Regarding Affirmations

So I'm going to work on 3 affirmations per week from now on as well.

From Tommy W on mASF:

If you want to learn how to do them correctly, check out my archive. Humbly speaking, i've mastered affirmations. The shit that everyone has to say about them is OFF. Being in a 1 person apartment and listening to affirmations, experimenting with them, and creating new ones 15 hours a day for a few months (last year) will teach you a lot. Here's some QUICK advice; i suggest you take it to better your life:

-Don't use a long list of generalized statements. Use several SHORT statements that are SPECIFIC.

-Record your affirmations. Use the same tonality when you record them. Why spend time typing them or writing them or saying them, when all you have to do is put on earphones and YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONCENTRATE ON THEM to have an effect. Your subconscious picks up the message. Anything besides recording them and using playbacks is a waste of time.

-Use your own language. The way you talk to yourself is best. Everyone talks to themselves differently. Most people's definitions of words that they use differs. Use your own words... if you like the idea/concept of someone else's affirmations, then use your words to convey that message.

-When you record/say your affirmations (once again, record them), use the proper tonality. Lets say you want to use "life is fantastic". You would say "Life is FANTASTIC!!".

-There are 2 main categories to affirmations (although they can blend). Experience and Perception. Perception is what you are using: "i am confident", and it alters the frame of mind that you think in. Experience is used to create motivation "i am talkative", and it makes you want to BE just that.

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Why affirmations work.
We are affirming things to ourselves all the time. Some positive some negative. If we had a bad month were a bunch of shit happened that was bad, then we'd be in a slump. Also you might gain a belief of "bad things happen to me". Similarly the opposite: "good things happen to me". When you use affirmations, they work whether you want them to or not. If you use "i am really confident", you MAY think, "wait... no i'm not... these aren't working!". <--- this is where a lot of people stop using affirmations, which is a mistake. Instead, keep using them. What happens is that you begin to think along the lines of "wait... no i'm not... but i should be... i mean, it's easy to be confident... maybe i'll hold my head high today... hell, i have a lot of things going for me... HOW CAN I BE MORE CONFIDENT?" Basically after you have affirmed something long enough, your mind says "this isn't true, but how can i make it true?". And your mind takes the quickest route (that it knows) to getting it done. Perception affirmations alters/reframes your mind. Experience affirmations creates motivation for something to happen: example "i am very talkative" --> your mind might start thinking "i should be talkative... how about today i speak out more... just to see what it's like". Sometimes you'll just start being more talkative without making up your mind to be talkative.

Here's my newest affirmation. Notice it's specific and short and in my own words.
"I am realistically very very VERY optimistic"


There's a ton of other shit, but i've brought enough to the community on this... and it's very repetitive.