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Positive affirmations can have a very real impact on your life. They are much more than just a phrase that you repeat. Everyone has some familiarity with the idea of affirmations and given the way that they are often put across in pop culture, it isn't that surprising if you think of them as a little silly. To put it simply, positive affirmations can give you control over yourself, your life and the world around you. Affirmations are statements which you repeat to yourself on a consistent basis and can be either positive or negative. When repeated over an extended period of time, they can change the way you see things, the way you feel and even the way you act - all of which can bring about real changes in your life. Whether or not you think of yourself as someone who uses affirmations, they are something which have been around you for your entire life. Even your parents and other people who were around you in your youth use a form of affirmations to affect the way you act. Even if you don't realize it, affirmations come to you in the form of messages (verbal or nonverbal) from relatives and friends while you grew up. Eventually, you may have come to internalize these messages until they became part of your behavior and your point of view. For example, if your parents or other people often told you that you weren't smart when you were young, you could have come to internalize this message in the form of a negative affirmation. From that point on, whenever something happened that made you feel stupid, you were reminded of the negative affirmation drilled into you as you were growing up. Over time, you even began to believe them and saw evidence of this negative message everywhere. However, you can reverse the effect of negative affirmations by using positive affirmations which you come up with yourself. The following are a few tips to help you to come up with your own effective positive affirmations. Your affirmations should always be worded in a positive way, even if the idea of the affirmation is to change something negative in your life. Instead of saying something like "I don't want to worry about bills", say "I pay my bills with ease". Write your affirmations in the present tense; it is important for your affirmations to be written as things that are happening to you right now, instead of sometime later on. If you write your affirmations in the future tense, all of your energy will be focused on the future instead of the present. Whatever your affirmations are, they need to be focused on now, not the future. If it is difficult for you to stay positive when you're writing affirmations, then begin by putting