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Affirmations to enhance your life – What and How

The human body and mind, undoubtedly, is quite enigmatic. There have been tremendous advancements in the last few centuries in medical science. But the complexity of body and working of the mind has been eluding the doctors. Neurologists are continuing to perform studies & research in order to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of these complex entities.

Psychologists have been looking at the different mental states and trying to identify if there can be any conclusions made based on their observation. There is more focus on human mind and how it behaves within a given environment. 

The medical community, by and large agrees to the concept of human mind being split into two – conscious and subconscious. In the recent past, with many doctors vouching for hidden powers of subconscious mind, research on this area is gathering sufficient attention. 

It is rather intriguing to know particularly the nature of subconscious mind and its latent powers. Affirmations is one of them.

Affirmations are nothing but statements in your familiar language said repeatedly with supreme confidence. 

There have been numerous real-life situations recorded wherein people have got the benefit of this tool.

The mechanism of affirmation is coupled with that of subconscious mind. It is said that the subconscious mind doesn’t know what is wrong and what is right. It does not care about what is real and what is dream. 

It just accepts what is being told as reality. So, affirmation helps in programming the subconscious mind to make it believe the uttered words. 

Affirmations can be simple sentences. Click here to get a glimpse of a few affirmations that you can start using in your daily life.  As you apply it into practice, you can observe that the affirmations will only work if subconscious fully accepts what is being impressed upon it. And as noted earlier, it doesn’t know to differentiate – good or bad, right or wrong, beneficial or harmful. 

So, we need to be extremely careful while framing the affirmation. We must be sure that there are no conflicts within the affirmations that we use as well as they create a positive effect into our surroundings.   

The infographic here provides an overview of how you can create your own affirmations that will work for you. 

To get best results, speak out the statement(s) aloud a few times each day. Also start visualizing the affirmation from the bottom of your heart. 

  

Monitor the changes that happen in your life after you start religiously practicing the affirmations. If you sense there is less or, worse, negative impact then relook at your affirmation. 

You may have to refer to a dictionary and replace the words that you have used in the current statement. Bring in the positive vibes, work on the tense, reword the sentence and apply it again. With dedication, you will be able to master this wonderful tool to enrich your life.  

What are the affirmations that you find useful? What are your observations about creating good & working affirmations?

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Welcoming another new year

As we step into another new year, there is a lot of stuff going on in the back of our minds. Of these, some are conscious enough to get converted into resolutions and some others quite abstract, thus remain hidden beneath the pile of thoughts. 

At a time when we look back at the happenings of an entire year gone by and introspect, it is important for us to think of the year ahead.

During this exercise, we realize that while one cycle has culminated, another one has begun its journey. 

Inevitably, being part of these, there is an urge from within all of us to break out from such a routine and be free forever. 

Is it possible to gain this freedom? The answer lies within ourselves.

It depends on the intensity of desire to destroy the shackles of such bondage. The more will one puts into this effort, the more success the person would taste. 

The accompanying pain one endures might eat away the current lifestyle but prepares the same person for a better livelihood in due course of time. 

This is the reason why Benjamin Franklin aptly commented - 

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Let us strive to become better in the new year. 

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There are no accidents!

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Clutch of Habits

As we grow, we pick up some actions and repeat them regularly on a daily basis until it becomes second nature to us. Over a period of time, these actions become so very powerful that it would be next to impossible for us to detach ourselves from them. 

These actions are known as habits. With this premise, it is not a surprise that most of us are enslaved by our own habits. 

Thus it is important to cultivate only the good ones and keep distance from the bad ones.

It does not take much time to appreciate that if we have to change the way we live, we need to change our habits. And it is quite a struggle to modify something that we have been doing over the years. 

Often we end up not trying at all just by imagining our life without actions that we hold dear to ourselves. However as the old saying goes, “Where there is a will there is a way”. 

If we focus our mind with dedication towards changing our life for good, it is possible but it requires efforts.

 

First step is to become conscious about our bad habits. Next step would be to convert it into a good one. 

Now it would seem to be very difficult to totally eliminate it altogether. 

In such cases at least masking the wrong actions consciously with right actions initially would help. 

Gradually the latter will replace the former. Some claim that if an activity is done regularly consistently for 21 days, it becomes a habit. However this is not quite the reality and cannot be generalized. 

Changing a habit is not so easy task. But acknowledging the power of habits on our life, a just decision would have to trigger the process of changing the bad habits and imbibe good ones. 

So if one wills to change with concentrated and focused efforts, it can surely be done. You ready?

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Rendezvous with destiny

Destiny is explained in the dictionary as something that is to happen to a particular person or predetermined, usually inevitable course of events. It is also known as fate which is the force or agency that predetermines the fortune befalling a person. 

As the events are apparently inevitable, nobody has the power to manipulate these events. Now the obvious question would arise in a person’s rational mind: Who is behind the destiny and is there a basis for deciding on the seemingly fixed events in one’s life?

Action vs Destiny

Numerous theories exist. Lots of pages have been written on this topic in an attempt to explain this reasonably. While going through so much of information, I encountered another question. “Is everything predetermined or only some events are destined?” 

Pondering over this question, my brain’s logical faculty responded in the negative. Right now, right here I could perform an action, which if it is predetermined, will have no meaning on my action. Rather I cannot even call it my action. 

It is someone else’s action. And who could be this someone interested in nothing but slavery controlling everyone’s actions? It doesn’t make sense. 

Free Will

It is then I discovered the concept of free will. This free will is something that I can exercise to perform a deed. Nobody else but I have the control over it. The adage “Where there is a will there is a way” is so true. It need not be always in the form of a physical action; thinking can also be a form of free will. 

And we know actions in abstract form are thoughts. Now let us return to the original question. If free will is in my control why would some events be predetermined & who is responsible for this decision?      

Conscience

In my opinion, it is only fair & logical to relate our own self as the answer to this question. The particular individual who has the ability of exercising free will is the one who is also responsible for creating the destiny. Sounds absurd? At the outset, possibly yes. To explain this let us now focus on the term conscience. 

It is defined as a person’s moral sense of right and wrong. It would act as a guide to one’s behavior. The universe we live in is a closed loop system. 

When the free will exercised by an individual is in synchronization with the conscientiously right part, the feedback will positively boost the will. But when the free will is in opposition with the right part of conscience, a negative feedback will ensue. 

Let us take an analogy of a huntsman. With his limited application of free will, he hunts animals for his livelihood which results in positive feedback. However if he kills human beings or kills animals just for amusement when he intrinsically knows that it is not righteous, then he will receive negative feedback.

Let us stop blaming fate or destiny when things go wrong. We should not forget that we are creators of our destiny. The reins of life are in our control and let us resolve to guide ourselves in the righteous path.

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