There are quite a few demonstrations to support the ability of positive affirmations to bring about better events, from “creating” a parking spot or a new job, to attracting a soul mate, or to cultivating inner peace. However, before we try to alter the conditions of our life through a repetitive “mental focus” on the changes we desire, it might be very helpful if we took a personal “reality check” to be certain that we believe that thought, our thought, actually has creative power, so that we’re not just “whistling in the dark,” so to speak.

If we are convinced that “certain occurrences” in our personal life have no mental substructure or thought equivalent, but instead are totally and irrefutably physical in origin, then how can we presume to positively alter the effects in our individual life through positive affirmations? If we doubted that by changing our thinking through affirmations, we could change our personal life, then what benefit would affirmations be for us? It is a prerequisite that we have at least a “mustard seed” of faith in the power of our mental focus and affirmations move a mountain in our individual life, in order for them to work.

We all demonstrate a quantity of faith each day. Have you ever been “surprised” at a sunrise? Did the possibility that the sun might not come up in the morning ever cross your mind? 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 a bit 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 disbelief, vacillating between faith and fear, is similar to putting water into a balloon instead of air. Our desires wiggle here and bulge there, but they never get off the ground. Why does faith uplift our affirmations? Because grounded faith is a mental insistence that elevates what we “say” we believe 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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