The Power of Your Mind

Today’s Affirmation:
I AM the engine of MY dreams! MY dreams NEVER give up on me and I NEVER give up on MY dreams!

The results are in! For thousands of years, the wisest of the wise among us have been telling us, “It’s all about the mind, stupid.” It makes sense. The mind, via the brain, is the part of our being that interacts with and makes sense of our environment.

Modern science has demonstrated that the Universe around us, despite its physical appearance to our senses, is really just energy. Our mind/brain structure is tuned into that energy and literally creates the individual and collective realities that we experience within that field of energy.

However, the mind is not just a passive receiver of frequencies. It also has the ability to transmit, when trained properly, frequencies that can manifest objects of its desire.

We’ve all heard quotes like these.

• “The Universe is Change; our life is what our thoughts make of it.”
  ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “Wealth is the capacity of man’s mind to think.”
  ~ Ayn Rand
• “We become what we think about most of the time.”
  ~ Earl Nightingale
• “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
  ~ Napoleon Hill
• “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
  ~Buddha
• “A man is a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
  ~ Mohondas Gandhi
• “For as a man thinks within himself, so is he.”
  ~ Proverbs 23:7

These are just a few of the most famous quotes. You could literally fill a book with quotes from humanity’s best and wisest people sending this very same message to you. But, are you listening?

Do you still believe that life is something that happens “out there” and “to you” rather than “in here” and “by you”? Do you still believe that your thinking is out of your control? There’s nothing you can do about it? Thoughts just pop into your head?

Affirmations are a workhorse tool when it comes to changing and choosing the thoughts you want to think in your life. It is more complex than just saying the words over and over, but  there are many resources on this blog and elsewhere to help you with the finer points.

You CAN change and master your thinking. That is the first thing you must believe.

I have been writing and recording audio affirmations for more than 20 years. First, I used them to improve my own thinking and my own life. Then I shared with them others. Now I have created a website called The Affirmation Spot where I make the power of audio affirmations available to you.

How does it work? Just like you learn the lyrics to a song with repeated listening. You’ve had that experience of suddenly knowing the lyrics to a song when you didn’t even know you’d been listening. Audio affirmations provide the same benefit. Soon the positive affirmations are appearing in your mind to replace the negative programming that was there.

I’d like to invite you to The Affirmation Spot today. You can download any single affirmation on the site for free to try or you can jump right and download the ones that make sense for you in your life right now.

You will find short affirmation singles, extended affirmations and meditations, and ebooks. I home record all the audio to keep the prices down and affordable for everyone.

You can always contact me directly and I am happy to help you get the most of your affirmations. I’ve been writing, recording, and using audio affirmations for more than 20 years. So, I’ve encountered and found solutions to the things you may face, as you begin using affirmations. I’m here to help.

Follow your bliss! Achieve your bliss! Become your bliss!

Ray

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Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is author of the ebook The Power to Be You: Game-Changing Posidigms for Daily Life. and the forthcoming The Power to Be You 2.

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58 Things to Be Grateful For – The Affirmation Spot for Tuesday November 9, 2010

Today’s Affirmation:

Growth Affirmation: My life is filled with one positive experience after another. I make use of every experience in my growth.

Here are 58 things to be thankful for. Some may seem counter-intuitive. However, even the negative sometimes is worthy of our thankfulness. I’ve probably left some off my list. Leave a comment today and let me know what you are thankful for.

1. Sun – without it’s warmth and light we could not exist.
2. Earth – the beautiful planet that sustains us.
3. Water – the sauce of life.
4. Life – each and every morning we wake up is a new chance to be the person we want to be.
5. Shelter – something to shield us from the elements.
6. Children – the happy nature and innocence of children remind us how we are meant to be.
7. Food – an absolute blessing for those who struggle for it and something to be more appreciative of for those of us who never worry about our next meal.
8. Faith – our faith in ourselves and in something greater than ourselves.
9. Minds – the power to think, to reason, to grow, and to adapt.
10. Lines – for making us slow down and enjoy where we are.
11. Compassion – for getting over ourselves to consider and understand someone else.
12. Hope – reminds us there is a potential upside to every situation.
13. Giving – when we give we remember that nothing truly belongs to us and it frees us from our attachments.
14. Receiving – the opportunity to have our needs met while allowing others to give.
15. Fear – for teaching us love, strength, and humility.
16. Work – whether a career, a hobby, or community work; the sense that we have something to do when we get up in the morning is something to be thankful for.
17. Sleep – for providing a way to rest the body.
18. Friendship – those people who choose to spend key parts of their lives with us.
19. Family – those people we wound up with by fate, but stay with out of love.
20. Anger – for teaching us the benefits of peace.
21. Peace – peace within and as much peace without as we can muster.
22. Sight – the ability to see the beautiful world we inhabit.
23. Love – the glue that holds us together.
24. Difficulty – for making us strong and giving us something to compare with the heights.
25. Stars – the wonder and glory of the night sky.
26. Hatred – for reminding us to love (may we need ever-less reminding)
27. Surprises – the wonderful things in life that we didn’t expect.
28. Visionaries – people who see the world not as it is, but as it could be.
29. Change – the ever-present possibility of improving ourselves and the world.
30. Purpose – the plan to achieve something in this life and the firm belief that you can.
31. Wind – a source of comfort, energy, and a metaphor for change.
32. Music – the soundtrack of our lives.
33. Possibility – the memory that something more and different is out there.
34. Today – an opportunity to make the most of what we have.
35. Tomorrow – the hoped for opportunity to continue our dreams.
36. Sorrow – for making joy possible.
37. Joy – the deep and intense happiness about being alive.
38. Freedom – the ability to think, act, and be who you are.
39. Acceptance – the ability be at peace with how things are for the moment.
40. Learning – the opportunity to enhance our potential.
41. Success – the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of our work.
42. Adversity – for reminding us how strong we can be.
43. Grass – for carpeting our planet and being a nice place to lie and look at the sky.
44. Soil – a medium to grow food and plants.
45. Moon – the most beautiful object in the night sky and the timepiece marking our lives through its phases.
46. Innovation – for improving our experience of life.
47. Dreams – the fuel that drives us through tough times and gives a reason to aim high.
48. Options – the ability to choose.
49. Sharing – the opportunity to pool our talents and resources.
50. Flowers – they add beautiful sights and smells to our world.
51. Clouds - for bringing the rain that cleanses and for helping me appreciate the sunshine.
52. Mountains – they provide beauty, challenge, and the ability to see a long way.
53. Oceans – beauty, unimaginable power, source of life and transportation.
54. Competition – the opportunity to test ourselves and to improve.
55. History – for teaching us the lessons we need to learn over and over until we get them.
56. Future – for giving us the opportunity to try again.
57. Death – for reminding us of life’s value.
58. Meaning – the search for which makes our lives the journey that they are.

Stay inspired!

Ray

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Monday Power – The Affirmation Spot for Monday August 9, 2010

Today’s Affirmation:

Monday is my day! I always get my week off to a fast start!

When you awoke this morning you may have had a fleeting moment of hope that today was Sunday. Quickly, though, the realization hit you that another Monday morning had arrived. “Do I feel sick,” you may have wondered? Nope. Is this Monday a holiday? Nope. It soon became clear that this was an ordinary Monday morning and you needed to get up and get ready for work.

You’ve entered the heart attack zone. Numerous studies have demonstrated that Monday, especially Monday morning, produces a significant spike in the number of heart attacks. Now this could be mere coincidence, but I suspect it has something to do with our cultural perspective about Mondays, the way that perspective is reinforced, and the stress that causes us.

We have conditioned our minds to see Mondays as stressful. In much of the world, Monday is viewed as the first day of the work week. The weekend escape from reality is over. It’s time to head back and tackle that pile of paper work, make the sales quota, or present the strategy for that big new project to senior management. For many people, these events can be summarized in one word – stress.

The world reinforces that stress. If you turned on the TV or the radio on the way to work this morning, you more than likely heard someone say something to the effect of, “It’s Monday morning. Time to get back to grind.”

So if we have programmed ourselves to stress over Monday, how can we overcome it? Here are a few things to remember this Monday to gain perspective and even excel.

1. Monday is one-seventh of your life. Do you really want to waste that much of your precious time on this planet feeling unhappy and stressed?
2. I’ve checked it three times and confirmed that Monday has six letters. It is not a four letter word.
3. Think back to last Monday and the Monday before. Were they really as bad as you saw them in your mind at 6 a.m. on Monday morning?
4. Do something positive for yourself or someone else first thing to get your Monday off to a great start.
5. See Mondays as a cherished opportunity at a new beginning.
6. Look for reasons to make Monday your favorite day of the week – maybe a favorite TV show airs or you get to spend time doing something you enjoy after work.
7. Value each and every moment of your life and refuse to let the Monday label deprive you of that value.
8. Breathe in, breathe out. It will be OK.
9. Create reasons to make Monday special to you.
10. See that pile of paper work getting smaller, your sales quota getting closer, and your presentation winning wave reviews. That’s probably how it will go anyway. So why stress about it?
11. If your job is really that stressful and that bad for you, it’s time to move on and do something more in line with your bliss.

This is your day. The only Monday you get this week. Make the most of it!

Stay inspired!

Ray

What If 180 – The Affirmation Spot for Wednesday April 14, 2010

Today’s Thought:

What if you made all the difference in the world? Well, get comfortable with that because you do!”

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I often receive emails from people looking for simple things they can do in their every day life to be more positive. Many of us spend unnecessary time and energy catastrophizing events that never happen. The key phrase, and I’ll bet you’ve said it or thought it at least once today, is what if.

Usually the scenario sounds something like this.

• I want to ask him or her out, but what if…
• I want to apply for that manager job, but what if…
• I want to take a nice vacation, but what if…
• I want to feel happy, but what if…

This is a classic example of self-talk. We have these thoughts all day long. A key to whether or not you’re achieving a positive mindset is what follows the what if. Play the scenario in your mind right now. What normally follows what if – something positive or something negative?

You might need a What If 180. That is, if your thoughts are negative, you might want to try consciously turning them 180 degrees to something positive.

You can change statements like:

“I want to apply for that manager job, but what if I don’t get it and I feel like a loser?”

to

“I want to apply for that manager job, and what if I’m exactly who they are looking for?”

Why assume the worst instead of the best? Is the worst any more likely – really? Of course not! As you catch yourself doing this and consciously doing a What If 180, you find that the positive becomes your default state of mind.

Once you have transformed the negative scenario into a positive scenario you can transform the question into an affirmation.

“I want to apply for that manager job and I AM exactly who they are looking for!”

One other tip. You notice I changed the word “but” to the word “and”. The word “but” has been shown to psychologically negate the previous phrase.

You’ve received one of those compliments. “You’re a great baksetball player, but…” “I love you, but….” Try to eliminate those buts from your self-talk too. When you use the but you’re really saying, “I want to feel happy, but I WON’T”.

Start your What If 180s today. Make a game of it. You’ll have a little laugh at your negative self-talk and more importantly you’ll change it.

Stay inspired!

Ray

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Affirmation is a Verb – The Affirmation Spot for Monday April 12, 2010

Today’s Thought:

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good morning and a wonderful Monday to everyone!

This morning I want to talk about affirmations as verbs. We all know from elementary school that verbs are “action words”.

In fact, the root word of affirmation is the verb affirm. The first definition for affirm at TheFreeDictionary.com is “to declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true.”

Most people know this definition, but they think it is the entire definition for the word affirmation.

They are forgetting the ‘ation’ part of the word. This suffix is Greek and it means, “action, process, or state of being.”

So, when we put the two parts of the word together we get:

To declare positively or firmly + to put the declaration into action or process so that it becomes a state of being.

This is where many people fall down or fail to understand the power of affirmations. They think it is just empty thoughts or words that don’t impact reality. Well, the thoughts and the words are not empty either, but I’ll save that for another post.

The fact is you really don’t have a true affirmation until your hands and your feet join your mind and your lips in action. True affirmations are the thoughts and words AND the actions that support those thoughts and words – they are verbs full of action.

The way the process works is that the positive thoughts and words encourage the action. As the action begins, obstacles are faced and the thoughts and words, when maintained, come to the aid and support of the action in overcoming the obstacles. By the end of the process, the thoughts, words, and actions are feeding on each other and producing the desired results.

That is a true affirmation put into practice. Not only thoughts or words, but thoughts, words, and actions working in concert to achieve goals and dreams!

Stay inspired and have an awesome Monday!

Ray