How Affirmations Work on a Basic Level

As we mentioned in yesterday’s post, positive affirmations can be used to reprogram our minds in order to believe things about ourselves and our situations that we would otherwise doubt to be the truth. This enables us to bring our goals to fruition but how exactly does the process work to get us to this point?

Affirmations work in the same way that any learned knowledge works. When you are first learning to walk as a baby, after a few attempts you learn that you are able to stand upright. This knowledge is then stored in your mind as a fact and that is why once you have learned to walk; it is something that you can always do. This is because the mind simply takes it for granted that walking is possible for you and so you can do it without even thinking about it. So you have effectively programmed your mind to allow you to walk.

In the same way, with affirmations you program your mind to know that you can achieve your goals or that a situation will turn out well. When your mind accepts this as knowledge, it becomes possible for you to achieve those goals the same way it became possible for you to walk. Because your mind knows it is possible, it will find and attract ways for you to succeed in pursuing your goal.

It is said that knowledge is power, and in this particular case, the act of knowing is powerful as well. We will go into more detail about how affirmations work on a more complex level in the next post.

Until then

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