Jay Shaw argues affirmations backfire when they conflict with what your nervous system actually believes. If you're saying you're wealthy while your body signals scarcity, that mismatch slows progress instead of speeding it up. Affirmations work only when they align with a genuine internal belief you're already on the path.
On accident. How do affirmations slow you down? Because you don't affirm anything that you already believe is en route. You would never go put a pot of water on the stove, then go sit in your room and say, I'm so thankful and grateful that the water is boiling, I'm boiling, I'm so thankful and grateful that the water is boiling. You trust it to— you trust the stove to do its job. You wouldn't put an ice tray in the freezer and say, I'm so thankful and grateful that the water is free. You just trust the freezer to do its job. In my experience, most of the time when people are doing affirmations, their mouth is affirming to have them, but their nervous system is affirming the state of not having. So it's, let me do my affirmations so I can get this money that I don't have. Let me do my affirmations so that, so that I can get this relationship that I
