Affirmations are form of prayer. How to make them more effective?..
Consider Neville’s advice and nuances of technique. The goal is to inject fresh energy, conviction and effectiveness into our affirmations.
1. Premise: we are awakening. We are self-regulating, self-developing, self-teaching.
2. Neville’s discussion of the sub-conscious mind is most helpful.
The entire basis of affirmation is a reversal of mind, where we switch the polarity or the vector, so to speak, to stop being programmed by suggestion and instead provide the suggestion.
Another reference to validate the premise: Claude Bristol, The Magic of Believing.
3. Mind and speech. Two principles referred to by Neville from the Hermetica.
4. Speech. Its nature and origin; its creative function.
5. What is vain repetition? Speech without mind.
6. Goal: speech with conscious intention. Shall not return unto me void.
7. Goal: feeling of the wish fulfilled. (Word = logos = meaning). Go straight to the meaning -- the only thing worth having -- the state itself.
8. Exception: use vain repetition as a means to get started, to pull oneself out of difficulty.
9. Techniques:
10. Psychological instructions from Book of James: ship’s rudder; horse’s bit. Persistence. Do not fall into the trap of continually listening to new ideas without putting them into practice.
KEY QUOTE
“Stop all of the old mechanical negative inner talking and start a new positive and constructive inner speech from premises of fulfilled desire.” (Neville, Awakened Imagination and The Search, Chapter 5)
RESOURCES
Repeated
by Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:
Prayer, The Art of Believing
Essential
by Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:
Awakened Imagination and The Search
Mentioned
Claude Bristol, The Magic of Believing
