The Only Person Watching is my Dog

Hey, Cadre. Family doctor Carey here. Today, I want to talk about positive affirmations or declarations. Now, had you said those words to me about six months to a year ago, I probably would have rolled my eyes at you, because I have pretty much my whole life been considered a negative person. And I will admit that I'm a negative person, and I would have probably corrected you had you said that to me and told you that I was a realistic and I was just stating the obvious or the truth. But I honestly have been a negative person my entire life.

So in order to shift my thinking, because I thought, you know, I want to be a positive person and I can be a positive person. So how can I go about doing that? I had to take some active steps because it's just not natural for me like it is for some people. So, first of all, let me explain what are positive affirmations or declarations? It's basically saying something out loud about yourself that is true or that you want to be true. And it could be something simple as I am beautiful, I am smart, I am good at my job, anything like that.

Positive. Right? So I want to explain to you why this is so important, to say these things out loud and not just think them, not just write them. Because what happens when you say something out loud? First of all, the spoken word that comes out of your mouth is an audio frequency, right? It creates electricity. It creates energy in the atmosphere. You are literally putting out positive energy into the universe. That's what sound waves do, right? That's what audio waves do. The other powerful thing about speaking it out loud is that you also then hear it.

So you're using two of your senses, actually. You're using your sense of speaking and your sense of hearing to then receive the information other than just thinking it. When an audio frequency hits your ear, it bounces off your eardrum, just like a tympanic drum, right? And it's a membrane, right. The sound wave bounces off and your eardrum moves. And then the little hairs inside your ear literally translate that signal, that electricity, into your brain. So when you hear something, information, you sit in class, whatever it may be, that information literally travels through your brain and gets stored.

So that's why it's so powerful to speak these positive affirmations out loud, so that you can hear them. So that information travels to your brain. So let me tell you, though, the first time I did this, and I actually took a marker and I wrote these things on my mirror, I stood in my bathroom and I said, them out loud in front of myself, I realized that a lot of these statements I had written, and as I was saying them and looking at myself in the eye, I didn't believe them. And I was kind of shocked because I can read them, I can think them.

But when I started saying them out loud and looking at myself in the mirror saying them, I realized I don't necessarily believe this thing I'm saying. So again, that's why it's so powerful to say them out loud. Because one, you'll have some realizations about maybe some areas that you need some more healing, but two, you get the opportunity to tell yourself this in front of a mirror. So it seems really silly. Trust me, the first, like, couple weeks I did this, I thought it was ridiculous. But I also then thought, the only person that is actually seeing me do this right now is my dog.

And I'm pretty sure she's not judging me. So I'm gonna keep doing it, because what do I have to lose, right? I'm only embarrassing myself in front of myself. So let me just tell you, after doing positive affirmations for four months straight, every single morning in front of the mirror, saying these things out loud, I now rattle them off because I actually believe them. After a while, you really start to believe these things about yourself. So even if there's things that you want to believe about yourself that you don't believe yet, write it down and speak it out loud every day.

Because the power that shifts when you put that positive affirmation into the universe and then hear it and receive that, trust me, your life will change. This is not something I take lightly. This isn't just a fun little activity I do every day. This is part of my daily routine, because how much it has shifted me, I now consider myself. I wouldn't say I'm an overly positive person in life, but I definitely come at things with a more positive outlook in life because I've been speaking that over myself.

I am a positive person. I have a positive outlook on life. And by saying that and hearing that every day, and even though I think it might be silly, after a while, I started to believe it. So I just encourage you to give it a try. Try some positive affirmations or declarations every day and see what happens, see what shifts. For you. It's worth a shot. Until next time, have a great day, guys.