Super Charging Affirmations

Affirmations are one way to install an empowering belief and to weaken (or eliminate) a limiting belief. An affirmation is best stated when it's simple, brief, positive, and in the present tense.

• I am a disciplined trader.
• The market provides me with an abundance of opportunity.
• The market is my partner in success.
• I consistently follow my trading guidelines.
• I am a winner. I think like a winner. I do the things that winners do.

If the affirmation is patently not true for you at the present time, you can make it believable by turning it into a process of becoming. I am becoming a disciplined trader.
Another way to make it more credible is by turning it into a question. Our minds assume the truth of the question and go on a search for the answers. In what ways does the market provide me with abundant opportunity? By turning the affirmation into a question, you avoid the oh yeah? response.
Once you have your affirmation worded effectively, you can super charge it by making a mental image of the affirmation fulfilled. You can construct a still picture or create a mental movie, a vivid daydream of the affirmation happening. Either way, take time to make the picture clear, vivid, focused, up front and near enough to feel present. Once you have the picture step out of the picture so you see yourself in the picture.
A picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. When you say your affirmation in the future, that picture will flash into your mind. For example, when you say, The market is my partner in success, a picture of yourself trading profitable in synch with the market will reinforce the affirmation.
Once you have the affirmation and the image, you want to super charge it with feelings. Thought mixed with feeling acts like a magnet to bring that thought into reality.
For example, when you say, I consistently follow my trading guidelines, and in the back of your mind you see a picture of yourself doing that, you allow yourself to feel the confidence and trust in your methods and the probabilities that enable you to be consistent with your rules and strategies.
Now you have an affirmation that is so powerful, it will manifest itself in your trading. You have combined your desire with your imagination. Your will power is now supported by your imagination. You affirm yourself to trading success.
Of course, you still have to find out what works, verify that it works, and apply it to your trading. Simple wishing is not enough to win.