How To Use Positive Affirmations For Healthier Living

Fill your mind with positive messages supporting you as you create a healthier lifestyle.

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Hi, thanks so much for spending time with me today.

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Today, I want to share some ideas with you about how to use affirmations to help with healthier living.

It’s so important to keep filling your mind with messages that support you and help you stay positive.

I’m not going to lie, healthy living isn’t something that comes naturally to me. I’ve struggled with my weight and enjoy sweet treats way too much. Plus, whenever I get the chance I’m sat down writing which I enjoy much more than exercising.

I need to constantly work on building healthier habits in my daily life. Affirmations help me to do this. So, I wanted to share them with you.

The idea of these affirmations is that they help to build positive healthy habits.

Getting active feels good - Image created in Canva by Author Wendy Tomlinson

Healthier living affirmations

• I love to drink water to nourish my body

• I enjoy my daily walks

• I love my daily morning workout

• I make sure that I take regular breaks from my work to get active

• I love adding vegetables to all of my meals

• I choose food to nourish my body

• I love to move my body

• Every day I get healthier

• My body is healthy and strong

• I’m slim, healthy and strong

• I am healthy

• I am slim

• My health is a priority for me

• I love feeling healthy

• I love my body

• I take great care of my body and mind

• I have a really good relationship with food and my body

Happy healthy living is now a priority for me - Image created in Canva by author, Wendy Tomlinson

Use your affirmations to support your healthy living goals

I encourage you to get super clear about your healthy living goals. 

Adapt the affirmations to suit your goals. 

For example, I’m happy as long as I’ve done a quick walk with the dog and a short workout. I enjoy the walking workouts on YouTube. 

For you, the goal might be to train for and complete a marathon. 

I have an ongoing goal to drink 4 big glasses of water each day. I use affirmations to support this goal such as…

• I love drinking water

• I easily drink 4 big glasses of water each day

• I feel nourished when I drink plenty of water

• Drinking water helps me to maintain a healthy weight

• Drinking water helps me to feel healthy

You’re retraining your mind so that it supports you in losing weight and becoming healthier. They’re reminders to do what you want to do.

When should I use my affirmations?

Any time is a good time for affirmations - Photo by Feng Shan on Unsplash

Anytime! It’s a good idea to say your affirmations when you wake up and before you go to sleep. This is the time when your subconscious mind is most open to new ideas.

But I encourage you to make affirmations a natural part of your day so that you’re feeding off these super positive messages all day long.

If you catch yourself saying something negative (unhelpful), swap it for a positive affirmation.

I love to say affirmations in front of the mirror at every opportunity, this is super powerful.

I’ve made it a habit to say at least one nice thing to myself every single time I pass a mirror or even catch a glimpse of my reflection. A little bit of self-love goes a long way.

More affirmations for goals

• Goal — Get outside and walk at least 5 days per week

• Affirmation — I enjoy my daily walks outside

• Goal — Do a YouTube workout (5 days per week)

• Affirmation — I love following along with the workouts on YouTube

• Goal — Add veggies to my meals

• Affirmation — I love adding veggies to my meals

• Goal — Keep meals simple and clean (not processed) and watch my portion sizes.

• Affirmation — I keep my meals clean and simple — I watch my portion sizes and eat only the amount my body needs to feel good.

More about using affirmations

I love affirmations and I’ve used them to support me in achieving the things I want in so many areas of my life over the past few years.

Sometimes people say to me that affirmations don’t work. This is how I see it. Make your affirmations positive but not unbelievable to you.

If I was to walk around saying to myself “I’m a super skinny, supermodel.” It wouldn’t fit what I want and my mind would reject this message as a lie.

It’s better to go for better-feeling statements.

It’s better to feed your mind positive affirmations to support ourselves than to go around thinking, and saying negative things to ourselves.

I wrote about step-up affirmations in this Newsletter

A Very Special Milestone And How To Use Step-Up Affirmations

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Fill your mind with these positive statements throughout the day and especially if you catch yourself feeling down, or hungry when you know you’re really not, negative about your efforts or your body…

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You can use my ideas for affirmations or create your own. Give it a go and see what happens.

Thanks again for joining me here today, it means the world to me.

Wendy xx

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