The reason you use affirmations is to reprogram your brain, beliefs, and habits or attachments to negative beliefs and behaviors so you get the outcomes you desire . . . right? If you practice self-sabotage in this area, here are a few pointers to assist you.
Affirmations are often thought of as feel-good statements, and they certainly should be; but if you have little to no belief that there is truth to a statement, Law of Attraction will perform perfectly and you will wonder why the shift or result you desire is not happening.
An affirmation states something is a truth, no matter what has happened before. This gets tricky because if you believe the past as true evidence or proof (rather than a result of your beliefs and thoughts), it can be a challenge to believe the affirmation over the false proof that demonstrated otherwise.
Stating and repeating an affirmation that your inner voice contradicts means, without realizing it, you just affirmed (stated as a fact) the contradiction as your reality . . . not the original affirmation.
“As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee,” explains exactly how Law of Attraction works. It doesn’t say as you hope or wish, but as you believe. If you state an affirmation and return to struggling as before, you miss the point. Law of Attraction works for you to the degree you believe it can or does.
It is vital that you replace an old belief that no longer serves you (and this includes what you call facts) with the energy vibration of what you now claim as your new reality. Even starting by believing in the possibility it can be your reality has a higher vibration than believing it cannot. You can hold the vibration of new possibilities and outcomes of the affirmation as your truth.
Believing doesn’t mean have a belief as much as it means have faith. Faith comes from true knowing, from knowing the Truth. Spirit is an absolute presence in your life because it is All That Is and all you are. Law of Attraction is a force, a tool, and it works without fail by matching your vibrations. Spirit uses Law of Attraction to receive and respond to your requests and as the means to allow you to self-evolve. But even Spirit follows the Law and responds in direct proportion to what you believe and how much you believe it.
Belief comes from intellect; faith comes from absolute trust in the Truth of Spirit and that Law of Attraction works every time. It is a feeling. It is a knowing as a result of having a genuine, ongoing relationship with Spirit and conscious use of the Law. Ask yourself what such a relationship looks and feels like to you. If this is not your current experience
, ask Spirit to show you how to make it so and how to understand Law of Attraction. Your request will be answered.
And remember: beliefs change; truths never do.
Attribution:
Joyce Shafer
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Distinctions to be made…
First of all, to hell with worrying about "higher," or" lower " vibrations, true MOTIVATION is the key to what one considers higher or lower, and in every case, it IS a belief, and one that not all are able to make in a realistic sense, which is to say, most lack discernment as to what one or the other actually is, much less how to define and/or identify either, and then after that, is the problem of identifying, without the influence of ego, where one's own vibrations are, or at what level theyre vibrating.
Then there is this "Law of Attraction," that's a particularly well-known, but wholly inaccurate name for it. I prefer Neville Goddard's term, the "Law of Assumption," because this is by far, a more accurate a description. The reality one creates is always the one they first ASSUME to be already accomplished. One acts "As If" it is already the reality, and that draws one's self into that reality, both by making choices, by taking actions that will lead one into that state, but then also by bringing others and the circumstances of resality into a matching state.
Now a third factor is completely un-presented, and not knowing this one is as often the cause of a failure as are the self-made contradictions that create the oposite. FEELING the thing is already manifested (as in reality, none of us are creators, we are merely manifestors, creation has been finished for quite some time). Now this aspect of the thing is directly influenced not only by whether or not one is trying to manifest it out of the good and true motivation, but also has no choice but to allow for the free will of any individuals concerned, otherwise it would qualify as a form of black-magic, using will to control not only Spirit, but other individuals, without considering what their own free will wants or chooses, and such a thing will ALWAYS return to its sender tenfold, is known generally speaking as karma, and comes from being unwilling to surrender one's own will to the Divine, as well as being unwilling to give freedom to another Soul that It may make Its own free choice in matters.