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Today\'s Episode is all about Positive Affirmations. Learn why you should use them, how to create ones that are effective, and ways that you can use your positive affirmations once you craft the ones that are ideal for you.

Positive affirmations or mantras, are words or phrases that you can recite to yourself either silently, out loud or in written form, in order to reframe your mindset. For example, if you\'re struggling with anxiety, you can use affirmations like \\u201cI am at peace\\u201d or \\u201cpeace begins with me\\u201d. What we focus on will grow. If you have constant thoughts about your fear, your anxiety and judgments of yourself, your neuro pathways, fire information from one neuron to the other, will strengthen and cause you to have more of these fears, anxieties and judgements.

Let\'s say you have a neural pathway in your brain that\'s all about fear and anxiety, every time you think about fear and anxiety, it comes a little bit faster, and a little bit easier to your mind. If instead, you\\u2019re thinking about the sensations of peace and calm, the pathway to anxiety will start to weaken and the pathway to peace and calm is going to start to strengthen.

One of the ways that we can start to rework these neural pathways is through positive affirmations.

Tips for creating custom affirmations:

1.  State your affirmations as if they are already true. Avoid using phrases like I will, I should, I wish, I desire, I hope I pray, etc. Instead use phrases like I am or I have. Affirmations like I will be peaceful or I desire peace or I pray for peace tell your brain that you aren\\u2019t already peaceful and  reinforces the stress or anxiety that you\'re going through. Use affirmations, like I am at peace, or I am grateful for the peace I experience in my life. If you\\u2019re in a really crappy situation, it might be hard for you to believe your affirmations. If your brain doesn\\u2019t believe your affirmations it will ignore them and continue focusing on the reality that it knows to be true.

2. Use positive statements to focus on what you desire.  Don\\u2019t use affirmations like I am debt free, I am losing weight or I am not broke because you\'re focusing in on the debt, on the anxiety weight or whatever it is you\\u2019re trying to let go of. Focus your affirmations insetad on the abundance that comes from not being in debt, or the freedom that comes from not being in debt and focusing specifically on what it is you desire. This is important because if I tell you not to think of a purple elephant. Basically your brain has to focus on the debt, anxiety, weight, judgement, etc to "unthink" it.

Three ways to use your affirmations:

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• Recite them in meditation
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• Write them in your journal
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• Say them to yourself in the Mirror
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There are tons and tons of other ways to use affirmations.

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