Using positive affirmations involves making use of a brain training tool that can help you change subconscious beliefs and behaviors. In other words, positive affirmations are phrases or statements that you can utilize to help yourself confront and overcome negative thoughts.
Using positive affirmations empowers you to identify a thought pattern that you wish to change, such as negative thinking about yourself, and go on to create and establish a new, more constructive thought pattern in the brain using a new idea and positive language.
When you can identify a negative thought pattern and implement the positive affirmation in its place, you can begin a new behavior pattern and create a new normal in your brain. Positive affirmations are amazingly easy to implement – but require consistent practice to achieve. But any effort towards changing your thoughts to a more positive mindset is a worthy task to undertake. Remember that Baby Steps forward are Still Steps Forward. If you never begin to work on changing your mindset, time will continue to pass and nothing will change for the better. Making incremental steps toward changing your mindset and your behaviors WILL bear fruit.
Positive affirmations are easy to incorporate into your personal practice. You can simply choose a positive phrase you want to engage in and repeat it to yourself, either aloud or silently. Every Monday here on the blog, a new affirmation is published. Check out the Affirmations Category Page to see them.
Additionally, you could also keep a journal where you write and rewrite the positive affirmations a certain number of times at the beginning and end of each day. This can be a great practice for engaging your mind and body and getting the physical and mental working together on manifesting your new, positive mindset.
Who Can Positive Affirmations Help?
The practice of using positive affirmations can help anyone who wants to change their mindset, and who is willing to
put in consistent effort to do so. Even if you are a person who is not sure what that could ultimately mean for you, or if you don’t care about changing your mindset but want to change some other aspect of your life, then positive affirmations are a powerful tool to empower you to do just that.
This practice can be implemented by anyone, anytime because it is so simple. But the simplicity of the practice is part of its power and why it can be so successful. Repeating an idea or phrase to ourselves repeatedly is a form of meditation. This makes the practice accessible for anyone and can bring about dramatic shifts and changes in perspective and self-perception.
Positive affirmations are created using a positive statement – something you WANT to invite into your life – so they are naturally designed to encourage an optimistic mindset and positive emotional responses as well. When you process negative ideas and replace them with positive thoughts and statements, then you create a mindset that is more beneficial to your happiness and wellness.
Positive affirmations allow you to recreate your reality into one that you can appreciate and enjoy. Even when you cannot change a certain situation, you can still choose to augment your outlook and make a different decision that will better serve you.
Why Positive Affirmations?
Many people already talk to themselves or speak or sing out loud. Instead of speaking mindlessly, it is possible to 
utilize the power of focusing your mind and implement positive affirmations that will bring defined benefits to your life. When something in your life isn’t going in the direction you would like it to go, affirmations can change your mindset instantaneously.
If you are constantly thinking negative thoughts, these thoughts will become your mindset and will negatively impact your life overall. Instead of allowing negative thoughts to dictate your life, you can take charge, take control, and begin each moment with a fresh perspective and a new dedication to affirmation.
Positive self-talk does wonders for your self-confidence and your sense of overall achievement. When you can support yourself, you’ll feel more capable and more confident. Implementing positive affirmations that support your values can bolster your self-esteem and can help you to believe in yourself and all that you can achieve.
Repeating positive phrases brings you to a place of peace by allowing you to see a new opportunity within your thought patterns. When you use positive affirmations, you can see that your mind is able to change, grow, and evolve.
