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How to Visualize and Use Affirmation Techniques

Knowing how to visualize and use affirmations is important if you want to have success manifesting tools. A lot of people try using visualization and affirmations only to give up, thinking they don't work. Sometimes things even appear worse! Just like any other tools, you have to know how to use them in order to make them work.

Keep this information about the subconscious in mind:

Knowing how to visualize is about understanding how the subconscious works and how to influence it to shift beliefs.

The SCM learns by repetition, it works to keep you safe and right. Emotion has a powerful influence on the subconscious. The subconscious can't be tricked by your or primed. It aligns your true beliefs with reality. This is how it manifests. You can best access and influence your SCM when you're relaxed and focused.

Believe.

If you don't believe neither will your subconscious.

If you really don't want what you are visualizing, your mind won't work to help you get it. Be very clear that you truly want what you are asking for.

If you really want your goal, but have negative self-talk about getting it, use energy psychology and meridian tapping techniques first. They can help you overcome these objections so you can move forward. Otherwise, you'll continue to attract more of what you don't want.

Choose a specific, realistic, believable goal.

Saying "I want to be healthy" isn't specific. What do you want exactly? You have to be able to create an image of it in your mind. Find a picture. Written words count as images too.

If your ultimate goal is truly outside your belief zone, that's okay. Choose a smaller goal that you believe is accessible. Then your images and affirmations will be believable. When you achieve that, move on to the next step.

When you break goals into achievable chunks, the boost in your confidence will increase your belief and make the next step even easier.

Create vivid images in your mind and back them up with positive emotions.

Imagine yourself doing what you want with a big smile on your face. See,hear, feel and believe it your mind and body. Make it into an inner movie. Jump up and down and celebrate your success in your mind and out loud.

When enough emotion is involved, the subconscious accepts your image quickly. If you've ever experienced a trauma, you know how quickly it got burned into your memory. You can thank your emotional response for that.

Practice your visualization exercises and positive affirmations at least twice a day.

If you have a vision board or images you are using, train yourself to look at it whenever you are nearby. Post your affirmations in easy-to-see places. See the pages on these techniques for more specific tips.

Aim to be as relaxed as possible when you visualize.

At the very least take a deep cleansing breath or two before beginning. If possible enter a deeply relaxed state.

The moments prior to sleep and right as you wake up are times when brain waves are slower and you are more open to suggestion. If you catch yourself daydreaming, this is a good time too as these are all naturally occurring hypnotic states of mind.

Bring your attention to your visualization and/or affirmation with full, yet soft attention.

Forcing is tense and invites resistance. If you are thinking about something else, that is what your subconscious will attend to. Be fully present to your images and statements.

Use tools to help you.

Ready made videos and audios can be a big help when you are learning how to visualize or need some support.

Use one or more of the many good hypnosis, meditation, and brainwave entrainment audios available to help you shift beliefs, visualize, and make suggestions to the subconscious about your goal. Get more information and free samples here.

Knowing how to visualize and use affirmations is important if you want to realize the full power of visualizing in your life.