* Affirmations * in Just Stuff

Say these words mentally: "I have a powerful influence on my surroundings."

Note how much emotion and meaning you have just now put into thinking those words.

Now say the words aloud. Again take note of emotions and meaning.

Now imagine that you are a great Shakespearean actor on a stage performing before 10,000 people. Use your whole body to convey to the people in the last row what each word means to you. Discover a natural posture, arm position, head position, etc. that naturally goes along with EACH WORD. Now speak the words very loudly, with the grandest gestures you can that, to your mind, are fitting.

Ask yourself, How did my actual emotions differ when I spoke these words the second and third times?

How can I use my body to encourage more passion to come into my life?

What would my life be like if I tried to use this method to increase the emotional content of my statements even a fraction more?

Am I censoring or shutting down my emotional expressiveness now in ways that I can easily reverse?

What would happen if I spoke the above words in that Shakespearean way to my closest friends? What other emotions would come through me? Why?

How could I get comfortable with this affirmation? How long would it take to believe it 100% of the time?

Am I a powerful influence on my surroundings? Did I feel it was a truer statement when I use the "Shakespearean" method?

How does my mind change its beliefs when I used my body to express greater levels of emotion and belief? Should I become more physically expressive in my daily life?

What is the long term payoff to consciously bringing more emotion into my life?

How often do I "make a mood" like this? Are certain moods more likely to get my "support" in this manner?

If I "help along" a mood, is that being "real?"

Does it matter how I start or continue or enhance a mood? Is obtaining an emotion its own justification no matter how I "get there?"

Regards, Rick