Resonance
LXVIII — Resonant Affirmations – Rewiring the Mind
Now, if we look at the negative thoughts aimed at us in the past and understand them on a resonant level, we can realise that they are only the tiniest particles of someone else's energy given license, by us, to enter into our beings.
When we are young, we probably didn't have the strength, knowledge, or experience to say to the assailants of our esteem, 'Whoa! Stop! Take your negative nastiness elsewhere. I'm done with it. I'm not taking this rubbish any more. I've got a life to live, and you ain't no part of it.'
When we understand, we can say, 'Stop!' that's when we begin to reverse the attacks on our esteem from the past and begin to build new bastions of confidence for our future.
Affirmations are the positive seeds, which we plant in the fields of our minds to rewire our brain, heart, and being, so that the negatives of the past, which can come like ghosts to haunt us, are banished, and this inner and outer self, which is the true us, is born.
Affirmations are like guardian angels encouraging us to believe in health, wealth, joy, and peace, and above all happiness in the realm of our lives. By constantly urging the finer, the best qualities inherent in our beings, we allow them to be nurtured, so that they will give rise to actions, which complement our desires and bring us those things which we believe are ours.
One of the simplest affirmations is 'I can do it.' If you constantly repeat this to yourself, it will become a reality. In the beginning, you may have doubt, but believe this doubt is only the negative knell of your past having its say before it is banished forever. The more you repeat the affirmation, the more distant the past of negative energy will become until it ceases to be a memory, and it will be lost and gone forever.
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Karl Swainston is a writer and storyteller whose work is forged from a life lived across the North of England and far beyond. Growing up on a Leeds council estate in the 1960s, Karl's journey was anything but linear. By the age of thirty, he had already lived a dozen lives: from the rigors of grammar school to a degree in Latin, a stint as a fishmonger, a period of discovery living in Marseille, and a return to the hustle of London. Whether working as a postman, a builder, or competing as a county-level chess player, he was, above all, an avid reader—constantly documenting the world around him. This restless spirit continued into his professional life. Karl later taught in Bradford, where he ran a specialist unit for 244 of the most excluded students from across the region—young people whom even the local Pupil Referral Units could not accommodate. Working alongside his old friend Malcolm, Karl spent his days navigating the volatility of Bradford's most aggressive and dysfunctional teenagers. Throughout his life, Karl has been an avid runner and has always shared his home with a rotating cast of beloved dogs and cats—companions who have been constant witnesses to his work. As a writer, Karl's range is as expansive as his history. He works across a wide breadth of genres, including fiction and short stories, autobiography and memoir, biography, non-fiction, and metaphysical writing, as well as providing sharp commentary, opinion, analysis, and essays. Whether writing about his years managing the Harrogate Arms or offering insights from his current adopted home in South East India, where he lives in a simple village with his dog, Bambi, Karl's voice reflects the full, untidy, and deeply human breadth of life. He continues to draw on the rich, decades-long tapestry of his experiences to tell stories that matter, proving that no matter where you live, the human story remains the same.
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