Why don’t affirmations always work?

There’s a plethora of gratitude journals available right now. They usually begin with a verse something like: Today, I’m grateful for these three things. Then they have a few numbered lines for you to fill in.

There’s a reason it’s much more powerful for you to fill in your own blanks versus repeat something the author pens. An author-generated specific gratitude is a statement of belief that embodies a particular truth for the author. That person is not you. What that person thinks and feels is their unique experience—not yours, nor can it ever be yours. You can have a similar experience, but not an exact experience.

There’s power in your words. You are not speaking into a void. What you think, feel, say, and do are the tools of creation. You use these energies to create your idea of reality. But if you are repeating a mantra or affirmation written or said by someone else that does not resonate with you on a deep core level, you’ll simply be repeating words and expect them to have power. This is superstition.

Reciting affirmations you don’t believe in that are built on the spiritual consciousness of someone else is something like the emails I get that ask me to recite something, then pass on to 10 people or the thing I want won’t come true. A statement, or affirmation of spiritual truth is potent only when the inner heart consciousness and the outer words coincide with each other.

When you thoughtfully and heartfully affirm what is true about you—that you are Consciousness, God Essence having a physical experience, you align yourself with the tremendous power within you. From this position, this vantage of your unique individual experience, state your affirmation.

This interaction of human and divine is the secret to the creation of all your good. You cannot see what your mind does not believe. You cannot take the affirmations of another and manifest what you want unless it’s your heartfelt truth.

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