The New Year is the perfect time to upgrade your belief system and level up your life!
We’ve all been guilty of it. We set goals and resolutions only to realize we’ve completely forgotten about our endeavors by the end of the year. Oops!
This can leave us feeling discouraged and wear away at our self-confidence.
That’s why New Year affirmations are such a helpful tool. Adding them to your spiritual practice can help keep you motivated, focused, and persistent toward your goals in 2024.
Whether you’ve already tried affirmations or never tried affirmations, this article will cover everything you need to know about affirmations, help you create a consistent practice, and manifest your best year in 2024.
I’ll also explain why focusing on affirmations before your other goals is pertinent.
So let’s get started!
In the article, we’ll go over the following:
- What are affirmations?
- Your internal reality creates your external reality
- How do affirmations work?
- How to use affirmations
- How long does it take for affirmations to work?
- How to stay consistent and keep motivated
- 43 New Year Affirmations
What Are Affirmations?
Simply put, affirmations are positive phrases or mantras you repeatedly say aloud or write to overcome a limiting belief. It’s a simple tool to help raise your vibration, overcome negative self-talk, and consciously manage your internal environment.
Most of us don’t believe we are enough, criticize ourselves, and limit what we think is possible. We struggle with negative thinking, which weighs us down, and self-sabotage.
An affirmation practice can help you become your best self. Whenever you notice a negative thought, you can gently surrender it, repeat the positive affirmation, and be kind to yourself.
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Your Internal Reality Creates Your External Reality
Manifestation is about creating your internal environment before your external environment. So, always tune in with your internal environment to see if it matches your external desires when embarking on any external goal.
The Law of Attraction states that “like attracts like.” Contrary to its stigma, the core of its teaching is to take care of your internal reality.
Spiritual teacher Esther Abraham-Hicks once said you draw into your life a vibrational match to your frequency. Affirmations help you prepare your internal environment and get into vibrational alignment with your desires.
Read More: How to Use Esther Abraham-Hicks’ Emotional Guidance Scale
How Do Affirmations Work?
While practicing affirmations is not a miracle pill, it works by training you to think, feel, and therefore act differently. The practice allows you to control and direct your thoughts towards more empowering and positive vibrations.
The subconscious mind is your operating system and stores your programs, memories, beliefs, and habits. It absorbs the external environment and learns by habituation. According to stem cell biologist Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, we spend 95% of our time in our subconscious mind and 5% in our conscious mind.
So basically, the subconscious mind controls your entire life. If you ever want to change anything, you have to impress on the subconscious mind.
Modern science now validates that our brain is wired for growth. Neuroplasticity and epigenetics studies prove that our brain can fire new neuropathways when we learn something and well into our old age.
How to Use New Year Affirmations
You can practice affirmations in various ways, but we’ll discuss the three most popular and effective ways to practice. You can (1) repeat affirmations aloud in front of the mirror, (2) write them in a journal, (3) repeat them in your head, or practice all three simultaneously.
Choose anywhere between three to five affirmations below and write or say each affirmation ten times.
The most important thing to mention when doing affirmations is you have to conjure up the emotional experience. For instance, while you are saying it aloud and if you want to feel freedom, bring up the energy of freedom. Or, if you want to feel confident, bring up confidence. And you’ll be golden if you can embody the emotional experience throughout your day.
Furthermore, the best time to impress the subconscious mind is (1) when you wake up, (2) before you go to bed, (3) directly after meditations. The idea is to get your body and mind in a relaxed state so the affirmations can absorb better.
Affirmations are a way to hack the brain, but you can’t hack the practice. Since we’ve mentioned that the subconscious mind learns by habituation, the only way around affirmations is persistence, consistency, and repeated effort.
So keep your eye on the prize and trust that, with time and effort, you will see long-term gain and growth.
Lastly, it might feel strange the first few times you practice affirmations. This is perfectly normal. It’s unreasonable to expect ourselves to feel joy when all we currently feel is unworthiness.
But I promise it will get easier with time and don’t feel bad if you have trouble bringing up positive feelings right away. So keep at it, have fun, play, and don’t be too hard on yourself.
Read More: Complete Guide: Learn How to Write Your Own Affirmations
How Long Does it Take for Affirmations to Work?
Affirmations take about 21 days to see results and 66 days for the habit to settle in. That’s if it’s your first time working with affirmations. Set out ten minutes a day and let the new energy build and create momentum in you.
Additionally, affirmations get easier once you figure out your process. If you get good at believing in yourself, pretty soon, it will only take one day to align with any new belief you choose to believe.
How to Stay Consistent and Keep Motivated
The best way to stay consistent is by scheduling time in your calendar and adding it to your morning and night routine. Habit researchers such as James Clear, S.J. Scott, and B.J. Fogg recommend habit-stacking.
The idea is to pair your new behavior with a solid habit that you already have. For instance, you could do this directly after waking up, right after brushing your teeth, in the shower, after meditation, or right before lunch.
Clustering up your habits increases the chance of you following through instead of randomly scheduling your habits, which could cause you to forget about them altogether.
Related: How to Use a Habit Tracker To Transform Your Life
43 Amazing New Year Affirmations
- 2024 is my year! I am thriving!
- I deserve to achieve all my goals.
- I am abundant!
- I let go of 2023 and am grateful for the lessons and experiences.
- I am a money magnet!
- I am magnetic, sexy, and confident!
- I am achieving all my goals with ease this year!
- I am excited about the future!
- I welcome the future and am open to opportunities the New Year brings me!
- I am powerful and courageous and going for all my dreams this year!
- I welcome all open doors and opportunities this year!
- This year, I take on the world!
- I’m starting to take responsibility for my own life and easily manifest all my desires!
- I am buying a new home this year, and I love decorating it and making it cozy!
- I welcome new friends and fresh energy into my new life!
- In 2023, I’ve finished healing, releasing, and letting go of the past, and I will start fresh and vibrant in 2023.
- I choose to be happy every day this year!
- This year, I’m a winner and will accomplish all of my goals!
- I am meeting my soulmate and dream partner this year. I can’t wait!
- I believe in miracles in 2024!
- I am grateful and have so many reasons to be happy. I can’t wait to experience more happiness in my life.
- I welcome my true love into my life this year.
- I am abundant and radiate abundance to the world!
- I am open to meeting new and supportive people on my journey in 2024.
- I welcome my soul tribe into my life this year!
- This year, I’m getting fit and healthy. I love and accept my body no matter what!
- I am determined, and I will overcome any obstacles this year!
- Obstacles are just learning lessons and opportunities for growth. I believe in miracles!
- I welcome all the miracles that come my way!
- I alchemize any negative energy into strength and love!
- I choose success!
- I choose to be kind to myself and others.
- I unconditionally accept and love myself.
- I believe in myself and all my dreams!
- I am whole and complete!
- I choose to see the positive and love in every situation.
- My heart is full and open, ready to receive love and joy!
- This year is all about expansion!
- I radiate joy, love, and compassion!
- Love, prosperity, and success surround me this year.
- Every day is a blessing, and I will make every day count and be successful.
- I am grateful for every day I wake up and will use every day to manifest more joy and abundance in my life.
- I am motivated, and keeping my energy is vital. I go after my dreams with patience, will, and determination.
Closing Thoughts on New Year Affirmations
I hope this article helped give you some ideas for the New Year. Please feel free to change up the affirmations to fit you.
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