I regularly receive emails from people who have read and experienced The Little Book of Pink as they healed from cancer, another health challenge or physical/emotional adversity. Consistently, I hear that the affirmations and mediations in this little book, filled the mind and heart of the reader with positivity, hope and personal power. Why does this work? How can it be that words can transform?

It really is not much of a mystery if we peek at how the words of others land on us when they are encouraging or belittling–full of praise or negative judgment–gratitude or rebuking. If the words others share with us are so powerful, it stands to reason that our own, spoken more frequently weild even greater power.

When you speak positively about a desire and feel as though the truth of it is already yours, your body responds. Your cells listen attentively and respond like a dutiful student who adores a teacher and wants to please. Affirmations can positively change your life when coupled with positive emotions. They can change your mood, your actions, perspective, and expectations. As a matter of fact, expectation coupled with your intentions are a powerful 1-2 punch to create what you desire. You don’t even have to think about HOW you will achieve the things you are affirming, you will create that as you go both consciously and unconsciously. Holding a clear expectation attracts the outcome you desire.

When you expect a certain outcome as relayed in an affirmation, your body responds just as it does to placebo pills in scientific research. Your brain lights up differently when you believe something is on its way to you–even if it is only “in fun” that you go to that place of “feeling”, your body cannot discern whether it is really experiencing it or it is a game of make believe. The brain actually desires to come into alignment with our intention and the pre-frontal cortex actually sets in motion a process that changes the brain in a process called neuroplasticity. Of course we don’t need to know all that, we just have to know it works.

How to do it:

1. Think of a short mantra which encompasses your intention in the form of a simple statement. Make sure it is something you really want, not something you think you should want.

2. Make it present tense as though it is truth now. (If you put it in future tense, it will always remain in the future.)

3. Make it believable. “I am attracting unexpected income everyday.” may feel more possible than “I have a billion dollars in my savings account.”

4. Keep it positive. Affirming “I am happy.” will attract a much better result than “I am not depressed.”

5. Visualize, Visualize, Visualize! Close your eyes, and imagine just what it would look and feel like to experience your desire. Do this daily and often. Not only is it like a mini-vacation, it is a tool of creation. Scientists hooked Olympic athletes up to monitoring systems and had them run their events in their minds and shockingly, their muscles fired as though they were actually physically participating in their event!

6. Make it multi-sensory. Visualize your desire as though it already is, speak your affirmation mentally, aloud, write it down and read it…

7. Keep it fun. This is not a tedious homework assignment. It should be fun. Keep the energy around this light and fun.

8. Close your day with it. The last thing you give your mind to think about at night is what it will mull over all night long. If it focuses on your goals and good feelings, your brain will use that in the creation process. Conversely, negative tv news wrought with fear and negativity will creep in your cells and do a job on you as you sleep.

Whether it is a financial stability, a healthy body, vibrant relationship or world peace you desire, affirmations that you enjoy, feel, state andcelebrate are a tool to bring them to fruition. 

All the best!

Rena M. Reese

Founder, Soul Salon International