74 affirmations to say to yourself to feel empowered

An affirmation is a positive statement that can help you challenge a negative thought, and replace it with something more helpful. When you repeat positive affirmations regularly, you can start changing your thinking patterns.

How to use affirmations:

Positive statements can be repeated every day, out loud to yourself. You can repeat them 3 times at a time while looking in the mirror. You can choose your affirmation for your day or of the week, and even write it down continuously until you believe it. You can record yourself saying it, and listen to it when you are facing a challenge or feel overwhelmed. You can keep a journal of positivity and read through your chosen affirmations when you are doubting yourself.

Why should I use affirmations?

Whenever a friend comes to us, feeling low, doubtful, anxious, angry, with low self-worth, our go-to tactic is most often positive talk! We tell them that we believe in them, that they are capable of getting through this and succeeding in life. We might shower them with positivity and encouragement, and even suggest small steps to move forward. So why not do this to ourselves?

14 short affirmations to get you started:

1. I am enough.

2. I am love.

3. I am true.

4. I am whole.

5. I am strong.

6. I am hopeful.

7. I am brave.

8. I am worthy.

9. I am powerful.

10. I am unique.

11. I am safe now.

12. I am protected.

13. I am free.

14. I am beautiful.

60 positive affirmations for self-love:

1. My heart is open and loving.

2. I love this journey that I am on right now.

3. I welcome love, kindness, and joy.

4. I respect all of me.

5. I see my own power and strength.

6. I am growing and learning every single day.

7. I am in control of my thoughts and my behaviour and I will use them to lift myself up.

8. Bit by bit, I am creating a life that I love.

9. I appreciate my life and find things to be grateful for.

10. I will let my ambitions motivate me instead of allowing them to scare me.

11. I am allowed to express pain.

12. I am healing in my own time.

13. I am already grateful for what is to come.

14. I trust myself enough to learn from my mistakes.

15. I am getting better and better every day.

16. I will show kindness to myself.

17. My self-worth comes from myself.

18. I am stronger than my worst fears.

19. I know that my potential is endless.

20. I retrieve my power.

21. I am fierce, loved, and capable.

22. I will be present and calm today.

23. I am proud of who I am, and the person that I am becoming.

24. I will not stress over things I cannot control.

25. I am healing generations before and after me.

26. I let go of what I can’t change and do my best with what I can.

27. I am doing my best with what I have.

28. I am full of positive, creative energy, and I am ready to go.

29. I am responsible for my own happiness.

30. I have all the tools within me to succeed.

31. I am worthy of my own love.

32. I accept myself.

33. I am an unstoppable force of nature.

34. This will not break me.

35. I have been through hard things before and survived them all.

36. My story is my own, and I have the power to change it.

37. This is hard, and I can do hard things.

38. I give and receive love each day.

39. I choose compassion for myself and all beings every day.

40. I believe in my ability to get through tough times.

41. I acknowledge that I am in competition with no one.

42. I breathe in relaxation, I breathe out tension.

43. I can take things one day, or one hour, at a time.

44. I let go of all that has hurt me.

45. I will treat myself with kindness, patience, and respect.

46. I deserve all the good things that come to me.

47. All I need I already have.

48. I am proud of myself and everything I achieved so far.

49. I am sending love and light for healing in the world.

50. I am strong enough to handle anything that life throws my way.

51. I will let go of the little things.

52. I give my unique gifts to the world.

53. I am finding my peace.

54. I own my right to thrive.

55. To take care of others, I need to take care of myself first.

56. I am not behind. I am exactly where I need to be.

57. I accept all imperfections with love and compassion.

58. The feelings in my body are normal and I fully accept them.

59. All of my feelings are ok.

60. I am worthy of all the love, happiness, peace, and success that I desire.

3 steps to creating your own affirmations:

You are free to use the affirmations above to practice self-love, reduce doubt, and empower yourself! You can even use these for inspiration to create your own affirmations. Look at your own pain, struggles and hardships, and create self-love statements to help yourself!

1. You can make a list of your pain or hurtful thoughts; anything that brings you pain or stops you from living a meaningful life.

2. Choose the most hurtful or common thoughts or situations that come up. We want to first work through the most urgent ones.

3. For each negative thought, create a positive statement, and repeat it to yourself until it becomes easier to believe it.

Embrace the awkwardness, it is the beginning of a self-loving and self-accepting journey!

If the negative body image thoughts of “I am so fat” or “I hate my body!”, can become “I am grateful for the body I have today, and I am amazed by all it does” or “My weight doesn’t define who I am”.