There are quite a few demonstrations to support the efficacy of positive affirmations to bring about more desirable events, from getting a parking spot or a new job, to attracting the ideal companion, or to promoting inner peace. However, before we make an effort to improve the circumstances of our life through a consistent “mental focus” on the changes we long for, it might be a good idea if we took a personal “reality check” to confirm that we fully trust that thought, our thought, truly has creative power, so that we’re not merely “whistling in the dark,” so to speak.

We can’t presume to positively alter effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our point of view, through affirmations, if we are convinced that “certain things” are totally and irrefutably physical in origin, have no mental cause or thought correlation and, therefore, are beyond our ability to affect a change. What benefit would it be for us to make an effort to “change our thinking” about our self, or a specific condition, if we didn’t have a conviction that by doing so we could “change our life”? It is essential that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our personal life, in order for them to be effective.

Everyday, each of us unconsciously demonstrates a measurable amount of faith. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Most likely you didn’t go to sleep the night before questioning the possibility that the sun might not come up in the morning. Most of us don’t think about our unshakable faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a grain of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can begin with that and build a mountain of faith to put behind our affirmations.

Saying affirmations while filled with disbelief, seesawing between faith and fear, is the same as filling a balloon with water rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Why does faith uplift our affirmations? Because grounded faith is a mental insistence that elevates what we “say” we believe to a place of realization. This is the “secret” to creative mental power, turning mere words into substance. When our affirmations feel true, when what we say is what we truly believe, then affirmations can really change our life.

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