MASTERING THE SIMPLE BASICS OF ENERGY CREATION
We’ve heard
about ‘affirmations’ as being positive statements we can say to help
overcome existing conditions. That means that someone with self doubt
could affirm the opposite, to help them overcome that condition by
repeating, ‘I am capable of anything’. Or someone under stress, could be
helped with, ‘I am at peace with myself’. It’s a simple process, but the
idea of it is not always grasped. I’ve heard people say “that’s
ridiculous. I am sick. What’s the point in saying I’m well when it’s not
true.” So, what is the principle behind an affirmation?
Life
revolves around thought. Every thought carries energy, and energy has a
creative potential. If we express a thought with sufficient energy, we
give it value and intent. That creates a possibility for the content of
that thought to occur in our life. It might be something we feel
strongly about and believe is true. But it could also be a casual
thought we repeatedly express, thereby increasing its strength.
An example
could be hearing that yet another car in our neighbourhood has had its
tyres slashed during the night. That’s the third in a month. It is easy
to find ourselves saying, ‘These damn kids wander the streets at night
with nothing better to do than damage cars. Mine is probably next, with
our poor street lighting.’ We repeat it to various members of our
family, then to people at work, friends at the pub, and another group of
friends at the footy. We throw this negative thought out without
considering that it may be setting a creation in motion in our own life.
A couple of months later, our car tyres are slashed. Our comment? 'See,
I told you!' What we overlook is that every time we repeated that story,
we chose to keep energising the same possibility.
Now let’s
take this to a more serious level. What if the doctor informs you that
you’ve got high blood pressure. That doesn’t surprise you as you know
you’ve been stressed over a situation with a neighbour. At your next
visit, the doctor adds that it is way too high and you might have a
stroke, and gives you drugs to help lower it. The fact that you already
knew the likely cause, and needed to resolve it to remove the stress,
gets forgotten. With the doctor’s words ringing in your ears, now you
are worried. You seek advice, so you start telling your family, friends,
work colleagues, tennis associates and everyone at your art class, ‘I
have high blood pressure. It’s dangerous and I could have a stroke.’
If we
understood that our thoughts, emotions and words all carry energy, and
that energy helps to shape our experience of life, we might think about
feeding energy to a negative idea. It is almost like repeating a request
to the universe, inviting it to respond by giving it to us.
So, an
affirmation could be seen as creating a new pattern in our life, either
positive or negative. The repeated use of statements such as, 'I am a
loser', 'I never keep a girlfriend' or 'I never find a parking space’
may be answered by an obliging universe that continues to give you just
that. But the universe also responds to positive statements like, 'I am
worthy', 'My body is strong and supports my wellbeing', and 'I love and
approve of myself', a Louise Hay favourite. A well known and well used
affirmation is, 'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and
better,' from the French psychologist, Émile Coué.
I know
someone whose response to hearing a friend express a negative thought
such as, 'I never win anything,' was to lightly add, '...up until now.'
It was her way of bringing attention to what they were creating, and
helping to stop it from continuing into their future.
So, the idea
of doing affirmations is that by repeating a positive statement we can
reprogramme our mind and override an existing negative thought pattern.
There are no hard and fast rules about how often this needs to be
repeated to shift an old pattern. Be intuitive as to how often you say
it. Some people report noticeable changes within days, while for others
it may take much longer. I know I felt a definite increase of light by
repeating a few times a day, ‘I am aligned to the highest source of all
creation’.
This is not
about pretending a difficult situation doesn't exist. It is about
deciding which reality we continue to energise. It can be smart to
acknowledge our circumstances of today without continually reinforcing
them as also being tomorrow's reality.
The way we
consistently direct our thoughts may have a much broader effect than we
realise. I have heard a few actors mention a role they played in a movie
seemed to play out later in real life. Perhaps, by immersing themselves
so completely in the emotions, beliefs and identity of the character
over many months, they were repeatedly creating and reinforcing that
energetic pattern within themselves. Whether it is coincidence or
something else, it raises the question about how deeply repetitive
thoughts and feelings may influence our lives.
The case of
Christopher Reeve comes to mind. Christopher became a quadriplegic in
1995 after suffering a severe spinal cord injury when he fell from a
horse. His last movie, Above Suspicion, was released just days before
his accident. In it, he played a paralyzed police officer. To research
the role, he spent time at a rehabilitation centre, learning how to
realistically portray a paraplegic. Christopher later admitted that he
had felt a certain smugness, as though he was somehow privileged not to
be in that situation. He said the experience taught him a profound
lesson, that this could happen to any of us.
Of course,
one example doesn’t prove anything. But stories like Christopher’s can
make us think about whether following one line of thought or even the
same main emotion applied to life, might have more influence than we
currently understand. Even if we don’t yet fully know how energy works,
it can still help to be more aware of what we think and say.
Love,
Sandy
Stevenson
23.6.26