| Affirmations are the new-age self help technique used | | | | often. In fact, you must repeat them so often that they |
| to achieve pretty much anything you desire. Be you | | | | become second nature to you... They must become |
| cynic or skeptic, the fact is that you wouldn't have | | | | so familiar to you that you actually believe them. And |
| heard about affirmations if they didn't work. | | | | when you really do believe them your subconscious |
| The second interesting fact about affirmations is that | | | | mind will accept these as truths and start to yield the |
| some people swear by them and use them in their | | | | expectation to you. |
| everyday life, whereas others have had such poor | | | | Sounds simple, right? |
| success with them that they actually dislike the word | | | | Yes! They are simple but HIGHLY EFFECTIVE. |
| and any association to them at all. | | | | The most effective way to use affirmations to quit |
| Let's look at what affirmations are and how we can | | | | smoking pot is to make up some positive statements |
| use them to help us to quit smoking marijuana. | | | | in language that you use regularly. Make the |
| Affirmations are positive statements that are written | | | | affirmations as real as possible to you and in a present |
| or spoken out loud in present tense. An example of an | | | | tense. They must be so real to you that you must |
| affirmation is... | | | | start to trick yourself into believing that they have |
| "I am happy, harmonious, loving, eager and excited" | | | | already happened. |
| It isn't stated in the past or in the future. It is set in the | | | | Here is an affirmation to help you get started at |
| NOW. | | | | quitting weed: |
| NOW is all that exists. The past is in the past and the | | | | "I have no habits which control or influence me in any |
| future is in the future. Right NOW is all we have. For | | | | harmful way. I am in control of myself and everything |
| affirmations to be effective you must believe them. | | | | that I do. I always do what is best for me, myself, and |
| And the best way to believe them is to repeat them | | | | my future. |