me the results which I wanted. I now had the missing link as to why
the affirmations did not feel true for me whenever I read them.
As a hypnotherapist, who understands the inner workings of the
subconscious mind, I can now see clearly, why the positive
affirmations were not working for me. The positive affirmations were
bumping up against my subconscious beliefs, which were my
“perceived” personal emotional truths and the powerful subconscious
mind will do everything to prove my personal truths as correct.
Thus, the affirmations had no power against my subconscious beliefs.
This was the reason why I was not seeing any changes in my outer
world.
My inner world of subconscious beliefs were still in control and those
beliefs had a powerful purpose of protecting me, even at the expense
of keeping me miserable and stuck with old ways of thinking, feeling
and reacting.
My subconscious beliefs were creating their own set of affirmations in
the form of automatic negative thoughts and feelings. Ironically, as I
reacted to the automatic negative thoughts and feelings, I was re-
affirming and reinforcing my limiting beliefs. It felt like having one foot
on the accelerator and one foot on the brake.
When I finally found the missing pieces of the puzzle, it was a great
moment of insight for me. What I was affirming, was in conflict with
my subconscious beliefs. Most of our beliefs are hidden away from
conscious awareness.
For example;
1.if my subconscious was programmed with the idea that complaining
about things is the only way I could get some attention then it would
always show me a reality where I would find lots to complain about.
Now you may think this is so weird, that’s precisely what I thought
until I discovered that, the true purpose of the subconscious was to
get me attention.
Perhaps as a child, I longed for attention and this was the only way I
could get my parents’ attention. It did not matter if my behaviour was
perceived as good or bad as long as I was fussy about things, it got
my parents’ attention. As an adult, this belief is still there within my