Hey there, welcome to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough, and this is episode 402 or episode 605 if you're in my private

group. Now in this episode I like to talk to you about something which might be a little bit

controversial about affirmations. You see what an affirm is, is you come up with a very powerful,

convenient sentence that you would repeat to yourself throughout the day. Now, I think affirmations

are great. I think they can be profound. I think they're things which can create a big

transformation in our life. But on the other hand, I think they can be terrible. Yeah, I think they can

really be something so detrimental to your success that it might be getting you stuck.

In fact, it may be creating a very big conflict within your system.

Now, let me tell you what they are.

Okay, so it's a convenient set of words or sentence that you repeat to yourself

throughout the day to try to retrain your mind up to think that sentence or to believe in that

sentence. Now, let's just say if we're anxious, a convenient, maybe affirmation could be, I am a strong,

confident person.

So it's very simple, but just as an example, I'm a strong, I'm a very strong, confident

person.

Now, if we put it into an analogy for you, but it will really make sense, I want you to

imagine as if you came home one day and you go into your living room and in your

living room, a place where you might spend a lot of your time, you notice some mold appearing.

Now, just like anxiety, it might be in a beginning very, very small, so you kind of

don't really notice it. But after a while, it builds up. It gets bigger. It gets a little bit green.

Maybe there's a big kind of stain there and it doesn't look very nice. You know, oh my goodness,

I have mold. Now, if you were to have mold, what would you do in that situation?

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