The Power of Affirmations

Principle: Energy attracts like energy.

Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world."

"Be the change you wish to see in your acting career."

We attract and create our world.

Focus on what can be.

We do this through affirmations and self-talk.

Create a healthy, productive, and friendly neighborhood in your actor brain.

Living an abundant life begins with believing in and focusing on an abundant world.

Assignment: Practice gratitude in your acting career.

Creating a gratitude list with at least 5 things on it

If we focus on lack, that's what grows.

Truth: the world is an abundant place and there are enough resources for all.

"Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners."

Truth exists regardless of belief or consensus.

• Truth vs. truth
• truth: ego’s truth
• Truth: Universal Truth

Empowering Question: Sit down, set a timer, focus on this question for 15 minutes.

If I did _______________, for my acting career, what would be possible for me?

Consciousness: Your awareness of who you really are, as opposed to the you that you believe you are and were taught that you are.

Affirmations:

Use your mind to govern your brain.

“I love myself and I approve of myself.”

Assignment:

Practice these affirmations

1. I am enough
2. I am a working actor. I am a successful working actor.

If that’s hard for you try adding, “I am willing…”

If you still can’t get there, add “I am willing to be willing to believe….”

Practice consistency. Write them out 10 times a day.