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Originally Posted by gashly
I hate my phone...
I dunno, i've had better progress challenging negative things i've said about myself in my journal than in some stupid affirmation. Fir exampke if I wrote "i.m a ****ing idiot" I feel like crap. But if I wrote I feel so embarassed because people saw me trip on the sidewalk and drop my coffee, and wonder if they look down on me for it, I realize that if the shoe was on the other foot and I saw someone do the same, I wouldn't think so much about it and even may empathize. That makes me feel loads better. So in essence more positive, but not some fake affirmation. Hopefulky that helps....?
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That makes sense, and definitely seems like it would help more than repeating to myself "I may have tripped on the sidewalk and dropped my coffee like the idiot I am....but I totally and completely accept myself!" Umm....how is repeating the last part of that statement countless times supposed to make me believe otherwise?
The self-help workbook industry that came up with the idea of these affirmations must think we're a bunch of gullible idiots LOL
ETA: After looking online for the origin of that "totally and completely accept myself" phrase, I remembered that it came from a technique my old therapist used to use with me called "tapping" God I hated that technique! It didn't work at all. Positive affirmations were part of it, which made it that much cheesier. Look up "tapping" online to see what I'm talking about haha
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