Creating Your Own Affirmations
Plant new affirmations into your mind garden when you get good news
Here is the article I promised on what I did when I got great news. Because as I’ve said before, you should be sure to milk it when things go your way.
Giving Money Alone Does Nothing
A lot of people believe that if you gave the poor a bunch of money they would finally be able to stop being poor. That’s what so many taxes are for, right? That’s like giving people fish every day but never teaching them how to fish. They’ll starve as soon as the benefits stop coming.
Because of the law of attraction, giving someone with a “victim mindset” a bunch of money won’t help; they will eventually waste or lose it. Poor people have a poverty mindset rather than an abundant mindset.
Think of your mind as a ship’s captain holding the wheel. What your mind does will steer the course of your life. Your beliefs are integral to your impulses and actions. Someone with an abundant mindset has much less fear (concerning money, investing and using it) than someone with a poverty mindset who will be worried about losing it or not making enough. Those fears or lack of them steer our actions and cause us to take good actions (like saving or investing in profitable endeavors) or bad actions (like buying useless items on a whim because we finally feel as if we can “splurge.”
I spent way too much of my life trying to help someone with a victim mentality. When money was tight, only essentials would be bought, but as soon as there would be a windfall of cash, he went into splurging mode rather than investing to grow it into something long-lasting. Eventually, I learned that you can’t keep giving and giving if they don’t do any work to change how they think about money. And my giving and giving was just enabling it.
I’m not bashing the poor with this poverty mindset, I’ve lived it. I know it comes from our upbringing. Furthermore, the victimhood culture we live in promotes it today. People feel encouraged to wallow in their “victimhood” making it very difficult for them to want to work to change it.
When I saw that I got my student loans (over $27,000) discharged on Easter, I knew what I had to do. Just getting this money (or lack of debt) would benefit me nothing if I didn’t change my mindset. So I’ve been thinking about affirmations more.
And, just to be clear, this didn’t come out of the blue. I’ve been focused for a long time on manifesting these loans to be repaid (whether by me, someone else, or the colleges). So, this is the result of a lot of mind-changing over the years, but I can still use this (like a large trampoline) to help me continue on this journey from a poverty mindset to a fully abundant mindset. I believe I’m in the middle of this journey. But if anyone was following my YouTube channel, they would have seen me at the beginning, trying to change my mind about wealth.
Affirmations to Change Your Mindset
Affirmations can be very beneficial in changing your mindset. In the past, you’ve repeatedly thought negative thoughts, which could be considered “negative affirmations,” such as:
“That’s never going to happen.”
“I’ll never be able to make that much.”
“I’m so awkward.”
“I’m so stupid.”
“I’m not good enough.”
“I can’t figure this out.”
These sorts of thoughts have been repeated probably since early childhood, so your brain has a lot of momentum built up going in a negative thought process, and positive affirmations are attempts to slow that momentum down, stop it, and turn it around.
I’ve written before about affirmations and why it’s important to believe them. You want to focus on your emotions when trying to come up with an affirmation. If you start lying to yourself, your emotions will turn negative and you won’t be doing yourself any favors by repeating them.
If you feel a lack of money and think or say an affirmation like, “I am a millionaire,” and start feeling negative because you know you’re not currently a millionaire, your focus and attention is pointed towards not having what you want. And you’re going to get more of what you spend time focusing on. In this case that would be the lack of money.
But there are ways to trick yourself into believing affirmations. And you can spend time in mindful meditation coming up with affirmations that you believe and feel good to say or think. You can create your own. Today I am writing about my recent experience and how I attempted to create some more affirmations due to getting all of my student loans discharged.
My Experience
I recently wrote on my other Substack about getting all of my student loans discharged. If you think about someone getting their student loans discharged and get angry about that, please read the article. It’s not about Biden’s version of relieving all debt, it’s from a Borrower’s Defense to Repayment (BDR) application and a court case (Sweet v Cardona).
This has made a monumental shift in my debt/income ratio. My debt was comprised of my student loans + about $200. Now, with the loans discharged, my debt is only $200 (which I can repay right now, it’s just cheaper to pay that one off incrementally). It’ll be gone around my birthday, and then I hopefully can say the affirmation, “I’m completely debt-free” without believability issues.
When people say God can move mountains, this is one of those things. In my whole life up until now, this is the mountain being moved. But I struggle with feeling the change internally. I almost felt like crying tears of joy one time, but the tears were blocked.
Hard to Lose Long-Held Emotions
I’ve noticed myself not believing it although I have proof. There’s a part of me that worried that someday they will try to collect the money from me claiming there was a technical error. I spoke with my dad about it as well and although I hadn’t mentioned any of that to him, he echoed that sentiment back to me. Gee, I wonder where I got that limiting belief (“it’s too good to be true”) from….
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve logged into my account to view the balance to “affirm” to myself that it’s gone. I didn’t imagine it being gone. I do believe it, but it’s been a long time coming and I still have some conflicting negative beliefs.
Your Mind is a Garden Growing Weeds or Flowers
You can think of your mind as a garden. Negative, limiting beliefs, are the weeds that grow and keep your flowers (positive beliefs) from blooming and bearing fruit/seeds. About a decade ago I planted some positive beliefs (seeds) that my debt could be discharged, and I watered them over the years with meditation, visualizations, and work (I had to fill out forms and send emails, etc).
In addition to that, I’ve also had to confront my limiting beliefs and ask if they were true. I’ve asked myself if there were other ways to see things. I pulled out many “weeds” from the garden of my mind. But still, some exist. There’s more work to do.
Besides checking my student loan account, I checked the StudentAid.gov account. That one took a few more days to reflect the change. But they both now say that I have $0 in loans outstanding. (When I first started to write this article, that was all the “proof” I had. But I’ve since received a letter from my student loan company informing me that I have no balance due with them any longer.)
As I said earlier, I was expecting the forgiveness of my loans because I received emails about them being discharged last year. But they didn’t tell me how much would be removed. For months I knew they would discharge part of my loans, but I had consolidated them (mixed them all up with each other), so I still had some negative beliefs that only some of the amount owed would be removed.
On March 20th I received a letter saying that $8,000 would be removed. I mentioned on Notes that I wasn’t really excited or feeling it when that letter came. I had to remind myself to be grateful and appreciative.
Choosing What You Focus On Matters
I expected some amount to come off my loans, so receiving the letter was not a shock. And there was a part of me that worried that this amount ($8,000) would be it. I had the choice to focus on being appreciative for every little bit that helps or be worried that not much or nothing more would be taken off.
So each day I looked at the letter and thanked God for this manifestation. It may have been easier to appreciate a check or cash in your hands, but there are ways to appreciate debt just disappearing too.
Some people might say that once the ball was rolling, whether or not I appreciated it, it still would have happened. And, in this case, that may be true. But, I know that at different stages things that I did helped to move it along faster. And, I probably wouldn’t have been divinely inspired to check my account on Easter and that was pretty significant to me, spiritually speaking.
I’ve been working on coming up with new affirmations and trying to appreciate this more and I have been having moments where I feel like a new person. Like I died and was reborn. Or some people may say I “jumped timelines” or “shifted into a new parallel universe”. I don’t use that sort of language myself. I don’t think that’s possible. But manifesting this feeling like a new re-born person is possible.
My New Affirmations
So, one new affirmation for me can be, “I feel like a new person.” I feel like I got a new lease on life.
The Tables Are Starting to Turn
I’ve listened to this song before thinking about my loans and hoping that they would be able to be paid off (one way or another). So I have been listening to it again with that in mind. It’s about poor people “rising up” to get “what’s theirs” and I know that you can view that in a negative sense if they actually use violence to “rise up”. But I see it more as people learning the power of their minds, and doing what I did, changing the way they think. I wish this for people.
And there’s a line about the tables turning. That’s what a revolution is, a turning of something. So many people have negative beliefs programmed into them, to reject opportunities as “too good to be true,” and more. But we can turn our minds around through affirmations and meditation. That’s a kind of revolution to be proud of and to wish for others.
So, for me, the tables are turning. I am seeing some of the larger fruit showing from my actions of weeding out negative thoughts and planting seeds of positive thoughts and turning them into more long-term beliefs. My mind garden is becoming less of a weed habitat and more of an actual garden with flowers and fruit. That’s a pretty good affirmation too, but perhaps too wordy.
The more you write about what you appreciate, the more you can look for affirmations that would be good to meditate on and repeat.
The Challenge
This experience is so monumental to me that it’s been a challenge for me to keep up with the positivity. I mentioned that I wanted to write this article weeks ago. But I’ve had work, and I’ve been tired, and I had to deal with that call forwarding thing (which was not a hacker, but apparently my voicemail system). I catastrophized. But if you read that old article, you will know that I overcame old negative thought patterns concerning a fear of hacking/spying. I am certain that it was for my benefit to deal with those samskaras.
I also had other things going on with my energy levels and struggled to shift my habits into more beneficial ones concerning my breathing (which also is affecting my sleep and why I woke up around 3:30 and decided to write this morning). But I think these things are all for my benefit in the longer run, some perhaps in the shorter run.
I planned to take some vacation time off of work at the end of the month. I’m going to hang around the house most of the time, unless it’s beautiful weather and I decide to go to the park. But, I’m content to work on the breathing and focus on how things are shifting in my life for the better.
I have not thought about my student loans being discharged much. I know I should appreciate it more. I should spend more time enjoying that. Perhaps walking (or jogging) in the park or fitness center will help me to feel more free. I’m hoping to have more energy in the next few weeks. But I should meditate on it today. You can see how easy it is to push something you want to do off to another day. There’s no time like the present, right?
This is the struggle and challenge. It is (mental) work at times to take time out to appreciate something that’s already happened. People who dismiss the law of attraction because it’s “too easy” to think you can manifest something without work, have no idea that work involved in manifesting.
Odd Moments of Bliss
Even though I’ve been struggling with things the past few weeks, there are moments where I find myself partly smiling or just enjoying the moment, which is odd. I was at work yesterday and I could have been upset that I was not off doing something I’d rather be doing (like writing). But, instead, I was enjoying myself, while working. I was enjoying the day (while it was windy and raining heavily outside). I was asked to do something, I normally would have dreaded and had no dread. It went smoothly and I felt accomplished. Those are all signs that things are turning around in my mind.
It was only a few weeks ago that I was meditating on the affirmation of the tables (of my mind) turning around, and here’s proof of it. Imagine what could manifest if I keep focusing on that. Actually, simply writing this article is a form of meditation on that affirmation.
My mind turning around is a far more beneficial affirmation than “Thank God my student loans are paid off.” Because my mind is turning around on many subjects and continuing to improve. The student loans are only going to be paid off once. Milking my student loans being paid off is good, but making new affirmations that can lead to something greater in the future is better.
Please Make Your Own Affirmations
I wish this for all of you. Every time something in your life goes well, milk it, and make your own affirmations that are believable, simple, and vague (in a sense). You want it to be vague enough that it can help you to manifest things you could not even imagine, but beneficial and on-point enough that you feel strong (positive) emotions when you’re affirming the thought.
You don’t want to let good things pass you by without a thought. It doesn’t have to be as striking as the student loan relief. It can be as simple as “I’m meeting more kind people these days” when having a good interaction with someone.
You are in charge of that garden of your mind. All of these affirmation practices (creating them and focusing on them) are helping to plant seeds in your mind. They will bear fruit eventually. There’s no better time to start than right now.
