Last Updated on November 1, 2021 by Hollie Giglietti

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I am happy. I am beautiful. I am smart. I am thin….

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Have you tried affirmations? 

You’ve heard that affirmations – positive statements you say to yourself – are supposed to help change your life.

“Maybe this will help me believe I’m smart, beautiful, amazing, etc..!” So you plaster your mirrors and walls with sticky notes or beautifully designed printed out Pinterest quotes and tell yourself “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me,” 30 times a day.

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Sometimes affirmations really do work!

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But the problem is that sometimes they don’t.

Why Affirmations may not be working for you

When affirmations don’t work it’s usually because we’re not actually, subconsciously believing the statement, therefore, we’re not able to change our thinking on the subject.

You look in the mirror to say “I am beautiful”, which feels strange in the first place, right? You shake off the weird feeling because you’ve been told how powerful this can be. But you’re probably really thinking “yeah right! I am not beautiful!”

Trying to convince ourselves of something we don’t believe internally can be a challenge. 

Failed affirmations are incredibly frustrating

The life sucking power of rumination and fear had kept me feeling stuck for long periods of time throughout my life. I thought affirmations would help me change the depressing thoughts running through my mind, rather, they just were not believable. I didn’t know what else to do. 

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Thoroughly engulfed in despair, taking any action steps towards change, seemed impossible. Where do I even begin, I wondered.

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Maybe this has been your experience too?

While trying to figure out how to become unstuck I would often hear the suggestion to simply change my thinking, change how I viewed the world, change my attitude, start seeing the positive things in life and be grateful.

I knew all of that was important and true but each one seemed impossible through my haze of depression and defeat.

I couldn’t stop thinking “how DO you change your thinking?”

The super simple way to actually change your thinking

Although I believed in the power of positive affirming statements – to help make new pathways in our thinking over time – I discovered a powerful NEW tool that became very helpful in the mean time.

A sneaky short cut, of sorts, that we can start using right now – to change our thinking and overall outlook on life. To REALLY start believing all the good and positive in life.

I’m very thankful for the day I came across this podcast interview with Abel James of The Wild Diet and Noah St. John who wrote the book Afformations. The information the two discussed during the interview was so different and powerful from anything I’d heard before that I ordered the book as quickly as I could and devoured the entire thing in two days.

While traditional affirmations are statements you want to be true, AFFORMATIONS are questions that will help form new thoughts, ideas and beliefs. Check out the full interview below.

 

Afformations instead of affirmations

Did you know that our mind is continuously working out problems in the background, as we go about our daily lives? Our mind is always trying to subconsciously figure out answers to questions. Like when we forget something we were going to say in conversation and that thought suddenly pops into our head three hours later.

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Our mind is subconsciously trying to figure out the answer to the question, all while we go about our day to day life.

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If our mind is working to answer something we forgot in conversation, what other questions are our minds trying to answer?

ALL THE OTHER QUESTIONS WE ASK OURSELVES EVERY DAY!

Think about all the questions you may ask yourself on a daily basis;

·    “Why can’t I do anything right?”

·    “Why am I so fat?”

·    “Why can’t I let go of the junk and eat healthy food?”

·    “Why is life so hard?”

·    “Why am I still single?”

And the list goes on and on, right? Think about it – we think these things all day, every day, probably without even noticing.

And our minds are trying to find the answers.

I don’t know about you but I used to ask myself these things ALL the time! No wonder I was stuck in life, thinking I’m fat and unhealthy, not being able to escape a “hard life,” all while being desperately alone.

*Mic DROP*

WHAT?? This was huge for me and explained so much about why I wasn’t where I wanted to be in life. I was asking myself questions that were leading me nowhere.

Five Life Changing Questions You Can Ask Yourself Now

Noah St. John’s book, Afformations, was the right answer for me at the right time.

THIS is one way you can change your thinking, with very little energy.

Simply asking the right questions, your mind will subconsciously seek out solutions. You don’t even have to consciously try to think of the answers.

Our amazing brain works to find the answers and our outlook, our mindset, our life – begins to change.

The book provides pages of Afformation examples on;

·    Health and Well-Being

·    Money and Abundance

·    Building Self-Confidence

·    Work and Career

·    Love and Intimacy

·    Family and Relationships

·    Conquering Fear

·    Overcoming Bad Habits

·    Spirituality

·    Life and Happiness

My top five favorite questions (which were very hard to choose!!) that you can start asking yourself today are;

1.   ”Why do I release the past?”

2.   “Why do I love my body?”

3.   “Why do I easily accept love into my life?”

4.   “Why am I living my life purpose?”

5.   “Why is my life today the best I have ever known?”

Noah provides pages and pages of questions you can ask yourself for life lasting change.

After I read the book, I went to sleep asking these questions and woke up automatically asking these questions. When I focused on asking myself these positive, life changing questions, rather than the crippling negative questions, my outlook on life completely changed.

Just like that.. I didn’t have to use energy (that I didn’t even have) to force my thinking to change. It was such a relief! 

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I starting feeling like there was hope and endless possibilities for the future I’d always longed for. My way of thinking had changed and I didn’t have to muster up extra energy to do it. 

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If you feel like you’ve tried everything to change your thinking, give this book a try!

Have you read this book already or ordered it, read it and have thoughts to share? I’d love to hear what you thought! What are some other ways you’ve found to change your thinking or outlook on life?