What Is The Best
Affirmation Wording?

Affirmations are helpful.

They can be used to help ourselves to reinforce or create an image of our own selves consciously, in order to gain confidence and achieve goals.

Since we use affirmations to make a positive impact and definite change, the way to word affirmations is important - we need to choose the right words.

Which affirmation wording?

Generally speaking, there is not one way to word your affirmations for them to be effective, because it all depends on what works for every person.

However, there are certain elements that should always be present, as you will see below.

Make it believable

Experts differ on the way to use affirmation wording. The most common way to word affirmations is by using "I am..." or "I have...".

However, Dr Robert Anthony explains in "Beyond positive thinking" that it is more powerful to use "I intend to..." or "It is my intention to..." because that's more believable.

You can go back to these positive thinking affirmations and change all sentences to "I intend to..." and see the effect they have for yourself.

The ingredients

Certain elements should always be present in your affirmation wording, whether you use "I am..." or "I intend to...". Be sure you use these:

• Present tense: if you are able to feel in the now that you will have or be something, then it can happen. If you cannot imagine yourself in that position now, how could you possibly see it happening in the future?

• Positive: your affirmations should state what you want, not what you DON'T want. Use positive sentences instead of negative wording like "no", "never", "get rid of", "don't".

• Emotion: make sure that your affirmations bring up good feelings in you. They must make you feel good with yourself and with whatever you are stating.

Examples

Following Dr Robert Anthony proposed way for affirmation wording, see these examples:

I intend to take responsibility for all my actions

I intend to live with courage

I intend to be self-assured and self-confident

I intend to enjoy my life with enthusiasm

I intend to have a positive attitude towards difficult circumstances

I intend to let the people in my life know that they are important to me

I intend to forgive myself lovingly for the mistakes I make

I intend to live a fulfilling life and enrich other people's lives

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