What They Live can tell you about Affirmations

Posted on March 8, 2008
Filed Under personal development

Have you seen the movie “They Live”? Its a B movie starring Roddy Piper. A down and out loner discovers a pair of sunglasses and when he puts them on, he sees that there are aliens all around, taking over the world, controlling what people do with subliminal messages like “obey”, “marry and reproduce”, etc

If I gave you a pair of sunglasses so you could see your “subliminal” messages, what would they be? “I”m not good at math” “I don’t remember names very well.” “I’m not good with money.” We talk to ourselves all the time and the first step to changing our self-talk is to listen to ourselves and replace our defeating self-talk with positive affirmations.

What are positive affirmations?

Affirmations are statements of desirable intention, deliberately meditated on and repeated to implant in the mind. Affirmations are stated in the present and are stated in the positive. Using affirmations is not a magical,woo-woo process. You use affirmations all the time. For example, you decide to buy a car. First of all you start to think “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a new car” Then you start thinking more positively. “I can afford it.” Then you start to thinking of the car you want. (Some of us go right to this step.)

Here are three ways to use affirmations

Words - Repetition

Write your affirmation on a small piece of paper. Keep your affirmation in the present tense. To powercharge an affirmation, repeat the affirmation 1000 times.

Pictures

Create or find a picture that embodies your affirmation. Spend a little time to relax and look at the picture. Feel the emotions as you imagine what it is you want to achieve.

Visualization

Create a daydream, a full color, full-emotion movie in your mind of what it would be like. For example if my affirmation is to be a confident, powerful speaker, I imagine in my mind a scenario of speaking in front of a group, the speech is fantastic and everyone applauds enthusiastically.

Visualize with Mind Movie

Last Word from Jim Rohn

“Remember that affirmations are to motivate you to Action!!”

“Affirmation without action is the start of delusion”

Jim Rohn

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2 Responses to “What They Live can tell you about Affirmations”

ImprovedLife.ca on April 3rd, 2008 10:06 am

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Chuck on August 14th, 2008 5:41 am

Excellent points on affirmations here. By the way, saw the movie sometime ago and have to say that was a first rate “b” movie, but I’m an old wrestling fan and anything with old Rowdy Roddy in it’s got my vote.

You make some very valuable points on putting yourself into the affirmations to reassure ones being. It’s kind of like going to church. More often than not you have to see yourself in it. I know that sometimes preachers will use it and teack it to you as well like when reading the gospel to replace certain words with “I” and “me” to really bring home the points.

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