Repeating Affirmations Are Good Until You Realize This

Downside of affirmations

Imagine this:

You wake up in the morning. You are brushing your teeth. Your mind is exploding with random thoughts. So you concentrate your mind on being positive. Then, you start saying affirmations, like:

“I will do my best today”

“I am happy”

“I love my life”

After repeating these words, you start feeling good, right?

However, affirmations also tell you things you lack in life. That’s crazy, isn’t it?

I am reading the book called — ‘The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck’. In this book, the author talks about the self-improvement industry.

The self-improvement industry is constantly focused on what we lack in life. For example, you always hear questions like these from ‘self-help’ gurus:

“How to be more successful?”

“How to be happy?”

“How to make an impact on the world?”

When we are running after these questions, we start thinking that we are not already successful, we are not already happy, we are not already making an impact.

These thoughts start destroying our self-confidence since we feel like complete losers. We feel like we have not achieved anything in life.

This should not be your approach when you are improving yourself.

Instead, start believing that you are happy, successful, and making an impact. Only then, you can improve yourself.

Self-improvement requires confidence and confidence comes from belief. If you believe that you are not happy, chances are you will never be happy. The same goes for everything else.

Belief is the only thing that gives you the inner power to fight through obstacles and push you beyond your limits.

Next time when you repeat affirmations, think about this:

A happy person never says in front of a mirror — ‘I am happy’