Accentuate the Positive

THE TAO OF TRANSFORMATION: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

By Coach Cary Bayer

“You’ve got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-between.”—Johnny Mercer

What was true in the legendary hey day of Broadway’s Tin Pan Alley is as true today in the new millennium. If you want a transformation in, say, your finances, you must remove the resistance to prosperity that festers in the Unconscious part of your mind. That resistance got there as a result of some 20,000 meals you ate while growing up in your parents’ home. A powerful way to transform your mind is by accentuating the positive, as the songwriter wrote. In other words, latch on to the affirmative.

Here’s a good affirmative to latch onto: “My mind is a money magnet.” At the left of the page, write the affirmation, then the resistance that follows. Suppose the negative thought that you eliminate is: “My mind is lazy and uncreative.” Write this response without judging yourself or your parents for helping create it. Writing it releases it from your being. The next step is to create a new affirmation to specifically treat this resistance. A good one, in this case, is: “My connection to the Higher Power of the Universe energizes my mind with creative ideas and a power to attract opportunities to me.” What makes this transformational technique so powerful is that you aren’t just using the affirmation passively or mechanically. Passive use of an affirmation includes looking at it on your desk, on your fridge or on your mirror, for example. A mechanical use of an affirmation is the repetition of it over and over in your mind. The affirmation technique that I'm teaching here is conscious and interactive, because it's being used to bring up everything that stands in the way of the affirmation becoming true in your life. Then you consciously transform that resistance with a new affirmation in each specific repetition. Do this affirmation process daily for 10 repetitions in the manner that I'm about to describe.

Use the same three-part format for repetitions two and three, knowing that you’ll likely have a different mental obstacle each time, and therefore, a different part C antidote as well. For repetitions four through six, switch to the second person in part A. If your name is Cary, then write 4A-6A this way: “Your mind, Cary, is a money magnet.”

It’s basically the same affirmation that you used in the first three repetitions, except it's tweaked somewhat as if someone were speaking it directly to you. For 7A-9A, use the third person: “Cary’s mind is a money magnet.” For the 10th repetition, revert back to the first person, as you’ve come full circle; you don’t need a B or C since you’re essentially completing what you began.

Since your parents couldn’t teach what they themselves didn’t know, it’s up to you now to parent yourself in the way you wished that they had. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Enhancing your self-esteem wasn’t the topic of conversation during the 20,000 meals you ate growing up; that means you spent 20,000 sessions with financial advisers who were probably ill-equipped for the task. However, they are far more persuasive than any of the brokerage house advisers you may have met in your adult life, because they created, reared and loved you. And out of love you’ve stayed loyal to their teachings. It’s now high time, however, that you become loyal to your higher Self, too. Daily practice of this money affirmation will help you transform your unconscious resistance, and teach you to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and latch on to the affirmative.