Remember
We come to this plane of existence in full remembrance of who and what we are, but we quickly learn to forget, and cling to the false reality of this place. Each month, I offer a reminder of the ever enduring Spirit that is YOU!
- Wiah
Remembers for
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Positive Thinking/Affirmations
December 2, 2009 -
The Life Equation
November 9, 2009 -
Collective Responsibility
October 12, 2009 -
Individual Responsibility
September 11, 2009 -
Civilized or Savage
August 5, 2009 -
Monotony
July 7, 2009 -
GOD!
June 13, 2009 -
The Master VI
May 10, 2009 -
Balance Is Life
April 6, 2009 -
Recipe
March 14, 2009 -
Preservation or Maintenance
February 3, 2009 -
Empathy, Sympathy, Then Truth
January 6, 2009
Positive Thinking/Affirmations
When you carry a blockage emotionally mentally or physically meaning you carry unprocessed energy in one of your bodies, at the center of each blockage is a fixed belief about one’s self and the world around you. This belief will be expressed through emotions, thoughts and actions. This belief cannot be felt, thought, explained or acted away.
It is widely thought that if you just change your thoughts or actions how you feel will change, or if you just think “positively” or recite positive affirmations everything you experience due to what you hold will simply disappear. This is simply not true… though for some the exercise may bring temporary relief from the ruminating thoughts and feeling but they soon return with greater intensity. But for some these “affirmations” and “positive” thoughts have the opposite effect, they make the individual feel worse. This is because the affirmation reinforces the pain of the belief because the affirmation or thought is rooted in the painful belief. The only way to truly be rid of these ruminating thoughts and feelings is to remove their source.
Remember………
A Study appearing in the July 2009 edition of Psychological Science demonstrates the above.
Positive self-statements: power for some, peril for others.
Wood JV, Perunovic WQ, Lee JW.
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. jwood@uwaterloo.ca
Positive self-statements are widely believed to boost mood and self-esteem, yet their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. We examined the contrary prediction that positive self-statements can be ineffective or even harmful. A survey study confirmed that people often use positive self-statements and believe them to be effective. Two experiments showed that among participants with low self-esteem, those who repeated a positive self-statement (“I’m a lovable person”) or who focused on how that statement was true felt worse than those who did not repeat the statement or who focused on how it was both true and not true. Among participants with high self-esteem, those who repeated the statement or focused on how it was true felt better than those who did not, but to a limited degree. Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, but backfire for the very people who “need” them the most.
1: Psychol Sci. 2009 Jul;20(7):860-6. Epub 2009 May 21.