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I have briefly mentioned affirmations here before, and lately I’ve been finding them very helpful.
I first learned about affirmations through Gala Darling’s Love & Sequins #9, and the power of throughts and words interests and fascinates me. Since I started to study photography about a month ago, I have struggled with making too high expectations for my work. Yesterday I sat down and wrote the affirmations below. I intend to read them at least once every day from now on.
How you can write your own affirmations:
1. Give yourself a pep-talk. What do you need to hear right now?
2. Address your fears or your limited beliefs. Convince yourself it is not true.
3. Try to make the phrase short and to the point. Use words that are powerful to you. Make it personal.
4. Read the affirmation out loud to yourself. You’ll know it when you get it right, your heart will tell you.
5. Write your affirmations everywhere and say them to yourself every morning. It works!
My creative affirmations
I am a photographer.
My work is good enough.
My photos are interesting.
My work can be sold if I want it to.
Digital work has just as much soul as film.
People enjoy my photos.
My ideas will work.
I get great ideas frequently.
I can see the world in an unique way.
Every photo I take has great quality.
No images are better than others.
I don’t need to edit until after the photo is taken.
I am great.
Do you use affirmations to overcome creative challenges? Share your affirmations in the comments!
Thanks for these, I’m having the same problems lately.
One thing I find helps, is telling myself the photos I take wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t taken them and to keep going.
Are you guys using mostly digital or film?
That’s a great thing to do! I’ll remember that when I sometimes edit my work before the picture is even taken.
I’m mostly using film, but I’m working on achieving the same sort of soul in my digital photos that I get from film.
Oh, these are so timely. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your comment! :)
Thank you. I’ll definitely try that. I tend to not value my work or myself enough, not appreciating what I have accomplished (as a photographer or on a simple day to day basis), because the focus is always on the problems and rarely on the achievements.
Thanks.
That is so true. We should all try to refocus and pay attention to what works instead of what’s not. I find that this applies especially to creative work, but can be translated to all other areas of life as well.
Thank you for contributing!