Affirmations
January 5th, 2012 Posted in church
I sat with a friend yesterday, who is helping me think through and process some stuff. Before we began brainstorming, she said, “We’re going to write 10 affirmations about this process and the outcome.”
Whut?
We wrote 3. Then I was stumped. Apparently, I’m really bad at writing affirmations. Even when I would write one, she’d say, “Hmmm. That’s good. But we can make it better.”
Towards the end of the exercise, I turned to my friend and said, “You know, I don’t believe any of these.” She replied, “The point of affirmations isn’t to believe them. It’s to change your thinking from where you are.”
I can affirm that.