Hello there once again. Much more busyness and ‘stuff’ going on for me as usual. I’ve been adding things to the web site and the Forum and I now have a lovely Book Store on the Forum where you can buy books of a spiritual, motivational and inspirational nature. I’m trying to review the books as I go along too, so that people can get an idea of what the book will be like before they buy it. I think it adds value that way, and I do like to add value to whatever I do!

While sourcing things for the site, I was surfing the ‘net recently, looking for lovely inspirational videos to put on the Forum (we like our morning fix of positivity!) and I came across something new to me which I thought I would share with you. The usual idea is for these videos to have lovely photographs, nice music and affirmations such as “I am peaceful”, “I am healthy” etc. which float across your screen and give you a good, positive feeling. However, what I noticed was that there were no ‘affirmations’ as such on these new ones. Just questions. So there were questions like “Why am I healthy?” “Why am I peaceful?” Interesting…

I thought about this for a while and it occurred to me that this is a good way of going about things. After all, when we say an affirmation, we’re usually affirming for something that we don’t already have, otherwise there would be no need to affirm for it would there? And to ask ‘why’ something is, allows our mind to wander into the realm of possibilities. For example, I can think of many reasons why I’m healthy, even if there are some parts of my overall health I would like to improve. And asking why, sets my mind off on an entirely different track to the one that says, “I am healthy”, to which my sub-conscious mind always replies “Oh yeah?” When I ask “Why am I healthy?” my mind starts to come up with all sorts of reasons to explain why I am healthy.

There’s a full article on ‘The Power of Why’ on the Forum now, but I would encourage you to give it a try for yourself. If you feel stuck using the same old affirmations over and over again, try turning them around and asking, “Why am I…?” And let me know how you get on.