Most Affirmations Don’t Work – How To Supercharge Yours – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we talked about why your average run of the mill affirmations tend to end up in the dust bin. If you’ve studied the Law of Attraction or The Secret, you may have heard that what you think about is what you will bring about in your reality. So you get excited about that and then write impassioned affirmations about what you want in your life. If you are like me, you diligently start repeating these every single day. For a day or two, or even a week or two, and then your subconscious starts hitting you with what seem like very valid reasons to stop it. Stuff like “These aren’t working”, or “This is boring”, or “This is just foolish”. Eventually you just stop doing them. We saw that the reasons for this were twofold:
1. Because we don’t really Believe what we are telling ourselves in our affirmations, our subconscious fights back and change doesn’t happen instantly, so before the affirmations have a chance to stick, we give up on them. This was covered in Part 1, and
2. We don’t really know how to handle negative situations or how to put the brakes on a negative tailspin, so when we start feeling this way, we abandon our affirmations because if they were working we wouldn’t feel this way, right!
There are lots of things that can happen in a day to set us up for one of those downward tailspins. You get up on the wrong side of the bed and it’s all downhill from there, right? That used to happen to me a lot. I used to have a saying, “I’ve earned this depression and I’m going to enjoy it for awhile.” What a crazy belief, but believe it I did. Somehow I really thought I was getting something out of being nasty and grumpy. But the Law of Attraction states that what you spend most of your time thinking about and focusing on is what you will get. You can probably guess that I was getting lots of reasons to be nastier and grumpier, that’s for sure.
On the other hand, your true desires will come to you faster if you can focus on them with emotion and feeling. So it would stand to reason that you need to be able to recognize when you are not focusing with good emotion and feeling and be able to turn it around at the drop of a hat, if you truly want to materialize your desired outcome, doesn’t it?
So knowing that, many gurus tell you that you need to CHANGE the way you think and focus on the positive, but they don’t tell you HOW to do that, do they? They might recommend affirmations – we’ve already seen how that goes – or books to read, or meditations – great idea if you can find quiet time and space RIGHT NOW. All of these methods can help if YOU DO THEM, but it’s rare to be in a negative situation that’s happening right now and be able to meditate in real time.
Wouldn’t it make sense to have a tool that could help us to change our negative thoughts right here and now in the moment that we realize that we are letting the circumstances of life dictate how we feel? A tool that is right there, waiting for you to grab onto it without having to think about it. It should be just like reaching out and flipping a switch on and off. That’s what is really needed.
That seems impossible to most people, because they are so used to floundering in the tailspin that the idea of changing their thoughts in an instant seems crazy. But my suggestion is that you put in some thought, today, right now about how you might handle the next crisis you come up against. Do you want to let it take you down that well worn path to the pit, or do you want to grab onto something and say “NO, NOT THIS TIME, NOT EVER AGAIN!!!” Make a plan, get something stuck in your head, plant a switch there so that the next time you recognize that – “Oh geez, here we go again” – you remember that you have a tool. You need to have something that you don’t even really have to think about to use, it just goes on autopilot. Maybe a chant or a little jingle or something that your ‘Belief Detective’ won’t recognize as an affirmation. You don’t have to believe the words, it’s just a little song.
So the moral is – be prepared. Think about it right now, while you are reading this. Don’t wait until the next time that life hands you lemons to wonder why it is happening again and again. Take the bull by the horns and be ready with your own secret weapon. You’ve been to the Pity Party enough times and there’s nothing there for you any more. Be ready!
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