Positive Affirmations Don’t Work If You Are Not Doing These 3 Things

Here is how to make self-talk a game-changer in your life.

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When I first heard about the self-talk concept or using positive affirmations, it sounded bizarre to me. Like why would you talk out loud to yourself? Aren’t those only crazy and mad people who do that?

Ever since, using affirmations has become one of the key habits of almost every success habits or morning routine habits list. And a keystone habit in my life too.

And, for sure, neuroplasticity confirms how changing our thoughts makes new neural pathways form in our brain. When we don’t think anymore, the old thoughts — those neural pathways dissolve.

And the stronger are our new thoughts — positive thoughts, the stronger those new neural pathways form. All that brings changes into our emotions, feelings, actions, behavior, habits and eventually brings different results.

So self-talk plays a crucial role in this.

But if you have been already trying to use self-talk or positive affirmations for a while, you might have encountered yourself thinking, “But do they really work?”, “When will I see the result of them?”, “Maybe they are not working for me…”