From getting a parking spot or a better job, to attracting a soul mate or nurturing inner peace, there is a lot of corroboration to support the power of affirmations to make positive change. It might be highly beneficial, however, if we took a personal “reality check” to confirm that we genuinely trust that thought, our thought, has creative power before we put a lot of effort in attempting to improve the situations in our life through a constant “mental focus” on the changes we want, so that we’re not just “whistling in the dark,” so to speak.

We can’t presume to positively transform effects in our individual life by changing their mental cause, i.e., our point of view, through affirmations, if we believe that “certain conditions” are completely and unarguably physical in origin, have no mental cause or thought correlation and, therefore, are outside of our ability to influence a change. What difference would it make for us to attempt to “change our thinking” about our self, or a particular condition, if we didn’t have a conviction that by doing so we could “change our life”? If we expect our positive affirmations to move a mountain in our personal life, we absolutely must have at least a mustard seed of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations to affect physical change in our life.

We all demonstrate a certain amount of faith everyday. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Most likely you didn’t worry the night before that there might be a possibility that the sun might not come up again in the morning. It’s highly unlikely that it’s occurred to any of us to question our faith in the earth’s gravitational relationship to the sun. So, there you are, we all have a mustard seed of faith, a “starter kit” of unshakable trust. We can start with that and build a mountain of faith to from which to send out our affirmations.

Saying affirmations while filled with doubt, seesawing between faith and fear, is the same as putting water into a balloon rather than air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never take flight. Faith gives our affirmations soaring power because true faith is mental insistence uplifted to a place of realization. This is the “secret” to creative mental power, turning mere words into substance. Affirmations can, indeed, really change our life – when they feel true, and what we say is what we truly believe.

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By closing our eyes and turning away from the world, we find what seemed impossible and elusive, but was always there…peace. As we slow the pace of our breathing and allow our body to let go of stress and anxiety… we find peace. As we slow the crazy pace of our thoughts, until they seem to gently drift, like falling leaves, and then settle into quietness…we find peace.

This type of meditation enlivens every cell, fiber, and tissue of our being. Therefore, this type of meditation can be healing. This type of meditation stops the jabber of our mind. Therefore, this type of meditation can be revealing.

The stressful conditions of body and mind disappear when we meditate in this way, and many times they do not come back when we open our eyes and face the world again. The peace that we have experienced within transforms into the peace of our actions in the world.

It is, perhaps, more vital than ever for each of us to meditate — to heal ourselves and, therefore, to heal the world.

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