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I Don’t Believe in Affirmations and yet They Still Work for Me

They say that if you want something badly it will eventually happen. The thing is you need to say it out loud regularly. Obviously, a lot of people are (surprise, surprise!) rather skeptical about such affirmations, but on the other hand… “in the beginning was the word.”

Check out: I Don’t Believe in Affirmations and yet They Still Work for Me

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Glossary

  • affirm – state emphatically or publicly
  • take steps – to set about putting something into operation; begin to act
  • coincidence – a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection
  • cognitive dissonance – the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change
  • pedestrian (adj) – lacking inspiration or excitement; dull

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Think about it

Answer the questions below.

  • What was the author’s problem with affirmations?
  • Who was Florence Scovel-Shinn?
  • What happened on the very first day when the author began practicing affirmations?
  • What explanations about the way affirmation works does the author propose?
  • In what way are affirmations similar to antibiotics according to the author?

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Practice makes perfect

Fill in the blank spaces with the appropriate forms of the verbs in the brackets.

[T]he next morning, I ________ (stand) in front of the bathroom mirror and ________ (say)out loud, “I ________ (have) wonderful work in a wonderful way. I ________ (do) work I love for lots of pay.” (I ________ (modify) it a little because I would rather ________ (work) more hours at something I love than fewer hours at something that just brings in money.) That afternoon, I ________ (get) a $1,000 assignment from a website.

Intrigued, I ________ (post) about the experience on the members forum of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Could saying this affirmation really ________ (bring) me a job less than eight hours later? I ________ (expect) surprise and skepticism from my writer colleagues but instead, they ________ (tell) me about similar things that ________ (happen) to them. Which ________ (make) me even more intrigued.

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