The repition of affirmations leads to belief and beliefs drive actions. Words get instilled into your subconscious and make you feel driven to behave a certain way. The best affirmations are something short and sweet that can really stick in your gut. Like 5 to 10 words max.

Examples:
A.) "I will succeed"
B.) "that girl is mine"
C.) "I am the best man"
D.) "I deserve dimes, nothing but dimes"
E.) "all alpha males fear me"

Mind over matter. Your perspective on something changes how you feel about it.

Example:
1.) big guy tries to amog you. You get scared. Remember he can't wipe his ass.
2.) fine girl with big watermelon breast. You can't resist her. Remember she probably sucks it like its bottle.
3.) you scared of approaching a hot girl. Think about chick begging you for a date.

The intensity of the affirmation helps. Say it loud and that helps to build it.

Repition can go on for days and months. The more you say it the more you believe it. Your like a drill argent drilling it in your head.

Fuck personal responsibility in the booty with an AIDS dick. You have rights, if you are treated bad its not your fault. It's never your fault. Never. Ohhhh it aint my fault. If something goes wrong don't blame yourself. You just got to learn to not beat your self up. Its not your fault but ask yourself how can you overcome that??? Blame will just ruin your confidence.

Accountability is garbage. The whole logic of accountability is that you can help someone by hurting them. Bullshit! A broken person is someone that is too hurt to try. Accountability will just ruin your confidence.

I disagree. Well, actually, I agree with the first half about affirmations. I disagree entirely with the second about personal responsibility.

If you can't accept responsibility and make amendments then your confidence is not good. If you can't hold your hands up and say "yeah sorry people, that was my fault" and then go on to say "but this is what we're going to do to sort it out", then you're a lesser man than those who can.

I always compare "confidence" to "acceptance" - acceptance of who you are and what humans are. Acceptance that we all make mistakes, so you just accept them and sort them out. There is a difference between blaming yourself for everything (obviously bad) and accountability and personal responsibilities (a part of life, so better to deal with them than just pretend you are above them).

Numerous studies have shown that affirmations only work if a person is already a high self esteem person where as a low self esteem person aren't positively affected by affirmations.

If you a HSE person you don't need affirmations.

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If you blame yourself for everything and are to harsh on yourself then you will just feel like a piece shit. Some people are burdened down with too much responsibility, criticism, and accountability. This causes them to have a negative view of themselves.

Affirmations are about self-confidence. Its not about self-esteem. When you hear something again and again you start to feel strongly about it. When you feel strongly about it you act on it. Beliefs drive actions

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Affirmations are very helpful indeed.

Another good idea is to add 2 constant affirmations in the begining and end of each session:

"My subconscious will internalize what I'm about to say"
"My subconsciuos has internalized what I've said"

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Beliefs do drive actions but beliefs are rarely changed(NEVER) by simply saying affirmations.... In fact they never change with saying affirmations it's the actions that create the conditioned behavior and mindset...

As far as your belief that it works with the weak self-esteemed I'd disagree.

Yes you must step up and accept you for you... this means not sugar coating shit and genuinely accepting yourself, your good and your bad qualities...

Again you are trying to start teaching things you seem to have a limited education on.

Being treated bad has less to do with personal responsibility however you must take responsibility for your life and where it's going... that is what personal responsibility is about owning up to everything you have(or haven't) done to this point in your life.

Taking responsibility for your actions is indeed significant portion of self-esteem, and taking personal responsibility for your life is the first step to changing it.

Please go do some research before posting ignorant remarks, it only makes you appear foolish... Stop teaching until you learn something.

Peace and Love,

Vic

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Saying affirmations don't work is an outright lie. Many will disagree. To claim you're educated you are very narrowminded. That's why I tell you that you've been brainwashed by theory.

To say you dont sugarcoat makes it sound like youre very UNTACTFUL. I get the impression you think emotions don't matter. Would you care to explain what role emotions play in actions? Also how do you change emotions?

People are rational, usually, that's why affirmations are BS.

You can say a girl wants your dick in front of a mirror for three weeks straight, if every woman you talk to tells you to get lost, doesn't help. Your statements fail under the weight of evidence.

Affirmations also imply that you don't have to actually acknowledge that you are doing something wrong. Everything of value in life requires some kind of investment to achieve, whether that is money, time, effort, so on and so forth. I'm not saying you can't have a positive attitude, you absolutely need one to succeed. But there is a difference between saying "I am gonna keep working on this and learning until I succeed" and attempting to hypnotize yourself with stupid repetitions.

At best, its a waste of energy. At worst, you outright lie to yourself (I once read a guy said he'd do affirmations about how he makes so much money when he was broke, and his band got booked for regular shows soon after. It had nothing to do with affirmations, he worked hard to become a good musician. But when someone wants their way to be right, they'll take the randomness of the universe and claim it was their own doing).

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Affirmations PLUS action is key... NOT just affirmations. As I stated you need the ACTION. Words mean nothing without action. You must behave in the way you would if you believed it to be true, that is the key to changing your belief not simply saying things...

You don't seem to know much for you trying to teach. Go read this article to know how to use affirmations properly: a-better-understanding-of-beliefs-you-r ... 69831.html

Stop talking out your ass.

Peace and Love,

Vic

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You never explain yourself effectively. You always claim authority but you can never provide reason for why you THINK you are right.

Definitely not reading something you have given me no good reason to read.

It sounds like you think behaviors change emotions. It sounds like you think emotions don't matter....

I said affirmations don't work for low self esteem people (which are the people that afffirmations are supposed to help as high self esteem people don't need affirmations). Here is scientific evidence that supports my claim:

"Canadian researcher, Dr. Joanne Wood at the University of Waterloo and her colleagues at the University of New Brunswick who have recently published their research in the Journal of Psychological Science, concluded "repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most."

The researchers asked people with and low self-esteem to say "I am a lovable person." They then measured the participants' moods and their feelings about themselves. The low-esteem group felt worse afterwards compared with others who did not. However, people with high self-esteem felt better after repeating the positive affirmation--but only slightly. The psychologists then asked the participants to list negative and positive thoughts about themselves. They found, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts.

The researchers suggest that, like overly positive praise, unreasonably positive self-statements, such as "I accept myself completely" can provoke contradictory thoughts in individuals in individuals with low self-esteem. When positive self-statements strongly conflict with self-perception, the researchers argue, there is not mere resistance but a reinforcing of self-perception. People who view themselves as unlovable, for example, find that saying that are so unbelievable that it strengthens their own negative view rather than reversing it.

These findings were supported by previous research published in 1994 in the Journal of Social Psychology, showing that when people get feedback that they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better."

Link here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wir ... tions-work

One of us may be narrow minded but its not me. I don't claim something unless I know my claim is backed up by scientific evidence and I suggest you adopt that principal as well.

Now that we know affirmations are effectively BS, what should a person wanting a confidence boost in the mornings do? Eat a healthy breakfast, workout, and take a cold shower. These things will make a person feel great and set their day in the right direction.

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You're narrowminded because you trust this bullshit without even questioning it. How do they even define low self-esteem? What was the goal of the affirmations in this experiment, I mean was it to raise mood or was it to help people face things they were afraid of? How did they say the affirmations? Did they yell them, was it conversational, did they whisper? How many times did they even repeat the affirmations? You don't even know anything about the experiment yet you believe it??????????????

You need to stop citing research and think for yourself son. It is weak to give a person authority just because they are a scientist. I'm telling you with 100 percent certainty affirmations will build confidence. And I can go prove it.

Prove it please. I'm interested.

So you are saying that you are smarter than a group of scientist with Ph.Ds? LOLOL, okay man.

BTW, Gravity doesn't exist. Yep, thats right... there is no such thing as gravity. I'm sure you can find me 1000 studies that says gravity does exist but you need to stop citing research and think for yourself. how do they even define gravity? What was the goal of the test when they tested gravity? I mean was it to see if it exist or to see hoe it effects Flying Squirrels? How did they test it? Did they throw things at people or did they let people fall from the sky? How many times did they repeat it? You don't even know anything about these experiments so clearly the scientist are wrong. Gravity doesn't exist.

Edit: Some people have PMed me asking why I don't believe in Gravity. I do. It should be obvious but I was mocking his logic to make a point.

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You gonna learn today.

I am right and the scientist are wrong. Put that in yo pipe and smoke it. If scientist always right you might as well ask them to plan your whole life for you.

Physics is a hard science, meaning it's easier to prove. Psychology is a soft science meaning its open to conjecture.

But without a doubt things are easy to do when you feel good about them. Things are hard to do when you feel bad about them. That's just common sense. Positive thoughts produce positive emotion and positive emotion makes things easier to do and positive affirmations cause positive thoughts. I know i am right. I know in my fucking bones.