This is very interesting to read. I'd always kind of wondered about negative affirmations: since the negative version of positive affirmations ("I am not fat...") don't work, the same logic says your invention should work, but I was always too scared to try it out...
One thing your affirmations made me think of is Eckhart Tolle's present observation of problems. One thing you're doing is calmly observing your present state, without beating yourself up over it. Anger for example, can't endure under scrutiny, because it becomes absurd once the spotlight is placed on it.
Some other types of affirmations which are useful if you have lots of mental resistance... I'll use weight as an example... "I am willing to be thin", "I choose to be thin", "I deserve to be thin", "I welcome thinness", "I love my thin body"
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Originally Posted by Lauxa  I am having a hard time breaking some annoying habits, especially biting my nails |
I had a nail-biting (as well as finger-skin-biting) habit from childhood and cured it in 10 minutes using the 6-step-reframe technique from NLP. I think with little annoying habits like these, NLP is better than affirmations. But on the other hand, the affirmation is more general, since you can use it to improve
overall grooming. So NLP is more like the highly focused laserbeam while affirmations are the sawed-off shotgun.
