Why Affirmations Suck

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I shouldn't be writing this. Affirmations are such big business for my friends and colleagues and the people who hire me. And affirmations are dumb.
Why?
When you can't get (or leave) a job, or pay your mortgage, or find a date... chanting to yourself, "I'm a millionaire," isn't going to solve your problems.
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE visualizations. I think they're helpful. I have a few in my book. I'm the kind of girl who makes things happen by thinking, "I want that." But I do a lot of other stuff to make that possible.
Affirmations are like putting pretty make-up on a canker sore: it doesn't cover the problem.
I can be a little edgier than my Law of Attraction coach friends. They say, "Change the way you feel. Be grateful. Visualize what you want."
When I first coach a client, I say, "Go for the negative thoughts! Let's really find out what's there." Not just the stuff you know you think about money, love, or yourself (cause really, it all ends up affecting how you feel about yourself, doesn't it?), but the stuff you had NO IDEA you thought or felt. That's where the transformation resides: that "Oh my god I never made that connection before!" stuff that you feel down to your toes and beyond.
This is Alchemy. We create a POLARITY that acts like a slingshot that shoots you from one world to the next. THERE'S NO MAGIC IN NEUTRALITY.
When we bring all that to light and eradicate your Money Monster with Financial Alchemy, that's when we can move into love, gratitude and vision and have them mean something.
If you have some cancerous inner dynamic that is feeding on your personal power, your self esteem, your relationships and your business--this is what a bad relationship with Money will do--the last thing you need is an aspirin. Don't "feel better" without correcting the underlying disease. You may take a couple steps forward, then find yourself back in the ER. That's where affirmations fall short: they don't address the root cause.
It's time to open you up and suck out the poison! When your relationship with Money (which ALWAYS affects your relationships with family, partners, self-worth and empowerment) transmutes to a deep, committed, deliriously happy marriage, then any affirmation dressing you put on top of it will be magical.
I like to use the snake venom metaphor: suck out the poison BEFORE you put on the band aid (the affirmation). Think of what happens when put the bandage on before you remove the poison... the poison can't release, and it goes deeper and deeper into your blood stream. You can watch a black line of poisoned blood creeping from the site of the wound to your heart itself, where it will kill you.
Affirmations are great. They're also useless, worthless, pathetic and worse if that's as far as you go. It's nice and safe (and lazy) to think that pretty thoughts are all the universe wants of you to reach your goals. Frankly I don't know how high you can "vibrate" if you're carrying a lead weight of unacknowledged rage, shame, fear and hurt behind hind the velvet curtain of your conscious mind.
There's a big difference between "I want to believe this" and "I DO believe this!" You have to make it happen. I don't think an inner change has to take a long time. In fact if you haven't experienced a PROFOUND shift in your very first session, you have the wrong coach! But you have to do the work and really want a change. That's how you make an affirmation mean something: you are affirming the change that has already happened.

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Morgana Rae, an internationally acclaimed expert on wealth manifestation, is the owner of Charmed Life Coaching, a successful life and business coaching company that guides entrepreneurs to attract more than they chase, market effectively and inexpensively, and to RADICALLY change their Relationship with Money. Grab your FREE MONEY MAGNET MP3 at www.abundanceandprosperity.com . Get a Unique Version of this Article Article Marketing

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