One of my most popular posts is the 10 tips to Affirmations. So I put it in a video.
Affirmations are good tools for creating the life you want to live. However, they can also be burdensome. The 10 tips for Affirmations were created to take the burden out of Affirmations.
http://joyousexpansion.com/blog/2010/tasks/practices/10-tips-affirmations/
The idea behind affirmations is that you have beliefs about yourself and beliefs are a collection of thoughts that you think everyday. If you tell your affirmation everyday you will be inserting the new, more positive belief into your daily routine. With your new thoughts you will be building new and more powerful beliefs. At first when you say your affirmations it will be hard, since you do not believe them. The more you say your affirmation the easier it will be to say because you will believe it more and more.
If you were to search the term, “Affirmations do not work” you will notice there are many articles and even scientific studies on problems with the affirmation. Affirmation process described above seem to work better on subjects that you already, at least a little, believe. If do not believe your affirmation there can be a negative effect if you try that process. Every time you say your affirmation and you feel negative emotions from it, you may be doing more harm than good.
Watch this video!
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I could not agree less. Thanks for sharing this. 🙂
It’s a mindset issue. That’s why if you tell yourself positive affirmations and then think negative thoughts around it, you will go back to the negativity. It has to be a re-training of the subconscious which will take time and a change of your relationships. If your relationships are negative, they have to go!
I try to say mantras every morning to set the intention for and tone of my day. Mantras and affirmations are sooooo important and grounding. Love this post 🙂
Never underestimate the power of the mind. A right mind set can really do wonders that is why we need affirmations to enhance and develop this.