Thanks for your viewpoint. I read your post and agree somewhat with what you’ve said.

I believe in affirmations and they have helped me tremendously in my life.

There are numerous people out there with low self-esteems. There are people out there that have been told their whole lifes that they will never get ahead in life. They were born into a poor family and there’s no way to get out of it.

It’s people like this that affirmations help. Especially the afformation technique – asking yourself questions.

You ask “Why wouldn’t you be thinking of ways to become wealthy?” If someone doesn’t believe they can be wealthy they are unable to see all of the opportunities available to them. Using an afformations such as “why am I wealthy?” Helps them to 1. believe they can be wealthy, 2. Gets their creative juices flowing where they are then able to see the various ways they can make money.

I agree totally that just affirming something doesn’t make it real. You do need to take action to achieve any goal. The affirmations and afformations just help you to believe you can achieve your goals.

I write about taking action in various posts such as in Thougts and Visualization – Are they Enough? and Take Action Every Day.

Then again, I absolutely hate affirmations ’cause I think they’re totally useless, so I’m a bit biased! I have an interesting blog post on my site that complete rips into using affirmations – “4 Reasons Positive Affirmations Are Delusional” – you might enjoy reading it for an alternative viewpoint!

http://www.faceyourfork.com/2008/07/4-reasons-positive-affirmations-are-delusional/

What a neat twist. I am certainly going to try it.

Great technique. I am going to start using it immediately.