The Pocketbook of Affirmations by Debi Ash and Barbara Wainwright is a charming little book full of positive energy. These two women showed my how they lived their affirmations by sharing themselves in their book. They don’t seem like heavyweight authorities on affirmations, but rather came across as beautyweights. As I went through their lists of affirmations on various topics, I couldn’t help thinking, this all seems too positive for me. Then I allowed myself to live as if they were all true and I felt great. I am using their affirmations on prosperity to look at how affirmations are used.
“My unlimited thinking opens doors to prosperity and monetary abundance.”
If my first reaction to their affirmations was that they were too positive, this could reflect my lack of prosperity. I need to know where I could be, but just knowing where you stand does not address the question, “how could reciting these positive statements actually lead to things happening when you don’t even believe in what you are saying?”
“I am very rich. I am very very rich.”.
The point of an affirmation is not for you to believe that the affirmation is true right now, even though it is written that way. The benefit comes from entertaining the feeling of it actually being true. After you get the feeling of it, then you will get so hooked on it that you center life around making it happen.
An affirmation sets up a mindset inside of you. When you see the world from that perspective consciously, you unconsciously select out of the world those things that fit into your mindset. Saying you are prosperous brings into your experience only those things that will support your being prosperous.
“I deserve, desire, and accept an abundance of money, wealth, and riches.”
Making an affirmation brings up all the stuff in the way of that affirmation being true. For example, when you say you deserve prosperity, you are questioning whether in fact this is so. Whatever you thought before, about deserving prosperity, comes up. “Am I good enough to deserve it?” “I was brought up poor and it’s okay.” “I couldn’t make it like the others are doing.” Affirmations give you the opportunity to examine the attitude and beliefs that you habitually live by and take for granted.
“I now create unlimited prosperity and monetary abundance in my life.”
Affirmations make you aware of what you are doing consciously and give clarity to what you want to manifest. Are you really trying to create abundance in your life right now? Or are you just treading water because you haven’t figured out what to do next? When you say the affirmation, you aim to settle any doubts and actively engage in the process of creating what you want.
“I love being, feeling, and looking prosperous and successful.”
I want to add to this one, “…and another $100,000 in my bank account would be great.” It all seems like a dream. How can you affirm something and have it really be so? Are you lying to yourself? Are affirmations for dreamers and pollyannas? We won’t go into a refrain of “To dream the impossible dream…” If you don’t dream, you don’t get…anything other than what you’ve got and maybe some stray good luck.
“I now have enough money for my own personal use.”
What is enough? Why would I now want to settle for only what I have now? It seems funny that being positive means accepting what you’ve got, but it sure beats being negative about what you don’t have.
“Everyday I am growing more financially prosperous.”
How can we lose with this one? How can anyone get less prosperous? You have to be a willful dunce to not figure out how to improve on the game of prosperity from one day to the next. You can’t learn less unless you really don’t want to learn. This is not to say that you won’t be down from one day to the next. No, it just means you win more, the more you play. This affirmation, like the familiar, “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better,” are truisms that we just need to keep reminding ourselves or especially when things look bad.
Affirmations seem out of this world. They are made “out of” this world; we are smart to take advantage of them since they’re available.