Use Affirmations
to Release the Brakes
AFFIRMATIONS
for
Meditation and Reflection
I am “releasing the brakes” by letting go of limiting beliefs and focusing on the certainty of my success.
I am expanding my comfort zone every day by using affirmations that fill my subconscious mind with positive thoughts and images.
I am constantly thinking, talking, and writing about the reality I want to create.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
—ROBERT ALLEN
Bestselling author of Multiple Streams of Income
Have you ever driven your car and realized that the emergency brake was on? What did you do to overcome the resistance of the brake? Did you step harder on the gas? No, you probably released the brake and the car accelerated on its own without any extra effort.
We do the same thing in our lives. We hold on to negative images, toxic experiences, and difficult relationships from our past that we haven’t processed yet. Sometimes our beliefs about reality are simply incorrect and we harbor guilt and self-doubt because we either don’t want or don’t know how to let go. No matter how hard we try, the drag from these experiences and emotions cancels out our forward progress when we try to achieve our goals. But we will never be able to get exactly what we want in life unless we release these brakes—and that means letting go of our limiting beliefs, thoughts, and negative emotions like guilt, fear, anger, and resentment.
I am “releasing the brakes” by letting go of limiting beliefs and focusing on the certainty of my success.
Your comfort zone is basically a self-created prison that you live in, made from a collection of cant’s, must’s, must nots, and other baseless beliefs created by all the negative thoughts you have allowed to reside in your subconscious mind during your lifetime.
We create an endless loop of responses that reinforce negative or erroneous behaviors, which keep us trapped in our self-made “comfort zone.” Constant complaining (as we discussed earlier) focuses our mind on our present circumstances and gets us caught once again in the endless circle of negative self-talk—those cant’s, mustn’ts, and so on.
But we can change the cycle. We can focus instead on flooding our minds with positive thoughts, words and images especially through the use of affirmations. These affirmations—and the positive self-talk that they bombard our brain with—actually create new pathways in our subconscious mind and steer us off the hamster wheel—that ingrained cycle of insanity that we’ve created for ourselves. We are never truly stuck. We can change—and committing to a steady diet of affirmations will get us there!
I am expanding my comfort zone every day by using affirmations that fill my subconscious mind with positive thoughts and images.
Though we’ve provided a “starter set” of affirmations at the beginning of each chapter in this book, it’s up to you to write and begin using affirmations that are specific to your circumstances and life goals. Use the guidelines below to make your personal affirmations powerfully effective:
1) Start with the words “I am.” Your subconscious mind interprets these two powerful words as a command—they are the most effective words in our language.
2) Use the present tense. Describe what you want as though it has already been accomplished.
3) State it in the positive. Don’t think about what you don’t want—affirm what you do want.
4) Keep it brief. Make it short enough to be easily remembered.
5) Make it specific. Vague affirmations produce vague results.
6) Include an action word ending with -ing. This adds power.
7) Include at least one dynamic emotion or feeling. What would you be feeling if you had already achieved the goal?
8) Make affirmations for yourself, not others. Don’t include someone else’s actions. What will you be doing?
9) Add “or something better.” Our experience often limits what we ask for. Always ask for more.
I am constantly thinking, talking, and writing about the reality I want to create.