Can anyone explain me the difference between visualization and affirmation with example?
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Typically, the way Positive Affirmations are used is to pretend that you have something that you in fact don’t have, the superstition being that positive expectancy is a manifesting force. The futility of this practice, and detriment too, can be explained with a quick refresher in Metaphysics 101.
The part of you that manifests your reality is the Subconscious Mind, the Feminine aspect of Consciousness, and it manifests according to the messages it receives. The half wise conclusion is that if you give the Subconscious the message that you are one with something then it will manifest it. If only it were that simplistic and shallow. Unfortunately the Subconscious actually looks at the underlying assumption behind statements and behavior and then draws those conclusions into reality.
In our Natural Success trainings we ask our participants who would obviously bother spending energy affirming that the abundance of the universe is steadily flowing their way…a rich person or a poor person? Their answer is predictable because they know as well as anyone’s Subconscious that only someone who feels separate from abundance would be trying to resolve the tension of their lack. I have friends who live on social security and I have friends who are rolling in money, and only my poorest friends have fridge magnets and stickers proclaiming the inevitability of riches flowing their way. My rich friends prefer to have clean, reassurance free surfaces.
If it’s obvious to our relatively puny Self Conscious, it’s going to be obvious to our all powerful Creative Spirit, namely our Subconscious. Only someone who feels separate from their beauty, say, would make affirmations about being beautiful. Or only someone who feels intellectually inferior would make affirmations about being smart. The more you affirm any quality, the more you are going to drive it away, by virtue of the underlying Subconscious message.