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Afformations: A New Approach to Positive Thinking
If you’ve ever read a self-help book, you know that traditional success teachers have told you to say "affirmations" – positive statements that you'd like to be true. For example, a classic "affirmation" is: "I am rich."
Try it. Say "I am rich."
What just happened? Did you hear a voice in your head that said: "Yeah, right!"?
There’s only one problem with "affirmations": they really don't work for most people. Why? Because you're trying to convince yourself of something you don't really believe.
Have you ever been persuaded to try "affirmations"... and then had absolutely nothing happen?
Me too. And about a gazillion other people.
One morning in April 1997, I was in the shower, thinking about how the human mind works. I realized that human thought IS the process of asking and searching for the answer to QUESTIONS. For example, if I asked you, "Why is the sky blue?", your mind would start searching for the answer.
So I asked myself a logical question: "If the human mind is always asking and searching for answers to QUESTIONS, why are we going around saying statements we don't even believe? Why don't we cut out the middleman?"
Take the “affirmation” "I am rich" - to which the brain replies "Yeah, right!" What would the QUESTION be?
"Why am I so rich?"
Try it. Ask yourself: "Why am I so rich?"
What’s your brain doing right now? Searching for an answer to the QUESTION!
The staggering realization I made that morning in April 1997 was that you create your reality in two ways: by the statements you say to yourself and others, and by the questions you ask yourself and others. Until then, no one had fully realized, or shown how to harness, the awesome power of what happens when you ASK EMPOWERING QUESTIONS.
And that’s why I named my discovery The Afformations Method.
The 4 Steps to Creating Afformations That Change Your Life
Step 1: Ask yourself what you want.
You can use a goal you've previously written down, or start from scratch. You decide. Please note that traditional success teachers stop right here. They tell you to "set your goals" and then say "affirmations" in an attempt to convince your brain that you will have what you want... sometime, somehow, somewhere. How’s that working for you?
So, let’s try something different. Let’s go to the breakthrough step...
Step 2: Form a QUESTION that assumes that what you want is already true.
This is the key to creating Afformations that change your life. Your life is a reflection of the assumptions you make. That's why Step 2 of Afformations is to change your communication with the world inside yourself AND the world outside yourself.
Afformations are the fastest, most effective way I've ever seen to immediately change your subconscious assumptions and change your life.
Step 3: Give yourself to the question.
The point of Afformations is not to find "the answer", but to ask better questions. When you ask better questions, your mind automatically begins to focus on what you HAVE as opposed to what you DON’T have.
Which brings us to Step 4 of The Afformations Method - the one you MUST do to get the results you want...
Step 4: Take new ACTIONS based on your new assumptions about life.
Even though you may have spent thousands of dollars on "how to succeed" programs, you subconsciously assume they won’t work for you. So they don’t.
After using Afformations, most people realize what’s been holding them back. So they start taking actions that cause the results to happen.
For example, Sheila, a working mom and network marketer from California, used Afformations and went from $5,000 a month in sales to over $75,000 a month in less than six months.
Judy, a 55-year-old grandmother from Texas, wanted to lose weight but told herself she was too old. She joined my Platinum Partnership Club and started asking herself better questions. During the holidays, while most of America was packing on the pounds, Judy lost 24 pounds. Today, she’s lost 42 pounds and feels fantastic.
The point of Afformations is not to find "the answer," but to change your questions. When you use Afformations, you will immediately change your subconscious assumptions, which automatically changes your life.
Can you see how Afformations must, by definition, change your life? Using Afformations, you take conscious control of your subconscious thoughts - change the questions, change your results, and change your life!
About Noah St. John
Noah St. John, Ph.D. is the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness (published by HarperCollins). Jack Canfield says, “Noah’s work represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of success in decades.” Discover Noah’s Formula for living a truly rich life at http://www.RichLifeFormula.com
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