I’ve heard, just tonight as a matter of fact, that affirmations don’t work. I think that is a lie. Let me explain just a bit.
It you think what you hear doesn’t affect you, what about commercials? Advertisers spend millions just so you can here what they have to say. And they don’t have to say very much if they are saying just the right thing. It can be as short as 15 seconds, or even less. In fact, less might be more, to a point.
So, by extension, an affirmation that you speak, you also hear, just like a commercial. And so, I think, it can affect you, just like a commercial. Interestingly, I’ve heard that affirmations work better if you speak them, again, just like commercials.
The person I heard tonight was saying that if you don’t believe something then an affirmation about it can’t work.
Well, a commercial is about getting you to buy something you don’t need and probably don’t want, at least not before you heard the commercial. So if a commercial can get you to do that why can’t an affirmation change your opinion about something? And contrary to what that person was saying if we hear something over and over we eventually start to believe that it might have a grain of truth and then more and more until we believe the whole thing. Sort of like the camel getting it’s nose under the tent wall until eventually the whole camel is in the tent.
Consider smoking. On the surface breathing in carbon monoxide and ash from burning leaves wouldn’t seem to be good for us. Be didn’t we once believe that it wouldn’t hurt us? Wouldn’t you think that smoker’s cough would tell us something? But those commercials told us different, they were so enticing and had cool looking people in them, and we wanted to be like those cool looking people and have those phrases spoken about us. Maybe we wanted to believe this in spite of the facts. So the commercials, the affirmations, worked, and logic went out the window.
And so it can be with us. We have to hear it more than once. Many, many, many, many times in fact. And, I think, we have to want to believe it. Seriously want to believe it. Focus on it for at least a couple seconds each time you say it. Put energy into it, just like a spell. It probably wouldn’t hurt to get in your vortex before saying it.
So, yah, if you are only going to say the affirmation only once, or only going to say it halfheartedly. Or start out with the expectation that it won’t work. Then you will get your expectation and it probably won’t have much of a noticeable effect on you.
Happy affirming.