Affirmation is a short, positive statement. This psychological technique can change thinking, can help achieve goals. Many people resort to affirmations, thereby improving their lives. However, many people are faced with the fact that for some reason there is no effect from the settings. Why do not affirmations work?
There are a number of recommendations that must be followed when compiling affirmations. However, not only violation of these tips and, as a result, incorrect formulation of attitudes leads to the fact that affirmations do not work or do not work at all the way a person would like. There are five "pitfalls" in working with affirmations that often do not allow you to achieve results using the power of thought and word.
Frivolous attitude to the process
Affirmations, like many other psychological devices, will work only when a person believes in them and takes them seriously. Having decided to change your life with the help of thoughts and words, you need to approach this issue extremely responsibly. Think carefully about what exactly you want to achieve and what can be done - except for affirmations - in the framework of achieving the goal. Indeed, despite the fact that affirmations affect thinking and the subconscious, they require that a person does not just sit idly by while waiting for the weather by the sea.
The lack of faith in the result will not allow you to get what you want, you should never forget about it. Perceiving the installation as something comic and gaming, you may encounter the fact that time will simply be wasted. Moreover, with a frivolous approach, affirmations in some cases can give a negative opposite result.
Internal conflict
Affirmations allow you to get in touch with your subconscious. A purposeful repetition of the same attitudes, as it were, changes the already existing — often negative and incorrect — ideas within a person of himself, his health, life as a whole. However, it must be understood that if there is protest at the subconscious level, there is disbelief in the power of thought and word and in those attitudes that seem to be imposed on the subconscious, affirmations will not work.
It is impossible to deceive yourself, do not try to deceive your subconscious. If a person tries to force, force himself to believe in something that he does not believe at all and that he is not ready to actually accept, this creates only an internal conflict and plunges into unconscious, but severe stress. In this situation, there can be no talk of any positive changes.
In addition, it is important to choose what is really needed for affirmations. Only true desires can be fulfilled, and not what is imposed by society. If, in fact, a person subconsciously is not ready to be rich, then no affirmations for money will help him get what he wants.
Incorrect wording
Very often, the reason why affirmations do not work lies in the wrong wording. So, for example, positive attitudes can be too long, then they are difficult to perceive by the subconscious and do not give any result. If in affirmation there is a negation, some kind of opposition, then in this case there may also be no effect.
You should not add words like, for example, “I want”, “like”, “I can” to affirmations. And also you should not make a phrase in the future or, especially, in the past tense.
An example of improper affirmation might look like this: "I want to be healthy, I can become healthy." It would be more correct to formulate the attitude in this way: "I am (already) healthy and my health is improving day by day."
Desire for a quick result
Very often people refuse affirmations when they don’t get any result for several days. However, this is fundamentally the wrong approach. It is important to understand that everything takes time, and to make changes in life, to achieve any goals and to get a full-fledged result from working on oneself, this time can be very long. Especially in the case when the subconscious mind has an absolutely negative and destructive program that has been strengthened and expanded for many years in a row.
Most often, with the right attitude and approach, the first fruits of the installation begin to give after 7-10 days. To achieve the greatest effect, it is required to regularly and systematically repeat affirmations every day for 30-40 days. After this, it is also not recommended to abandon this practice in order to strengthen or consolidate the result. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to inspire one and the same thing a hundred times. It happens that it is enough 10-20 times during the day to pronounce mentally or aloud the selected affirmations without changing their text each time so that they begin to work and affect the subconscious.