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Individualized Positive Affirmations
For Improving Self Esteem
Dr. Harry Henshaw
Positive self-esteem is very important if not crucial to our
happiness and well being as a human being. Having positive
self-esteem can make the difference in that which we take
on in life, in that which we go about achieving and creating.
Having positive self- esteem also allows us to have healthy
and joyous relationships with others, to experience true intimacy.
One could also assert that having positive self-esteem gives
us access to genuine spirituality. Poor self-esteem, on the
other hand, creates the space for us to experience a great
deal of negativity in life including depression, anxiety,
fear, stress and loneliness. Negative or poor self-esteem
is also highly correlated with alcohol and drug dependency.
Some even believe that a negative or poor self-image is the
source of such addictions.
While it appears that the importance of positive self-esteem
is somewhat understood, the unanswered question has always
been about how to improve or enhance a person's self-esteem.
Some belief that a person's self-esteem rests upon them being
successful, in accomplishing that which they take on in life,
of achieving goals that they have set for themselves. As a
result much effort is put into assisting others in effectively
and efficiently planning their doing in life. Others believe
that our sense of self-esteem is determined by the type of
relationships that we have, that by surrounding ourselves
with positive people who will appreciate and acknowledge us
that our esteem will be positively impacted. To this end training
is given to help a person improve his interpersonal skills,
how he communicates and relates with others. While both of
these endeavors are important, it is not the having or doing
that creates positive self-esteem. Ones self-esteem is not
given or to be obtained from without, external to the person.
One very effective way to improve self-esteem is through the
use of positive affirmations. Positive affirmations are very
powerful for transforming how a person feels and thinks about
himself, ultimately influencing how he views and acts within
the world and towards others. The fundamental reason why positive
affirmations are so effective is that their nature or structure
reflects what already exists in our mind. Our identity or
who we think we are, our current thinking patterns, are also
a series of affirmations, composed fundamentally of mere words
or language. Everything we think, all of the thoughts that
we have, are merely affirmations. Positive affirmations, when
used consistently, begin to alter our prevalent internal language
pattern, as negative as it may be, our inner self talk or
dialogue that exists within us. The end result of the consistent
use of positive affirmations is the transformation of an inner
negative language pattern into one that is positive in nature.
The most effective way to use positive affirmations is with
the individual's own voice. While a person can have a beneficial
result from listening to a commercially developed product
that employs positive affirmations recorded by another, the
transformative power of this technology is enhanced or strengthened
by the positive messages being delivered in the person's own
voice. By using a person's own voice to transform the inner
dialogue, there is less resistance to the transformational
process due to the fact that the voice itself is the same
or identical. It is as though the negative voice or language
pattern that one hears repeatedly in life is altered or transformed
by the consistent exposure and listening to that same voice
but with the structure of positive enhancing affirmations.
Eventually the structure will transform from one that is negative
to one that is positive in nature.
The process of using ones own voice in doing work with positive
affirmations can be strengthened with the use of therapeutic
relaxation music. While the use of ones own voice is very
powerful for creating change in a person's life, the use of
specially designed therapeutic relaxation music assists in
creating the audio space for this process to be very powerful.
We tend to be more open or suggestible to positive affirmations
or language when we are in a state of relaxation. When combined
with binaural audio tones the relaxing affect of the therapeutic
relaxation music is greatly enhanced. When used with the combined
effect of the therapeutic relaxation music and binaural audio
tones and consistently, the positive enhancing affirmations
that are delivered will have such a profound affect upon improving
and transforming a person's internal, self-talk and eventually
his self-esteem.
The technology of utilizing positive affirmations that are
recorded in a person's own voice and therapeutic relaxation
music is currently being employed in the treatment of those
suffering from substance dependency problems. At the Holistic
Addiction Treatment Program in North Miami Beach, Florida,
clients are given access to this powerful technology. Clients
have the ability to create personal affirmations that empower
them and support their recovery and also are able to record
these affirmations. The recorded positive affirmations are
then mixed with specially designed therapeutic relaxation
music to create a powerful audio product to assist the individual
in his recovery. Once created the client is trained in the
most effective manner in which to utilize their personal CD
as part of their overall recovery plan. Those clients who
utilize this powerful technology tend to improve their self-esteem,
stay in recovery and improve the quality of their life in
general. When a person feels and thinks more positively about
himself he tends to be more positive towards everything that
he is taking on in his life, including and most importantly
his recovery.
Harry Henshaw, Ed.D., LMHC
http://www.enhancedhealing.com
Dr. Harry Henshaw is in private practice in North
Miami Beach, Florida. Enhanced Healing Through Music, www.enhancedhealing.com
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