Do perfect people write & say positive affirmations?

[Underwraps]

I kind of think positive affirmation statements are kind of silly, but hey, may be they work. So, have they worked for you? Do the ivory tower people use them?

I noticed there's different kinds. The kind you write predicting the future or the kind you write as if the ideal situation already exists for you.

I am... vs I will be
I do vs I will...
I no longer...

And then there's other statement types:
I am now...
I have...
I own...
I live...
I work at...
I traveled to...
I achieved...

Mine? I am patient, I am still kind, I am a successful entreprenuer, I have a great sex life with my spouse and only with my spouse, I don't let mean people bother me anymore, I have a completely toned tummy, I have a larger home, I have healthy, independent, happy children, and so on.

 

[nimbus]

I kind of think positive affirmation statements are kind of silly, but hey, may be they work. So, have they worked for you? Do the ivory tower people use them?

I noticed there's different kinds. The kind you write predicting the future or the kind you write as if the ideal situation already exists for you.

I am... vs I will be
I do vs I will...
I no longer...

And then there's other statement types:
I am now...
I have...
I own...
I live...
I work at...
I traveled to...
I achieved...

Mine? I am patient, I am still kind, I am a successful entreprenuer, I have a great sex life with my spouse and only with my spouse, I don't let mean people bother me anymore, I have a completely toned tummy, I have a larger home, I have healthy, independent, happy children, and so on.

lol i don't think you're supposed to just blatantly lie to yourself.

 

[nimbus]

Daniel Tosh - Life is What You Make It | Daniel Tosh | Jokes.com

 

[EnderJE]

I don't know if perfect people say it. Who counts as being perfect?

 

[javaguru]

I'm good enough...
I'm smart enough...
and people like me....

-Stuart Smally

 

[calveless wonder]

lol i don't think you're supposed to just blatantly lie to yourself.

it's not lying. your subconcious mind doesn't know what's true and what's not. it just absorbs whatever it's being fed

it's much easier to reach a goal if you imagine yourself already attaining it or think of it in the present tense

it's not about the end result as much as the mindset these affirmations instill

 

[javaguru]

Daniel Tosh - Life is What You Make It | Daniel Tosh | Jokes.com

Tosh 2.0 is funny as hell...

 

[*ebony*]

it's not lying. your subconcious mind doesn't know what's true and what's not. it just absorbs whatever it's being fed

it's much easier to reach a goal if you imagine yourself already attaining it or think of it in the present tense

it's not about the end result as much as the mindset these affirmations instill

^^its said this is the technique Arnold used to achieve what he has in bodybuilding.


not sure what your idea of perfect people are....i don't do affirmations but im a naturally cheerful, optimistic person which could equals positive affirmations person. i usually see things eventually working out(even when others think its unrealistic, irrational, not likely, ect)...and they usually do.

 

[nimbus]

it's not lying. your subconcious mind doesn't know what's true and what's not. it just absorbs whatever it's being fed

it's much easier to reach a goal if you imagine yourself already attaining it or think of it in the present tense

it's not about the end result as much as the mindset these affirmations instill

the subconscious mind processes a lot of sensory data and knows you don't have a toned stomach if you're a noodlekeg and you look in the mirror everyday. so yea, your subconscious does know what's true a lot of the time, and a lot of her examples are lying to yourself.

she should be choosing affirmations that affirm a mindset, not objective measures like a sixpack or a big house

seems a lot more productive to say, I eat healthy and am on the path to a toned stomach

 

[Underwraps]

the subconscious mind processes a lot of sensory data and knows you don't have a toned stomach if you're a noodlekeg and you look in the mirror everyday. so yea, your subconscious does know what's true a lot of the time, and a lot of her examples are lying to yourself.

she should be choosing affirmations that affirm a mindset, not objective measures like a sixpack or a big house

seems a lot more productive to say, I eat healthy and am on the path to a toned stomach

A friend read me hers and I was taking examples off her model, but IC how the mindset approach is a good idea. Thanks

I already eat healthy, but I still have just a bit too much of the good stuff so I guess I should say: I eat just the caloric intake my body needs for the shape I want. Better to go positive than negative right? vs I will NOT eat more calories than my body consumes for the day.
I don't really use them...was just curious.

Oh, no perfect people out there (it was a defense mechanism), but I do wonder if many of the most successful people around have used them or a positive mindset perhaps just comes more naturally and is more automatic and phrasesdon't have to be written out to say to themselves. I used to think positive affirmations were something only insecure people needed to do and if I did them, that was admitting I was insecure. On a different note, I think many sucessful people are insecure and they're biggest fear is people will find out they are "an imposter" as one leader of a group I know of put it. Thanks for the input.