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Affirmations: How to Use Brain Chemistry to Unlock Your Greatest Desire

With Danielle A. Vann

Affirmations are positive statements that have the power to banish negative thoughts and help you achieve your goals. When used correctly, these power statements move words into action. Yet, even with the widespread popularity, many question whether or not affirmations genuinely work. It’s not that affirmations do not work; it’s that many practitioners haven’t learned the secret behind the practice. The missing link is a scientific, evidence-based formula that moves a string of words into physical manifestations. Throughout 15 lessons, this formula is broken down into simple, bite-sized journeys starting with your thought process. We then move to understand the emotional body and how connecting emotional is imperative for affirmations to work, why you must practice mindfulness, the different types of affirmations (self-affirmations, general affirmations, prayers, intentions), how to correctly set up your formula, and we’ll tie everything together with the ins and outs of fully engaging in six powerful, active affirmation meditations. Creating an affirmation practice is a beautiful way to uplevel your thinking, break free from habitual thought patterns that do not serve you, and help you create the life you greatly desire. I look forward to taking this journey with you.

Everywhere we turn, the word “affirmation” seems to be taunted as the end-all-be-all to shifting your mindset into a permanent place of positivity; yet, many fail to realize that there’s actual brain science and formula behind how to turn this practice into a full-life movement.

15 Days

936 students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

English

About this course

Affirmation Meditation

Present-Moment Awareness

Metta for Self

Meet your Teacher

Danielle A. Vann

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Houston, TX, USA

Danielle A. Vann has always had a passion for understanding people’s life stories and how those experiences are used as a benefit or detriment. When Danielle set out to heal and fully thrive in the light of her soul, she longed for resources and support that felt intimately connected to her spirituality, mental, emotional, and physical well-being, and path. Yet, no matter what she tried, outside of meditation, she continually felt disappointed by what she found. Finally, taking her healing into her own hands, she found her true calling. Now, as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, renowned Life Coach, Master-Level Advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Meditation Instructor, HeartMath Trauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner, MSBR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) instructor, Sound Healing Therapist, Reiki Practitioner, Master-Level Emotional Intelligence Therapist, Emotional Freedom Tapping Practitioner, and Subconscious release therapist, Danielle has created the ultimate blueprint for getting your life together, healing, creating self-love and inner peace. This blueprint combines psychology, mind and spiritual healing, somatics, neuroscience, mindfulness, purpose work, and the development of emotional intelligence. It’s a total mind, body, and soul awakening through the principles of Eastern and Western beliefs and practices. This blueprint has served thousands as it has been uniquely tailored to their journeys.

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15 Days

936 students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Defining and Understanding Affirmations

Your mind and brain are marvelous places of thought and pattern. It’s capable of far more than we scientifically understand, and yet, what we do know has the power to change your life. Most people have heard the terms “affirmations,” “mantras,” or “power statements” and know them to be critical factors in shifting their mindset into a positive place. What is less known is the evidence-based formula, based on brain science and emotional intelligence, that takes a simple string of positive words and turns them into a belief system for positive thinking, manifestation, and life success. In Lesson 1, we’ll deep dive into what an affirmation is and how mindfulness plays an active role in making affirmations work in your favor. The biggest mistake most people make when it comes to affirmations will be revealed, and it has to do with your thinking patterns. With brain chemistry and science on your side, you’ll soon be able to brain-hack your mind into taking your life to the next level, and it all starts with the “what” and “why.”

Lesson 2

What You Think About Grows

In Lesson 2, we explore our brain’s negativity bias and the impact of our thought cycles. The chemistry of the mind is extremely powerful and can point you in any direction, positive or negative, if you give a single thought validation. This is essential to building your affirmation formula and putting your affirmations to work for you. During our time together, we’ll explore how your thoughts come in, signal the emotional body, and how this impacts how you see the world around you. As the saying goes, “What you think about grows,” and this concept rules your life in ways you may have never thought about before, especially regarding affirmations.

Lesson 3

The Emotional Body

In Lesson 3, we explore why affirmations do not flourish if you lack emotional connectivity to the words and experiences you are focusing upon. From there, we will deep dive into the difference between feelings and emotions, how your thoughts drive your emotional response, and why the language you use is an integral part of your affirmation formula and success. You’ll also walk away with a hard and fast rule that can flip the switch on any negative thought pattern that may be standing in your way of creating and affirming the life you so greatly desire.

Lesson 4

Positive Affirmations vs. Self-Affirmations vs. Prayers and Intentions

In Lesson 4, we explore the varying types of affirmations. Positive affirmations promote the idea that humans possess the power to influence change, which we know is grounded in truth and neuroscience research. Research suggests that affirmations work because they stimulate the neural activity that promotes change. While affirmations do help in the manifestation process and active your intentions, most importantly, affirmations influence how you feel and what you think. So, as we narrow your practice, with the fullest understanding of meeting your needs, we must look at what types of affirmations best serve you. In today’s lesson, we navigate the choices between positive affirmations, self-affirmations, prayers, and intentions. As we do, we’re taking a deep dive into examining the number one rule of affirmations: what you affirm in the thought process, you feel, and then take action from.

Lesson 5

First Person & Whose Voice is This

In Lesson 5, we explore two elements that all affirmations must include in order for them to come to fruition—the practice of using the word “I” and thinking in “I” language and building each affirmation through a framework of your unique voice. When actively changing our lives, we tend to do so because of past experiences or feelings. Yet, approaching a current practice through an old lens can set the course off in the wrong direction. So, as we build your practice, we work to feed your mind and emotional body while directing your actions through your voice from your unique perspective. This lesson shows you how to do just that.

Lesson 6

Connecting Emotionally

Using emotional words in your affirmation creates a deep association between the thought, the affirmation, and the emotional body. In lesson 6, we explore connective emotional language, the twenty-two primary emotions each of us experiences, and how to apply them to your affirmation practice. Without an emotional connection, every affirmation is nothing more than an undeveloped thought. The truth is most of us are not taught about emotional intelligence or how to tap into our emotions, let alone what our emotions are genuinely trying to relay. As a result, most move throughout their lives, downgrading the power of their feelings and refusing to lean wholly into the superpower of emotional connectivity. Yet, being extremely clear about your emotions and their definitions takes your affirmation practice from wishful thinking to full-scale manifestation and actions.

Lesson 7

Present-Moment Language & Time

In this lesson, we journey through the importance of present-moment language and awareness in your affirmation formula and practice, as being present is the fountain of mindfulness. Presence is all about time; without time, there are no thoughts. Without time, there are no emotions. There are no feelings or experiences. For anything to occur, we must be active in our time, space, and reality. Without molding the present moment, nothing meaningful can happen within your experiences. This is the step where most people fail to create solid affirmations because they write their desires based on the future. In this lesson, we move through understanding how present-moment awareness impacts your outcomes, how the RAS system of your brain becomes activated when using affirmations, and we tie the mind, body, and soul aspects together to reveal a massive brain hack and advantage you can use today! This is the step where most people fail to create solid affirmations because they write their desires based on the future. We move through the understanding of how present-moment awareness impacts your outcomes, how the RAS system of your brain becomes activated when using affirmations, and we tie the mind, body, and soul aspects together to reveal a massive brain-hack and advantage you can use today!

Lesson 8

Affirmations as a Practice & Visualization

Affirmations are called a practice because that is what it requires to move your affirmations into long-held beliefs. A belief is nothing more than a thought that has been practiced repeatedly. Practiced is the keyword here. For an affirmation to stick, you must practice it. You must repeat them regularly. Think of your affirmations as a way to upgrade your inner conversation and the thought structure of your brain. In this lesson, we move through how to create a solid practice, and we turn to visualization as the added bonus to supercharging your needs and wants into physical movements in your life.

Lesson 9

New Brain Patterns through Affirmations

In Lesson 9, we bring everything together while actively putting our affirmations in motion by leaning into their long-term impact. Unfortunately, many fail to discuss or recognize a beautiful and sustainable element of affirmations, which happens in the brain after repeatedly practicing an affirmation. When we practice anything or do something over time, many know that habits are formed, but what is a habit? A habit is a pattern. You can use your brain’s design to your benefit. With knowledge, a formula, and a true understanding of how to work with your human design, you can redirect your thoughts and create something beautiful for yourself through this practice. You deserve to think, feel, and create your best. This next phase of your practice is the patterned road to get there.

Lesson 10

Affirmation Practice: Affirmation for Self-Confidence

In today’s lesson, we move our formula into an active practice focusing on self-confidence. Self-confidence is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It is created through self-acceptance and trust guided by a positive view of yourself. When you affirm your value, you activate the brain’s reward system. Brain scan studies confirm that in those who practice self-affirmation, specifically affirming their personal worth and value, the body’s stress response is turned down, and the reward system is turned up. The more routine the practice, the greater the reward system is active. This practice guides you through 36 powerful self-confidence affirmations to help you ignite your brain chemistry and fire up the reward system.

Lesson 11

Affirmation Practice: Positive Affirmations for Success

Success is achievable for everyone. Yet, the question is: what does success mean and look like for and to you? In today’s lesson, we move through an active positive self-affirmations for success practice. When you feel successful, you are inspired to continue to move forward in both the good and bad moments, no matter how the circumstance may play out, because you already have an established sense of worthiness. These 38 affirmations are meant to inspire your reward system and remind you of your inner, empowered nature.

Lesson 12

Affirmation Practice: Positive Affirmations for Health & Wellness

Health is wealth. In today’s lesson, we move through another active affirmation practice to increase your mindset, thought patterns, and mindful focus. Without health, our mindset tends to focus on lack and negativity. These 26 health and wellness affirmations are meant to help you claim new habits and beliefs about the only vehicle you have during your time on this earth—your body. When we honor ourselves completely, we are rewarded in the mind, body, and spirit.

Lesson 13

Affirmation Practice: Positive Affirmations for Anxiety

Anxiety is often about forecasting the future and struggling to find patterns and collect factual evidence within the brain that help you understand how to navigate individual experiences. By now, you know any affirmation practice is about the present moment. In today’s lesson, we journey through affirmations to help you root down in the moment while allowing anxiety to pass. These 28 affirmations influence your mind toward choosing peace over worry, calm over chaos, and allowing your mind, body, and soul to be free of negative feedback.

Lesson 14

Affirmation Practice: Affirmations for Choosing Faith Over Fear

Fear loves to consume our thought process and hold us in unhealthy patterns. When you are unsettled in fear, you fail to remember that you have the ability to harness self-trust and faith. You also remove yourself from present-moment awareness. There is a way back and that is through affirmations. In today’s lesson, we journey through 20 grounding, powerful affirmations to help you release doubt, activate your reward system, and help you create peace over perfection in your life.

Lesson 15

Final Affirmation Practice: Powerful Self-Love Affirmations

Loving yourself is not only a necessity; it’s a privilege. While it can look different for each person, self-love encompasses being kind, connecting to yourself, forgiving, refraining from self-judgment, and trusting yourself. In our final lesson and practice, we move through 45 healing self-love affirmations. The greater your self-love, the greater allowance for growth. These affirmations are poweful tools for your total well-being and alignment. I encourage you to practice and build upon this practice to help your mind, body, and spirit shine and be uplifted positively.