Every thought is an affirmation
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Pioneer Brain/Mind Researcher
© 2006 All Rights Reserved

Here’s an interesting view of “affirmations.” I’m certain you’ve heard the term. Many self-help authors recommend that we use daily affirmations to help keep our self on track to achieve our goals.

But have you ever noticed that affirmations do NOT really seem to work? You usually don’t get any closer to your goal with this approach — and it may even be a total waste of time.

Why is this?

Here’s the secret: Affirmations often do NOT work because literally EVERY thought you have is actually an affirmation. You can spend three minutes telling yourself *I am focused.* But here’s the problem – the rest of the time your powerful subconscious mind knows darn good and well you are NOT focused, and will revert to an unfocused mind the moment you end your affirmation.

The basic idea of changing our lives using affirmations is good on the surface - but affirmations alone do not work, and neither does so-called positive thinking.

So what’s the answer? If you really DO want to make some changes in your life, you need to literally re-program your brain.

One way to do this is to make some changes in your environment that support creating a desired new habit. Yes, I did say habit. Everything we do is based on habits. In fact, our brain loves habits.

The secret is to remove any links to your old identity—the triggers that would cause you to think in your old ways. Start today with a small change, perhaps by cleaning up and rearranging your workspace or throwing all the "fat foods" out of the refrigerator.

A few little changes won’t get you where you want to be. But if you keep building on these small changes, you'll gradually close the gap between your dreams, and your reality!. Here's how this works...

Look around your home and ask yourself objectively, “What kind of person lives here?” If I didn’t know who lived here, what would I conclude about the inhabitant? Do the same for your office: “What kind of person would work here?” Then make a list of the six people with whom you spend the most time, and ask, “What kind of person would associate with these people?”

Do your answers to these objective questions match up with the kind of person you want to be? If not, then what kind of environment would that person have? What kind of friends? And how can you shift your environment toward the desired new one?

Maybe you can’t immediately get a whole new house or a new job, but what CAN you change right now —TODAY — that will move you in the desired direction?

The conclusion: Put your brain to work. Attach a meaningful reward to something you want to learn to “increase” your focus and the probability you will remember. Click Here!

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