<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Noah St. John" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/noah-st-john.jpg" alt="Noah St. John" />We all know that an &#8220;affirmation&#8221; is a statement of something you want to be true in your life. So an example of a traditional &#8220;affirmation&#8221; might be: &#8220;I am rich.&#8221;</p>
<p>All right, let&#8217;s try it. Say to yourself right now, &#8220;I am rich.&#8221; Did you hear what just happened in your mind? A voice&#8230; a voice that said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, right!&#8221;</p>
<p>The plain truth is that most of us don&#8217;t believe our own &#8220;affirmations&#8221;. Why? Because we&#8217;re trying to convince ourselves of something we don&#8217;t believe is true. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/12/afformations-the-key-that-unlocks-the-secret-part-1-of-2-by-noah-st-john/" title="Permanent Link: Afformations: The Key That Unlocks &#8220;The Secret&#8221; (Part 1 of 2) By Noah St. John" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":48,"date":"2008-12-07T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T12:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/12\/afformations-the-key-that-unlocks-%e2%80%9cthe-secret%e2%80%9d-part-1-of-2-by-noah-st-john\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T23:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:08:36","slug":"afformations-the-key-that-unlocks-the-secret-part-1-of-2-by-noah-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/12\/afformations-the-key-that-unlocks-the-secret-part-1-of-2-by-noah-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Afformations: The Key That Unlocks &#8220;The Secret&#8221; (Part 1 of 2) By Noah St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Noah St. John\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/noah-st-john.jpg\" alt=\"Noah St. John\" \/>We all know that an &#8220;affirmation&#8221; is a statement of something you want to be true in your life. So an example of a traditional &#8220;affirmation&#8221; might be: &#8220;I am rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All right, let&#8217;s try it. Say to yourself right now, &#8220;I am rich.&#8221; Did you hear what just happened in your mind? A voice&#8230; a voice that said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, right!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plain truth is that most of us don&#8217;t believe our own &#8220;affirmations&#8221;. Why? Because we&#8217;re trying to convince ourselves of something we don&#8217;t believe is true. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/12\/afformations-the-key-that-unlocks-the-secret-part-1-of-2-by-noah-st-john\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Afformations: The Key That Unlocks &#8220;The Secret&#8221; (Part 1 of 2) By Noah St. John\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}