A long time ago in France, a man named Emile Coue came up with an original idea which was unique for the time. His simple idea was that if you repeated something to yourself often enough, you would bring about the change you desired. No one had ever come up with such an original idea as this before Coue’s original thought.
You probably have heard of Coue’s short, famous phrase:
Every day, in every way I am getting better and better.
For some reason people began to recite this phrase and it seemed to work. But, of course, neither Coue or anyone else had any solid idea of why it worked. People just began saying this phrase and it eventually became famous.
Apparently, Coue had invented what today we call Affirmations. They are a short phrase or sentence which “affirms” what we want to occur.
Are Affirmations effective?
Affirmations work. Almost every self-help method or program in existence today uses Affirmations. Many of them call this technique by a different name, but they are in the end, all just ordinary Affirmations. Today, an increasing proportion of the population has apparently heard of Affirmations and a lot of folks use this technique.
Why Affirmations do work.
(1) The more determined you are to make your changes, the better they work.
(2) The more you are prepared to accept that desired changes will appear, the more effective Affirmations are.
(3) When change occurs you should be prepared to accept it and let go of the past..
The more you follow these three steps, the better your Affirmations wlll work Being willing to accept change is a big part of making Affirmations come to pass. Your success is, as they say, up to you.
There is a reasonable idea behind Affirmation success.
Those who study Affirmations, indicate that the subconscious mind is the key. We all have a subconscious mind, of course, and it is powerful.
When we say (and think) that an Affirmation is true, our subconscious has to make a choice. Will it accept or resist the Affirmation?
Eventually, the subconscious will accept what you are saying to it. Do not be surprised if it takes awhile. Your subconscious may not agree with you at first blush because it is zeroed in on your past beliefs. Some of these past beliefs may have been installed by your parents when you were very young. These early beliefs are often difficult to overcome.
Although, if you subconsciously believed all along in what you said in your Affirmation, things could change quickly. That is what happens when some people say that the change was “miraculous”.
Affirmations will reprogram your belief system. This is what leads to change. Once resistance is broken, your subconscious is able to re-examine your core beliefs and patterns. The effect of this reprogramming can be startling and things can change very quickly as dysfunctional beliefs get identified and replaced by your own new inner truth.
Because Affirmations actually reprogram your thought patterns, they change the way you think and feel about things, and because you have replaced dysfunctional beliefs with your own new positive beliefs, positive change comes easily and more naturally.
A new computer program is reputed to be effective when it comes to Affirmations and making changes. This program runs on your computer. The author claims it takes but 10 minutes a day to become effective.
This article’s scope does not include more details than those given above. To go into further detail would require writing a very long piece about computers and the mind, which we do not want to do here.
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