Body Positive Affirmations

What Are Affirmations?

An affirmation is a statement that you repeat to yourself over and over. By going over health affirmations over and over you can change the way you think about yourself and get through any negative thoughts that come to you. To make affirmations really work you have to have total belief in them.

How To Write Body Positive Affirmations

Be careful how you write your affirmations. Your subconscious mind will focus on certain words in your affirmations and not the entire sentence. What makes perfect sense to you may be totally misinterpreted by your subconscious. This is real so please pay attention to this.

The words that you speak with passion when you are reciting your affirmations will send strong signals to your subconscious. In some cases it is not just a question of changing a statement from a negative to a positive.

For example, if one of the limiting beliefs that you identified was I am useless then simply changing this to I am not useless will not work. Why? Because your subconscious will focus on the word “useless” and when it keeps hearing you say “useless” it will strengthen the belief that you have about being useless.

It would be better to use I can achieve anything or something similar. Then your subconscious will focus on the word achieve which is a positive thing. You need to test all affirmations to make sure that they will provide the right result. Using the wrong words can bring about the negative which you want to avoid.

Biggest Criticisms About Body Positive Affirmations

One of the biggest criticisms that people have about affirmations is that they are nothing more than a wish list. They are statements of hope rather than statements of certainty. This can be true if you do not write your affirmations in a way that your subconscious can accept that you are already there.

The best way to achieve this is to write your affirmations in the present tense. If you were to write I will be a millionaire in the future then this is definitely a hope statement. When is the future? It certainly is not today is it?

It is preferable to write this in the form I am a millionaire. The fact that you are not right now doesn’t matter. When you say this with passion and belief your subconscious will accept it more and help you to achieve this.

How To Make Affirmations Work For You

In order for affirmations to work you need to recite them at least once a day. If you make your affirmations too wordy then you may struggle with repeating them clearly even if you are doing this from a written list.

I am not saying that you should leave out anything important when you are creating your affirmations. But think about how you can shorten a long affirmation to say the same thing.

Some people make their affirmations catchy and memorable by making them rhyme for example. This is not necessary but anything that you can do to make your affirmations more memorable is going to help.

Body Positive Affirmations

If you are not focusing on your health then you need to change this. Without good health you will not be able to achieve goals in life. We do not know what your state of health is so you need to do some searching to identify areas for improvement.

Do you have bad habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol? Have you got a regular exercise routine? Is your diet healthy?

There are so many areas of health that you can create affirmations. When you create your health affirmations you need to have a plan of action to support them. 

You are not going to become healthier just by repeating affirmations no matter how passionate you are to make any changes.

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Here are a few more health affirmations to help you:

I am healthy.

I care for my body by eating healthly.

I exercise regularly to strengthen my body.

Over the years you program your brain through your experiences. If you were told time after time that you were useless then this gets stored in your subconscious mind as a limiting belief.

The good news is that you can re program your mind to hold positive beliefs about yourself such as you can do anything. Affirmations are a powerful way to achieve this re programming.

You can also use affirmations to:

Give your self esteem a boost

Change your life in a positive way

Provide you with daily motivation

When you first start to use health affirmations they will help to neutralize any negative thoughts you have about yourself. Then as you keep using your affirmations they will start to get rid of limiting beliefs and replace them with enabling beliefs.

When To Recite Your Body Positive Affirmations

You should not limit yourself to just reciting your health affirmations first thing in the morning. They are there to help you whenever you need them. Reading your health affirmations again and again can help you to:

Be productive

Get rid of bad habits

Give a confidence boost

Change negative feelings into positive ones

Overcome obstacles in your way

A lot of people think that they just need to read their affirmations once a day. But you can use them whenever you need them. Keep your health affirmations sheet with you at all times so that you can reach for them whenever you need them.

Remember that health affirmations are not miracles. You do not just say them a few times and then your life transforms for the better as if magic. Reciting your affirmations in a passionate way and having total belief that they will work will certainly help you but you will get much better results if you associate actions to your health affirmations.

Never believe that affirmations are a substitute for you taking action. Good affirmations will assist you to change negative behaviours.  They are not going to magically do all of the work for you. 

Ways to Reinforce Your Body Positive Affirmations

There is nothing complicated about visualization.  After you read each of your health affirmations you need to visualize how they make you feel. When you make the feelings strong enough you will get better results.

You can print them out and post them around your home or room. Another thing that you can do is to create a screen saver on your computer. Every time that you look at your computer you will see your health affirmations.

You can use a microphone on your computer to record your health affirmations and save them in MP3 format. This way you will be able to listen to your health affirmations whenever you want

Keep a copy of your health affirmations with you at all times. Put them in your handbag or wallet, in your car and anywhere else.

Do you have a journal? If not start one today. Get a notebook and use this to record your thoughts and actions each day. Write your health affirmations in your journal. Each day you can write out your health affirmations a number of times to reinforce them.

Commit to a regular review of your health affirmations. Why? Because over time you will see positive changes in your life as a result of using your health affirmations. When you review all of your health affirmations you can assess whether you need to change them.

In Conclusion

Affirmations are all about changing negatives into positives. You can use your health affirmations to boost your self esteem and to change your outlook about life to a positive one.

Reading your health affirmations once is not going to help you achieve. You will need to be consistent with your affirmations and it will take some time to start seeing results.

Avoid copying and using affirmations created by others. These will not be the best for you. Identify your weaknesses and then target your affirmations to overcome these.

Your health needs to be at the top of the list because without good health you will not be able to turn your life around.

People make a lot of mistakes with affirmations and then claim that they do not work. You need to avoid these mistakes to get the best results. Do not use affirmations just for the sake of it. Be sure you want the affirmations to work. Do not try to make too many changes at once. Make sure you have actions with your affirmations.

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