{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Neville On Fire","title":"How to Really Use Affirmations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1186,"description":"Affirmations are form of prayer. How to make them more effective?..Consider Neville’s advice and nuances of technique. The goal is to inject fresh energy, conviction and effectiveness into our affirmations.1. Premise: we are awakening. We are self-regulating, self-developing, self-teaching. 2. Neville’s discussion of the sub-conscious mind is most helpful. engage in an exchange, create a rapport, with oneselfthe subjective mind is the sub-conscious: it is 100% susceptible to or subject to suggestionit is deductive in its thinking process, as opposed to inductiveit admits unconditionally the suggestion presented to itThe entire basis of affirmation is a reversal of mind, where we switch the polarity or the vector, so to speak, to stop being programmed by suggestion and instead provide the suggestion.Another reference to validate the premise: Claude Bristol, The Magic of Believing.3. Mind and speech. Two principles referred to by Neville from the Hermetica.4. Speech. Its nature and origin; its creative function.5. What is vain repetition? Speech without mind.6. Goal: speech with conscious intention. Shall not return unto me void.7. Goal: feeling of the wish fulfilled. (Word = logos = meaning). Go straight to the meaning -- the only thing worth having -- the state itself.8. Exception: use vain repetition as a means to get started, to pull oneself out of difficulty.9. Techniques: short formlong form elaborate description channels or forms of speech: thought, physically spoken, read silently, read aloud, recorded, listened to.10. Psychological instructions from Book of James: ship’s rudder; horse’s bit. Persistence. Do not fall into the trap of continually listening to new ideas without putting them into practice.KEY QUOTE“Stop all of the old mechanical negative inner talking and start a new positive and constructive inner speech from premises of fulfilled desire.” (Neville, Awakened Imagination and The Search, Chapter 5)RESOURCESRepeatedby Neville; text and audio by...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gzLZML9rHwZpCGatmdSUIZaIBiAVC10tHPlippdnDBI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2ODMxLzE2NDAw/Njg2MDMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}