An affirmation is a good tool to stay on track to achieve your goals. BUT, have you ever noticed that your affirmation does NOT work all of the time? This happens because literally every thought you have is actually an affirmation.

So, you can spend three minutes telling yourself *I am focused.* But your powerful subconscious mind will go right back to its unfocused state the second you your 3-minute positive affirmation is over.

Do You Have A Negative Affirmation

Both negative and positive thoughts can serve as an affirmation. This is why it is so important to avoid negative thoughgts, which have the same power as a positive affirmation.

An positive affirmation alone will not change your life, and neither does depending on so-called positive thinking.  If you want some lasting changes, you need to literally re-program your brain.

Building a new habit requires shifting a new thought or action into a long-term memory. It takes from three to four weeks of daily action to build a stable long-term memory, but once it’s stored on your neural networks it will be stable.

Add This to Your Affirmation

So – here is a tip on getting more of what you want in your life: In addition to your affirmation, use another tool to further reprogram your mind. Write your goal on an index card and post it or carry it with you. Read it aloud several times a day.

 The process of writing, reading and speaking engages more of your brain power than just repeating an affirmation. And it is especially good to do your affirmation first thing in the morning and just before you go to bed each night.

Go Beyond a Mere Affirmation

Posted by Jill Ammon-Wexler
Amazing Solutions

You hear a lot  today about using the Law of Attraction to get what you want in your life or business. But little is being said about the negative side of using the Law of Attraction to attract what you want in your life or business.

BUT, this negative side of manifesting is often far more powerful than the positive side that tries to help you get wnat you want.

Here are some questions I’ve  have received from folks:  

• Eevery day I visualize, but NOTHING is happening.
• The more I want something… the more I do NOT get it.
• Why do I seem to always attract what I do NOT want.
• It seems to work at first, then everything just falls apart.

Do some of the above questions echo what’s  happening to YOU? If so, you’re a experiencing the  negative side  of the Law of Attraction in YOUR life. Instead of managing to attract what you want — you attract more of what you do NOT want.

How the Negative Side Works
Anything you focus on sets your brain up to create more of the same. And the more emotion (both new and old) attached to what you focus on, the more likely you will actually manifest that something in your life — whether or not you actually want it.

This is proven scientific reality, not theory. The negative side of the Law of Attraction actually operates as a powerful negative goal setting machine. It creates subconscious goals to attract the very thing you do NOT want.

Since I decided to slow down and shift my focus as we prepare for our 7th baby’s arrival… now, more now than ever, I’m realizing that prosperity is NOT one-faceted.

There’s a need for rest and relaxation. There’s a need for rich, rewarding relationships. There’s a need for giving back, or service. There’s a need for good health. None of these have to go on our journey to prosperity.

In actuality, financial prosperity comes more readily when you’re at peace in the other areas of your life. You’ve heard, attitude is everything.. and that is truer than most people realize. For example, if I am stressing out, the things I need are literally repelled.

But if I calm down and put myself in a peaceful state, even though I have every reason to be freaking out, then the solution flows into my life almost effortlessly.

So it seems the most important initial effort is to calm myself down. Then I can get to work searching for a solution, KNOWING that because I’m calm, I will come up with a better solution.

It has been an amazing experience to choose to slow down and focus better on the family… because ever since then opportunities have come our way that have left us nearly speechless. What once took us a year to earn now comes to us in just one transaction… time and time again.

Not only do we expect to reach the goals we set… but we will far exceed them in new ventures we never realized existed.

I promise you as you learn to think according to the laws and principles of prosperity, the blinders literally fall from your eyes. You’ll be amazed at how you couldn’t see them before. Come discover the mind opening=> true principles of prosperity.

Why is that so?

Because it is much, much harder to believe in and create something you do not passionately desire. But when you  focus on something that is naturally interesting to you — your work then becomes play.

Are Your Law of Attraction Goals a Good Fit?
Take a few minutes to ask yourself an important question — am I pursuing the right goal for ME?

Here’s why that is so important: You’ll never really achieve your true potential as long as you pour your energy into something that doesn’t really fit your true passions and interests.

Does that seem too simple?

Think about it for a moment. It’s really very easy to automatically adopt someone else’s goal. We were trained to do this as children. Most of us were taught to value the goals our parents and educational system set for us.

Some of us gave in and tried to do so. Some of us rebelled and learned to fail instead. And some of us felt somehow inadequate because we did not have the natural interest and/or aptitude to do what we were expected to do.

If you never seem to get the Law of Attraction working for you,  you might be setting goals you don’t really desire or believe in for yourself.

This will never going to lead to Law of Attraction success. What it will lead to is one false start after another — and a tendency to want to quit after the first bump in the road. This is a major dead-end, and will do nothing but gradually erode your self confidence.

Make the Law of Attraction Work
Be sure your goal really is YOUR goal for YOUR life. If you feel resistance, take a serious look at that. Ask yourself WHO you might really be setting that goal for?

Then ask yourself if you really have a burning passion for that goal, and are willing to work through any so-called failures to achieve it. If your answer is no — this may be a good time to revisit your goal. Two things will happen if you focus on a Law of Attraction goal that fits your natural talents and passions:

1. First, you will be happier, less stressed, and far more productive.
2. Second, you will be far more likely to hang in as you hit those jarring bumps in the road.

Action Point
If you HAVE set the right goal and the Law of Attraction is STILL not working in your life, come discover a way to get what you want — faster.

Thoughts also consist of this very same energy, and are a powerful force in terms of creating  reality (how we view and respond to the world inside and outside our own self).

Thought is an interesting phenomenon. By its very nature, it is forever trying to manifest itself into physical expression. You can compare your thoughts to the sparks that rise from a campfire. For although your thoughts contain the essence and potential power of the fire, they exist only briefly, then simply dissipate.

Because a thought lasts only a few seconds – you may think that a single thought has much inherent power. Enter the power of focus and repetition: A thought that is repeated with intense focus becomes concentrated mental power,  just as sunlight can create fire when focused through a magnifying glass.

The more often a focused thought is repeated, the more energy and power it generates. This is not theory –  it is based on the fact that each thought creates hundreds (or even thousands) of new neural connections in our brain.

The old theory of the power of attraction states that this is how we attract circumstances matching our thought images. There is a science-based way to interpret this same phenomenon. Here’s how it works: Any well-focused thought that is repeated often generates impressions of the desired reality in the subconscious mind.

And since the subconscious mind basically operates 24/7, and constantly scans our internal and external realities, it has been primed to notice anything that reminds it of the focused thought.

If you bought a new red Toyota RAV4, for example, you would suddenly notice every red RAV4 you pass on the highway. They were always there – it’s just that your excitement over your new RAV4 has primed your subconscious mind to note everything related to your new vehicle.

Are thoughts part of quantum reality?
Quantum physics tells us that you and I, as observers, have a direct and very real effect on the nature of reality. This is no exaggeration. Tiny sub-atomic particles (those you can’t see with your eyes) simply behave as unmanifested energy in accordance with what are called waves of probability. BUT the moment someone looks for the position of one of these particles, everything changes. At that moment they will suddenly convert from energy to observable matter.

So how does this apply to our day-to-day human realities? Try this: If focused observation can affect the outside world in such a radically powerful way, imagine what mastering that ability can do in your own life.

Engineered brainwave training encourages your mind to develop its power of focus – converting the 5-watts of electrical power of your brain into a 5-watt laser capable of burning through your so-called limitations.

In my clinical studies I discovered I could tell a lot just by observing someone’s brainwave patterns. Anxious people, for example, tend to produce too many high Beta waves. People suffering from ADD/ADHD, on the other hand, tend to produce an overabundance of low Alpha and high Theta brainwaves. Both of these conditions can be corrected using regular brainwave training.