Week of September 17, 2017…
Mental Care – Afformations; The New Affirmations
You know what an “affirmation” is. It’s a statement of something you want to be true. Advocates believe that repeating affirmations over and over again helps you change the way you think and, thus, make positive things happen in your life.
A classic affirmation is “I am rich.” Try it. “I am rich.”
What just happened? Did you hear a voice in your head saying “Yeah, right!”? That’s the big problem with affirmations. They don’t work for most people.
When I tried to figure out why they don’t work, I realized it’s because of the way the human mind is wired. We simply don’t accept statements that we don’t believe are true.
Human thought is the process of ASKING and searching for answers to QUESTIONS. For example, if I were to ask you “Why is the sky blue?” your mind would start SEARCHING for the answer.
So if the human mind is always asking and searching for answers to QUESTIONS, why would we go around making statements we don’t believe? Why not cut out the middleman? Take the affirmation “I am rich” – to which the brain replies “Yeah, right!”
What would the QUESTION be? “Why am I so rich?” Try it. Ask yourself “Why am I so rich?” What’s your brain doing right now? Searching for an answer to the question! It’s by asking questions that you form your reality.
There are 4 steps to CREATING AFFORMATIONS that change your life…
Step 1: Ask Yourself What You Want – and Write it Down
You can use a goal you’ve previously written down, or start from scratch. You decide.
Please note that traditional success teachers stop right here. They tell you to “set your goals” and then say “affirmations” to try to convince your brain that you have what you want.
You already know that doesn’t work for you. So, try something different, go to the breakthrough step…
Step 2: Form a QUESTION Which Assumes That What You Want is Already True
This is the key step to creating Afformations that change your life.
The quality of your life depends on just two things: the quality of your communication with the world inside yourself, and the quality of your communication with the world outside yourself.
When you do Step 2 of The Afformations Method, you start to change the quality of your communication with both worlds — inner and outer. You begin to ask yourself new, empowering questions, and stop asking disempowering ones.
Step 3: Give Yourself to the Question
The point of Afformations does not lie in finding “the answer,” but in asking better questions.
When you ask better questions, your mind automatically focuses on things you’ve probably never focused on before — and the results will amaze you. You give yourself to the question by doing things like:
- Meditating about your Afformations
- Writing your Afformations
- Reading them to yourself and others
- Listening to iAfform Audios – audios that change your subconscious thought patterns while you’re busy doing other things (Get a free sample at www.iAfform.com)
Step 4: Take New ACTIONS Based on Your New Assumptions
This step of The Afformations Method is the one you MUST do to get the results you want…
The Afformations Method makes conscious and clear that which has, until now, been subconscious
and hidden. This is the step where action, of some kind, is taken and your mind begins to think about what someone who accomplishes the given goal would do – and then you do it.
Here is an example using the 4 steps…
- Step 1: Joe writes down what he wants to accomplish: “I want to earn $15,000 a month”
- Step 2: Joe Forms a question: “What would someone earning $15,000 a month do?”
- Step 3: Mentally Joe gives himself to the question: He does this in a variety of ways
- Step 4: Joe takes action to accomplish the goal: He contacts better clients to boost sales
The Afformations Method was developed by: Noah St. John, Ph.D.