How Do Affirmations Work?
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Affirmation (from Latin affirmatio) means to empower, reinforce. In contemporary terminology, affirmations are understood as empowering or reinforcing texts.
Affirmations have been used as a healing tool since ancient Greece. A doctor would read an empowering text, thereby strengthening their patient’s internal resources, which helped to fight diseases more effectively.
How do affirmations work?
Our thoughts create impulses. Impulses are energy, and energy transforms matter. In other words, when we think or speak about something, we influence the material world. And as a result, we change our lives. How we change — for better or for worse — depends on what exactly we say or think.
By uttering affirmations, we increase the amount of positive energy and channel it into the right area of our life. Thereby, we strengthen our inner condition.
Affirmations also constitute the bridge between the thought and action. Empowering texts trigger certain hormonal processes in us, which helps us take the action that will lead us all the way to the desired objective.
What are the types of affirmations?
General — they affect our lives in general
Example: “I am healthy”, “I am happy”, etc.
Special — aimed at solving a specific goal or problem
Example: “I love my body”, “I have lots of great ideas”, etc.
A suitable affirmation should resonate in your mind and heart, perhaps even give you goosebumps, thereby triggering bio-chemical hormonal processes.
Why may affirmations fail to work?
Imagine that you want to grow a bush of pink roses. Where will you start?
Most likely you begin with the choice of a place where to plant them. What should this place look like?Fertile and safe so that no one can trample on your seeds.
And then you fertilize the flowers on a regular basis for them to grow into a bush of beautiful pink roses.
What if we don’t take care of the place? What if we plant the roses in the middle of a busy street, where everyone can walk on them, but keep applying fertilizes and watering them diligently? Will flowers grow? Probably not. The same is true for affirmations.
Affirmation is a good fertilizer that will help a person open up in a safe environment. But if the environment is unsafe, where personal boundaries are constantly violated, affirmations will not work.
As a result, the algorithm for effective affirmation is this:
Affirmation resonates in the body + your boundaries are protected = dramatic life changes
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