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What is an affirmation?
An affirmation is anything you say or think.
In your day to day life, negative thoughts usually
dominate the positive. A significant amount of
what you say and think is life-negative and does
not create good feelings in you.
You create your reality based on the foundation
of balance or imbalance that you maintain in your
mind. You are the result of your thoughts. All
you need to do is think of how you want to be,
and so you will be. You are affirming and creating
your life experience with every word and thought.
You should understand that every complaint is
an affirmation your constant internal dialogue
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is a stream of affirmations. Constant repetition

of affirmative thoughts and statements, whether
negative or positive, are released into the collective
consciousness to shape your future. Once you
understand this, you can design your body and
circumstances by simply changing your belief
system. This will help you in becoming selfmotivated and self-empowered. With this clarity of
thought and understanding, you will consciously
move through a process of transformation.
To help you actualise your potential, ancient
Tibetan sages have given you The 9 Positives.
These aim to instil in you the qualities of the
Spirit so that you can manifest them in your
day-to-day life. This is possible if, with childlike wonder and surrender, you make these
affirmations a part of your life, as your daily
mantra. In time, the deeper meaning of the
affirmations will come into your awareness and
lead you to actualise the purpose of your being.
To understand the meaning of The 9 Positives
you have to first understand the function of
the mind. The great barrier between you and
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Consciousness as a Whole omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent

(all-pervading) is the mind. In day-to-day
living, your mind is in a state which has been
displaced from its original place. This is an oscillating state in which the mind operates between the
past and the future. Another aspect of the mind
is the exteriorised mind that creates a barrier
between the Creative Intelligence as a Whole and
the creative intelligence within you. The mind
has a tendency to follow the senses and because
of this, your thinking at times can get misguided.
For example, when on your morning walk you
happen to see a respected gentleman from your
area walking with his arm around the shoulders
of a young girl, your mind immediately jumps to
a conclusion and forms a judgement (probably
erroneous) about his intentions and his character.
This happens because your mind being a product
of preconceived notions of the five senses (sight,
hearing, smell, touch, taste) and the five sense
organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin) identifies
with the body, which is egocentric to the extent
that you feel that the body is Me.
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By repeating the affirmations before the start

of your day and as the last thing before you fall
asleep every night day in and day out they
become a mantra, which in time gets internalised
and arises of its own accord when required.
When sitting by yourself in contemplation,
the realisation dawns that The 9 Positives are
repeating themselves in the order they have been
affirmed and, in time, if you are sincere in
their practice, their deeper meaning will begin
to unfold.

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I Am Whole
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I Am Perfect
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I Am Strong
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I Am Powerful
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I Am Loving
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I Am Harmonious
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I Am Rich
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I Am Young
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I Am Happy

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I AM WHOLE

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The First Positive

I AM WHOLE

The moment you identify with the body as I

you separate yourself from others. Once this
happens, you are not in a position to grasp
everything as a Whole.
You are a part of Totality the whole universe;
there is a link between all of Creation. You live in
this universe along with other species, animate and
inanimate, in a process of mutual give and take,
thereby creating harmony in the functioning of
Totality. The moment you consider yourself apart
from it, disruption takes place and the process
of cause and effect starts.
The universe is always governed by the laws
of Consciousness or Totality. A pre-designed
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interaction within Creation as a Whole results in

it moving to a set rhythm. With this understanding, when you say I am Whole, it means that you
are in balance or in alignment with the Whole.
Once you are in balance, everything in your life
will also be in balance.
Even though you may actually be quite disorganised, when you choose to say I am Whole,
what you are doing is planting the seed for
Wholeness. Each time you repeat the statement,
you are reaffirming the seed you have planted
in your mind. It is important that you say the
affirmation in the present tense.
While in a relaxed state of mind, contemplate
on the word Whole. An image or a sensation
of roundness will probably come to your mind.
Now, think outwards from the mind and you
will sense that roundness expanding. Now try to
feel this roundness and Wholeness. Lose yourself
in it so that in the expansion, as thought ceases,
you experience yourself in the expanded state of
blissful Wholeness.

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Because of body-consciousness, disorganised,

compulsive thinking and exteriorisation of mind,
you lose the experience of being Whole. When
you reach the stage in your daily living where,
irrespective of religion or creed, you can touch the
awareness (Witness Consciousness) within you,
then you will experience the sense of Wholeness.
Wholeness is within you. If you project your
thought through that Wholeness, it is bound to
bear fruit. When you are apprehensive of doing
something, watch your approach see how you
act, how you speak, and notice the level of your
self-confidence. The way you talk makes all the
difference. A successful person talks in a way that
can convince others. An unsuccessful person,
although possessed of better knowledge, is not
capable of putting it into practice and thus cannot
convince others. Self-confidence is very important
and the best way to define it is I am Whole.
When you are Whole, the entire universe, of
which you are a part, is Whole. In fact, you are the
centre of the universe. In other words, when you
are not there, the universe crumbles like a house of
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cards and disappears. The universe exists, because

you exist. Then where is the question of any fear
or apprehension? Where is the question of things
not happening?
I am Whole. This is further explained as,
Nothing is lacking in you and nothing can be
added to you. If something is Whole, the question
of something lacking does not arise.
When you say I am Whole, it means that what
you are really saying is that you have lived your life
to the fullest. This does not mean the person has
lived a life full of fun and frolic. What it means
is that he has been through every experience life
gave him whether it was pleasure, pain, sorrow,
joy, envy, etc. He has experienced it all and he now
feels that he has led a full life the good along
with the not-so-good. He now feels complete or
Whole there are no more lessons to learn,
and from that perspective he now looks at life
around him as a Witness with a new awareness, in
which he neither accepts nor rejects anything and
understands it all as a play of Consciousness.

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When you say the affirmation I am Whole, it

has to be said with a strong feeling for it to be
effective. Over time, when you go on repeating
it and it enters your subconscious mind, you will
notice that it has made a noticeable difference
even to your physical appearance the way you
walk, the manner in which you talk, and the way
you conduct yourself every day.

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I AM PERFECT

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The Second Positive

I AM PERFECT

As a human being, you are endowed with consciousness that is always striving to perfect itself.
This, however, is not simple. It is developed in
stages, through trial and error, as you go through
life. You start off living your life unconsciously.
This means that you live your life and meet situations through what is stored in memory, thus
following the process of action and reaction which
can cause a series of confusions.
In hindsight when you realise that had you
responded, instead of reacting to a particular
situation, the outcome could have been positive
you have, by then, lost the opportunity. With this
understanding you start to think before you act,

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and with practice and conscious effort you take

the correct and right step forward.
Perfection, however, is not only related to your
life and your daily living. To be perfect involves
each sphere of your life, each situation, and
each relationship, with the involvement of your
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self.
It is a slow and steady process and in time, maybe
over lifetimes, you learn to live a consciously
conscious life.
To understand the above affirmation, you need
to be acquainted with the theories of karma and
reincarnation.
The reason for your reincarnation, birth after
birth, is to evolve to the extent where you can
experience yourself as being Perfect. The cycle
of rebirth will continue till you resolve all your
karma. Your karmic involvements determine
the family in which you are born, giving what
you owe them and receiving what they owe you.
You have created your universe around this family
unit in which you resolve your major karmic

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patterns and issues, with each reincarnation, by

perfecting your personality through an exchange
of roles.
This means that if in this life you are husband
and wife, in the next birth the roles may be
reversed if karma builds up due to situations
caused through action/reaction. This cycle goes
on in all your relationships, including your friends
and those on the periphery, with whom you have
had some interaction in your life. This happens so
that the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects
get integrated and work to perfection.
The law of karma puts you in a particular
environment or a situation, and that should not
be viewed as a punishment but as an opportunity
for your growth. This law provides you with
relationships and experiences meant to help
you grow as a better, wiser and nobler person.
Therefore, it is best to accept each situation that
you find yourself in, and learn the lesson which a
particular experience has to teach. That is the way
to perfection and spiritual progress.

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With this understanding of the karmic law

of cause and effect, when you think of the word
Perfect, the sensation in the mind is different
from that which you experience when you think
of the word Whole.
Meditate on these two words and notice the
difference in the feeling that is evoked by them.
Register that feeling so that you can recall it when
you feel the need for it. If you are Whole, you
are bound to be Perfect. Imperfection comes
when something is lacking within you.
The Sanskrit word for Whole is Poorna.
Thus, I am Whole I am Poorna; I am Perfect
I am Paripoorna.
Being a part of the Divine, you therefore
become responsible for whatever work you undertake, and see that it is done with honesty and
integrity.

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