[gandalf33]

Agreed with the fancy Uli Schmuli name.

Is it true vice versa as well? Before the manifestation of losing trading came, the thought of losing trading came?

[Uli Schmuli]

Gandalf,

It's not the thought of losing per say, but it's the feeling. You can say affirmations all you want, but what you FEEL is what is responded to by the universe.

Take the example of prayer, not that I'm religious, but it's a good example. When people pray for something, it invokes the FEELING of that which is wanted, and that is what the Universe, God, All That Is - whatever you want to call It - responds to. Praying desperately without connection to the feeling of having what is wanted is just called worrying.

Uh oh, I can sense some flack about to begin LOL

Uli Schmuli

[gandalf33]

Uli, this actually perfectly copes with the theory I have why some people claim affirmations don't work - until today, it was just my idea that while repeating an affirmation, you actually have to experience what you want to achieve in your mind, not just hum-drumming some words blindly, you basically confirmed it... Thanks

[Uli Schmuli]

However, there is a place for affirmations. A belief is just a thought that you keep thinking. Affirmations can help to change one's thoughts and therefore one's beliefs over time.

[TheDude]

Originally Posted by gandalf33 »

Uli, this actually perfectly copes with the theory I have why some people claim affirmations don't work - until today, it was just my idea that while repeating an affirmation, you actually have to experience what you want to achieve in your mind, not just hum-drumming some words blindly, you basically confirmed it... Thanks

Maltz once said if you lie the same lie to others often enough, you start to believe it yourself!

[Uli Schmuli]

Originally Posted by TheDude »

Maltz once said if you lie the same lie to others often enough, you start to believe it yourself!

Maltz also said:

"For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination."

[TheDude]

Uli - Exactly. Your quote is the explanation of why it is so.

Well done

But, if we believe it to be true, does this mean it is?

"I think, therefore I am" Descartes
"I believe, therefore it manifests" His Dudeness