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Can speaking positive affirmations, out loud or to ones self, on a regular basis really alter your life, at least in part, for the better?

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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We would probably all agree that the sound of the world, today, has reached higher decibels than ever in history.  War, bombs, and explosions have multiplied around the world. The intense and angry shouts of conflicting political and religious fanatics merge into indecipherable racket. Everything is faster, noisier, and more “extreme.” What doesn’t assault our ears, offends our eyes. Billboards, once just unsightly, now electronically light up the night with consumerism. Uninvited ads float across our computer monitors like phantoms, and then stop, concealing our ability to read more relevant words beneath them. In addition, what is seen, is obscene. Acts of violence and disastrous events that have resulted in pain and suffering are played over and over again, in full color, on the news. Where can we go to find peace? And, is it possible to get there from here? Peace can be found where it has always been, within the still, quiet center of our very being. And we can find it through meditation.

By closing our eyes and turning away from the world, we find what seemed impossible and elusive, but was there all the time…peace. Through the slowing of our breathing, we give our body the experience of refuse…and we find peace. As we slow the crazy pace of our thoughts, until they seem to gently drift, like falling leaves, and then settle into stillness…we find peace.

This type of meditation enlivens every cell, fiber, and tissue of our being. In this way, this type of meditation can be healing. The chatter of our mind ceases with the type of meditation. In this way, this type of meditation can be revealing.

The distresses of body and mind vanish when we meditate in this way, and they often do not return when we open our eyes and look at the world again. The peace that we have embodied within assumes the form of our actions in the world.

It is, perhaps, more crucial than ever for every one of us to meditate — to heal ourselves and, in that way, to heal the world.

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