It was through meditation that I began to realize how habitual and frequent I had negative self-talk. Prior to meditation, I realized I was too critical at times but was not aware of the more subtle ongoing negative self-talk. This is one of the great benefits of meditation! It heightens your awareness and helps you to clearly see what needs to be altered in order to have a more joyous life! Wanting to have more positive self-talk, I began studying the power of positive affirmations and how our thoughts become our reality.

Although I believed in positive affirming, I initially had a difficult time overriding negative self-talk with the positive! It was only when I combined my meditation time with positive affirmations that I was able to experience the feelings of the positive words. In experiencing the feelings of the words, I was able to believe them! This is when the habitual negative talk became less frequent. And when it did arise, I was able to shift to positive truths more easily.

There are times when things come up that push my buttons in a big way which trigger strong negative self messages. Instead of trying to combat the negative talk, I now take deep breaths, quiet my mind, and affirm positively. Sometimes the button pushed is so big that even through meditation, it takes several attempts to affirm positively. I don’t give up until I can feel the positive impact of the affirmations. But I guarantee you, what could have taken days for me to overcome now only takes a few hours thru meditation with positive affirmations.

TwentyGems, Journey to the Self through color, beautiful nature scenes, and mesmerizing imagery not only provides you a relaxed meditative state in an easy fashion but also provides the feelings behind its positive affirmations. Choose the affirmative theme that you need, sit back, take deep breaths, view the visuals and be ready to feel better than you ever thought possible in such a short and gratifying way. Each 11 minute journey meditation can also be experienced without the affirmations. You may want to create your own positive affirmations as you relax with the healing energy of these beautiful productions.