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You are probably familiar with affirmations. They are your desires made into statements that you read or say to yourself.
Don't underestimate this simple mind technique.
The goal with Affirmation Imprinting is to repeat a statement over and over again, day after day, until it makes an "imprint" on your subconscious. Once this occurs, your subconscious mind will sense a difference between what it sees as being "real" and your outer physical world.
This difference will cause a tension and your subconscious mind will provide you with ideas, motivation and behaviors so that your outer world will begin to match up with your inner world. It will seem almost magical the way doors and opportunities open up for you everywhere in order to make that affirmation a reality. But wait! In order for the affirmation imprinting to occur most effectively to improve your golf game, the affirmation statements need to be written a specific way.
Three guidelines to powerful affirmation statements:
1. They must be personal. You are going to use the words "I" and "My" in each case. For example, a proper affirmation would be "I am confident when hitting my drives", not "You are confident...."
2. They must be positive. You would state your affirmation like this: "I hit my drives long and straight". A negative, and thus ineffective affirmation, would be "I don't hit the ball into the water hazard"
You see, although the subconscious is a powerful tool, it is still rather simple. It sees what you are saying as images rather than words, and so it can't comprehend words like "don't" and "can't.".
When you say, "I don't hit the ball into the water hazard" your subconscious mind brings up an image of you hitting into a water hazard, and you actually begin to reinforce the behavior that you are trying to change. 3. They must be in present tense.
Logically you would think to make the affirmation in the future tense, as in "I will be successful in my golf game." But this isn't the case. When you put your statement out into some distant future, no tension is created within the subconscious mind, and therefore no imprinting or changes will occur.
You see, when you say that you will be successful someday, you are also implying that you are not successful now. That matches exactly with what your subconscious knows to be true, and therefore no change. Just by changing that same affirmation to present tense, "I am a successful golf player," you create the tension needed and your subconscious goes to work. I don't mean to sound repetitive, but these three guidelines are crucial to Affirmation Imprinting.
Ok, now you know how to write powerful affirmations. Let's put this knowledge to use.
