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Are you battling stress or going through a difficult season of life?
Are your days filled with schedules that you must follow, deadlines you have to meet, or an unending barrage of tasks?
If so, you probably need to de-stress.
Are you using words and statements that motivate and encourage you to do your best and live as your highest self?
Or are your thoughts and words overly critical and cynical?
Well, rest, relief, and relaxation can be found by incorporating positive affirmations into a simple meditation.
But, first…
We use thoughts and ideas to control our bodies. So, if our thoughts and ideas are constantly negative, then we will experience stress, fatigue, and depression. However, if we incorporate positive affirmations into daily practices, then we will take control of stress and train our brain to think more healthy thoughts.
What Are Positive Affirmations?
Positive affirmations are present-tense, constructive statements that you say about yourself, to yourself. With confidence and fervor, positive affirmations confirm the thoughts and ideas that you visualize in your mind; the way to feel and react in certain situations. These statements reflect your ideal self, your ideal family, and your ideal life.
Positive affirmations can increase your belief and confidence in your ability to handle life. When repeated with authority, they can reduce your stress level, kill ungratefulness, increase focus and creativity, and bring about a calmer attitude and better health.
How Do Positive Affirmations Work?
As unbelievable as it may sound, repeating affirmations can change your life. Just imagine being your own cheerleader or your most-supportive friend. Imagine life going more smoothly and being less stressful. When you incorporate positive affirmations into your thought-life, positive feelings increase, and healthier behaviors develop.
Now, think about when you’re taxed from a hard day’s work; feeling grumpy and exhausted. If you don’t incorporate positive affirmations into your thought life, then negativity increases, and things seem to get worse. You’re also more likely to engage in behaviors that are self-destructive. Chronic stress and negativity can, then, causes physical symptoms and health issues.
How Can You Make Positive Affirmations Work for You?
There are things that can enhance the power of positive affirmations in reducing stress. You can increase your ability to cope with difficult situations and circumstances. Follow these simple guidelines:
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Choose a positive affirmation that represents the thoughts, feelings, and ideal situation you want.
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Breathe deeply before reciting your affirmation.
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Repeat the positive affirmation to yourself when you think negatively or are faced with adverse situations. Avoid distractions and focus your mind on the words that you’re repeating.
Using Positive Affirmations to De-Stress in 3 Minutes or Less
Along with other positive affirmations that generally increase the positivity in your life, below are some simple, yet amazing affirmations that are specifically worded for you to quickly release stress when you’re overwhelmed.
Here’s what to do:
1. Take 3 heart-focused, deep breathes. Breathe in through your nose for 2 seconds and breathe out through your mouth for 3 seconds.
2. Visualize yourself reducing stress from your mind by thinking thoughts of love, joy, and peace. Imagine tension and anxiety being removed from your body.
3. Choose several positive affirmations to recite to yourself. Repeat until 3 minutes have passed.
4. When you come to the end of 3 minutes, say, Thank You!
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I am happy, calm, and free from worry.
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My body and mind feel calm and peaceful.
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Good things continually happen to me.
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I am a positive person who attracts positive things into my life
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I am a good person who deserves happiness, health, and peace.
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I choose to release feelings of stress and embrace joyful thoughts.
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I see challenges as life lessons for me to learn more and be a better person
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Feeling relaxed is my normal state.
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I feel calm and relaxed because it’s good for my health.
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I am in control of my life and choose to feel peaceful.
When you repeat these affirmations to yourself, you will be able to find peace, relax more swiftly, and increase your vitality. Happy de-stressing!
Christina M. Johnson is a woman of enduring faith. She is the wife of an adoring husband, the mother of their 8 wonder-filled children, and a passionate lover-of-life who is determined to live her best life now!
Mrs. Johnson was born into poverty & raised with little resources. But she overcame the odds, and some of her accolades include the city and Maryland regional state championships in the 400-meters, graduating 4th in her high school class, MEAC championship titles in cross country, indoor and outdoor track, and graduating, with distinction, with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Biology (with an emphasis in Chemistry and Secondary Education).
Before receiving Reading Instruction training from Johns Hopkins University and decades of research training from the Veterans Administration’s Hospital, University of Maryland, and the Rabin Medical Center in Israel, Mrs. Johnson was an award-winning orator and spoken word artist, Howard Hughes Fellow, and Fogarty Fellowship recipient.
Mrs. Johnson is an award-winning educator, has received over $200,000 in grant funds, and has been hired by public and private school systems to teach and develop curricula. Incorporating her studies, research training, and experiences, Mrs. Johnson has a passion to explain the biological and physiological processes involved in the regeneration of the human brain, the renewing of the human mind, and its connection to the spirit as it relates to success and achievement. She also has a heart to help mompreneurs and business owners plan, pen, and publish their self-help book, and is currently offering the Mompreneur 5-Day Author Challenge and the Power Prose LIVE Virtual Trainings.
She is the recipient of the Performing Arts Grant from The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA)/ArtScape and the Teaching Grant from the Michael Jordan Foundation. She is an author, certified coach and Youth and At-Risk Communities Trainer. Currently, she is the author coach and publishing consultant at Testimony Publishers, LLC., and has written, directed, and/or produced scientific articles, curricula, short stories, poems, stage plays, online courses, and books.
Mrs. Johnson was born into poverty & raised with little resources. But she overcame the odds, and some of her accolades include the city and Maryland regional state championships in the 400-meters, graduating 4th in her high school class, MEAC championship titles in cross country, indoor and outdoor track, and graduating, with distinction, with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Biology (with an emphasis in Chemistry and Secondary Education).
Before receiving Reading Instruction training from Johns Hopkins University and decades of research training from the Veterans Administration’s Hospital, University of Maryland, and the Rabin Medical Center in Israel, Mrs. Johnson was an award-winning orator and spoken word artist, Howard Hughes Fellow, and Fogarty Fellowship recipient.
Mrs. Johnson is an award-winning educator, has received over $200,000 in grant funds, and has been hired by public and private school systems to teach and develop curricula. Incorporating her studies, research training, and experiences, Mrs. Johnson has a passion to explain the biological and physiological processes involved in the regeneration of the human brain, the renewing of the human mind, and its connection to the spirit as it relates to success and achievement. She also has a heart to help mompreneurs and business owners plan, pen, and publish their self-help book, and is currently offering the Mompreneur 5-Day Author Challenge and the Power Prose LIVE Virtual Trainings.
She is the recipient of the Performing Arts Grant from The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA)/ArtScape and the Teaching Grant from the Michael Jordan Foundation. She is an author, certified coach and Youth and At-Risk Communities Trainer. Currently, she is the author coach and publishing consultant at Testimony Publishers, LLC., and has written, directed, and/or produced scientific articles, curricula, short stories, poems, stage plays, online courses, and books.
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