5 Ways to Use Affirmations for Manifesting (“Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…”)
How mantras and affirmations can help us to manifest, plus my personal ways of using them
In Episode 9 of Hold the Light, I share about the power of using mantras and affirmations as tools for manifestation.
As you may know, mantras are repeated words or sounds, often used in meditation, while affirmations are positive statements that reshape beliefs and encourage change.
According to manifesting expert Roxie Nafousi, the author of Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life, mantras and affirmations can reshape our subconscious, foster positive thoughts and replace self-limiting beliefs, ultimately empowering us for a more expansive and joyful life. Sign me up!
I also talk about the practical ways to leverage these techniques, including personalized recordings, sticky notes, phone widgets, and alarms. I’ve also recorded my own affirmations, too.
And if mantras and affirmations don’t feel like your jam, I offer some alternative tricks that might feel more authentic and aligned with you.
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5 Ways to Use Affirmations for Manifesting
When it comes to manifestation, mantras and affirmations go hand in hand.
These are tools that many people use in the manifestation process to help attain desired results.
A mantra is a word, sound, or statement repeated frequently. Many people use mantras in meditation or visualizations. For instance, I have a personal mantra that was given to me when I learned Transcendental Meditation – something that is for me alone, never to share with anyone. Every time I do TM, I repeat this mantra over and over throughout the 20 minutes.
Affirmations are positive statements of support or encouragement – priming our brain to feel uplifted or expanded. Getting us to think a different way and to reprogram some of the negative thought patterns we may have on a loop in our head. They are so helpful when we want to change old beliefs or stories we have about ourselves, and start believing optimistic and beneficial thoughts about ourselves and our lives.
According to manifesting expert Roxie Nafousi and author of the book, Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life, we can use mantras “to send positive messages to our subconscious minds and to replace negative thought.” The idea is to reprogram our subconscious and self-limiting beliefs.
How to Work With Affirmations
To work with affirmations, try listening to them several times a week – either first thing in the morning, as you’re falling asleep, or any time you’re in a meditative state, like sitting in silence or walking in nature. Nafousi recommends these times because it’s when “our brain is operating between the frequencies of Alpha and Theta brain waves, the optimum frequency for visualization, creativity, and learning.” Basically, it’s prime time for our subconscious to absorb the messages and overwrite the negative, self-limiting beliefs.
So, this is a powerful tool we can all use in our manifesting journey – or whenever we are ready to start stripping away at the old stories that still keep us small, keep us in our fearful egos, and from living our most expansive and joyful lives.
Below I list a few ways on how to use affirmations. But one note first…
What If Using Affirmations Just Doesn’t Quite Feel Right?
For some people, the idea of saying “I am …” doesn’t feel authentic or realistic. And if you’re not truly resonating or connecting with a high-vibe frequency of what you want to manifest, it’s a strong possibility that it might not happen. As many manifestations experts say, manifesting is really about feeling. Not thinking, but feeling.
Something I play with is using “What if…” or “Wouldn’t it be fun…” questions. Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, says that “what if” questions combine a clear intention with an elevated emotion, and moves us from living in the past to living in the future.” He continues by saying that with “this combination of an elevated emotion and a clear intention—the person now is changing biologically, internally, fundamentally. Their brain and body is moving from living in the past to living in the future.”
Dispenza says, “You have to feel empowered in order for success to show up. You have to feel abundant in order for wealth to find you. You have to be in gratitude in order to create the life you want. And by teaching your body emotionally what that future could feel like, ahead of the actual experience is changing your biology…” It’s moving us into a new state of being – and it’s here where we can create the life we want.
Similarly, in the book Ask and It Is Given, authors Esther and Jerry Hicks (the team behind the spiritual teachings of Abraham Hicks) share a process called “Wouldn't It Be Nice If…”
By saying, “Wouldn’t it be nice if this desire would come to me?” they say that you “achieve a different sort of expectation that is much less resistant in nature.” So, it’s more like a game – one where “you are choosing something that you want, and you’re being soft and easy about it.” It raises your vibration and improves your point of attraction because it “orients you toward the things that you want.” Like, wouldn’t it be nice to spend a month traveling in Europe? Or, wouldn’t it be nice to attract a person who absolutely loves my authentic self?
Otherwise, if you say “‘I want this thing to happen that hasn’t happened yet,’ you are not only activating the vibration of your desire, but you are also activating a vibration of the absence of your desire – so nothing changes for you.”
Start playing around and see what happens. Remember, results may take time. Don’t worry about the how, just focus on the what. Focus on how you want to feel.
Things You Can Try with Affirmations and Mantras
Record your own personalized mantras and affirmations on a voice recorder or download one of the tracks that I’ve recorded. I recorded positive affirmations for:
Write your affirmations on sticky notes and place them on your bathroom mirror or refrigerator – repeat them at least five times. Replace them when you feel like you’re ready to move onto something new.
Use a widget on your iPhone to write in a personalized affirmation so every time you open your phone, you see it.
Or, set your affirmation as your screensaver on your phone.
Set alarms on your iPhone to go off at certain times. In the label section, type in your affirmation as the “label” for that particular alarm. Set it for 11:11 or 2:22 or 4:44 – angel numbers! Why not? For instance, I’ve set my alarm for 10:10, and when it goes off, I see the affirmation “Money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis.” Or, my alarm at 11:11 says, “I am supported by my loving angels and spirit guides, and I am supported by the abundant Universe.”
What kind of affirmations will you make for yourself today?
Thanks for listening. Keep holding the light.
To learn more about Roxie Nafousi visit roxienafousi.com or find her on social media at @roxienafousi.
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