5 Types of Affirmations « DailyAffirm Personal Development

5 Types of Affirmations

Each Month, DailyAffirm explores the chosen theme with five different types of affirmations which support you in manifesting powerful change. This DailyAffirm Personal Development Process follows the pattern of one type of affirmation each week (that is, each seven days). The days following the 28th day are considered the "fifth week" or the "fourth week-plus."

In preparation for the monthly transformational process — or any time you start participating at DailyAffirm — it’s extremely helpful for you to understand and to establish an over-arching intention.

Below, I have included additional information about each of the five types of affirmations. An empowering process emerges by using these five categories of affirmations in a systematic way to assist you in embracing an affirmation that you desire to believe but initially may not.

Here is an example: Let’s say you have an intention and a desire to say and believe "I am powerful," but you do not believe you are. Some people recommend that you "fake it until you make it," but I have seen that is counterproductive for many people. If it works for you, use that approach. But the DailyAffirm approach advocates a systematic process that moves through these five steps:

Start by releasing powerlessness (anything that opposes being powerful),
Open to the possibility of being powerful,
Affirm an intention and readiness to live in your power,
Claim your power, and
Let the idea of powerfulness integrate into your life.

It’s important that the affirmations you work with resonate with you, that is, that they feel natural and appropriate. In order to experience this resonance, you may need to change words in the ones presented on DailyAffirm, or let these inspire you to create ones you prefer, or develop your own from scratch. You can do that by following the 5-step principles. Here are the five different types of affirmations in a little more detail:

1 - Releasing and/or Cleansing Affirmations
Days 1-7 of Each Month

The purpose of Releasing and/or Cleansing Affirmations is to let go of unwanted and unneeded stuff. These affirmations and ideas allow you to purify your system. They stimulate the release of toxins such as negative thought forms, repressed or suppressed emotions, old memories, negative bonds with others, karma, dark consensus reality, illusions of all types.

Caution: Do not overdo these affirmations; you do not want to slow down your process by getting preoccupied with what you are releasing! Instead, allow the release to take place and then shift your attention to what you want.

Examples:

I give myself permission to release toxicity from every level of my energy field.
I rescind outdated vows of poverty, celibacy, struggle, silence, and unworthiness.
I release.
I let go of old programs that keep me stuck in old patterns.
I let go of everything I do not want or need for my highest good.

2 - Receiving and/or Accepting Affirmations
Days 8-14 of Each Month

The purpose of Receiving and/or Accepting Affirmations is to open to allow something to be. They allow you to receive goodness from the Universe. They also can neutralize the misqualification of energy; that is, they can reverse illness or karma or other density. In addition, they help you shift the attention from disempowering actions such as, "getting" or "taking" to more freeing concepts such as, "receiving" and "allowing" and "accepting."

Examples:

I open to the gifts of the Universe.
I allow abundance to flow through me.
I accept support when I need it.
Dear God, please let me know what to do in a way that I can understand.
I accept peace and joy in all aspects of my life.

3 - Being and/or Intending Affirmations
Days 15-21 of Each Month

The purpose of Being and/or Intending Affirmations is to ground your purpose, especially your higher purpose. These affirmations enhance conscious awareness of your intention about something or about your mission in life. In addition, these affirmations can deepen your understanding of your reason for being and/or acting generally or in a specific situation. They can be used to enhance any and all actions.

Examples:

I know that this is for the highest good of all concerned.
I deepen my awareness of the consciousness from which actions spring.
I live my mission.
My intention is to live free from struggle, fear, and hopelessness.
I remember.

4 - Acting and/or Claiming Affirmations
Days 22-28 of Each Month

The purpose of Acting and/or Claiming Affirmations is to bring something into manifestation or to direct the energy of your intention to appropriate manifestation. These affirmations bring into the physical those ideas that you hold in your mind and/or heart. In addition, these affirmations help you to claim your power and establish boundaries in relationships.

Examples:

I act with high intention and purposeful awareness.
I step into the world to live my mission in every word and action.
I demand my good right now.
I make every act an act of love (or freedom or mastery or hope, etc.).
I am powerful. I am worthy. I am lovable. I am free.

5 - Integrating and/or Embodying Affirmations
Days Following 28 of Each Month

The purpose of Integrating and/or Embodying Affirmations is to allow the energy and meaning of the affirmations to merge with your consciousness. Affirmations and ideas that do not resonate, drop away. Integrating/Embodying Affirmations support you in knowing more deeply — integrating — what you have learned rather than introducing new information.

Examples: