Harnessing Word Power

The word “affirmation” means to “assert positively”.
Affirmations have long been considered a powerful way to bring your deepest desires into the conscious realm.  But I have a little problem with affirmation type thinking (like the book The Secret).  If all it took was affirmations to get what we want, then how come we’re all not wealthy, beautiful, creative, popular and headed for the Oprah show?

The function of the conscious mind is to interpret information that is received and filter any  “unrealistic” messages (messages that contradict our more deeply held views) from the subconscious.

I personally have spent days, weeks, months, and even years repeating and meditating on wealth and prosperity mantras.  How about you?  Did they work?

If not, your subconscious mind was filtering that message as a lie. It rejects the mantra as false.  The subconscious will say, “You - prosperous?  Ha!  You can’t even pay the light bill.”  And that’s the reality the subconsious will work on.

No amount of present tense affirmations that “apple” is really an “orange” will ever change apple to orange. If you are affirming you are 6 feet tall when you’re 5 foot 5 - all your mind knows is that you’re crazy, a liar or both!

An interesting book by John MacDonald, written in 1929 (The Message of A Master) introduces a concept called “Word Power” - which replaces the notion of affirmations using the words “I am”. When you use “I am” and you are not, you are opening up yourself for attack from the subconscious mind.

Let’s look at the word wealthy. When using positive affirmation you usually say “I am wealthy.”

Change wealthy into wealth and you have a Power Word.

Contemplate the concept of wealth and what it means to you. By thinking about the concept of wealth you’re instructing your conscious mind to tell the subconscious mind to personalize what the word means to you. You create in your subsconscious your reality of the word. You don’t try to trick the subconscious into believing you already have

Try laying the groundwork in the subconscious through conceptual thinking and you will create the right framework for attaining your own personal success - through your own power words!