You’ve recited the positive affirmations day in and day out, hoping to manifest your desires, but somehow, they just don’t seem to stick. Instead, you find yourself questioning what’s wrong with you, why can’t you make this seemingly simple practice work?
The truth is, positive affirmations often fail to yield results because you’re attempting to logic your way into believing something your subconscious hasn’t embraced yet. Let’s explore why positive affirmations may not be effective for you and how you can tap into deeper levels of the mind for lasting change.
The Issue with Positive Affirmations
There are several reasons why repeating mantras and affirmations may fall short in creating meaningful change.
You Don’t Believe What You’re Saying
Firstly, if you don’t genuinely believe what you’re saying, your subconscious will resist the affirmations. For example, affirming abundance while drowning in debt sends mixed signals to your brain. It doesn’t mean there’s no hope, it just means you get to find a different approach.
You Don’t Resonate With the Words You’re Using
Additionally, if you feel disconnected from the affirmation or if the words don’t resonate with you, they’re unlikely to penetrate your subconscious. To use the abundance example again, have you ever used that word in your life and felt deeply connected to it? It’s great if you have, and also no shame if you haven’t. We associate our words with feelings, so finding the word that elicits the right feelings is part of it.
The Words You’re Using Are Subconsciously Triggering
It’s also important to make sure the words you’re using and repeating to yourself are not triggering suppressed emotions. I know for me I’ve heard the word ‘abundance’ so many times in ways I couldn’t connect with it, that it actually make me feel further from my truth and dysregulates my nervous system just enough to make the entire practice counter productive.
Retraining the Subconscious Mind
Your subconscious mind wields immense power, controlling 90% of your human experience, from basic bodily functions to deeply ingrained beliefs compared to your conscious mind which is closely associated with your short-term memory and problem solving skills of what’s directly in front of you.
Your subconscious keeps track of every sensation and memory since before you were born, whether you actively remember or not, the information is stored within this part of your brain. Which is why you must delve into the subconscious and uncover the roots of your beliefs to initiate real change. Visualization, somatic practices, and accessing deeper memories can facilitate this process.
It’s one thing to connect and access these memories to understand where they came from and why they exist, and another thing to reprocess and repattern the memory to cater to how you want to feel differently and believe differently.
Psychedelic substances, used responsibly, can also serve as catalysts for subconscious rewiring, since they induce neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to foster new neural connections. If you’re someone who struggles to access memories, they can also serve as a doorway to access them with more ease and openness.
Can I Use Affirmations and Subconscious Rewiring Together?
Yes, you can integrate positive affirmations with subconscious rewiring techniques for enhanced results. Affirmations become effective guideposts when you deeply connect with them. They can alert you to misalignment between your conscious desires and subconscious beliefs, guiding you towards areas that require further exploration and healing. However, it’s essential not to use affirmations as a shortcut to bypass inner work.
Choose a couple affirmations that deeply align with what you’re seeking to override in your subconscious, whether that’s feeling worthy, wanting to attract money and ‘abundance’ or something else entirely.
Connect with this affirmation in a visualization practice, perhaps finding the first time that you felt this wasn’t true and re-experiencing this, and then rewriting it to give the belief back or create an alternate story that confirms how you want to feel.
Another practice that’s helpful here is understanding what your soul’s essence is. If you can understand this, then you can know where to direct your affirmations to continue to align with the feelings your soul craves where it’s most magnetic.
Conclusion
If positive affirmations haven’t yielded the desired outcomes for you, it’s an opportunity to dive deeper into understanding why. By shifting your focus from the conscious to the subconscious mind, you can unearth and transform the beliefs that are keeping you stuck.
Microdosing psilocybin offers a unique pathway to rewire your subconscious thoughts and beliefs, helping you break free from limitations and align with what you really want, even if you don’t know what that is yet.
Embrace curiosity, commit to consistent practice, and watch as your reality transforms in profound ways.
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