Warning: Daily Affirmations Can Actually Cause More Harm Than Good! Learn Secret Ingredient That Makes Affirmations Work For You.
Do Affirmations work?
Yes and No.
Can they actually backfire?
Yes. Let me explain:
The two most powerful times to use a daily affirmation is when you first wake up before you get out of bed, and the last thought you have just before you go off to sleep. Those are the best times to program your subconscious mind. Certainly, the more times each day the better, but those two times pack the most impact.
Now, let’s say that your affirmation is “My body is completely healthy and lean” and it’s the first thing you say every morning and the last thing you think before you drift off to sleep each night.
Will these words make you healthy and lean?
NO.
Words have no power in the law of attraction. If you say that you are healthy and lean everyday it will have no attraction power by itself. None. Zip. Zero. You might as well say you are the king of Egypt for all it matters.
It is the feeling that activates the attraction. Feeling is the vibration that goes out from you into the universe and actively attracts to you. Hollow words with no feelings attached have no power whatsoever.
So to make an affirmation have any power at all, you have to have to FEEL that which you are saying. In the example above, many people who are overweight will affirm that they are thin, but inside they are FEELING even fatter as they say the affirmation because they know it is a lie. Day in and day out, the affirmation is resulting in the FEELING of being fat, so you are in essence attracting more of being fat, not being thin. Thus, the affirmation backfires completely.
The universe does not speak English, Spanish or any other spoken or written language. The universe runs completely on vibration. Vibrations in you are powered by feelings. So if you want to have or be something, you have to vibrate at that level. Words are completely unnecessary to the universe, but they can be helpful for you to get you into that state of vibration.
If you can feel thin, without any words at all, then consider that your daily affirmation. IF you need words to make you feel thin, then use the words, but remember it is the feeling that counts. Pay attention to what you are feeling when you say the affirmation.
Remember, all affirmations are to be said (and felt) in the present tense, never the future. For example you never affirm that you are GOING TO BE anything, because what you are putting out into the universe is a constant message of “going to be” , and not actually being or having that you desire. That is never a good place to be stuck.
If you want to be healthy, feel healthy now and be thankful now for your great health. If you want to have money, feel having money now and be thankful for the tons of money you currently have. Like attracts like. You don’t want to attract “Someday being rich” to yourself.
Gratitude is a powerful vibrational feeling, so it can be used to begin almost any affirmation.
Some great examples of affirmations are:
I am so grateful that:
Money comes to be easily and frequently
My life flows through grace and ease
I have the house of my dreams
That universe is supporting me in my every effort
Even more powerful than affirmations is the use of a Manifesting Card. A Manifesting Card combines the power of daily affirmations, with the power of a vision boards, visualization, power of positive thinking, and the gratitude method….
Imagine the power of all those tools rolled into one little card that you can easily put into your pocket… that is the power of a Manifesting Card.
Using the Manifesting Cards method will dramatically cut down the time it takes for your manifestations to come true.
Daily affirmations DO work, but they can take a LONG time before you see results. There are many different reasons for this, all of which I cover inside here.
So if you are like me, and you don’t like to wait for the things you want today, I suggest you use the Manifesting Cards method.
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That is exactly what I was looking for. My problem is that I don’t believe what I am saying. I can clearly see that it is not the way that I am pretending it is and I feel guilty about saying an affirmation otherwise.
Very good. Very good.
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I have been using the power of affirmations to try to land a new job for at least four months now. Everyday I have been saying “I will have a better job someday” and “Next year I will be making more money than I am now” or “I will work somewhere safe and clean soon” and a couple others that I use.
I had no idea they were worded so wrong. So damaging. No wonder things have been going from bad to worse.
I used your contact form and want to hire you to teach me how to use a positive affirmation that can get me a better job. I just can’t do this on my own and I fear that I have been making things worse.
I dread going to bed every night because I know when I wake up I have to go back to the restaurant and have my ass grabbed by strangers who feel entitled because they bought a cup of coffee.
Please oh Please help me.
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Thank you John. I love your work. It help me change my life.
Thanks.
I am grateful you taught me something important and integral to realizing my full potential.
Thank you for your comments Jenny and Amber. It’s comments like yours that inspire me.
Best wishes,
John Derrick
Thank you for your letter and my cards. Will start using them straight away and change my life to be all that I want it to be. For too long I have just cruised along accepting how my life is and now its time to leave that life behind and start afresh.
Great article especially the bit about Gratitude thank you so much for sharing it , God Bless you
Noemi
John, what you say is ringing true in my ears – and I now see how this “truth” can help me in other areas of my life.
I have been walking about in my garden and enjoying it so much, and feeling proud of myself for creating so much beauty, even though a painting teacher at a night class told me my paintings DEFINITELY looked like the work of a child. She was only being honest with her asessment, because I am devoid of painting or drawing skills.
Although I can’t YET create beauty on paper, I can with my mind make changes in my life.
Many people have been talking about my beautiful garden behind my back, and as I continue to feel so grateful for the wonderful garden I am creating, I now realise that I am being guided by the Divine inside of me which has allowed me to see beauty where there was no beauty in my life before.
“Ask and ye will receive” stuff.
I am getting strangers asking if they can look around my half-hectare garden. Every week I see more opportunities to improve it, and the means to improve it, also appear.
Old friends from the past are showing up in my life as I continue to hold beautiful thoughts. Everywhere I look, I see only wonderful things – because I read somewhere that if I changed my thoughts, my life would change automatically (without any effort on my behalf).
The sounds of birds all around my garden are sounds I have never heard before. It seems I am creating a Heaven on Earth for the birds, and as I walk about my garden, I feel that I never want to go inside.
Because I focus on what I have already, more is added every day, like a beautiful snowball rolling down a mountain getting bigger and bigger. But instead of getting bigger with problems, it is getting bigger with abundance.
When I decided that I wanted to share my garden with “all creatures great and small”, the Divine in me listened carefully and made it happen for me and my “new friends” and for neighbours and strangers.
What I want for myself, I also want for others – and so my beautiful thoughts have attracted higher vibrations and abundance beyond my wildest dreams.
When Jesus told the harlot that he had no problem with her profession, it meant that he held love in his heart for all of God’s creations, and therefore he could not judge any human in a negative way.
Beautiful thoughts can’t attract ugliness – beautiful thoughts can only let your eyes see the beautiful and nicest things.
It is like a google search. If you are googling to find happiness, that is what you receive.
If you keep complaining about problems and hardships in your life, you get more of them because the Divine inside you says, that is what is being asked of me. That is the focus of his thoughts.
We always get what we are asking for.
The Divine inside us has access to the complete knowledge of the universe, and can pull up millions of ways we can receive what we desire – but humans keep getting in the way of what we are asking for, because our senses can’t see or FEEL more than a few ways.
Our eyes are not as strong as an Eagle’s eyes.
When we ask the Devine inside us to bring us what we feel joyful about, we need to get out of its way – and it will come unto us (and, sometimes we get a lovely surprise when something EVEN BETTER shows up).
I wonder what my old painting tutor would say about my beautiful garden, compared with what my fingers could put on canvas?
I am now believing that I could become a much better painter in the future as long as I hold beautiful thoughts/FEELINGS about everything the Divine has created.
All things are possible – but us humans think only some things are possible, and therein lies the problem. We have to suspend our beliefs and open our hearts to the CERTAINTY PROMISED BY THE DIVINE that what we desire is ours already.
We need to allow our beliefs to change – then our life changes automatically, and our vibrations lift, and our grumbles reduce.
The more we grumble, the less beauty we can see.
When we count our blessings, as suggested in the Bible, our eyes open up to opportunities we never knew existed.
It is a wonderful feeling having elderly strangers stop and tell me that my garden is the best they have ever seen in 50 years. And yet a year ago, I would never have believed I could have the skills to “paint” a beautiful garden.
When I decided to let the Divine inside me help me in a partnership, my garden changed into my version of the Garden of Eden.
I feel that Divine is walking every step of the way with me, and sometimes carrying me along and whispering in my ear, some new ideas I can try.
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