Affirmation · “The Subconscious Says Yes”
Infinite Love & Gratitude
Shift from a reactive (fear/stress) state to a regenerative (love) state by repeating ‘Infinite Love & Gratitude’ with the ‘I love you’ hand sign over the heart or the troubled spot.
In one line: When stress or a symptom hits, make the “I love you” sign over your heart and repeat “Infinite Love & Gratitude” — feeling it — until you shift from reactive to calm.
What it is
The foundational practice of Darren Weissman’s The LifeLine Technique: when a symptom, stress, or reactive emotion arises, you make the American Sign Language hand sign for “I love you,” place it over your heart (or over the part of the body that feels troubled), and repeat the phrase “Infinite Love & Gratitude” out loud or silently until you feel a shift and easing.
Weissman describes the word infinite as standing for “our connection to the field of oneness,” love as the propelling power of life, and gratitude as what lets you live “without negativity and judgment.” The aim is to move out of a reactive (fear / fight-or-flight) state and into a regenerative (love) state.
It belongs to the affirmation/autosuggestion family — a short, repeated, emotionally charged phrase paired with a somatic anchor.
The Method
- Catch the reactive moment. Notice a symptom, a stressor, or a spike of fear, worry, or frustration — that is the cue to begin.
- Make the “I love you” sign. Extend thumb, index, and little finger (the ASL sign for “I love you”); fold the middle and ring fingers down. Weissman adopted this gesture in 1998 as the practice’s anchor.
- Place it over the heart or the symptom. Rest the hand on your chest, or on the area of the body that hurts or feels charged.
- Repeat “Infinite Love & Gratitude.” Say or think the phrase slowly and sincerely, letting the feeling of love and thankfulness come up — the felt emotion, not just the words, is the point (The Inner Creates the Outer).
- Continue until you feel the shift. Keep going until there is a noticeable softening, easing, or settling — the move from reactive to regenerative.
- Use it often. Treat it as an on-the-spot reset, returned to whenever reactivity arises, so the response gets grooved by repetition. (Sourcing note: faithful paraphrase with short identifying phrases quoted; no extended copyrighted text reproduced.)
Source & Lineage
From Darren Weissman, chiropractic holistic physician and developer of the LifeLine Technique (2002); the practice is set out in The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude (2005) and his later Awakening to the Secret Code of Your Mind.
The hand sign is the ASL “I love you”; the phrase grew from his pairing of “love and gratitude” with the word “infinite.”. Distinct in this library from generic gratitude recollection (Salzberg) and from heart-centered breathing — here a specific gesture + fixed phrase are deployed reactively to interrupt a stress state.
The full LifeLine Technique wraps this in practitioner muscle-testing; the transferable self-practice is the gesture-plus-phrase alone.
Common refinements
Saying it flatly. Reciting the words with no felt love or thankfulness misses the active ingredient — let the feeling actually arise.
- Treating it as a cure. It is a state shift, not a treatment; pair it with, never instead of, real care for a real symptom.
- Rushing off too soon. Stay until you genuinely feel the easing rather than stopping at the first repetition.
- Over-claiming the mechanism. You can use the practice for its calming effect without believing the water-vibration story.