The Best Ways to Use Positive Affirmations to Manage Stress

Stress is an inevitable part of life. However, when stress levels remain high, they can start to have a detrimental effect on both your emotional and physical well-being. It is imperative to find ways to manage stress and repeating positive affirmations is a way for you to increase feelings of inner peace, and to combat daily stress. The idea is to take the positive statements of what you want to manifest in your life and repeat them enough that they become a part of how you think and see the world. 

Here are some of the best ways to use positive affirmations to help you manage stress.

Repetition

The most popular way that you can harness the power of affirmations is by merely repeating the affirmation to yourself regularly. Saying them out loud to yourself several times a day, in the mornings or evenings, can be incredibly useful. When you repeat them out loud, you hear them more clearly, which can make them more effective than if you were to repeat them to yourself mentally.

Do-It-Yourself Recording

To hear your affirmations more times throughout the day, you can record yourself repeating the positive affirmations and play the recording while you are driving, when you’re reading in the evenings, or when you are exercising. Be sure to talk in a calm voice, and consider playing your favourite soothing music in the background. DIY recordings are a great way to create a tailor-made experience for your specific needs. 

Use Post-It Notes

A fun way to utilize your positive affirmations daily is by writing them down on Post-It Notes and placing them around your house to provide you with positive messages throughout the day. You can put them on the refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, and other places that you see frequently. This technique can be incredibly useful on its own, or you can use it with some of the other affirmation techniques as a reinforcement.

Self-Hypnosis

If you want to increase the effectiveness of your positive affirmations dramatically, you can use self-hypnosis with them. Self-hypnosis is a way to cement your affirmations into your subconscious thinking much quicker than merely repeating them when you are in your normal conscious state.

While not all positive affirmations will be helpful in helping you relieve stress, most of them can effectively transition you into a better frame of mind and help you build resilience and help you find enjoyment in your life. 




Written by Yola Bastos Co-Founder Women Flix 
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How to Use Fear Setting to Overcome Anything Holding You Back

Most of us have plans and goals that far exceed our realities and it can be a painful feeling to know that you’re selling yourself short. Despite this though, many of us are too afraid or too unsure to take the necessary next steps. It never feels like the ‘right time’ (newsflash: it is never the right time), it never seems like the ‘responsible’ thing to do and we always feel like we’re inviting failure.

In short, we are held back by fear. So the question is: how can you overcome those fears?

The answer might just be something called ‘fear setting’. Read on and we’ll look at what this means and how it could help you.

• The Concept

The general idea behind fear setting is that you’re going to more clearly define what your fears are and thus start coming up with more effective ways to overcome them.

For many of us, our fears are very much abstract and general, rather than being concrete and specific. But when you take the time to identify the true nature of those fears, they can often end up losing their power over you.

For example, let’s say that you want to start your own business. You might have the vague but undefined fears that:

• Your business will fail and people will think less of you
• Your partner will think what you’re doing is foolish and judge you
• You’d have to leave your job and you might not be able to get a job back if things don’t work out
• You’d make yourself unemployable by creating a gap on your CV
• You’d have to take out a big loan, which would result in unending crippling debt

These all seem like legitimate fears. But now you’re going to actually write those fears down and thereby make yourself fully aware of what they are. Once you’ve done this, you can then start to go through them one by one and address how realistic each fear is, what you would do if it actually came true and how you could prevent it from happening.

For example:

• Your business will fail and people will think less of you
• Most people would, in fact, be much more likely to think more of you for having tried something exciting
• You don’t have to tell anyone
• Who cares?
• Your partner will think what you’re doing is foolish and judge you
• Ask them
• They will probably think what you’re doing is inspiring and they should support you
• Especially if you can show them how you’re going to make it work
• You’d have to leave your job and you might not be able to get a job back if things don’t work out
• You could run your business in the evenings or weekends and thus keep your job
• You could go part-time and run your business at the same time
• You could take a sabbatical to try launching your business
• You’d make yourself unemployable by creating a gap on your CV
• Most companies will overlook that, in fact, it will likely show gumption and savvy
• Your old job will likely take you back
• Worst case scenario, you take a lower-paid job
• You’d have to take out a big loan, which would result in unending crippling debt
• Or you could get a PayPal loan
• Or a loan from the bank of Muma and Dad
• Or help from a business partner
• Or funding through Kickstarter

The fear set shows us that the only thing to fear is fear itself! 

Written by Yola Bastos
yolabastos@womenflix.org
https://linktr.ee/yolatvbastos
Women Flix, Supporting Women all the way to Success!  
Women Flix Limited, a company limited by guarantee, was incorporated in England and Wales (company no. 13047578 ).