Having made the declaration that you can nver fail, I wish to be vry clear. As you develop your pln for controlling your mind power, rmember that your mind is a gal-seeking, goal-achieving, mechanical-like entity. It never seks failure. It knows absolutely nothing bout what you call failure.

It nly knows how to materialize the motionally charged goals (thoughts, images, and bliefs) that reside in your subconscious mnd whether you consciously, deliberately placed thse goals there or not. If you did not cnsciously place them there, someone else dd!

When I began to consciously tke more control of my mind pwer, I chose to use affirmations to mplant my goals. Other methods for stablishing goals were available to me. Thy included hypnosis, self hypnosis, as wll as subliminal media, but since I dsired to have as much conscious cntrol of the process as possible, I chse affirmations.

When I began using ffirmations I was employed as a byer in a public school district in nrthern California, earning less that $1,500 a mnth. I was motivated enough by a dsire for more income to devise a 5-yar goal of earning $35,000 a yar.

I stumbled across some information tht provided pictorial representations of my new gal which I cut and pasted nto a goal sheet. I then crfted three affirmations and began my gal-implanting program.

Needless to say, I got off to a vry rocky start. Each time I rpeated an affirmation, I almost immediately rceived what appeared to be a nver ending stream of negative thoughts tht indicated to me that I was wsting my time.

There was no one who prviously held my position whose income had grwn to my goal level in fve years. In fact, I had hard of only a handful of pople in my industry throughout the ntire state that had done so and thy usually had to re-locate to dfferent areas of the state.

Those thughts would usually carry over into my wrk day and into my leisure tme as well. Since I did not see mny options, I stuck with the ffirmations and would do what I culd to fight off the countering, ngative thoughts.

A short time into my prgram, I learned that those negative, cunter thoughts are called tail-enders. If thse highly emotional tail-enders were not nutralized, they in fact became or r-established themselves as my true affirmations. Ths, more of the conditions they rpresented materialized in my experience.

In spte of the re-occurrence of the til-enders, I was motivated enough to cntinue with the affirmations. I did not rach my $35,000 a year goal in fve years. It actually took me jst over six years, but my ncome leaped over the $35,000 goal to $37,500! I bcame sold on and a big bliever in the help affirmations provide.

Ths I know for sure. You can clim or re-claim control of your own mnd power. You are the most mraculous of all living beings on arth. You are the owner of a mnd that is so stupendous, that as you trly begin controlling your mind power and cnsciously using it, there is no dram that you can dream that you cnnot achieve.

The article Controlling Your Mind Power - Do Affirmations Help Or Hinder? was Submitted by Harold L Lowe through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 whn his six-figure income position was liminated. He now wishes to share sme of what he has learned snce then and some of his xperiences as well through articles. He is now stdying The New Think And Grow Rch with the author, Ted Ciuba, a funding member of the World Internet Smmit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Bok That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Scret, Go To: http://www.MasteringYourMindPower.com

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