Jay Shaw, a clinically trained hypnotist, explains why affirmations fail: you have to become the affirmation by creating emotion and embodying the belief. He uses Muhammad Ali and hypnosis as examples of how to shift from saying something to actually feeling it.
Do you ever feel like your affirmations just aren't working? Like you've been getting in the mirror every morning, you've been doing your affirmations, but you aren't getting the result. You don't feel like you're getting any closer to that desired outcome. Well, let's talk about why that may be. Let's unpack this thing. I'm Jay Shaw. I'm a clinically trained hypnotist with nearly 2 decades of experience, and I help people set clear goals and turn them into reality. So the reason most people don't get the results they want from their affirmations is because they do the affirmations. You don't— you can't just do affirmations. You have to become the affirmations. Like, let's look at it like Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali didn't say, I'm fast. He said, I flow like a butterfly, sting like a bee. He gave the subconscious mind metaphor. He got hype when he do the affirmations. Affirmation pro tip: if the affirmation doesn't change the way you feel, it's never going to change the way you act. You have to affect emotion before you can ever affect feeling. When you see a hypnotist on stage and they're making people do all these silly things, they make them feel silly
