What Happens When Affirmations Dont Work? What they forgot to tell you...

The only way to achieve success during stroke recovery is through action, and affirmations are an excellent way of motivating action.

2. You Don’t Really Want Your Affirmation to Be True

But if we truly believe in ourselves — if we truly believe that a full recovery is possible — then we will find the motivation to take action and work towards the recovery we deserve. The science behind affirmations revolves around neuroplasticity , which is mechanism that your brain uses to rewire and reshape itself. Neuroplasticity gives us control over our reality by giving us control over how we shape our brain. Each time you repeat a thought or action, neuroplasticity helps strengthens the neural pathways in your brain responsible for those thoughts and actions.

So each time you repeat an affirmation, you are hardwiring those pathways into your brain.

In the beginning, your affirmations take conscious effort. By the end, your affirmations will have become part of your brain. With enough repetition, you will start believing that you will achieve a full recovery. If you want to start boosting motivation and speeding up your recovery , use these 3 steps to start your affirmation practice today. Identify any limiting beliefs you may have. An easy way to identify these beliefs is to pinpoint any place where you feel stuck in your recovery.

Write down at least 3 of these limiting beliefs, and then rewrite them in a positive, opposite way. Neutral statements are actually the best starting point.

So instead of jumping headfirst into a glass-half-full perspective, stay neutral and realistic. Instead of "I am unlovable," try "I am working on myself.

Once you are ready to go positive, make sure your affirmation is believable. If you can come up with a positive affirmation, make sure you can rate it with a 7 or above on a 1-to believability scale, 10 being the most believable and 1 being the least. Instead of saying "I am lovable," try finding something you really love about yourself, for example, "I love that I am a loyal friend.

These believable affirmations will help you find more and more evidence that is similar and moves you toward a new core belief that actually lasts. So the next time someone asks you to say "I am perfect" in front of a mirror 10 times every morning, stop and ask yourself if this truly feels right, and remind yourself that this one-size-fits-all, overly positive and unrealistic! Want more ways to turn your negative thoughts around?

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Group 8 Created with Sketch. By Deepika Chopra, PsyD. Group 7 Created with Sketch. The affirmations are like gentle breezes, compared with a violent storm. Many years, tons of self-help books, and a PhD in psychology later, I finally figured out why my positive affirmations never led to permanent transformation. Because they were, essentially, lies. That statement was untrue. I learned, the hard and slow way, that affirmations need to be scripted with total honesty in order for them to work.

I am frustrated by my eating habits, but I am learning to treat myself with the respect I deserve. I am learning to do better. I am scared about handling this big, new project, but I am learning to have confidence in my ability to achieve my goals.

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