Positive affirmations are words that you can repeat to yourself over and over to help you develop the attitude you need to achieve your objectives. Dealing with obstacles and difficulties is the most difficult aspect of achieving any objective. These are the factors that cause most people to abandon their goals, but they are also the factors that make achieving them worthwhile. Affirmations have been used for centuries. In this post, I’d like to talk about whether or not affirmations are successful.
You will find countless positive thinking affirmations by searching the internet. Depending on what you do, saying things like “I’m good enough” may or may not be successful. The aim of these affirmations is to encourage you to think positively. When it comes to these assertions, there are a few requirements. The first requirement is that they be reported in the affirmative. This is fair. Negative affirmations would be the term otherwise. However, you don’t want to say stuff like, “I don’t want to be broke,” because that isn’t a positive statement and our brain doesn’t “see” the “don’t”, so it is as if you said “I want it!”. The second requirement is that the argument be made in the present tense. Here’s a list of affirmations that can be inspiring:
“I want to get the job of my dreams”.
“I choose to eat the right foods everyday.”
“I love myself just the way I am.”
“I choose to be rich”.
“I attract good people into my life everyday.”
On the surface, it can seem that repeating affirmations will help you remain optimistic, but simply repeating them is insufficient. You could sit there all day and say, “I feel happy,” and still be sad, couldn’t you? Simply say that comment, or any other optimistic statement you may think of, without showing any excitement.
Even if you sign up for one of those regular positive reinforcement newsletters and read each quote, you will always feel negative.
However, this does not imply that affirmations are ineffective. One thing you can do to make them powerful is to do what I mentioned earlier: that is, enthusiastically state the affirmations. To take it a step further, tell them out loud, using your whole body: this entails yelling them out loudly.
But the main thing you have to do is really believe in what you say, if there’s no belief, there won’t be any results as well.
Tony Robbins teaches this technique. However, he does not refer to them as affirmations, he refers to them as incantations instead. The key distinction is in how these affirmations are delivered. Rather than sitting there and saying them in a passive way, you can really feel what you’re saying with your entire body. Only when you do this your mind will accept what you are doing. For example, you could say these affirmative things while listening to influential music.
The only difference between the two methods is that incantations are more severe than positive affirmations. It becomes even more true and strong when you say something out loud and feel it in your body. Affirmations are fine, but revealing them to the world while experiencing the feelings associated with them in the entire body is much superior. You don’t have to jump around while saying these affirmations or anything unless that’s the only way you can make it intense, but the key is just that, make it intense.
