Visualizations, first or third person?

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Permalink Reply by Jason! on February 8, 2010 at 4:35pm

There are no silly questions J-ane, my dear! And welcome to the LOA. It's a nice step into a much larger world where everything is at your fingertips, literally!

In regards to your question, there is no silly way to do it. Over time you'll accumulate many ways to affirm. You can also try afformations, which are like affirmations, only set in question form so that it bypasses the "is it or isn't it" thing and your mind automatically assums what you're afforming is true so that it can answer your question!

Like this:

1. Why is it that I am soooooo good looking? (haha! I love that one.)
2. Why am I completely happy and at peace?
3. Where did all these wonderful happy friends I'm surrounded by come from?

This way, your mind bypasses the doubt thing and just "knows" the statement is true so that it can settle into the business of answering the question.

Hope that helps!
Always,
Jas...

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Permalink Reply by j-ane on February 8, 2010 at 6:16pm

Thank you!

I've heard of afformations before but never really payed attention to it! I will definitely try it out!

However, I am confused about one thing in particular.
As Daniel Joe asked below, do we need to provide an answer to the question (afformation)? Or do we just ask the question?

thank you!
j-ane

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Permalink Reply by Awesome on February 8, 2010 at 5:27pm

There are no silly questions silly, if it important to you then it is a VALID question.....

You are just discovering what will work best for you and it is different for everyone. The ANSWER resides inside you. You may identify YOU as a third person because you are learning to create a trust and it will come to you. The more practiced you become the more easily the answers you seek seem to magically appear so KEEP PRACTICING. There is no right or wrong way - it is for you to decide and create.

WELCOME J-ANE!

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Permalink Reply by j-ane on February 8, 2010 at 6:23pm

Thanks a lot!

My analytical/mathematical brain always wants to know the RIGHT way to do one thing in particular. When in doubt or unsure, it makes things very hard because i'm always worrying about whether i'm doing it ok or not. So I'm glad to hear this :)

I'm working on this situation though, and i'm slowly getting better as I see results and successful changes :)

Thanks again!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Joe on February 8, 2010 at 5:45pm

Quick question on Afformations,

I've seen these around before, but never have given much thought until today, they are popping up everywhere....I used to think people were just mispelling "affirmations" which I am already familiar with.

So when using affOrmations, from what I understand, is you ask a question, but do you need to provide an answer? or you just simply ask the question?

I'm kind of confused on how this is supposed to work

LOVE LOVE LOVE

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Permalink Reply by Jason! on February 8, 2010 at 7:05pm

Nope! No answer necessary. Let your subconsicous worry about that.

If you ask the question, it automatically assumes the subject of your question is the truth. So, by saying, "Why am I pretty?" your subconscious automatically believes that you're pretty without your conscious inner voice putting any doubt at all in there, as can happen with regular affirmations.

example: If you were to affirm - "I am pretty." your inner voice could always instill a bit of doubt as does happen often by giving that little afterthought - "No you're not. Susie said so the other day. And your father never said you were pretty! Face it, you're ugly!" in which case your subconscious also picks this up.

BUT!!! If you afform: "Why am I so pretty?" your inner voice never even gets the chance to inject an afterthought before your subconcious starts to go to work answering the question! You don't need to pay any attention to any answer given to you by your subconscious mind either. It doesn't matter. The point is that it believes you 100%.

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Permalink Reply by Noah St John on February 9, 2010 at 7:59am

Hi, this is Noah St. John, the inventor of Afformations.

Great discussion! I love hearing everyone's thoughts about Afformations.

One thing I would add is to be sure to practice Step Three of The Afformations Method, which I call GIVE YOURSELF TO THE QUESTION.

Think about how many negative thoughts you've had about yourself. Ten billion? Ten trillion? We couldn't even count the number.

So, when you start asking an empowering Afformation like, "Why am I enough?" or "Why am I so attractive?" - by definition, your mind will have a hard time at first.

That's why I added this step to The Afformations Method. The more you give yourself to the question, the more your mind will SEARCH for answers to the empowering Afformations you're asking. And that, in turn, will make it so.

Hope this helps.

Ask away,
~Noah
http://iAfform.com

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Permalink Reply by genevieve on February 9, 2010 at 8:55am

Hi Noah,

I just want to say that I think your Afformations are wonderful.

I am a great fan of Louise L Hay and her book Heal your Body really helped me to look at my symptoms and work out the psychological causes and the put them right. But I never liked using her affirmations because they brought up more pain than help. What I use to do instead was to take my diagnosis words and reverse them ...so I had a degenerative disease and I changed it to Re-generative and of couse disease to EASE. But I discovered your afformations while still trying to heal my damaged eyesight and I found them so helpful. I could not say with any conviction "I can see clearly" when I couldnt see anything clearly ....but when I said "Why is my eysight so good" ...I came up with amazing and spiritually uplifting things, about who I really am and then I could also appreciate the things that my eyes "could" see and the unique way that I saw. But also it lead me to think about insight and outsight and the "I" inside etc

So thank you ...maybe you should do a book deal with Louise and move her work up another wonderful notch !!


love and light Gen

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Permalink Reply by Awesome on February 9, 2010 at 10:27am

I love it when something just clicks and makes all the difference in the world! I'm so happy for you Gen and so thankful for the sharing we do here!

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Permalink Reply by Johnny_B on February 8, 2010 at 6:29pm

J-ane,
You can do your visualization as you...visualize your self with your soul mate and you can even create a vision board if you wish as well, use affirmations or afformations..there is a ton of great videos here and on you tube for inspiration as well..

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Permalink Reply by Namah Shivaya on February 8, 2010 at 6:37pm

oooh i can be contrary !

there are silly questions if you yourself think there are , because you know the answers but are not seeing clearly but know you are capable of seeing clearly soon, and you wish to grow beyond set patterns you have set which limit you

however all genuine question are never silly as one wishes to learn , the teacher is an equal of the student and does not flaunt power or superiority over the student , that is LOVE

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Permalink Reply by Niaz on February 8, 2010 at 8:52pm

I would love to be able to use afformations, but I have this problem. As soon as I ask a question from myself, I hear my inner voice replying it negatively almost instantly...

For instance... When I say, Why am I so pretty?..

Immediately i hear a voice inside me saying: Who says you are... you are NOT. Don't fool yourself...

How can I change such foolish humiliating powerful resistance inside me?

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