Affirmations can help you feel confident, powerful, and anything else you want to feel when you're giving birth. They're a really helpful practice to adopt during pregnancy to help you focus on the experience you want to have and the state you want to be in while you're in labor.

Words have power. But there's a real difference between just repeating them, and aligning your vibration with them.

Speaking affimations out loud is great. But it doesn't matter how many times you tell yourself you are powerful, if your energy isn't aligned with being powerful, if you can't match the frequency of being powerful, you won't believe it or feel it.

If you want your affirmations to really sink in and change the way you think and feel, and make you an energetic match for them, you need to add some energetic work while you say them.

Chakras are energy centers in your body. Each of them represents different aspects of your physical, emotional and spiritual self.

For example, your root chakra, which is at your perineum, represents your sense of safety. If the energy in your root chakra is weak, it's really hard to integrate the affirmation 'me and my baby are safe'. Even if your root chakra energy is strong, you can amplify the power of that affirmation by connecting it to the part of your energy system that is concerned with feeling safe.

Instead of just reciting 'I am a divine birthing goddess' and hoping it sticks, connecting that affirmation to your sacral chakra (at your womb) will amplify the power of your words and activate the energy center in your body that's connected to the divine feminine and your innate feminine power.

You can tap on the relevant chakra while you're speaking your affirmation.

You can place your hand on the relevant chakra and hold it while you affirm.

If you know how, you can give Reiki to the relevant chakra while doing your affirmations.

If your partner knows how to do Reiki, they can use an affirmation as the intention for a Reiki treatment and focus on giving Reiki to the relevant chakra while you meditate on it.

Fear not, I've made this easy for you with a guide to birth affirmations by chakra. It goes through each chakra and lists affirmations that are connected to that chakra. If you're working with a different affirmation and don't know which chakra to connect it to, drop me an email and I'll help you figure it out.