Words, which are just thoughts that have been crystallised, have an incredible amount of power, especially when we speak them with complete focus. The mere anticipation of feeling tired is enough to deplete our strength. The addition of the words “I’m exhausted” to that thought lends definition to the thought itself, which in turn lends the thought itself additional power.

Furthermore, the opposite is also true. If someone is worn out, but all of a sudden becomes interested in something new, it’s possible that their tiredness will go away completely! One is the product of their own thoughts. If, in addition to this sudden interest, he verbalises it with the words, “I feel wonderful!,” he may find that, rather than only feeling vaguely better, he actually feels as though he had acquired a new self-definition. This is because the words “I feel wonderful!” are emphasising how good he feels.

The fact that our routines are rooted so deeply in the subconscious presents a challenge. Therefore, even when we make the decision to change them, we find that we are drawn back repeatedly, and quite against our conscious will, into old ways of doing things.

Healing affirmations, on the other hand, have the ability to change us on levels of the mind over which the majority of us have very little conscious control when they are repeated with intense concentration before being carried into the subconscious.

What we think makes up who we are, but there is much more to who we are than just what we consciously think. We are the myriad of conflicting patterns of feeling, habit, and reaction that we have built up over the course of a lifetime — indeed, over the course of lifetimes — in our subconscious minds. These patterns have been with us since the beginning of time. In order for us to heal, we need to first resolve the conflicts that lie within ourselves.

Even affirming change on both the conscious and subconscious levels is not sufficient on its own. Because we are a part of a much larger reality, it is imperative that we also live in harmony with this reality. The divine consciousness exists in the background of our human minds.

When we put all of our focus on changing ourselves through our own efforts alone, we restrict our capacity for growth and healing. The practise of affirmation needs to be brought out of the self-contained realm of the mind and into the expansive reality of super-consciousness.

To “be rid of an imperfection” is what it means to be healed. To express the super-conscious, which is where originality and problem-solving come from, is what it means to be perfect. As a result, when we use healing affirmations, we focus on positive qualities that are the solutions to our diseases and imperfections.

This level of awareness, which is frequently referred to as the higher Self, is referred to as the super-conscious. For example, the most profound insights can be gleaned from this level of consideration. The super-conscious is the conduit through which divine guidance is communicated and genuine healing is accomplished. Affirmations, like any other merely human attempt at self-upliftment, have only temporary benefits in the absence of super-conscious attunement.

Reciting affirmations in such a way that brings one closer to a state of super-consciousness is the best way to use them. This is something that they are capable of accomplishing if we repeat them with intense concentration at the Third eye centre, which is a point in the human body located in the middle of the forehead between the two eyebrows. This is the seat of divine awareness in the human body.