Occasionally, I come across someone who asks the question "do affirmations really work?"
For me, there is no question that affirmations work very well and are quite effective, and for good reason, too… all because of an experiment that I did when I was very young that I think you‘ll appreciate very much.
When I was a child, long before Louise Hay ever published her first book on affirmations, I once heard someone say "anything you tell yourself long enough, you will eventually come to believe is true" and it just stayed with me, coming to mind from time to time afterward. Of course, being a child, I had no idea if this were true, or if it was just someone’s imagining of how things worked but then didn't really work the way they thought when it came to real life.
For me, there is no question that affirmations work very well and are quite effective, and for good reason, too… all because of an experiment that I did when I was very young that I think you‘ll appreciate very much.
When I was a child, long before Louise Hay ever published her first book on affirmations, I once heard someone say "anything you tell yourself long enough, you will eventually come to believe is true" and it just stayed with me, coming to mind from time to time afterward. Of course, being a child, I had no idea if this were true, or if it was just someone’s imagining of how things worked but then didn't really work the way they thought when it came to real life.
Whenever the saying would come to mind, I would wonder about it, whether it was true or not, but it was just one of those things to ponder for a time and then set aside again, not having any way to know whether it was true or not… but I thought to myself, “someday I’ll think of something that I want to believe is true, and when I do, that'll be my opportunity to do an experiment and see what happens”.
