Three Daily Positive Affirmations

For Unlocking Your Happiness From Within

The three - I would say essential - habits for creating a happier life are:

Truthfulness

Kindness

Appreciation

If we make it our business to focus our attention on just these three human qualities, then we are guaranteed of becoming a happier person.

• The moment we choose to be truthful, and we actually speak or act truthfully, we feel good inside.
• The moment we are kind, we feel good inside.
• The moment we start to appreciate something, we feel good inside. And feeling good is an aspect of feeling happy.

The chart below extends the Blueprint for Happiness further and gives some down-to-earth examples of being truthful, kind and appreciative. These are examples of the kinds of behaviours that make us feel good. And feeling good is, in effect, the essence of feeling happy.

Blueprint for Happiness
Section 3

Charts are all very well, and they can appear to be be quite theoretical. So I invite you to put a little focus into this and try it out for yourself in a practical way.

See for yourself if the positive affirmation you've chosen from the three listed below is actually true for you:

Before you try go out and try this experiment, if you haven't already been to the pages that give more detail about each of these qualities and behaviour habits, you may want to do that now, and then come back here. (I'll keep this window open so that you can get back to it easily.)

Click here to access the pages giving more information about how each of the Three Habits develops a happier and more joyful life, while at the same time developing (automatically) the power of positive thinking.

Additional exercise: How to change or reinforce beliefs

Here's a process you may wish to try whenever you want to change beliefs that no longer serve you. In this case, you can use it to reinforce your belief in the aphorisms given above. Here's how.

First, test the truth of the aphorism:

As already suggested, take any one of the affirmations given above to test its validity for you. Be what it says, and see if you do feel good. For example, be kind to someone today, and immediately check how you feel. Do you feel good?

If you feel good after being kind, then you know the aphorism/affirmation is true. This makes it much easier to accept.

Reinforce that belief in your consciousness:

When a belief is entrenched in your consciousness, it governs your thinking and behaviour, and what you attract into your life situation.

It has another important role too: if it is a belief that resonates with your higher self as being what you truly desire, then when you deviate from that belief you experience the opposite of 'feeling good'.

It is something like more clearly hearing your conscience speaking to you. So, when you are not being kind (or truthful, or appreciative) you are deviating from what makes you feel good (happy, joyful, self-loving).

With the belief more lively in your consciousness - through the belief-entrenching exercise that cements these daily positive affirmations in one's awareness - then, when you are not being that quality, you immediately and more clearly pick up the message from your body in the form of a not-so-good feeling.

It then becomes easier to change direction there and then and to choose that with makes you feel better and which unlocks your inner happiness to flow.

This is how noticing your feelings and following what feels good is a key to a happier life. Some call it following your bliss.

Self-inflicted unhappiness

Here's another important point. When we do not follow the good-feeling prompts from our inner 'voice' - which come in the form of feelings - that is the basic cause for self-imposed stress, ill-health and unhappiness. Furthermore, when the prompts are ignored like this, we become less and less sensitive to noticing them.

This is how people lose their sense of right and wrong, and go about their lives transgressing 'natural law' without even being aware that they are. Suffering is the automatic result.

On to the belief-entrenching method itself

On the next page you'll find a practical method for using daily positive affirmations in a totally different way from the usual approach. Instead of taking 21 days to change or reinforce a belief, this method is concentrated into 5 or 10 focussed minutes once a day for three to five days, per belief.

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