A couple of readers have left help desk requests asking about the difference between affirmations and afformations. So I’ve asked Noah St John, creator of afformations, to explain. I prefer “going to the horse’s mouth” for information, and Noah is a good friend. http://Afformations.com

I first met Noah in 1997 or 1998, when he sent me a really nice email about an article I’d posted to The Profit Clinic web site. We spent a few days together in Melbourne (AU) about a year ago when Noah was here for a speaking gig. He even came to my youngest daughter’s 19th birthday party (she just turned 20, which is how I remember it was a year ago!)

Here’s my personal take on the difference

Affirmations seem to work okay for those who believe fervently in them. For most of us, though, they’re a form of wishful thinking with a built in failure guarantee — because we simply don’t believe what we’re trying to convince ourselves is true. They’re positive STATEMENTS that we want to be true — but our mind knows better.

I’ve compared affirmations in seminars to this scenario…

Imagine we’re sitting in the seminar room and it’s dark. We need the lights to come on. That’s the reality we want to be true.

Now, we can spend all night long repeating positive affirmations to the lights about how we’d like them to turn on, how good we’d feel about them, how they’d be filling the measure of their creation, etc etc etc etc. But until someone gets up off their R-send, walks to the light switch by the door and switches it ON, we’re all going to be sitting here, in the dark, until the sun comes up again!

For most of us, affirmations are warm, fuzzy, delusional forms of self-flattery on about the same rational level as tree-hugging. They’re essentially self-defeating, because our rational minds sabotage our emotional desires.

Afformations, on the other hand, take the form of QUESTIONS we ask about the positive reality we’d like to achieve. And, because the mind is designed to correlate information and create solutions to problems (if only to relieve our stress), we soon find ourselves coming up with objective, substantive REASONS to confirm what we’re asking in those afformations.

It’s ingenious, and thousands of people are proving to themselves that they work, every day. My own experience is that they’re effective, and I recommend them to everyone, including my children and grandchildren.

While we’re waiting to hear back from Noah, take a look at this short video where he explains the concept in his own words.  http://Afformations.com

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