Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 8, (February 1, 2018) | Page 10

subconscious. As I am read an affirmation that says, “Today is a happy day”; that is going to clash against my subconscious belief. This is all happening automatically without my conscious awareness. My subconscious belief will not only show me things to fuss and complain about but will also create circumstances which, I can complain about. I will even attract people who complain about me being fussy. Let me show you a scenario. I wake up in the morning and it’s a beautiful, bright sunny day but the belief I hold within, will paint a different picture in my reality. It will generate a train of automatic negative thoughts such as its too hot, why the air conditioner isn’t cooling enough; the service people are not doing their job properly, it was a mistake giving them the service contract. Throughout the day, the subconscious will continue to bring into my attention things to fuss and complain about. It can be the traffic, weather, food, people and situations. I keep on re-affirming this pattern of thoughts automatically, thus reinforcing the subconscious belief. Now, all this is happening out of my conscious awareness. So, how then can we write affirmations which, break our automatic thought patterns and make us mindful and aware of new ways of responding? Before writing an empowering personal affirmation, we need to understand few basic rules of the beliefs we already hold within us. I discovered some simple basic rules from my years of education and from working with so many clients. 1. Beliefs are generalizations. 2. Beliefs will distort our view of the world. 3. Beliefs will delete any new information that conflicts with it. 4. Beliefs will dictate what we can do or cannot do. 5. Beliefs give you permission to what you can see or cannot see in your reality. 6. Beliefs will manifest a reality according to what you believe. 7. Beliefs direct what you give attention to and what to focus on. 8. Beliefs will gather evidence to reinforce the belief. This becomes a