Stories about affirmations

[Eveee]

Hi everyone. I have been quiet for a few days, as I was away.
So, I am currently working on a little section on my site about affirmations. I am putting together any stories I can get off of members in here and a few other places, and I am looking for some affirmation stories.
Do you use them?
Do they work for you or not? What are your experiences of using affirmations? etc etc
Stories about successful or not quite so successful affirmations. What I don't use on my site, I will consider for my book, so the more the merrier.
So here are the current ones I am using.
"I know I have lots of people willing and ready to share their affirmation stories with me"
"There is an abundance of people in the world, with experiences of affirmations that they wish to share with me"...
Please please do share. Your own personal experiences could help someone else. Especially someone that is new to affirmations.
Many thanks x

[WildHairedWoman]

I have a story. My friend had lists of affirmations and she would tape them on her mirror, refrigerator, repeat them over and over. Some she would repeat when she got upset. One day she asked me, "I say these affirmations every day so why am I getting the same old ****?"

She was getting the same old **** because she was chanting the affirmations to change something, not to reinforce something she knew. She did not feel that the affirmations were true for her and she wanted the to be. That is not how it works. You can only affirm what you know. So, you want to feel supported by the universe, you find evidence of that support in your life and focus on that, ask for more of that once, go back to your life knowing that will be.

I learned this by watching people who clung to affirmations not getting what they desired and by the experience of writing a letter to God stating what I needed to be comfortable, signed it with a Thank you. and put it away. Didn't even think about it after a few hours. I found that letter 2 years later and realized I had everything on my list. It was something I got from a book I read. (maybe by Gina Chiminera, but I don't remember since I read a lot of books about that time).

[greenmxnz]

as for myself, in my sadness i began to write affirmation to see myself through the hardships revolving around my life. in my lowest points, I would recite them to move myself through these situations. I view it as a child reciting prayer while walking through a haunted house.

in particular, I’d made the decision to move out of my home state for love. in making that decision, I recited affirmations to get me through the hard time. I shortly realized (while writing and reading my affirmations) that the true reason of many of my struggles was that I fled from my home state due to trauma. the best decision was to return home, to come home. I had to make sense of my tragedies and of the young child within myself who hadn’t accepted truth.

[WildHairedWoman]

Blessings on your journey greenmxnz

[chrisb77]

Along with affirmations I would highly advice to use Sigil.. it helps a lot.