Today affirmations are used by millions of *conscious* people who recognize them as words or phrases that hold the special power to make transformational experiences happen. Whether our desire is to move from illness to health, poverty to wealth, vulnerability to safety, or from loneliness to love, an affirmation places the proper "orientation" on our mind, "shifting" it to a higher gear; the frequency of the heart and soul.

In essence, we use affirmations to literally *empower* the desired experience, bringing it from our mind and birthing it into space/time.

Being consciously chosen, affirmations hold great power to attract the focus of our attention and energy. And therein lies a major caveat.

The truth is that every word we say has power, and "affirms" something. In other words, there are no special words with "special" power. All words have power, for which you and I are both chooses and channels. If the speaker is in a loving mind state, and has no unexamined inner conflict, then merely speaking a heart-felt desire sets a chain of decisions and actions in motion that will make it come into being.

However, the if portion of previous line, that refers to "no unexamined inner conflict," is a pretty big one. Even if we have examined and become fully acquainted with our inner conflict, it will have a nullifying effect on our beneficial intent if we give our energy to it. Furthermore, inner conflict has an empowering impact on that which stimulates discontent... until it is let go.

Since every word that we speak has power, then that includes all words that have negative or harmful implications, whether intended or not. Painted into our experience with both broad and fine brush strokes of attitude, we empower our words by the beliefs that we put behind them, and the actions we take that support them.

Here are a few examples of "underbelly affirmations":

• "I really do love this guy, but I hate him too."
• "I just want to make sure that you don't get sick."
• "She is killing me."
• "She is an emotional time bomb."
• "You'll never be any more than a nigger to them."
• "He is so controlling, I feel he is smothering me."
• "You are being a pain in the neck!"

Each of these phrases are examples of stale, and in some cases, toxic thinking. What's most disturbing is that each is willingly and repeatedly spoken by the speaker. Each could warrant its own examination and comment. However, their collective impact will best be made on you, if I forgo further commentary, and leave you to your own response.

Suffice it to say that the common element in each is the perceptual down turn that is commonly felt when the words shaded in red, are spoken. Associating ourselves intimately or even casually with the ideas that the words represent will have a similar effect on our sense of well-being, safety, joy, and satisfaction.

The words themselves do not hold any real vibrational "weight." They have acquired it by sad, fearful, painful, and troubled association. The key to transcending the effects of negative affirmations is (1) awareness, and (2) a decision to use words that are free of unwanted, unkind vibrational baggage. This step alone will begin making you lighter, delivering you through doorways heretofore untraveled and thought to be unreachable. They were unreachable because we thought they were.

Copyright © 2002 Adam Abraham All rights reserved.

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