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renie408 · 03-06-2007, 02:30 PM

I have read a lot about resistance to affirmations. A lot has to do with how you word your affirmation. You have to find a way that resonates with your positive energy and which doesn't call your negative self out of its mental cave to squash it.

One book I read said to frame your affirmations as questions and as if they had already occurred. The theory here is that your brain is a question answering machine. Ask it a question and it goes to work on solving the question. Instead of saying, "I am financially abundant and prosperity loves me.", which has the negative troll come runnning out to say, "Huh?? Duh, look around. You are broke and always have been. You suck." Say, "Why am I so financially abundant? Why does prosperity love me so much?" and think on it like an actual question. I have had off and on success with this. I have a BIG and powerful negative troll who does not take being locked out of my brain lying down.

Another approach is to try the "Wouldn't it be great if...." approach. You can figure that one out for yourself. Again, I have had varying success.

And then there is self-talk. Talk to yourself like a loving friend, a loving maternal spirit or something equivalent. This is fairly easy for me because I have kids and I hate to hear them get down on themselves. When I catch myself dissing myself, I tell myself "Hey, don't be so hard on yourself. What you have been is not what you are...blah blah blah." Again with the varying success.

I think the key for me is that there is no one single method that works every time. Sometimes I use one of the above, sometimes I distract myself by putting my iPod on and listening to upbeat music, sometimes I pet my dog or my kids or my husband, sometimes I go for a walk or get on here and talk to other people who believe. The main thing is to be able to RECOGNIZE the negative troll and do something to stuff him back in his cave. I firmly believe that if I can keep him in the cave long enough, he will starve to death. But I realize that is going to take some time. I have 43 years of stumbling around listening to negative input. It is going to take me longer than the two months I have been working on it to straighten all that out.

I figure three months, tops.

03-06-2007, 02:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
renie408 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 293	I have read a lot about resistance to affirmations. A lot has to do with how you word your affirmation. You have to find a way that resonates with your positive energy and which doesn't call your negative self out of its mental cave to squash it. One book I read said to frame your affirmations as questions and as if they had already occurred. The theory here is that your brain is a question answering machine. Ask it a question and it goes to work on solving the question. Instead of saying, "I am financially abundant and prosperity loves me.", which has the negative troll come runnning out to say, "Huh?? Duh, look around. You are broke and always have been. You suck." Say, "Why am I so financially abundant? Why does prosperity love me so much?" and think on it like an actual question. I have had off and on success with this. I have a BIG and powerful negative troll who does not take being locked out of my brain lying down. Another approach is to try the "Wouldn't it be great if...." approach. You can figure that one out for yourself. Again, I have had varying success. And then there is self-talk. Talk to yourself like a loving friend, a loving maternal spirit or something equivalent. This is fairly easy for me because I have kids and I hate to hear them get down on themselves. When I catch myself dissing myself, I tell myself "Hey, don't be so hard on yourself. What you have been is not what you are...blah blah blah." Again with the varying success. I think the key for me is that there is no one single method that works every time. Sometimes I use one of the above, sometimes I distract myself by putting my iPod on and listening to upbeat music, sometimes I pet my dog or my kids or my husband, sometimes I go for a walk or get on here and talk to other people who believe. The main thing is to be able to RECOGNIZE the negative troll and do something to stuff him back in his cave. I firmly believe that if I can keep him in the cave long enough, he will starve to death. But I realize that is going to take some time. I have 43 years of stumbling around listening to negative input. It is going to take me longer than the two months I have been working on it to straighten all that out. I figure three months, tops.