Question About Affirmations

[SamEuphoria93]

Hello all. Had a question about positive affirmations - 

I understand it takes a month to see results from affirmations (based on what Leo said in a video on them). Would this be from the same affirmation used daily or could it be from multiple affirmations, distributed into different days? 

Thanks in advance, 
Sam Euphoria

[Visitor]

Depends on your reference point and belief in the affirmation. Also, an affirmation without action may never eventuate.

Words have a lot of meanings for a person. Using the wrong words, for an affirmation, could actually backfire. Example; If your affirmation is "I want to be healthy and fit", then your reference point and belief is that you are unhealthy and unfit. As long as you use that particular affirmation you may actually stay unwell.

An affirmation which will make it hard on yourself to change: "I no longer smoke". Your reference point and belief is that you once smoked. It was a copying strategy that worked. So when you are looking for a way to cope, your mind will remind you that you once smoked and that worked.

Good affirmations focus in the NOW. They do not refer to your past. Example: Whenever the urge to have a smoke arises, the affirmation would be (said with absolute conviction) "I don't even smoke! Why would I want a smoke!?" The mind will sense an error and quickly cancel the urge for a smoke. This sort of affirmation can change a person very quickly, such as three weeks, to never having an urge for a smoke.

Side Note: For most people it takes 90 days (3 months), doing the new behaviour daily, before it becomes not only automatic but you will miss it if you don't do it.

 

[Raphael]

18 hours ago, SamEuphoria93 said:

Would this be from the same affirmation used daily or could it be from multiple affirmations, distributed into different days? 

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Personally, I do 30 - 40 minutes affirmations daily. They are always the same, no matter the day. Your mind needs to impregnate them, so in my opinion, it's better to not distribute affirmations between days.

However, I think that I have maybe too many affirmations per day (14 affirmations). Does anyone have recommendations on the limit? Because finally, it's a little like multitasking, the mind cannot do everything at the same time.

[Christian]

@SamEuphoria93

Make one positive affirmation per goal and stick with it. Repeating one affirmation daily is better. 

But I don't believe just affirmations are enough. If you sit in your mom's basement and keep affirming "I am attractive to women" and you: never leave your House, Don't have any friends of the opposite sex and Dislike social interactions in general, you will have a hard time believing in what you are saying. Your mind knows when you are lying to yourself.  

My point is that if you want to believe in yourself and what you are affirming, you should be taking action in addition to making positive affirmations about whatever goal you desire to materialize. 

 

[WaterfallMachine]

I find short affirmations powerful for beginners. But as someone grows to be more susceptible to changing their thoughts, their feelings, their motivations, their actions and more with better confidence and awareness, more affirmations can be used. But even with that, there's always a limit.