Useful Tool to Focus on the Positive: Affirmations

You are a special person with a lot to give: affirmations will allow you to focus on the positive things in your life, by repeating positive phrases that will train your brain to think positively. An affirmation will reassure and relax your mind and body. Here are some useful affirmations that you can repeat in order to train your mind to see things in a positive light, every day. Getting bogged down in the negative will hurt your life.

Affirmations are a great way to keep yourself centered as you move forward to a better future:
1. I truly and humbly love myself, and respect and appreciate the special human being I am.
2. I am a decent person and deserve to discover, experience and possess happiness and joy.
3. I am only human, and therefore flawed and prone to make mistakes.
4. My life has value and worth and deserves to be loved.
5. I am the master of my life and the captain of my soul!
6. My first duty is to my own life and development, and my health and liveli¬hood. Once have I nurtured and provided for self, then can I help and benefit others.
7. I exercise my own free will and am responsible for the consequences--good or bad--of my decisions and actions.
8. I require no one’s approval or acceptance. I need only to do the best I can do and accept who I am.
9. My inner peace and stability do not depend on others or on exte
al forces. All this and happiness depend only on how I love and respect myself.
10. I am generous and good to myself.
11. I take each day as it comes and do the best I can.
12. I am calm, peaceful, and in no hurry, for I have an entire lifetime to live and develop.
13. No matter how difficult or negative, I know that every thought, word, action and event my life will experience, will contribute to my education and development as a human being.

These affirmations can be done anywhere and at any time. They can be repeated out loud if you are alone, or said to yourself if you are in public. Once you get into the habit of repeating the affirmations that ring true to you, you will start to focus on the positives in your life right away. You must always believe in yourself in order to succeed in life: life is simply too short to spend mired in self-loathing or self-doubt.
Affirmations will train your mind to turn away from negative thought: use them every day to strengthen and renew your mind.