Day 7 of the Daring & Mighty Action Plan to take you from Head to Heart, Health & Happiness…..

“Every day in every way, I am getting better and better” Dr Emile Coue

Dr. Coue practiced medicine at the beginning of last century and in addition to drugs, would prescribe patients with the above affirmation to be said 20 times each morning and evening. He believed that the way we think affects our health and felt that a combined mind and body approach was necessary to cure illness.

“I know that I deserve love and I accept it now” Louise Hay

 

Louise Hay is, in my opinion, the godmother of affirmations and gratitude. She totally turned her life around and survived cancer through the use of these tools and has helped to change many other people’s lives for the better.

 

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves” Buddha

 

Stressful, worrying and anxious thoughts mean our body is holding onto stress, worry and anxiety – all of which create disease. Note the meaning of that word. In old french, ‘des’ means reversal. Disease is the opposite of Ease. The point of this action plan is to get us out of our head and into our body. To EASE our minds by feeling present in the now and connecting to what is real, resulting in health and happiness. Affirmations ensure that what our mind is communicating to our bodies is healthy. Research has suggested that affirmations have a bio chemical, neuro chemical and neuro pharmacological effect on the body. We can literally re-wire our brain to think differently. Isn’t that brilliant!

 

The key to affirmations is calm repetition. Brain-washing if you will! Ideally an affirmation is said in present tense, as if you already have the thing you desire. The affirmation can be said out loud or silently but the key is total belief in what you are saying, knowing that you are creating, with total certainty, a new reality. To be calm and grounded is crucial when practicing your affirmations. A frenzied, desperate approach is useless….

 

Louise Hay has some great meditations and visualisations around affirmations. She recommends you surround yourself with your unique affirmations, suggesting that you write them on post-it notes and pop them on your mirror or computer screen. Better yet, have them made into a beautiful piece of artwork which you would be proud to hang on your wall. The walls of my house are covered with Daring and Mighty Affirmation Art. The words have become so deeply ingrained in my being – I have no doubt that my mind has been re-wired by reading them and believing them every day.

 

For my friend, who asked for this action plan, I will leave you with some of my favourite affirmations:

 

I am love.

I am worthy.

I am safe.

I trust myself and I trust others.

I give and accept unconditional love.

I have an open and warm heart.

I live my truth.

I am grounded, present and connected to the power of the universe.

I am that I am.

 

May the force be with you!

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