Life changing magic of affirmations

Life changing magic of affirmations 


I don’t know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the line, I decided to believe that I was unworthy.  To be honest, I could point to a few different times in my life when that happened, but truthfully we don’t need to go back there and rehash that stuff…unless you pour me some Wine, and then I’m an open book.  And when I get my hands on you, you will be too 😉  

But in any case, there were these tricky times that led me to believe that I was unworthy.  I was unworthy of success, unworthy of truly being loved, unworthy of being heard, unworthy of being my true self, the list goes on…  And the only way I figured this out was because I kept finding myself in situations where I wondered how the heck I got there…it was like waking up from a bad dream where you settled for things that you would never imagine yourself settling for.  Like the things that you would condemn a friend for settling for.  Yep, I was like that.  I know, it’s shocking really, since that’s not at all who you know me to be… but that’s what makes this story so awesome.  And I hope it helps you realize how simple it is to turn your life around from where you woke up yesterday and asked ‘what the?!…. how did I end up here?!’ to literally creating whatever you can imagine for yourself.   

Picture done by Trippleshott in 11 August 2011 

What I’ve learned, and am actually obsessed with in my coaching, is that everyone at some point has a belief that they are not worthy.  And if you’re saying ‘oh, I KNOW that I’m totally worthy’ … sorry Boo, you’re likely the person that is finding herself in more situations then you can count, where you are being taken advantage of and giving your energy away like it’s air.  It would seem that it’s a right of passage for our crazy ego to convince us that we should down play our strengths, we should give away our power and we should people please. But, honestly you are more amazing than you think! 

A few years ago, as I was building my successful coaching I was diving deep in to personal development and literally looking everywhere for the answers as to why I wasn’t achieving the success I could see for myself.  I was in the middle of meditation and the instructor was talking about setting intentions. These Intentions aren’t new for me, but when she said ‘I am Worthy’, I decided to try it on… as soon as I said it I had tingles up my arms.  And when I said it again I may or may not have teared up… and when I said it a third time, well, I don’t need to get in to it, but it was kinda of like a ‘I’m not crying, you’re crying!’ moment with my soul.  In that moment I knew that this was something that was triggering me and that I needed to address it. My self worth was needed for my soul and self esteem. I had the clarity in that meditation  to see that it going to be this seemingly little thing that would allow me to reach the next level of success that I was looking for… and it still blows my mind that I saw it, even more so now! 

So I committed to telling myself that I was worthy daily. How are you using affirmations? 

I hope this has inspired you to use affirmations,  it is a form of CBT cognitive behavioural therapy.

Lori at Lifesuccessnz 



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