Affirmations are used as a very simple tool to help you turn around the negative talk in your life. You see, negativity attracts other negative things into your life. We need to start delivering new messages to your subconscious mind. This is generally accomplished by replacing the old, limiting self-talk message with a new and empowering message.

It’s also important to remember that the way that you word your affirmations often determine how effective they are. Let me give you an example. If you are currently down on your luck and barely have two nickels to scrape together, how effective would the message “I’m a millionaire” be to you? It most definitely wouldn’t turn you into a millionaire overnight; money wouldn’t be falling into your lap; and you definitely couldn’t look outside your window next week to find a money tree.

The way that you have worded your affirmation isn’t true. You AREN’T a millionaire and no amount of wishing is going to change that. When you try to feel in your subconscious mind a belief that you are a millionaire, it creates a conflict. Since your subconscious doesn’t like conflict, it won’t change – and nothing in your life will change either.

Whenever you are choosing an affirmation, you must word them in such a way that your subconscious mind will accept them rather than resist them. You simply need to make your affirmation believable. So in the example above, rather than stating, “I’m a millionaire”, you could say something like, “I am becoming more prosperous every day”. Isn’t that more believable?

You can also give your affirmation a boost by placing the responsibility on you. If we use the example “I am becoming more prosperous every day”, you can tweak this to put the responsibility on you by stating that you are “open to opportunities to make money quickly and easily”. This puts the affirmation in your control. It’s something that YOU can do to help you situation rather than leaving it out there in the universe. So now your subconscious has a message that you must be open to finding, seeing, and learning these new ways to make money more easily and quickly.

Using affirmations, or the law of attraction, requires you to not only state the content, but you need to also feel the energy. What in the heck does that mean? It means that if you have an intention but nothing else, it will not manifest into anything but frustration. Think of the energy of your affirmation like the electricity that makes an appliance work. The appliance may be ready to go but until the electricity is flowing through it, nothing will ever happen.

Here are some affirmations you may want to think about. Use them as a basis to create your own affirmation.

• I am becoming more prosperous every day
• I know I can be successful
• I am creating a better life one good thought at a time