Start Your Day With Affirmations

Here’s a fun fact: your brain has something called the Reticular Activating System (RAS).It helps filter what you notice.

Basically, your brain is wired to show you what you believe. So if you believe “Everything is horrible and nothing will help,” your brain will keep finding proof of that.

But if you start believing “There’s always something that can help,” your brain will start showing you that, too.

This isn’t magic.It’s neuroscience. (excerpted from The Dementia Dose, a newsletter by Dementia Careblazers).

So this week I plan to have a pretty good week, keeping RAS in mind. I plan to remind myself that life is good and I’m lucky to live in such a beautiful place with wonderful friends. I plan to exercise and eat a high protein, low processed food diet.

In the spirit of RAS, I plan to say my affirmations daily. Here are a few of them:

Progress not perfection.

Let Go. Let God.

One Moment at a time.  One Task at a Time.  One Day at a Time.

I choose to be understood and accepted.

I am creative.

I am enough.

I am loved.

I am whole.

I am calm.

I am reading a book on “affirmative prayer” called, “Discover Your Divinity: A Modern Guide on Affirmative Prayer.”  Authors Martella-Whitsett and Weir Morency write, “Affirmative prayer relies upon statements of Truth as anchors for shifting awareness and powerlessness to empowerment.”

I encourage you to make a habit of saying the affirmations I use or write your own every day for one week.  You might want to post them on your bathroom mirror as a reminder.  Look yourself in the mirror as you say them. I think you’ll feel the difference a positive start to your day can make.