MACNUT says ‘The power is in the speaking. Your life today, is a result of what you said yesterday.
Death and life are in the power of your words.’
You can rise up from the sick bed and be healed by speaking healing to your body.  Your body will respond to your words.
An affirmation is a statement of a desired result that you want to experience and that you already know, believe and feel to be true.
To affirm is to state that it is so.
An affirmation is the best technique of programming or training your mind to achieve your goals in your life.
Generally, for an affirmation to work it must be positive (in harmony with the Truth); in present tense and personal –uses the words ‘I’ or ‘I am’.
Neale Donald Walsch explains ‘Use the great command that calls forth creative power: ‘I am’. Make ‘I am statements’ to others.
‘I am’ is the strongest creative statement in the Universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words ‘I am’, sets into motion those experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you’.
In other words, whatever you say after the words ‘I am’ follows you whether that is what you want or otherwise.
Names and mottos of people, groups, organisations and countries are all different types of affirmations or creative words and statements and if they are positive they bring about positive results while the reverse is also true.
For example, the motto of the Boy Scout Movement is- be prepared; International Business Machines (IBM) is think; University of California is let there be light; New York state is up-ward ever; US Coast Guard is samper paratus in Latin to mean (always ready); Barack Obama Presidential campaign was Yes we can; Tanzania is Uhuru na Umoja in Swahili to mean (freedom and unity); Church is Amen (it has already been so); British Queen’s lancers (soldiers) is death or glory;
British SAS soldiers is who dares wins; Kings Guards in ancient Greece was all men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, but always to victory; Zambia’s Independence struggle campaign of 1961 was Cha Cha Cha (day break).
Muhammad Ali as a boxer was I am the greatest, I fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee; Jamaica is out of many one people; and Zambia is One Zambia One Nation.
It is important to have a positive motto or name to receive positive results. Remember that your  mind turns thoughts into things.
Strangely, most personal and business mottos and names in our beloved country are more negative than positive like Bulanda (misery); Kanchule (let me suffer); Misozi (tears); Malilo (funeral); Masiye (orphan); Mambara (trouble-maker); Mabvuto (problems); Bit-by-Bit Investments,  Tiyeseko (let us try) Internet café; Washama (cursed) Road and Kambafwile (let me die for them) and Sons cross-country Trading!
In a certain home, a newly born baby was named Pansi
palindila (the ground is waiting) and as expected the baby died just after two weeks from its birth.
Remember that in life you get what you expect and therefore, always expect the best from every situation.
There was also a Mr Bunang’ani (laziness). That one
needed help to do almost everything in his life except eating and going to the bathroom!
To describe him as being lazy would be an understatement.
He was one of a kind. I know of somebody who was being told from his childhood by his parents that he was a failure in life. When he grew up he became one. When it came to marriage, one day he just walked a few steps from his father’s house and married a relative and now they have several grandchildren.
If you repeatedly and lovingly tell a child that he or she is clever and intelligent, even when a child makes a mistake, until adolescent years the child will grow up to become clever and intelligent.
This is how your mind works it turns your priority thought mixed with your inner feeling into your life experience.
The US motto ‘In God We Trust’ has significantly enabled the USA to rise from a colony and become a super power in 1945 and the most prosperous nation on earth in less than 200 years of attaining its independence in 1776.
In 1861, after Union morale during the civil war had been shaken by battle field defeats, the Reverend Watkinson wrote to the secretary of the treasury Salmon Chase and said ‘From my heart, I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters’.
Reverend Watkinson suggested recognition of the Almighty God in some form.
‘In God We Trust’, first appeared on US coins in 1864. Ninety-two years later in 1956, US Congress designated the statement ‘In God We Trust’ as the USA national motto.
In 1487, Portuguese sailor Bartholomew Diaz and his expedition reached the Cape of Storms at the southern tip of Africa in now South Africa.
It was so named Cape of Storms because of the terror of passing it.
When Bartholomew Diaz returned to Portugal and told King John of Portugal that he had named the Cape at the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Storms, King John just shook his head and said ‘Bartholomew, are you out of your mind? If we call it the Cape of storms, our sailors will be afraid to pass it. Because it points the way to India and the riches of the East, we should call it the Cape of Good Hope’.
Until today in 2015, more than 500 years later, the cape at the southern tip of Africa in South Africa is positively known as the Cape of Good Hope and it has been so good and kind to most sailors in history.
The area around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is today one of the most developed pieces of real estate in the whole world.
Research studies of sports psychologists have found that the thoughts which one has when one is about to perform a physical event will determine how well one will perform that event.
For instance, weight-lifters lift more when they hold self-affirming thoughts, dancers dance more when they hold self-affirming thoughts; speakers speak better when they hold self-affirming thoughts, swimmers swim
fast when they hold self-affirming thoughts and runners run fast when they hold self-affirming thoughts.
You too can also perform any physical event more and better when you are holding self-affirming thoughts.
Joseph Murphy in his classic and ground-breaking book ‘The Power of the Subconscious mind’ says ‘To affirm is to state that it is so.
As you maintain this attitude of mind as true, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer.
What you affirm consciously and feel as true, will be made manifest in your mind, body and affairs’.
Neale Donald Walsch observes that ‘The best affirmation is a statement of gratitude and appreciation “Thank you God”, for bringing me success
in my life.
Now, that idea, thought, spoken and acted upon, produces wonderful results, when it comes from true knowing not from an attempt to produce results, but from an awareness that results have already been produced…
When you thank God, in advance, for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there in effect.
When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as ‘truths’.
Say them out ‘loud’.
Mark 11: 24 summarises how a positive affirmation works by saying that ‘When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it and you will be given whatever you ask for.
Pay attention to the change in the tenses in this statement.
When you expect something persist in your expectancy.
In other words, repeatedly affirm your desire with attention, belief, conviction and interest until it
manifests in your reality.
Always remember that your mind does not differentiate between what is real and what is imagined as long as it is mixed with your emotions of belief and conviction.
If your motto or name is negative replace it by a positive one if you choose and expect to receive anything good and positive from the Universe.
The Author is a Motivational Mentor and Consultant in Positive Mind-Set Change. Email:positive
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