and well-being than having your mind aligned and focused on the healthiest self possible for you.

Today’s affirmations focus on health, fitness, and weight loss. This is not a completed list. I will be adding to it.

If you have suggestions for specific affirmation topics in this category, please leave a comment.

1. Breathing in, I feel healthy. Breathing out, I AM healthy.
2. Step by step and rep by rep, I am creating my ideal body!
3. Today I choose health and wellness over illness in my life.
4. I am fit! I am healthy! I am strong!
5. My life is what I make of it and today I choose to make it healthy place to be.
6. No (insert disease or condition) for me! My immune system is healthy, strong, and protecting me right now!
7. When I feel good, I exercise. When I exercise, I feel good.
8. Today and every day, I cleanse my being with the life force of my breath.
9. I AM healthy in mind, body, and spirit!
10. My body is a marvelous machine that supports and meets my every need!
11. Today I am healthy, strong, and disease-free!
12. I am strong, vibrant, and healthy!
13. Today and every day, I express my gratitude for my good health.
14. Today I am blessed by the beautiful and delicious food that brings me to full health!
15. My pain is limited to my body. I am constantly connected to something far greater than my body.
17. My heart beats strong and healthy!
18. My lungs breathe clear and strong!
19. Day in and day out, I develop the habits of health!
20. My body is the very picture of health and vitality!
21. Today I am shedding pounds as i shred my self-doubt!
22. My body is a well-oiled machine ready to meet my every need!
23. I pay attention to the needs of my body. I feed it, exercise it, and love it!
24. Today I push my limits in the gym so that tomorrow I can push the limits in my life!
25. Today I am transforming my body into calorie-burning machine.
26. As my self-confidence rises, the number on the scale drops!
27. Who I am transcends a number on a scale! Today I focus on my health not my weight!
28. Today I experience vibrant health and profound well-being!
29. Even at the height of my pain, I experience moments of release, contentment, and joy.
30. I may have to live with pain, but I absolutely refuse to be defined by it!
31. I love and accept myself at my current weight, even as I march pound by pound to my goal weight!
32. Day by day, I am transforming my body into a high performance machine!
33. My weight loss is within me. My diet is only a tool to get me to my goal.
34. As I commit to my exercise program, I transform my body!
35. Step by step and rep by rep, I am losing pounds and inches today!
36. A fit, healthy person lives within me. Today that person emerges.
37. Today I eat for my goal weight! Today I exercise for my goal weight! Today I AM my goal weight!
38. The more I bike the better I feel and the better I feel the more I bike!
39. The more I run, the better I feel and the better I feel the more I run!
40. I am slender, strong, and perfectly conditioned.
41. The longer I exercise the stronger I get and the stronger I get the longer I exercise!

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is the author or the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life – a book of 416 original empowering quotes, thoughts, and affirmations.

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Poem: Opportunity of a Forever

 

 

 

 

 

 

“THE OPPORTUNITY OF A FOREVER”

Never before in time and space
has this moment come about;
never shall it come again.
our lives are built on here and now.

Only fools would let this pass
without feeling what we feel.
Let us be calm and let us be bold;
face the fears before which we kneel.

If it’s our past that holds us back,
then let us create a new future.
One where joy fills our hearts
and these feelings of ours mature.

If it is failure we most fear
then let us be filled with trust.
Knowing within that nothing is lost
by honestly expressing our love.

Copyright Ray Davis 1994

Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is the author or the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life – a book of 416 original empowering quotes, thoughts, and affirmations.

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