Hi everyone. I have a question about affirmations. Someone in another group
posted that her husband always repeated "I do not get sick" over and over and he
almost never got sick.

Since it seemed to work for him I didn't point out that it's not supposed to
work that way, that affirmations are always supposed to be positive because the
'subconscious' mind can't understand negatives.

That's what I was taught, that if I said "I do not get sick" my mind would hear
"I get sick."

It occurred me that the "unconscious" mind that we're trying to reach with
affirmations isn't so much the dark swamp Freud dove into as it's our energy
mind, our connection with the universal mind.

So my question is, if this mind can plot the courses of the planets and note the
fall of a single leaf, what part of "NO" doesn't it understand?

Has anyone really tested using negatives in affirmations, or did some expert
write it once and everyone since has followed that lead and repeated it as
truth? It does sometimes happen that things everyone knows to be one way turn
out to be another.

Anyone here have any ideas on this? I've read about the positive-only rule so
much that I'm not anxious to test this myself. My mama didn't raise no lab rats!
But since I read Silvia's EmoTrnace take on the energy mind I really have my
doubts.

Be well and happy
Blaine