Do you practice Affirmations, Visualization and Meditation to increase your life?

[jirimajkus]

I saw one video from John Assaraf and he is talking about power of

affirmation, visualization and meditaion and how practice of these 3

principles can explode your business and your life.

You can watch the video here.

After watching this video you will see that it can help you a lot.

So my question is do you practice Affirmation, Visualization and Meditation to explode your business and your life ?

Jiri

[JMonkey]

I know I want to, but I keep putting it off for short-term pleasures.

[supertom]

i used to practice affirmations, don't know why I stopped. Its really effective, the best known example is john demartini

[Andrew Gubb]

I practise affirmation. I keep a belief board and write what I want to believe, what I want to create, etc.

It's hard to do it if you force yourself or think you "have" to, but when you realise what affirmations are for and that they're quite natural, not some incredible new technology, then you can have it come out of you naturally.

A bit of overwhelming force is a good way of starting out in any new lifestyle change, but you want that force to bring you to the point where it requires no effort at all to continue. We're always doing things and making changes in the world, but energy is required to make a shift in the patterns in which we do it.

You won't be able to sustain visualisation if it's always a forceful effort.

Andrew

[jbsmith]

Yes, yes and yes...

I meditate at least 20-minutes each day, ideal I have found is two 20-minute sessions, but that doesn't always happen.

Affirmations - that's part of my morning exercise, what else do I do while shaving each day :-)

Visualization is probably the first thing I picked up way back over 20-years ago when I was coming out of school - don't remember who I learned it from, but I have certain visualizations for relaxation, certain ones for achievement and others for health. They pretty much happen automatically now through the day.

Finally - the key piece is to make sure all of this is purpose based, which does take additional time to figure out and needs to be re-visited every 6-months or so.

[Lauxa]

Yes, yes, and no

[Cloverhart]

I practice all three, meditation probably gets the least amount of my time only because it requires a block of dedicated time that I only get to every other day. I have morning affirmations though and I visualize every day. These three tools have definitely brought into my life a new sense of peace and I have no intention of stopping...

[JaredR]

Not anymore. I stopped trying, and I've never been more OK. It's not the explosive, so-powerful-it-will-make-you-throw-up joy I was promising myself affirmation after affirmation, but there's no longer a disconnect between who I am and who I wish I was. After you wander away from PD for a year and forget all this positive thinking stuff, you become a normal person again. It's all... OK.

[JMonkey]

Originally Posted by JaredR

After you wander away from PD for a year and forget all this positive thinking stuff, you become a normal person again. It's all... OK.

So why contribute to a personal development forum?

[JaredR]

Originally Posted by JMonkey

So why contribute to a personal development forum?

Because I am into personal development.

[carlon]

I don't do affirmations. I find they are temporary fixes.
But I DO practice Vipassana (insight) meditation.
I benefit greatly from it, as it helps keep my mind calm and also helps me practice detachment.
Some of my friends practice visualization meditation. I tried it and found it to improve my concentration. But the insight meditation was more helpful for improving my mental habits.

[RagsToRiches]

Originally Posted by jirimajkus

So my question is do you practice Affirmation, Visualization and Meditation to explode your business and your life ?

Jiri

Yes I do, very much so; and I have a website entirely on this area because I am so enthusiastic about it. I really enjoy learning new visualisation methods and meditations...

Out of the three, I've found meditation the most potent.

I think a lot of people unintentionally dilute the power of meditation because they don't realise the importance of quality of practice - that is, when you sit you are doing your best to ensure a quality practice for your mind. Just like if you were going to the gym to lift weights you would do quality lifting if you wanted to gain muscle.

The other side of the coin being that you should not ever stress out about your meditation practice. A sense of acceptance of whatever is and whatever has been is an important part of any kind of awareness meditation.

Visualisations I only really got into recently, within the last 6 months. I currently believe they are also very very powerful. I'm seeing some ridiculously great visualisations manifest for me in my life now and I'm amazed at how quickly and easily they are slotting in to the world around me...

So I'm a big fan of them too, although a relative "newbie."

Affirmations I have used on several occasions. The key to affirmations is getting the emotional sensation right. Sometimes I find that very easy, other times not so much.

Sometimes I find affirmations very fun, so that's when I do them. Whenever I try to make it a daily habit I end up getting tired of them and being unable to continually use them.

I was thinking of integrating them more with my visualisations and seeing what happens then... will probably document on my site

I'd recommend you look into all three, in the order I mentioned.

[vertanno]

For people who read my last on topic of "Should I commit suicide? Is life worth living?" (although I know there are few and was disappointed to learn she hasn't signed in this since a week ago) where I stated that I ignored the other replies, I have done you go-getters the decency of reading the replies of this topic. TBH when it comes to posts with requests for advice or help it becomes superfluous to read other peoples advice because you're not responding to them. Of course you may intend to disagree with other peoples advice I understand and if we repeat what others have said then so be it.

Originally Posted by JaredR

Not anymore. I stopped trying, and I've never been more OK. It's not the explosive, so-powerful-it-will-make-you-throw-up joy I was promising myself affirmation after affirmation, but there's no longer a disconnect between who I am and who I wish I was. After you wander away Pseudofrom PD for a year and forget all this positive thinking stuff, you become a normal person again. It's all... OK.

Perhaps it is for those who can tolerate?
There are many sub-genres in the personal development franchise as we all well know, to glance upwards and you'll see a whole list ranging from goals to intelligence. Perhaps we would rename this franchise to a more elaborate name, I have one as you may have guessed, and it's not even satirical: Pseudo Sociobiology and Psychoanalytical Development and New-Age Freakology.
It may just go tremendously well with the Pavlina catchphrase?

I don't practice any of these techniques consciously but I recognise if used cunningly they can produce quite outstanding results. TBH in the past I probably would have found these techniques quite effective if I had good direction of mentality to focus them upon. Almost suffice to say with that remark that I did not have a very good direction or decent affirmative mentality of life itself. I do feel as well there certain amount of integrity lost if you have certain values, people have different values and it does not always affect them outright.

The starter of this thread done well in naming these three techniques together as they oppose the three main areas of the house of our mind and body: Auditory, Visual and Awareness. However, in similar etiquette to how NLP attempts to turns psychology into a mathematical equation, these methods (deserving a collective term if there is not one already?) turn the natural processes of the brain into disciplinary processes of the mind. If you're life has a purpose, of which you give it, and living to that should-be abstract idea, what need of methods do ye have?

In Derren Browns "Tricks of the Mind", an interesting passage of the book remarked upon young men with professional degrees in NLP. One particular successful man, so it goes, became an absurd fascination to an interviewer of magazine or some sort. At first, as it goes, the interviewer could not quite grasp what was so absurd about the young man. But he gradually grew to notice how the young man mimicked all of his body language. Gestures, etiquette, posture, perhaps even facial expressions, the lot I suspect. Mimicking body language is natural, when it happens, you can consciously control but in essence it is still of naturalistic tendencies. When you turn it into a means to an agenda, for say, to get someone to like you for instance (this is not even a relevant agenda but more so a common misconception, mimicking generally tells other people you are in accordance with their thought, style of thought or attitude) it becomes fake because it is fake.

[Andrew Gubb]

Originally Posted by carlon

I don't do affirmations. I find they are temporary fixes.
But I DO practice Vipassana (insight) meditation.
I benefit greatly from it, as it helps keep my mind calm and also helps me practice detachment.
Some of my friends practice visualization meditation. I tried it and found it to improve my concentration. But the insight meditation was more helpful for improving my mental habits.

Adyashanti coined the term "true meditation" for what is basically an actionless action. Vipassana is close to that, it brings you nearer to what you are, then self-inquiry is good for making the shift. Those meditations I love for deepening my spiritual awareness / my connection with my true self or selflessness.

Then visualisation is pretty different really, but also cool. I like to visualise white light cleansing me or protecting me. It's great

By the way carlon, if you think affirmations are temporary fixes, can I suggest that you could benefit from exploring the topic a bit deeper? For me affirmations aren't temporary. They're a way of shifting a vibration. If you try and shift your vibration to something unsustainable, then you get a high then a crash. But if you give yourself constant positive input, you shift. This happens all the time, we are vibration and every vibration we come into contact with alters us. We just want to take the reigns of this law and use it for our benefit.

Andrew