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Selecting or Writing an Affirmation or Prayer
Before selecting an affirmation or prayer to repeat during meditation and perhaps throughout the day, read the affirmations and prayers under your chosen topic in the Experiments With Truth database or from your own sources. Choose one that resonates with you, or modify it to suit your needs or mode of expression.
In choosing a prayer or creating your own, avoid begging prayers. Understand that you are a soul, a child of God, and as such you have all the spiritual attributes of God latent within you. There is no need to beg when you already are and have what you want. Demand lovingly for your divine birthright of infinite love, joy, peace, and wisdom. Pray for attunement with the divine love that is within you, and for spiritual realization.
If you want to write your own affirmation, keep in mind that an affirmation is a statement of truth. Make it positive rather than negative: "I am" rather than "I am not." If you say "I am not...," you are merely concentrating on what you don't want rather than what you do want. It puts that negative picture in your mind, rather than the positive truth that you're trying to realize and manifest.
Put the affirmation in the present tense: "I am" rather than "I will be," so that you see yourself as already being, doing, or having whatever you're affirming. When appropriate, make it visual so you can picture it while affirming.
Another option for creating your own affirmations is to pay attention to passages that particularly appeal to you while you're reading one of the world's scriptures or other spiritual writings. If they include truths that you want to put into practice, see if there's a way to convert the words into an affirmation.
For example, here is a quotation by Wallace Wattles: "It is necessary...to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously." You can easily convert this into an affirmation: "I cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to me, and give thanks continuously."
Selecting an affirmation or prayer to repeat adds focus to your efforts to apply a spiritual principle, and provides you with a vehicle for deeper understanding and realization of truth, as well as attunement with God’s presence within you.
For information about how to pray and affirm, read the articles How to Pray and How to Affirm.
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