Affirmations for Manifestation

Rock Your Affirmations

You’ve set some goals. You’ve created a plan. New habits are forming, at times with little to no effort. Then, Life happens. The new habits are harder to maintain. You lose ground, becoming frustrated. You’re wondering if those goals, and the dreams that formed them are even worth slogging through the latest round of quicksand. Maybe you’ve even started beating yourself up for the newest perceived failure.

Wait! You’re better than that. You deserve to succeed. Remember there will be times when you seem to move backwards. It’s all part of the process. When all else fails, take a deep breath, and start repeating your positive affirmations. Don’t have any? Why not? It’s as good a time to form them as any, right? If you need some help, here are a few I use not only when life is kicking my butt, but as often as possible to keep the negative thoughts out of my way:

• I am enough
• I am perfect as I am
• I am exactly where I’m supposed to be
• I welcome a new state of mind
• I welcome abundance
• I am grateful
• I am beautiful, sexy, sassy, and delicious

Upgrade Your Mindset

As you can see, affirmations can be as general or as specific as you’d like, but the broader they are, the more they’ll fit easily into your life, and upgrade your mindset. The more you fill your mind with affirmations, the less room it leaves for the part of you that doubts, nay says, and beats you up at the slightest provocation. Clearing that rubbish out is of utmost importance if you want to live the happy, fulfilling life you deserve.

Somehow, all humans are hardwired with those nasty, negative little voices. It’s as if one of the first lessons you must learn is how to shut the voices down when they tell you things clearly meant to undermine your self-esteem, and stop you from trying to move forward with your dreams. Their only real purpose in life is to hijack your efforts towards manifestation. Often, they’ll sneak in on the false promise of trying to protect you.

They’re the uninvited guest who shows up at dinner time and never leaves. They trash your house, eat your food, hog the TV and your favorite chair, and complain constantly. It’s unlikely you’d tolerate someone taking advantage of your hospitality like that, so why allow it inside your own head?

Uninvite the Negative Voices

Like the uninvited, rude house guest, it’s time to show the ill-mannered, Negative Nelly in your brain the door, perhaps adding as you close it behind them their behavior has earned them the privilege of being permanently uninvited.

Admittedly, it takes more effort to oust those bad boys than to let them have their way with you as you slip quietly beneath their toxic waves. They lull you into a false sense of security, promising to protect you from life’s evils when in reality, they are life’s biggest, most sinister evil of all. Somehow, you have to shake yourself free of the soothing voice whispering false promises in your ear in hopes you’ll succumb to their oft-repeated lies.

Too many lose sight of the fact that silencing those whispers is as simple as replacing them with voices which grow louder, stronger, and more uplifting the more you consciously engage them. Seeing a picture of yourself, or your face in the mirror, it’s easy to let the voices in your head point out all your flaws and imperfections; to follow the path of least resistance. Harder, but infinitely more rewarding is to hush the voices by pointing out progress you’ve made, and qualities unique to you.

Meant to Be Perfectly Imperfect

I’ve told you many times you are perfectly imperfect. In my opinion, it’s a far better place to be, because you excuse yourself from having to strive for a level of perfection that has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with people who never feel good enough themselves, and want to bring others down to their level of despair. A fish doesn’t try to fly, nor an eagle to swim. Why would you set yourself up for failure by using impossible standards as the yardstick by which you measure your own value?

If you have no other affirmation in your tool chest right now, I recommend making: “I am valuable the way I am” your very first one. No matter who you are or where you’re at, you’re here for a reason, and that, in and of itself means you are valuable. The Universe (or whatever you choose to call it) doesn’t make mistakes. There are lessons you came here to learn, and purposes you’re here to fulfill.

Learning the lessons, finding and fulfilling your purpose, and quelling the negative voices wasn’t meant to be easy. It’s another iteration of your journey through the birth canal, even if you didn’t end up making the entire journey the first time around. You have to go through challenges, make choices, and push your way through in order to grow stronger, and acquire more tools to help you along the way to your grandest dreams.

Finding Strength in Numbers

Let’s face it. The journey of Life isn’t for the faint of heart. I suspect everyone goes through periods of self-doubt, depression, and even times when giving up is considered a viable option. All too many even succumb, and I believe it’s part of their journey, if only to influence people in their lives, helping them rule out the option when their only reason might be refraining from following in someone else’s tragic footsteps.

Above all, please remember you were never meant to make the entire journey alone, nor to hold everything inside until you’re a festering mess of misery. Break down the walls you’ve built. They’re not protecting you from anything, and in fact, do you more harm than good. Let others see what you consider flaws because, in reality, they’re what make you human—make you approachable.

Honoring Your Purposes

Each of you in your own way is an example, a motivator, a cheerleader, and a touchstone for someone else. Every time you listen to the voices downplaying your value and importance, you deprive someone else of the support, or example they desperately need to shut down voices of their own. If I’ve learned nothing else in my circuits around the Sun, it’s helping others is often the best way to help yourself, even if all you do is share one of your own affirmations.

You are here to help make the world a better place, but it has to start with the way you see yourself. Once you turn your internal voices into helpers instead of hinderers, you’ll become the person encouraging and uplifting those who are ready to alter the trajectory of their own journeys.

Gratitude: The Ultimate Affirmation

My gratitudes today are:

1. I’m grateful for the people who’ve helped me change my own trajectory.
2. I’m grateful for opportunities to pay it both back, and forward.
3. I’m grateful for positive affirmations which help silence the voices of dissent and discontent.
4. I’m grateful for the words, people, and events that motivate me to strive for more.
5. I’m grateful for abundance; love, friendship, support, community, joy, lessons, challenges, successes, failures, peace, health, balance, harmony, philanthropy, and prosperity.

Namaste

 

About the Author

Sheri Conaway is a Holistic Ghostwriter, and an advocate for cats and mental health. Sheri believes in the Laws of Attraction, but only if you are a participant rather than just an observer. Her mission is to Make Vulnerable Beautiful and help entrepreneurs touch the souls of their readers and clients so they can increase their impact and their income.

If you’d like to have her write for you, please visit her Hire Me page for more information. You can also find her on Facebook as Sheri Levenstein-Conaway Author

Allowing for A Break in Routine

Manifest Abundance by Taking a Break

Most of December and January are now a blur. I didn’t get a lot done on any front. I didn’t write or publish a single post on Medium for the month of January, and am not even feeling like I missed a chance to get more exposure. It was all I could do to schedule posts for my own blogs a week or two in advance.

I’m not apologetic, nor feeling guilty about it. It was, whether I realized it or not at the time, what I needed; plain and simple…a break. Towards the end of January, my motivation and inspiration came back, allowing me to get back to a minimum of 3 weeks of posts in my blog queues. Publishing on Medium, and for “An Idea” will resume for February, and perhaps will even be better for having taken a month off.

Taking a break from blog writing and posting doesn’t mean I accomplished nothing. Instead. I shifted gears for a little while. I had what I like to think of as a mental decluttering in which I changed my routine temporarily.

Taking Credit for the Small Stuff

I actually accomplished something I was unable to finish this time last year; Tut’s “Love Your Life in 30 Days Project”. Last year, I only got as far as day 18 before I crashed and burned. Around day 14, I realized I’d altered my expectations a bit. I didn’t expect to knock any of the lessons out of the park. I simply needed to get something down each day.

For example, the task for Day 14 was to create a mock calendar of events you want to see happen in your life. Last year, I sweated over this task, thinking I needed to fill everything in for the next year or so. This time, I put in a few key events, knowing I can go back at any time to add something else to the calendar. In other words, I don’t have to set expectations for everything my life will encompass right now. I get to keep on dreaming!

I also added daily Tarot card pulls to my routine, using them to help me focus on the day ahead. My plan was to pull another card in the evening to see if things went according to plan or flew off the rails, but it’s been intermittent at best. I guess my brain thinks it knows whether or not my life got really crazy, and actually went according to plan, and would rather not be reminded that my normally chaotic approach to life got derailed for a day.

Stagnation Takes Many Forms

The truth is, I was feeling stuck for at least the last couple of months, and didn’t really know why. It took a major break from my routine, and replacing some things with others before I realized the problem was stagnation. I needed to shake things up a bit, or as much as possible when I spend most of my time within my own four walls.

I’ve long since grown bored of Hallmark movies. Nowadays, I may watch one per day, and “watch” is used loosely. More likely, it’s on in the background, and I look up every now and then so I’m at least following the latest version of one of their pat story lines. More than one a day, and my brain is screaming for mercy, be it more writing (my preferred option), or a computer game. I’ve even evolved past solitaire and word games to Sudoku challenges. Clearly my brain needs more of a challenge.

In the process, I’m back on track with blog posts, and have a plan for other projects in my queue that temporarily fell by the wayside. Thanks to some of my self-help rituals, I’m getting better about letting go of the past, and focusing on the moment at hand, and maybe a bit of future planning too. Slowly but surely, I’m allowing my fledgling self to step to the edge of the nest in preparation for launching into the unknown. It’s actually exhilarating standing on the edge, looking down and not being able to see the ground; looking outward, and not being able to see the horizon.

Embracing Change

I’m equal parts terrified and excited by the prospect of change. Excited usually wins, as

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stagnation is far more terrifying for me than change, even if I can’t see where I’m going. It beats sitting still by a long shot! Maybe that’s why I don’t get bored with the scenery inside my house and yard. My imagination, and possibilities don’t allow me to spend much time obsessing over what I can see with my eyes, but leap ahead to all I can imagine.

Admittedly, there are times when my imagination creates so much chaos, I need to reign it in as well. I’m flying in so many different directions that nothing gets done. At that point, it isn’t lack of imagination or inspiration that stalls me, but too much of a good thing. A break from my self-induced chaos is as important, or even more so than the breaks I take from sameness, and boredom.

It took me a long time to understand the balancing act my life requires between excessive variety, and soul sucking sameness. The truth is, I need both, if not in equal portions. When I start feeling stuck, or my productivity drops to nil, I’m beginning to recognize it’s not always a rut that’s holding me back, but too much of a good thing.

Create New Habits Regularly

The habits I’ve put in place for starting my day have helped a lot in controlling the chaos. I expect myself to accomplish certain things before I get to write, or research, or embark on my latest series of lessons. Some days, I want to leap past writing my morning pages, and dive head-first into a day filled with energy, excitement, and stories to tell. So far, I haven’t yielded to the pull.

I’ve also learned it’s good to add something to my routine for a finite amount of time, like the “Love Your Life in 30 Days Project”. It changes things up, but ends before it becomes boring, or a drudgery. When it’s gone, I’m left with a block of time I can use to either add another routine, or increase the time I spend on all the fun stuff that makes up my current career path. Thus, I achieve that balance; a little routine, and a little variety.

It’s a tenuous balancing act at best, fraught with missteps and backpedaling. Yet, somehow, I manage to make progress, just as a butterfly makes its meandering way across the sky. There’s a purpose, but the road is an erratic path filled with spirals, switchbacks, and distractions that often lead to new discoveries. My methods aren’t for everyone, but they’re perfect for me.

Grateful for Balance, Change, and Chaos

My gratitudes today are:

1. I’m grateful for my crazy, meandering, life of side roads, back roads, and roads less traveled.
2. I’m grateful for the ideas that come to me when I least expect it, probably because I’ve stopped fighting or pushing, and am allowing them to come in their own time and form.
3. I’m grateful for my non-conforming lifestyle. It may not look so great from the outside looking in, but it’s mine, and it works for me, and my stress levels are usually far lower than average.
4. I’m grateful for friends who may not understand me and my ways, but accept me as the quirky one who is prone to unexpected tangents.
5. I’m grateful for abundance; inspiration, imagination, creativity, tangents, joy, freedom, love, happiness, quirkiness, motivation, peace, harmony, balance, breaks, philanthropy, and prosperity.

Namaste

 

About the Author

Sheri Conaway is a Holistic Ghostwriter, and an advocate for cats and mental health. Sheri believes in the Laws of Attraction, but only if you are a participant rather than just an observer. Her mission is to Make Vulnerable Beautiful and help entrepreneurs touch the souls of their readers and clients so they can increase their impact and their income.

If you’d like to have her write for you, please visit her Hire Me page for more information. You can also find her on Facebook as Sheri Levenstein-Conaway Author