Affirmations - Fake it to Make It?

But Who are you Fooling?

Life Manual Newsletter No 12

To some extent it is true that whatever you tell your mind it believes – at least on the surface. You will see benefits from affirmations and pre rehearsing events in your life. But if you remember the Iceberg Model from the previous newsletter, the unconscious mind is more susceptible to pictures than words.This is the more powerful part of our mind.That’s why in Chapters 15 & 16 of Life Manual, Vision and Mastery – The Unconscious Mind, we have moved from exercises and stories to visualisations which work with the unconscious picture mind.

As we explored previously, we can’t be fully healed or changed until we have the courage to face our unconscious, the place where we have stored our deepest secret beliefs about ourselves and the world. In a sense, nothing in there is real – but our mind thinks it is. It is our past stories and experiences and we have the choice, and the chance, to change it in the present. An example was those oh so dangerous white railings, that I used in the last newsletter, that triggered my worst fears from the past. Facing a dangerous situation in my present, all the terror of a previous situation in childhood was triggered, leaving me incapable of responding to the present. Our old unconscious fears can be something we giggle at once they are healed, but they show the power of that part of our mind when they are triggered.

Synchronicity

One important way to change our mind at the unconscious level is through visualisation. This is so much more powerful than affirmations that attempt to address the subconscious via the conscious mind. The unconscious mind works with emotion and pictures, it is our prelanguage mind. Link to interviews with Joe Vitale and Bob Proctor on the power of pictures in manifesting the life you want

Getting out of the Box

Sanaya Roman suggests the visualisation below as a way out of survival mode, where we feel that we are living behind a wall or in a box with no way out. You can use a box or a wall if it feels more true for you. Try it for yourself, it’s a very good example a visualisation that helps your powerful mind to solve problems or change attitudes. You can easily record this into your phone or MP3 player, perhaps with some gentle background music, so you can concentrate fully. More Information about Sanaya Roman Sanaya Roman, Creating Money:Attracting Abundance, H J Kramer, 1988 (Amazon Link)

Visualisation

As with any visualisation, begin by sitting comfortably and closing your eyes. Allow your breathing to settle and relax your body. If you have a specific process or take a guide or master with you, that’s fine. Use that too. Having a guide, or a vision of a master with us, is always recommended when working with the unconscious mind.

Once you are relaxed, imagine that you are in a box that stands between you and having what you want. (Adapt if you are using a symbolic wall).

What does the box look like?
What is it made of?
How thick are the walls?

Really see and feel, visualise that box you are trapped in.

Then, in your imagination, start building doors and windows in the box. Make as many doors and windows as you want until you feel free and can see beyond the box. If you have visualised a wall, you can use whatever tool is appropriate to you to take down the walls, until you are satisfied that you can easily and feely pass through to the other side.

When you are ready to leave your box, see the clear fresh world beyond the box, and see yourself walking into that world. Feel your freedom, your lightness of being, your new or true you. Really feel how the world is full of opportunity, how it is all working with and for you. Experience your new powerfulness.

If you have a guide or Master, thank him or her for being with you. When you are ready, become aware of all of your senses, smell, touch, taste and come back into the room.Open your eyes and become aware of all of your surroundings.

Profound Change

As Sanaya Roman writes, “Working with symbols, vision and emotion can create profound changes in your life. Each time you do this exercise, the things represented by the box or the wall will begin to change, and new opportunities will come to you. If you already have POV Life Manual you might want to follow this with Jeff’s Visualisation in Chapter 13 for strengthening your connection to your inner world and unconscious mind.

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