The following is an argument that reciting affirmations has magical effects:
The best affirmations are worded carefully. For example, instead of saying, "I do not steal anymore," you say, "I am a wonderful honest person." See the difference? See how the second is more positive and cheerful than the first? Philosophies such as Jesus', "The Pharisee praised God for making him such a good man and went home rejected by God, but the poor tax collector who beat his breast and called on God to have mercy on him went home forgiven and accepted," are demeaning. We do not harbour such humiliating teachings in our hearts. We harbour their opposites.
There is a big problem with using, "I don't want to steal," or, "I don't want to be shy," as affirmations. There is a hidden meaning. The meaning is, "I fear them. I would not fear them if they were not a threat." You are affirming that they are a threat because you may be too weak to handle them. What you are really doing is affirming that you fear these things and are affirming that you may do them. The affirmation may help to a degree but it is nonetheless defective and harmful.
Put your affirmations in the present tense!
Why do you put your affirmations into the present tense? Because if you say, "I will be a wonderful confident person," this could happen thirty years from now! You are putting it far out of your clutches in the future. You are putting your progress off instead of commanding it to come to you right now. It is important to keep it in the present. There is always an improvement even if you feel there is none. If you were able to have an intensely strong belief in the power of affirmation, the changes would be very dramatic. It is your faith that heals you.
About Negative Affirmations
Negative thoughts are necessary to help you keep in touch with reality and to perceive what is really happening. Allowing some negative thoughts can help you progress into a better mood. But even allowing a negative thought can be a positive affirmation if you have the right attitude. Your attitude needs to be, "I need to think about the negative side. I have the courage to do so. I know I am helping myself in doing so." But don't dwell on negative thoughts any more than necessary. Be careful that you don't become avalanched with other negative thoughts, for negative thoughts unless carefully policed always lead to further negative thoughts.
If you try to affirm to yourself, "I accept myself as perfect," and you feel tense and angry and disbelieving, you will need to deal with the negatives to be able to say the affirmation and feel and know that it is true.
The goal of negative thoughts is to rise above them and need them no more. This takes time. Be patient with yourself.
If you think evil thoughts, you are sending evil forces into the world that influence other people and cause destruction. We create the forces of temptation — not God. We have ruined the creation of God with our bad deeds and evil thoughts.
Negative affirmations are sometimes stronger than positive affirmations
It is thought that negative affirmations are more powerful than positive affirmations. Sometimes they are. When our self-esteem is very low, it can take a lot of work to promote it to a healthy level again. If our self-esteem is very poor, we make negative affirmations more powerful than good ones. If it is very high, we make positive affirmations more powerful than negative ones. It depends on us. It is hard to make good, for good is order. It is easy to make not-so-good. Not-so-good is disorder. It is making what cannot be controlled until it is turned into good.
Affirmations can give you self-esteem!
Positive affirmations state what we want to be and what we can be. They are about making you the person you want to be. They have that power, for they can programme your thoughts and mind to achieve great wonders. Whatever you want, ask for it, believing that it is yours, it will be yours.
If your self-confidence is low, for example, an affirmation will help. Affirmations always help unless we put blocks in their way.
You might say, "I am a wonderful confident person." You will keep repeating this, for the more often you do so, the more the deeper parts of your mind will start believing it, and you will find great changes and feel so much happier.
Be confident that you can look after yourself with your occult powers.
Know that you trigger your occult powers by having the confidence to give, knowing that you will receive.
Express your affirmations by your good actions; you don't need the words.
Affirmations to solve emotional problems
If you use affirmations to solve an emotional problem, you must be sure what the problem is.
Sit down and relax. Close your eyes.
Ask yourself questions such as, "Is there anything that is keeping me from feeling happy right now?" And if you get a feeling that there is, then ask yourself, "What is it that is stopping me from feeling happy?" You may realise the answer. If you don't, then you may feel the answer. Check how you feel inside. Then ask, "How is it able to stop me feeling happy?"
When you realise or feel you have answers, you can start formulating suitable affirmations. Formulate your affirmations in the present tense. You want the good feelings to come now instead of putting them off to the future.
Reinforce and strengthen the good feelings. Become aware of them. Use affirmations to make them stronger and to help keep them in your mental orbit. You have bad feelings too. Don't try to destroy them. You don't need to. The bad feelings will turn into good feelings if you search for the good feelings. And everybody must feel good, even a little, about something.
Do not make an affirmation like, "I do not feel bad." Reword it to make it positive. Change it to, "I feel good." That way, you are not even mentioning or thinking of anything unpleasant. You are not involving the horrible feeling that comes from thinking of something you consider bad.
Can affirmations make you sick?
Are your health problems caused by emotional state and your negative emotions?
There is no such thing as a person causing their own cancer by holding resentment. There are healthy centenarians who have gone through life despising many of their neighbours.
If you have the wrong attitude toward sickness, you will make yourself feel more horrible.
There will be testimonies to the healing power of affirmations. Healing is summing it up in one word. Even a love-spell is healing a situation where two people who could happily love each other do not. A money spell is healing a situation where more money is needed.
Eating can be a healthy affirmation too!
Bless your food. Eat healthy most of the time. Healthy food need not be boring. See your food as blessing you and making you healthy. Then eating it becomes an affirmation that brings healing and well-being. To eat junk food is to tell yourself you are not worth much. But occasionally eating it does no harm. It is a treat then.
Clearing the Space for Omnipotent Affirmations
Magic is the reason all things exist — it is the maker of all things.
Use affirmations to reach your goals. Do not put barriers up to stop them helping you or that may delay help.
The power of my faith will be enhanced if I use the affirmations in unity with others. I will assemble together with others as a family. We are more powerful together when we create affirmations.
We might do things that we consider bad but we might like ourselves despite that and like those "bad" things we do. Yet we can so easily ridicule and detest other people for doing those same things. But by being spiteful and condemnatory to others for what we do ourselves is to call punishment upon ourselves. It is an affirmation that can inflict considerable harm on us. Release your heart from the burden of grudges. Then blessings will follow.
Be independent, for the one who is not free is one that is not free to receive all the blessings that the law of attraction can bestow. Abandon all religions, gods, and authority. But what about your boss? You can do what your boss tells you and still be independent. When you do what the boss says, you are doing it because you want to and not because he commanded it. And certainly not JUST because he commanded it. Your intention is to do what you want and not to obey. So you only seem to obey.
Regular exercise, healthy diet, coffee with friends, dancing, music and movies you enjoy, sex, falling in love, making babies, making money — all these things that improve your life or are part of its joy are sacraments. They are magic spells. They tell you that you are worthy of the best and that you will take the best of what life has to offer. They manifest further blessings in your life.
Prayer
People say you should pray for those who hate you and who hurt you. It is not prayer that works but the sense that you are doing something for them to heal them. Prayer only does that when it is really magic disguised as prayer. When you pray, you feel that energy is going out of you to help others. Why does real prayer not work? Because it gives the responsibility to God to help. It keeps you out of it. Even if you ask to become God's instrument to help others, it is still giving God the responsibility. You will not feel bad if you fail to help, for it is his responsibility. Be responsible. Send them healing magic. Send them grace.
Manifesting is not attracting what you need or want but attracting what you are
Some "spiritual" writers say that using the law of attraction is about "manifesting is not attracting what you need or want but attracting what you are." Technically, you are still trying to manifest what you need and want but you see this as being about who you are. For example, to manifest expensive clothes reflects an attempt to make your identity the identity of a rich person. You want to be defined as the things you ask for! This is outrageously dehumanising and consumerist! To attract, say, the virtue of compassion does the same thing. You end up diminishing yourself as a person for the sake of a quality becoming you and being attracted because it is you!
Time
Objective time is a hard thing to talk about, for Einstein showed it is not strictly true. The time on the clock and the time in your head normally coincide, but affirmations and prayers and fasting can alter the time in your head. This makes you feel good and safe, for it is like you think you are mastering time. You are not. It's an illusion and you know it, for you don't take it with you into your daily business.
FINALLY
Accept that these beliefs have healing powers. Recite this statement of beliefs often and more importantly, let your faith and understanding of it grow stronger day by day. Try and inspire others to see the beauty of these principles, for they comprise the only true faith and source of blessing, and you need to see the message adored because that increases your own faith and confidence.
REFUTATION:
Refutation:
While affirmations and positive thinking can promote a healthier mindset and encourage motivation, the claim that simply reciting affirmations produces magical effects, such as guaranteed healing or wealth, is unsupported by scientific evidence. Psychological benefits from affirmations largely stem from placebo effects, increased self-confidence, and behavioral changes—not from any supernatural or mystical forces. Furthermore, attributing complex outcomes like curing illnesses or attracting wealth solely to affirmations overlooks the critical roles of medical treatment, economic factors, and personal effort. Overreliance on affirmations without practical action or professional help may even be harmful. Therefore, affirmations should be understood as useful mental tools, not as magic spells or guaranteed formulas for success.