How to Reduce Anxiety When Affirmations Don’t Work
by: Sarah Malik
Have you ever read that you should think positively when you are feeling anxious?
Have you ever been told to argue back when you have negative thoughts?
How’s that working for you?
Why do affirmations only sometimes produce results?
Because as we argue back to our negative and irrational thoughts, we don’t always believe the new things we are telling ourselves.
What we really believe is our original thoughts – the thoughts that have led us to feel anxiety in the first place.
The other reason that affirmation sometimes produce limited results is that we might not really believe that saying the affirmations will create change in our lives.
So why do affirmations come so highly recommended?
How are these affirmations supposed to work?
If you can get yourself to begin to believe them, if you can begin to see a kernel of truth in what you are saying, then affirmations may help you to install new, more helpful beliefs.
New beliefs!
That is the key to permanently and more positively changing how we feel and react to the world around us.
There is a difference between what we really believe and all of the infinite number of possible thoughts that we are capable of thinking – which we may or may not believe.
It is the thoughts that we really believe that seem to possess the power. Rather than the thoughts that are positive yet not believable.
Our beliefs are the source of the actions we take. We act ultimately based on what we believe to be true.
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About The Author
©2005 Sarah Malik is dedicated to helping people reduce their anxiety and increase their confidence, so that they can experience freedom and self-expression - No matter where they are and no matter what they are doing. More information is available at: http://www.createyourownconfidence.com - Note to editors: Please feel free to create a live link to this article.
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