Affirmations: Waste Of Time or Life Changing?

Affirmations: Waste Of Time or Life Changing?

It seems to me that we’ve reached the point where cynicism about positive thinking and it’s many cohorts, such as affirmations, is setting in.

With good reason, I grant you.

Since the release of “The Secret” in 2006, literally millions of people have tried to steer their reality to a greater or lesser degree with their thoughts and beliefs.

Unfortunately, the majority of those who were once hopeful that they could reshape their destiny using the power of their mind have discovered that, on the whole, not very much has changed for them.

We’ve had a global economic collapse since “The Secret” came out, leaving tens of thousands homeless or jobless or at least struggling.  How many of them thought the law of attraction would work for them?

How many were using affirmations to stave off all the bad luck which befell them?

You could easily be forgiven for thinking that affirmations, positive thinking and the Big Daddy of the New Age, the Law Of Attraction, was just so much bunkum.

If you take that stance, no one would blame you.  But before you settle into smug certainty, just take one more glance at these ideas, would you?  They may not be so useless after all.

For a start, the physical world and all the reality we can perceive exists only because we’re aware of opposites.  The concept of everything being “up” is ridiculous since there must be a “down” to compare “up” with.  Likewise, the idea that everything is always going to be all right is absurd.

Secondly, it’s worth pointing out that it is only we, the human species, which considers things to be “right” or “wrong.”  Nature has no such labels.  Animals die all the time and they simply get on with it.  Those have done it too often without replenishment have died out altogether – something which we also consider tragic and wrong.

Before I draw myself into a moral maze here, allow me to make my point.

It’s simply this: Losing one’s job is a neutral event in itself.  One person may see it as an opportunity at last to start their own business or to travel the world.  Another sees it as the end.

Affirmations, when used to deny reality, are nothing more than dressed up delusions. 

Affirming, “I have full employment” when you’ve just been made redundant is denial, pure and simple.

However, repeating to yourself the wonderful affirmation originally dreamed up by Susan Jeffers in her now classic self help book, “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway” could radically shift your perspective.

Her affirmation?  “No matter what happens I can handle it.”

How do you suppose you’ll feel after saying that a few times with conviction as opposed to something like, “OMG, I’m finished. What am I going to do?” which is the kind of automatic response many people say to themselves when a part of their life caves in?

• How you feel will determine what decision you make and what conclusions you come to.
• Those in turn will shape your behaviour – and ultimately change your destiny.

My vote is to keep these old chestnuts going.

Affirmations, when applied as I believe they were originally intended, make you feel better.  The medicine is free and uplifting.

Use freely.

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See why I dumped the Law Of Attraction and then went back to it because it started working for me here … (click this link)