The affirmations process is an intriguing one with many believing it is just too easy to be true. However affirmations really do work if you are consistent in affirming the statements into your life. Think about the affirmations process as a way of rewriting a script. Say for example you are a screen writer for a popular television series and in one particular episode the end scene leaves everyone feeling sad, empty and down. As a screen writer all you have to do is change the script by writing a more positive ending to the show.
Of course in real life it doesn’t seem quite as easy as that however you are the screen writer of your life and you can change your script. Another way of thinking about the affirmations process is to consider it as a reprogramming of your mind. Your mind is like an amazing computer however just like a normal computer it can be corrupted with bad programming, or the software may not work because of programming glitches or the computer may get a virus.
The point is our minds, just like computers can suffer from these things however we tend to think that because it is our mind and not a literal computer that we can’t treat such things. When in fact the opposite is true – our brains can be reprogrammed just like a computer and can have all viruses or faulty functions removed or improved.
The affirmations process works by affirming what is actually true. This also is an important point – the affirmation must be true. You can not believe something that is too far-fetched and neither should you. Affirmations are not a way of escaping reality they are to help you face reality with confidence. We have about 25,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day and most of those thoughts run on auto-pilot. The problem for a great many people is that most of those thoughts are negative – and that is not reality. So affirmations used correctly can help in the adjustment back to reality.
The affirmations process works by us continually reading, hearing or saying affirmations until they become a part of our sub-conscious and literally become a part of who we are. It is not a 5 minute fix or an instant cure but rather a long term method of accepting reality for what it is without the negative unreal view of every situation.